the best day of my life??

well some of you will know how much i love purepwnage.

some of you wont, and some of you wont even know what it is.

www.purepwnage.com

anyway thats the site, its a bunch of people who make a video series which you download off their website and the series is about how they play computer games.

ive been a fan for quite some time. anyway its wicked. last night they had the premier of their latest episode. ep 13 in calgary.

so i hopped on a bus after a few hours of snowboarding to check it out.

well i walked into the cinema in downtown calgary only to see 'jeremy' and 'doug' there right away. shit yeah, i was stoked. i had a little talk with them and yeah, then we started watching the series. first we watched the last two episodes so we were all up to date with what was happening.

then we watched the new episode which was freakin awesome!!!!!!!!! holy shit it was good

then i got a t-shirt and got it signed by jeremy, doug and kyle (the director).
got to learn their actual names. doug is called joel in RL, kyle is actually called jeff and jeremy is jarret.

anyway after getting my t-shirt signed and some photos, i sat around for an hour or so until all the noobs had left and i could find out what the plan was afterwards. anyway they were going to a bar called the black swan so i got a lift with one of the dudes who helps with the soundtrack. i went along, had a few beers with jeff and jarrey....joel wasnt out :(

anyway yeah, while i was at the bar i was talking to another fan who had tagged along and i told him i was from adelaide, he said he had studied there for 6 months while he was in year 11. turns out he went to glenunga and he knew mr.marino, mr.knight and our old PE teacher who remembered cos he drove that yellow subaru LOL!!!

awesome times. anyway i ended up crashing at the soundtrack dudes flat in downtown calgary, it had an awesome view of the town - pics later and such i hope.

and yeah, then in the morning i skated at millenium park and came back here with a stop off in canmore and banff


what good times. here are the pics:

me n FPS doug pwn nooobs together.



jeremy does actually pwn in RL, i watched him pwn at big buck hunter!!!! lolzor

this is us pwning too:



cyuzz
gerald

wow, could my luck become any more amazingly wicked?

ok, well its been a while since my last blog entry, mainly because i now have to pay for the internet. to those who aint getting myspace comments and e-mails as much as before - my apologies, but then who actually reads this besides my family, jackie, martha, rita somewhat and other people who i direct to it.

anyway been living in Lake Louise. its pretty nice here. the hostel is nice, lots of fun people. there are 2 bars in LL, explorers - really relaxed. and the BnG (bar n grill) which is a bit more roudy.

lots of fun things to do,

karoke nights once a week
bon fire nights,
pool nights,
etc....

anyway here is my latest cool story.

was hitching back from lake louise ski resort with some nice people. hop out the car at the shops where they dropped me, went in and got some vegies for dinner, then come out and realise my bag is in the car and the car aint there anymore....AAAAAHG. then i realised my camera with all the photos is in there, some of my diabetes stuff is in there, my goggles, gloves and helmet are in there etc.. etc..... actually thats about it. anyway yeah, i was up shit creek in a barbed wire boat without a paddle....as some put it. it wasnt your usual shake n bake scenario.

so i went about my hunt. my english chef buddy roman was with me and he had seen the driver around before so we knew they were locals. so the nxt day - sunday (LL's biggest day of the week) i set about looking into the back seat of every SUV in the carpark. 1 hour later, no luck. so i left a note on a black board down the bottom of the gondola explaining to who ever read it that i was at the hostel. later that day no luck. i went to the police and got a report so i could claim it on my insurance and at the same time asked if anyone had handed it in. no luck. today i did the same thing, looked in cars, went to the police. walked around town trying to find the car. then i get back to the hostel this evening and i guess the person had seen my note and dropped my bag off with everything in it.

it does pay to live in a small town of only a few hundred. YAY!!!! anyway thats my amazing story. besides that i went to banff today and yes dad i did get the package. yippy. anyway i hitched there with some cool chinese bloke who practises acupuncture and he was pretty interesting.

on teh 26th, just 3 days away now i will go to calgary and meet my buddies:



and




wo0o0ot im excited. while im there im gonna crash at the downtown hostel and then the next day check out this place and have a bit of a roll as i purchased myself a skateboard the last night i was in banff.



so yeah, thats about it. the snow is still fun cos it gets slushy and u can hit stuff in the park. right down the bottom of the slope near the beer garden there is a BIG puddle which ive hit but it keeps getting bigger each day. after a long day snowboarding its enjoyable to relax with a beer and watch all the little kids and the people who dont know how to board/ski attempt it and fall in. anyway tomorrow, if its nice and warm i am going to try and hit it wearing nothing but my snowboard boots and some boxer shorts. should be fun!!!

pics to come of my attempt if i make it or not

toodles for now
gerald

go see this movie

ok, well according to my research this movie comes out on may 10th. and that is why on may 10th everyone who reads this, because i am telling them to, is going to go and see the movie GRINDHOUSE!!!!

yes its 3 hours and 10 minutes long
yes its actually two movies strung together
and yes the two movies are made by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0462322/

yep its ranked number #108 on IMDB and it got an 8.6 wo0o0t

the end to this movie is freakin' awesome. Well the end to the second feature is awesome, the first one is just weird but its pretty freakin awesome! during the course of the movie the audience applauded 3 times!!! just erupted into applause. it was brilliant. The only other time i had ever witnessed this was in year 9 when the year level went and saw master and commander.

anyway i cant convince you all to go see this movie anymore. of course its not for anyone under 18, but the only people who read this who are under 18 are Jackie and Martha....so, well just disregard this.

cyuzz
gerald

me and my uber 1337 snowboarding skillz.....

thats about it really.

cyuzz
gerald

easter and stuff

So, since I've stopped working I've been boarding heaps more. its wicked! went out some 5 days in a row - not full days every day but enough to satisfy my cravings. last two days have been taking it easy but i might go and do some night boarding tonight as its Friday, its free, easy to get it and the snow at Norquay has improved a bit since they got a fair of a snow the other day.


NOW......


As I have everyday now to do what I want, Ive been putting a bit of thought into my next blog (this blog). I've always done a fair bit of reading and this topic has always interested me. Anyway as it's in the middle of Easter I figured I would try and write a few words of my own (inspired by what I have read) about the religion which Easter has budded from.

Many of the articles I read are to do with Christianity and the most recent one I read explained how Christianity has changed. Changed from a religion which is supposed to spread love, compassion and teach caring for your fellow man, into a religion where people enjoy spreading words of hate, at the moment, specificly on 2 issues - Abortion and Homosexuality.

Now I know it is a little different back home, because for a while I was involved in a group - st Vincent de Paul - which went out to feed the homeless, cared for them and weren't judging of the people who came to them for help, even though I am sure it was made up of many non-believers. But, living in North America I have been slightly more exposed to the Christian extremists.

From what I can see, hear and read, many Christians are more focused on spreading hate; hate for homosexuals, hate for people who are pro choice and hate for people who might have different believes and opinions to them, and you can be sure they will make life difficult for them. E.G. have a read about this branch of the baptist church

This makes me really annoyed, more so than normal ;-) Now I know lots of lovely Christians, they don't try to convert me - partly because they know they wont get anywhere - they don't spill words of hate and tell me I am going to hell. But it seems the people who represent Christians on tv, radio and in newspapers, aren't these people. The people who represent Christians through mainstream media aren't the ones who go out and help the poor, the homeless and the anyone who needs a hand. Instead they are the ones who argue about issues which really shouldn't be the centre point of their religion.

Now this is all coming from a person who has for quite a long time not budged on his opinion that Christianity is based on a bunch of things which didn't happen . And while I will never be able to believe the bible word for word or that Jesus did rise from the dead or that God even exists, I have come to find a wee bit of religious tolerance inside of me :-P So much so that I'm going to agree with my mum (yes my mum gets a shout out here) that the bible/the word of Jesus yada yada yada does have some good points namely the one which goes "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is what Christians should be focusing their energy on, helping others and treating them with dignity, not arguing stupid debates and forcing their ideas/believes onto everyone else. (and if they don't get their way, they go to extremes, read this)

So, even though this is hardly going to be read by any christian extremists, just keep it in mind that Christianity shouldn't be and isn't about spreading hate but sharing love. And its just unfortunate that the people who represent Christians alot of the time are idiots. And if anyone repeats these words to someone who tries to convince them that being gay IS an abomination because it is in the bible. And the same person refuses to listen and learn and spread love and compassion to those in need like they should; then just explain that if they want to follow those specific words of the bible, they best make sure they follow all the words of the bibles:

exodus 21:7 allows parents to sell their daughters into slavery

or

exodus 35:2 which explains that Sunday - the seventh day is a day of rest, BUT those who don't rest are to be put to death :-O

or

leviticus 15:19 which we all know warns us not to touch a female for a week after she has had her period or we will be unclean. :-S