They Call them "the Tokyo Two" Check out their story and please sign the petition to stop this injustice!
The link to their story is...
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/so-help-me-greenpeace190309
Please go to http://www.greenpeace.org/international to read more about this and many other fascinating stories of people standing up to save our planet and its inhabitants! This is OUR planet, it's within our power to open the eyes of others around us! Please help out in any way you can!
If Junichi Sato and Toru Suzuki have committed a crime by opposing the scandal and corruption of the Japanese whaling programme, you must arrest me for assisting them.
All of us who have supported efforts to save the whales with time, money, or by lending our name to letter writing campaigns, petitions, virtual marches, or e-cards are complicit in Junichi and Toru's actions.
If you are going to start rounding up political prisoners for the crime of defending whales, you will need to arrest a great many people around the world.
I know I am probably behind many people on noticing this film but I had to get on here for the first time in a long to to try and bring any attention to the amazing documentary SHARKWATER! It's an eye opening film about the endangerment on the shark population and how that in turn will effect life on earth in a GIGANTIC way! Not only will we lose an amazing creature thats been around for much longer than we have been but their extinction will effect our oxygen levels on earth, which is only one factor... watch this film, recognize that sharks are not the monsters media has always made them out to be, more people are killed by elephants every year than sharks!!
Watch this film and i can guarantee you will want to share it with other people, and please do!!
HEY EVERYONE!
i haven't posted an update on here in quite a while, mostly because there was something going on with my computer that would not allow me to and i have no patience to figure it out! :) but I am currently looking for some help!!! I was a student at the University of Windsor, in Ontario Canada and decided that the program i was taking was not for me, unfortunately by this time i had already signed a lease to live with two of my best friends. Now i do not wish to return to Windsor as I want to work save money and try to figure my life out! but I am stuck in this lease!! It's a great location for anyone going to the university of Windsor ... You walk out the door go around the corner and BOOM the university is there, it is no more than a 2 minute walk! so if there are any students out there looking for place or knowing someone looking for a place this one is great, you would have two amazing roomates and the rent is only $320 + utilities. It's a three bedroom duplex and the basement room would be yours... So it's a major bonus because its a house with two great people and lots of privacy as well! so if you are interested email me with Windsor Rental as your subject to t_2_the_t@hotmail.com ... You would be saving my life!!! Thank so Much!!!
Why are we so far away now?
We used to be the best of friends.
Now it feels like we're strangers...
Talking to stop the silence,
silence that starts awkwardness,
awkwardness that only reminds us,
we don't know eachother as we once did.
You were the only freind I needed.
We always had so much fun,
but now my definition of fun differs from yours.
Why can't we go back to that time,
when our definitions matched...
I guess time travel isn't in friendship's vocabulary
and SPACE is a prominent word.
I recently recieved an email from a fellow TIG member who is currently going through school to be a minister... she wanted to know my thoughts on God and where I stood, as well as humans and our constant work to get money to get food to get strength cycle... Not to criticize, or argue, or teach me about but just to get a grasp on where I stood... In replying to her I stated my thoughts and feelings on religion and God. By doing this I have discovered even more about what my true feelings are, not that I didnt know how I felt but putting it into words and reading it back to myself put it in another light... This shows the power of writing and sharing opinions. I highly encourage others to do this as well because in doing so you discover more about yourself and learn more about others as well... Sharing beliefs and opinions with others and hearing theirs as well can teach u so many new things...
so anyways after I re-read the letter that I had written for Heather I decided that I wanted to share my thoughts and views on this topic with more than one person.. so i decided to post it on my page... feel free to voice your opinions on my beliefs or your own as I look forward to any feedback or new views to take into account... Heres the letter..
I'm comfortable talking about my beliefs with u but i dont think that they will be the same.. and i know thats ok with u, but im just preparing u hahaha... to start off I was reminded of one of my favourite sayings that i ever picked up from a book when u spoke about the endless cycle, of work, money, and food... That is that animals (not humans) are the only ones who know how to truly enjoy life... in the sense that they live to live, they live to have a home, raise babies and be free while they are alive... where as humans live to work so that they can spend the last 20 years or possibly less of their lives finally being free, but most being too old and tired to enjoy it, we waste away our youth working to be happy when we could be much more happier not working, except for the fact that now not working means poverty. those are my thoughts on humans and the working world anyways... even though it cannot be changed and probably is needed so that people can make sense of how they share things and what they "deserve"... which im not stating as part of my beliefs just as the average north american point of view that u work for what u deserve and what u deserve is what u get... which is really not true because there are plenty of people who do great things and do them for free or close to it and never become recognized for the great things they do... which i know your thoughts will be that they are recognized in the eyes of god and im sure they are but my thoughts on god are not yet concrete.... You know as well as any of my old school friends I was raised in a Catholic school and attended the Catholic church but now as an adult i definetly do not support it... I'm not sure about what to believe in God, i believe in a higher being that is for sure but when i think about God my mind goes back to the Catholic ways in which I need to attend church to truly speak with him and confess through a man who is supposed to be in close communication with God because he has given his life to celebacy and goodness, and that i have to go through a vast number of ceremonies to truly be considered an adult catholic... well i dont believe that... I believe that u can speak to God when you wish and that from no matter what building you are in he can hear you.. i believe that u ask for forgiveness through urself and through ur future actions because every person is equal in god's eyes so they do not need to confess to a human person (catholic priest) because that person is not any higher on God's list of people to listen to than you yourself are. So in that sense I guess the higher being that I believe in is what you would call God but I prefer not to give him this name because it just reminds me of the catholic version of him... and i know that u are not catholic now but i am just stating it in a way that i know both u and i have experienced... So i guess I more or less know what I believe in about "God" i just dont know how to refer to him without calling him "god" and then thinking of him in the catholic ways... Currently I do not believe myself to be involved with any religion which may be a reason why I often find myself wondering why i feel like something is missing or not yet completed that should be... I often find myself wondering where I am as a person, do i feel whole yet, and why not? and lately with my boyfriends chats on his own beliefs and wanting to explore other world religions to get a view on all aspects of God and life and see which one he feels makes most sense for him, has made me begin to think maybe i should do the same... As a future anthropologist, religion will be a major factor in my studies so I believe that it will be a lifelong journey for me before I finally decide on my code of beliefs and a possible religion... but thinking about it, I feel that I do not need to belong to a religion in order to feel this wholeness that those who are currently close to God must feel... it is more surrounding my beliefs... I think that through my life I will gather, obey and maybe discard certain beliefs as I become exposed to different world views and religions. In this way I hope to better myself, my life and my relationship with "god" but I am not sure if i will ever do this through one single religion... Instead bettering myself, my life, and my relationship with "god" will come from my very own set of beliefs that i will gather through experiences and lessons and in this way i feel that i will have a more personal relationship with my beliefs and with "god" because i came to terms with them on my own and not through reading or listening about what a certain religion tells me I should feel and do... and on that note i will end this, so i do not start to confuse or repeat :)... but i hope that you understand everything i have said and if u need better understanding just ask, writing this down has made me understand even more how i feel about this as well...
It once again has been about a year since I have graced this page with any new stories or pictures. I have been busy, well sort of... when im not busy im mostly lazy :) haha... So update... I got my certificate for one year of the general arts program. I was in the program originally for two years to get my BA but it was really quite a waste of time and I ended up with very good marks and qualifying for a scholarship with my dad's work for $5,000 so it will pay my tuition every year of my four year program... So i have left Lambton College and I am now living in Windsor and studying at the University of Windsor... I am going through for my HBA in Anthropology and will probably end up going through for my masters' sometime afterwards... But for now its just focusing on the present and getting used to windsor! I know for many people especially the people in the hometown of TIG, Toronto... windsor does not seem like a large city at all but for me, coming from the tiny town of Petrolia... Windsor is huge and scary!! haha I'm getting used to it now but its a very strange thing... And the only reason I have survived this whole time is probably because of Jeff! Jeff is my boyfriend, he is the special someone that i met at prom and we have been together for over a year now... He is the most wonderful person I have ever met and I would probably still be in Petrolia right now in college still and not caring about anything if it wasn't for him... He inspired me to do well while I was in college so that i could move on to the next chapter of my life much sooner than planned... He is also my total support system here which sometimes is probably not a good thing, i feel bad for him...haha because i need a LOT of support with this new adjustment... I was very much a homebody I loved living in petrolia, theres just something about Petrolia I think it's just the comfort factor of knowing everyone there and knowing what is going to happen everyday... but it's really not that healthy i guess...I had to break out of that shell and start realizing that there is a world i need to see and experience that expands further than petrolia and the vastness of the internet... Anyways I should probably stop this update for now and go have some lunch I just finished a test in my Latin class and it made me work up an appetite haha... Anyways if i can remember how to do it I will have a picture of me and jeff posted on here... I look so very happy in this picture i love it! haha anyways hope everyone is doing great...
NEVER HOLD BACK!!
Luv yas!
again, it's been a while. was just enjoying my christmas break. i go back to school on monday. going to finish off my year doing general arts. trying to love it up. over my break i did a whole lotta nothin'! and it kicked butt. ive been kinda busy this week tho. i had to get this crazy heart monitor put on the other day but its off now. it sure was a pain in the ass. i'll tell ya that much. somethin's wrong with the ticker. nothing too serious tho. i'll be good. nothin a little surgery wont fix :P anywho, i think ive decided what program im going to switch to for next year. i'm gonna go get my MCSE. i'm gonna be a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. crazy eh. who'd a thunk it??? not me thats for sure. for now tho, i gotta find a job. ive definatley been unemployed for like 9 months... thats insane. as much as i've loved it up and taken advantage of not working to the fullest extent. i need money. some friends and i found this house out in the boon dogs. its got a sweet beer drinkin porch. and its cheap rent. its closer to my school, so thats a pretty sweet deal too. plus you can only get there on gravel roads. no cops are gonna bust up a party out there. no way. no how. thats all for now.
peace
hey all
so im in my third week of school. its pretty cool. not too hard, meetin' some fun people. doin' lotsa work. second day of school i tripped up the stair in the cafeteria infront of everyone and did a face plant and dropped all my stuff... everyone started clapping and yelling good one! so i got up and was like "YEAH" just so i didnt feel like such an ass... it was pretty halarious. i was supposed to move out a little while ago, but we got screwed out of our place... they decided they didnt want to rent to students after all :P pretty shaddy... but we found a place today thats pretty kick ass. so we're gonna take it and move in for october first. pretty pumped up. just thought i'd drop a few lines! heres a pic of me from the wknd drinkin' at my cottage with some buddies... my eyes kinda look all glossy drunk life :) ahhh! the life of a college student :P anywho gotta get up at 6... woooo!!! exciting! later
Hi Peoples.
Wow it's been a while. Since my birthday on may 17th infact. Things have changed since then. I've been busy working and going to school. but i'll get to that in a bit. How were ur summers?? i hope they were good and filled with fun and happy things. Mine was a little bit slow but it was probably one of the best summers yet. I saw Metallica and went to The SARS concert which were two very awesome shows. Metallica was a dream and when I saw AC/DC I realized my list of concerts to see is starting to run slim, which is a pretty good thing because as fun as the concerts are you really take a beating to see a good show. Anyways there are a lot of things to talk about Prom was cool, i went with one of my best guy friends, Billy and i ended up meeting someone very special at the after prom party and I've been with him ever since so that is really good news because anyone who I used to talk with on here would know i was becoming hopeless in finding a good guy and now I've found someone wonderful and I love him tons. I will be posting some pictures from Prom and maybe even one of my sweetie but that will be coming slowly as my computer is a junkheap and its frustrating to even scan one picture with it. I will be getting a new computer next week though so thats exciting and i'll prally be on here a lot more considering it is a much faster model than this one. The picture that i've posted is of me and one of my all time buddies Bob. Bob's the coolest we've been tight since public school but he had to move to Toronto for university so you toronto people look for this guy because he's an awesome kid and a sweetheart for any of you ladies out there haha and he'd also kill me if he saw i just put that but it's ok im sure we can all keep it secret. This pic was taken at my girl erika's house when she threw one of those real fun nearing end of summer bashes. I LOVE ALL MY BUDDIES THAT I'LL BE MISSING WHO LEFT TO SCHOOL THIS YEAR! Franzie, Stace, Teebs, Chelse, Bob, Beany, Channie T, and many more i luv u guys awww *tear* Right now im currently going to the local college here for two years of general arts cuz i dont know what it is that i would like to do and guess what!! BRESLIN IS THERE WITH ME YAYYYYYYY! it's just like the beginning of highschool all over again me and her, locker buddies finding our classes together except now we have all the same classes because shes in the same program as me and guess what BRESLIN IS INSPIRED TO DO WELL!! so she will be heading to university afterwards and i'm sure her dreams of getting out of petrolia are well on there way. infact probably sooner than u would think because she will be moving 15 minutes away to Sarnia to be closer to the school so everyone congradulate Breslin and i'll tell her to come back on here sometime soon to see. Now for anyone who is newer and has not met Breslin i would suggest going to her page there is usually some pretty interesting stuff there. Now to all my buddies, jace, cam, u guys leave me some messages if u guys still read this stuff cuz i miss yas and anyone else i'd love to talk to ya. I'm working at a telemarketing place right now, and thats alright its a lot though i go to school usually until around 4 and then i work mondays thursdays fridays and sundays 430pm -1030pm so it can be dragging when i have a full day of school and then a full night of work but im managing and hey i need the cash. I just put in my 2 weeks notice at the Bulk Barn my long time job that would be two years running in october i'll miss it but i need the extra hours and larger salary i'm getting at RMH. Well i think i've already made this update way too big but hey there was a lot to catch up on. im gonna be visiting some peoples pages that i havent for a while as well so im looking forward to that. well i hope everyone is starting school off well and others are just having fun at whatever it is u are doing, take care Im outta here
Luv Yas
im not big on change... but sooner or later things do change... you have to grow up and move on with your life. i start college next week. and i move into my new place a day before i start. things are going to be pretty hectic. i got a three bedroom townhouse a ways down the street from my school. im sharing a place with my buddies mel-hole and murry... i dont like having to leave my mom in our house alone. bah! i hate being the youngest. but i have to grow up and do things for myself. im gonna study my ass off all the time, and hope that i can get honours or something so i can get into a sweet university. maybe get a scholarship or something... thatd be cool. its a good thing that my roomates like to clean and they know how to cook. otherwise i'd have the most unclean place ever and i'd live off toast. probably burnt toast to boot. well hopefully things will work out for the better, and i'll be fine living away from home... and i wont be the hopeless case in college that i was in highschool... welp... wish me luck all... gonna go pack up some junk.
so i hate to say it... but summers almost done... few more weeks and then back to reality. i havent been in school for a bit more than a year. and its almost time to go back. freaky. its gonna be crazy. i know that if i dont start college now... i probably never will. so im forcing myself to go. which will be a good thing in the long run for sure. i just wish there was a way around it. hahaha. its also kinda sad... all the ppl i grew up with and have been hanging out with my whole life are starting to move away. we wont get to see each other hardly ever, which is really shafty. all i have to say is im gonna be doing a lot of driving on the wknds all over the place... and i hope that everybody has e-mail :P
this summer has been sort of productive. i havent worked at all... but i saw a lot of concerts. and i got to chill with my brother derek for a week in t.o. so that was sweet. my brothers pretty kick ass. always comes up with these crazy cool ideas. and is full of fun and interesting information... like how you can buy sweet ass light sabers that do all this crazy fun stuff for only like $700 american. hahaha. but yeah... we went to the stones concert in t.o together which was a kick ass time. spent like $50 bucks on water alone! nutty. then afterwards we got stuck in the 500 000 ppl hurd... shuffling down the street and ended up walking for like 500 hours. good times. anywho yeah... hopefully i do some more fantastically fun things before summers done and im forced to grow up again for another 10 months. bah. okee welp im off to bed, just thought i'd write a bit. and on the note of me going to bed... heres a pic of me waking up! hahaha i thought it would be funny to expose the morning me for all to see!
hey all! went to SARS STOCK yesterday! hahaha sars stock... i cant even believe they were selling t-shirts that said that... anywho yeah. me and derek went, it was pretty cool. its fun hangin with my bro :) hes silly! i dont know how the heck he stood for 12 hrs straight. i had to take sit breaks every so often. ac~dc, rush and the rolling stones were definatley my fav's out of the day. they were kick ass. in total i spent about 50 bucks on water. thats just insane. and none of my bottles got thrown at justin timberlake... he wasnt worth my water. i kinda felt bad for him, how he got boo'd soooo hard. but man, he was just singin to the wrong crowd. we were all there for some rock and roll and he came out singin "cry me a river" i just wanted to be like "cry me a river when you get knocked out by one of those bottles of water aimed at your head" and for all those folks who just kept whippin em at him when he was singin with the stones... you are brave, i definatley didnt have the balls to risk hittin one of the stones. keith richards almost got pegged and he was right pissed. anywho yeah. it was a good time for sure. hahaha derek got a lot of sun :) i didnt burn tho... kinda peeved... i want a sweet tan, but im never outside enough... then when i am, the sun doesnt wanna show any love :) anywho out fer now, more later. peace
k so the cops came and just left... i misjudged them i guess... they were really nice, and helpful. i guess muggers with the description i gave them were reported yesterday as well... in the same area. what stupid criminals eh. for real. even though the chances are super slim... if i ever see those f*$%^^# again... im gonna whoop them sooooo hard! anywho its been a long ass day... i dont care if its super bad for you, im goin outside and im smokin cause im stressed... and im gonna luv it too!
have a good night, be safe, and dont walk around t.o alone... even in daylight! oh yeah and tomorrow... give homeless ppl your spare change... cause this bum by the doors of the subway on yongue and queen asked me why i was crying... and offered to pay to get me home on the subway. that was the nicest thing ever. there still are some strangers out there that arent out to get you. i love that bum, if i ever see him again im gonna give him like 20 bucks... k bye again...
im visiting in toronto for the week, staying at my brother dereks. i havent been here in a long time and today i was just tourin' around minding my own business... and i got mugged. these four guys prally thought it would be fun to pick on an innocent girl, walking alone. they stole my purse. luckily they just stole my tin with 60 bucks in it. they tossed my purse down the street with my digicam, cell phone, and a buncha other stuff... they knocked me down pretty hard though. my legs kinda beat up a bit. im right pissed. and i wont even see them ever again. so i wont get a chance to beat them down. see if this had happened in petrolia. i could just ask them the next day "man why the hell did ya do that?" cause you always see everyone in petrolia all the time. everyone knows everyone. and everyone knows where everyone lives. but here... its a different story. i got screwed and theres nothing anyone can do about it. i called 911 like 45 minutes ago, im at dereks now. they said they sent a cop here to take a report and they'd be here in like 10 minutes. but nope... still not here. takin' their sweet ass time i guess... like seriously, if i had been badly hurt and was like bleeding somewhere on the sidewalk, i'd prally be dead by now, cause the cops just dont seem to care. well maybe thats not accurate but thats how i feel right now. im just pissed off... anywho... report back later.
hey tiggers! so im finally comin back to t.o to visit. havent been there to chill since the march break before the march break that passed... thats a long time. i havent even seen any of my tig buddies since last summer when everybody came to my cottage. theres so many things i want to do... and so many people that i would love to see. when the train drops me off in t.o im gonna go straight to the office... cause thats always what i do when i come to toronto... straight to the office :) im gonna try and get tickets to that concert in t.o on wednesday too so me and my bro can go. thatd be pretty sweet! pumped up fer the rolling stones. that'll be killer! anywho got some stuff to do. see you guys soon!
~breslin~
