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Thursday, March 23, 2006
Well, you're probably wondering now...over the past 2 weeks, did Angela get a dog!?! hehe...I wish! This cute li'l 3-month old pup (I think it's a Shih-Tzu) is Garbo, and she is currently up for foster care at the Toronto Humane Society.
Fostering an animal is usually a short-term thing to rehabilitate ill/injured/unsocialized animals before the adoption process, but in Garbo's case, it's preferred that she go to a long-term home. The poor li'l thing is actually blind and has a congenital condition that (from what I understand)causes her to circle to the left when she walks. She's a cutie though, isn't she?
As for now...with university tuitions on the rise...I think that this is another dream that must wait a li'l longer. All in God's time, right? Although I must say, since the Toronto Humane Society only charges $50/dog and $25/cat adoption, I could easily adopt my own pet now...but then again risk going broke from arranging the dog's living accomodations and paying its vet bills=P
It's sad though, going to the Toronto Humane Society (not that the animals are treated poorly or anything...they probably have one of the best facilities around for a humane society). It's just that there's so many animals there unwanted by previous owners or bred when the owners had no intentions in finding new owners for the pups of their un-spayed dogs.
And with the Pit Bull bann in Ontario, pretty much 9 out of 10 dogs up for adoption at the humane society are of this breed. I personally do not believe that Pit Bulls or any other breed/species should be banned like this. Basically, all currently owned Pit Bulls are allowed to live out their lives until they die of old age as long as they are neutered/spayed. However, no new Pit Bulls are to be bred, bought, or imported from elsewhere. I understand that there have been many incidents in which Pit Bulls have hurt/killed humans...but I still don't think that this is the fault of its breed.
Some dogs are bred and trained by humans to be hunters, some to be family pets, some to be guard dogs, some to be guide dogs...but any dog that is mistreated, neglected, left untrained, or provoked can be agressive, and any dog that is loved, trained, and treated with respect will have no need to act irrationally violent.
hehe...it reminds me of a clip from one of the animé films by Hayao Miyazaki that my sister and I grew up on, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, where Nausicaä first meets a fox-squirrel type creature (who eventually becomes her pet), who her "uncle" warns her to be dangerous and possibly violent. She goes to pet it, when it bites her finger, drawing blood...but then, realizing that she posed no danger, it starts to lick her wound, and eventually climbs onto her shoulder, following her wherever she went.
Maybe you think I'm naïve...and maybe I am...but doesn't everybody need a second chance from time to time?
I love to love, and I hate to hate. Yet love and hate are two sides of the same coin...without one there is no other.
*sigh*...I wish I could make more of a difference in this world. The optimistic side of me says that I can...if only I take the first step. Go help out at a soup kitchen, volunteer at the humane society, work at a food bank. While my pessimistic side says what can you do when you are only one...perhaps brighten one person's day, one smile at a time...yet that in itself isn't so bad, is it?
I guess this blog is just coming from trying to figure out how to make good use of my upcoming summer. Try to be rational and get a job to pay for tuition, try to be carefree and spend it hanging out with friends, try to be adventurous and travel, or try to be a good samaritan and surrender my time to a worthy cause. Times passes...it's already 12:57pm, and yet, “after all is said and done, more has usually been said than done” (Michael W. Hamrick).
Caught in the middle...
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Thursday, March 9, 2006
So, it's been AGES (as usual) since my last update=P March is a hell of a month - lots of work with no sight of a break until classes are over at which I get a 3-week exam study period and then 5 exams in 3 days...*sigh*...lovely schedule, don't you agree?
But yes, I decided that I would do a bit of updating during my early dinner...before a busy nite of essay-writing and presentation-prepping.
And in "preparation" for my term paper (due next Thursday), I took a walk and visited Union Station today...yes, I walked...too cheap for the subway=P And though I made pretty good time there (less than 30 minutes), I died walking back after having just eaten lunch (about 40 minutes). It was a nice walk though, down University Avenue, even though it was gloomy out...interesting buildings everywhere and lottsa interesting people.
While I was there, some random woman (who must've been at least in her mid-30s) and a small group ran up to me, and said they were doing a "amazing race" of some sort and needed 8 signatures...after messily scribbling onto her sheet, she slapped a sticker onto my jacket which had a picture of 2 poor dogs dressed in wedding attire accompanied by the phrase: "I support pet marriages" =S Yeah...kinda weird and sketchy...but they immediately ran off to other innocent bystanders in the building and then to some guy (who I assume was the organizer of this event) with their clipboards waving in the air...Yup, middle-aged people on a weekday afternoon=P Interesting the things you see downtown!
Other things that have been happening in my life include book-hunting. Yes, that's right - book-hunting. I had put this one book on hold when both copies at Robarts were taken out, but my hold wasn't processed until the next day (after one of the copies had been returned). So, one would assume that I would get that copy, since I was the first one in line for a hold...but according to the "lovely" librarian I approached, I had put a hold on the copy that was signed out, not the one that was in the library! Good logic, eh?
So, I go searching the library stacks to find the one that was said to be back in the library, but low and behold, it's nowhere to be found. So, on a later day, I approach yet another "lovely" librarian, and she tells me to check again the next day, cuz they probably haven't re-shelved it yet. But the thing is, I've done that for 4 days!!!
So, a week after the first visit I made for that one book, I check online in the morning to see if the book was still available, and yes, it was. I head to class, and then to the library stacks, searching high and low...and even the trolleys that have of books to be re-shelved - nothing. I head to the circulation desk, and the librarian (an older gentlemen, this time) finally bothered to help me look it up in the system after I mentioned that I had going to the stacks over the span of the past week...
And guess what? Both copies of the book were signed out!!! Sometime during class, between the time I checked online and me going to library, someone signed the book out! But, the man was nice enough to tell me that St. Michael's College had a copy available (for which I was extremely grateful).
So, I head over to St. Mike's today after having a class in the viscinity...go to the corresponding stack, but no book...*sigh*...so I go to the circulation desk, thinking maybe I wasn't looking in the right place. The librarian checked the computer to make sure it wasn't signed out, went upstairs to help me look, came back and said, "The book hasn't been signed out for 2 years. We'll do a formal search and get back to you." GAH! I wasn't mad at the librarian, she was nice to have looked it up and actually gone to double-check for me...I was just frustrated that it's taking me so long to hunt down a single book.
The good news is (and yes, there is actually some good news...unless it just isn't meant for me to get a hold of this book before my term paper's due) I found a copy available at the Central Library and placed a hold on it. I'm praying that nothing goes wrong with that arrangement=S
Other than that...I guess life has been going on as usual. The most recent "musical" entertainment I've been hooked on was introduced to me by my sister=P If you haven't already experienced the laughter of watching the short films and music videos of Wong Fu Productions, you dunno what you're missing=) Ones I recommend are a 15-minute film Yellow Fever, and the music videos of Invisible Children (which is the Black Eyed Peas song Gone Going featuring Jack Johnson), Jason Mraz's I'm Yours, Maroon 5's Sunday, and Qing Fei De Yi. It's a great study/homework break and really gets your mind off work (although...I dunno if that's always a good thing=P).
Well, it's 6:08pm already...why does time fly when youdon't want it to?...and I better go wash my dishes and write, write, write!
Keep smiling,
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