Saturday, September 26, 2009

Friday, September 18, 2009

12345678...

Oh! Snap!

This won't spoil the movie for anyone. If you like shoes and know my style this will tell you if i liked it or not:





Official Zhuk Rating: 9/10 bananas (yes for the movie)

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Never/Forever

this is the one about life, family and friends, the one that i constantly struggle to be honest with even with myself and i know for a fact only few great people in my life have heard me talk about such things.

i want to share this with the world yet my personality is trying to stay true to itself.

(to be continued)



Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Life: the way it is

Normally, only masterworks appear. And usually the writer spends his time demonstrating why serious painting is more complex and genuine, more sincere and more profound, then the kinds of pictures most people like when they're not pretending to be 'cultured'.

But it does not necessarily follow that one should always prefer what is more complex, genuine, sincere, and profound. Those of us who spend our lives concerned with the arts usually do not like what is commonplace or simple, and is natural. The true sports fan is bored by routine performance; he is fascinated by the exceptional. The professional mathematician would go mad had he nothing to do but routine applications of the calculus. The more we know of a thing the less concerned we are with its ordinary manifestations.

Similarly, when one knows very little about a subject one is apt to like what is most familiar and to be impressed with what seems difficult. As it happens, what is most familiar is quite often mediocre, and what a layman considers remarkable a professional would look upon as routine.


(all taken from the preface in this book, a must for anyone who likes to explore and learn new things:
Art: the way it is )


Sunday, September 13, 2009

Jay-Z

In the year 2009 i finally come to realize and appreciate how good Jay-Z is.
He only gets better with each album. Every song from his latest album is a hit song with such good beats.

Tuesday, September 8, 2009

The Cider House Rules

So i finally got around to watching this movie after recording it on my PVR for some three to five times and needeing space for other things and having to delete it.

Although the title of the movie has nothing to do with the actual story, but then maybe i am just not intelligent enough to figure it out. Great movie none the less. Very good acting all around. A lot of life lessons about love, friendships and much more.





Official Zhuk Rating: 8/10 Bananas







also it only punctuates more on how beautiful she is in the way she moves, the way she talks and caries herself:







Oh, and even Erykah Badu has a good role is this and this song fits well with it:




Have to wait for Common in the 'New Jersey' jersey on the big screen coming within next year or so:


Wednesday, September 2, 2009

AI

Monday, August 31, 2009

Leon aka Joel Jackson

" Why don't black people need mosquito repellent at night?"





Ian Su, Noel, Leon, Patrik, ViC abd Eric.
Sunday night chilling.
A lot of Bananas by Steves Elementary School
Safeway. Single box of 'sundae' ice cream.
Prop bet vs Noel. 10% of body mass by September 1, 2010. 50$ wager. Noel was the man, because he did not try to rip me off on the bet, when he so could have done so and he even explained it to me.
Dazed and Confused. What an odd movie for me to randomly record on the PVR.
Self note on Ian's birthday ot pay for his PVR box so the man can enjoy his TV better.
ViC are a little bit too much for his body. Even he knew it and Noel noticed and told us.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Automatic Door

listen to the song being played and read the captions:




WTF?!?


"This is a very intelligent Paki, at least he did not kill himself in the name of Allah!! Peeps have asked how he got in? He followed in after a bunch of people who were entering, did not realize the door is Automatic. Once he was in here, it had a different exit from his cave that he is used too. ALLAH AKBARRR!! "


".....He could not wait to get to the 72 virgins on the other side. He thought he was heading to Muslim Paradise!!!"


The guy is clearly insane. Because: a sane person would have stepped closer to the door to examine it (where it would have opened) AND/OR a sane person would have asked others how to open that "magic door".

He is that insane, to rather ram his head into the door than to ask another person.
Of course he's insane, otherwise why would he be wearing a pyjama? :D"

Monday, August 10, 2009

pam bamm bammm pam bam

everybody's out to get me, don't you let it drag you down, if you ever feel neglected, if you think that all is lost, i'll be counting up my demons, hoping everything's not lost


pam bam bammm pam bamm pam bamm in my place, lines that i could not change, i was lost, cross lines shooting across i was lost oh yeah, yeeahhhhh, how long will she wait for me, yeahhh how long will she pain for me, yeahhh how long will she wait for me? i was scared, i was scared tired and underprepared, if you go , leave me here all on my own, yeahhh how long will she wait for me? yeahhh how long will she pain for me? yeahhh how long will she wait for me? singing please please please come back and sing to me, come on and sing now now come on and sing to me, come back and sing, in my place, in my place i was lost, oh yeah oh yeah


where do we go nobody knows, i've got to say im on my way down, god gave me style and gave me grace, god put a smile upon my face. where do we go to draw the line? i've got to say i've wasted all your time, honey honey, where do i go to fall from grace? god put a smile upon my face. where do we go nobody knows, don't ever say you are on your way down, god gave you style and gave you grace, god put a smile upon your face.


tooloo tooloot toolootoo loot tool looo too loot oh love i seespider web is tangled up with me i lost my head, thought of all the stupid things i said. oh no what's this? spider and i'm caught in the middle so i turn to run, and thought of all the stupid things i've done. ahh i've mnever meant to cause you trouble ive never meant to do you harm...tooloootoo too loo oh no i've never meant to do you harm...they've spun a web for me...

i've spun a web for me ___

Friday, August 7, 2009

Annie Hall [1977] by Woodie Allen





Official Zhuk Rating: 9/10 bananas


Such an intellectually funny movie about the truths of life and relationships.


[In California]
Annie Hall: It's so clean out here.
Alvy Singer: That's because they don't throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.



[Annie wants to smoke marijuana before sex]
Alvy Singer: Yeah, grass, right? The illusion that it will make a white woman more like Billie Holiday.
Annie Hall: Well, have you ever made love high?
Alvy Singer: Me? No. I - I, you know, If I have grass or alcohol or anything, I get unbearably wonderful. I get too, too wonderful for words. I don't know why you have to get high every time we make love.
Annie Hall: It relaxes me.
Alvy Singer: You have to be artificially relaxed before we can go to bed?
Annie Hall: Well, what's the difference anyway?
Alvy Singer: Well, I'll give you a shot of sodium pentathol. You can sleep through it.
Annie Hall: Oh come on. Look who's talking. You've been seeing a psychiatrist for 15 years. You should smoke some of this. You'd be off the couch in no time



Alvy Singer: It's mental masturbation!
Annie Hall: And you would know all about THAT, wouldn't you?
Alvy Singer: Hey, don't knock masturbation! It's sex with someone I love.



[Alvy is asked to try cocaine]
Alvy Singer: I don't want to put a wad of white powder in my nose. There's the nasal membrane...
Annie Hall: You never want to try anything new, Alvy.
Alvy Singer: How can you say that? Whose idea was it? I said that you, I and that girl from your acting class should sleep together in a threesome.
Annie Hall: Well, that's sick.
Alvy Singer: Yeah, I know it's sick, but it's new. You didn't say it couldn't be sick.



[Alvy and Annie are seeing their therapists at the same time on a split screen]
Alvy Singer's Therapist: How often do you sleep together?
Annie Hall's Therapist: Do you have sex often?
Alvy Singer: [lamenting] Hardly ever. Maybe three times a week.
Annie Hall: [annoyed] Constantly. I'd say three times a week.






Thank you Woody Allen for being an honest genius!

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Secret Beach




take your best guesses as to where this is and how you can get there?!?

Tuesday, August 4, 2009

2007 - Diary narrated by Nas

Жук says (9:53 PM):
ate breakfast, when to shoot hoops, then went for a bike ride, tide was out so we ent out into the ocean, its was cool ask Shrek so far, chilled, when to get some food (sushi), then i rented like 6 movies at Rogers, lol 6 that i REALLY wanted to see, home, then played some ball in actual competition haha 2 on 2 and 4 on 4, home ate dinner, going to sleep verrry soon.






extra. nutrition basics:

The 7 Rules of Good Nutrition

Here’s my take on it. I call these principles, "The 7 Rules of Good Nutrition."

These aren’t the newest techniques from the latest cutting-edge plan. Rather, they are simple, time-tested, no nonsense habits that you need to get into when designing a good eating program.

1. Eat every 2-3 hours, no matter what. You should eat between 5-8 meals per day.

2. Eat complete (containing all the essential amino acids), lean protein with each meal.

3. Eat fruits and/or vegetables with each food meal.

4. Ensure that your carbohydrate intake comes from fruits and vegetables. Exception: workout and post-workout drinks and meals.

5. Ensure that 25-35% of your energy intake comes from fat, with your fat intake split equally between saturates (e.g. animal fat), monounsaturates (e.g., olive oil), and polyunsaturates (e.g. flax oil, salmon oil).

6. Drink only non-calorie containing beverages, the best choices being water and green tea.

7. Eat mostly whole foods (except workout and post-workout drinks).
So what about calories, or macronutrient ratios, or any number of other things that I’ve covered in other articles? The short answer is that if you aren’t already practicing the above-mentioned habits, and by practicing them I mean putting them to use over 90% of the time (i.e., no more than 4 meals out of an average 42 meals per week violate any of those rules), everything else is pretty pointless.

Moreover, many people can achieve the health and the body composition they desire following these 7 rules alone. No kidding! In fact, with some of my clients I spend the first few months just supervising their adherence to these 7 rules—an effective but costly way to learn them.

If you’ve reached the 90% threshold, you may need a bit more individualization beyond the 7 rules. If so, search around on this site. Many of these little tricks can be found in my many articles published right here. But before looking for them, before assuming you’re ready for individualization; make sure you’ve truly mastered the 7 rules. Then, while keeping the 7 rules as the consistent foundation, tweak away.

Monday, August 3, 2009

Othello




Kitsilano Beach.
Big Bear and Lil Bear vs four police cars.


Sunday, August 2, 2009

Thanks Kblaze

for yet another great mix of one of my favorite players.
listen to how well this guy picks songs and lyrics to go with his mixes

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

SLAM (Saul Williams)

I have yet to see that movie. Need to put it on my list of movie to see.

Two songs/poems here. One is "Apocalypse"? And the other one is the famous "Black Stacey"


[Esthero:]
Oh ahhhh oooh

[Saul Williams:]
Children of the night
Only some will star the sky
Only believers in death will die
And fathers must feather
the wings of women
For the unfeathered masses
dangle ridiculous
Carrying crosses to phalayx filled tombs
The future sells silence
through blood rivered wombs
That ripple with riddles of cows
and spoons and births
Moons and earths
Sun-centered at noon

[Esthero:]
Now....

[Saul Williams:]
And here I stand
Court jestering infinity
Fetal fisted for revolution
But open hands birth humility
Now what is the density of
an egoless planet?
Must my spine be aligned to sprout wings?
I'm slouched into sling steps and
kangoled with gang reps
But my orbit rainbows saturn rings
Mystical eliptical
Presto polaris
Karmic flamed future when
saturns and aries
And now I'm a fish called father
With gills type dizzy
Blowing liquid lullabies
through the spine of time
I'm certain of saturns rivers
and all else is fact
So baptise me in the stars
And wrap me in nighttime
Moon blue
Pupil my sight with orange balls of light
And echo my plight
Through the corridors of metaphor
What else are we living
for if not to create
Fiction and rhyme?
My purpose is to make my soul
Rhyme with my
mind over matter
Minds create matter
minds create fiction
As a matter of fact
As if matter of fact
Matter is fact
So spirit must be fiction
Science fiction
Art fiction
Meta fiction

[Esthero:]
Now

[Saul Williams:]
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living
in the voice of children is
the tao of now

[Esthero:]
You are the divine
reflection of this earth
She does not belong to you, love
there is no need for your correction
All rivers run in the same direction

[Saul Williams:]
If you're serving the father
there's no son without mother
Parent bodies discover
water bodies and drown
Wade me in the water
'Til atlantis is found
On the sea floors of self
I'm starfish and unbound
Heard that name of that
mound is stone mountain
Underwater volcanoes erupt
water fountains of youth
Let's us carnal the equation,
cancel out wind and truth
Swirl me beyond sometimes
Drench me water proof
Let eve drop forever
rain sunsets on my roof
As I sit on the front porch of my sanity
Deciphering hambones to
van gogh this vanity
Oiled egos
Canvased and framed
To be reborn unborn unburied unnamed
A reflection through a blood
stained glass window
Of souls gone yellow around the edges

[Esthero:]
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now

[Saul Williams:]
Carbonated dreams and blurred daily lives
But let family bring focus
Out of swamps blossom lotus
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Gravity we water bodied
bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides toward divinity

[Esthero:]
Now...
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now

[Saul Williams:]
Yes we rise with the
tides towards divinity
The muddy water blue daughters of infinity
Gravity we water bodied
bhodisativas our serenity
As we rise with the tides
toward divinity....
Yes we rise with the
tides towards diviinty
Yes we rise with the
tides towards divinity
Now we rise with the
tides towards divinity
And we rise with the
tides towards divinity
'Cause we rise with the
tides towards divinity

[Esthero:]
Now...

[Saul Williams:]
The tao of now
Is here amongst the living
in the voice of children is
the tao of now

[Esthero:]
Is here amongst the living
Is in the voice of children
It is the tao of now

I used to hump my pillow at night 
The type of silent prayer to make myself prepare for the light
Me and my cousin Duce would rank the girls between one and ten
And the highest number got to be my pillow's pretend
Now I apologize to every high ranker
But you taught me how to dream and so I also thank you
I never had the courage to approach you at school
We joked around a lot and I know you thought I dressed cool
But I was just covering up
All the insecurities that came bubbling up
My complexion had me stuck in an emotional rut,
like the time you Flavor Flav'd me and you played me
"Yo Chuck,
They say you're too black, man."
I think I'm too black
Mom, do you think I'm too black? I think I'm too black
I think I'm too black,
I think I'm too black, black, black, black, black

Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid

I used to use bleaching creme
'Til Madame CJ Walker walked into my dreams
I dreamt of being white and complimented by you,
But the only shiny black thing that you liked was my shoes
Now, I apologize for bottling up
All the little things you said that warped my head and my gut
Even though I always told you not to brag
About the fact that your great grand mother was raped by her
Slave master

Yeah, I became militant too
So it was clear on every level I was blacker than you
I turned you on to Malcolm X and Assata Shakur
Iin the three quarter elephant goose with the fur
I had the high top fade
Wwith the steps on the side
I had the two finger ring, rag top on the ride
I had the sheep skin, name belt, Lee suit,
Kangol, acid wash, Roscoe's chicken and waffle.

Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid


Stick up, ha ha ha stick up
Stick up, ha ha ha stick up
They say I'm too black
They say I'm too black

Hold up, y'all
Here we go

Now here's a little message for you
All you balla playas got some insecurities too
That you could cover up, bling it up
Cash in and ching ching it up
Hope no one will bring it up
Lock it down and string it up

Or you can share your essence with us
'Cause everything about you couldn't be rugged and ruff
And even though you tote a glock and you're hot on the streets
If you dare to share your heart, we'll nod our heads to its beat
And you should do that, if nothing else, to prove that
A player like you could keep it honest and true
Don't mean to call your bluff but
mothafucka that's what I do
You got platinum chain then, son,
I'm probably talking to you
And you can call your gang, your posse and the rest of your crew
And while you're at it, get them addicts and the indigent, too
I plan to have a whole army by the time that I'm through
To load their guns with songs they haven't sung, like,

Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
In polka dots and paisley,
A double goose and Bally shoes,
You thought it wouldn't phase me
I was Black Stacey
The preacher's son from Haiti
Who rhymed a lot and always got
The dance steps at the party
I was Black Stacey
You thought it wouldn't faze me, but it did
'Cause I was just a kid

Black Stacey
They called me Black Stacey
I never got to be myself 'cause to myself I always was
Black Stacey
They call me Black Stacey
Ah, Black Stacey
Ooh, Black Stacey
Ooh, Black Stacey
Move Black Stacey
Shake Black Stacey
Make Black Stacey
Cry, cry
No, not I.


Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Another Hot 'Summer' Day

Learned that bananas grow on a tree by "The Fridge". Taken care of by Jazzy-Jeff (jimmy?).


"can i have the PLATEEEH"
"you mean P-L-A-T-E?"
"yeah...if that what YOU call it"

[ oh god thanks for this missclick!!!!]


Marpole, bushes, smoka smoka, water, good, "thrown through the 'Bananas Mirror' as to the usual walk in.

ALLAH ALLAH ALLAH ALLAH!!!


Found parking. Were late for the movie but it started 15 min late, BINGO!!! Don't miss a thing!
Had SAME EXACT seats as during the "Whatever Works". Movie was cool. Oddly funny. Yet smart. Very real. Too cheesy of an ending still. But a good watch if you have ever been in love and lived through it. (How eerie does that sound?)



Official Zhuk Rating: 7/10




OH OH had the "half-baked" ice creams! Some people had TWO of those!!!

(still tripping)


"What now?"
"Gu?"
"YES"
"Why not"

Mojitas. Beer. A lot of plates.

(still tripping)






to be continued...

Monday, July 20, 2009

Dolphin Basketball Classic

As always the Home Team put on a show in every single game:




They beat Randy Norh's team in a very close Final. It was a sick head to head match up between Alvin Snow and Casey Archibald as they combined for 18 threes in the game with Casey going off for 44 points in the losing cause.






























Here are some photographs i took during the tournament.

Casey Archibald shooting his smooth three pointer vs Zach Russel and throwing down on the break in the finals.





Alvin "Big Baby" Snow, former Eastern Washington star, plays pro-ball in Germany and Slovenia.





Rosell "Mr.Funky Shot" Ellis. Plays pro-ball in Australia and PBA. Three time Dolphin Classic MVP, including this year. Has a younger brother on the Dolphin team, Tim "Mr.Buckets" Ellis.

"I have two maids, personal driver, get all my clothes tailor made, i love Philippines" (who wouldn't, work hard get paid)

He plays on the same team as Corey "Homicide" Williams in the 'Land down Under'

Sunday, July 19, 2009

Friday, July 17, 2009

Granville Island Trippin'

Picked up the usual Hakka Gang with an obvious stop at Tenku for some lunch.



Then on our way to Granville Island with a 'little' pit stop under the Arthur Lang Bridge.











Walking around G.I. Not all of us had easy time going up the hill. Vincenzo on a sprained ankle from the 2 on 2 the night before with Shrek and Mr.PX90. ViC with bananas in his head.



This guy was having trouble getting our order. It was quiet large. He seemed a little stressed out. But we all got the salmon wraps to go with our main courses. Oh! LOL at whoever ordered the vegeterian Shepards Pie. Thank you AVALON for making organic milk. I am sure we all enjoyed it a lot. Oh! OH!!! Then this happened :


Patrik: "Oh, no! That didn't jsut happen?!!! Did it Vlad? Please see my back"
(freezes in disbelief at how unlucky he just might have gotten)

Vlad: "Oh! OMG! i know what did happen i can tell by your reaction. Let me see your back"
(looks at the back of Patrik's shirt and starts laughing incontrolably)

HAHAHA PAT!!! Well in some ways look at it as a sign of good luck in the future.


Big Bear was too lazy to move so he trusted the Hakkas in picking up some good desert and they did not dissappoint.












Do not ask me about the above. Big Bird Trippin'



While ViC and Mishka were sleeping in the car, Pat and i had our usual 3 pointer match for push ups to end the night.