Hey everyone! There will be a hangout occurring this Friday at the Genesis Centre for Community Wellness. It is for youth from the ages of 15 – 24 and is intended for youth to meet varying people and experience different perspectives. It all started out in 2008 when a Mr. Mark Hopkins started hosting “We…
Hey guys, this past weekend was uneventful. Our city got pummelled by nature and thus we were given the mandate to stay at home for the whole weekend. Which totally sucks. The weekend is the best part of the week: the whole city gets around and socializes in an attempt to brighten their lives. Usually…
From Friday onwards the Greek – Calgarian community will be hosting a festival to commemorate happy living. In the words of the event description: Festivals have been a religious and cultural tradition of Greek society since Ancient times. Primarily held to honor or receive favour from the gods or to celebrate the changing of the…
Aah its that time of year again, children going nuts in preparation for a summer full of delights. Most of them are driving their parents wild, like my neighbour’s 10 year old son, Thorgan. Thorgan just wants to have fun! He tells me he is so done with “the boring school” and wants cool stuff…
Date: May 30th, 2013 Time: 12 pm to 2 pm Location: Stephen Ave, 1st and 2nd street S.W. Come laugh with FunnyFest stand up comics, while you eat your lunch and maybe receive a complimentary ticket or a discount to the 13th annual Calgary Comedy Festival, May 30 to June 9. Pick up a full…
Meditation can be a successful tool to calm the mind and increase focus and attention span. Think of it as working out your mind even though there’s no real work to it other than determination and patience. Step 1: Set aside enough time in your daily routine for meditating. Use a gentle alarm/reminder and start with 5 – 10 minutes and…
There’s this awesome website called Rapgenius.com, which attempts to provide meanings in lyrics for every songs that’s at least semi – popular. It works like Wikipedia as most of the meanings are provided by fellow listeners offering their interpretation and then again like Wikipedia there are moderators who regulate the meanings. There are a bunch…
Every one has issues with headphones: some have the individual piece cover breaking, unexpected loss of sound in one of the headphones, TANGLING!! In short, these lovely equipment are rather shifty and break down easy. There’s two things you can do to prolong the expiry date: Use a headphones case: It prevents your headphones from external pressures…
Earlier today in Brad Hersfeld, Germany, an unknown number of thieves quite successfully pulled of a great heist and made off with five metric tonnes of diamonds,money, Lil Wayne records! Nutella worth $20,000!! (CBC). Now it must be said, I am quite partial to the wonderful gooey stuff and several afternoons have been spent watching Scooby Doo re…
It’s getting so hot lately! I’m going all out and making lemonade and slushies and if you hope to beat the heat, do the same… Okay, to make a slushie you will need Kool – Aid, I use Ice Blue Raspberry or Lemonade Flavor A tray of ice A blender Once all these have been collected,…
So everyone, I had the best week ever because so much has happened. To start with, I got my diploma marks which were terrible. I had a 62 in Biology. I was stumped. I always thought I was fairly smart and this crushed that entire ideal. The cringe worthy empathy and the “it’s okay” are…
Now that we’re settled in the second semester of school, homework and tests must be coming up pretty thick and fast. I have been incredibly stressed and this weekend was good to just relax and take a break for a while. During this break, I watched a lot of old comedies and it was good…
Much thanks to the Kids Up Front for giving me tickets to the Musicians Care for Kids. An annual event where musicians team up to raise funds for the Boys & Girls Club. The host for the night is the renowned Calgarian artist, Russell Broom, a JUNO winner for songwriter of the year. The musicians…
In the midst of the concrete jungle downtown lies some gorgeous greenery; the Devonian Gardens. It is located in the The Core mall and is a beautiful, serene place to do some quiet work. It is a massive ‘2.5 acres and contains over 550 trees’ (Calgary Herald). As well as the trees, It also contains 2 Koi ponds (a pool for ornamental carp), a play area…
Hola to one and all. On this fine Tuesday, I’d like to share with you one of my favourite songs, Still Sound by Toro Y Moi. [youtube 0Gqh4e1S6j0] I always feel happy when I listen to this song. It gives off pleasing vibes and makes me want to dance and get into the groove. The video is great…