Madagascar 3!

My friends and I were going to Chinook Centre. We, being fat, lazy, and drunk off summer, decided that we were going to watch a movie instead of actually exploring the rest of the mall. Since we’re all highly mature individuals, we chose to watch Madagascar 3. Like a boss. I really loved it. Well,…

10 Bizarre holidays in April

April 2 – National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day   April 4 – Tell a Lie Day   April 12 – Look up at the Sky Day   April 13 – Blame Somebody Else Day   April 15 – Rubber Eraser Day   April 17 – National Cheeseball Day   April 18 – International Jugglers Day…

Kids on marriage

Kids really do say the darndest things. Bill Cosby can vouch for that. But what would they say about marriage, a concept we presume they know very little about? Without a doubt, their responses are much more entertaining and at times, makes you wonder:  how much of this world do children actually understand? A lot…

A year in YouTube: From cats to catastrophe

2011 brought us Occupy Wall Street, a royal marriage and the death of Osama Bin Laden. However, a less mentioned medium of media has surged and blossomed in the past decade: YouTube. As the population rose and earthquakes struck, YouTube users submitted a plethora of what may be the best videos of the year. A…

What NOT to do on an exam

We’ve all had moments when we were stuck on a question on a quiz or exam. Hoping the answer will hit you like lightning, you continue to stare intensely and longingly at the question that if the teacher were to see you, they would think you were trying to burn a hole through the page.…

Beating the odds

In the past few months, two of my close friends have been diagnosed with different types of cancer at the age of 17. I had always thought that it was something that would never affect people that I knew because up until a few years ago I hadn’t known anyone who had life-changing news or…