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I have been quite busy as of late and as a result have been neglecting my websites.  It has been a hectic and somewhat profitable New Years.  I hope all is well with you, my valued readers.  I have a few posts that I have been working on and will post once I get a moment to finish.

Cheers.

I’ll be posting some pictures up.  Not much going on with me except that I am getting ready for 2008.   Time to hustle.

Hope everyone is doing well.  Cheers!

Departing: Tue, Jan 8, 2008

Airfare / Guest

Seat Sale Fare

$49.00 USD

Taxes, Fees & Surcharges /

Guest (details)

$22.10 USD

Taxes, Fees & Surcharges /

Guest (details)

$22.10 USD

US-Intl Taxes and Fees

$22.10 USD

Subtotal / Guest

$71.10 USD

Multiplied by 1 Guest

$71.10 USD

Returning: Tue, Jan 15, 2008

Airfare / Guest

Seat Sale Fare

$49.00 USD

Taxes, Fees & Surcharges /

Guest (details)

$56.72 USD

Taxes, Fees & Surcharges /

Guest (details)

$56.72 USD

US-Intl Taxes and Fees

$27.10 USD

GST-HST

$1.20 USD

AIF

$20.00 USD

ATSC

$8.42 USD

Subtotal / Guest

$105.72 USD

Multiplied by 1 Guest

$105.72 USD

Total Cost of Flight

$176.82 USD

Bookable on Westjet in January and February.  Valid Tuesdays and Thursdays.

At first I was skeptical, but this stuff works pretty good at helping out the digestive tract. After a pretty bad bout of food poisoning in Turkish Cyprus, and ingesting massive amounts of medicines, my digestive system simply wasn’t working up to par. I don’t want to get into too much detail, but lets just say that I had a problem. I suffered for the past 6 months and recently when I told my friend, he recommended the yogurt. After about 3 or 4 days, I’ve noticed a marked improvement. (again, I don’t want to get too specific)

It has a lot of sugar in it, so I doubt I’ll eat it permanently, but for a week or two after traveling, it does help. I’ll probably continue eating it for another week and then stop.

I hope this helps a little if you have the same problem.

Cheers.

Am I the only one worried about the problems going on in Burma? Oh wait, you do know what’s going on in Burma, right?

A quick rundown:

Last week, Buddhist monks started a peaceful pro-democracy protest. Some government police officers injured some of the monks that participated. From there, it swelled to a larger week-long protest. They are hoping to call for more peace and love, reminiscent of the 60′s flower children protesting their government and exploring more ways to love and show kindness.

Unfortunately, it’s not going very well.

Earlier this week, government troops started to shoot warning shots towards the monks. I am flabbergasted! These are MONKS! They don’t exactly fight back!

Here is a news link

According to some news reports and from what I can see from some of the pictures, civilians are pretty much surrounding the monks as human shields to help prevent shootings by government troops. However, the monks are asking for citizens NOT to do so, as they value their lives more than their own. The whole situation just looks like a powder keg waiting to blow. As of today, there are differing reports of injuries, but from what I have been reading 9 Monks and Civilians have been KILLED. If too many Monks get killed or injured; the people will revolt- which will result in a massacre. Call me a pessimist, but I don’t hold too much faith in a peaceful outcome.
Even more, I have yet to see much any American news footage. I hope people don’t forget that the world is bigger than just the USA. Remember what is going on with Dafur and what happened in Rwanda? This has the potential to be just as bad….if not worse.

I guess we can all use a little more peace, kindness, and love.

So today strangers, will you do me a favor? Show a little bit of compassion. Spread a little love. Do a random act of kindness.

Cheers!

Sorry I’ve been neglecting this site.  I’ve been pretty busy launching 2 websites back to back.  If you get a chance, come on by.   I still have some finishing up to do on the second site so please be patient.  I have gotten a copy of Dreamweaver and am trying to figure it out.  It seems a lot easier than hand coding, but I still have some questions.  Does anyone want to volunteer to teach me dreamweaver?
Cheers.

I am currently looking for a mid level marketing or sales job.  If you know of any available positions, please let me know.  I prefer small to medium companies (less than 500 employees) and prefer to be located in either San Francisco or an expat package in Taipei, Malaysia, or (Shanghai/Beijing) China paying in USD.

If you find me the job that I can accept, I can award a bounty of one of the following:

Dinner with me or a date at a fine (i.e. expensive) San Francisco establishment
1 Coach airline ticket to either Europe or Asia.
2 domestic coach tickets or 1 FC Domestic ticket.
$200 Cash

Oh yes, my gratitude is free!

Thanks!