The Chantastic Blog

All of a sudden, I have an urge to go to the Andrea Bocelli concert here in Toronto on December 3rd. Failing that, I can also take a quick trip down to Australia on December 6th…

I was standing on the subway by a girl in her early teens who was sitting with her mom. The girl pointed straight at the advertisement right behind me, and since she was sitting and I was standing, it seemed like she was pointing straight at me. The girl then said something to her mom as she was gesturing to the ad, which I obviously couldn’t hear as I listened to my iPod. So obviously I was intrigued to see what she was pointing at, and it turned out to be an ad for this website.

I turned around quickly to see the mom’s reaction, and she wanted no part of that conversation. The two didn’t exchange another word the rest of the time I was on the subway (to be fair, it was only two stops).

I discovered that this past week was the season finale of The Bachelor. I don’t watch the show, so how did I find out? Because everyone’s Facebook status was abuzz with the finale. I’m not even joking - it was everywhere.

Before I get into The Bachelor, I just wanted to point out the very last comment. (more…)

Remember my question about downloading audio from a YouTube clip so that I could put it on my iPod? Well, with a little help from Yahoo Answers, I’ve managed to find a website that takes the audio from a YouTube clip and transforms it into a neat MP3 file.

And if you don’t think I immediately raced to download this onto my iPod, you don’t know me well enough. The problem was that I don’t have iTunes installed on my laptop, but that’s nothing a simple visit to their website won’t fix.

What’d I do while I waited for all these files to download and install? Why, I wrote this blog post, of course. I might be a procrastinator, but I’m an efficient procrastinator. And yes, it’s 2:15 AM as I type this.

No matter how crappy my day has been, it’s amazing how listening to a simple song on YouTube can cheer me up. Then again, it’s not very often that someone tells me they’re gonna love me like it’s the last night on earth.

So my question is this - is it possible to download a song off YouTube so that I can put it on my iPod? If this is possible and someone was kind enough to let me know what I have to do, I would literally stop whatever I was doing to download it onto my iPod. So if you know how, feel free to share!

Here’s a running diary of my twelve hour trek from my Toronto apartment to Edmonton.

3:25 PM ET: Leave my apartment for the airport during a snowstorm. I decide to take the subway, and then connect to an airport shuttle from the end station. This seemed to be a better idea than taking a shuttle straight from downtown because Toronto isn’t exactly known for dealing well with extreme weather.

3:27: Throngs of people waiting for the subway. I move all the way down to the farthest end of the platform where there’s less people, and then I hog as much space as possible along the platform so that I can maximize the possibility of being the first one in the door since it’s very likely the subway is going to be full. How do I do this? (more…)

I was thinking about my blog the other day, and what it really was. And if you really take a step back and think about it, a blog is simply a diary for adults, isn’t it?

Then I thought, how come diaries are associated with teenage or even pre-teen girls, but blogs are for adults when they’re really the exact same thing?

Fortunately, I am nothing like a teenage girl.

I don’t listen to girly music at all…oh wait…

I don’t watch a show based around a group of young girls as they deal with the melodrama in their lives…oh wait…

I don’t make lists of celebrities I think are the hottest…oh wait…

I don’t follow Hollywood celebrity gossip like it’s a religion…oh wait…

I don’t look at girls and make judgements about their fashion sense…oh wait…

I don’t go to the bathroom with a bunch of my friends…Finally. See, I’m nothing like a teenage girl.