About a Bear - Notes of the day\Day 256 Mississauga, Ontario 13 Jan 08
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What you can tell about people from the music they listen too?
Basically, you can check my profile, and find out more about me than i would be able to tell you in person in 1 sitting.
Amazing how powerful an application like iLike, can be customized to be showing all the bands and songs that you like, and show where they are touring. .. and show what other friends you have who already like the same music. .. .. How for almost every song there is the music video atached. .. So if your on a wi-fi connection, you dont even need iTunes, as it's all listed. Cool.
Mississauga Craigslist
So cool, that finally Mississauga gets her very own craigslist. .. Seeing as how mississauga is Canada's 7th largest city. .. and not part the GTA with it's own things. .. ... Doesnt make sence to me, as its unnessery duplication of systems. .. when a larger more better system can be make when people just realize that most things have already been invented. .. and it's OK to learn from other ountries who have already spent the time and effort in developing new technologies. .. and new ideas.
Mississauga Transit: Umm, ya i've now taken a few different transit systems. .. and they work far better and more efficiently, and have been for years. ... Antwerpe Belgium has the cool lights indicating how far the street car is. ... The same can be done for busses. Why not just have a hudge national network? .... Size doesnt matter when your dealing with a system. ... Simply there will be different hubs for the busses. ... Why do they even need to be driven back to the bus center empty? ...
Mississauga Library: Why not just have a canada wide library card, and just use the best library system, and copy it to every library across the country. ... BC has done that with the BC One Card. .. so books and things cerculate all across the board. ... Books dont need to have a base home, and be shiped back.. that doesnt make sence. ... Only sent back as needed, in bulk all at once. BC figured that out, why not the rest of canada?
... and dont give me the loosing jobs excuse. .. as Advances in Technology doesnt iliminate jobs, it simply displaces jobs. ... that is alot different than loosing jobs. ... As skills for record making, got changed to skills to CD copying and boxing CD's. ... and those are now making blog sites about different music.
What we can learn from Ireland
Actually it's more what i learned, and can pass on. You can go head and wiki whatever I say, as it's always my opinion. :)
I learned the value of where your from.
It's seems as though in Ireland 'Where you from?' is more important than what you look like or how you talk.... It's the first impression of someone. As judgement is made based on where your from. As if your from Canada, and they ask if im from America... I correct them and they apologise, as a Canadian is Different. ... and even on the micro level. .. From around ireland. If your from Cork you have a different accent, and also drink a different beer. ..Smithwicks, vs. Guiness. .. as Guniess isnt made in Cork. .. So right away a differnc is made. If your from Derry or Belfast. Wow, that makes a difference. ..
However, that being said. Actually someone pointed out to me that the Handshake is probably more important.. How you carry yourself when you walk in the Pub. .. Do you have a limp handshake? ... So even if your from America, and you have a firm handshake, imediatly your not looked down upon, as you show some status. ... But not really that. It's Assertiveness. If your able to stand your ground, and also joke at the same level, then you become more respected. ..
As I learned the Irish are far more direct with their humor... Which is different than the Canadian Humor. .. The irish is more witty, and not funny where you laught outloud crying on the floor. Actually no, thats just Cork people talking. . As their humor is imcredable.. there is not pause, for laughing at your own joke, like here in Canada.. We commonly do that. We stop and wait for a responce in laughter, rather than just keep going and talking.
Perhaps it because the Irish are more direct, with what they say... as the meaning is more important than what they say. .. Or the hidden meaning is probably more important than what is actually being said. ... I found that people do become offended, however not talking about it... and just hanging up. .. or talking streight forward, were your backed into a corner, and need to really think on your feet for a responce. .. As that could get you kicked out of a pub VERY easily... Keep in mind, then when your a visitor from another town/county/country. . Forign land.. that your going into others home, there sanction away from work and their house. .. So your right away stepping into someone elses territory. So you need to respect that.
What i found was that it's more polite for people to not talk directly about those negative things.. but to talings... and good times rather than dwell on the hard times.
Although it's easy to be dwelling on the past, and all the things that went wrong. ...
But what we need to see is that each day is a present. That talking about how bad things were doesnt actually help. ... 'A Hard life' But what does that mean? .. Ive had a hard life, and you have too... Actually, everyone has had a hard life.
Here's my cool photo i'll post to my Ireland Ride For Climate CrazyGuyOnABike.com journal... as it was my last night in Ireland.
So Lana got to have a Pint of Beer at the Pub by the Bar.
My objective was to get my bike from the Bike Shop to my friends place so then i can take the late late bus to dublin. .. So i needed some help in that. At 1st i thought i was going to go directly to the house, then my friend would get the van and bring it back, however, a decision was to bring the bike box into the pub, as a pint was in order.
It worked out as i wanted to see some traditional irish music playing.. as its the last night.
The bike wasnt totally welcome, but an interesting conversation piece. ..As long as i stood near it, it was fine. ..
I did tell people that im planning on biking 10,000kms across canada with it. .. Some found that hard to believe, as for 10,000 km you can cycling around ireland a few times. .. The sheer vastness of Canada is almost uncomprehgendable what it can be cycled.
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What i have learned was that yes, i do get nailed with questions every time i stop... However, i learned that i dont need to answer more than what was asked, as most people are just curious, but dont need to get the whole boook version. .. That's for later when they see the book on the shelf at the local book store. .. then they can read about how i came into that bar, totally unexpectedly... The bike wasnt planning on having a pint before she leaves.
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So now the bike has officially tasted the Salt of the Pacifac, and the Pint at an Irish pub. I caught the irish flag on the bike in the box. .. Cool.
I told people about CrazyGuyOnABike.com - that is what people can remeber... because it's a website for crazy guys like me who bike around the world.. or on long trips.
Sure, i could have rented a bike for ireland.. however, having a bike that now has some character. .. As now the bike has parts from Belfast, and Limerick, and Galway. So some more stickers for the bike. .
The next stop for the bike is to stay here in the Sauga, in the box for the next 3 months.. As more work needs to be done on the map, which doesnt actually need to be biking the area to loosely cover it. ..
The fine detailed points will be edited later for the map.
Also, it's rather cold in Canada to be cycling. .. rather touring cycling. .. Regular cycing is fine. .. So i'll probably find a rental bike or a cheep bike to use in the mean time.
... Back to a point:
Whats more important is that i keep a promise that i made to somone in Connamera. That the 2nd last night in Connamera, i went to the 3rd pub in town. .. and was baught a pint but didnt have the cash on hand to buy a pint in return. .. So what i said that i'll do is when im in BC that it's important to buy someone random a pint... and tell them that this pint is not for them, but for a fine Connamera local, as he couldnt be there in person, someone has to drink this pint. ... Schlante.
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What i have learned is that really the fact about 'where your from' is actually more of a compliment, as it is up to each individual to be proud of where they are from. ... It's doesnt really matter what passport you carry, as that could be from any country. .. But where your from is where your heart is, where you call home. .. so sometimes where you call home is were you feel most comfortable. If you have family all spread out, then you call home where ever it is you lie your head on each night. As the world is way to big to go unexplored. .. There is so much to see that the thought of settling down, is rather limiting. ... letting so much to discover get kept undiscovered. .. One answer is from earth. .
An interesting comment i had, which was if having so many imegrants onto a country is actually a good thing. I said; Well, Canada is made up of immegrants, accept for the naives who where here first, and unfortunatly where taken over by the europeans who started claiming and steaking out land. ... So what happened from ireland is that there were tonnes of immegrants who left the country in seach of a better life, somwhere where they can do what they like, and farm how they like. .. So there wasnt the influx of immegrants, as there are now for ireland.
Is this a bad thing? Well, my responce is no.. It doesnt make sence to discriminate against people, based on where there from. ..
... Now lets look at this sentence. .. Europeans come to Canada and take over the land without respecting that people are already here with established practices. ... However, isn't more people to an area a good thing? ... As long as they respect the land and the native ideas of the land. ... ie. dont build until you have permission from the area todo so. .. .. So who decides on who gives permission? .. hummm
