April 23 - 28, 2010 - No Entries

No Entries, sorry for this inconvenience. If you really want to look at photos visit my Flickr account at.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/canonma/

A lot of them are pictures from this blog but there are some other pictures that aren't, so just keep looking.

There is also my Deviantart at http://makinlon.deviantart.com/, but i think going to my flickr account would be enough (plus, pictures look so much better there, i wonder why).

Be back on the 29th and i promiseeee, there will be a good photo.

-Canon Ma

April 22, 2010 - New Day, New Leaf, New Life

I'm thinking about overhauling everything and changing the looks of the blog, I'm tired of this look and would love a giant change.

But that's the thing I realized about my life a while back. I love change when I'm bored. Change of friends, change of look, change of habits, change of hobbies, change of pace.

I look back and all my mutual friends (who i will not list) i have stopped talking to already. I'm not sad at all about it cause they're having fun themselves, but it's funny how I don't see a point to keep those relations. Normal people would definitely try by saying "lets have lunch", or "lets go see a movie or something, we didn't hang in awhile". But me? I'm happy where-ever I am and don't really try to stay in contact, not that I don't want to. I won't if i'll ever be able to just situate myself within one group of friends and not change, or in this fast changing world, lost friends are inevitable.

So I must thank everyone who's been friends with me for more then a year, clearly you and I have something special enough to keep us in contact for that long.

For the others...lets have lunch =]

But i guess that's how life is suppose to be. People leave each other because of school. People forget each other because of their careers. They only can have so much close acquaintances in their life and each loss is unforgiving, but also unpreventable. I think I'll use a quote from Grey's Anatomy.

...we’re forced to know that life, every minute is borrowed time. And each person, we let ourselves care about is just one more loss somewhere down the line. For this reason, I know some doctors who just don’t bother making friends at all.

Is that too much of a pessimistic view on friends? Too much of a pessimistic view on life all together? I don't actually feel like that, but a guy can only wonder right? Think of the millions of people who have regretted losing their friends over a silly reason, and think of how many people would love to have their friends back. What's the percentage?

I bet you 100%

-Canon Ma


A lot of things to ask you guys!


1) How do you like the sidebar to speed up looking at old pictures?
2) What kind of posts do you like most? Funny? or things that make you think?
3) Is checking this site everyday tiring? Do you want me to post once every 2-3 days instead? (One photo from each day, just only with one story)
4) Leave any other comments about what I can do to make this a bit better, and I'll try to incorporate it if i like it =D.


5) Most importantly, what kind of pictures do you like most and would like to see more of? 
a) Person Profiles
b) Landscapes
c) Street Photography
d) Others - Specify


Your comments matter!

April 21, 2010 - Natalie Ko

Hello roommate (or how you anal people like it.. "house mate". I see no difference)

Why do we barely talk? We live so close to each other yet it's as if YouTube, Facebook, and constant shows such as Grey's Anatomy drive us apart =(.

No I'm joking, this is not another emotional post, haha.

This is Natalie Ko, a friend of 12 years and counting! Probably one of my oldest friends and even without talking (as talked about already), still good friends. She's cute as hell, but this is probably because she's also one of the girliest girls I know. She wears pink EVERYWHERE and talks to wontons...Wontons people...WONTONS...

Yes i call her papaya, face, but this is ONLY cuz her face IS shaped like a papaya, it's like.. you know.. smaller at the top than it is on the bottom.. you guys know what i mean right?... lol

Anyways, I'd be frank with you, you were never smart in my eyes. You were always that girl who was funny and cute but in terms of academics.. you were only so-so.

But this has definitely changed hasn't it? You're raping me in academics and although it's causing a lot of jealousy in my head, it kind of also makes me happy. We'd always joke about how the only way you'd survive in real life is if you marrying rich and now...not that i don't see that happening but in university you seemed to have grown up. It's nice to see this. You've gotten harder working in school and it's inspiring how lazy-ass people like you and I can actually work hard for marks.

Now all I have to do is catch up.

- Canon Ma

April 20, 2010 - Welcome to Narnia

Welcome to Narnia

Whatever happened to everyone's childhood dreams? I remember back then i would leave my friends for awhile during recess and pretend i was a Pokemon trainer (i'll admit it, you guys should too). And i guess the imagination never died because I sometimes am still guilty of breaking out into a Tai-chi stance and pretending I can waterbend.

Having grown up interests suck. You have to be interested in paying bills, getting a job, getting an education, thinking about a family, and ultimately follow through with all of this with the least troubles. Whatever happened to just wondering what your mom gave you for lunch?

What happened to recess time where everyone was friends because no one really cared about race or sex? Whatever happened to studying for  10 word spelling bees and growing pea plants in tiny or self-made plant pots?

I miss those days. Those days were so easy where no1 had a care in the world.

Funny side story, when I enetered grade 5 with a laser pointer, i would point it on the ground around gr 2 kids and they'd be so excited, chasing it everywhere.

Now we're in a world where we have to care about so much stuff. I'm not complaining about age at all, we get so much more benefits being older, but it gets so much more complicated.

Anyone else feeling like me, and wants to go back in time just for one day to relive your younger days? I definitely would...McKee was kick-ass.

-Canon Ma

April 19, 2010 - Influences

You guys ever wonder if what you're doing is what you actually want to be? 

I never understood how some people allow their parents to control their lives. To the point of where they're going to live after marriage, what job they're going to work, what school they must go to, and of course, who or what kind of person should you fall in love with.

I know a friend of mine who has been studying science all their life. Enjoys it and got great marks in it. but ultimately goes into another major. Not that I'm saying that's bad, or if they wasted anytime, it's just surprising to see a person do a 180 turn. It'd like to understand why the person even went into science in the first place, why they tried so hard just to switch.

Like for myself. I love anything that has to do with arts. Graphic Arts, Photography, Singing, Sketches, Film and even creative writing (i absolutely hate painting though). And if given the chance to get into them as a job, i'd jump on the bandwagon automatically. But then why am i in business? 

After a bit of thinking i realized that my parents have influenced me that money IS a big part of everyone's life. And obtaining as much of it, has the POTENTIAL of making you happy. They never tell me this fact word for word, but by their own actions, their own attitude towards money, is what kind of drove me to believe this. They clearly give me a chance at doing anything i want (they even asked me to try out for some stupid HK singing competition), and ask me to be whatever i want (my mom once wanted me to even try out for graphic arts), but my answer for them was "It's hard making money in that profession". But it was at least nice to hear they encouraged me to try for arts.

Which then makes me think about everyone else. Is everyone actually sure just exactly what influenced them to the career they want? Can they truly say it was their own interest, and not a familial or social factor? I'm sure everyone would like to say that their parents had nothing to do with their important decisions in life, but even if they don't directly influence it, can they still change your perspective on life to match theirs?

Just something to think about.

-Canon Ma

April 17 - 18, 2010 - Exams! Vaughan Mills!

Exams have just started for me...and I can already see my face and health deteriorating. This is not fun at all. What makes me a bit angry is how i was told how McMaster not only ends the latest, we also start the earliest, and have the shortest/weirdest  school breaks (i still don't get it, but someone told me we do)

GAAAH, i hate you mcmaster =(
















Like it can get any worse, but it does. I went to Vaughan mills to appease my mom (she really wanted to go shopping) and what was suppose to be just an hr or 2 trip, it went on being 4 hrs. If you still don't get me... i have a math exam on tuesday. Sigh...

Why are some people so easily distracted by from what's important? Even the hardest working people i know can get distracted by things like Facebook or Youtube. But it's not like we want to be. We sort of drone out into the screen and it's just sooooo numbing.

...Maybe it's not our faults, maybe there just shouldn't be any exams...i like this reasoning more. Down with exams, DOWN WITH THEM ALL.

-Canon Ma