something you guys should look at. we've been bombarded with so many messages about terrorists & how they're evil & this & that. but imagine being in a palestinian's shoes for a second. your ancestral home has been taken away from you, with you & your family kicked out & forced to move in some piece of land that foreigners have pencil-drawn on a map. many, if not all of your family members have been killed by Israeli attacks, in which the Israeli army uses their giganitc Merkhava Battle Tanks to charge through the streets you grew up in & blow up everything in their path. state of the art helicopter gunships are flown into your city to blow away "suspected terrorist hideouts" with no regard about the surrounding civilians that would be killed as a result. i remember the last Israeli invasion of Palestine, when Sharon was still in power, i remember him saying that these tank charges were their "war on terrorism". now if you were a young man, who's family has been killed by this "collateral damage". you have close to no chance of getting a job because the Israeli's blew up all your people's businesses. as said before, your family, the ones you've loved, and those that took care of you, are all dead. basically, you really have nothing to live for. now, if you had a chance to get back at those bastards that did this to you, would you not take that chance? as they always say, "one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." i know if my family was killed by a foreign force, the first thing i would do is to take up arms and take out as many of them as i can. given these circumstances, is turning to jihad not a hopeful solution? with nothing to live for, the only thing one can do is live for a greater purpose, for the god you believe in, for your people, and of course, the basic human emotion of getting your sweet revenge. i'm sure if some of you people that are reading this were put into these shoes, you would do the same.

here's another video you should see. it's by noam chomsky, a world renowned MIT professor (i said he was a journalist before, my bad on that)  who claims to speak the truth, and speaks about many things that the governments, especially the US government, don't want us to hear. whether you believe the content of this video to be true or not is up to you, but just remember that there are a lot of things the news doesn't tell us, and many of these things are what the government doesn't want us to hear.

Georges St. Pierre, brings the UFC welterweight championship belt back to Canada after dethroning the best welterweight in history, Matt Hughes =D

awesome fight. the bar was crazy after he knocked Hughes out. the scene was sort of like a leafs playoff game. he almost knocked matt out with a superman punch late in the first round, but matt was saved by the bell. then in the second round he threw a leg kick that swept matt off his feet. to finish the fight GSP faked a leg kick, and once matt rushed in for the takedown, GSP roundhouse kicked him with the front leg, knocked him down, then finished him off with punches & elbows. complete dominance.

congrats GSP for an awesome fight. you make your people proud =D

p.s. look @ Hughes's hands & facial expression. it's like he's saying "don't hurt me!!!"

finally, an asian fighter that isn't from japan, fighting in MMA. and he's a kung-fu(san shou) guy too . i think he should aim for the UFC.

i've never seen anyone land spinning back kicks so effectively and frequently in MMA. watch how he ends the fight.

i've been wondering, does anybody go on xanga anymore? if yes, please reply to this post . i know friendster's already getting old & boring, & everybody's switching to facebook or myspace.

but enough about boring blogs & webpages. onto my journey of life in university. it's my final year, & i think i'm really gonna miss it, almost everything about it. the clubnights, pulling all-nighters with my buddies for exams i haven't started studying for, playing cs at keith's res lol, hanging around friend's residences even though i don't live there. it got so bad, some ppl thought i actually lived there. then there's the buffet nights & checking hotties in class. now everybody's maturing, thinking about their future, jobs, stability etc. it wasn't like the good old days when chilling & having fun was on the top of everybody's mind. i really miss those days, and the end of university means the end of it . the line that so many older people have told me is so true, "once you turn 21, time starts to fly, and before you know it, you're 30." other says that "university is the fastest 4 years of your life, but also the best." i remember an older guy in my army unit say, "i was in my 20's. then i got married, had kids, then time went by, and before i knew it, i was 40. i say to myself, 'what the fuck happened?'" it really scares me that this is the harsh reality of life. life is short. but one thing that is even shorter is our youth. you're only young for a short while, so you must enjoy it while it lasts. all of my older friends tell me the same thing. "it's your last year of university. enjoy it as much as you can. goto parties. live it, because once you start job hunting & focusing on your career, it's all downhill from there." i'm probably at the short end of the stick when it comes to my youth, and before i know it, i'll be 30, and then 40. sometimes i look back and wish i enjoyed myself more in high school. i wish i was able to manage my time better when i was young, because i would have been able to do so much more. i wonder why i'm so eager to look back into my past. am i missing something? i know that i didn't have much of a childhood. i really missed out on many things when i was little, and up until recently, i've been working hard to make up for what i've missed. being a social outcast for most of your life, not knowing how to relate to other people can be kinda tough u kno. but at this point i think i've caught up to everybody else. not that it matters anyway. always having to fit in is hugely insecure. always having to worry about what others think of you. it's like a prison. i'm glad i don't live in that prison. to be truly free is to not have to worry about these things and just be yourself. the "just be yourself" thing has been said over & over, millions of times, and everybody knows this line by heart, but for some odd reason, time and time again, there are those that don't follow it.

now, coming back to life being short. i believe everyone must find something they love and someone they love. everyone needs a passion to drive them, something to believe in. if you don't believe in anything, you have no drive, no desire to fight for anything in your life, and most importantly, no purpose in life. i think many young people probably struggle with this thought. "what's the point? why am i alive?" to think of it, this is the blueprint, or script of a typical north american's life. you get born into a family. when you're young, you goto school so you can learn how to work when you grow up. when you grow up and finish school, you get a job and get married. then you have kids. you struggle through life to give your children the best possible nourishment and upbringing they can have, possibly the upbringing that you yourself missed when you were their age. your children goto school and begin their own cycle of life, while you watch as you begin to age and fade away. soon after you reach retirement age. having worked hard all your life, it's finally time for a nice break before it's all over. but to many, retirement is no break. some are neglected by their children who they tried so hard to bring up, and once they're on their own, they leave them in the ashes. many suffer from arthritis, degradation of their joints because they worked too hard in their life. then before you know it, your life begins to end. many will suffer from alzhiemers and live their last days confused and in despair. and then your life is over.

ugh i'm tired now, i'll continue my 2cents another day...

xanga's getting boring now for some reason. hence why i haven't updated since mid august. i guess i can begin by talking about my new school year. seems pretty good so far. got a few coures that i've been dying to take. i finally got into muscle & joint biomechanics. should be a good course.

been learning some new moves in hapkido . there's a few throws that catch your arm, so i can break the dude's arm & throw him to the ground . also learned a shin stomping kick to the nerve on the inner shin , and a counter to being headlocked from the back/side. basically i powerslam him to the ground, put my elbow to his throat, then finish with an armbar to break his elbow.