*miserychick is actually happy

So here’s what’s from the Ryerson students’ new media show last Thursday, excuse my not-so-stellar photos… I haven’t mastered our camera in dim-lit spaces yet. Title of post is quoted from one of the student’s thankyou speech, catchy init? For her final project, Carly Benkendorf, Ryerson’s new media graduate, went around Toronto asking for a [...]

Mark’s 4th year new media students at Ryerson University will have their final year-end show today, in the uber artsy district of Queen West in Toronto. I stopped by the gallery during the set up time yesterday and was reminded of my student show-time at ITP: tons of details to finish, computers lay on the [...]

The Thailand I love, and one I prefer to remember, is full of really amazing food, tropical fruits, beautiful beaches, graceful people, five star services, and shopping paradises. Yet while living and working there from late ’06 to all of ’07, I was always complaining about the absurd stupidity and general laziness that seemed to [...]

Did you know? The postal code in Canada is a 6-digit alphanumeric code, with one space in the middle. My postal code, for example, is M5V 1M5. Santa Claus lives in the North Pole. The North Pole is in Canada. Santa Claus’ postal code is H0H 0H0. Santa will write you back too. Supposedly, he [...]

I’m up at 3 am following news on Bangkok, but things seem to have settled (the reds surrendered) and instead of spending my energy fuming about it, I’m surfing the web. So I’ll just blog about something else. A while ago, probably around this same time last year, I stumbled onto a photoshopping trick called [...]

This TED talk video is about 17 minutes long, and if you’re into science fiction and tech stuff, I’d recommend finding some time to pay attention to this. Actually, you probably don’t have to be into science fiction to find this fascinating (or scary?). PW Singer is talking what robots are being used in warfare [...]

When my friend Seema invited me to the pre-release screening of The Pool, naturally, I went to check the website and watch the trailer.  And automatically I can hear myself thinking with my usual snide attitude:  ”ow, I guess being a poor boy in India is the new exotic film genre.”  Seeing that ‘Slumdog chic’ [...]