Excuses as to why my blog is late:

• The dog ate it
• MJ’s passing leaves me affix-iated to the TV
• The Black Berry Photolog post, while a hot idea, didn’t quite come out the way I envisioned
• I am going to a cottage this weekend…my first cottage experience
• A friend passed on soca cd’s and I am busy driving around Toronto, jumping around in my car, singing, “Jouvert, Jouvert….I gotta go” while people on the road give me dirty looks
• I spent Monday night dancing on the bar of La Vecchia at 3 am, and had to go to work in the morning. It fuged the rest of my week, but it was oh so fun.
• Work has been crazy, busy, way too much going on, and with summer on, I have to fit all of it in on my ‘executive summer’ hours ;)
• Its been 32 degrees all week in Toronto, which means, numerous walks, outings to our poor excuses for a beach, BBQ’s and general wasting time in the sun….in the battle of blog vs. summer nights in Toronto, well, the fight seems very unfair
• Oh yes the dog ate it…
  
  
  Ill be back….I think.

Here’s a Plug

I got a great blog coming in.

I just have to Locate my Black Berry Connector wire thingy (how I described it to the guy a Best Buy)

And then, boy oh boy do I have a blog for you,

Random Thoughts on a Wednesday afternoon

A friend visited from Dubai this weekend. We met later on in life, but since then he got married, had two kids, and is now running the family business. I….well we all know the state of evolution that is my life. Our friendship is based on an uncanny understanding we have between us. This could be because we both share the same birthday or some other karmic force, but often times when he’s around we can both look at the exact same situation and have a laugh for the exact same reason, pretty cool stuff.

I took yesterday off and we played tourists. It was fun walking around the city mid week, showing off what I love about it the best.

La Vecchia is my new favorite restaurant. Their Rigotoni Romani is heaven, if you’re in my beautiful the city do try it out.

Complacency is a hard think to shake. I know I need to find a new role yet I come to work day after day and don’t do anything about it.

I’m reading eat, pray, love, and I am in Italy enjoying the authors love of food and pleasure. I hear the book gets quite boring in India, but for now it’s a joy. I would also like to put it out into the universe that I too am capable of writing a book about finding oneself in various countries if I am given a budget and told to go nuts.

I discovered through my wonderful techy friends that you can now use google maps to stroll through the street of various cities in Europe and the US. Its wonderful stuff, just now over a soothing cup of tea, I wandered around Vatican City for a five minutes. Plus they have some brilliant algorithms that automatically blurr out people’s faces or advertising…how cool is that?? Where do these brilliant people meet and come up with these ideas? I need to find them.

I am addicted to Chuck Lorre’s vanity cards.

I am also addicted to reruns of the Big Bang Theory. I am even beginning to like friends who don’t love it as much as me, just a little bit less.

Summer is here and posting is few and far between……..so my apologies in advance…

She sits across from me, exhausted, depleted, undone. It is seven am and she is dressed in a tailored blue suit, her hair a beautiful shade of black, translucent pearls adorns her fragile neck. Something about her exhaustion attracts me. My eyes follow her.

She gets off at Queen, and walks mechanically up the stairs. The station is engulfed with the morning crowds, rushing through, trying to get to their busy lives. She walks as if in a dream, unaware of the rush, slowly, mechanically, one foot and then another, as if to say that the mere act of walking was her valiant attempt at surviving.

In my Humble Opinion:

In my humble opinion Donald Trump the world a great disservice to the business world other day by hiring Joan Rivers as his apprentice.

Truth be told I was never too found of Joan Rivers, it was more of a gut feeling than any rooted behavior. The surgically embellished face and that creepy daughter who was never too far way, didn’t give me a warm fuzzy feeling.

Her behaviour on the Apprentice validated my initial feelings. Insolent, rude, and crazy, the woman seemed to be able to say and do what she liked simply because she was Joan Rivers. To her credit during the show she did come up with many great ideas. Yet her erratic and irrational behaviour muddled any good that came out of her. And her daughter’s behaviour is further testament to bad social behaviour being passed on.

Now listen these two are on TV they have nothing to do with me…so why write about them? Well by DT, (who while pompous, does come across as quite level headed on the show,) selecting Joan as the apprentice, despite her ludicrous behaviour, he further imbedded misguided corporate theory on acceptable behaviour.

In university these days most business courses have a chapter on ethics. In the real world ethics go out of the window. My recent experiences at work have taught me that it really doesn’t matter how people treat other people at work as long as you make good on the two golden rules:
You make the corporation money or at least make a great show of pretending that you do
You don’t ‘knowingly’ do anything illegal

I get it. I get that if your good outweighs your bad, people tend to look at your good. In a corporation that good, is a return on investment. Yet I challenge this misguided conventional wisdom with the thought: by letting people get away with bad managerial behaviour don’t you just propagate the problem? Instead of nipping it in the bud, so that the person can learn and become better, you exacerbate the problem. The problem with the premise is that good leadership and productivity are opposing ideas. And we all know that it just ain’t the truth.

Here’s my call to action: Expect more people: expect more from your leaders, expect more from yourselves, expect more from your work place….

Because I have a feeling if they we as a collective said that people screaming at other people in the name of making money isn’t right….we’d actually make a change.

Wacky Updates

The other day hundreds of Tamil's protesting the deaths of civilians caught up in the cross fire of the Sri Lankan civil war, took claim of one of the major highways in Toronto. The whole thing was really bizarre, as they had children, teenagers and grandmothers, on the front lines of the stand off with police. As a result the high was shut down for hours, and the police force had to be mobilized on mother’s day to deal with the protestors.
While most officials conceded that all citizens have a right to protest, everyone felt that this particular protest went one step too far. I find the red flag with the Tiger in the middle particularly disconcerting.

A somewhat High profile Member of Parliament has been charged with mistreating her help. She vehemently denies, they (all three of them) say she withheld their passport, and asked them (gasp) to clean things. It all seems to come down to a he said, she said situation, and as usual the truth probably lies somewhere in the middle.

Jon and Kate are cheating on each other. I do so love watching the show, though I do wanna take Maddy out for a cook smacking every now and then. I do hope television hasn’t ruined this otherwise sweet couple. (Yes I do realize he is the most beat down hubby on TV, but he gets a few good shots in there.) Also when do these two find time to cheat on each other? Last I watched, they only had intermittent help and were a hands on kind of family.

John Edward Kennedy’s wife on Oprah made me a little sad. Poor thing is about to die, knowing that her idiot husband cheated on her over and over again whilst she was sick and now has a baby with the other woman. Thought it was rather chicken of him not to sit down in the interview with her.

I am engrossed in the Twilight Series. Written much like a Dan Brown novel, it is all plot and no beauty; but still ever so captivating. Why can’t all men love you with the fascination of a vampire? J

I’m outtie…wow two posts in a week….roll out the garlands, I’m back!

Mother's Day

My parents are social beings. To date I have yet to spend a New Years Eve with them, because every new years they are off to a dance with their friends.

CP: “I’d like to invite Dad and You to my place for Mother’s day”
MP (Sheepishly): “Oh, so sorry, but we have a prior engagement.”
CP (Incredulous): “Er its mother’s day and you only have two kids, so who’s your prior engagement”
MP: “Well your Uncle Mario has invited us over…and you know we see you all the time.”

3 days later:
MP: “Oh CP, your father and I realized how upset you were about Mother’s day, so we cancelled our plans, we couldn’t sleep we knew you were so upset!”
CP (suspicious): “You couldn’t sleep for 3 days?”
MP: “Well….”
CP: “Uncle Mario cancelled on you, didn’t he.”MP (Convulsing into laughter): “Yes Men, Stupid bugger, anyway now we are free, so we will come to your place.”
CP: “Fine,”
MP: “Oh and so sad Aunty Z’s kids are away and she will be all alone, so if you can invite her and Uncle J too.”
CP: “But the plan is to have a quite dinner with just you guys.”
MP: “So sad, you want them to sit at home all alone? Don’t be heartless.”
CP (Grudgingly): “Fine, Ill call her tomorrow.”FP yelling in the background: “Uncle D is also alone, tell her to invite him.”
MP: “Your father wants you to invite Uncle D too, and might as well invite his brother and Aunty L too, oh and their kids, it’s mother’s day after all.”

Thus thanks to the ingeniousness of my parents; I inadvertently had a party for 15 people yesterday to celebrate mother’s day.

And while I spent most of Saturday cleaning, cooking and muttering to myself angrily, I realized after everyone left on Sunday how lucky my family and I are to have jovial fun loving friends to spend our days with.