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Does it seem at all odd how much advertisement flu shots get? Seriously, is the flu such a big issue? Can one really be that much at risk if he or she gets in contact with the flu virus? Well, this seems to be one of those little dirty secrets of how the government (and international organizations) and the pharmasutical companies help each other.

If one really is going to get the flu, it has more to do with the person’s health than if he or she had the shot (fact). Statistically speaking, one is even more likely to get the flu while fascinated than not. A study was conducted where it showed that 93 children died of flu last year, and yet 60% of of those children had received the shot. If that is the case, something tells me that theis shot is almost useless.
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Eh, I have been meaning to create a site that actually looks good in every computer and not just a few. But with the lack of time and lack of inspiration it never happened. But last night at around 2am I got the inspiration for this (A mixture of thinking about Christmas and the new Starbucks). For the most part I never use bright colors, or at least no warm colors but since this is winter I decided to go all out with the reds and the warm blues. It’s not perfect, but its the best design I have cooked up in sometime (just because it works, not because it neceserally looks nice).

PS: The background was a pain to make (easily an hour), please be appreciative of it. Any comments?

Don’t ask me how, but this site will be changing (suggestions might/might be not heard). I feel there is no point in sharing stuff about my life with a handful people when I could share this to the world. Maybe people enjoy reading about my life, but I feel there is no point other than offering free entertainment and getting nothing in return. The idea is sweet, but this was not what I had in mind. So who knows, there are few things I like about it and many things I dislike.. this could be so much more if I had less of my life in it.

Yep the UAlbany (#1 Party School) theme song.

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Thanks to my best friend Ameya, I finally got a gMail e-mail account (offered by google). It has 10x more space than my old yahoo account which I have had since Timberlane. So from now on till the rest of time for all I can tell my new e-mail address is:

andre.cohen@gmail.com

PS: Can’t wait to get my first e-mail (specially from someone)

I can’t handle the horrible fact that I was told today; the American all time best selling story “The Birds and the Bees” is not really what it seems. As in the last chapter you getting a bird that stings. This is horrible, half my life I wondered how on earth a bird and a bee got into this mess. Poor creatures. If people are going to name this topic at least name it with something a bit more relevant like – “The Bulls and the Cows”. Or if not, at least make up a script for the poor bee and bird, I’m sure they would love to get some action. My entire foundation has been smashed into pieces. I blame all on you, one should never tell a child all of it at once, thanks a lot (Now I see why). This is horrible… I think I need a psychologist.

Other than that, that was a highly confusing and entertaining topic. Only equal to the speding quality time being unproductive in Princeton. I loved it, screw big complex plans of going to 6 Flags, or even prom. A nice walk is priceless and I’m sure I’ll remember it for much longer than prom.

Did I mention I’m still going through tremors on what you told me…

If you question why I even bothered to read “Cinderella Rules”, know that there was a reason. I noticed that school books do almost nothing to help prepare for the vocabulary section of the SATs. And even if you argue that SATs aren’t everything, I must say that the vocabulary section is not much to ask of someone who has grown up with english. So why do people suck at the vocab. section of SATs? Becuase school books suck at giving a student a good vocabulary. And I have proof.

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It took sometime but people finally noticed that the internet is not a proper noun but rather just a noun, a medium of communication. After all we never capitalize paper or television. Same idea.

On another note, this page might gain the lovely thing that xanga users already have – Ads. All gains will go to my non-profit relationship of me and someone else. There is really not much in it for you people except that you might see me more often than just next Christmas. (Which now that I think of it might only scare people from clicking on the ads). Oh well, it was so easy to sign up to get ads that I thought I might as well do it and be the only one clicking on them.

Final, final note – if this site looks odd or simply doesn’t work, please tell me. I’ll accept collect calls 24/7 to my cell phone if this site doesn’t work. So please tell me.

I believe one of the main reasons for my disliking of King Arthur was the first hand full of shots. Fly-bys are supposed to be smooth, not bumpy and with characters going in and out of the shot. Same way with close ups. They couldn’t hold the camera steady or frame the people well in it. It looked like a high school movie with a bigger budget.

On to the story it self. I confess to have been a big Arthur nerd and let me tell you, this movie made Sir Thomas Malory (the author of Le Morte D’Arthur) roll in his grave. How dare they still well developed characters from his book and make an entirely new story over it. I can’t even start listing all the wrong things in the story. I just thought of 24 and I keep seeing new flaws, not to mention this story never happened.

The one good thing was the cheese fighting scenes. You could tell the director wanted something like gladiator but didn’t know how to do it or had the budget. Damn the props looked fake, and the blood on the swords made me laugh.

This is how cheapest places I could find in Europe. Keeping in mind that internet access had to be available or very close to my room (this is how nerds plan for trips: who cares about private bathrooms we want free internet access).

• Frankfurt, Germany (6 nights) 2 per room non-suit: $384
• Paris, France (2 nights) 4 per room suit: $240
• Canterbury, England (2 nights) 6 mixed dorm non-suit: $49
• London, England (3 nights) my own private room: $154

I work best when I’m stressed out, maybe that’s why I managed to book all the hotels yesterday (all in one sitting too).