This just happened today -

I decided to work late today (you know, just for kicks ... I was curious to see what it was like ;P ). I ended up taking the 6:03pm train home. I sit down on an aisle, and then some well dressed man in his 50s sits down diagonally from me at the window. Then two friends show up (one in his 40s and the other in his 30s) and take the remaining two seats.

'I'm Zatman' - Bruce Zuberi

In brightest day, in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power.. Zreen Lantern's light!

No, the above title isn't a typo. It's what my niece Anum likes to say whenever we mention birthdays.

Recently, she's graduated to saying 'Happy Birthday To You, [your name here]'. But I just don't find that as endearing as 'Happy To You!'.

Now, to get to the point of this post, I think 'Happy To You' can be used for more than just birthdays. For example, the Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend is coming up and I'd just like to say Happy To You in celebration! See?

Hehe, now you try it and see how much pleasure can be taken from these three little words ;D

- Zuberio

So I ended up removing the false ceiling in my kitchen along with the 8 tube lights that were behind it. I then placed 10 3" potlights in the original (drywall) ceiling. I found out later that the potlights that I had purchased where the cheap kind.

There are apparently two ways for a 'renovation' potlight to hold itself into the ceiling.
1 - Using springs that atomatically open up when the potlight is shoved into position (the ones I bought and installed)
2 - Using a wing/flange system that expands via a tightened screw hidden on the inside of the potlight housing

So I got to drill make break a 4" diameter hole in the outside (brick) wall of my house on Saturday :D

I did it so that we can vent the fume hood, that sits above the kitchen oven, outside; as opposed to trying to badly filter the food smells through a carbon filter and back into the house.

So my friend Ravi is a fashion photographer and he told me about a neat trick he did with a photo of his. He took a color image and made almost everything black&white; except for what he wanted the eye drawn to.

Hehe, so now I decided to mess around with photoshop and see what I could come up with :D

So I took a picture of my niece Anum at (my sister Reema's friend) Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Then, I took a picture of Shermeen at her own wedding and turned it into this.

And finally, I took a picture of my sister Saher (with Anum) at Shermeen's wedding and turned it into this.

Wicked, eh?

Here are the steps to what I did:
1 - Open image in photoshop (duh!).
2 - Create a new layer and copy the 'background' photo into the new layer
3 - Desaturate the top layer (make it B&W)
4 - Add a Layer Mask to the top layer
5 - 'Paint' on the layer mask wherever you want the colored image below the B&W layer to show through
6 - If you're reading this, you're an idiot for thinking there's a sixth step :P

- Zuberio

Now you're thinking 'what's so special about a drill bit?'. And I must confess, I would have thought that myself just a couple of days ago. But now I know about the super cool D’VersiBIT® System! And, no, I'm not getting paid for this poduct plug :P

Imagine this if you will ... a 54" long flexible drill bit (4" cutting head + 50" flexible steel shaft). Don't believe me? Well then prepare to be amazed! ...

So I was going through my most recent Credit Card statement when I came across a charge of $57 made on August 9th around 2:30pm in Toronto for 'Prepaid VOX'. Now, I think to myself 'that's odd', so I called up VISA to ask them about the charge.

It turns out that 'Prepaid VOX' is a prepaid calling card thingy for cellular phones. Now, I know for a fact that I don't use prepaid minutes on my cell; I have a family plan with Rogers between my and my mother's cell phones. I told this to the person at VISA, so she referred me to someone else.

So I went to the MamboMosaic and UnitedSalseros fundraiser last night at 6 Degrees nightclub (used to be Berlin nightclub - 2335 Younge St.). Now, normally I wouldn't really have much to say about a salsa night out. I mean, how many times can you say 'I danced with many beautiful women!'? But last night was different ;)