Matt’s Travel Blog

Back home..

It doesn’t really feel much like home anymore though. Its always good to see friends and family.. and the familiarity is nice, but i’m not sure what home is anymore. I think its my Tai chi school and wherever whom i’m in love with is.

The Tai Chi school felt like home when i went back… it was nice to be there.

The party at Wichmans was good times it was great to see a bunch of friends there… always worth crossing the ocean for. And Chris has once again put up with me living with him. Now i just gotta get ahold of the rest of my friends and see them before I leave for Australia.. Nov 8th.

I should take some pictures i guess… im so bad at that now.

Now i’m at my parents house. I just hooked up my old computer that i really haven’t used since I left for Thailand over 2 years ago.. the interent has changed since then. Youtube, facebook, myspace has come and gone , everything has been updated .. weirdness.

I’m sleepy.. jetlag.

.. because we make adds like this and them put them on every bus stop in a city of millions.

I took this pic from a website of a friend of a friend but ive seen the adds around Toronto, and was thinking i should get a pic of it.
Its amazing. Its glorious. Its George Bush looking impish cause he can’t read so good.

Oh, and i leave for Japan in 32 hrs or so.

Leaving in 6 days for Japan , should be sweet. Can’t wait to have my own apartment again. That will be awesome.

I will come to Toronto to hang out once i find a place to stay.

Crashing at other peoples places is starting to suck so much i can’t stand it, i almost dont want to go back to Toronto at all.

Also with the recent news with almost exploding planes, looks like my airport adventrue will indeed be an adventure. What else do i have to take off other than my shoes now?

We’ll see what happens, either way im leaving the country… sigh of relief.

Getting ready for leaving unless world caves in. I dropped off my passport and payed extra for hyper speed service and 48 pages instead of 24. I got to keep my old one as a relic of my level 1 world quest.

If i fill a 48 page passport in 1 year i will be king of excellent.

I also got a IDP or international drivers permit. I didnt get this last time cause i was lazy. I didn’t really need it in Thailand , but I got busted in Indonesia for not having one. They said i had to go to court which was ludicris, obviously they just wanted me to pay them off.. so i did. Haggeling with a police officer about how much you should pay him off is awesome.

So hopefully i will be driving my way to success in Japan on massive suprebikes that transform. … And they shoot darts!

As for Stephen Harpern… *cough* NAMBLA *cough* .. hahahaha

Ok .. so now the plan is to move to Asia and teach and not come back for a few years. After I make said ‘moneys’ I shall travel and do things that are awesome.

Hopefully this plan works out but like I said if not Im just gonna buy a plane ticket and leave anyways. Its just not fun here. Or atleast i’m not haveing much of it. Not that i’ve been sitting staring at the wall for 2 months..

But in all honesty i feel general frustration and confusion as to whats up with life. Am I just supposed to sit around and work? .. thats the crappiest of crap that ever crapped. The idea of such a thing makes my eyes fall out. And my eyes are happy where they are. I just want something more.. some adventure.. some fun.. something other than the same streets and the same subway stops. Im basically ready to go now! If someone said heres a ticket , heres a job.. I would just grab my wallet and walk out the door. This is definatly the frustration talking … I know society is what it is and I’ve gotta live in it. But, it seems that just working is just that! Just working. Well that doesn’t really fullfill my human life in space time. Should there not be something more than just breeding… cause i can sort that one out in about 5 minutes if thats THE point. It all just doesnt seem to fit right now… i’m out of my century. I should have been born in the age of ‘space ninjas’, or just ’ninjas’. Why was I born in the time of ‘no ninjas’?!?

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE START A COLONY ON THE MOON OR SOMETHING!!!

So.. as a resolve.. I have applied for a bunch of jobs in Korea and Japan .. adventure mixed with money as far as I can tell. Its the best I can think of thats plausable right now and maybe the change of everything will shake up the funk and I’ll get back on track for intiating the first wave of space colonization. Hopefully in the next 2 – 3 weeks ill be outa here. I hope I get something good…. if not .. well .. fuck i dont know.

anyways… pray for mojo…

here are a very few pics of my last weeks..

The poison ivy as it ravaged me from the waist down…

Gananoque where my parents live..

Le Maison du Richardson.

Wilno wedding party with Deep River peeps

I’ll go out with the GLOBE OF POWER!… After this my pants fell down… you know it!

Things are spiraling and its coming to the point where i will land somewhere with a job soonish.
Spent most of the last 2 weeks with the famile… visiting n’stuff. I made it back to T. for Canada day … watched superman with all his super emotions. Superheros should only have two emotions. They are : party or rage. Pick one and I shall be entertained. Basically all I want to see is someone have as much fun as superhumanly possible or blow up an equal amount of stuff.

I looked into working out west and made some calls.. theres tonnes of work apparently, but its a mission and I’m worried that if i go out there I’ll just end up with a job like i could get here. So …

.. basically im gonna get a job in asia in a higher paying country (Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Austrailia), cause i need money, then i will continue ‘le adventure du surfing party ultra dragons’. Things that will influence my choice will be the availability of surfing,fighting, and how much they will pay. It may bank more on the surfing/fighting. I may be trying to work for money but even then I will still choose fun over MORE money. ENOUGH money is indeed.. enough.

So… get your Matt while you can, cause all directions are pointing to fun. Tommorow I go to get my new pastport because i filled my old one to the last page. I will not be back until i match that with my new pastport.

Still in Toronto, and now im covered in poison ivy. Weeaakkkkkkk…..

Canada is destroying my will for happiness… i demand mango shakes and surfing.

In the mean time .. photos of stuff!

Toronto in its smog and glory.

Me battleing the Baron Canyon.

Songwha with her first camp marshmellow.

Montreal from Mount Royal..

Castle/McGill University. If i lived there I would release vollys of arrows tipped with awesome.

Cathedral downtown Montreal..

Downtown Montreal looking all euro..

Pics from ‘Gay Pride Parade’ ..

Gay Trojan Warriors..

Gay Anglicans. I figure if you church doesn’t support the gay community, you aint gonna have a church in about 15 years.

Just Married Gay Mounties.. no surprise there!

Gay gayness..

Gay pipers..

Jack Layton. Sweet. Others were tearing up pictures of Stephen Harper.. i approve. S.H. is horrible and possibly related to the devil in some way.. why are we voting on gay marriage in the fall?? Fuck. I should have stayed in Thailand where gays are excepted and no one thinks on it.

Trans Butterfly..

Trans Snow White and seven gay dwarves.. yes! Take that kids!

Gay Asian Cowboys washing a car.. this is beating the Santa Claus parade by miles.

And ofcourse naked gay guy protesting protests.

And the final photo.. me on my day of super ultra homelessness that the Wichman has bailed me out of. This before the poison ivy.. \

Went camping in Algonquin park, ate french food in Montreal, then visited the parents place over the past few days… ill post some pics later.

Crash landed back in Toronto with no where to actually crash. I was going to sleep in the my rented car but the floor of my Tai Chi School seemed a bit more roomy. I feel about as close to sitting on the sidewalk homelessness as you can get without actually sitting down on a sidewalk and deciding this is where i’m ’staying’ for the next 12 hrs.

Its pretty fucked up i’d say. Ofcourse if it ever got to THAT point i’d just get a bus and go to my parents place, or impose on people that i’ve already imposed apon. But couch surfing has become rediculously hard mentally more than physically. Although the physical part isn’t present at the moment… but i’m working on that.

I was supposed to go to a job today but its hard to go to work when you don’t have a home ,even one thats not yours to go to afterwards. So i skipped out on that one… and will have to call and apolagize for flakeing.. but my excuse is a good one. “I don’t have a place to sleep or keep my stuff.” should put the kibosh on any “your unreliable and disapointing..blah blah.. “.

But the good thing about it is that i’ve become extreamly motivated to get out of this position. I have 2 leads on jobs here that are sufficient for the amount of funds I require to live and pay bills. But, if they fall through then kiss my ass goodbye i’m off to Calgary for the sole purpose of making money. Hell at this point i’m ready for some crab fishing… ya…

Can I sleep at your place for a week?

Hey ya’ll ..

I know i haven’t posted in a while but I can some up what i’ve been doing in two seconds..

1. Fighting
2. Drinking

I suppose there are socials in there and the necessary eating and sleeping. I would get a job.. but i can’t think of one i really want. I want to work with kids …
but that hasn’t panned out yet. I was waiting for a kick ass job back in Thailand but that didn’t work out unfortunatly.. so now im back wondering what to do. Basically it’s simple .. i need money. Therefore i need high paying job. Doh.

The problem is I generally don’t like any job that would pay me alot of money, i tend to like jobs that pay very little money but make you happy and feel good. Like teaching english in the poorest parts of the world or teaching tai chi …

I’ve also become a couch surfing professional. But that lifestyle isn’t so glamerous so i’m will quit that soon enough too… to whatever end.

Anyways.. I’ll end up somewhere , just gotta wait it out. In the meantime I think i might go camping.

Here are some pics since ive been back..

Ding Ding!

Toronto Streetcar.. not interesting to those in Toronto.. but to the unsuspecting it is a magical chariot of fire and demons.

Toronto scenery…

The happiest place on earth…

After a year of beer drinking i’ve turned scotish..

When i found out i had become scotish I made this face…

But Songwa!!! Whats in the fridge!?!?!

… it’s happiness.

.. I payed tax on beer i drank in your public park.