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July 24, 2004 by billythegreek
In October of last year, a little nine-year-old girl named Cecilia went missing from her North York home. The home belongs to Cecilia’s parents, Raymond Zhang and Sherry Xu. It is every parent’s nightmare to open your child’s bedroom door in the morning and discover the child gone. Sherry Xu searched the house room by room for her daughter Cecilia. Sherry then rushed hurriedly to her daughter’s school hoping Cecilia, in the custom of nine-year-old girls, had forgotten to say goodbye. ...
July 23, 2004 by billythegreek
In the early 1980s, there were a number of hourly TV shows, which attempted to satisfy the teenage craving for music videos. This craving proved to be insatiable and thus 24-hour music video channels such as Muchmusic and MTV were born. The networks of these hourly music video programs were not idiots. The programming slot was in the 4:30pm to 7:00pm time slot -- just in time for the kiddies to make it home for school. My best friend Tom and I would tear down the street from public...