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Monday, December 05, 2011

Something for the Christmas Season

Found this little clip on youtube.  The Calgary Phil Harmonic collected tweets about how to stay warm this winter and then compiled them into a song and had their chorus sing them!  Very Awesome!!

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Back to Zero

I couldn't decide what to do with the 'stache so I decided to get rid of it and start from scratch.  Up next is a beard.  Stay tuned.

The end of Movember

Hard to believe that a month of fundraising for Movember has come to an end.  I didn't quite make it to my goal of raising a thousand dollars.  I managed to reach a little over half of that though and helped contribute $600.00 towards prostate cancer.  I'm very pleased to have so many good friends kick in a few bucks towards a good cause.

I thought for sure that my social network on twitter would kick in a few bucks too, but sadly not a single person from Twitter made a contribution to my campaign.  I'm hoping that they found someone else to support through the month of Movember, but I would have figured that someone among my 300+ followers would answer the call. I also prodded my Google+ network for a contribution and didn't have any luck there either.  So much for the power of social media I guess.

I did manage to guilt a few colleagues into slapping their name behind a donation and for that I am also very grateful.  It is good to see that there is support there even if Twitter failed me. lol ;o)

One particular glaring omission was contributions from my family at large.  My mom, sister, and brother-in-law all made contributions and for that I am happy.  Surprisingly even though I have 3 other family members afflicted with cancer, no one else outside my immediate family felt compelled to donate.  wow.  I suppose they have bigger worries I guess (and I'm not referring to the members of my family suffering from cancer - they should NOT feel obligated to contribute but should be a beneficiary instead!).

Lastly I was floored that I did receive one anonymous donation.  I was elated that someone out of the blue would put down a few dollars on my campaign.  I suspect that I know this person based on the private message that was left for me on my Movember website but would definitely love to know who it was. :o) Thank You.

So if you didn't get a chance to visit my site, you can go to http://mobro.co/Jaicin to have a look at my gallery and see how progress was made on my Mo'stache.

Here is a pic taken on the final day of Movember. 

PS:  I think you can contribute till the end of Dec 2011 if you still have a desire to make a donation.