Random thoughts on random nights.

Scenario:

It’s a birthday and every one else is busy in wishing, making noise, cake fighting, jumping, posing etc. Or whatever you can possibly do when it’s your friend’s birthday.

And…

This is a picture of one of the nice guy, a friend, a class mate at the very time when all others are celebrating.

Now the Big Question:

What on earth is he doing in that corner? And not enjoying with others? *scratching his head*

PS: The post is for fun only, no hard feelings anyone.

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Me: “Doctor, I have a teeth problem”
Doctor: “That’s so serious, you need an immediate operation, you can loose your jaw, your bones, and your teeth which will lead to a very very very painful death”
Me: *jaw dropped and in shock unable to react or say anything*
Doctor: “So when can you get RM 1500/- ready? How about this Saturday?”

Me: “Doctor, I have an ear problem”
Doctor: “That’s so serious, you need an immediate operation, your ear is so close to your brain if you delay your brain will damage, your ears, nose, eyes everything will damage and it will lead to a very very very painful death”
Me: *jaw dropped and in shock unable to react or say anything*
Doctor: “So when can you get RM 3000/- ready? How about this Monday?”

I will die of the shocks you people give me and if I survive I will die paying your fee’s anyway.

I am officially one of those who have watched Transformers 2 now. *phew, finally*

Since it’s been released I was asking everyone to watch but everyone had their own plans or they were busy or there was something else – always. But today, suddenly I was asked twice, once by class 29 & 30 but seemed like they will watch it bit later and I had to get back, so I couldn’t go with them. Than another friend/student asked, and the same “timing” problem was there. But at the end we worked it out and watched the movie hehe.

The Movie, well it was complete action, really non-stop. I might post detailed comments later, for now I will just say in my personal ranking I will give it 7.5 out of 10 stars.

What a lazy day it had been. Slept all day long, and only woke up on dad’s call, my family asked me to join them for a dinner (they were already in downtown) so got up, quickly got ready and joined them. First we checked Chillies, but there was a huge waiting queue, so we decided to go for San Francisco Steakhouse. I ordered Sizzling Chicken Fajita, the taste and quality was nice but I would have preferred it spicier.

Oh by the girls who are looking for Hot, Spicy and Handsome guys you should visit there, there is a waiter there who absolutely is a model material, what a handsome guy. (And NO this is NOT a GAY comment, it’s just a general comment for all the single ladies out there)

Anyway, the follow up from last post, here is the list of things I had to do and updates on it.

a. Check out Dad’s website, work on it. (Never checked, no work done)
b. Go to dentist (Was too tired to go)
c. Read/Write (not the blog) (Actually only wrote a blog but not what I was suppose to)
d. Mark zillions of exam papers I have (Okay some of them completed)
e. Prepare Lectures (Not yet)
f. Prepare some new teaching methodologies (Not yet)
g. Create exam papers (Not yet)
h. And God knows what – too much to keep up with.(Still the same)

The day started late, as my medicines make me drowsy and I find it difficult to get up when my alarm goes off. I still managed to get to work on time – exactly on time. And volunteered to invigilate for Mr. M, after that a little surprise for Ms. Iriss for her birthday, I had the honor to put the cake on her face *Big Grin* (probably you will find the details and pictures about it on different blogs)

Since it was Friday and I was free, I wanted to eat something different I was thinking to go to KLCC, and when I sent text’s to some friends, I found out one of them was actually in KLCC so there I was. So all three of us actually watched a movie instead of eating something, and then I wanted to go back to work. Ended up only having some breads for a lunch (if you can still call it lunch at 5 PM)

Bro sent a text that he is in the city with Mom and Dad, so I joined them, went to Mid Valley for early dinner, hang around for a while and now here I am. Tired, and probably just writing for the sack of writing.

End of day.

PS: Maybe not, I might still watch few episodes of XFiles.

PPS: Oh and the things to do for this weekend:

a. Check out Dad’s website, work on it.
b. Go to dentist
c. Read/Write (not the blog)
d. Mark zillions of exam papers I have
e. Prepare Lectures
f. Prepare some new teaching methodologies
g. Create exam papers
h. And God knows what – too much to keep up with.

Getting up early on a weekend, visiting two doctors and listening to their depressive speeches and of-course paying their handsome fee made me feel Errrr…

I felt abandoned. Left out, maybe finally I am just missing home (Pakistan). I miss my friends, I mean “My Friends”

I had my reasons to feel that way, but when I questioned myself, I couldn’t justify it. But than again, I am just a human, with feelings, which often evade the logics.

I think by now, you (as a reader) have realized this is one of those tricky posts where I wouldn’t be saying anything direct. So what’s the point?

Good bye.

The dentist thinks I need at-least dozen fillings lol – maybe more. And he would like to extract two of my wisdom teeth, one is already half broken and another, the one which actually never gave me a problem, is such a big threat according to the dentist. Take a look at the picture below.

This is a simple example of angular growth, in this case the tooth is pushing another one, but in my case, the angular growth is inwards, towards the tongue. Now that is fine, the only problem is, according to dentist its pushing the soft bone in a jaw and it might crack it up anytime and that can be a serious problem. And for removal of such a tooth he will perform a surgery and is asking to take a week off from work since the surgery will not be as simple as normal one’s.

I am not completely convinced though, and I am not paying any heed to his suggestion. I will like to take a second opinion (if I am not too lazy). In the mean time, I will try to get my fillings done.

I am back from ENT and have another appointment at 3 PM with Dentist. The fee for the doctor turned out to be double of what I had expected, he charged RM 500. Alas. Why doctors always have to be so expensive?

Here are some of the snaps Doctor took of my ears and nose. The top two snaps are of my ears, the right snap is of right ear and you can see the ear drum which looks clean and healthy. Left snap is from the left ear, with hard wax, which shouldn’t be there, and you can’t really see the ear drum. Similarly, the bottom left snap is of right nostril which looks okay, but the other doesn’t.

As a result, I will be on medication for two weeks, and after two weeks he will check again. I also sat for the hearing test, and he said the hearing is effected, though he ensured the nerve is okay.

Any regular twitters around? Care to send me a link to follow? Instructions, tutorials, tips etc? What other possible uses are there?

Okay so finally I joined the most talked about thingy as well. Twitter. And I still don’t really know what the heck it is or what I am going to do with it. But for the starters it’s added on my blog as well, on the left sidebar. So if I will update anything from my mobile, it will appear there. Hurmmmp.

Let’s see.

Don’t let your problems drown you, swim towards a solution.

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

You pile up enough tomorrows and you’ll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

Some of you will know what and why haha. I bought this tripod today – I am a movie maker and photographer for the coming week, after that, my passion will die anyway.

You don’t need language proficiency to understand what the cab driver is asking its passengers. Haha. I couldn’t help myself to take a pic of it. So guys, keep your distance next time you are in the cab - no smoochies.

Note: This post is based on personal observation, keeping in view only few locations. Post is not intended to generalize or criticize, but only for a viewing pleasure and fun.

Its just my visualization of queues in some countries.

#1. Queue is developed countries

#2. Queue in Malaysia

#3. Queue in Pakistan.

As some of you may know how bad my tonsils are and I am always bit too careful about them, but anyway, so today everyone in my family was having an ice cream at Gelato and they kept asking me, and as usual I was reluctant because of my tonsils. But after looking at those juicy delicious ice creams I started to crave, and so I ordered.

“Can I have a scoop of Tiramisu and Strawberry”? I asked after a tough decision, all of them looked equally luscious.
“You want Tiramisu and Strawberry together?” the guy on counter asked me surprisingly
“Yes – something wrong with it?” I had no idea what was wrong with my choice of ice cream.
“No.” Said the guy with smile “I have never heard anyone asking for such a strange combination” and I could see he was genuinely surprised on my choice, he even mentioned it to his colleague.

I shrugged.

PS: I don’t regret my decision, it was delicious.

The list is random, in no particular order.

• Take multiple naps between lecturers (I know some lecturers do during the classes too but I assure you I am not one of them.)

• Whenever there is a books, technology, educational exhibitions/seminars etc you have a good excuse to cancel the classes and attend exhibitions/seminars, since they upgrade you. (or give you a chance to go away, have good food somewhere, enjoy the day off, and in evening just report back how hectic the day was)

• If you don’t have a class you can leave the office, go for shopping, or even a movie. And if (Just in case) – your boss calls you and asks where you are, you can always tell him busy doing some research for next semester’s course you will be teaching.

• You can always Bu!!$hi* around as if you are a big intellectual and know every little detail of things you have never even heard of, and people will believe you. (or at-least pretend they did)

• You get a good sense of being respected and self satisfaction that you are molding young minds, doing something good for the community. (or completely opposite one, that you are ruining them)

• You can play Facebook, Tagged, Friendster etc and call it online research about social science and computing.

• When you are bored to death and feeling drowsy you can write a completely idiotic blog post (like this one) and post it on your blog.

• Last but not the least, after posting it, you can keep clicking the refresh button to check if there are any comments.

Okay, I gotta go now, I have a class in few minutes, but I will be back to check if there are some comments.

PS: This post was posted during the height of boredom and drowsiness.

From different emails and posting I have compiled my list of favorite IT related comics, specially software and programming related. As a Developer you can relate to them, here is the list according to my liking.

Enjoy.

#6

Some of you might not agree with half of it, but the other half is completely true. It is worth a look.

#5

Haha!!… I have actually seen it happening

#4

Almost all of us have used similar excuse ;)

#3

I like this one, sometimes this is how we fix the bugs as well ;)

#2

It is so frustrating when your clients have no clue why they need software; the common perception is “Software will solve all problems” lol. And trust me, when you are trying to analyze the requirements they treat you as an stupid who don’t know the basic things hehe.

#1

If you ever end up fixing others code this is exactly what happens

…and deleted it.

I guess, even after 4 years as a blogger there are many things I can not write about.

Do I want to?… I don’t know. Maybe.
Should I?… I don’t know.
Will I?… Maybe not.

I classify myself as very private person.

Perhaps some things/thoughts/feelings are meant to be private.

I took around 50+ photos today in a bowling alley.

Moments ago, I connected my phone to my PC to transfer the files and it did it again, memory card corrupted - all photos gone.

*Scream*

The first time I saw the dead bodies floating on the river I was shocked. I can not explain in words my feelings, I think I didn’t felt anything; my mind was halted in that particular moment unable to think or move forward.

But people around me in the train seemed so normal, as if it was nothing at all. Me… I kept staring out of window, on the surface of river and the disturbing images of dead bodies kept coming. One after another, I couldn’t count them all, after a while I stopped trying, but I kept looking.

No matter how wrong the things or events might be, but once it becomes your routine you are no longer effected, I think that’s what happened to people in the train, and I was afraid, the same thing might happen to me. And it did.

Today, when I saw those dead bodies again, I was no longer shocked, I didn’t give much care either, but I still wonder… I wonder why those fishes died anyway, is the water really that dirty and poisonous?