the weblog is back!
Feb 10, 2005 · 1 minute read · Commentswebsite
hellos ladies and gentlemens, the websites is back ups. indeeds. that is all.
hellos ladies and gentlemens, the websites is back ups. indeeds. that is all.
greets. i went to my first real nba basketball game today. it was pretty boring at first, but the last 2 quarters were pretty interesting because the 76ers made an insane comeback against the nuggets.
my keyboard is… bleh. so the first keyboard stopped being very responsive with some of the keys, and so i bought a cheap one. the geniuses who designed it put a hibernate, sleep, and off buttons right on top of the plus key. so naturally, while you are playing games and stuff, its really easy to hit the key and shut the system off or put it to sleep, which is very frustrating.
but i started adapting to that… but then those keys on the new (one or two months old?) keyboard stopped responding altogether. so i went back to the first keyboard. bleh.
i drove to dc this past weekend. it was pretty fun. and i guess that’s all for now. peace out.
peace. oh yeah, if you’re looking for the important [time worthy] summary of this blog post, then here it is – “this post is a total waste of time – but best of luck to my friends who are taking finals!”
anyway (for those of you who have time to waste), so one of my friends had this as an away message:
“Pyar huwa ikraar hua hai, pyar se phir kyoon darta hai dil? kehta hai dil, rasta mushkil, pyar ki hai kahaan manzil?”
being the honorary desi i am, and knowing a few urdu words, i tried to make some sense of this. pyar and dil were obvious ones that i already know. arabs will recognize mushkil as short for mushkila (problem), and manzil as home or place a person resides…
ikraar could come from taqreer, so basically as a statement or expression.
the first person i interviewed on this topic was our beloved mufti, sheikh “not-a-mufti” (those who know him, know him hehe, those who don’t, well… i’m protecting the innocent :)).
and first i asked him about the meaning of ikraar and he said, “i believe it means ’to utter’ or to say.” – he then asked me, “context?” – and at that time, i didn’t have the full away message (because my friend had come back from away mode) – so i told him that it was gone and that i’d find out. and he said a very beautiful statement in the form of a mathematical expression:
P(away msg is mushy | contains ‘ikraar’) > .9
so anyway, i then proceeded to get the full away message. and i asked our beloved mufti for a translation and he said, “love happened and it has been said, then why is the heart scared of love? the heart says, the path is tough, where does the path of love lead to?”
trying to map it back to the original message, the only thing i was able to notice is that “phir” probably maps onto “fear,” so i guess urdu got some influence from l337 h4x0r talk too (ph34r 7h3 31337 h4x0rs!)
yeah, i just wanted to post. nothing meaningful today, maybe tomorrow. peace out everyone.
changing topics from the previous umm… interesting comments to the previous post, here was something i wrote up. i was gonna record it too but then i didn’t feel like it. but yeah. peace outs.
a few years ago in senior year i had a confusion and a bit of fear where should i go to university would it be emory umich or GT
not sure and having no real clue i chose GT as the thing to do and as a cs major i began my school thinking coding is fun and cool
and at tech i was to soon meet people among the truly elite friends whom i can’t equate to anyone i’ve met till this date
and there i got my first real feel of desi culture and the whole fob ordeal saw all these dudes come up to me and say, yaar, for shadi, doctor is the way
so i thought the solution would be to persue a degree in biology and take the mcats when time comes and go to emory with my chums
but after ochem, out of my brain the ideas went out the drain and even at the cost of a biwi there’d be no bio degree for me
and i got involved in MSA and was invited to meetings of PSA and all i got from all that stuff is great friends and that’s enough
and while i could rap all day i am running out of things to say so peace out to all of you especially those in my GT crew
peaces. came back from the trip yesterday (sunday nite around 9ish). the traffic coming back was insane for part of the way (130 miles in 4 hours…). but al7amdulillah we made it back in ~14 hours.
the sky was really beautiful. i was driving around the close of 3asr and entrance of maghrib time, and man it was beautiful. it was like there were all these shades of blue that were coming together in some places. in other places, you could see what looked like a rainbow, but it was just because of how the different colors merged in layers and stuff. too bad i left my camera here though.
i saw the incredibles with my siblings on thanksgiving, it was a nice movie, i liked it (and so did they).
i guess that’s about all. i did a tiny bit of code after work today, played some kingdom hearts too.
the only bad thing though is that i broke down and bought WoW (the normal one, not the collector’s one). haha, OK is gonna kill me, and he has good reason to do so too… but i will insha’Allah not play too much. as a matter of fact, i haven’t even opened it yet.
anyhow, time for bed, peace outs.
peaces. insha’Allah am leaving for home in a few hours - not too excited about the 12 hour drive, but its worth it :) hope everyone has a wonderful break insha’Allah!
i saw national treasure today. it was pretty okay, not amazing, but fun and entertaining. i guess i should say i saw it yesterday since today is not today anymore and today is now yesterday. err, something like that, i am going to sleeps.
peaces.
xdesktopwaves (http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net) is really nice – totally incredible. it overlays your root background and as you move your mouse or windows, they act like boats moving through water and make ripples on the desktop. really neat!
been playing through kingdom hearts… about 6 hours through it… while i had my doubts at first, i think its pretty good so far… i also ordered a copy of xenosaga off amazon.com - it was on sale and free shipping… plus i had a gift card from my little brother for eid (thanks rami!) so i ended up charging like $0.76 to my credit card for the game… it’ll be pretty funny if that’s all i buy on the card this month and i have to write a check to the credit card company for $0.76…
peace. made a bunch of updates and changes, both internally and externally. most notably:
more updates later.
peace.. so i neglected the blog for a few days, and i come back and find a huge number of casino ads on my site. so i installed the wpblacklist plugin; hopefully it should take care of it… more updates later.