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I’m taking a break right now. Been working on C/C++ and Java since saturday. I’m sick of it by now. Good news is that the Java assignment is done. Bad news is that it has a bug. I have three threads running from my main program. Ideally the threads would execute their code and then die. Sadly, my main program exits before two of the three threads die. Orphan threads y0. I tried to track/fix the bug but it just wont go away. The hell with it.. atleast they work right. They just dont die.

• yThread’s exit condition is false others : false false
• Main program out of while loopThe lowest common number in the files is : 9
• All values equal.
• I, yThread, am out of while loop but in run method
• yThread’s exit condition is true others : true true

Last time i wrote “three incidents, a dream, two reviews, and some worries will i narrate to you today”. I guess i will get to them eventually. I want to write the revuiews for sure. The dream [bah i’m already forgetting what it was about.. CS, shoes, mall, pesj social studies teacher, student club, something something] maybe, and worries.. hah thats what this page is about most of the time.Winter is over. It’s raining these days. You can see the grass growing outside. Looks beautiful. And i miss snow already. Hopefully my allergies wont act up. Otherwise will have to go back on the weekly shots. Ugh. Two years is more than enough to make one sick of injections.

I have to start looking for a job for the summer. Anything. I dont particularly care right now. Need some $$ soon. A tv tuner, a webcam, and some more RAM would be nice. And a cd-burner too. While we’re at it, why not a bigger hardrive. Surrre.

Bayqoof’s family are finally coming to Canada. They were supposed to move here ~3 years ago but the Immigration Dept took forever to process their application. Bayqoof, himself, is in Purdue and is graduating this May [nice!]. I dont know if he’ll be coming to TO or if i will get to meet him [and his weird double-chin again] here or in the states. That has yet to be decided. Too bad g4 is unable to goto NY otherwise we wouldve gone on a vacation there. Too bad Shorts&Co. aren’t coming over to TO otherwise we wouldve gone on a tour around the city. It’s kinda good though. I have way too much to do this week. two more days of hell (translate : no sleep) before this term is over. I’ve spent eight months in this university. Unbelievable.

Thiman sent me a pic of his ex almost an year ago. He had photoshop‘d the pic and the resulting pic was simply beautiful. I tried messing around with the LeaningTowerOfSteacie pic last night. The first try was beyond horrible [the animated version was wayyy better]. The second version i really liked [the Patchwork filter works beautifully when applied on semi-dark blue].

Icq : Addictive

three incidents, a dream, two reviews, and some worries will i narrate to you today. so sit back, stretch your legs, get some pickles from the kitchen, and jump to the next paragraph.

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 I was sitting in the library reading a novel and eating. One is not officially allowed to eat/drink in the library but lots ignore that rule and smuggle some snacks every now and then. I had a Pepsi can, a Chips packet, and a Bounty Chocolate bar with me. I was sitting on a table that was near a window [the windows are huge.. reaching from the floor to the ceiling]. These tables have vertical separators in the middle for privacy. People can sit on either side and do their work privately without having someone in front looking at them. There was no one else in this row of tables and so i had complete privacy. I was messing with my hair, bitting my nails, picking my nose, sucking the choclate off my fingers, basically stuff you do when you are 100% sure no one else is watching.I finished the drink and then looked around for a garbage can. It was too far away. I turned back and placed the can on the floor behind me. Someone was sitting on the other side of the table that was behind me. I could see the person’s feet.

While driving to university, i pass by a bus stop that has a shoe ad on it. A woman wearing a towel is standing with her back towards you, the viewer, and is showing her ummm *stuff* to a guy standing in front of her. The guy is saying, “Nice shoes”. I’ve passed by that ad more than a couple of times.

So when i leaned back to put the Pepsi can on the floor and saw her feet, i stopped and looked at the shoes. And i kept looking. After ~15 seconds or so [15 seconds is a lonnnng time to look at someone’s shoes. just stop here and count to 15] i realized that i should not be looking at someone’s shoes like this [pervert !!] and so i started to unlean and go back to the novel when i caught a movement in the window. I looked up and saw the girl looking straight at me. The window reflected both of us at such an angle that we could see each other clearly.

She had a quizzical look at on her face. She also had a slight smile on her lips and i think, or rather imagined, that her eyes were twinkling [yes the reflection was that clear]. Her posture was projecting the question, “Why are you looking at my feet ?” at me. The instant i saw her looking at me, i felt as if i were falling down a dark bottomless blackhole. I felt as if my body was in that chair but my insides, my brain, my stomach, my intestines, and miniMe, the real me who lives in my head, were falling while desperately trying to hold onto something that would save them. I was embarassed beyond belief. I cannot recall feeling this embrassed in my entire life.

Thankfully miniMe recovered quickly. I did not betray any emotion other than maybe turning red. heh. Immediately I looked towards the left pretending as if i were looking for a trashcan [which i was !!!] I had already spotted one at the far end of the table. Quietly I stood up, grabbed the can, the empty chips packet, and Bounty’s cover, my bag, and the novel, dropped the trash in the trashcan, and left the campus.

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 I’m walking in the hallway towards a locker. She had asked me to put some stuff in there. I knew her locker number and combination; she told me that yesteday. The campus is virtually emtpy. I walk on, humming a tune to myself towards the locker. It wasnt hard to find it. I also knew what the lock looked like. I tried the combination and the lock opened. There was a grey plastic bag hanging from one of the hooks. My stomach growled. I had not had breakfast in the morning. Like I, she also loves junkfood. I reach in the bag thinking of borrowing a cake, choc bar, chips, or whatever was in there. My hands touch something that felt like a plastic bag. Yes !! I pull it out while the brain sends a “Calm down. I’m sending you some Food any second now” signal to the stomach.There i was standing all alone in front of a locker in the university holding this. My brain reeled while the stomach jumped up and down twenty times in one second. A very very nasty experience.

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 ‘Three incidents, a dream, two reviews, and some worries will i narrate to you today’, i said earlier.
Alas, it is 1245 and i have a class at 9am tomorrow. I need sleep.
Stay tuned for the rest of the presentation. It will, hopefully, be narrated tomorrow.

the end is near.. apocalypse now [the first time i saw it (in highschool) i did not like this movie. then i saw ‘the making of apocalypse now and i loved it. and now i think if i see AN again, i’ll like it]. this really is too bright. i always try to keep the colors dark so that any lurker lurking around at night (with the lights off in his/her room) wont go ‘yearrrrrggghhh too bright‘ if he/she stumbles here. and the new monitors dont have that old-fashioned knob to increase/decrease the brightness and contrast. instead they have a button that brings up a menu on the screen and then you have to scroll down and select contrast/brightness and then click the other button and that brings up yet another menu and then you get to change the settings by pressing the up or down butons. so basically by the time you change the settings, you’re 30% blind.

tuesdays are my fav day of the week. mondays i have class at 9am and so mondays is suck but then tuesday is right around the corner and since i have only one class on tuesday [@2 pm], it’s a virtual weekend all over again. IF i dont have anything due on wednesday and i usually dont. all the assgnments are due on either thursday or on friday. today was tuesday.

one of the few things i like about TO is driving on the highways. I had to goto Steeles + DonMills and so had to take Highway 401 and then 404 to Steeles Ave. The highways here are huge; 4 express lanes + 3 collector lanes + bridges merging in and branching out all from all over. There is this stretch on the 401 where you pass under 8 bridges in less than a minute. At one time there are three bridges over you; one above the other. The 410 bridge from 401 East and the Gardiner East exit from 427 South are so high theyre scary. They remind me of snakes whenever i see them.

The other thing i would miss if i ever get out of here is The Humble & Fred Show on Edge102. I listen to that show on mon, tue, and fri when going to the 9am class.

Went to Math class at 2pm. I have a 25% take-home test for it due on thursday. I’ve done part of it. The rest i guess i’ll do on wednesday. That class was fun. Not anymore. All this new weird stuff is confusing. Network flows, Graph Colouring, Isomorphism, etc was interesting. But Generating Functions, Permutations, and similar stuff is ugh.

That’s uhh.. about it. Another day gone like the wind…