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11:15 pm – We went shopping today. Personally i found it boring.. but i did something today i never did before.. i sat on a bench in a crowded mall and waited for the others to finish shopping… it was interesting. like sitting there and watching the masses of ppl walk by, some laughing, some tired, some sad, some bored, and so on. each and everyone of them have their own life.. which i have no idea of. ever tried looking at someone and trying to guess his/her job ? hehe.. woke up early today.. earlier than usual.. its soo liberating not having any uni assignments or other homework to do for the next day. amazing.. but its gonna end soon.. new term starts 5th january 2000.. i wonder how big y2k will be. there was a re-run of StarTrek Voyager on tv a couple of days ago and Janeway [the captain] said something like : y2k didn’t even cause a light-bulb to go off.. but who knows.. methinks at least something is going to happen. oh heres a funny story about the US govt asking hackers not to attack their systems in early january cuz of the y2k confusion hehe.

oh did everyone see the moon last nite ? it was soo bright !! it was the brightest moon in the past 133 years.. the reason ? it was winter solstice [thats the name of a tea party album too.. i didnt know what it meant until i read about the moon stuff on Discovery.ca] {winter solstice (noun) : December 22, when the sun is at its southermost point} and the earth and the moon were also a few percent closer to the sun and so the brightness was like 20% more than usual. they had these pictures in today’s Ottawa Citizen.. pretty impressive..

i played QuakeWorld a lot today.. I changed my name from the usual [sikander] to Mr. Bionic Tuna… heheh it was soo funny.. i was laughing and playing at the same time. i love this game.. i once played it for more than 7 hours straight :o)) and on a school nite too heheh.. this was way back in highschool.. in 1998 i believe. so played Quake today.. did some stuff… and then went shopping. i finally finally bought new gloves.. i have been planning on buying new ones for like 2 years now… i have these brown ones.. and they’re warm and all that.. but i just wanted black gloves.. but never got the chance to get them.. but today my brother [older one] had to buy some so i got me some too.. yay

its funny how in all the old urdu stories i have read whenever someone gets the result for his/her exam, he/she comes home and says : ” i passed “. like that’s it you know… no mention of how good the result was.. what the grade was.. what the %age was.. nothing.. i just passed. hehe. i called Carleton University‘s touch tone service today to check if they had any marks from the exams yet.. they did.. for physics.. [course code 75.107] weird thing is, the touch tone service said i had an A minus.. but when i checked the course webpage, it says there that i have 79.89 % dunno whats wrong here.. marks for 95.105 [computer’s java course] aren’t up yet.. they’re sooo lazy !! oh well..

i had this red model of a Dodge Viper.. i loved it. i went to this mall far away from my house by bus just to buy it.. and it was on my desk with all the other small toys, models etc and then these ppl came over to our house for an iftar party and my mom gave the kid my toys [hehehe] to play with… and he ripped out the seats of the car and broke the windshield :o(( my younger brother was vacuuming today [it was his turn.. and my turn to wash the dishes] and he found the windshield and returned it to me… and now the model [scale 1:24] is lying right here in front of me with a small hippopotamus on the broken seats and a small hockey player [which was defaced and painted all in black by a friend] lying on the trunk of the car :-P and the thing is, when kids do something like this, you cant do anything.. they’re kids.. they’re innocent little brats.. i guess i must’ve broken a lot of things when i was a kid too.. who knows.. someone might be writing about how some kid [me] once went to his house and broke his toys right now too.

its 12:17 am now.. gonna play some more quake in a while and then goto sleep early tonite.. atleast i want to.. who knows how it goes. and heres something funny i found the other day :

update : 2:35 am – and haven’t slept yet…. i guess that’s what 3 pepsis a day do to you :-P

3:46 pm – And so here we go… A whole new diary. I wanted to start this on january 1st 2000… but i just couldnt wait till then. hehe. I thought of doing this last night as i was going to bed. I was thinking how time passes by soo fast. And then i was thinking how i can read all my old diaries and relive the events that transipred and made me into what i am today [what a wonderful oppurtunity for someone to make a joke about me here.. hehe] and so i thought i should start writing again… but you know what.. writing by hand is soo tedious and boring nowadays. Gimme a keyboard and i’ll type till the world ends.. or till i feel like getting up for a coke / pepsi :o) its only 3:46 right now.. and i’m fasting right now.. we break our fast at sunset. its from sunrise to sunset for one month every year… part of the religion. almost half an hour to go… so i have to get going and start making some food etc… its usually my job to make the juice… oh i *love* fruit punch… its the best juice flavour [is that what u call it ? ] here in Canada. okay.. me gone. 12:54 am – ShowCase was showing VALMONT today.. Its been a long time since i’ve seen anything on tv.. i just dont feel like it anymore.. but this movie is one of my favorites.. anyways, didnt do much today. just worked on my new webpage all day. opened two new accounts with tripod to store some images. now i have accounts with tripod , xoom , fortune city , homestead, webjump ,and muslimsites. thats a lot  :o)  i dont like xoom anymore because they have that annoying frame on top of everypage now.. i prefer ad windows when going to these free sites. one can always close them right away.. geocities also has this new ad thingie which pops up on the top-right side.. theyre annoying !! but i guess thats what you pay for getting free storage space.. wouldnt it be wonderful to have unlimited space on some server.. and to have your own domain.. www.sikander.com. wheeee.. i would love that. hehe once in my computer’s class in highschool this guy was annoying a friend of mine, sunkit, way too much.. and then he asked sunkit about some web address.. and so sunkit replies : ” its www.blah.com. you want me to spell www for you ?” hehehe. we used to have these old old old Macs in highschool. and they taught us Pascal on those. A very useless language nowadays… but you have to start somewhere. and my teacher was pretty good. and hey it was my first computer language so i liked it. now i’ve finished a course in Java in university. they still havent posted the marks for our fifth assignment yet.. the marks were spozed to go online before the exams in the 2nd week of december… oh well. i wish i get full marks in this 5th last assignment too.. i got full in the rest  :o)) i guess thats about it for today.. i should be going to sleep now… i want to write everyday here… let’s see how that turns out. take care everyone and adios..

Been a long time. Day 3 in school. Western civilizations class and then watched the movie Valmont. Actually a re-make of the movie called Dangerous Liasons (John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pffeifer). Had a computer class with Shekhar and Mr. Fox. We worked on the data structures assignment. Delia was not in Physics class. Tanvir was missing as well. Business English has a stupid test. Lunch was ok. CBC is covering the possible closure of Merivale High School.

Spent the spare period in the ESL room with Yosra, Alidhooh, Deqo, Harry and Muhammad. Khadro is in my group for Calculus. We had to present today. Efim somehow learned my nickname at home and kept teasing me by calling me “beta mani”

I’ll write everything that happened over the summer pretty soon. I’ve been reading The Idiot by Dotoveysky. Slept after school. Had nightschool today. Got 95% on the exam. 75% on the last test. I’m in class with Chandonette, Salma, and Aisha.

Skid is starting his job at Taima Corp. from November 9th. Good for him. It’s online tech support… just for the experience. He’s still working on his GENERATIONS mod for Quake 2. It rocks!