{"id":257,"date":"1998-08-01T18:39:17","date_gmt":"1998-08-01T23:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sikander.org\/journal\/?p=257"},"modified":"2008-06-02T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:49:50","slug":"writing-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/1998\/08\/writing-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever written in the dark before ? It feels really weird. Right now I can just see my hands moving on a white sheet. I can barely see the dark shapes that I am making on the face of this page.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, paa came in the room at 1 AM and told me to go to sleep. I said sure. Turned off the computer and then went to bed. And now it is 2:16 AM and I still haven&#8217;t fallen asleep. So, I said, &#8220;what the heck, let&#8217;s start writing again&#8221;. And that&#8217;s what this is.<\/p>\n<p>So, how was today ? Pretty good\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0I should say. I woke up at around 2. Maa and Paa were worried that we haven&#8217;t been able to spend time together lately. They went to Montreal about 3 days ago and came back late at night. The next day they went to Toronto. They spent the night there. Came back and then immediately went to Shaheen family&#8217;s house. I have started to dislike them now for oh-so-many reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Anyhow, I got up and Paa, Maa left to meet Mr. Shaheen again. Shekhar called and we decided to go watch a movie. Today was Saturday so the ticket was for $6.50. He arrived at 3:50 PM and I told him about my new record of staying online: 12 hours and 38 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>We called Tanvir and asked him if he wanted to join and said sure. So, we left to go to Merivale Mall and bought OC Transpo bus\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0tickets. 10 tickets for 7 dollars and 50 cents.<\/p>\n<p>On to South Keys cinema via Bus #176. Bought the tickets and then popcorn. We watched <em>There&#8217;s Something About Mary<\/em>. It was hilarious. So damn funny. &#8220;We have a bleeder&#8221;, &#8220;Is that hair gel?&#8221; After that, we sneaked into <em>Ever After: A Cinderella Story<\/em>. Tanvir wanted to watch that and so did I. Drew Barrymore was awesome in the movie.<\/p>\n<p>Got home around 10:30. Then I drove and took Shekhar to his house: 20 Drewberry Crescent.<\/p>\n<p>Dinner was <em>koftay <\/em>(meatballs). Read a little bit of I, Asimov. Thrawn played Quake. Then I went on ICQ at 12:45. Paa told me to go to bed at 1. Now, I&#8217;m just lying here.<\/p>\n<p>Listened to Re-United after a long time. Wow, its 2:26 AM now.<\/p>\n<p>God, when am I going to sleep. Skid is visiting from Toronto on the 23rd. Together again after 2 years.<\/p>\n<p>School will be starting soon as well.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever written in the dark before ? It feels really weird. Right now I can just see my hands moving on a white sheet. I can barely see the dark shapes that I am making on the face of this page. Anyway, paa came in the room at 1 AM and told me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-18","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5XQq-49","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sikander.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}