Jorwan

Have you ever, completely by chance, met a person that lives on the other side of the world, then discovered they were the same age as you and had many of the same interests? It's an unlikely circumstance, right? It happened to me last night.

As many of you are i'm sure, I have fallen victim to the social networking jungle that is Facebook. A few months back, I got a friend request from someone named "Shreyas". When I viewed his profile, we had no friends in common, and I was sure we had not met before. That, and the fact that he lives in Bangalore, India. But instead of immediatley ignoring his request as i usually do when i am sure I do not know the person, I just left it there. For some reason I couldn't bring myself to reject him. I guess I figured it was either a fake profile (many people make these in order to steal your login information... i still don't get what they get out of that haha but yeah..) .. or there was some other reason this person had tried to contact me. So I just kind of forgot about him, and then just last night I was on Facebook and I decided to send him a message asking if we know each other from somewhere or not. He wrote me back and said that his friends had hacked his account and sent random friends requests to many people. He seemed so sweet though that I agreed not to delete him from my friend's list and we ended up talking for a long while. He sent me pictures of Bangalore, and we discovered we had a lot in common. Then he told me that he goes to Oxford.... and I started to suspect he might be lieing, but it didn't make much difference to me.

A few of the most beautiful pictures he sent me are these:




Bangalore during a festival called Diwali.





Brigade road in Bangalore



Bangalore traffic


I think it's beautiful :)

First day of class was yesterday. The science class seems pretty easy. But the American History since 1890... the teacher is one of those harder-than-usual teachers that justifies his difficulty be claiming to be easier than "all the other professors". Seriously considering dropping... plus the class is at 6:30! i hate night classes >:O But maybe I should man up, right?

I am going to spend the night with Erena tonight. We are going to an Eritrean Barbecue. I can't wait for that. I love Eritreans :) AND Barbecue.

And I'm desperate for food :(

Feed me!

p.s. Jorwan means twin in Urdu. Fun fact.

Desertification

Finally i'm done with finals! It always feels like a giant weight lifted. But as exited as I am about being done with the semester, in the back of my brain I know I am probably going to get bored rather quickly and start feeling miserably unproductive. In large part due to my ADD.

Don't you love it when a question on a test gives you the answer to another question? That's the greatest. I wonder if teachers meant to include the answer in another question or if it was a mistake.

The dude that lives in the room right next to mine is always playing the new Coldplay album. I can hear it as if it was in my room because our desks face each other with only a wall in between. He has good taste in music. I just wish he'd quit with the Rage Against the Machine...

As young people it's hard for us to see things from a perspective other than whats right now. I think we feel like we need to live life as fast as we can and cram as many memories with everyone as we can into our young years. But for some reason i've started to look at things in a long-run point of view, because aren't those the things that matter? It eliminates a lot of worries, that's for sure.

I apologize for the philosophical-ness.

I wasted an hour that I should have been studying last night making ring tones. It was worth it to get to hear the guitar solo to Hey Sandy every time Michael calls me. haha.

Bundchen

In case you actually do live under a rock avid blog followers, Obama won the race.

Giselle Bundchen is still 23.

Gasoline is watered down.

The 1450th James Bond movie is in theaters.

Much of the world still doesn't have access to the internet.

Waffle House still doesn't sell Pancakes.

Black friday is scheduled to commence as usual.

So you can sleep soundly.

Blastoma

While my Environmental Science class is definitely my least favorite, I can't say it isn't the most entertaining.

Let's take today's lecture for instance. My professor started out talking about the electromagnetic wave spectrum and ultra violet rays etc. etc., and just as she was about to start talking about chemical bonding, it reminded her of a new way she could make everyone in the class feel uncomfortable. So of course, she subtly trailed off in to what would evolve into a discussion that would be exponentially more disturbing than it would be informative. This lecture included topics (and in great detail) about why homosexual and bisexual people are more susceptible to a certain strain of the Aids virus, the difference that using certain contraceptives make during sex (and assured us from experience... and she's old so that was a little creepy) and several other potentially offensive and completely off-topic subjects.

Gotta love her...

This week is going to be busy. It seems like October is the month for birthdays, so many people i know have a birthday this month. On top of that it is usually one of the tougher months in school because of mid-terms and such.

I can't wait to get done with school and get on with my life. But I am trying my best to enjoy it while I can.

I wonder if my professor likes Weird Science.