En route...

Good morning peoples of the internet. It's freakin Monday and traffic is pretty sucky. I don't get why people stick to the fast lane. On the other hand, It's sunny and average cruising speeds are... well the car's speedometer doesn't work so... I guess we are traveling with the inertial momentum of the last recorded speed which is around 140 kph. A rough week is up ahead. a truckload of work has to be done and frankly... I DONT WANNNAA! Ok stopping the whining... we are close to our final destination.... so... I will sees you laters!

p.s. weekend was good.... very good...

p.s.s. :(

p.s.s.s. *sigh*

Ok gotta start the day... bbye for now

Unfreeing Nike Free's

Unfreeing Nike Free's
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller

I was so happy today. The tutorials were really good and it was a very productive day. I can't believe i managed to squeeze in 2 hours of studying. All in all, on the way back listening to some nice tunes, I got really hyped up and all i wanted was to do some exercise.

Did the warm up at home and set out for the jog. It was really nice, the b&b college put us up in is a 10 minute walk away. It was cool as I did it in 5. I was huffing and puffing as the fitness levels are that off a turtle hehe. The road into town comes in at an inclines, so there was this fence that starts small and winds up big as the road progresses. I jumped onto the beginning of it which was a wee bit over knee height and ran till the end which ended up to a wee bit under 2 meters.

I'm like piece of cake. Jumped higher things many times, there was a little old man walking and anticipated that run so he kindly moved to the right. As i got some air, it felt nice, the shoes were light. The breeze was nice. On the way down, everything was normal. The landing was awesome, but at the end i felt a little give, as if the support in my feet has given way, nothing to big. I compensate and while doing that I heard a pop.

The landing was comfy, I think to myself, this can't be normal. Did i pop a ligament. I feel no pain. I look down and this is what i saw. I totally ripped my pair of nike free running shoes.

Anyways I went into town and got my subway sandwich. My only solace was that I had my food and I get to buy new trainers in the weekend :D

The moral of the story, don't jump down anything that is 2 meters high using nike frees cause they can't handle it lol.

Mobile posting midnight insomnia madness

Its that time of day again, the calm night. I really hate it when
sleep eludes me. The sleep is much needed, its going to be a tough
day, but still no response from the sleep fairy. Oh well at least i
get time to try out mobile blogging.

Tucked away under the blankets with my qwerty phone, typing away is
somewhat cool. There isnt a keyboard in sight and the black theme
really helps lessen eye strains acquired from starring at a bright
screen for long. Well so far so good i think.... Ive stayed home all
day, done a bit of work and bumming around. I dont think my tutor is
pleased with my actions, only our meeting tomorrow will determine my
fate hehe, i think it should be alright.

oh well, i think the sleep fairy is here, just wanted to test out
mobile blogger, hope it works...

good night cyber world *frazer crain voice*

2 years on...

It's nearly been two years since my last blog post. After the integration with google, the new interactive editing of blog templates and what not. Things seem to be improving here :D

I know this is not the way to revive a blog, but coupled with the photography in flickr, I hope this comeback lasts for long.

I miss you blogger :D

Baby, I'm home :D

I hope you guys like the new format.

Cya soon.

Been ages....

Well, I miss my blog, I really do… so I decided to finally use it again… yups I turn 23 today... which seems just like any normal day… but 23 is the age at which… who am I kidding… I feel like I am 12… too many I’s but it’s a personal blog… it has to be about me… ok shutting up now… moving on… last night was really nice… my cousin got me a cake with supermario on it… I thought that was the coolest thing…. God bless his soul… shit man, I sound old already… but yeah… the evening was ok… that’s it… need to sleep and wake up at 7:30 to go and try to salvage something from my doomed endocrine rotation… then after the hospital I will probably pop into the arcades for a go at zombie killing in House of the Dead 4 :D it’s so nice…

Then probably snap up a copy of Monster Hunter freedom from HMV… it’s looks awesome… really excited about it…

On the gaming front… well E3 just wrapped up and it was very excited… all the major console players showed off their hardware… really excited about the Nintendo Wii…

Microsoft are just plain stupid… STUPID!!! They could have done so much with the xbox360 but sadly speaking Sony will stomp on their products and laugh.. probably do some break dancing on MS’s corpse… And yeah Sony again has to copy Nintendo with their 6 degrees of freedom… in other words motion sensing joypads like the Wii-mote… well what to do… they have to copy my beloved Nintendo…

Whatelse… oh yeah the virtual joypad for the Wii looks awesome… needs some tweaking thou..

Overall I know am bashing a lot of companies here but will eventually own all the consoles so fanboys don’t come and bite me arse… cuz I really don’t care much of your opinion… this is my blog…if you want to do the same go start one… then you can say whatever you want…

Yeah so games to look out for… Metroid Prime 3… Tekken 6… MK Armageddon…

Hmmm on the home gaming front… well been playing a lot of Day Of Defeat source… the game is so much fun… and World War 2 gaming never looked so nice… fast paced action… one complaint about the gamers on the servers.. they are too slow… play the game like HL2 DM and it’s so much nicer… get the assault class.. and ur set… run in… kill kill kill capture kill… then boom ur dead… lol… yeah need to work on the kill to death ratio…

Ok this is all gaming nerdage… but what to do… gaming is heaven… yeah…. And check out www.tsgk.com... My new clan… the Transgenix… very cool HL2 DM gaming clan… there is this one guy… Cpt PikPik… keeps owning… very good player…

Anyways I must depart… feels weird blogging again… but am happy to be back…. :D

Goodnight cyber world…

I hate the night!

It’s been a long time. *cleaning out the dust* well it’s been a while. I miss this place. What’s the long MIA period, well it was a tough term. Getting used to the new academic situation and a lot of personal turmoil. Now it’s summer time, and it’s still full of stuff to do. Need to work here and there, go on a slight diet to regulate the amount of junk one intakes.

Well, being back in Dubai is always good. Being amongst family is very rejuvenating . Life is nice here. I dunno I wanted to rant about stuff but I ran out of steam.

Oh yeah… I was discussing the night. I got sick of the night. Been leading quite a nocturnal life and it sucks. It’s dead, it’s dark and very gloomy. Finding it very depressing. So starting 2moro am switching to anti-bat time. To reverse the effects of night time sleeping late induced depression syndrome. N.T.S.L.I.D.S aka network slids

So yeah that’s about it… oh the skating has been nice on a small scale but good non the less.

That’s about it for now…

Will follow with randomness later…

Goodnight cyberworld

Tis been a long time

the condition of muzak
'all art constantly aspires to the condition of music. for while in all other works of art it is possible to distinguish the matter from the form, and the understanding can always make this distinction, yet it is the constant effort if art to obliterate it'

pater

It has been a month from my last blog. The conditions back then were totally different than the ones i am experiencing now. I thank god that my exams are over and now a new era has started. The pre-clinical years are over and on to the clinical. The hospital rocks! The classes are cool. It's more relaxed. I finally have sometime to enjoy a slow paced academic life. This term should prove to be cool.

I checked out tower records on the way back from class and i finally found the album i wanted for 5 months. It's this electronica compliation cd, Evcs1:01 the music is so amazing. They are so nice and melo, takes you to another world. best thing ever is that it has no singing so you interpret it the way you want depending on you state of mind. the qoute was on the album.
I ran out of stuff to say,so this will suffice for now...

Two Lips!

Flowers lighten up the day :)
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller.

I love this picture. I dont know why,so i thought i'd share it in my blog. Yeah,today was cool,but i took this pic on Saint Patrick's Day. It was naice.
Anyways am off now,will chit chat later :)

This is a test to show hazem

Junction Beside the Park that is beside the cathedral
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller.

yeah am that bored

I dun2 know

at times i feel my place is empty
it looks as though i never met me

but my smile does only show one side of me

(for sure - Lost Prophets - Fake Sound Of Progress)

Multifaceted Flowchart Post

Start

I feel weird, havent blogged for over a month now. It’s time to revive it. It’s -1 C outside. I am happy to be inside. To people who live in harsher weather conditions, I feel your pain. My post today will be multi faceted. It was rough the last 7 days. A hideous virus ripped through my human form and caused a lot of distress. It made me think of people with chronic illnesses. I studied a lot of diseases and what could go wrong, but text books don’t show you how painful a disease is, or how it affects a person’s quality of life. I got depressed because I couldn’t taste food, had a headache for 7 days, couldn’t breath properly and had fever which made me weak. Imagine living with it your entire life. I have so much respect for such individuals, I hope they lead a good life and it makes us take so many simple things in life for granted. The more I delve into the medical world the more fragile the human form appears to be. It’s scary. Makes you think a 1000 times before you do something. No risk calculations, no fear of damaging anything. All I can say I thank god for every healthy day I live. It’s a blessing.

I watched The Woodman. It was a really cool movie. It ended my comedy movie streak. It’s cool, I loved the cinematography. The soundtrack was amazing. Kevin Bacon is really good. Story is freaky, but overall a good experience. I am trying to get over my media susceptibility. I am working on it and no adverse effects today. I feel mentally stimulated. I thought the movie was really creative.Soundtrack rocked! It has a really weird feel to it. I like it. Ok enough about the movie. I really do not have much to add. I guess this is ok for the meantime. Gaming wise, life is good, DS launched so I get to buy games, I got polarium, so addictive really good and on the PS2 Gran turismo 4 is just car heaven now, 700 cars 50 tracks, what more do you want. I got the lumina SS as my first car,will post pix later, cuz you can take pix of the cars in the game and upload them on to a usb flash disc to ur pc, nifty I know. Anyways, good bye for now, the multi faceted post project failed to attain a multi facet. Hope to achieve that later. I need to go sleep now. It’s very late and I am kinda hungry so I will go sleep in order to have a nice healthy breakfast (corn pops) oh lastly, I quit Pepsi, no more fizzy drinks at home for me, which means no more fizzy drinks if I do drink 1 can max (outside the house), I feel healthier. It’s really a vile substance. Healthier is happier. Carbonated drinks just kill ur body. I’ve been off it for 1.5 weeks. Switched to natural juices. Much better, I don’t feel like a hollow aluminum tube anymore. I feel ALIVE!!!! Ok I will shut up and leave. Oh need to post this first… one sec… Uploading..... Uploading… go to start (i just created a temporal timeline paradox, dont mess) if you want to read it again. If not end (flowchart style).

End

The ExaMarathon - The aftermath!

I finally get time to update. I miss my blog. I miss my online people. I miss my… *let’s not get into that* oh and to all the people who I like their noses, I still want to bite them *don’t ask* Yeah, my 3 day exam marathon is over. I am so happy. Physiology started off the race with a bang. Then the melodramatic psychology, I hate that subject so much. The more I read it the more I think like a freak. I swear, it’s such a twisted field. I mean it’s nice but not my cup of shit I mean tea. The finale, 2 days of shit, 6 hours of sleep what do they tag to the ending of this nice 3 day consortium of death and academic suicide. Non other than our favorite student assassin, the dreaded Biochemisty. In the history of The Royal College Of Surgeons In Ireland *notice the caps* non has claimed the youth of many… youthful students and their vital life essence and happiness like biochem *for short* *yes we give it a nickname* more like bioSHIT! Yeah it was a hectic 3 days, on the last day morale was so low, suicide seemed to give me a euphoric feel of happiness that it will end my misery and I would wind up in hell which is kinda the same. So I decided not to kill myself because life is not a videogame, no matter what the voices in my head say… *look around suspiciously to see if anyone heard it* well of course no one heard it, you typed the damn thing, *slap on the forehead* At the end of the day, I finished my exam and it was like having a bowel movement obstruction problem * constipation for short* then you let it rip and you feel 20 kgs lighter. The aftermath might be deadly but you just feel so comfy, it’s like you are floating on a cloud of shit fumes. Hahahahah I am just being sick here. Don’t mind me. Yeah so I stepped out into the sun shine. My body weak from the lack of sleep and stress makes me have bowel movement problems the opposite of what I mentioned and it’s the first time, I actually strolled around town in the morning in like 2 weeks. It felt nice. I went to HMV and picked random chats with the gaming staff. It was really refreshing. Went for a small skate around town then met up with a friend for a nice tuna crepe with a walk down Grafton street *MiniCityCenter open airmall/Dhiyafah street hybrid mal Ireland* then I went back home and played Half life 2 deathmatch for a bit. It felt amazing. Man life with out games seriously sucks. I love games. Games are life. Ok am pushing it, well they are. It’s 1:30 am now and I have been awake since 6 am. It’s so cool. I feel weird. I mean happy but very airheaded. I think I need to stop. I have 3 days of pharmacology adventures to go through. I think it will prove to be very mind numbing. Nah it will be fine. I need to do well on that exam. So till the next update. I will bid you farewell. It was a nice marathon. 4.5 years of material examined in 3 exams, 30 questions, and that was it… I can’t wait for my Nintendo DS to arrive… it’s gonna totally rock!

DS+Custom Wallpaper+Good Friends = *Smile*

Nintendo DS Limited VIP Pak
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller.

Today was a good day. I was inspired by so many people. The day started kind of shit. I was really feeling down. I had so much work to do but I didn’t think I have much time. I stuffed myself with food, the usual ritual. Then I went out and took some nice photographs. It was nice. I was on my building’s roof garden. It was really stylish. I then proceeded to do some grocery shopping. When I came back I got a very nice pleasant surprise. I got a custom wallpaper. It’s this really amazing painting. It’s so beautiful. My wallpaper rocks. The lady who paiNTed it is so talented mashallah *knock on wood* so being my dumb assed self I sent her an email and I told her could I use it as a wallpaper, and to my surprise she said yes. It’s so nice,oh btw if you are reading this…I say hello, hahah yes everyone is wondering who you are…tan ta taaaaaa. Anyhow, Damn my thought train just broke. One sec let me fix it, yeah so then I studied, my 3rd med dudes had medicine and surgery exam today and everyone is stressed. I am stuck in the middle. It’s cool they be done today afternoon, ok the coolest thing happened to me. Yesterday at around 12 pm I get this email from Nintendo.co.uk, in this email it said as a Nintendo VIP person I get to order and receive the new Nintendo DS (double screen) before everyone else, the release date is 11 March. Only 3000 units are available across Europe. I even get a T-shirt. WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!! I cant wait. On Monday I am going to pay and wait, actually study, I have so much Biochemistry, Psychology and Physiology to go through, it’s not even funny. There is hope inshallah. I just do not want resits. I want to go to Canada and freeze with my hommies! Anyways all I want to say is that am happy. DS wise, life wise, and I got a kick ass Wallpaper. Today is a good day,and that concludes today's transmission.

Flickr

This is a test post from , a fancy photo sharing thing.

Double Blog Day....not am not bored,,,maybe a little

It’s double blog day. My muse is running today. I keep writing about stuff which is not really important but, is kinda important. Well for the past few days I’ve been checking out www.flickr.com. It’s really cool. So many talented photographers out there, it’s so stylish. The community is really nice. Whatelse, my studying sucked today, cant concentrate, my head feels so empty. I cant absorb anything, but I got some work done. I was checking cnet.com and there is this amazing thing called the slipbox or something anyways you hook it up to your decoder,tv and then hook it up to your router. The thing coverts the tv programs into a streaming video and you can watch it over your lan or thru the internet from any broadband connection in the world. It also give you the ability to control the decode. It’s insane, I want to install one back home so I can watch Arabic tv shows from Dublin. It’s for 250 dollars not that expensive for a sexy device like that. Home TV in Dublin thru the net. That’s just amazing.

Anyways am hungry again. So I will go eat…heheh am in pig out mood today. I think I will have some cereal…yummy Corn Pops!

A pleasant wintery day

Sitting in my room, looking out of the window, I can see Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, the street behind it is bustling with traffic. Everyone is going back home after a long day of work. The weather was surprisingly pleasant. The odd showers here and there usually catch you off guard but it wasn’t bad. The day started out fine, was supposed to be waked up by my neighbor on her way to the hospital. It’s better than an alarm clock because that would constitute leaving the bed to open the door, but it never happened so I woke up 1.5 hours late. It’s good I didn’t have classes just work and more work. The exams are nearing. On the other hand it was nice, had a pharmacology review session. The problem is the Prof. didn’t actually do any review, instead he gave the lecture again so, I crept away in the first 10 minutes, problem is the door of the lecture theater slammed after me, Georsan and Hani. We left at intervals as not to alarm the Prof.. It was a very uncreative/unstealthy way to leave. The door slammed 3 times which meant there were 3 interuptions but I went out 1st so Geo and Hani had to bare the stares. On lighter note I have restocked my pepsi stash and gotten so much food from Marks and Spencers. The problem is that it will only last me for 2 to 3 days max. The studying is going ok. Now back to work.

MMM I am hungry,will go eat something….
*uploads post and goes foraging for food*

The Return Of Ox

Ox the Uglydoll
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller.

Living with Ox is great. I think my life style has rubbed of on him. Here is a recent photo of my roommate.

1st pic upload!

The Liffey
Originally uploaded by RiftDweller.

This is a nice photo i took of The Liffey while i was taking walk. The river is a 7 minute walk from my house. Ahh today is going to be sunny, cant wait for the sun :). It was rainy all week,so might as well enjoy it.

Oh duders,update the skypes,chat on that is awesome.

The Comment Poem

Ok, here is how it works

1. Every comment is a verse
2. You cant post two comments in a row
3. If it sucked it will be deleted when the poem is compiled into a separate post

Eid Holiday, or not....

Today was Eid, and to all of you who celebrate it, Eid Mubarak,to all of you who don’t celebrate it,Eid Mubarak, Considering it’s Eid ok to tell you the truth, it was really depressing, it’s raining, it’s cold and everyone is studying. Not the best festive day. It is really annoying cuz you feel homesick. Eid = fun, family and chilling but here its rain, loneliness and books. It felt weird, staying in my apartment felt like I was in a jail cell. My parents and brother are in the Hajj, my other brother is having so much fun in Lebanon he forgot I existed and both my sisters are in Bahrain chilling with family. I am the only person out of the whole family, who is…stuck somewhere. It was all grey until I finished my studying for the day; I switched on my desktop and loaded Half life 2: Deathmatch. A list of servers was being loaded and I choose the one with the most people and the least ping. As soon as my game loaded, the depression turned into frags. The bent up anger was unleashed upon unsuspecting gamers. It felt so amazing. Adrenaline was pumping through my body. It was unlike any other deathmatch as I was listening to music. The usual music is calming music, but this time I The Fake Sound Of Progress by The Lost Prophets. It was awesome. Frag afte Frag, it fuelled the rage. The aim was amazing, the headshots kept rolling. It was phenomenal. The joys of killing people (in a game) was so amazing. Turned my Eid from a downer to a nice relaxing, heart pumping break. HAHaha yes relaxing and heart pumping don’t mix, but check out Half life 2, then you will understand.