"Irregular"/"Chaotic"...

You get on top of your "snowboard"...it's just your second time...take a deep breath, and push off with your left foot. The descent begins smoothly, so a little smile creeps up on you. As you speed up down the white slope, everything blurs...soon the exhliration is so overwhelming, you let your focus on the board slip. And that's when things begin to go..."irregular"/"chaotic". There's a bump on the left...you veer off a bit to the right...you've lost your flow...you can't get it under the control anymore...no longer do you go downhill in a smooth path...it's all sharp and zig zagged...your nervous and jittery...teeth clenched, you make it through the bumps and finally land in a sprawl at the bottom of the hill. You look up at the bright, bright clear blue sky...the sun looks like so very bright...your cold and wet and shaky...yet you grin like an idiot...it was fun.

I started off that way just so that most of my readers think I just went snowboarding or something...but it's not snowing here...yet! That was just a metaphor what life is like for me right now...irregular, rough...yet that's half the fun of everything at the moment. My bioclock's messed up, I do work at the most random times, I have no clue when I eat (but I do eat), I sleep when I should be awake, I am awake when I should be asleep, I'm bold when I'm usually not...I'll elaborate now...so read on if you're interested...

Word of the Week: NOCTURNAL
I ran "nocturnal" through google...one of the definitions was: "active during the night", and another was "Sleeps during the day, and wakes and moves about at night". Currently, I'm most definitely nocturnal...but the first definition applies, while the second doesn't quite. For the past week, I've slept at 3 a.m. in the morning for the first half of the week, and then at 5 a.m. for the second half. What did I do into the wee hours of the night? First half it's been either assignments or working up at the Student Union Building. Second half, it's been programming away...I'm finally convinced that Computer Engineering IS my thing...or else which sad, sad sould labours right upto dawn working on making a calculator and a memory game? Anyway, the second definition doesn't apply because I've not quite been sleeping during the day time. It's usually either some lab till 5 in the evening, tutoring somebody, or hanging out with friends, right up until night time. Good times, good times...


Interesting and/or Significant Events of the Week:

1. Melissa's Birthday - Happy Birthday again Melissa! 21st October, 2005, Melissa officially turned 19, thus a complete adult (i.e., she can drink legally now!). We surprised her in her room in the evening, all nicely decorated by Lauren (one of her best friends and roommate) and others. We had AWESOME chocolate cake and a kiddie-sized pink cone party hats. After blowing the candles (and frantically brushing away the smoke before the smoke alarms went off!), Melissa received her birthday gift (bought by a lot of us as a group): A fish tank! For now, it doesn't have fish...but we have to wait for the water to run for a while before we get them for her. After that, we went down to Boston Pizza for dinner...and I ate a FULL 13-inch pizza by myself, followed by some pasta (or something of the sort!) that Sarah couldn't finish. Then we came back down to Bridges (our residence) and sat around in Melissa's room for a while...people came by wishing Melissa and everyone had a pretty good time, even if things were a bit mellow (everybody was recovering from Midterm Week - except me...mine start next week). But my sleep debt soon kicked in...Sarah, Dave and I came down at like 11:30 (we carried Sarah down!)...I was in bed by 12...but I think because my bioclock's messed up, I couldn't sleep till 4!

2. Sarah's Adventures in the Hospital: What dampened the week was Sarah's hospitalization...midweek, she suddenly has trouble moving her legs. It's not that she can't feel them, she has to consciously THINK to make them move. They (being Lauren, Melissa and Dave - sorry, Sarah...my schedule was just too friggin' busy to make it!) took her to the hospital, where she stayed overnight for two (or was it three?) days...her mother even drove up for a day. She came back on Friday, for Melissa' birthday, but she's going back tomorrow (Sunday) to get her MRI...and then they'll be able to diagnose her. Good luck Sarah! Praying for you...

Does that look like a sick person to you??

3. Got Paid! I got paid! I finally have a decent amount of cash in my bank account...normally, I'd probably go and finish half that money on new books and movies at the cinema...but I'm gonna let it accumulate a bit (plus, I've had so little time to read lately, I have quite a few books "in line" to be read!).

4. Ma's Birthday! Last, (but nowhere near the least!), it was Ma's birthday today (22nd October). Before I left for college in Malaysia in August 2003, I think I've spent every year of my life with her...and most of those years, it's been only her and me. Needless to say, I miss her terribly, and it feels so funny not being there with her on her birthday...but I guess that's just life...things change...even the most "unchangeable" bits about it. Anyway, I wish her another gazillion decades of joy and fulfillment...and thank her for being the best mother I could ever ask for!

That's about it people...the end of another "irregular"/"chaotic" week in "Sabeer's College Days". Till later, keep grinning like a madman...coz honestly, madmen know how darn funny everything is!