fortunately, i didn't forget my mom's birthday this year! yay me!
here's what's up:
as i said, i trained hard last night - i'm still feeling it quite majorly.
i went to sleep around 3am, woke up at 9am and got to class on time for once. we had a whole bunch of boring presentations, and ours was definitely not the worst.
always nice.
the psychotic american's presentation was done on nelson mandela, and it was a complete load of bollocks. they proposed all sorts of messed up things about him, about how he isn't such a good guy, and that he's a hypocrite. and that really upset me.
he may not be perfect, but he's madiba. fuck them! stupid americans.
she told her parents today. and i've been invited for supper tonight. i'm scared - shaken, and stirred. in fact i don't recall ever being this nervous.
as i think i've said before, if i was her father i'd be waiting outside with a loaded rifle and a big, welcoming smile. i expect no less.
*** later ***
obviously, i was wrong.
it's now 3am, and i'm still alive and kicking. supper was actually quite pleasant - great food in large quantities, and nobody acted as if anything was out of the ordinary.
no outbursts, no funny looks, in fact - no problem.
i feel so much better.
i'm going to arb around on the net for a bit, and then it's time for a visit to dreamy-dream land. tomorrow should be an interesting day - i have exams in eleven days, and i really need to study... i wonder if i'll even remember how?
and of course, i HAVE to go rollerblading tomorrow. what's a day without a decent opportunity to break a limb? they've just opened a skate park in ra'anana, so we're going to go check it out. i'll report back if i'm not stuck in a hospital somewhere.
Friday, May 30, 2003
Thursday, May 29, 2003
29/05/03
ugh!
i got to sleep around 7, woke up at 12.10 and arrived at class at 12:35. using my blades. in 40 degree heat.
to discover that class started at 13.00, not 12.30.
i feel SURE i've done this before.
we've just finished one and a half hours of marketing research, studying regression analysis. and he couldn't have been less clear without involving umbrellas and spaceships in his lecture.
i'm tired, bored, and hungry. i have no cash for food today, and investment theory starts soon and will be running till 20.00. which i SO look forward to.
hopefully i'll get to training tonight, seeing as i haven't been in a week and i haven't even tried to stretch since i played basketball (whatever night that was).
the hardest thing for me, right now, is getting these really dumb lullabies out of my head.
*snore*.
i still haven't seen the matrix reloaded, i'm hoping to go tomorrow night. and i'm giving up trying to get hold of movies online. it's just not worth the hassle.
speaking of which, i'd really like to play command & conquer generals, but i know i wouldn't have enough time to enjoy it. this is so sad.
*** WHINE OUT ***
i skipped class after my whine, and went with SxS to a friend's place to swim. today turned into a REALLY ugly day - we had a major dust storm and then it started to drizzle.
but we played frisbee, and swam, and sat around discussing all sorts of arbitrary topics. we even went into religion, and i haven't had an interesting and intelligent conversation about that in a helluva long time.
i then went to training. there were only four of us, so it was up close and personal, and i worked really hard and improved a bit with my flexibility. i'm mere MILLIMETRES away from being able to do girls' splits! (this is really exciting for ME, anyway...)
now that i'm all dirty and smelly, we're planning to go out for supper somewhere - me and my whole 80 cents. i wonder who's paying for me?
i got to sleep around 7, woke up at 12.10 and arrived at class at 12:35. using my blades. in 40 degree heat.
to discover that class started at 13.00, not 12.30.
i feel SURE i've done this before.
we've just finished one and a half hours of marketing research, studying regression analysis. and he couldn't have been less clear without involving umbrellas and spaceships in his lecture.
i'm tired, bored, and hungry. i have no cash for food today, and investment theory starts soon and will be running till 20.00. which i SO look forward to.
hopefully i'll get to training tonight, seeing as i haven't been in a week and i haven't even tried to stretch since i played basketball (whatever night that was).
the hardest thing for me, right now, is getting these really dumb lullabies out of my head.
*snore*.
i still haven't seen the matrix reloaded, i'm hoping to go tomorrow night. and i'm giving up trying to get hold of movies online. it's just not worth the hassle.
speaking of which, i'd really like to play command & conquer generals, but i know i wouldn't have enough time to enjoy it. this is so sad.
*** WHINE OUT ***
i skipped class after my whine, and went with SxS to a friend's place to swim. today turned into a REALLY ugly day - we had a major dust storm and then it started to drizzle.
but we played frisbee, and swam, and sat around discussing all sorts of arbitrary topics. we even went into religion, and i haven't had an interesting and intelligent conversation about that in a helluva long time.
i then went to training. there were only four of us, so it was up close and personal, and i worked really hard and improved a bit with my flexibility. i'm mere MILLIMETRES away from being able to do girls' splits! (this is really exciting for ME, anyway...)
now that i'm all dirty and smelly, we're planning to go out for supper somewhere - me and my whole 80 cents. i wonder who's paying for me?
Wednesday, May 28, 2003
28/05/03
today was meant to be a pretty boring day. i was going to get some work done, and go to holon to begin sorting out my driver's license, sleep a bit, and then go to work.
well, i got to work.
i decided at 3am not to go to holon, because i'll probably get lost. so i need someone to either go with me, or tell me EXACTLY how to get to where i'm going. it's not a nice area, and i also don't want to waste time looking for the place i need to be when there's always a crazy queue, and they close at 12.00.
i was going to get some work done, but my flatmate was using the computer when i woke up, and i expected him to get off at some point.
i was wrong.
so i played final fantasy viii. i mean really played, up until now i've spent over 80 hours (not including restarts after 45 hour saves) strengthening my characters and their gf's. sad, but true.
it's such a beautiful game.
it turns out that the people who host the website that i'm working on moved offices this week, and that the company i work for has no idea where they went. so i'm hoping to get hold of them soon, because they screwed up the database and i need it fixed before i can finish...
that's just SO inconsiderate.
i'm at work now, as usual i hope i'll get a chance to work on my journal. and i remembered to bring kopiko, german sweets made with real coffee beans. that shit is seriously effective!
*** later ***
(actually, it's 5am on the 29th)
it's been a long night, but it went well. i screwed up less and was a lot more confident. and i didn't laugh when one guy kept going "mm hmm" at the end of each sentence, like billy-bob thornton in slingshot.
and i'm not so tired. but i've been reading pvp-online whenever there weren't any calls, and i'm thinking again how nice it would be to work for a gaming magazine.
those bastards have all the luck.
well, i got to work.
i decided at 3am not to go to holon, because i'll probably get lost. so i need someone to either go with me, or tell me EXACTLY how to get to where i'm going. it's not a nice area, and i also don't want to waste time looking for the place i need to be when there's always a crazy queue, and they close at 12.00.
i was going to get some work done, but my flatmate was using the computer when i woke up, and i expected him to get off at some point.
i was wrong.
so i played final fantasy viii. i mean really played, up until now i've spent over 80 hours (not including restarts after 45 hour saves) strengthening my characters and their gf's. sad, but true.
it's such a beautiful game.
it turns out that the people who host the website that i'm working on moved offices this week, and that the company i work for has no idea where they went. so i'm hoping to get hold of them soon, because they screwed up the database and i need it fixed before i can finish...
that's just SO inconsiderate.
i'm at work now, as usual i hope i'll get a chance to work on my journal. and i remembered to bring kopiko, german sweets made with real coffee beans. that shit is seriously effective!
*** later ***
(actually, it's 5am on the 29th)
it's been a long night, but it went well. i screwed up less and was a lot more confident. and i didn't laugh when one guy kept going "mm hmm" at the end of each sentence, like billy-bob thornton in slingshot.
and i'm not so tired. but i've been reading pvp-online whenever there weren't any calls, and i'm thinking again how nice it would be to work for a gaming magazine.
those bastards have all the luck.
Tuesday, May 27, 2003
27/05/03
*** yesterday ***
yesterday was, uh, interesting.
really.
there was a "festival" concerning all the activist groups and so on, so i'm now considering bone-marrow transplants, and am signing up for a greenpeace type org.
i think.
i think i'm gonna think some more on this.
last night i went with her to a food festival. there was a LOT of food, and really cheap. so we stuffed ourselves with really good graze.
but we parked really far away (lots of people), and so we got home really late.
let's just say running into her father at 01.30 in the morning was, uh, a new experience.
nobody actually SAID anything, but that didn't really make it any easier.
so i got to bed around 02.30, i think, and i had to wake up at 07.45 for a class in marketing research.
i'm bombed.
it's now 10am. the class was okay, considering we had to fight to convince our guest lecturer to speak in english, and i'm about to be late for our class in corporate law.
oh, i'm SO looking forward to this.
*** later ***
i have absolutely no clue what we learned in law. it was phenomenally boring.
i've skipped out on my most important class of the day, and i'm going to take a nap.
so there.
yesterday was, uh, interesting.
really.
there was a "festival" concerning all the activist groups and so on, so i'm now considering bone-marrow transplants, and am signing up for a greenpeace type org.
i think.
i think i'm gonna think some more on this.
last night i went with her to a food festival. there was a LOT of food, and really cheap. so we stuffed ourselves with really good graze.
but we parked really far away (lots of people), and so we got home really late.
let's just say running into her father at 01.30 in the morning was, uh, a new experience.
nobody actually SAID anything, but that didn't really make it any easier.
so i got to bed around 02.30, i think, and i had to wake up at 07.45 for a class in marketing research.
i'm bombed.
it's now 10am. the class was okay, considering we had to fight to convince our guest lecturer to speak in english, and i'm about to be late for our class in corporate law.
oh, i'm SO looking forward to this.
*** later ***
i have absolutely no clue what we learned in law. it was phenomenally boring.
i've skipped out on my most important class of the day, and i'm going to take a nap.
so there.
Sunday, May 25, 2003
25/05/03
muthafunsta.
the movie i downloaded and burned turned out to be something called thirteenth ghost, or something like that. so not only do i not want to watch it, but i wasted a cd on it as well.
i'm now in the middle of a four hour macroeconomics session, which is completely destroying my brain. i'm extremely grateful that half the material he's going over was in some of my other courses this year, so i actually know what's going on.
i found out this morning that i got accepted into the teacher's course for taekwondo. which is wonderful, except that it costs NIS 5800 (R 10200). yeah, right. *i* can afford that.
*** later ***
i'm still trying to organize 28 days later. i know someone who has it, but i need to trade and i don't have anything he wants. i saw the first few seconds - looks as good as i was told (thanks moonflake!).
i went to orange to whine about my cellphone. it turns out the battery housing was messed up, so they fixed it, but my battery is only running at 60% capacity (doesn't that sound cool?) so i have to replace it. which will cost about R400.
yay.
the electrician came today to fix our boiler. after about half an hour of banging away and generally making a mess, he called a plumber. and the two of them seemed to be having a great time - at one point they were sharing the ladder and working in the same place simultaneously.
never seen that before.
so now we have hot water again, but they left all sorts of interesting creatures lying around (israeli mentality - heaven forbid THEY should clean up their own mess).
went to basketball practice. i seem to be improving, if only slightly. i found someone there to stretch me after the game, and he had a very interesting way of doing it, one that i've never seen before - it seemed to get me a lot further than usual!
so, after my first hot shower in days, i'm going to bed. it's my brother's birthday tomorrow, so i think i'll send him an sms, and it's my mom's in a few days.
mustn't forget this year...
the movie i downloaded and burned turned out to be something called thirteenth ghost, or something like that. so not only do i not want to watch it, but i wasted a cd on it as well.
i'm now in the middle of a four hour macroeconomics session, which is completely destroying my brain. i'm extremely grateful that half the material he's going over was in some of my other courses this year, so i actually know what's going on.
i found out this morning that i got accepted into the teacher's course for taekwondo. which is wonderful, except that it costs NIS 5800 (R 10200). yeah, right. *i* can afford that.
*** later ***
i'm still trying to organize 28 days later. i know someone who has it, but i need to trade and i don't have anything he wants. i saw the first few seconds - looks as good as i was told (thanks moonflake!).
i went to orange to whine about my cellphone. it turns out the battery housing was messed up, so they fixed it, but my battery is only running at 60% capacity (doesn't that sound cool?) so i have to replace it. which will cost about R400.
yay.
the electrician came today to fix our boiler. after about half an hour of banging away and generally making a mess, he called a plumber. and the two of them seemed to be having a great time - at one point they were sharing the ladder and working in the same place simultaneously.
never seen that before.
so now we have hot water again, but they left all sorts of interesting creatures lying around (israeli mentality - heaven forbid THEY should clean up their own mess).
went to basketball practice. i seem to be improving, if only slightly. i found someone there to stretch me after the game, and he had a very interesting way of doing it, one that i've never seen before - it seemed to get me a lot further than usual!
so, after my first hot shower in days, i'm going to bed. it's my brother's birthday tomorrow, so i think i'll send him an sms, and it's my mom's in a few days.
mustn't forget this year...
Saturday, May 24, 2003
24/05/03
firstly, the movie i watched last night, we were soldiers, with mel gibson, was absolutely brilliant. freaky, disturbing, harsh, and sometimes even remarkably brutal, but brilliant. watch it.
NOW. GO. run to the video store!
i stretched today, but i'm nowhere near the splits. i got far enough by myself that my muscles were shaking like crazy, but i held it. hopefully it'll be good enough in a few days. or i'll lose my legs trying.
to anyone who thinks i'm joking, it's fairly easy to rip all the tendons when you're trying to ignore the pain.
i ate fairly well today - i learned how to boil sausages (gee, how DO i do it?!), and today was infected mushroom day on our cable music channels.
so i had some good music to listen to while i studied the most boring material on the planet (leadership).
and i'm still eating marshmallows with peanut butter. they really are good!
i just finished my paper. what bothers me, is that these bastards basically gave me half the paper to do (there're five of us in the group), but even worse is that the material we're basing our study on isn't relevant, so i had to make stuff up. it's very hard to do that with uninspirational topics, like "resistance to change".
now that i'm done, i'm off to play some pool. on my way downstairs i'm going to put a plastic bag over the water sprinkler, which some jerk-off has aimed almost directly into our apartment, so it gets our clothes on the washing line soaked.
lovely.
*** later ***
i'm on my way to bed. i had a very strange experience: the asshole who's "leading" the group i'm in phoned me to tell me that i'd done a good job. that's very nice, but coming from him it's aggravating. i HATE salesmen, and he's a prime example. what makes it worse is he then asked, politely, if i'd like to do the conclusion as well.
i haven't given him an answer, but so far all i can think of is "fuck no". bastard.
so i've had a nice freezing cold shower, my argentinian flatmate's refusing to do it, so he's boiling water and putting it in a bucket, and piece by piece washing himself with a cloth.
i find this amusing.
i finally aquired the movie 28 days later, it's taken absolute ages. so i'm gonna go watch it now. and then it's dreamy-dream land for me. tomorrow's another long day. with fun filled macro-economics lessons.
NOW. GO. run to the video store!
i stretched today, but i'm nowhere near the splits. i got far enough by myself that my muscles were shaking like crazy, but i held it. hopefully it'll be good enough in a few days. or i'll lose my legs trying.
to anyone who thinks i'm joking, it's fairly easy to rip all the tendons when you're trying to ignore the pain.
i ate fairly well today - i learned how to boil sausages (gee, how DO i do it?!), and today was infected mushroom day on our cable music channels.
so i had some good music to listen to while i studied the most boring material on the planet (leadership).
and i'm still eating marshmallows with peanut butter. they really are good!
i just finished my paper. what bothers me, is that these bastards basically gave me half the paper to do (there're five of us in the group), but even worse is that the material we're basing our study on isn't relevant, so i had to make stuff up. it's very hard to do that with uninspirational topics, like "resistance to change".
now that i'm done, i'm off to play some pool. on my way downstairs i'm going to put a plastic bag over the water sprinkler, which some jerk-off has aimed almost directly into our apartment, so it gets our clothes on the washing line soaked.
lovely.
*** later ***
i'm on my way to bed. i had a very strange experience: the asshole who's "leading" the group i'm in phoned me to tell me that i'd done a good job. that's very nice, but coming from him it's aggravating. i HATE salesmen, and he's a prime example. what makes it worse is he then asked, politely, if i'd like to do the conclusion as well.
i haven't given him an answer, but so far all i can think of is "fuck no". bastard.
so i've had a nice freezing cold shower, my argentinian flatmate's refusing to do it, so he's boiling water and putting it in a bucket, and piece by piece washing himself with a cloth.
i find this amusing.
i finally aquired the movie 28 days later, it's taken absolute ages. so i'm gonna go watch it now. and then it's dreamy-dream land for me. tomorrow's another long day. with fun filled macro-economics lessons.
Friday, May 23, 2003
23/05/03
the exam for the stripe almost killed me. i left the gym completely broken, and needed a redbull just to make it home.
she spent the night. we got to bed around 5.30, and she needed to be out of here by 8am.
we woke up around 15.00, went shopping, and had major breakfast (eggs, yoghurt, and half a watermelon are more than usual for me).
she did some studying, while i slept (i should have been studying too, but i'm still exhausted), and that pretty much sums up my day.
i failed the stripe exam. but i got a list of the reasons i failed. basically, i have less than a week to be able to do the splits, and i need to improve my korean (although it wasn't so bad).
and i have to fix my technique as well.
gee, that's PLENTY of time, especially considering this is a major week for studies.
so i'm off for supper. and afterwards i definitely need to go to bed.
*** later ***
so much for going to bed. i decided that since it's weekend, it's a waste to go to bed without at least seeing a movie, so i'm right now in the middle of watching we were soldiers.
crazy film. really good. gonna finish and then it's sleep time.
she spent the night. we got to bed around 5.30, and she needed to be out of here by 8am.
we woke up around 15.00, went shopping, and had major breakfast (eggs, yoghurt, and half a watermelon are more than usual for me).
she did some studying, while i slept (i should have been studying too, but i'm still exhausted), and that pretty much sums up my day.
i failed the stripe exam. but i got a list of the reasons i failed. basically, i have less than a week to be able to do the splits, and i need to improve my korean (although it wasn't so bad).
and i have to fix my technique as well.
gee, that's PLENTY of time, especially considering this is a major week for studies.
so i'm off for supper. and afterwards i definitely need to go to bed.
*** later ***
so much for going to bed. i decided that since it's weekend, it's a waste to go to bed without at least seeing a movie, so i'm right now in the middle of watching we were soldiers.
crazy film. really good. gonna finish and then it's sleep time.
Thursday, May 22, 2003
22/05/03
i got home around 7/8 this morning. and i was broken.
i finally did some work last night - fixed a bug and made my previous hack-'n-slash changes to the site i'm working on more elegant, so now i have to wait for this bastard company to fix the database, and then i'm pretty much done.
got a few phone calls last night on helpdesk. some of the cute ones were where the caller had no idea what day it was, literally. the one was a week in advance. americans.
and i only made a couple of screw-ups. they're getting fewer, but more severe. i need to start being careful with some of these.
let's just say helpdesk is not quite a career path for me.
last night i received a phone call, from my trainer, informing me that she didn't feel confident in my fighting and would rather i stayed out of the competition tomorrow.
at about 9am i got another call from her saying she wants me to fight. now how the hell am i supposed to deal with this? firstly, it means i have to cancel plans with her tonight - she was going to sleep over, and secondly, nothing has changed in my fighting between last night and this morning. how can i not be worried?
so in a few hours i'm being examined for a stripe, and i'll debate it then. but i haven't been able to sleep properly because i've been thinking so much about it.
FUCK.
and i'm not ready for the exam. i have to learn a whole lot of korean terms, and i can't concentrate. plus, i've had a long week, and i don't really have the energy to fight every person in the gym, which is always part of the exam.
good luck to me then.
i finally did some work last night - fixed a bug and made my previous hack-'n-slash changes to the site i'm working on more elegant, so now i have to wait for this bastard company to fix the database, and then i'm pretty much done.
got a few phone calls last night on helpdesk. some of the cute ones were where the caller had no idea what day it was, literally. the one was a week in advance. americans.
and i only made a couple of screw-ups. they're getting fewer, but more severe. i need to start being careful with some of these.
let's just say helpdesk is not quite a career path for me.
last night i received a phone call, from my trainer, informing me that she didn't feel confident in my fighting and would rather i stayed out of the competition tomorrow.
at about 9am i got another call from her saying she wants me to fight. now how the hell am i supposed to deal with this? firstly, it means i have to cancel plans with her tonight - she was going to sleep over, and secondly, nothing has changed in my fighting between last night and this morning. how can i not be worried?
so in a few hours i'm being examined for a stripe, and i'll debate it then. but i haven't been able to sleep properly because i've been thinking so much about it.
FUCK.
and i'm not ready for the exam. i have to learn a whole lot of korean terms, and i can't concentrate. plus, i've had a long week, and i don't really have the energy to fight every person in the gym, which is always part of the exam.
good luck to me then.
Wednesday, May 21, 2003
21/05/03
we didn't go bowling last night. but i did go to work this morning. and it sucked. although we found a pool bar right next door, so now we have a place to go when no-one's looking. and pay-wise we pretty much break even...
scaly buggers, aren't we>
i went home, watched some more hunter x hunter, tried to sleep, failed, and then returned to work.
where i'm going to be until early morning.
scaly buggers, aren't we>
i went home, watched some more hunter x hunter, tried to sleep, failed, and then returned to work.
where i'm going to be until early morning.
Tuesday, May 20, 2003
20/05/03
*** yesterday ***
crazy fucking day. around 03.30 - 4am i walked her home, and there was a deep fog blanketing herzliya. which is really odd, because we don't get things like that in this country.
anyway, it was absolutely breathtaking, seeing the moisture moving in the air, and everything had this haze surrounding it.
while on my way back home, this police car stops, and obviously these guys were bored and had nobody else to harrass. they asked me really dumb questions, like "who are you?". what the fuck was i MEANT to say? but i was trying not to give them any attitude - i have better things to do than piss off police in a military state. so i annoyed them with stupid answers, in english, until they gave up and went on their merry way.
i woke up around 8am, hurriedly got dressed, walked to the bank as i had no money on me, and took the bus to ramat gan.
when i got to the place i've been working in for the past couple of weeks, i sat down and began. after a minute the boss walked up to me, gave me a username and password for the ftp to the live site, and told me in a most impolite manner to get out of his office.
charming.
firstly, because now i can work from home, i didn't need to get up so damn early. secondly, because we requested he do this more than a month ago and he refused. limey bastard.
at least there's no time pressure now.
so i went to test the access from the offices of the company i'm working for, and that was cool. i'm working for a diamond exchange business, and getting cleared by security is an exercise in futility. and she was looking at my name on my id, and still managed to get it wrong. these are the "special forces" (as in slightly retarded).
the guy i'm working for had to supervise me while we were in the office itself... i felt kind of weird. but i had to admit, knowing what was all around me in small black boxes was really exciting, and even though i wouldn't have taken anything it was hard not to look. but it turned out that we needed to share the computer, and i can't work like that. so it was back home for me.
i put on my blades around 11.30, and went to university. got some things sorted out, helped out some student council member with his website (i'm told there's a few people who need work done for cash, always nice), received a copy of the gods must be crazy (south african comedy - a tad dodgy), had lunch, and left.
right.
i then went all the way to ra'anana (the south african city, more or less), told orange what i thought of them (they'd left my old cellphone number activated, after i'd spoken to them twice about it), and returned home. around 16.00, i think. let's just say that taking off my blades felt amazing!
instead of sleeping, i watched more hunter x hunter, which i'm thoroughly enjoying.
i missed the post-office by 1 minute, TYPICAL, but i finally got my banking sorted out for the month.
*phew*
i then got a phone call telling me that taekwondo practice was ending early, so instead of going i went home to play tekken. we played a LOT (there were four of us), and at around 23.00 she came to pick me and we went to play pool. which was fun, but near the end i had a game that really freaked me out - it didn't matter what i did, the balls were just NOT going in, and i got upset.
*sigh*
but i got back into the swing of things eventually. we left around 01.30, and i was exhausted. completely finished. wasted. to the point of hallucination. and beyond.
yes, you could say i was even a little bit tired.
again, the whole mist/fog thing on the way home. unbelievable.
*** today ***
another early morning? i - think - not.
i was supposed to be around 07.30, but i was still exhausted, so i got up around 09.30 / 10am, wrote the yesterday part of this log, slept some more, and then watched yet another episode of hunter x hunter.
i got to class around 13.00, discovered it only started at 13.30, mooched around for half an hour and managed to be late anyway.
investment theory.
i tried hard to stay awake, i really did! but the lecturer is not only excessively boring, but the material's quite unpleasant too, and, err, coupling that (surely there's a word for putting three objects together?) with my sleep deprivation, there really wasn't much hope for me.
i hope i didn't miss too much. there were lots of seemingly arbitrary numbers on the board when i woke up...
went home, helped SxS with his database homework. we then went to sit by the pool at a friend's place, chilled there for a while, and now i'm home and most definitely wasted.
what scares me is the possibility for going bowling later on. i'm too tired. and i have work tomorrow - must be up at 8am...
but of course i'd go.
crazy fucking day. around 03.30 - 4am i walked her home, and there was a deep fog blanketing herzliya. which is really odd, because we don't get things like that in this country.
anyway, it was absolutely breathtaking, seeing the moisture moving in the air, and everything had this haze surrounding it.
while on my way back home, this police car stops, and obviously these guys were bored and had nobody else to harrass. they asked me really dumb questions, like "who are you?". what the fuck was i MEANT to say? but i was trying not to give them any attitude - i have better things to do than piss off police in a military state. so i annoyed them with stupid answers, in english, until they gave up and went on their merry way.
i woke up around 8am, hurriedly got dressed, walked to the bank as i had no money on me, and took the bus to ramat gan.
when i got to the place i've been working in for the past couple of weeks, i sat down and began. after a minute the boss walked up to me, gave me a username and password for the ftp to the live site, and told me in a most impolite manner to get out of his office.
charming.
firstly, because now i can work from home, i didn't need to get up so damn early. secondly, because we requested he do this more than a month ago and he refused. limey bastard.
at least there's no time pressure now.
so i went to test the access from the offices of the company i'm working for, and that was cool. i'm working for a diamond exchange business, and getting cleared by security is an exercise in futility. and she was looking at my name on my id, and still managed to get it wrong. these are the "special forces" (as in slightly retarded).
the guy i'm working for had to supervise me while we were in the office itself... i felt kind of weird. but i had to admit, knowing what was all around me in small black boxes was really exciting, and even though i wouldn't have taken anything it was hard not to look. but it turned out that we needed to share the computer, and i can't work like that. so it was back home for me.
i put on my blades around 11.30, and went to university. got some things sorted out, helped out some student council member with his website (i'm told there's a few people who need work done for cash, always nice), received a copy of the gods must be crazy (south african comedy - a tad dodgy), had lunch, and left.
right.
i then went all the way to ra'anana (the south african city, more or less), told orange what i thought of them (they'd left my old cellphone number activated, after i'd spoken to them twice about it), and returned home. around 16.00, i think. let's just say that taking off my blades felt amazing!
instead of sleeping, i watched more hunter x hunter, which i'm thoroughly enjoying.
i missed the post-office by 1 minute, TYPICAL, but i finally got my banking sorted out for the month.
*phew*
i then got a phone call telling me that taekwondo practice was ending early, so instead of going i went home to play tekken. we played a LOT (there were four of us), and at around 23.00 she came to pick me and we went to play pool. which was fun, but near the end i had a game that really freaked me out - it didn't matter what i did, the balls were just NOT going in, and i got upset.
*sigh*
but i got back into the swing of things eventually. we left around 01.30, and i was exhausted. completely finished. wasted. to the point of hallucination. and beyond.
yes, you could say i was even a little bit tired.
again, the whole mist/fog thing on the way home. unbelievable.
*** today ***
another early morning? i - think - not.
i was supposed to be around 07.30, but i was still exhausted, so i got up around 09.30 / 10am, wrote the yesterday part of this log, slept some more, and then watched yet another episode of hunter x hunter.
i got to class around 13.00, discovered it only started at 13.30, mooched around for half an hour and managed to be late anyway.
investment theory.
i tried hard to stay awake, i really did! but the lecturer is not only excessively boring, but the material's quite unpleasant too, and, err, coupling that (surely there's a word for putting three objects together?) with my sleep deprivation, there really wasn't much hope for me.
i hope i didn't miss too much. there were lots of seemingly arbitrary numbers on the board when i woke up...
went home, helped SxS with his database homework. we then went to sit by the pool at a friend's place, chilled there for a while, and now i'm home and most definitely wasted.
what scares me is the possibility for going bowling later on. i'm too tired. and i have work tomorrow - must be up at 8am...
but of course i'd go.
Sunday, May 18, 2003
18/05/03
*** yesterday ***
i watched some more hunter x hunter, and i'm really enjoying it. i couldn't do the assignment without the book, which didn't arrive until about halfway through the FA cup final.
i then went with her to the park. stopping for ice-cream and crepes (pronounced "crep", if you're an african this is cute) on the way.
i love pistachio ice-cream.
and the park is always nice.
it's huge, and there's all this neat stuff for kids (like me), and a lake, and an opera house, and so on. and there's even a rollerhockey court and some basketball courts, a small petting zoo and a braai area.
talk about tax money.
*** today ***
i had these big plans involving a bank and getting some money, but they fell through (or didn't fall through? they didn't happen). there's been a strike, and today is the first day of the week, so the queues were monstrous.
i'm at university now - trying to find people to do the homework with.
i have plans to visit the guy who lost his mum last week, and then go to training for taekwondo (because i have the national championship coming up).
maybe sleep sometime, even.
naaah.
*** later ***
well, i've watched some more hunter x hunter, and had my siesta.
i was woken up rather rudely by the guy i've been doing contract work for - he's finally decided he's ready to talk about what he wants me to do. over the phone, even.
so i told him, pretty bluntly, that i'll discuss it with him tomorrow, but from what he's already said, tomorrow's going to be a long-ass day.
filled with special surprises.
but at least i'll be working. i'm off to find some graze, grub, and maybe a few edibles, and then it's to taekwondo i go.
as for that special, world-changing project i was working on, i finally got off my ass and wrote the first prototype interface class. that may sound like a mouthful, but it means things are beginning to get real. i may even have enough finished within the next month to start implementation!
naaah. too lazy.
i watched some more hunter x hunter, and i'm really enjoying it. i couldn't do the assignment without the book, which didn't arrive until about halfway through the FA cup final.
i then went with her to the park. stopping for ice-cream and crepes (pronounced "crep", if you're an african this is cute) on the way.
i love pistachio ice-cream.
and the park is always nice.
it's huge, and there's all this neat stuff for kids (like me), and a lake, and an opera house, and so on. and there's even a rollerhockey court and some basketball courts, a small petting zoo and a braai area.
talk about tax money.
*** today ***
i had these big plans involving a bank and getting some money, but they fell through (or didn't fall through? they didn't happen). there's been a strike, and today is the first day of the week, so the queues were monstrous.
i'm at university now - trying to find people to do the homework with.
i have plans to visit the guy who lost his mum last week, and then go to training for taekwondo (because i have the national championship coming up).
maybe sleep sometime, even.
naaah.
*** later ***
well, i've watched some more hunter x hunter, and had my siesta.
i was woken up rather rudely by the guy i've been doing contract work for - he's finally decided he's ready to talk about what he wants me to do. over the phone, even.
so i told him, pretty bluntly, that i'll discuss it with him tomorrow, but from what he's already said, tomorrow's going to be a long-ass day.
filled with special surprises.
but at least i'll be working. i'm off to find some graze, grub, and maybe a few edibles, and then it's to taekwondo i go.
as for that special, world-changing project i was working on, i finally got off my ass and wrote the first prototype interface class. that may sound like a mouthful, but it means things are beginning to get real. i may even have enough finished within the next month to start implementation!
naaah. too lazy.
Saturday, May 17, 2003
17/05/03
*** yesterday ***
well, i discovered yesterday that i have pretty much nothing in the bank. for the rest of the month. oh, goody.
i then stood in a queue for over an hour in order to find out how much a certain tablet costs (for someone else, even), which really sucked as it's hot here now. and there's an icky percentage of humidity.
i finished watching animatrix. WOW. incredibly well done, the best non-japanese anime i've seen since ninja scroll. in fact, it's much better than ninja scroll.
i got a phone call yesterday afternoon telling me some interesting news - i'm fighting in a national taekwondo championship on friday... and i'm competing against five people. this is really quite exciting - i've now had two fights, but this is nationals!
went to see a movie last night, anger management. it is by far the funniest adam sandler movie i've seen. freaky though.
and i'm continuing in the hunter x hunter series, which is really cute. i'm just hoping to get hold of episodes 22/23 before i get there... HINT dex, HINT. :D
*** today ***
for the past three weeks i've been withholding certain information from these logs, and it's made a difference to the light within which some of my actions / inactions may have been viewed.
for instance, my reasons for going to bed late, and why i watched akira by myself.
the truth is, i've been seeing this girl since the 27th april. she made me promise not to write about her on this site, but i've decided that as long as i don't actually describe her i'm keeping that promise.
there. i did it.
i'm a BAAAAAAD man.
from now on i'm just going to mention her, and that will have to suffice.
for instance, in my log for the 4th of may, i watched the movie and went to the beach with her.
i think i need therapy.
so anyway, i'm going to try to get hold of the book i need to do my assignment. which might entail playing tekken. hmmm. decisions, decisions.
well, i discovered yesterday that i have pretty much nothing in the bank. for the rest of the month. oh, goody.
i then stood in a queue for over an hour in order to find out how much a certain tablet costs (for someone else, even), which really sucked as it's hot here now. and there's an icky percentage of humidity.
i finished watching animatrix. WOW. incredibly well done, the best non-japanese anime i've seen since ninja scroll. in fact, it's much better than ninja scroll.
i got a phone call yesterday afternoon telling me some interesting news - i'm fighting in a national taekwondo championship on friday... and i'm competing against five people. this is really quite exciting - i've now had two fights, but this is nationals!
went to see a movie last night, anger management. it is by far the funniest adam sandler movie i've seen. freaky though.
and i'm continuing in the hunter x hunter series, which is really cute. i'm just hoping to get hold of episodes 22/23 before i get there... HINT dex, HINT. :D
*** today ***
for the past three weeks i've been withholding certain information from these logs, and it's made a difference to the light within which some of my actions / inactions may have been viewed.
for instance, my reasons for going to bed late, and why i watched akira by myself.
the truth is, i've been seeing this girl since the 27th april. she made me promise not to write about her on this site, but i've decided that as long as i don't actually describe her i'm keeping that promise.
there. i did it.
i'm a BAAAAAAD man.
from now on i'm just going to mention her, and that will have to suffice.
for instance, in my log for the 4th of may, i watched the movie and went to the beach with her.
i think i need therapy.
so anyway, i'm going to try to get hold of the book i need to do my assignment. which might entail playing tekken. hmmm. decisions, decisions.
Friday, May 16, 2003
16/05/03
we STILL don't have a hub, so I still have to wait till the next day to update the site. this is really annoying. apparently we'll get it on sunday, but let's just say i'm not holding my breath.
*** yesterday ***
i almost got nothing done yesterday! i woke up around 10.30, put my washing in the machine, and went back to sleep.
i got up around 13.00, took out my washing, got on my (roller)blades and got to university around 13.30. around half an hour late for class. whoops.
apparently it was a really stupid class. as i got there, people were leaving due to extreme boredom and a severe lack of english (not all the teachers to speak can really of).
yesterday was student's day (day of the student, to be precise), so all sorts of stalls were being prepared for the night events. and they had a boxing ring set up. so one of the guys in our class does aikido (i'm not even THINKING of spelling that correctly), and we decided to have a fight.
the problem with fightnig taekwondo vs. aikido, is that taekwondo is basically kicking. aikido is fundamentally "take what my opponent throws at me and turn it against him". however, even though he may have beaten me, i managed to get 2 / 3 kicks in! so i'm not so bad...
i had lunch, and then went to a friend's place to get my copy of animatrix. now i've only seen the first twenty or so minutes of it, but it is WAY cool - i'm definitely glad i'm watching it before reloaded comes out here.
i then went to this girl i've been trying to teach. she got stuck on really stupid things - i got quite upset. it's just that it would be nice if she'd at least try to do it herself, but she basically gave up before she started. i managed to keep myself in check, as anything i said without thinking was destined to come out as "you're an asshole". although, as my mom says, assholes are useful things.
it was off to the student's day.
i put myself in a draw for a ticket to london.
i hope that goes well.
i'm SURE there's a chance i'll win.
there really wasn't much to do there. the first band was called dag nachash ("snakefish" - ch as in g in goedkoop). they were pretty good, became really funky towards the end.
and that was about the extent of the entertainment. i hung around for a bit, and then decided i was horribly bored and went home. even the masses of pretty girls couldn't keep me interested. and there were some INCREDIBLE girls/outfits running around.
*** today ***
getting up today has been a nightmare, something's wrong and i have no idea what. i'm just on a serious downer. i don't feel like i have anything to do (obviously studying's never on my list of priorities), and i'm dreading leaving the apartment to go shopping, and finding out how much money i don't have in the bank.
*** yesterday ***
i almost got nothing done yesterday! i woke up around 10.30, put my washing in the machine, and went back to sleep.
i got up around 13.00, took out my washing, got on my (roller)blades and got to university around 13.30. around half an hour late for class. whoops.
apparently it was a really stupid class. as i got there, people were leaving due to extreme boredom and a severe lack of english (not all the teachers to speak can really of).
yesterday was student's day (day of the student, to be precise), so all sorts of stalls were being prepared for the night events. and they had a boxing ring set up. so one of the guys in our class does aikido (i'm not even THINKING of spelling that correctly), and we decided to have a fight.
the problem with fightnig taekwondo vs. aikido, is that taekwondo is basically kicking. aikido is fundamentally "take what my opponent throws at me and turn it against him". however, even though he may have beaten me, i managed to get 2 / 3 kicks in! so i'm not so bad...
i had lunch, and then went to a friend's place to get my copy of animatrix. now i've only seen the first twenty or so minutes of it, but it is WAY cool - i'm definitely glad i'm watching it before reloaded comes out here.
i then went to this girl i've been trying to teach. she got stuck on really stupid things - i got quite upset. it's just that it would be nice if she'd at least try to do it herself, but she basically gave up before she started. i managed to keep myself in check, as anything i said without thinking was destined to come out as "you're an asshole". although, as my mom says, assholes are useful things.
it was off to the student's day.
i put myself in a draw for a ticket to london.
i hope that goes well.
i'm SURE there's a chance i'll win.
there really wasn't much to do there. the first band was called dag nachash ("snakefish" - ch as in g in goedkoop). they were pretty good, became really funky towards the end.
and that was about the extent of the entertainment. i hung around for a bit, and then decided i was horribly bored and went home. even the masses of pretty girls couldn't keep me interested. and there were some INCREDIBLE girls/outfits running around.
*** today ***
getting up today has been a nightmare, something's wrong and i have no idea what. i'm just on a serious downer. i don't feel like i have anything to do (obviously studying's never on my list of priorities), and i'm dreading leaving the apartment to go shopping, and finding out how much money i don't have in the bank.
Wednesday, May 14, 2003
14/05/03
well. i woke up fairly late this morning, had a proper breakfast, and then successfully slouched around and did sweet bugger-all.
i went to work for a few hours, cleared my mail, organized a copy of some movie called animatrix, and promptly left.
i then went to my taekwondo trainer's place, to give her a tape of my fighting so we could convert it to SP (we recorded on LP), but the video equipment wasn't there, so i watched a video of the recent martial arts expo in france. some crazy stuff, some rather uninspiring stuff (the kung fu could have been a LOT better), but fun to watch.
we then decided not to retape the video - i realized that the problem was with the video machine's tracking, not with the fact that we recorded on LP.
i went to go see a movie last night! (damn, i study HARD...)
i watched bowling for columbine, an incredible documentary on the school shootings and general gun violence in the states (even though they claim it's about the nra).
michael moore is an absolute genius - but he can be nasty, so don't EVER piss this guy off.
see the movie. NOW.
i went to work for a few hours, cleared my mail, organized a copy of some movie called animatrix, and promptly left.
i then went to my taekwondo trainer's place, to give her a tape of my fighting so we could convert it to SP (we recorded on LP), but the video equipment wasn't there, so i watched a video of the recent martial arts expo in france. some crazy stuff, some rather uninspiring stuff (the kung fu could have been a LOT better), but fun to watch.
we then decided not to retape the video - i realized that the problem was with the video machine's tracking, not with the fact that we recorded on LP.
i went to go see a movie last night! (damn, i study HARD...)
i watched bowling for columbine, an incredible documentary on the school shootings and general gun violence in the states (even though they claim it's about the nra).
michael moore is an absolute genius - but he can be nasty, so don't EVER piss this guy off.
see the movie. NOW.
Tuesday, May 13, 2003
13/05/03
oh man. i woke up this morning at 07:30, tried to get out of bed, and failed. 6 hours of training last night has left my legs not only damaged (tendon trouble + bruising), but stiff and sore in general.
after several pathetic attempts, i finally managed to stand up. only 15 minutes had passed, so i was most impressed with myself. but now i'm sitting in class (we're on a 20 minutes break), and it's killing me.
on the plus side, the girl i taught yesterday almost finished the homework by herself! that's REALLY good news, because i may never have to teach her again!
go me!
*** later ***
well, a friend came over to play some tekken, and convinced to play some basketball. my legs were still hurting, but why not? i ended up playing a lot - so much so that when i eventually got home there wasn't a dry spot on my shirt... pretty gross, huh?
but i played well - i seem to be improving. i just wish i knew what i was doing differently, but i suppose i shouldn't look my gift-horse in the mouth.
went to a coffee shop, for dessert as much as for coffee, and then we had a tekken tournament at my place. and i'm still doing well.
maybe it's just my week?
the only shite bit is that i have an assignment due this week that i really need to begin. and it's on ted turner, who i don't give rocks about.
after several pathetic attempts, i finally managed to stand up. only 15 minutes had passed, so i was most impressed with myself. but now i'm sitting in class (we're on a 20 minutes break), and it's killing me.
on the plus side, the girl i taught yesterday almost finished the homework by herself! that's REALLY good news, because i may never have to teach her again!
go me!
*** later ***
well, a friend came over to play some tekken, and convinced to play some basketball. my legs were still hurting, but why not? i ended up playing a lot - so much so that when i eventually got home there wasn't a dry spot on my shirt... pretty gross, huh?
but i played well - i seem to be improving. i just wish i knew what i was doing differently, but i suppose i shouldn't look my gift-horse in the mouth.
went to a coffee shop, for dessert as much as for coffee, and then we had a tekken tournament at my place. and i'm still doing well.
maybe it's just my week?
the only shite bit is that i have an assignment due this week that i really need to begin. and it's on ted turner, who i don't give rocks about.
Monday, May 12, 2003
12/05/03
what bothered me about the funeral this morning, is that i forgot that in israel people aren't buried in coffins as the ground itself is considered holy. so we watched the body being carried on a stretcher, and then tipped into the hole. i found that quite unsettling.
i then taught someone triggers in sql - this has got to be the dumbest person i have ever met. and not just because of the sql, just someone who's brain is most definitely not switched on. but i kept on, ignoring the frustration and sheer agony, and eventually they got it!
that was very satisfying. but fuck, was i EVER happy to leave that place.
i then went to train in taekwondo. i got there early for the kids' session, where i almost did full splits (side + front). i also learned just how much of my forms i'd forgotten.
and i destroyed another pair of boxer shorts. this is really frustrating. if i keep this up, i may as well stop wearing underwear to training - or not have any left at all.
and then the big boys came. the fighting was fun - i did quite well against all except 2 guys. the first fight ended up in a stalemate, but the second dude fucked me up so badly i ended up on the floor wheezing "medic!".
i have things left to learn, apparently.
i then taught someone triggers in sql - this has got to be the dumbest person i have ever met. and not just because of the sql, just someone who's brain is most definitely not switched on. but i kept on, ignoring the frustration and sheer agony, and eventually they got it!
that was very satisfying. but fuck, was i EVER happy to leave that place.
i then went to train in taekwondo. i got there early for the kids' session, where i almost did full splits (side + front). i also learned just how much of my forms i'd forgotten.
and i destroyed another pair of boxer shorts. this is really frustrating. if i keep this up, i may as well stop wearing underwear to training - or not have any left at all.
and then the big boys came. the fighting was fun - i did quite well against all except 2 guys. the first fight ended up in a stalemate, but the second dude fucked me up so badly i ended up on the floor wheezing "medic!".
i have things left to learn, apparently.
Sunday, May 11, 2003
11/05/03
well, it's been 2 and a half years, with 2 heavy summers, and i finally bought a fan this morning! my room will never be the same again.
today was sports day in our university. i was knocked out of the tekken 4 tournament in the first round. i didn't realize that it's basically the same game as tekken 3, and i was off-guard. i played the guy who beat me in the same match-up a little later, and i beat him so badly he didn't know what to do. losing really sucked though.
i really shouldn't have.
our class basketball team played two games, won one lost one, and i played both in borrowed sneakers that really didn't fit (way too small), because i forgot about the championship. how embarrassing.
aside from some time in the pool, that was about it for sports day. nice, but very tiring.
after i got home i went shopping. and i actually bought fruit. i think three apples and a melon counts. and i discovered these marshmallows that are almost as good as manhattan's in south africa! all soft and squeezable, and they taste like proper marshmallows.
the only crap news is that a friend of mine's mother died suddenly this morning. no warning, no nothing. scary.
today was sports day in our university. i was knocked out of the tekken 4 tournament in the first round. i didn't realize that it's basically the same game as tekken 3, and i was off-guard. i played the guy who beat me in the same match-up a little later, and i beat him so badly he didn't know what to do. losing really sucked though.
i really shouldn't have.
our class basketball team played two games, won one lost one, and i played both in borrowed sneakers that really didn't fit (way too small), because i forgot about the championship. how embarrassing.
aside from some time in the pool, that was about it for sports day. nice, but very tiring.
after i got home i went shopping. and i actually bought fruit. i think three apples and a melon counts. and i discovered these marshmallows that are almost as good as manhattan's in south africa! all soft and squeezable, and they taste like proper marshmallows.
the only crap news is that a friend of mine's mother died suddenly this morning. no warning, no nothing. scary.
Saturday, May 10, 2003
10/05/03
*** yesterday ***
i went shopping yesterday for a birthday present for a relative.
i'm really bad at buying presents.
eventually i decided that a book might be nice, but how can you tell what kind of book a person will like? i know what i like, but i also know that i have very "special" taste.
i eventually found a book of paintings by norman rockwell, and decided it would have to do.
and she loved it! i was so pleased.
oh, and i screwed up the birthday card. what's wrong with me?
we ate really well last night. i watched akira when i got home, and then hit the hay for around 10 hours. good, huh?
*** today ***
the guys i'm in a group with for our class project in leadership had a meeting today without inviting me. shitheads. and they keep complaining that i don't do anything, but they keep assigning me all the fucking work. i made a BIG mistake joining their group, but i can't back out.
also in the news, our taekwondo club is planning to host an international competition in forms. which means i have to improve mine so's i can compete. i'm going over there today to watch a video of other competitions, and afterwards i'll take a look at my fights again.
i'm a bit pissed off, because i went to training on thursday night, and i discovered that i haven't been using the main kick (roundhouse) in the most effective way. they couldn't have told me this before?? now i have to practise doing it differently.
wow! i knew i left something out!
on thursday, i got home around 7am, and was woken up at 11am for a basketball game (our university's internal league). so i got up, got ready, had a redbull, and off we went. we lost 27-25, and what really sucked is that we lost because two of the players couldn't play a team game, and screwed up the rest of us.
what sucked even more is that the only reason it was so close was because at the end of the game we were basically wrestling, because it was easier for us to get points from our opponents' free throws.
we then went to class. this guy who's supposed to be moving in with us was sitting in front of me, and i had my foot on the back of his chair. after about an hour, he turned around, saw my foot on the chair, and instead of just asking me to take it off, shoved my foot away, said something decidedly unpleasant, and moved his chair away from me.
after class he came up to me and went absolutely beserk. he got up in my face and started threatening me, saying really stupid things like i should respect him because he's older than me, which had absolutely nothing to do with anything. he was telling me why i'd put my foot on his chair - he'd come up with this whole explanation in his head - and wouldn't let me say a word.
i didn't know what to do. all of could think of was "is this guy stupid?". did he WANT me to hit him? then he walked off, saying that i wouldn't get another warning.
what the fuck? why do people get so aggressive?
this really pissed me off. apparently he's not moving in with us anymore, but i get the feeling that this might not be the case, mainly because it would suit me just fine. i've lived with enough psychotics.
why do i always get the ugly ones?
i went shopping yesterday for a birthday present for a relative.
i'm really bad at buying presents.
eventually i decided that a book might be nice, but how can you tell what kind of book a person will like? i know what i like, but i also know that i have very "special" taste.
i eventually found a book of paintings by norman rockwell, and decided it would have to do.
and she loved it! i was so pleased.
oh, and i screwed up the birthday card. what's wrong with me?
we ate really well last night. i watched akira when i got home, and then hit the hay for around 10 hours. good, huh?
*** today ***
the guys i'm in a group with for our class project in leadership had a meeting today without inviting me. shitheads. and they keep complaining that i don't do anything, but they keep assigning me all the fucking work. i made a BIG mistake joining their group, but i can't back out.
also in the news, our taekwondo club is planning to host an international competition in forms. which means i have to improve mine so's i can compete. i'm going over there today to watch a video of other competitions, and afterwards i'll take a look at my fights again.
i'm a bit pissed off, because i went to training on thursday night, and i discovered that i haven't been using the main kick (roundhouse) in the most effective way. they couldn't have told me this before?? now i have to practise doing it differently.
wow! i knew i left something out!
on thursday, i got home around 7am, and was woken up at 11am for a basketball game (our university's internal league). so i got up, got ready, had a redbull, and off we went. we lost 27-25, and what really sucked is that we lost because two of the players couldn't play a team game, and screwed up the rest of us.
what sucked even more is that the only reason it was so close was because at the end of the game we were basically wrestling, because it was easier for us to get points from our opponents' free throws.
we then went to class. this guy who's supposed to be moving in with us was sitting in front of me, and i had my foot on the back of his chair. after about an hour, he turned around, saw my foot on the chair, and instead of just asking me to take it off, shoved my foot away, said something decidedly unpleasant, and moved his chair away from me.
after class he came up to me and went absolutely beserk. he got up in my face and started threatening me, saying really stupid things like i should respect him because he's older than me, which had absolutely nothing to do with anything. he was telling me why i'd put my foot on his chair - he'd come up with this whole explanation in his head - and wouldn't let me say a word.
i didn't know what to do. all of could think of was "is this guy stupid?". did he WANT me to hit him? then he walked off, saying that i wouldn't get another warning.
what the fuck? why do people get so aggressive?
this really pissed me off. apparently he's not moving in with us anymore, but i get the feeling that this might not be the case, mainly because it would suit me just fine. i've lived with enough psychotics.
why do i always get the ugly ones?
Wednesday, May 07, 2003
07/05/03
yesterday, i woke up around 09:00 to go to class, got ready, and then discovered that all classes were cancelled. so i basically spent the day relaxing, reading shakespeare's othello, playing tekken, shopping, doing laundry, and having the occasional two-minute nap.
last night was nice, all i did was watch that 70's show (lord only knows i have about 50 episodes left to get through), and went to sleep.
had a braai at my cousins' today, which was very good (there was WAY too much food), and very chilled. played table tennis in the sun, and discussed all sorts of strange things.
for instance (and i'm not sure of this, i couldn't find any sources online), apparently some stock trader whose performance was excellent was accused of insider trading, and he claimed that he was from the future.
yeah, right.
or: yeah, right? we have no way of knowing, but apparently there is also no record of his existence.
DUM DUM DUM.
after i got home, i watched the second half of back to the future part ii, which is possibly the most fun series ever made.
that's an opinion, yes. well done.
and now i'm at work, and i'll probably get home around 06.00 / 07.00, so it's going to be a long night. if i get the chance i'll be updating my journal, and maybe even add to my mental masturbation page.
last night was nice, all i did was watch that 70's show (lord only knows i have about 50 episodes left to get through), and went to sleep.
had a braai at my cousins' today, which was very good (there was WAY too much food), and very chilled. played table tennis in the sun, and discussed all sorts of strange things.
for instance (and i'm not sure of this, i couldn't find any sources online), apparently some stock trader whose performance was excellent was accused of insider trading, and he claimed that he was from the future.
yeah, right.
or: yeah, right? we have no way of knowing, but apparently there is also no record of his existence.
DUM DUM DUM.
after i got home, i watched the second half of back to the future part ii, which is possibly the most fun series ever made.
that's an opinion, yes. well done.
and now i'm at work, and i'll probably get home around 06.00 / 07.00, so it's going to be a long night. if i get the chance i'll be updating my journal, and maybe even add to my mental masturbation page.
Monday, May 05, 2003
05/05/03
today was a LONG ass day.
firstly, after training last night, i went to a farewell bash at a bar in the industrial zone. i was exhausted, but after 6pm (i began training around then) i couldn't eat or drink anything except water, as i was going for a blood test this morning. so i payed NIS 50 (around R100) for as much as i could drink, which amounted to 4 glasses of water.
and i'm struggling for basic food money. hmmph.
anyway, i finally got back home this morning around 00:30, went to sleep, and then woke up at 06:30.
and i thought: yeah, right.
so i woke up at 07:00, got dressed, and left.
while waiting in the queue for blood tests, some woman asked me for permission to use my genetic material. after i asked for a translation, she told me that if i didn't speak hebrew, she didn't want it.
eh?!
the nurse taking my sample was fairly mechanical about the whole process. while she was preparing my arm for invasion, she told me not to move, and not to look in order that i wouldn't move.
i was really nervous.
i looked.
surprisingly, it didn't hurt, and it didn't bleed too much either!
then, i did something very strange. for some unknown and unknowable reason, i said, in hebrew, "i didn't move". she thought this was a question. then i said, "and i looked".
what the hell was i thinking? did i want a toffee or something?
so then, and i quote my mom quoting my cousin, "i owe, i owe, it's off to work i go".
so i worked for a couple of hours, and finally got the thing finished. there's still a few bits and pieces left to clean up, but the main job is complete, so i got paid today.
this is a big deal.
i turned down a job a month or so ago working on a really cool korean helicopter software project, because i KNEW the guys weren't going to pay me properly. and anyone who knows me knows i LOVE military aircraft. :@
the jews are a very peculiar people. not only do we go by lunar calendar, but we consider a day as beginning at sunset.
so tonight was the beginning of remembrance day, a day when we think of all of israel's fallen soldiers. so we went to this ceremony for our city, which was a little on the peculiar side. first, there was a short ballet at some point, hidden amongst the sad songs and speeches.
and then they sort of "forgot" to sing the national anthem at the end. we all just stood there in disbelief, sure that someone would begin it at any time; no one did.
weird.
so i managed to screw up the instant mushroom sauce tonight (i forgot to put butter in it), but it was tasty anyway and the texture was still good, so i can't really complain.
although i wanted to try baking potatoes again, and my potatoes have begun sprouting! that's a bit insensitive, i say. mean bloody potatoes. just when you think you've a solid meal coming...
firstly, after training last night, i went to a farewell bash at a bar in the industrial zone. i was exhausted, but after 6pm (i began training around then) i couldn't eat or drink anything except water, as i was going for a blood test this morning. so i payed NIS 50 (around R100) for as much as i could drink, which amounted to 4 glasses of water.
and i'm struggling for basic food money. hmmph.
anyway, i finally got back home this morning around 00:30, went to sleep, and then woke up at 06:30.
and i thought: yeah, right.
so i woke up at 07:00, got dressed, and left.
while waiting in the queue for blood tests, some woman asked me for permission to use my genetic material. after i asked for a translation, she told me that if i didn't speak hebrew, she didn't want it.
eh?!
the nurse taking my sample was fairly mechanical about the whole process. while she was preparing my arm for invasion, she told me not to move, and not to look in order that i wouldn't move.
i was really nervous.
i looked.
surprisingly, it didn't hurt, and it didn't bleed too much either!
then, i did something very strange. for some unknown and unknowable reason, i said, in hebrew, "i didn't move". she thought this was a question. then i said, "and i looked".
what the hell was i thinking? did i want a toffee or something?
so then, and i quote my mom quoting my cousin, "i owe, i owe, it's off to work i go".
so i worked for a couple of hours, and finally got the thing finished. there's still a few bits and pieces left to clean up, but the main job is complete, so i got paid today.
this is a big deal.
i turned down a job a month or so ago working on a really cool korean helicopter software project, because i KNEW the guys weren't going to pay me properly. and anyone who knows me knows i LOVE military aircraft. :@
the jews are a very peculiar people. not only do we go by lunar calendar, but we consider a day as beginning at sunset.
so tonight was the beginning of remembrance day, a day when we think of all of israel's fallen soldiers. so we went to this ceremony for our city, which was a little on the peculiar side. first, there was a short ballet at some point, hidden amongst the sad songs and speeches.
and then they sort of "forgot" to sing the national anthem at the end. we all just stood there in disbelief, sure that someone would begin it at any time; no one did.
weird.
so i managed to screw up the instant mushroom sauce tonight (i forgot to put butter in it), but it was tasty anyway and the texture was still good, so i can't really complain.
although i wanted to try baking potatoes again, and my potatoes have begun sprouting! that's a bit insensitive, i say. mean bloody potatoes. just when you think you've a solid meal coming...
Sunday, May 04, 2003
04/05/03
Well, the weekend's over... went to the doctor today for a checkup, and she was only too happy to write me a letter saying that i'm healthy for the wingate institute (i wrote about having difficulty with that early last week).
i had such a chilled weekend. friday night watched the first half of lolita - i HAVE to see the rest! crazy, crazy film. i can't believe i hadn't seen it.
yesterday, i woke up and went to the beach. had a really relaxed time, and for lunch had a greek salad, and watermelon with bulgarian cheese for dessert.
then i went home, slept a bit, played some tekken, ate a huge meal (i finally learned how to make that instant mushroom sauce i've been staring at for weeks), and then chilled some more.
god, i'm such a hard worker.
at around 02:30 i shaved my flatmate's head, but i was so tired i could barely see straight. so i had to let him finish it and finally went to bed.
i'm going to this party tonight - it's a farewell bash for a guy from the company i'm working for.
whatever.
it's really hot - i'm going for some water.
i had such a chilled weekend. friday night watched the first half of lolita - i HAVE to see the rest! crazy, crazy film. i can't believe i hadn't seen it.
yesterday, i woke up and went to the beach. had a really relaxed time, and for lunch had a greek salad, and watermelon with bulgarian cheese for dessert.
then i went home, slept a bit, played some tekken, ate a huge meal (i finally learned how to make that instant mushroom sauce i've been staring at for weeks), and then chilled some more.
god, i'm such a hard worker.
at around 02:30 i shaved my flatmate's head, but i was so tired i could barely see straight. so i had to let him finish it and finally went to bed.
i'm going to this party tonight - it's a farewell bash for a guy from the company i'm working for.
whatever.
it's really hot - i'm going for some water.
Friday, May 02, 2003
02/05/03
turns out this guy, the one who told me not to go to training, is moving into our apartment, probably sometime this week.
this means a few things, not the least of which is that the room we've been using for storage now has to be cleared (and i have no space for my surfboard), and i now have to share my bathroom with two people, both untidy. no wait, make that messy.
this is SO going to suck.
this means a few things, not the least of which is that the room we've been using for storage now has to be cleared (and i have no space for my surfboard), and i now have to share my bathroom with two people, both untidy. no wait, make that messy.
this is SO going to suck.
Thursday, May 01, 2003
01/05/03
well. i got home from work around 06:00, showered and went to sleep around 06:30. and then woke up at around 10:30, unable to continue sleeping, when i only had to be awake by 12:00.
mooched around, doing nothing in particular, and then went to class. marketing research.
i understood the concept he was trying to teach, but it involves maths so i switched off. got into a serious drug debate with the girl sitting next to me. i hope noone overheard us.
our next class was investment theory. boring. B-O-R-I-N-G.
i feel like a highschool student again.
i discovered that we have a project due tomorrow morning, and i'm in a group with 4 other people. so i started working with them, and when i explained that i had to go to training they got really upset with me, and basically told me that it is completely my fault if we don't finish it.
and they had the nerve to tell me not to go to training.
i almost lost it. my taekwondo training is one of the only things i have in my life right now that keeps me sane and sober. and away from cigarettes and weed (and hash). and i need it for spiritual reasons too, which anyone who does a martial art, or any sport for that matter, can attest to. motherfuckers.
*** later ***
after training
training went well. i started off with no energy. i haven't trained in a week, and my body wasn't prepared for the warmup. and the stretches almost killed me - i don't remember the last time i hurt that much!
at one point i got upset with myself for doing something stupid, and the guy who i was partnered with started lecturing me. i felt like a complete retard, but i bit my lip (1 he's a higher rank, 2 he'll fuck me up), and took it. when we resumed i was angry, but focused, and i ended up doing some serious damage to the focus pads.
now, if i can just remember to do this during my fights i'll do just fine.
my legs are all bruised. and i've damaged some tendons. but i really needed that.
mooched around, doing nothing in particular, and then went to class. marketing research.
i understood the concept he was trying to teach, but it involves maths so i switched off. got into a serious drug debate with the girl sitting next to me. i hope noone overheard us.
our next class was investment theory. boring. B-O-R-I-N-G.
i feel like a highschool student again.
i discovered that we have a project due tomorrow morning, and i'm in a group with 4 other people. so i started working with them, and when i explained that i had to go to training they got really upset with me, and basically told me that it is completely my fault if we don't finish it.
and they had the nerve to tell me not to go to training.
i almost lost it. my taekwondo training is one of the only things i have in my life right now that keeps me sane and sober. and away from cigarettes and weed (and hash). and i need it for spiritual reasons too, which anyone who does a martial art, or any sport for that matter, can attest to. motherfuckers.
*** later ***
after training
training went well. i started off with no energy. i haven't trained in a week, and my body wasn't prepared for the warmup. and the stretches almost killed me - i don't remember the last time i hurt that much!
at one point i got upset with myself for doing something stupid, and the guy who i was partnered with started lecturing me. i felt like a complete retard, but i bit my lip (1 he's a higher rank, 2 he'll fuck me up), and took it. when we resumed i was angry, but focused, and i ended up doing some serious damage to the focus pads.
now, if i can just remember to do this during my fights i'll do just fine.
my legs are all bruised. and i've damaged some tendons. but i really needed that.
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