*** 29th ***
i'd agreed the night before to taekwondo training at 08.00, and i'd forgotten to set my alarm. i woke up, somehow, at 07.40, jumped up and got ready, and got to the busstop.
no sooner had i paid for the bus, and started walking towards the rear, when my alarm went off, informing me of a meeting at 09.00 with a city council social worker (for my community service).
so i got off at the next stop, and walked back home.
the meeting went well, and afterwards she picked me up, and we went for a walk in herzliya, including a visit to the public library, which is very cool.
and they have a HUUUUUGE kiddies section, so i rate i'm going to have to move in there...
she dropped me off at a busstop on her way back to gedera, and i took a bus to work.
i need to mention here that i was still suffering majorly from heat-stroke, and it was a really hot day.
i was at work for a little less than half an hour, sorting out my social security, and having a quick breakfast, and then i left to meet up with JOSH on shenkin (artsy-fartsy soho place). he sat with me as i ate an enormous portion of good thai food, at a place called "thai food", and we then went on a mission to nowhere, that ended up with us being at his kibbutz, about 7km north of gedera.
and she didn't have time to meet us. oh well.
we spent a few hours listening to crazy house and trance (and i played around a bit on his decks, which are a bit fscked, but i haven't touched sound equipment in YEARS).
we watched an inspiring documentary video on a huge israeli trance party, called "drugless" (the documentary name is karahana), and it was anything but.
i took a bus back to tel-aviv, where i visited with karnaf, and he joined me as i took my supper at pizza-meter. a spinach and cheese pizza, which was surprisingly good.
*** yesterday ***
i had a good grapefruit breakfast, and went to idc to finish up my community service. which didn't happen. we discovered that i have tons of work left to do still, and so it's all going to take far longer than expected.
i got back a bunch of exam results, and aside from algorithms (with exam on the 15th), math (i got 68%, and i need 70%), and israeli economy (no results yet), i did quite well on most things, and superbly on at least four exams - superbly being greater than 87%.
i'm fairly pleased with myself.
i came home, and learned about flash, putting together a cute site, for which a cheque for $140 is apparently on the way. it would be so nice if i could trust grootbek, but i can't.
i went out around 18.00 to buy a lock, and i got a good one. but when i tried to install it, the hole in the door wasn't big enough. so i went back to the store to return it.
but the store was closed.
so i returned home, pulled out a hammer and a pair of needlenose pliers (what? no chisel?), removed my door, and hammered new holes - a most successful enterprise, i must say. it's not pretty, because the old covers simply don't fit, but it's not so bad, and most functional.
i now have real protection from my extremely honest american flatmate.
training was good last night. this girl, who i introduced to our gym, thanked me with a very cute keychain, and one of the black belts kicked me in the face. it's the first time in my entire life that someone's given me a nosebleed.
grootbek accosted me as i got home, and i spent over an hour working with him on the flash and the website...
*** today ***
i had a hot shower, and a hot (loads of chili) supper, and fell asleep with no trouble.
*** later ***
i woke up at 07.00 to go running with our argentinian flatmate, but i couldn't get out of bed. my legs hurt.
Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Saturday, February 28, 2004
28/02/04
*** yesterday ***
she picked me up around 21.30, and we went off to the mall, to find out which movie we were going to watch.
*** today ***
cold mountain is, without any doubt, the most powerful and deeply disturbing movie i've ever seen. it is an absolute must see, although i'd advise going to the toilet before it starts, and i'm sure it wouldn't be half as good on anything less than the big screen.
brilliant cast, generally just #@$%ing HECTIC. i've never cried so much in a movie before.
after the movie, we went to tal bagels, where i had a good bagel, and a great cup of coffee. we sat for an hour or so, until she dropped me off at home, and has gone home herself.
damn, but this movie has #@$%ed me up big-time.
*** later ***
wow! it's been a great day. started off with a small breakfast and some turkish coffee, moved on to rollerblading with her, then spending the day at the beach.
it was beach weather.
HOT.
lovely.
we came back to my place to cool off, and watched some tv. i learned to never again buy a whole pomegranite. if you want the seeds, buy the seeds.
she left, and a friend of ours came over to borrow something from grootbek. his room REEKS of fish. i felt kinda guilty, but he does deserve it. we'll fix it in a day or so...
at least some of the cutlery and crockery returned.
i just had a great shower, and i'm going to arb around until she gets back, and we may, or may not, do something tonight. whatever, it's been a good day.
she picked me up around 21.30, and we went off to the mall, to find out which movie we were going to watch.
*** today ***
cold mountain is, without any doubt, the most powerful and deeply disturbing movie i've ever seen. it is an absolute must see, although i'd advise going to the toilet before it starts, and i'm sure it wouldn't be half as good on anything less than the big screen.
brilliant cast, generally just #@$%ing HECTIC. i've never cried so much in a movie before.
after the movie, we went to tal bagels, where i had a good bagel, and a great cup of coffee. we sat for an hour or so, until she dropped me off at home, and has gone home herself.
damn, but this movie has #@$%ed me up big-time.
*** later ***
wow! it's been a great day. started off with a small breakfast and some turkish coffee, moved on to rollerblading with her, then spending the day at the beach.
it was beach weather.
HOT.
lovely.
we came back to my place to cool off, and watched some tv. i learned to never again buy a whole pomegranite. if you want the seeds, buy the seeds.
she left, and a friend of ours came over to borrow something from grootbek. his room REEKS of fish. i felt kinda guilty, but he does deserve it. we'll fix it in a day or so...
at least some of the cutlery and crockery returned.
i just had a great shower, and i'm going to arb around until she gets back, and we may, or may not, do something tonight. whatever, it's been a good day.
Friday, February 27, 2004
27/02/04
we got to the party just after midnight. really nice club, the music was okay, there was free sushi (although it wasn't good sushi - it tasted good, but not sushi), it was a good crowd, and one of the organizers made us feel very good.
he told us we looked like two angels. and she wouldn't let me take a photo before we left...
s'not my fault.
all in all, we danced, and ate, and had a very good time. we only left because we were both very tired, and she's not comfortable with that much smoke.
actually, this morning, i realized just how badly our clothing smells of smoke, and it's the first time i've noticed something like that since i quit...
we slept late, albeit not enough. after she went home, grootbek and i went shopping, and then watched spike tv's joe schmo, which is just INSANE. it's the first "reality" show i've been dragged into, because ironically, it's more real than the others.
am i that shallow?
she came over a bit later, and we discovered that we have that defending the caveman problem when it comes to channel-surfing.
she's gone home for supper, and then i guess we'll have a relatively quiet night tonight.
he told us we looked like two angels. and she wouldn't let me take a photo before we left...
s'not my fault.
all in all, we danced, and ate, and had a very good time. we only left because we were both very tired, and she's not comfortable with that much smoke.
actually, this morning, i realized just how badly our clothing smells of smoke, and it's the first time i've noticed something like that since i quit...
we slept late, albeit not enough. after she went home, grootbek and i went shopping, and then watched spike tv's joe schmo, which is just INSANE. it's the first "reality" show i've been dragged into, because ironically, it's more real than the others.
am i that shallow?
she came over a bit later, and we discovered that we have that defending the caveman problem when it comes to channel-surfing.
she's gone home for supper, and then i guess we'll have a relatively quiet night tonight.
Thursday, February 26, 2004
26/02/04
last minute addition:
i discovered slashdot this morning. i had nothing better to do. i cannot believe that so many geeks spend so much time and energy devoted to pure, utter, and complete mental masturbation. there are some incredibly useful tidbits all over the place, and reading it is sometimes quite informative, but my god, these people need goals, or religion, or something.
i got home much earlier today, around 3am, and passed out on contact with my bed.
i woke up around 11.30, wanting breakfast, and i had to make do with the single clean spoon. my flatmates don't DO dishes.
our argentinian flatmate managed to push his entire set of burglar bars, with windowsill, off the wall, and it crashed down into the garden, destroying a well-tended and rather large bush.
i quote: "oh - shit! * CRASH *". fortunately, noone was below...
a little later on, i had to reset grootbek's computer, and i discovered where all our dishes had got to. he's been hiding them all over his room - when our argentinian found out he also flipped.
and so we went through herzliya, searching for a hardware store to purchase chemicals with which to punish him - our plan was to make his room unbearably stinky. on the way, we walked past a most inspiring fish-shop, and bought a small, cheap, potentially-very-smelly fish, and have placed it strategically in his room. we're hoping he won't find it for a very long time.
i finished the majority of my "community service" for the university, and played around with some ye-olde vb, which was kind of refreshing.
in a way.
i'm going to get some rest now, she and i are celebrating our 10th month, and are going to a party which promises to have very good music, and free sushi all night long.
yeeeees, my precioussssssss.
i discovered slashdot this morning. i had nothing better to do. i cannot believe that so many geeks spend so much time and energy devoted to pure, utter, and complete mental masturbation. there are some incredibly useful tidbits all over the place, and reading it is sometimes quite informative, but my god, these people need goals, or religion, or something.
i got home much earlier today, around 3am, and passed out on contact with my bed.
i woke up around 11.30, wanting breakfast, and i had to make do with the single clean spoon. my flatmates don't DO dishes.
our argentinian flatmate managed to push his entire set of burglar bars, with windowsill, off the wall, and it crashed down into the garden, destroying a well-tended and rather large bush.
i quote: "oh - shit! * CRASH *". fortunately, noone was below...
a little later on, i had to reset grootbek's computer, and i discovered where all our dishes had got to. he's been hiding them all over his room - when our argentinian found out he also flipped.
and so we went through herzliya, searching for a hardware store to purchase chemicals with which to punish him - our plan was to make his room unbearably stinky. on the way, we walked past a most inspiring fish-shop, and bought a small, cheap, potentially-very-smelly fish, and have placed it strategically in his room. we're hoping he won't find it for a very long time.
i finished the majority of my "community service" for the university, and played around with some ye-olde vb, which was kind of refreshing.
in a way.
i'm going to get some rest now, she and i are celebrating our 10th month, and are going to a party which promises to have very good music, and free sushi all night long.
yeeeees, my precioussssssss.
Wednesday, February 25, 2004
25/02/04
work this morning was alright. i got back home around 05.40, and i was completely buggered. i slept until 13.00, couldn't work up the energy to focus on reading a newspaper, and after a quick shower, made my way back to work.
so far, so good, but i'm still tired. i can't wait to return to bed...
so far, so good, but i'm still tired. i can't wait to return to bed...
Tuesday, February 24, 2004
24/02/04
*** yesterday ***
ho, hum. i had a very good day.
she and i went to the beach, and then to tal bagels, for a great breakfast.
i had a meeting with the social worker about this kid i'm to take care of for my community service, and arranged to meet with him after school today.
she and i spent the afternoon together, and had supper of crepes and ice-cream before she went back to gedera.
and i began missing her immediately. it's been a really great week with her, in spite of all the trauma at the start.
i went to training, where i cried (stretching), and generally had a good training.
*** today ***
after taekwondo, i made myself some spaghetti with mushroom sauce (this instant sauce has saved my relationship with our kitchen), watched some funky stuff on the discovery channel, managed to rid our apartment of one of its friendly roaches, had a hot shower, and am proceeding to bed.
*** later ***
i woke up around 08.30, i think. i finally washed my taekwondo gear, which was getting a bit, uh, "homely".
ok, it was smelly as hell.
i got the results for our programming course (the difficult one), and i got 87%!! i'm VERY excited, and our argentinian got upset with me for bouncing around so early in the morning.
i read the paper for the first time in days, and generally farted around until lunchtime, when i made my way to the mall, to meet up with the kid i'm supposed to be helping out for my community service.
he stood me up.
i checked out the shooting range nearby, and they explained to me that under no circumstances would they allow me to use the range without a gun and a license of my own.
they did, however, provide me with the number of a range that would.
and, i've found out that our brit used to participate in marksmanship competitions, so he's keen to join me.
i went home, did some of my "community service" (website development) for the university, had a great tuna-'n-mayonnaise spaghetti dinner, and then came to work.
i've so far, aside from the algorithms exam, done quite well - the rest remains to be seen.
i'm actually quite nervous.
ho, hum. i had a very good day.
she and i went to the beach, and then to tal bagels, for a great breakfast.
i had a meeting with the social worker about this kid i'm to take care of for my community service, and arranged to meet with him after school today.
she and i spent the afternoon together, and had supper of crepes and ice-cream before she went back to gedera.
and i began missing her immediately. it's been a really great week with her, in spite of all the trauma at the start.
i went to training, where i cried (stretching), and generally had a good training.
*** today ***
after taekwondo, i made myself some spaghetti with mushroom sauce (this instant sauce has saved my relationship with our kitchen), watched some funky stuff on the discovery channel, managed to rid our apartment of one of its friendly roaches, had a hot shower, and am proceeding to bed.
*** later ***
i woke up around 08.30, i think. i finally washed my taekwondo gear, which was getting a bit, uh, "homely".
ok, it was smelly as hell.
i got the results for our programming course (the difficult one), and i got 87%!! i'm VERY excited, and our argentinian got upset with me for bouncing around so early in the morning.
i read the paper for the first time in days, and generally farted around until lunchtime, when i made my way to the mall, to meet up with the kid i'm supposed to be helping out for my community service.
he stood me up.
i checked out the shooting range nearby, and they explained to me that under no circumstances would they allow me to use the range without a gun and a license of my own.
they did, however, provide me with the number of a range that would.
and, i've found out that our brit used to participate in marksmanship competitions, so he's keen to join me.
i went home, did some of my "community service" (website development) for the university, had a great tuna-'n-mayonnaise spaghetti dinner, and then came to work.
i've so far, aside from the algorithms exam, done quite well - the rest remains to be seen.
i'm actually quite nervous.
Monday, February 23, 2004
23/02/04
*** yesterday ***
the exam this morning was really easy. i went straight from campus to work, where i spent a couple of hours eating, learning stuff, and trying to make my presence felt by the boss.
she picked me up from work, which involved much driving and much walking, as the directions she got from a friend weren't as useful as they should have been.
we had lunch at her place, and slept (we both weren't feeling too good), and then went out for supper with a friend of hers, which proved to be rather entertaining.
*** today ***
i've now had a nice, hot shower (it has been FREEZING cold today), and am listening to ministry before going to bed.
the exam this morning was really easy. i went straight from campus to work, where i spent a couple of hours eating, learning stuff, and trying to make my presence felt by the boss.
she picked me up from work, which involved much driving and much walking, as the directions she got from a friend weren't as useful as they should have been.
we had lunch at her place, and slept (we both weren't feeling too good), and then went out for supper with a friend of hers, which proved to be rather entertaining.
*** today ***
i've now had a nice, hot shower (it has been FREEZING cold today), and am listening to ministry before going to bed.
Saturday, February 21, 2004
21/02/04
*** 19th ***
we had a q&a session with our math teacher, for too many hours, and i'm not entirely sure that i learned anything.
grootbek and i started playing tekken as soon as we got home, and were joined by SxS and a friend of ours - i left the game "early" to go to taekwondo.
training was a nightmare - i was worn out before i got there, and the warm-up was fighting. an interesting warm-up.
i got stretched really hard, and had to fight back tears, and we spent the rest of the training doing forms, which was tiring and painful.
and frustrating.
*** yesterday ***
i wrote an exam yesterday morning. with my eyes barely open. there's a first for everything.
the math exam was easy to pass, and really, really difficult to do well in, so i'm praying, i guess. well, i would, if i did that sort of thing.
i had an incredible falaffel on the way home, and i spent the day in front of the tv, watching nature and history programs.
i've been totally inspired by stark raving mad.
last night, she came with me to SxS's place for friday night supper, which was very tasty, and most entertaining. plus, we played table tennis and tekken until about 1am.
*** today ***
i got up around 13.00, played some counterstrike, and then walked to SxS's place, where we did everything except study until about half an hour ago. we studied for about ten minutes, and then irritated each other enough that he gave me a ride home, where i'm about to begin studying by myself, before going off to her place.
just a humourous aside: william hung's audition is without a doubt television's funniest moment. i'm so glad i watched it live.
we had a q&a session with our math teacher, for too many hours, and i'm not entirely sure that i learned anything.
grootbek and i started playing tekken as soon as we got home, and were joined by SxS and a friend of ours - i left the game "early" to go to taekwondo.
training was a nightmare - i was worn out before i got there, and the warm-up was fighting. an interesting warm-up.
i got stretched really hard, and had to fight back tears, and we spent the rest of the training doing forms, which was tiring and painful.
and frustrating.
*** yesterday ***
i wrote an exam yesterday morning. with my eyes barely open. there's a first for everything.
the math exam was easy to pass, and really, really difficult to do well in, so i'm praying, i guess. well, i would, if i did that sort of thing.
i had an incredible falaffel on the way home, and i spent the day in front of the tv, watching nature and history programs.
i've been totally inspired by stark raving mad.
last night, she came with me to SxS's place for friday night supper, which was very tasty, and most entertaining. plus, we played table tennis and tekken until about 1am.
*** today ***
i got up around 13.00, played some counterstrike, and then walked to SxS's place, where we did everything except study until about half an hour ago. we studied for about ten minutes, and then irritated each other enough that he gave me a ride home, where i'm about to begin studying by myself, before going off to her place.
just a humourous aside: william hung's audition is without a doubt television's funniest moment. i'm so glad i watched it live.
Wednesday, February 18, 2004
18/02/04
*** yesterday ***
yesterday morning began with a visit to the social security office. which, surprisingly, went well. i then upped and went to campus, where i sorted out some of my community service, and proceeded to walk to SxS's place, where instead of studying, we spent the afternoon building bridges with pontifex ii, and finished off the day with an insane braai: lots of meat and chicken and Very Good Things.
*** today ***
we woke up early, and i went to write the c# exam - it wasn't very difficult, but it was long, and my arm and back hurt afterwards.
i came home, agitated for no apparent reason, and played counterstrike until she picked me up at 16.00, and we went to watch looney tunes: back in action with her little brother.
i learned, along the way, that an avocado and herring bagel is not such a great idea.
the movie was okay - not funny at all, but some of the scenes were really cute (i'm a sucker for good cg).
after coming home, i played around with some programming ideas i've had lately, and then she came over for a bit of cosy tv watching. i waited until after she left to prove to myself that i really do suck in the kitchen.
you just can't bake potatoes with a microwave. at least *i* can't.
yesterday morning began with a visit to the social security office. which, surprisingly, went well. i then upped and went to campus, where i sorted out some of my community service, and proceeded to walk to SxS's place, where instead of studying, we spent the afternoon building bridges with pontifex ii, and finished off the day with an insane braai: lots of meat and chicken and Very Good Things.
*** today ***
we woke up early, and i went to write the c# exam - it wasn't very difficult, but it was long, and my arm and back hurt afterwards.
i came home, agitated for no apparent reason, and played counterstrike until she picked me up at 16.00, and we went to watch looney tunes: back in action with her little brother.
i learned, along the way, that an avocado and herring bagel is not such a great idea.
the movie was okay - not funny at all, but some of the scenes were really cute (i'm a sucker for good cg).
after coming home, i played around with some programming ideas i've had lately, and then she came over for a bit of cosy tv watching. i waited until after she left to prove to myself that i really do suck in the kitchen.
you just can't bake potatoes with a microwave. at least *i* can't.
Monday, February 16, 2004
16/02/04
well - things went a lot better (in the important ways) than foreseen. she made the right choice, which i did NOT feel i had any right to push her towards, and we're sticking together. her father's just going to have to learn to deal with it.
somehow.
this guy has a serious issue with all this. whatever - so we'll have a "family" squabble. it happens.
especially in jewish families. it's a throwback of the whole guilt thing.
things are going to be weird for a while - what happened was extremely painful for both of us, and it did a lot of damage.
*** yesterday ***
at 2am i was at SxS's place, about to begin smoking myself to sleep (i was really upset), when she called to say that she couldn't bear to be alone. so she picked me up, and we went to my place, and slept.
it was all very strange - we were so comfortable together, but were trying to not be together as a couple. this is not a healthy exercise.
she left around noon, and i went to tel-aviv to pick up some cd's from karnaf.
we had a freaky moment at his place - he took a cd out and told me that it wasn't trance, but that i'd probably like it. i hadn't seen the cover, and i told him that my favourite cd of all time is olive - extra virgin, and that it took me years to get hold of it, during which i'd been pining for it.
he showed me the cd cover, which was olive - extra virgin.
freaky.
anyway, we had a good lunch, and went to the park to play frisbee. it was fun.
got my mind off things for a bit.
afterwards, i went back home, got my taekwondo gear, and went to SSSO's place to drop off some cd's, and we talked for about twenty minutes about the complete and utter rediculousness of her and my situation.
i went to training, which was pretty good - i got the punching bag to myself for a few minutes, in a closed room, and i went absolutely crazy, letting out a lot of the frustration of the whole story.
i actually did some damage to my hands, and got friction burns on my feet, from hitting the bag so quickly and so furiously...
the highlight of the session was the stretching: our master stretched me personally, twice, and the second time she pushed me hard enough to make me panic, and almost enough to make me cry. it was really intense, but i feel SO good about it now.
sore, but good.
after training, i got an sms from her to say that she'd decided that we weren't breaking up.
at least her mom is supportive of us.
i went home, had a hot shower, and then we went to tel aviv, to a really uptown sushi bar. the sushi was good, and not too expensive: we were pleasantly surprised, and walked out completely stuffed.
*** today ***
we went hunting through the coffee shops looking for strawberries and cream, of which there was none, and eventually gave up and sat down for coffee.
i drove us home, my first non-driving-exam experience on an israeli highway, which wasn't very interesting, and i'm typing this before hitting the sack - i'm bombed.
somehow.
this guy has a serious issue with all this. whatever - so we'll have a "family" squabble. it happens.
especially in jewish families. it's a throwback of the whole guilt thing.
things are going to be weird for a while - what happened was extremely painful for both of us, and it did a lot of damage.
*** yesterday ***
at 2am i was at SxS's place, about to begin smoking myself to sleep (i was really upset), when she called to say that she couldn't bear to be alone. so she picked me up, and we went to my place, and slept.
it was all very strange - we were so comfortable together, but were trying to not be together as a couple. this is not a healthy exercise.
she left around noon, and i went to tel-aviv to pick up some cd's from karnaf.
we had a freaky moment at his place - he took a cd out and told me that it wasn't trance, but that i'd probably like it. i hadn't seen the cover, and i told him that my favourite cd of all time is olive - extra virgin, and that it took me years to get hold of it, during which i'd been pining for it.
he showed me the cd cover, which was olive - extra virgin.
freaky.
anyway, we had a good lunch, and went to the park to play frisbee. it was fun.
got my mind off things for a bit.
afterwards, i went back home, got my taekwondo gear, and went to SSSO's place to drop off some cd's, and we talked for about twenty minutes about the complete and utter rediculousness of her and my situation.
i went to training, which was pretty good - i got the punching bag to myself for a few minutes, in a closed room, and i went absolutely crazy, letting out a lot of the frustration of the whole story.
i actually did some damage to my hands, and got friction burns on my feet, from hitting the bag so quickly and so furiously...
the highlight of the session was the stretching: our master stretched me personally, twice, and the second time she pushed me hard enough to make me panic, and almost enough to make me cry. it was really intense, but i feel SO good about it now.
sore, but good.
after training, i got an sms from her to say that she'd decided that we weren't breaking up.
at least her mom is supportive of us.
i went home, had a hot shower, and then we went to tel aviv, to a really uptown sushi bar. the sushi was good, and not too expensive: we were pleasantly surprised, and walked out completely stuffed.
*** today ***
we went hunting through the coffee shops looking for strawberries and cream, of which there was none, and eventually gave up and sat down for coffee.
i drove us home, my first non-driving-exam experience on an israeli highway, which wasn't very interesting, and i'm typing this before hitting the sack - i'm bombed.
Sunday, February 15, 2004
15/02/04
*** yesterday ***
i spent yesterday doing fun stuff - relaxing, playing games, that kind of thing. she came over early in the afternoon, and slept over last night. we watched the beginning of the saint, and ordered chinese (not very good chinese, but they did bring us chopsticks).
*** today ***
we got up really late, and went shopping for breakfast with grootbek. breakfast lasted a really long time, with even our argentinian flatmate joining in.
we got the chocolate-moose-inna-spraycan - i've been looking for this stuff for YEARS, and we finally found it!
we watched the second flintstones movie, which was complete and utter crap, and then went for a walk. we played on some swings in a pretty park, and talked for ages.
we came home, watched croc hunter, which was fun and disturbing, and then she went home.
she called me a few hours later. if you want the full story, read the latest addition to my post-hoc journal (Romeo's Journal). it may not be post-hoc, but it is worthy of it's own page. i'm still in shock, and i don't know when and if i'll ever be a human being again, but whatever.
easy come, easy go? i think not.
i spent yesterday doing fun stuff - relaxing, playing games, that kind of thing. she came over early in the afternoon, and slept over last night. we watched the beginning of the saint, and ordered chinese (not very good chinese, but they did bring us chopsticks).
*** today ***
we got up really late, and went shopping for breakfast with grootbek. breakfast lasted a really long time, with even our argentinian flatmate joining in.
we got the chocolate-moose-inna-spraycan - i've been looking for this stuff for YEARS, and we finally found it!
we watched the second flintstones movie, which was complete and utter crap, and then went for a walk. we played on some swings in a pretty park, and talked for ages.
we came home, watched croc hunter, which was fun and disturbing, and then she went home.
she called me a few hours later. if you want the full story, read the latest addition to my post-hoc journal (Romeo's Journal). it may not be post-hoc, but it is worthy of it's own page. i'm still in shock, and i don't know when and if i'll ever be a human being again, but whatever.
easy come, easy go? i think not.
Saturday, February 14, 2004
14/02/04
*** 12th ***
the 12th is a bit of a blur - i didn't start studying until after 22.00, and - oh. i know what i did. i had a meeting with my boss. who's unimpressed by my performance at work. so i have to do some catching up after exams...
*** yesterday ***
i woke up really early, went to campus to have breakfast (a really lousy breakfast), and printed the papers i'd made for the exam (open-book).
it's been a horrible, horrible course, and the exam was not very nice. not as bad as expected, but still not great.
but it IS over.
i went to training, which was alright, and then came home to chill, play tekken, final fantasy, and tons of counterstrike,
*** today ***
and i'm now on my way to bed.
the 12th is a bit of a blur - i didn't start studying until after 22.00, and - oh. i know what i did. i had a meeting with my boss. who's unimpressed by my performance at work. so i have to do some catching up after exams...
*** yesterday ***
i woke up really early, went to campus to have breakfast (a really lousy breakfast), and printed the papers i'd made for the exam (open-book).
it's been a horrible, horrible course, and the exam was not very nice. not as bad as expected, but still not great.
but it IS over.
i went to training, which was alright, and then came home to chill, play tekken, final fantasy, and tons of counterstrike,
*** today ***
and i'm now on my way to bed.
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
11/02/04
it's been soooo hard to update these logs lately - even now it's a bit of a drag, but i know i'll regret it later if i don't.
*** 9th ***
what a crazy day. the accounting exam was alright - not easy, but not too bad. i then had three hours to get ready for the algorithms exam.
yeah, right.
i don't think ANYTHING could have prepared me for that exam. it sucked PILES.
not only were all the questions rediculously difficult, but i spent over an hour on one of the questions, trying to find a pattern in a mess of numbers, only to discover (one minute before the end of the exam) that i'd been misreading the question. over, and over again.
it wasn't such a difficult question.
i'm totally bitter about it.
i went straight from the exam to da's place (stopping only for a really excellent schwarma), where we played around with Pontifex II (turns out i'm really good at building bridges), and spent a few minutes going over the slides for yesterday's exam.
*** yesterday ***
driving home from da's place was INCREDIBLE - the fog was so thick, we really couldn't see more than ten metres in front of the car. just crazy.
so pretty.
i woke up around 11am, and basically assed around until the exam. the exam was tricky as hell - all multiple choice, and none of the answers was QUITE what we'd learned in class.
cheeky - mutha - funsta.
I GOT HOLD OF SHIVA CHANDRA - MENDRUM!!! I've been looking for the damn song for three years, since some idiot stole my minidisc with pondou fever - dara lee, and it's so goddamn rare it's obscene.
i'm very excited.
i basically spent last night relaxing - i've pretty much gotten the hang of making rice, and i watched some hunter x hunter, and some arbitrary tv.
aaaaaaaand played some counterstrike.
*** today ***
today has been simply - awesome. i went to bed around 00.30, and had some really weird dreams. my alarm woke me at 06.30, just as one of those dreams was improving dramatically (it hadn't been such a pleasant one), and i have no idea how i managed to pull myself out of bed.
i got dressed, picked up my newspaper (it's so weird reading it everyday - not that much of it is interesting, but it does become a habit), and was just in time to catch the israel equivalent of a black taxi.
which got stopped for speeding.
so i switched to a bus, got there in good time, had a really good doughnut, and went to our gym.
training was great - half an hour of warmup, half an hour of flexibility, and half an hour of technique. after my student left, i spent about twenty minutes doing forms with weights strapped around my arms (inspired by hunter x hunter), which was extremely satisfying. i think i'm going to buy myself weights, and try to make a suit out of them.
after training, i headed back home, where i sat down to read the paper, and drink some hot chocolate.
our apartment WOBBLED, literally, like it happens in the movies - i've never been in an earthquake before, and this one measured 4.5 on the richter scale. and it just comes out of nowhere! not to mention the severe lack of faith i have in israeli building construction - grootbek and i ran out to the street to wait it out.
OMFG, it was really scary!
after calming down, i had a shower, and then took a bus to tel aviv, where i met up with her - we spent the early afternoon walking around, shopping and eating.
a great afternoon.
i just got back now, i'm going to have a nap, and then i'm off to watch some taekwondo videos with my instructor, and to get the videotape with my (whole) two fights.
*** 9th ***
what a crazy day. the accounting exam was alright - not easy, but not too bad. i then had three hours to get ready for the algorithms exam.
yeah, right.
i don't think ANYTHING could have prepared me for that exam. it sucked PILES.
not only were all the questions rediculously difficult, but i spent over an hour on one of the questions, trying to find a pattern in a mess of numbers, only to discover (one minute before the end of the exam) that i'd been misreading the question. over, and over again.
it wasn't such a difficult question.
i'm totally bitter about it.
i went straight from the exam to da's place (stopping only for a really excellent schwarma), where we played around with Pontifex II (turns out i'm really good at building bridges), and spent a few minutes going over the slides for yesterday's exam.
*** yesterday ***
driving home from da's place was INCREDIBLE - the fog was so thick, we really couldn't see more than ten metres in front of the car. just crazy.
so pretty.
i woke up around 11am, and basically assed around until the exam. the exam was tricky as hell - all multiple choice, and none of the answers was QUITE what we'd learned in class.
cheeky - mutha - funsta.
I GOT HOLD OF SHIVA CHANDRA - MENDRUM!!! I've been looking for the damn song for three years, since some idiot stole my minidisc with pondou fever - dara lee, and it's so goddamn rare it's obscene.
i'm very excited.
i basically spent last night relaxing - i've pretty much gotten the hang of making rice, and i watched some hunter x hunter, and some arbitrary tv.
aaaaaaaand played some counterstrike.
*** today ***
today has been simply - awesome. i went to bed around 00.30, and had some really weird dreams. my alarm woke me at 06.30, just as one of those dreams was improving dramatically (it hadn't been such a pleasant one), and i have no idea how i managed to pull myself out of bed.
i got dressed, picked up my newspaper (it's so weird reading it everyday - not that much of it is interesting, but it does become a habit), and was just in time to catch the israel equivalent of a black taxi.
which got stopped for speeding.
so i switched to a bus, got there in good time, had a really good doughnut, and went to our gym.
training was great - half an hour of warmup, half an hour of flexibility, and half an hour of technique. after my student left, i spent about twenty minutes doing forms with weights strapped around my arms (inspired by hunter x hunter), which was extremely satisfying. i think i'm going to buy myself weights, and try to make a suit out of them.
after training, i headed back home, where i sat down to read the paper, and drink some hot chocolate.
our apartment WOBBLED, literally, like it happens in the movies - i've never been in an earthquake before, and this one measured 4.5 on the richter scale. and it just comes out of nowhere! not to mention the severe lack of faith i have in israeli building construction - grootbek and i ran out to the street to wait it out.
OMFG, it was really scary!
after calming down, i had a shower, and then took a bus to tel aviv, where i met up with her - we spent the early afternoon walking around, shopping and eating.
a great afternoon.
i just got back now, i'm going to have a nap, and then i'm off to watch some taekwondo videos with my instructor, and to get the videotape with my (whole) two fights.
Sunday, February 08, 2004
08/02/04
*** 6th ***
work went well, and i got home around 3am. i finished up a crappy version of tic-tac-toe in c#, and went to sleep.
she came over, in the early afternoon, for a quick visit before running off (to a birthday party. hmmph.), and i spent the day relaxing.
we had friday night supper at her grandparents, which was really nice. we had bobotie.
very nice.
after dinner, we babysat together. which was kinda fun - not much babysitting was involved, as the kids were fast asleep - we watched a really good documentary (done by the mother we were babysitting for, i'm going to try to bring a copy to south africa), and then the beginning of a very, very strange movie made by some crazy woman, who did everything from script writing, to casting, to directing, to acting - and although it was very good (bad, but good), it was quite disturbing material.
but fascinating.
*** yesterday ***
i woke up just before noon, had a quick breakfast that would have been vastly improved had the yoghurt not been more than a year past its expiry date, and spent the majority of the day studying (read: farting around).
i am COMPLETELY taken up with hunter x hunter - both the anime, and the manga. both are absolutely brilliant.
she picked me up at 21.50, and we met up with sammy in the billiard bar in ra'anana, where we had to wait for about 40 minutes to get a table - in spite of my reserving a table beforehand. dumb bastard working there can't tell the difference between a pool table and a snooker table, and i was VERY specific (to the point of rudeness) about which i wanted.
we had some really great games, and everyone enjoyed themselves (although i enjoyed myself more than they did, i was having an extremely good night).
*** today ***
i woke up around 11am, took a quick walk to buy some toiletries, and a banana-shake-inna-bag (an israeli special), and she came over to say goodbye before returning to gedera. which was rather sad.
i had a very nice breakfast (she brought over almost an entire leftover-but-VERY-tasty cheesecake), and i spent some time semi-meditating.
i feel rather good.
quite relaxed.
and far more ready to begin studying. which i'm about to do.
maybe.
*** later ***
sucky.
sucky, sucky, sucky.
that's how my day's been, overall.
on the plus side, i chatted with hido for a while, and it's been a long time since we've been online simultaneously.
on the minus, i have an exam at 9am, that i'm not ready for. and another exam at 4pm, that i'm not ready for. and although i've studied some today, it hasn't been nearly enough.
none of this is taking into account the exam on tuesday, but at least that one's in the afternoon...
*sigh*
supper was good, though - instant mushroom sauce is without a doubt my favourite. and the cheesecake is really amazing, although i have to hide it away from grootbek.
work went well, and i got home around 3am. i finished up a crappy version of tic-tac-toe in c#, and went to sleep.
she came over, in the early afternoon, for a quick visit before running off (to a birthday party. hmmph.), and i spent the day relaxing.
we had friday night supper at her grandparents, which was really nice. we had bobotie.
very nice.
after dinner, we babysat together. which was kinda fun - not much babysitting was involved, as the kids were fast asleep - we watched a really good documentary (done by the mother we were babysitting for, i'm going to try to bring a copy to south africa), and then the beginning of a very, very strange movie made by some crazy woman, who did everything from script writing, to casting, to directing, to acting - and although it was very good (bad, but good), it was quite disturbing material.
but fascinating.
*** yesterday ***
i woke up just before noon, had a quick breakfast that would have been vastly improved had the yoghurt not been more than a year past its expiry date, and spent the majority of the day studying (read: farting around).
i am COMPLETELY taken up with hunter x hunter - both the anime, and the manga. both are absolutely brilliant.
she picked me up at 21.50, and we met up with sammy in the billiard bar in ra'anana, where we had to wait for about 40 minutes to get a table - in spite of my reserving a table beforehand. dumb bastard working there can't tell the difference between a pool table and a snooker table, and i was VERY specific (to the point of rudeness) about which i wanted.
we had some really great games, and everyone enjoyed themselves (although i enjoyed myself more than they did, i was having an extremely good night).
*** today ***
i woke up around 11am, took a quick walk to buy some toiletries, and a banana-shake-inna-bag (an israeli special), and she came over to say goodbye before returning to gedera. which was rather sad.
i had a very nice breakfast (she brought over almost an entire leftover-but-VERY-tasty cheesecake), and i spent some time semi-meditating.
i feel rather good.
quite relaxed.
and far more ready to begin studying. which i'm about to do.
maybe.
*** later ***
sucky.
sucky, sucky, sucky.
that's how my day's been, overall.
on the plus side, i chatted with hido for a while, and it's been a long time since we've been online simultaneously.
on the minus, i have an exam at 9am, that i'm not ready for. and another exam at 4pm, that i'm not ready for. and although i've studied some today, it hasn't been nearly enough.
none of this is taking into account the exam on tuesday, but at least that one's in the afternoon...
*sigh*
supper was good, though - instant mushroom sauce is without a doubt my favourite. and the cheesecake is really amazing, although i have to hide it away from grootbek.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
05/02/04
*** yesterday ***
i read some actual, real-life newspapers yesterday, had a crappy breakfast, and didn't get any studying done until SxS took me to da's place (around lunchtime), where we've been studying
*** today ***
until now. i'm SO going to fail the first exam. and i've done so much reading for it that my head's spinning.
*** later ***
oh - my #@$!ing - #@$%. today has been a horrible day.
i'm at work now, and we start in about five minutes. i woke up this morning at 10am, had a shower, did a little preparation, and went to write my exams.
i wrote from 13.00 until 18.40, and they were both horrible, HORRIBLE exams.
my brain hurts. i'm tired. and today wasn't the worst day - monday / tuesday is even worse.
oh well.
at least today is mostly over with.
i read some actual, real-life newspapers yesterday, had a crappy breakfast, and didn't get any studying done until SxS took me to da's place (around lunchtime), where we've been studying
*** today ***
until now. i'm SO going to fail the first exam. and i've done so much reading for it that my head's spinning.
*** later ***
oh - my #@$!ing - #@$%. today has been a horrible day.
i'm at work now, and we start in about five minutes. i woke up this morning at 10am, had a shower, did a little preparation, and went to write my exams.
i wrote from 13.00 until 18.40, and they were both horrible, HORRIBLE exams.
my brain hurts. i'm tired. and today wasn't the worst day - monday / tuesday is even worse.
oh well.
at least today is mostly over with.
Wednesday, February 04, 2004
04/02/04
*** 2nd ***
taekwondo was really, really good - i took the warmup, which was fun, and i had three fights, all of which i kicked ASS.
fun.
i got home,
*** yesterday ***
played some tekken, showered (much needed), and went to bed.
i woke up late, around 9 / 10am or so, and spent the morning studying the worst presentation slides ever made - and practically useless to boot.
SxS rescued me sometime in the afternoon - we went to nando's, for a peri-peri (of COURSE i took the peri-peri) 1/2 chicken, and until about 15 minutes ago,
*** today ***
we've been studying at da's place with mmf.
it was an ugly day. i hope today goes better.
taekwondo was really, really good - i took the warmup, which was fun, and i had three fights, all of which i kicked ASS.
fun.
i got home,
*** yesterday ***
played some tekken, showered (much needed), and went to bed.
i woke up late, around 9 / 10am or so, and spent the morning studying the worst presentation slides ever made - and practically useless to boot.
SxS rescued me sometime in the afternoon - we went to nando's, for a peri-peri (of COURSE i took the peri-peri) 1/2 chicken, and until about 15 minutes ago,
*** today ***
we've been studying at da's place with mmf.
it was an ugly day. i hope today goes better.
Monday, February 02, 2004
02/02/04
*** 31st ***
we really did start studying in the morning - we spent saturday watching the commanding heights videos. not only extremely educational, but really interesting too. <clipped mini-advertisment>. i think everyone needs to watch them.
she came over, and we watched love actually.
*** yesterday ***
just before going home (just before 1am), she announced that we needed a serious talk, and we sat doing that until just after 4am.
i didn't wake up at 06.30, and i didn't get to training at 07.30. at 07.33 my phone rang, and my taekwondo instructor suggested i phone my student and apologize for not showing up. which i did.
just a side note: he'd arrived at our gym, to find nobody there, and it was POURING with rain.
* GUILT *
i woke up at 11am or so, and she came to visit before returning to gedera. as she left, SxS arrived, and we got some reading done, before watching the rest of the videos in the afternoon.
we went to study with mmf in ramat aviv, and the three of us went driving around looking for food - we didn't find any, so we dropped mmf back at home and went to SxS's place, where we had some food, and studied a little.
*** today ***
i caught up on my webcomics.
i had a great shower, and went to bed.
i awoke at 07.50, and did some studying and not-so studying (computers do that to me) until 09.00, when SxS got up. we had a quick breakfast, and then went off to campus to write the exam.
the exam was definitely not easy, but the main essay question was actually quite fun to write. i've never had THAT experience before.
i spent the early afternoon running around campus, taking care of exam problems (i got them to "move" an exam for me, to solve a personal time conflict), and learning more stuff for my so-called "community service".
i got home between 15.00 and 16.00, checked my mail, and went to bed until 19.00. i'm going to finish this update, and then run off to training, where i will be berated, and have a rough evening, before coming home to a nice hot shower and some sleep.
hopefully.
we really did start studying in the morning - we spent saturday watching the commanding heights videos. not only extremely educational, but really interesting too. <clipped mini-advertisment>. i think everyone needs to watch them.
she came over, and we watched love actually.
*** yesterday ***
just before going home (just before 1am), she announced that we needed a serious talk, and we sat doing that until just after 4am.
i didn't wake up at 06.30, and i didn't get to training at 07.30. at 07.33 my phone rang, and my taekwondo instructor suggested i phone my student and apologize for not showing up. which i did.
just a side note: he'd arrived at our gym, to find nobody there, and it was POURING with rain.
* GUILT *
i woke up at 11am or so, and she came to visit before returning to gedera. as she left, SxS arrived, and we got some reading done, before watching the rest of the videos in the afternoon.
we went to study with mmf in ramat aviv, and the three of us went driving around looking for food - we didn't find any, so we dropped mmf back at home and went to SxS's place, where we had some food, and studied a little.
*** today ***
i caught up on my webcomics.
i had a great shower, and went to bed.
i awoke at 07.50, and did some studying and not-so studying (computers do that to me) until 09.00, when SxS got up. we had a quick breakfast, and then went off to campus to write the exam.
the exam was definitely not easy, but the main essay question was actually quite fun to write. i've never had THAT experience before.
i spent the early afternoon running around campus, taking care of exam problems (i got them to "move" an exam for me, to solve a personal time conflict), and learning more stuff for my so-called "community service".
i got home between 15.00 and 16.00, checked my mail, and went to bed until 19.00. i'm going to finish this update, and then run off to training, where i will be berated, and have a rough evening, before coming home to a nice hot shower and some sleep.
hopefully.
Saturday, January 31, 2004
31/01/04
*** 29th ***
i got up early-ish (before 10am), did some work, and then went to campus, to meet with a lecturer about a project. the meeting went well. other than that, it wasn't the greatest day i've had.
i did go to training in the evening, which was quite nice.
*** yesterday ***
i got up at 06.30, to do my math homework, which i almost completed before arriving for class at 08.30. class was okay.
i sat in on some presentations to potential students, and then...
I HANDED IN MY FINAL HOMEWORK FOR THIS SEMESTER!!!
it was really, really exciting, relieving, and other stuff too. this semester has been hell - i've barely had time to breathe, and i've not only made it to all my classes, but i've been doing all the homework as well.
ruh-spect that shit.
i walked home, and she picked me up, and we went to the park in ra'anana to lie on the grass.
after much laying about, we moved to herzliya pituach, and traipsed (i love that word) along the beaches, stopping by the shops to use the restrooms and have an amazing toasted sandwich (with cheese, mustard, lettuce, and cucumber), before trekking back.
i got home a little woozy - slight heat-stroke, and all i could do was pass out on the couch, watching a british boxing movie called twentyfourseven.
very cool, at least what i saw before my eyelids got too heavy.
i woke up, had an INCREDIBLE shower (life is good to me sometimes), and arbed around until she picked me up, and took me to her place, where we watched monty python: and now for something completely different, and the meaning of life.
having never seen the meaning of life, i must say that i found it less funny than artsy, and either way i quite enjoyed it.
's very nice.
*** today ***
i walked home, doing some midnight shopping on the way, and having eaten some pita with techina, some tortilla chips with matbucha (weird semi-hot vege concoction), and played around online, i'm now going to sleep.
we're actually going to start studying in the morning.
i got up early-ish (before 10am), did some work, and then went to campus, to meet with a lecturer about a project. the meeting went well. other than that, it wasn't the greatest day i've had.
i did go to training in the evening, which was quite nice.
*** yesterday ***
i got up at 06.30, to do my math homework, which i almost completed before arriving for class at 08.30. class was okay.
i sat in on some presentations to potential students, and then...
I HANDED IN MY FINAL HOMEWORK FOR THIS SEMESTER!!!
it was really, really exciting, relieving, and other stuff too. this semester has been hell - i've barely had time to breathe, and i've not only made it to all my classes, but i've been doing all the homework as well.
ruh-spect that shit.
i walked home, and she picked me up, and we went to the park in ra'anana to lie on the grass.
after much laying about, we moved to herzliya pituach, and traipsed (i love that word) along the beaches, stopping by the shops to use the restrooms and have an amazing toasted sandwich (with cheese, mustard, lettuce, and cucumber), before trekking back.
i got home a little woozy - slight heat-stroke, and all i could do was pass out on the couch, watching a british boxing movie called twentyfourseven.
very cool, at least what i saw before my eyelids got too heavy.
i woke up, had an INCREDIBLE shower (life is good to me sometimes), and arbed around until she picked me up, and took me to her place, where we watched monty python: and now for something completely different, and the meaning of life.
having never seen the meaning of life, i must say that i found it less funny than artsy, and either way i quite enjoyed it.
's very nice.
*** today ***
i walked home, doing some midnight shopping on the way, and having eaten some pita with techina, some tortilla chips with matbucha (weird semi-hot vege concoction), and played around online, i'm now going to sleep.
we're actually going to start studying in the morning.
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
28/01/04
*** yesterday ***
after posting some totally silly pics of myself, i got myself plenty of sleep - i woke up around 11 or so.
i went to training, which was pretty good - sweaty, but good, and i went to karnaf's place afterwards, where we chilled until quite late (and i had a much-needed, and very good shower, and supper, and the music was good too).
i had a rather strange experience on the bus home - some woman came to sit next to me, while i was talking on the phone, and i heard her make some comment to herself that included the word "cute".
i decided to ignore her, and took out my book (the second jungle book), and began reading. after a couple of minutes, she started up a rather pointless discussion about reading classics, and i really didn't have a clue what to say - the rest of the bus ride was quite awkward...
i pretty much went to bed as soon as i got home.
*** today ***
today was simply awesome.
i woke up at 06.30, got dressed and went to training.
it - was - #@$%ing - FREEZING.
only two of us showed up, and i was the higher ranking, so i took it - obviously i think it was a good training.
the weather had improved while we were inside, and i sat outside on the pavement while eating my folded-pizza-pastry-thingy (sambusak), before bussing back home.
i had an INCREDIBLE shower, and passed out until lunch-time. i "did stuff", including working on my community service project, until 15.15, when my study partner came over.
we worked until roughly 18.30, and we pretty much finished our assignment for friday - one element remained incomplete.
and so, i went traipsing around irc servers seeking gurus for assistance.
firstly - it offends me that there are all these pseudo-intellectual dipshits online, who sit around in help channels waiting to feed their egos on people who are desperate enough to come asking. pre-question, i was irritated by the attitude of "just ask your question, don't waste our time by trying to find out if anyone's listening". post-question: i received an onslaught of "are you stupid?", and "i've just found it using google, why couldn't you?".
and, once i found the answer myself, i discovered that all the flamers had misunderstood a particularly simple and unambiguous post, and had flamed me for a totally dumb question i hadn't asked.
the only real satisfaction i got out of it all, was putting them to shame by answering my own question, and politely requesting that they not jump to arms against other people without due cause.
oh - and i got the satisfaction of having completely finished my homework - quite the relief.
i've now had enough time to catch up with my email, and my basic plan for the next hour or so is to do some more work for my community service (i have to transfer and edit content between two websites), install software that theoretically should allow me to read my work email, and do some very serious sleeping.
after posting some totally silly pics of myself, i got myself plenty of sleep - i woke up around 11 or so.
i went to training, which was pretty good - sweaty, but good, and i went to karnaf's place afterwards, where we chilled until quite late (and i had a much-needed, and very good shower, and supper, and the music was good too).
i had a rather strange experience on the bus home - some woman came to sit next to me, while i was talking on the phone, and i heard her make some comment to herself that included the word "cute".
i decided to ignore her, and took out my book (the second jungle book), and began reading. after a couple of minutes, she started up a rather pointless discussion about reading classics, and i really didn't have a clue what to say - the rest of the bus ride was quite awkward...
i pretty much went to bed as soon as i got home.
*** today ***
today was simply awesome.
i woke up at 06.30, got dressed and went to training.
it - was - #@$%ing - FREEZING.
only two of us showed up, and i was the higher ranking, so i took it - obviously i think it was a good training.
the weather had improved while we were inside, and i sat outside on the pavement while eating my folded-pizza-pastry-thingy (sambusak), before bussing back home.
i had an INCREDIBLE shower, and passed out until lunch-time. i "did stuff", including working on my community service project, until 15.15, when my study partner came over.
we worked until roughly 18.30, and we pretty much finished our assignment for friday - one element remained incomplete.
and so, i went traipsing around irc servers seeking gurus for assistance.
firstly - it offends me that there are all these pseudo-intellectual dipshits online, who sit around in help channels waiting to feed their egos on people who are desperate enough to come asking. pre-question, i was irritated by the attitude of "just ask your question, don't waste our time by trying to find out if anyone's listening". post-question: i received an onslaught of "are you stupid?", and "i've just found it using google, why couldn't you?".
and, once i found the answer myself, i discovered that all the flamers had misunderstood a particularly simple and unambiguous post, and had flamed me for a totally dumb question i hadn't asked.
the only real satisfaction i got out of it all, was putting them to shame by answering my own question, and politely requesting that they not jump to arms against other people without due cause.
oh - and i got the satisfaction of having completely finished my homework - quite the relief.
i've now had enough time to catch up with my email, and my basic plan for the next hour or so is to do some more work for my community service (i have to transfer and edit content between two websites), install software that theoretically should allow me to read my work email, and do some very serious sleeping.
Tuesday, January 27, 2004
27/01/04
*** 25th ***
my day began with three hours of math. hooray.
after class SxS took me to da's, where we worked on our presentation, and played minesweeper flags. we left just before midnight.
*** yesterday ***
i got to bed around 1am, after making sure that i had a copy of our material on my computer, woke up at 06.30, and went over all the stuff i'd have to say.
fortunately, the 08.45 presentation went well - i was so relieved afterwards, i didn't know what to do with myself!
santa claus caught me reading the newspaper in his class. i feel as if i haven't made the best impression on him.
oh well.
i spent the day on campus, doing all sorts of odd things, including my accounting homework, and then went to our last accounting class - which wasn't half bad.
make of that sentence what you will.
i went to taekwondo after class - i had a pretty good session, and i got the forms right for the first (and hopefully not last) time - i'm pretty chuffed with myself, not to mention surprised.
i got home just before midnight, watched an intrigueing episode of jag,
*** today ***
showered, and am currently deciding between doing some work, and going to bed.
and posting stupid pics of myself...
my day began with three hours of math. hooray.
after class SxS took me to da's, where we worked on our presentation, and played minesweeper flags. we left just before midnight.
*** yesterday ***
i got to bed around 1am, after making sure that i had a copy of our material on my computer, woke up at 06.30, and went over all the stuff i'd have to say.
fortunately, the 08.45 presentation went well - i was so relieved afterwards, i didn't know what to do with myself!
santa claus caught me reading the newspaper in his class. i feel as if i haven't made the best impression on him.
oh well.
i spent the day on campus, doing all sorts of odd things, including my accounting homework, and then went to our last accounting class - which wasn't half bad.
make of that sentence what you will.
i went to taekwondo after class - i had a pretty good session, and i got the forms right for the first (and hopefully not last) time - i'm pretty chuffed with myself, not to mention surprised.
i got home just before midnight, watched an intrigueing episode of jag,
*** today ***
showered, and am currently deciding between doing some work, and going to bed.
and posting stupid pics of myself...
Saturday, January 24, 2004
24/01/04
*** 22nd ***
work was, well, work.
we got home roughly 5 - 6ish, and i slept until 10am. i had breakfast, showered, finished up my paper on investing in china (whoopee!), and did my algorithms homework, before going to class.
walking to class.
in the rain.
the first class was cool - we watched a movie about globalization, privatization, and how capitalism is taking over the entire world.
SxS, mmf, da and i spent about an hour and a half preparing our presentations (ten minutes talking about economics we don't understand), and a few minutes in the cafeteria, fighting for a spot and some food amongst the entire campus, all squished in to one small, confined, smoky, leaky building.
da and i went second in the presentations.
we SUCKED. big time. everybody laughed at us.
but it's okay.
we were laughing at us too.
the rest of the presentations were boring, but we sat through until the end.
when i got home, i packed as quickly as i could, and went off to the train station - finally getting it all right, and ending up in time for the right train.
she picked me up, we drove to gedera, and watched ocean's eleven.
AWESOME.
AWESOME.
AWESOME.
*** yesterday ****
we got up around 10am, had a chilled breakfast (which i'd been looking forward to all week), and went shopping, which took us past the coolest store - everything per kilo, and everything from beans to seeds, to sweets, to dried fruit.
they had, and i'm not kidding (i even ate one), dried KIWI.
and it was good.
we also went past a lovely little bakery, but me writing this serves no purpose other than to make myself hungry.
mmmm....
she dropped me off at the train station, where i * just * made it in time for the last train of the day, and from the tel aviv station i took a bus to dizengoff, where i was going for taekwondo.
i had a hot dog (very nice) for lunch, and then had a fun training session - i got stretched properly though (which included about five minutes of me trying desperately not to cry too much in front of the kids).
i got a ride home. i showered. i played tekken. i played counterstrike. i played starcraft. i had too much rice for supper. i played more counterstrike. i went to bed.
*** today ***
i got up late, did some laundry, cleaned my room (and threw out TONS of old stuff), and other than playing more counterstrike, didn't do anything at all...
work was, well, work.
we got home roughly 5 - 6ish, and i slept until 10am. i had breakfast, showered, finished up my paper on investing in china (whoopee!), and did my algorithms homework, before going to class.
walking to class.
in the rain.
the first class was cool - we watched a movie about globalization, privatization, and how capitalism is taking over the entire world.
SxS, mmf, da and i spent about an hour and a half preparing our presentations (ten minutes talking about economics we don't understand), and a few minutes in the cafeteria, fighting for a spot and some food amongst the entire campus, all squished in to one small, confined, smoky, leaky building.
da and i went second in the presentations.
we SUCKED. big time. everybody laughed at us.
but it's okay.
we were laughing at us too.
the rest of the presentations were boring, but we sat through until the end.
when i got home, i packed as quickly as i could, and went off to the train station - finally getting it all right, and ending up in time for the right train.
she picked me up, we drove to gedera, and watched ocean's eleven.
AWESOME.
AWESOME.
AWESOME.
*** yesterday ****
we got up around 10am, had a chilled breakfast (which i'd been looking forward to all week), and went shopping, which took us past the coolest store - everything per kilo, and everything from beans to seeds, to sweets, to dried fruit.
they had, and i'm not kidding (i even ate one), dried KIWI.
and it was good.
we also went past a lovely little bakery, but me writing this serves no purpose other than to make myself hungry.
mmmm....
she dropped me off at the train station, where i * just * made it in time for the last train of the day, and from the tel aviv station i took a bus to dizengoff, where i was going for taekwondo.
i had a hot dog (very nice) for lunch, and then had a fun training session - i got stretched properly though (which included about five minutes of me trying desperately not to cry too much in front of the kids).
i got a ride home. i showered. i played tekken. i played counterstrike. i played starcraft. i had too much rice for supper. i played more counterstrike. i went to bed.
*** today ***
i got up late, did some laundry, cleaned my room (and threw out TONS of old stuff), and other than playing more counterstrike, didn't do anything at all...
Wednesday, January 21, 2004
21/01/04
*** today ***
i got up around 9am, i did some reading for our presentation, i went to the bank, i did some shopping.
our argentinian flatmate and i went to speak to the nice ladies about our community service. i have to do 120 hours of helping kids with english homework, and taking care of one problem child.
i'm gonna be SUCH a good influence.
i went to ra'anana, and did some documentation for icq source code, which was quite interesting, and i got paid decently (NIS100, about R160, for 45 minutes). i got a chappies, too (ex-south africans).
i then had to wait half an hour for a bus that took roughly an hour and a half to get to the desired bus-stop.
for no good reason.
mmf took a while to pick me up - i was really, really hungry, and i was standing next to a bus-stop with a poster of a new chocolate that's just come out, and it looks soooo good.
when we got to a cafe, guess what i bought - and it was just as good as it looked.
when we got to da's, i stuffed myself with bread, humus, and almost an entire packet of vienna sausages...
we spent the afternoon doing bits of work, argueing, and playing games, before da gave me a ride to work.
we started off work with a half hour of QA testing, which was cool (i * broke * the program a number of times), we've just had supper (awesome beef in peanut butter sauce), and we're about to begin work itself.
i'm just concerned that tomorrow's not going to go well - and my nose isn't helping my confidence levels.
signing * snuffle * out.
i got up around 9am, i did some reading for our presentation, i went to the bank, i did some shopping.
our argentinian flatmate and i went to speak to the nice ladies about our community service. i have to do 120 hours of helping kids with english homework, and taking care of one problem child.
i'm gonna be SUCH a good influence.
i went to ra'anana, and did some documentation for icq source code, which was quite interesting, and i got paid decently (NIS100, about R160, for 45 minutes). i got a chappies, too (ex-south africans).
i then had to wait half an hour for a bus that took roughly an hour and a half to get to the desired bus-stop.
for no good reason.
mmf took a while to pick me up - i was really, really hungry, and i was standing next to a bus-stop with a poster of a new chocolate that's just come out, and it looks soooo good.
when we got to a cafe, guess what i bought - and it was just as good as it looked.
when we got to da's, i stuffed myself with bread, humus, and almost an entire packet of vienna sausages...
we spent the afternoon doing bits of work, argueing, and playing games, before da gave me a ride to work.
we started off work with a half hour of QA testing, which was cool (i * broke * the program a number of times), we've just had supper (awesome beef in peanut butter sauce), and we're about to begin work itself.
i'm just concerned that tomorrow's not going to go well - and my nose isn't helping my confidence levels.
signing * snuffle * out.
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
20/01/04
*** 17th ***
i pretty much spent my day playing counterstrike, and starcraft, and tekken. i started doing my math homework, too, but it didn't really happen.
*** 18th ***
early #$@%ing sunday morning. in accounting class. taking a quiz.
which wasn't very easy.
we then had math, three hours of it.
after class, i sat in the library, and did my algorithms homework (which was basically copying the previous year's solutions), and then SxS picked me up, and we went to ramat aviv.
where we didn't do any work.
we watched some vacation videos from brazil, which was awesome: they reminded me of the life i left behind in cape town - those were easy, easy days.
we went to mcdonald's for supper, where we ate like pigs, and mmf and SxS and i had a rather entertaining argument about israel and israelis, and for the first time since i've been here, i had an israeli on my side of the argument: this is really not such a bad place to live.
i passed out,
*** yesterday ***
and woke up about 01.30, with human nature on the telly - man, that looks like a seriously demented film, and i'm glad i didn't watch it.
SxS gave me a ride home.
i woke up at 07.30, and discovered - while trying to make myself hot chocolate - that grootbek had scaled my sugar.
that really pissed me off. while writing a threatening letter to him, i knocked over a mug and a plate, and it took me about ten minutes to clean it up properly, and so i was late for class.
what a great start to the morning.
the first class was interesting. immediately afterwards, i received a call from grootbek, terrified, trying to convince me that it wasn't him.
a short while later, mmf and i were on our way to meet with one of our professors, and were discussing the fact that we were about to miss the really boring class.
we've taken to calling the lecturer of that class "santa claus", due to his appearance.
"missing santa claus' class doesn't perturb me, " i said, rather loudly.
as santa claus himself walked past...
our meeting with the professor lasted about an hour and a half, and our applied project has completely changed once again.
initiation document, here we come: round three.
we got to class just as the quiz began. fortunately, he allowed us to take it, but i've never seen anything but a blank look in his eyes, and today he looked at us with pure malice.
and he's taking us for two courses next semester.
way to go, me.
after class, i ran around trying to sort out my studies, and i'm not sure how much i achieved.
i finished my c project, went to accounting (lots of pink pens - i don't get it either), didn't understand much, and went home.
i went to taekwondo, which was a totally aggravating experience, and, as i'm unfit, totally destroying too. it really sucked, and i was totally buggered.
SxS picked me up, and we went back to my place. where i had an argument with our brit, who's supposed to have organized toilet paper a week and a half ago, and still hasn't. he basically told me to go and get it myself, so screw him, i bought my own and i ain't sharing.
i hate the inanity, but i have to stand up for myself.
we played tekken for a while,
*** today ***
i had an awesome shower, and i'm now off to bed.
*** later ***
uugh.
* whimper *
* snuffle *
i had a horrid day today, mostly. everything was painful, due to a lack of oxygen in my system, and a runny, blocked nose. yes, please note the oxymoron.
work was okay - two hours of nothing, as our US counterparts hadn't done their job, and one hour for lunch (hot thai soup, with plenty of bits), and i left.
i took a bus to ramat aviv, where i was picked up by da (who's apartment we've been studying at). when we got to his place, i passed out on the couch.
i suppose that was good.
i woke up, and tried to work on our presentation for thursday. i did learn one or two things, but i didn't get very far in understanding the concept as a whole.
bummer.
i remembered today that the guy i was supposed to write the drivers for (*1) had a decent job in the army, and he's agreed to put forward my cv to a contact of his -
w00t!
(*1) he couldn't do them either. it's merely a case of pathetic documentation, and bad sample files. thank you microsoft.
he gave me a ride to the bus-stop, i bussed home, had a quick just-add-water "supper", a great shower, and i'm getting ready for bed.
i'm struggling to choose between sleep, homework, and starcraft, and i know i can't choose them all...
i pretty much spent my day playing counterstrike, and starcraft, and tekken. i started doing my math homework, too, but it didn't really happen.
*** 18th ***
early #$@%ing sunday morning. in accounting class. taking a quiz.
which wasn't very easy.
we then had math, three hours of it.
after class, i sat in the library, and did my algorithms homework (which was basically copying the previous year's solutions), and then SxS picked me up, and we went to ramat aviv.
where we didn't do any work.
we watched some vacation videos from brazil, which was awesome: they reminded me of the life i left behind in cape town - those were easy, easy days.
we went to mcdonald's for supper, where we ate like pigs, and mmf and SxS and i had a rather entertaining argument about israel and israelis, and for the first time since i've been here, i had an israeli on my side of the argument: this is really not such a bad place to live.
i passed out,
*** yesterday ***
and woke up about 01.30, with human nature on the telly - man, that looks like a seriously demented film, and i'm glad i didn't watch it.
SxS gave me a ride home.
i woke up at 07.30, and discovered - while trying to make myself hot chocolate - that grootbek had scaled my sugar.
that really pissed me off. while writing a threatening letter to him, i knocked over a mug and a plate, and it took me about ten minutes to clean it up properly, and so i was late for class.
what a great start to the morning.
the first class was interesting. immediately afterwards, i received a call from grootbek, terrified, trying to convince me that it wasn't him.
a short while later, mmf and i were on our way to meet with one of our professors, and were discussing the fact that we were about to miss the really boring class.
we've taken to calling the lecturer of that class "santa claus", due to his appearance.
"missing santa claus' class doesn't perturb me, " i said, rather loudly.
as santa claus himself walked past...
our meeting with the professor lasted about an hour and a half, and our applied project has completely changed once again.
initiation document, here we come: round three.
we got to class just as the quiz began. fortunately, he allowed us to take it, but i've never seen anything but a blank look in his eyes, and today he looked at us with pure malice.
and he's taking us for two courses next semester.
way to go, me.
after class, i ran around trying to sort out my studies, and i'm not sure how much i achieved.
i finished my c project, went to accounting (lots of pink pens - i don't get it either), didn't understand much, and went home.
i went to taekwondo, which was a totally aggravating experience, and, as i'm unfit, totally destroying too. it really sucked, and i was totally buggered.
SxS picked me up, and we went back to my place. where i had an argument with our brit, who's supposed to have organized toilet paper a week and a half ago, and still hasn't. he basically told me to go and get it myself, so screw him, i bought my own and i ain't sharing.
i hate the inanity, but i have to stand up for myself.
we played tekken for a while,
*** today ***
i had an awesome shower, and i'm now off to bed.
*** later ***
uugh.
* whimper *
* snuffle *
i had a horrid day today, mostly. everything was painful, due to a lack of oxygen in my system, and a runny, blocked nose. yes, please note the oxymoron.
work was okay - two hours of nothing, as our US counterparts hadn't done their job, and one hour for lunch (hot thai soup, with plenty of bits), and i left.
i took a bus to ramat aviv, where i was picked up by da (who's apartment we've been studying at). when we got to his place, i passed out on the couch.
i suppose that was good.
i woke up, and tried to work on our presentation for thursday. i did learn one or two things, but i didn't get very far in understanding the concept as a whole.
bummer.
i remembered today that the guy i was supposed to write the drivers for (*1) had a decent job in the army, and he's agreed to put forward my cv to a contact of his -
w00t!
(*1) he couldn't do them either. it's merely a case of pathetic documentation, and bad sample files. thank you microsoft.
he gave me a ride to the bus-stop, i bussed home, had a quick just-add-water "supper", a great shower, and i'm getting ready for bed.
i'm struggling to choose between sleep, homework, and starcraft, and i know i can't choose them all...
Saturday, January 17, 2004
17/01/04
*** yesterday ***
i didn't go to my early morning math lecture. i slept. i slept goood.
i finally made it to a friday training in dizengoff. i got there about half an hour late, so i had to warm up and stretch quickly, and by the time i joined the group, i was out of breath. unfortunately, the airflow systems in the bomb shelter weren't working.
i started developing heatstroke after a while.
other than that, training was great! after getting home, i went for a quick 45 minute blade around herzliya, had a quick shower, and got picked up by SxS, whose place we had supper at.
#$@%-off huge supper.
and good.
spent the next hour or so playing table tennis, and riding around on this motorized scooter, which, quite frankly, is the SHIT. it's really quick, and loads of fun.
we then came to my place, where we had a most entertaining tekken tournament - one of the highlights, for me at least, was having grootbek torn apart, dissected, and burned for more than half an hour straight - some of the guys who came over were just saying all the things i've been wanting to say, and it was kind of like venting by proxy.
and he took it pretty well. i hope that means he was listening...
*** today ***
once everyone had left, i spent about two hours or so playing counterstrike, and totally not sucking.
i didn't go to my early morning math lecture. i slept. i slept goood.
i finally made it to a friday training in dizengoff. i got there about half an hour late, so i had to warm up and stretch quickly, and by the time i joined the group, i was out of breath. unfortunately, the airflow systems in the bomb shelter weren't working.
i started developing heatstroke after a while.
other than that, training was great! after getting home, i went for a quick 45 minute blade around herzliya, had a quick shower, and got picked up by SxS, whose place we had supper at.
#$@%-off huge supper.
and good.
spent the next hour or so playing table tennis, and riding around on this motorized scooter, which, quite frankly, is the SHIT. it's really quick, and loads of fun.
we then came to my place, where we had a most entertaining tekken tournament - one of the highlights, for me at least, was having grootbek torn apart, dissected, and burned for more than half an hour straight - some of the guys who came over were just saying all the things i've been wanting to say, and it was kind of like venting by proxy.
and he took it pretty well. i hope that means he was listening...
*** today ***
once everyone had left, i spent about two hours or so playing counterstrike, and totally not sucking.
Thursday, January 15, 2004
15/01/04
*** yesterday ***
work was fine, i got a ride home, and got to sleep around 5 / 6am.
i didn't go to training, and fortunately i was in time to get a ride with our argentinian flatmate to campus (it was POURING with rain), where i gave a short speech to some potential students who are here on a two week program from south africa.
a small cheer went out when i mentioned which school i went to, and there were some other cute responses - i even got applauded when i walked off the stage! that was so weird.
and i used to be in the class of one of the teacher's leading the group... and she recognized me...
i went home, slept about half an hour, and my study partner arrived. this was about 15.00. we worked on our c homework until roughly 23.00.
and we almost finished it, too.
i'm still impressed.
i switched off my brain in front of the telly for an hour or so,
*** today ***
and then went to bed.
i woke up about 08.30, sorted out my bank account (i had to go there to sign a piece of paper, that acknowledges that the money in my bank account is mine), and then went to university, where i scanned in my diplomas and a work reference, which i later sent on to the dean of computer science, who's hopefully going to send it through to some (i assume extremely) influential friends of his in the army: i might be spending my two and a half years' service doing something useful!!
the other good news i've received today is that our class got an extension for our algorithms assignment, so all i did today was sit in class, which wasn't so bad.
instead of training tonight, which i badly wanted to do, i met up with her in tel aviv, and we went to watch maccabi tel aviv beat the pants off some foreign basketball team.
VERY satisfying.
i just got back, i'm going to have a shower, and then it's definitely bedtime for me.
what a nice day!
work was fine, i got a ride home, and got to sleep around 5 / 6am.
i didn't go to training, and fortunately i was in time to get a ride with our argentinian flatmate to campus (it was POURING with rain), where i gave a short speech to some potential students who are here on a two week program from south africa.
a small cheer went out when i mentioned which school i went to, and there were some other cute responses - i even got applauded when i walked off the stage! that was so weird.
and i used to be in the class of one of the teacher's leading the group... and she recognized me...
i went home, slept about half an hour, and my study partner arrived. this was about 15.00. we worked on our c homework until roughly 23.00.
and we almost finished it, too.
i'm still impressed.
i switched off my brain in front of the telly for an hour or so,
*** today ***
and then went to bed.
i woke up about 08.30, sorted out my bank account (i had to go there to sign a piece of paper, that acknowledges that the money in my bank account is mine), and then went to university, where i scanned in my diplomas and a work reference, which i later sent on to the dean of computer science, who's hopefully going to send it through to some (i assume extremely) influential friends of his in the army: i might be spending my two and a half years' service doing something useful!!
the other good news i've received today is that our class got an extension for our algorithms assignment, so all i did today was sit in class, which wasn't so bad.
instead of training tonight, which i badly wanted to do, i met up with her in tel aviv, and we went to watch maccabi tel aviv beat the pants off some foreign basketball team.
VERY satisfying.
i just got back, i'm going to have a shower, and then it's definitely bedtime for me.
what a nice day!
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
14/01/04
*** 12th ***
i spent my day on campus, in boring classes, or doing homework.
i got home at 19.30, had supper, a shower, and then went with her to gedera, where we watched ten things i hate about you. she's living in a far more stylish apartment than ours, which is kinda funny considering that they're living in a total crap-hole, and i found the couches so comfortable, it was a real mission to go to bed.
*** yesterday ***
we got up at 07.15, and after a quick cup of tea, i got on the israeli equivalent of a black taxi to the train station, where i made it just in time. from the next train station i took a bus to the student authority in tel aviv, where there were tons of russians and ethiopians, and a couple of argentinians, waiting their turn.
they've been on strike for three months, and they're not working that much harder now...
i waited about three hours, with some reading, and skipping out at one point for a falafel breakfast.
eventually, an ex-brazilian woman took pity on me, and my lack of hebrew proficiency, and helped me out. i spent the afternoon grinning, after she said to me: "if you weren't so cute, i wouldn't help you out like this".
sweet.
i went to work, and it took me two and a half hours to clear my email, and to fail completely in finding a replacement for work (which is why i'm here now).
i bussed home, did a load of washing, slept, and bussed back to work,
*** today ***
where we've just started.
i spent my day on campus, in boring classes, or doing homework.
i got home at 19.30, had supper, a shower, and then went with her to gedera, where we watched ten things i hate about you. she's living in a far more stylish apartment than ours, which is kinda funny considering that they're living in a total crap-hole, and i found the couches so comfortable, it was a real mission to go to bed.
*** yesterday ***
we got up at 07.15, and after a quick cup of tea, i got on the israeli equivalent of a black taxi to the train station, where i made it just in time. from the next train station i took a bus to the student authority in tel aviv, where there were tons of russians and ethiopians, and a couple of argentinians, waiting their turn.
they've been on strike for three months, and they're not working that much harder now...
i waited about three hours, with some reading, and skipping out at one point for a falafel breakfast.
eventually, an ex-brazilian woman took pity on me, and my lack of hebrew proficiency, and helped me out. i spent the afternoon grinning, after she said to me: "if you weren't so cute, i wouldn't help you out like this".
sweet.
i went to work, and it took me two and a half hours to clear my email, and to fail completely in finding a replacement for work (which is why i'm here now).
i bussed home, did a load of washing, slept, and bussed back to work,
*** today ***
where we've just started.
Monday, January 12, 2004
12/01/04
*** 9th ***
we went to sleep around 08.30, woke up at 12.00, and went back to her place to eat lunch, and babysit her little brother.
we went to my relatives for supper, which was really nice, and i slept at her place.
*** 10th ***
i got up really, really late - around 12.00 or so, and went home to shower and change. she picked me up, and we went to her grandparents for lunch, which was great - lots of good food, and their apartment is like a museum - really amazing pictures and things all over the place.
after lunch i came home, and did some homework, and then SxS fetched me, and we went through to ramat aviv to work on our project.
*** yesterday ***
we more or less finished our project at about 05.00, and i got to bed around 05.30.
i didn't wake up at 06.30 for training.
i didn't wake up in time to complete my maths homework.
i bladed to class. maths was okay, the new building is absolutely stunning - it's HUGE, and the lecture theatres are great.
had some lunch, met up with some people i needed to speak to, and then walked / bladed home, and started on the programming (c) homework.
it's very strange coding something you don't understand. the code is easy, the concept (digital architecture - it's a virtual CPU) is really unclear.
she dragged me along to pick up some pictures she'd had developed, and i convinced her to go with me to the "luminarium", or whatever it's called in english.
we sat down for some mediocre, expensive hot chocolate, and then entered what i can only describe as serious surrealism. this british artist has created an enormous "maze" inside a really odd shaped balloon, and it's really trippy.
and having to trade in my shoes for white slippers freaked me the #@$! out.
she dropped me off at home, and i spent the rest of the day doing homework.
*** today ***
which i've been doing until now - it's definitely bedtime...
we went to sleep around 08.30, woke up at 12.00, and went back to her place to eat lunch, and babysit her little brother.
we went to my relatives for supper, which was really nice, and i slept at her place.
*** 10th ***
i got up really, really late - around 12.00 or so, and went home to shower and change. she picked me up, and we went to her grandparents for lunch, which was great - lots of good food, and their apartment is like a museum - really amazing pictures and things all over the place.
after lunch i came home, and did some homework, and then SxS fetched me, and we went through to ramat aviv to work on our project.
*** yesterday ***
we more or less finished our project at about 05.00, and i got to bed around 05.30.
i didn't wake up at 06.30 for training.
i didn't wake up in time to complete my maths homework.
i bladed to class. maths was okay, the new building is absolutely stunning - it's HUGE, and the lecture theatres are great.
had some lunch, met up with some people i needed to speak to, and then walked / bladed home, and started on the programming (c) homework.
it's very strange coding something you don't understand. the code is easy, the concept (digital architecture - it's a virtual CPU) is really unclear.
she dragged me along to pick up some pictures she'd had developed, and i convinced her to go with me to the "luminarium", or whatever it's called in english.
we sat down for some mediocre, expensive hot chocolate, and then entered what i can only describe as serious surrealism. this british artist has created an enormous "maze" inside a really odd shaped balloon, and it's really trippy.
and having to trade in my shoes for white slippers freaked me the #@$! out.
she dropped me off at home, and i spent the rest of the day doing homework.
*** today ***
which i've been doing until now - it's definitely bedtime...
Friday, January 09, 2004
09/01/04
*** today ***
work was cool - i spent most of it simply wasting time.
or not - a lot of that wasted time went into checking out the lastest in gadgetry: www.oqo.com is a good start, xybernaut is another...
sammy gave me a ride home, and i walked in the door around 06.00. and into the shower around 06.50. and into bed soon, but i'm waiting for her to arrive so that i don't have to wake up unnecessarily.
but i ain't going to no maths. uh uh.
work was cool - i spent most of it simply wasting time.
or not - a lot of that wasted time went into checking out the lastest in gadgetry: www.oqo.com is a good start, xybernaut is another...
sammy gave me a ride home, and i walked in the door around 06.00. and into the shower around 06.50. and into bed soon, but i'm waiting for her to arrive so that i don't have to wake up unnecessarily.
but i ain't going to no maths. uh uh.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
08/01/04
*** yesterday ***
i got to work, had a wicked ravioli alfredo meal, and
*** today ***
worked until 01.30. a friend picked me up from the bus station, and i went home with him, where SxS was trying to do a paper due this afternoon. i had to help both of them, with two completely different homeworks, and i just wanted to sleep.
SxS gave me a ride home, at 06.30, and i went to sleep.
waking up at 11.15 was hard. really hard. but my argentinian flatmate gave me a ride to school, and we made it in time to hand in the paper.
the class was interesting.
almost.
after lunch, i sat in the library to do the algorithms homework - it was the first time this semester that i understood what i was doing, and could assist other people too.
maybe, just maybe, i have a chance of passing this course.
i had to walk in the rain to get to class, and some prick made a snide remark about me walking in late - really irritated me, but at least the rest of the class made him feel uncomfortable about it as well.
bastard.
class was confusing as hell. 'nuff said. i got a ride home afterwards, made myself spaghetti, and played some tekken.
as she walked in, i got a phone call from work telling me i was half an hour late! and this was at 19.30, and i was SURE i only had to be in at 21.30...
so much for showering. she was kind enough to give me a ride to work, and the ride here was quite fun. i'm slowly being emasculated... i was singing along to the love actually... soundtrack...
anyway, at least work's not going to be rough tonight. i'm sitting and watching, and getting paid for it.
:D
i got to work, had a wicked ravioli alfredo meal, and
*** today ***
worked until 01.30. a friend picked me up from the bus station, and i went home with him, where SxS was trying to do a paper due this afternoon. i had to help both of them, with two completely different homeworks, and i just wanted to sleep.
SxS gave me a ride home, at 06.30, and i went to sleep.
waking up at 11.15 was hard. really hard. but my argentinian flatmate gave me a ride to school, and we made it in time to hand in the paper.
the class was interesting.
almost.
after lunch, i sat in the library to do the algorithms homework - it was the first time this semester that i understood what i was doing, and could assist other people too.
maybe, just maybe, i have a chance of passing this course.
i had to walk in the rain to get to class, and some prick made a snide remark about me walking in late - really irritated me, but at least the rest of the class made him feel uncomfortable about it as well.
bastard.
class was confusing as hell. 'nuff said. i got a ride home afterwards, made myself spaghetti, and played some tekken.
as she walked in, i got a phone call from work telling me i was half an hour late! and this was at 19.30, and i was SURE i only had to be in at 21.30...
so much for showering. she was kind enough to give me a ride to work, and the ride here was quite fun. i'm slowly being emasculated... i was singing along to the love actually... soundtrack...
anyway, at least work's not going to be rough tonight. i'm sitting and watching, and getting paid for it.
:D
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
07/01/04
*** 5th ***
i passed out around 5am, and we got to class around 11am, in one of the most unnecessarily fast car rides i've ever been on. we handed in our assignment, and had some coffee, before the others went home to bed, and i went to that really boring class.
we had a quiz. i filled the page with crap. i left.
doing the accounting homework in the library was not fun, and i was totally exhausted - i ended up with a half-done half-assed paper, that i'm pretty sure isn't worth the paper it was handed in on.
i had lunch, a good lunch, but i realized as i began that i'd forgotten to hand in an assignment, and it was late by about five minutes.
i finished my lunch.
i submitted the file.
i sent a sobbing email to the lecturer, who responded shortly that it would be okay.
i learned about oracle workflow over the net.
i learned that it cannot do anything that i need it to do.
oracle workflow's looking pretty sucky right now.
our lecturer in applied project is looking pretty sucky right now, for telling us to do our project in workflow only.
oh well.
i went to accounting class, which was kind of sort of okay-ish, and then slowly made my way home.
i didn't have supper, but i did shower before bed.
bed.
mmmm.
*** yesterday ***
i woke up, had a great breakfast, then went back to sleep. after i woke up the second time, i had a great lunch, and then went to taekwondo in tel aviv.
i walked in, 15 minutes late, to a testing. i couldn't breathe (it's a bombshelter with bad ventilation, go figure), and my body was sore, but i tried anyway, and ended up with a stripe on my belt, which i suppose does make it all worth it...
i'm so fickle.
i was supposed to work with someone on our accounting homework, but she wasn't answering her phone, and as i was in the area, i decided to pay a visit to karnaf - stopping on the way at a hot dog stand called willy dog's, which is a name i simply don't get.
anyway, it was good seeing him again, and we chilled until i had to meet up with one of my study partners.
as i got outside, the rain began pouring, and i had to walk for a couple of blocks... i was SOAKED by the time the dude picked me up.
which was when the rain stopped.
got to his place, got fed, we worked on our assignments
*** today ***
until 2am, and he gave me a lift home. after showering, i got to bed at 03.30, planning on waking up at 06.30 to go to training.
yeah, right.
i woke up at 12.00, spoke to her for about 25 minutes, made myself breakfast, and am currently taking a short break from doing homework.
i'm hoping to finish all this shite with time to play some starcraft before going to work tonight.
i'm feeling pretty good. sleepy, but good.
i passed out around 5am, and we got to class around 11am, in one of the most unnecessarily fast car rides i've ever been on. we handed in our assignment, and had some coffee, before the others went home to bed, and i went to that really boring class.
we had a quiz. i filled the page with crap. i left.
doing the accounting homework in the library was not fun, and i was totally exhausted - i ended up with a half-done half-assed paper, that i'm pretty sure isn't worth the paper it was handed in on.
i had lunch, a good lunch, but i realized as i began that i'd forgotten to hand in an assignment, and it was late by about five minutes.
i finished my lunch.
i submitted the file.
i sent a sobbing email to the lecturer, who responded shortly that it would be okay.
i learned about oracle workflow over the net.
i learned that it cannot do anything that i need it to do.
oracle workflow's looking pretty sucky right now.
our lecturer in applied project is looking pretty sucky right now, for telling us to do our project in workflow only.
oh well.
i went to accounting class, which was kind of sort of okay-ish, and then slowly made my way home.
i didn't have supper, but i did shower before bed.
bed.
mmmm.
*** yesterday ***
i woke up, had a great breakfast, then went back to sleep. after i woke up the second time, i had a great lunch, and then went to taekwondo in tel aviv.
i walked in, 15 minutes late, to a testing. i couldn't breathe (it's a bombshelter with bad ventilation, go figure), and my body was sore, but i tried anyway, and ended up with a stripe on my belt, which i suppose does make it all worth it...
i'm so fickle.
i was supposed to work with someone on our accounting homework, but she wasn't answering her phone, and as i was in the area, i decided to pay a visit to karnaf - stopping on the way at a hot dog stand called willy dog's, which is a name i simply don't get.
anyway, it was good seeing him again, and we chilled until i had to meet up with one of my study partners.
as i got outside, the rain began pouring, and i had to walk for a couple of blocks... i was SOAKED by the time the dude picked me up.
which was when the rain stopped.
got to his place, got fed, we worked on our assignments
*** today ***
until 2am, and he gave me a lift home. after showering, i got to bed at 03.30, planning on waking up at 06.30 to go to training.
yeah, right.
i woke up at 12.00, spoke to her for about 25 minutes, made myself breakfast, and am currently taking a short break from doing homework.
i'm hoping to finish all this shite with time to play some starcraft before going to work tonight.
i'm feeling pretty good. sleepy, but good.
Monday, January 05, 2004
05/01/04
*** 2nd ***
the guys came over, and we worked on our project
*** 3rd ***
until some rediculous time in the morning. a friend of ours came to pick them up, and returned my first invader zim cd, which i'm rather happy about.
i went to bed.
i woke up around 11am, and spent my day doing homework, and watching chasing amy, which is a very cool film.
oh, and playing a little bit of starcraft.
SxS came over, and we worked on our project
*** yesterday ***
until about 2am. i went to bed, and woke up at 06.30, leaving my apartment on rollerblades at 07.00, and arriving at our gym in ra'anana at 07.25.
i amaze myself, sometimes.
two of us made it for taekwondo, and the training was really good. for some reason, training in the morning is WAY easier than in the evening.
we walked out of the gym, into a simply perfect day. it was absolutely gorgeous, and after the training i was already feeling good.
happy happy, joy, joy :)
by some stroke of mis/fortune, i ended up taking a bus with psychotic american. we had a really interesting conversation, which i'm sure he forgot five minutes after he got off the bus.
i naively retain the hope that i've made the world a safer place.
for the remainder of the bus ride i spoke to an elderly south african woman, inanely. i'm not sure whether i like those talks, but it was pleasant nonetheless.
i had a long, hot shower when i got home, and a big-ass grapefruit breakfast - i've almost managed to work out how to get the pieces out without blinding myself.
i rolled to campus on my blades, and immediately got to work on my math assignment.
nasty, mean, mathses.
SxS and our project partner joined me, and we all worked together for a while. i then went to class, which was quite fun, although the material sucked piles, and then rejoined the guys for lunch, and a general move to ramat aviv, where we continued working.
it's been really difficult to focus.
*** today ***
we're taking a half an hour's break, and then it's back to the trenches. i'm mentally exhausted. but otherwise feeling good.
i think.
the guys came over, and we worked on our project
*** 3rd ***
until some rediculous time in the morning. a friend of ours came to pick them up, and returned my first invader zim cd, which i'm rather happy about.
i went to bed.
i woke up around 11am, and spent my day doing homework, and watching chasing amy, which is a very cool film.
oh, and playing a little bit of starcraft.
SxS came over, and we worked on our project
*** yesterday ***
until about 2am. i went to bed, and woke up at 06.30, leaving my apartment on rollerblades at 07.00, and arriving at our gym in ra'anana at 07.25.
i amaze myself, sometimes.
two of us made it for taekwondo, and the training was really good. for some reason, training in the morning is WAY easier than in the evening.
we walked out of the gym, into a simply perfect day. it was absolutely gorgeous, and after the training i was already feeling good.
happy happy, joy, joy :)
by some stroke of mis/fortune, i ended up taking a bus with psychotic american. we had a really interesting conversation, which i'm sure he forgot five minutes after he got off the bus.
i naively retain the hope that i've made the world a safer place.
for the remainder of the bus ride i spoke to an elderly south african woman, inanely. i'm not sure whether i like those talks, but it was pleasant nonetheless.
i had a long, hot shower when i got home, and a big-ass grapefruit breakfast - i've almost managed to work out how to get the pieces out without blinding myself.
i rolled to campus on my blades, and immediately got to work on my math assignment.
nasty, mean, mathses.
SxS and our project partner joined me, and we all worked together for a while. i then went to class, which was quite fun, although the material sucked piles, and then rejoined the guys for lunch, and a general move to ramat aviv, where we continued working.
it's been really difficult to focus.
*** today ***
we're taking a half an hour's break, and then it's back to the trenches. i'm mentally exhausted. but otherwise feeling good.
i think.
Friday, January 02, 2004
02/01/04
*** 31st ***
i spent my day doing c homework. it sucked.
she appeared in my room suddenly, at around 8pm, i'm guessing, and we spent new year's together at home, watching apocalypse now redux, and we ordered chinese. they slightly screwed up our order, forgetting to bring chopsticks, but it was pretty good.
i can't believe that i have a girlfriend who could enjoy a new year's like that. i've found my ideal woman!!
*** yesterday ***
she had to leave at 08.00, and i slept a little more before going to class at 12.00.
we finished class at 18.30, and i got home with half an hour to eat before SxS picked me up, and we went to tel aviv to work on our project.
we stopped by at a megastore to do some food shopping - i'd only had a couple of slices of toast, so i was pretty hungry.
i ended up eating four pieces of chicken schnitzel, and approximately five servings of spanish rice - and i felt GOOOD.
satisfied.
*** today ***
we worked on our project till 04.00, and i got home at roughly 04.30. i continued working on the c assignment - which did NOT go well...
at 08.00, i gave up, and walked to math class. i had to buy the lecturer a cup of coffee - the word "fishes" DOES exist, it's just unuseable. i hate english.
the class sucked, and i had trouble keeping my eyes open, but she came to the rescue! she came to visit me on campus, and we sat and talked for about an hour before she left for the weekend.
i printed out my assignment, handed it in, and walked slowly home.
i think i got home around 12.00, or 12.30. the walk home was simply amazing - having done what i could for the assignment, i was feeling all relaxed, and today was simply stunning. warm, and sunny, and oh, so pretty.
of course, that could just be hallucination.
i had a shower, and went to bed.
i woke up a couple of hours ago, and got myself organized foodwise (spaghetti, and grapefruit), and i'm currently waiting for the guys to get here so that we can carry on with our project... i think i'll play some starcraft in the meanwhile.
i spent my day doing c homework. it sucked.
she appeared in my room suddenly, at around 8pm, i'm guessing, and we spent new year's together at home, watching apocalypse now redux, and we ordered chinese. they slightly screwed up our order, forgetting to bring chopsticks, but it was pretty good.
i can't believe that i have a girlfriend who could enjoy a new year's like that. i've found my ideal woman!!
*** yesterday ***
she had to leave at 08.00, and i slept a little more before going to class at 12.00.
we finished class at 18.30, and i got home with half an hour to eat before SxS picked me up, and we went to tel aviv to work on our project.
we stopped by at a megastore to do some food shopping - i'd only had a couple of slices of toast, so i was pretty hungry.
i ended up eating four pieces of chicken schnitzel, and approximately five servings of spanish rice - and i felt GOOOD.
satisfied.
*** today ***
we worked on our project till 04.00, and i got home at roughly 04.30. i continued working on the c assignment - which did NOT go well...
at 08.00, i gave up, and walked to math class. i had to buy the lecturer a cup of coffee - the word "fishes" DOES exist, it's just unuseable. i hate english.
the class sucked, and i had trouble keeping my eyes open, but she came to the rescue! she came to visit me on campus, and we sat and talked for about an hour before she left for the weekend.
i printed out my assignment, handed it in, and walked slowly home.
i think i got home around 12.00, or 12.30. the walk home was simply amazing - having done what i could for the assignment, i was feeling all relaxed, and today was simply stunning. warm, and sunny, and oh, so pretty.
of course, that could just be hallucination.
i had a shower, and went to bed.
i woke up a couple of hours ago, and got myself organized foodwise (spaghetti, and grapefruit), and i'm currently waiting for the guys to get here so that we can carry on with our project... i think i'll play some starcraft in the meanwhile.
Wednesday, December 31, 2003
31/12/03
*** yesterday ***
i basically wasted the rest of the day. i played some starcraft, and went to our brit's surprise birthday party. and played some tekken.
*** today ***
i made a pitiful attempt at homework, gave up, and watched some tv before going to bed.
i basically wasted the rest of the day. i played some starcraft, and went to our brit's surprise birthday party. and played some tekken.
*** today ***
i made a pitiful attempt at homework, gave up, and watched some tv before going to bed.
Tuesday, December 30, 2003
30/12/03
*** 28th ***
i slept a bit, then worked a bit, until SxS came over, and we played some tekken. i sucked.
*** yesterday ***
i skipped first class, and went to the ultra boring one. i had difficulty focusing when he opened his mouth, but as usual i made it through.
i haven't learned a thing, though.
i handed in my homework, got a quick tutorial in using .NET to build web applications (compared to the current system, it is AWESOME. and it uses c#...), and went to do my accounting homework in the library.
aside from the person who did the original, i think i'm the only one who did the homework without copying. i didn't finish it, but i do have that tingly sense of satisfaction. it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the ugliest assignment i've ever handed in - i couldn't be arsed to do more than my rough draft.
the class was interesting - we finished all our course material, so we have three spare weeks. after class i went home, put my laundry in the washing machine, and went to taekwondo.
it has been a long, long time since i last got any real exercise. it was a rough session.
i least i stretched out.
i got home around 23.15, took my washing out, had a quick supper, and
*** today ***
i just got out of a much-needed, long, hot shower. i'm about to make plans for new year's with her (i had to choose between her and my friends, as they're doing the trance thing - it's my first time dealing with such dilemmas), and then go to bed. i have to go to work in the morning.
anyway, we've been slacking on the punishment of those-who-don't-do-their-dishes, and our argentinian has been abusing this. the other three of us have now washed all of his, and we've done so much, that we're going to be beating the crap outta him when he gets home. i have four punches that i owe him, and i did the least :)
*** later ***
well, i woke up early, and went to work. work went fine - one of the better moments was receiving a mail from some hick claiming to be a reverend with "brain cancer", in desperate need of that $20 he's owed by a company that we work with...
ya.
i had a great lunch - chinese, lemon chicken. very tasty, and lots of it.
i was supposed to go directly to ramat aviv, but my trusty study-partners weren't available, so i got a ride home, and have been arsing around here since 2pm.
i DID get to see al gore on conan o'brien, however.
i slept a bit, then worked a bit, until SxS came over, and we played some tekken. i sucked.
*** yesterday ***
i skipped first class, and went to the ultra boring one. i had difficulty focusing when he opened his mouth, but as usual i made it through.
i haven't learned a thing, though.
i handed in my homework, got a quick tutorial in using .NET to build web applications (compared to the current system, it is AWESOME. and it uses c#...), and went to do my accounting homework in the library.
aside from the person who did the original, i think i'm the only one who did the homework without copying. i didn't finish it, but i do have that tingly sense of satisfaction. it is, without a shadow of a doubt, the ugliest assignment i've ever handed in - i couldn't be arsed to do more than my rough draft.
the class was interesting - we finished all our course material, so we have three spare weeks. after class i went home, put my laundry in the washing machine, and went to taekwondo.
it has been a long, long time since i last got any real exercise. it was a rough session.
i least i stretched out.
i got home around 23.15, took my washing out, had a quick supper, and
*** today ***
i just got out of a much-needed, long, hot shower. i'm about to make plans for new year's with her (i had to choose between her and my friends, as they're doing the trance thing - it's my first time dealing with such dilemmas), and then go to bed. i have to go to work in the morning.
anyway, we've been slacking on the punishment of those-who-don't-do-their-dishes, and our argentinian has been abusing this. the other three of us have now washed all of his, and we've done so much, that we're going to be beating the crap outta him when he gets home. i have four punches that i owe him, and i did the least :)
*** later ***
well, i woke up early, and went to work. work went fine - one of the better moments was receiving a mail from some hick claiming to be a reverend with "brain cancer", in desperate need of that $20 he's owed by a company that we work with...
ya.
i had a great lunch - chinese, lemon chicken. very tasty, and lots of it.
i was supposed to go directly to ramat aviv, but my trusty study-partners weren't available, so i got a ride home, and have been arsing around here since 2pm.
i DID get to see al gore on conan o'brien, however.
Sunday, December 28, 2003
28/12/03
*** 26th ***
dinner went swell, although her father wasn't there, so i suppose i have no idea how it would've gone. her mom watched a movie on tv with us afterwards - fast food, stolen cars, which is a really weird movie, and definitely not one to see with one's partner's parents.
*** yesterday ***
she slept at my place, and in the morning we went to SSSO and her husband's place for breakfast. good breakfast, it went on from 10.30 till about 14.00, and included watching some tv, and me getting a belated birthday present: one of those totally sweet bean bag thingies that you heat up in the microwave for sore muscles.
JUST what i needed!
i slept and did homework, and later on went out with grootbek and a friend for hot chips. she picked me up, and we went to put petrol in her car, and then returned to my place to watch a nightmare before christmas. i've been waiting to see that movie since it came out... it was AWESOME!!
*** today ***
by the time the movie was over, it was so cold that we literally had to hold each other until we were warm enough that she could drive home, and i could brush my teeth.
i woke up at 07.30, and had a nice, hot shower, before being picked up by SxS, and going to our big meeting. the meeting lasted one and a half hours, and was successful - more or less.
we walked out of that meeting, into another one, which lasted about an hour, and i got myself a ride home. i watched the first half of the goonies, which i only saw once as a kid.
i'm sure that chunk is related to the kid from the kid, they look similar and have exactly the same, stupid, acting and voices.
yes, i KNOW they're just kids.
i went back to school for math class - i managed to lose a bet of five cups of coffee with the lecturer. the word "fishes" is a plural noun. when the hell would one use it acceptably?!?!?!
i feel cheated, by the whole world.
i had lunch, and then went with grootbek and a friend of ours to the mall, where we did the mallrat thing, and went bowling.
now, i've ALWAYS sucked at bowling. this is the first time i've won at bowling: i scored 164!! with four strikes, one of them off a spare in the last round, and four non-strike spares in total. i r0xx0red!!
i'm very proud of me.
before going, we played an arcade game which involved force-feedback machine gun controls. we did okay, but i couldn't move my right hand for about five minutes afterwards - those things were POWERFUL.
i'm about to take a nap, and then i'm going to do some of the work i'm supposed to have finished by tomorrow morning...
dinner went swell, although her father wasn't there, so i suppose i have no idea how it would've gone. her mom watched a movie on tv with us afterwards - fast food, stolen cars, which is a really weird movie, and definitely not one to see with one's partner's parents.
*** yesterday ***
she slept at my place, and in the morning we went to SSSO and her husband's place for breakfast. good breakfast, it went on from 10.30 till about 14.00, and included watching some tv, and me getting a belated birthday present: one of those totally sweet bean bag thingies that you heat up in the microwave for sore muscles.
JUST what i needed!
i slept and did homework, and later on went out with grootbek and a friend for hot chips. she picked me up, and we went to put petrol in her car, and then returned to my place to watch a nightmare before christmas. i've been waiting to see that movie since it came out... it was AWESOME!!
*** today ***
by the time the movie was over, it was so cold that we literally had to hold each other until we were warm enough that she could drive home, and i could brush my teeth.
i woke up at 07.30, and had a nice, hot shower, before being picked up by SxS, and going to our big meeting. the meeting lasted one and a half hours, and was successful - more or less.
we walked out of that meeting, into another one, which lasted about an hour, and i got myself a ride home. i watched the first half of the goonies, which i only saw once as a kid.
i'm sure that chunk is related to the kid from the kid, they look similar and have exactly the same, stupid, acting and voices.
yes, i KNOW they're just kids.
i went back to school for math class - i managed to lose a bet of five cups of coffee with the lecturer. the word "fishes" is a plural noun. when the hell would one use it acceptably?!?!?!
i feel cheated, by the whole world.
i had lunch, and then went with grootbek and a friend of ours to the mall, where we did the mallrat thing, and went bowling.
now, i've ALWAYS sucked at bowling. this is the first time i've won at bowling: i scored 164!! with four strikes, one of them off a spare in the last round, and four non-strike spares in total. i r0xx0red!!
i'm very proud of me.
before going, we played an arcade game which involved force-feedback machine gun controls. we did okay, but i couldn't move my right hand for about five minutes afterwards - those things were POWERFUL.
i'm about to take a nap, and then i'm going to do some of the work i'm supposed to have finished by tomorrow morning...
Friday, December 26, 2003
26/12/03
she and i arrived at the party just after 00.30, which was being held in the club just underneath the tallest building in israel.
a really styling club, with free sushi, and cheap (relatively) drinks. they were playing hip-hop when we walked in, and the dance floor was packed, as was the rest of the place.
it was our first time properly "going out", as opposed to seeing movies, and doing coffee shop rounds, and it was really, really nice. we spent a lot of time dancing together, talking to all sorts of different people, and we had a great time.
we left a bit early, and i got to sleep around 4 / 5am. i don't know how, but she managed to drive herself home - i was too exhausted to even THINK about taking her home.
i woke up around noon, and received a phone call from a friend of mine, asking after another friend of mine for purposes of causing them trouble. as i knew that there was no good reason for this, i went over to the other's place to warn him. we had a difficult, 45 minute discussion over what to do, but whatever happens, i think that my relationship with the first one just took a dive.
bad timing too, he just got issued with a tavor (bull-pup assault rifle), and he's on vacation...
just kidding, that has nothing to do with it.
i went shopping with grootbek and a friend of ours, and then she picked me up, and we went to the mall. i had some lunch, and we had a really serious, unpleasant conversation, that needed to be had. it wasn't even about us, but we were both upset afterwards, and i'm still feeling uncomfortable.
anyway.
i got home, and passed out. i had some really, really odd dreams. one of them involved me going to see a movie with her father (who doesn't dig me), and we had a really pleasant conversation, that was totally arbitrary.
got stuck in my head.
wishful thinking.
i've got an hour to get ready, then i'm going to her place for dinner. and i'm wondering how it'll go. eh.
a really styling club, with free sushi, and cheap (relatively) drinks. they were playing hip-hop when we walked in, and the dance floor was packed, as was the rest of the place.
it was our first time properly "going out", as opposed to seeing movies, and doing coffee shop rounds, and it was really, really nice. we spent a lot of time dancing together, talking to all sorts of different people, and we had a great time.
we left a bit early, and i got to sleep around 4 / 5am. i don't know how, but she managed to drive herself home - i was too exhausted to even THINK about taking her home.
i woke up around noon, and received a phone call from a friend of mine, asking after another friend of mine for purposes of causing them trouble. as i knew that there was no good reason for this, i went over to the other's place to warn him. we had a difficult, 45 minute discussion over what to do, but whatever happens, i think that my relationship with the first one just took a dive.
bad timing too, he just got issued with a tavor (bull-pup assault rifle), and he's on vacation...
just kidding, that has nothing to do with it.
i went shopping with grootbek and a friend of ours, and then she picked me up, and we went to the mall. i had some lunch, and we had a really serious, unpleasant conversation, that needed to be had. it wasn't even about us, but we were both upset afterwards, and i'm still feeling uncomfortable.
anyway.
i got home, and passed out. i had some really, really odd dreams. one of them involved me going to see a movie with her father (who doesn't dig me), and we had a really pleasant conversation, that was totally arbitrary.
got stuck in my head.
wishful thinking.
i've got an hour to get ready, then i'm going to her place for dinner. and i'm wondering how it'll go. eh.
Thursday, December 25, 2003
25/12/03
*** 23rd ***
i was supposed to go to taekwondo, but the guys who were buying my oven were scheduled to arrive at 17.00, and i wouldn't have made it back in time.
they only arrived at 20.30, or thereabouts. stupid pricks.
at least i got rid of the damn thing. now i'm working on selling my fridge.
SxS picked me up quite late, and we went off to tel-aviv to work on our applied project.
we got almost nothing done.
*** yesterday ***
on the way back from tel-aviv, SxS and i stopped in to a fast-food joint (about 3am) for burgers and chips. it was really cold, but i was really desperate for food.
i got to bed around 5am, and to be honest, i don't even know what i did for the missing hour or so. i woke up at 11.00, to go to a "meeting".
the meeting started off really badly, with me forgetting the name of the person i was meeting with. i'd met her months before, and spoken to her fairly regularly in the time since.
needless to say, she was quite offended.
the meeting went okay, and i received another tutorial in oracle's portal software. i learned something.
i spent the rest of my time on campus organizing meetings, which is a bit irritating, as it means i got nothing productive done.
i got home around 16.30, and passed out. i slept till 19.30, and my study partner came over, and we worked on our c homework until 23.30. my vision was blurry, and my brain was fuzzy from dealing with various degrees of pointerdom. almost all of our issues stemmed from trying to send struct** to struct***, and so on, and it's all because the method signatures are given, and we're not allowed to change them.
after she left, i had supper, and our brit, grootbek and i watched a national geographic documentary on jurassic crocodiles.
*** today ***
and some welsh people, in a hardcore version of jackass.
i have tons of homework to do, as usual, and now is not a good time to start. i wish i had a reasonable excuse...
i'm enjoying a nice hot cup of soup before i begin, though - makes me feel all warm and tingly.
i just remembered! i was supposed to go to karnaf's christmas bash!
oh, pooh.
hopefully we'll get it right for new year's...
i had a long day today. i got up at 08.30, and got to the pharmacy at 09.40.
rant:
all over the world, the medical industry (i think that's the right word) is advocating the use of condoms, both for HIV protection, and for birth-control. the cheapest condoms i've been able to find in this country are NIS 27 (R40) for 12.
WHAT THE #@$%?!?!?!
i got to university at 10.15, all ready for our first meeting, but noone else was there. so i did all the prepwork myself, and one of the guys made it at about 11.45.
we entered the meeting without our project manager. that was a little embarrassing.
the meeting went really well, in fact, with our project manager arriving after about half an hour, and the meeting itself lasting a good hour and a half. we learned all sorts of things, agreed on all sorts of things, and managed to get a lot of preparation done for the next meeting on sunday, with the boss.
we'd missed a class, so we went to talk to the lecturer, who was quite happy that we'd come, and gave us all sorts of material, and some helpful advice.
nice.
after lunch, i went to the library, and did the algorithms homework. it was really simple, but i was exhausted, and found it quite rough. but i did it.
our next class was in international economics and trade. normally, our lecturer is clear and concise. today, i can only describe his lecture as the ramblings of a madman. and whoever developed those theories in the first place, had some severe freudian issues, and should have been killed, quickly and quietly, and buried with his notes.
the sketchings and equations made no sense whatsoever, and totally contradicted every basic mathematics principle i've ever learned.
and there were too - many - stars.
during class, due to the overwhelming and disturbing nature of the material, i took a break, and went to talk to some friends of mine. through them, i gained some interesting ammunition for our sunday meeting, and i'm starting to get really excited for it: we're gonna kick some ASS! (if the guy listens to us, at least)
i got a ride home, and found her waiting outside for me.
* GRIN *
we spent some time talking about bits of the last two weeks, and she went off to babysit.
i had a shower, and made myself a snack, and didn't do any sleeping. i tried playing counterstrike, but our internet's slowed down, mainly by grootbek uploading gay porn again.
i have plans to go with her to a free-sushi party tonight, but it's still in the air...
i was supposed to go to taekwondo, but the guys who were buying my oven were scheduled to arrive at 17.00, and i wouldn't have made it back in time.
they only arrived at 20.30, or thereabouts. stupid pricks.
at least i got rid of the damn thing. now i'm working on selling my fridge.
SxS picked me up quite late, and we went off to tel-aviv to work on our applied project.
we got almost nothing done.
*** yesterday ***
on the way back from tel-aviv, SxS and i stopped in to a fast-food joint (about 3am) for burgers and chips. it was really cold, but i was really desperate for food.
i got to bed around 5am, and to be honest, i don't even know what i did for the missing hour or so. i woke up at 11.00, to go to a "meeting".
the meeting started off really badly, with me forgetting the name of the person i was meeting with. i'd met her months before, and spoken to her fairly regularly in the time since.
needless to say, she was quite offended.
the meeting went okay, and i received another tutorial in oracle's portal software. i learned something.
i spent the rest of my time on campus organizing meetings, which is a bit irritating, as it means i got nothing productive done.
i got home around 16.30, and passed out. i slept till 19.30, and my study partner came over, and we worked on our c homework until 23.30. my vision was blurry, and my brain was fuzzy from dealing with various degrees of pointerdom. almost all of our issues stemmed from trying to send struct** to struct***, and so on, and it's all because the method signatures are given, and we're not allowed to change them.
after she left, i had supper, and our brit, grootbek and i watched a national geographic documentary on jurassic crocodiles.
*** today ***
and some welsh people, in a hardcore version of jackass.
i have tons of homework to do, as usual, and now is not a good time to start. i wish i had a reasonable excuse...
i'm enjoying a nice hot cup of soup before i begin, though - makes me feel all warm and tingly.
i just remembered! i was supposed to go to karnaf's christmas bash!
oh, pooh.
hopefully we'll get it right for new year's...
merry christmas, everyone!
*** later ***i had a long day today. i got up at 08.30, and got to the pharmacy at 09.40.
rant:
all over the world, the medical industry (i think that's the right word) is advocating the use of condoms, both for HIV protection, and for birth-control. the cheapest condoms i've been able to find in this country are NIS 27 (R40) for 12.
WHAT THE #@$%?!?!?!
i got to university at 10.15, all ready for our first meeting, but noone else was there. so i did all the prepwork myself, and one of the guys made it at about 11.45.
we entered the meeting without our project manager. that was a little embarrassing.
the meeting went really well, in fact, with our project manager arriving after about half an hour, and the meeting itself lasting a good hour and a half. we learned all sorts of things, agreed on all sorts of things, and managed to get a lot of preparation done for the next meeting on sunday, with the boss.
we'd missed a class, so we went to talk to the lecturer, who was quite happy that we'd come, and gave us all sorts of material, and some helpful advice.
nice.
after lunch, i went to the library, and did the algorithms homework. it was really simple, but i was exhausted, and found it quite rough. but i did it.
our next class was in international economics and trade. normally, our lecturer is clear and concise. today, i can only describe his lecture as the ramblings of a madman. and whoever developed those theories in the first place, had some severe freudian issues, and should have been killed, quickly and quietly, and buried with his notes.
the sketchings and equations made no sense whatsoever, and totally contradicted every basic mathematics principle i've ever learned.
and there were too - many - stars.
during class, due to the overwhelming and disturbing nature of the material, i took a break, and went to talk to some friends of mine. through them, i gained some interesting ammunition for our sunday meeting, and i'm starting to get really excited for it: we're gonna kick some ASS! (if the guy listens to us, at least)
i got a ride home, and found her waiting outside for me.
* GRIN *
we spent some time talking about bits of the last two weeks, and she went off to babysit.
i had a shower, and made myself a snack, and didn't do any sleeping. i tried playing counterstrike, but our internet's slowed down, mainly by grootbek uploading gay porn again.
i have plans to go with her to a free-sushi party tonight, but it's still in the air...
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
23/12/03
*** 20th ***
i slept late saturday, and spent the afternoon doing homework, and playing counterstrike. i watched taxi driver,
*** 21st ***
before going to sleep (around 3am).
i slept quite a lot (i needed it), and basically did c homework the whole afternoon.
i went to a friend's place, and got some exercise (they have a pull-up bar, and stairs that equate to a set of monkey-bars).
we had some coffee, and i gave online (telephonic) c# tutorials.
oh well.
i went home, got dressed up (black jeans, smart black shirt, my dvd belt, and more or less (more less than more) decent shoes.
about eight of us met up at the taxi rank, and went off to the residence of the president of our university, for an "event".
lots of shmoozing, and some good food. the evening went well.
SxS and i left early, and went to our friend in pituach's place, where they were just setting up for a party - which turned out to be the most chilled house-party i've ever been to. really, really nice.
*** yesterday ***
i finally got to sleep at 3am, again, got up at 07.30, and arrived at class just after 08.20. class was okay, but for the second half we had a guest lecturer, who taught us all sorts of shit about aquisitions and mergers, which was really sweet.
and, as is usual for mondays, this was followed by the most boring lecture in the world. he's employing a new trick - holding off the class quiz till the end, so that noone gets to leave early.
mutha-funsta.
got into a couple of political arguments today - which turned fairly ugly, so we gave up - and then sat in the library doing accounting homework.
went well. hmmph.
accounting class was okay, and then i hurried home, hoping to make it in time to eat before training.
i am *such* a lazy bastard. i went to see lord of the rings instead, with grootbek and our brit.
most of it was fan-friggin'-tastic. some of it was complete shite, and some of it was downright aweful. but all-in-all, i did enjoy it.
*** today ***
we got into a really obscure argument after the movie: "can lord of the rings really be considered good literature?"
how does one define good literature?
anyway, grootbek tried to get involved in the argument, and i shot him down from the start, as he has no clue when it comes to intelligent arguments.
i was a bit too rough with him though, and now he's all offended again, and threatening to disconnect me from the internet.
very mature.
so now i have to be extra-specially nice to him. i suppose i deserve it though, i've been far from patient with him, and he is like a little retarded kid - you just CAN'T be mean to one.
i'm about to have a shower - hopefully .NET will have finished installing on my machine before bedtime...
i slept late saturday, and spent the afternoon doing homework, and playing counterstrike. i watched taxi driver,
*** 21st ***
before going to sleep (around 3am).
i slept quite a lot (i needed it), and basically did c homework the whole afternoon.
i went to a friend's place, and got some exercise (they have a pull-up bar, and stairs that equate to a set of monkey-bars).
we had some coffee, and i gave online (telephonic) c# tutorials.
oh well.
i went home, got dressed up (black jeans, smart black shirt, my dvd belt, and more or less (more less than more) decent shoes.
about eight of us met up at the taxi rank, and went off to the residence of the president of our university, for an "event".
lots of shmoozing, and some good food. the evening went well.
SxS and i left early, and went to our friend in pituach's place, where they were just setting up for a party - which turned out to be the most chilled house-party i've ever been to. really, really nice.
*** yesterday ***
i finally got to sleep at 3am, again, got up at 07.30, and arrived at class just after 08.20. class was okay, but for the second half we had a guest lecturer, who taught us all sorts of shit about aquisitions and mergers, which was really sweet.
and, as is usual for mondays, this was followed by the most boring lecture in the world. he's employing a new trick - holding off the class quiz till the end, so that noone gets to leave early.
mutha-funsta.
got into a couple of political arguments today - which turned fairly ugly, so we gave up - and then sat in the library doing accounting homework.
went well. hmmph.
accounting class was okay, and then i hurried home, hoping to make it in time to eat before training.
i am *such* a lazy bastard. i went to see lord of the rings instead, with grootbek and our brit.
most of it was fan-friggin'-tastic. some of it was complete shite, and some of it was downright aweful. but all-in-all, i did enjoy it.
*** today ***
we got into a really obscure argument after the movie: "can lord of the rings really be considered good literature?"
how does one define good literature?
anyway, grootbek tried to get involved in the argument, and i shot him down from the start, as he has no clue when it comes to intelligent arguments.
i was a bit too rough with him though, and now he's all offended again, and threatening to disconnect me from the internet.
very mature.
so now i have to be extra-specially nice to him. i suppose i deserve it though, i've been far from patient with him, and he is like a little retarded kid - you just CAN'T be mean to one.
i'm about to have a shower - hopefully .NET will have finished installing on my machine before bedtime...
Saturday, December 20, 2003
20/12/03
*** yesterday ***
i did almost nothing of value with my day. i played tons of counterstrike, fairing quite well, and then went off to candle-lighting (it's the first night of hanukkah) at a friend's place.
afterwards, we returned home, and had a full three-course meal, for ten people, which in total cost about R100. we had soup, and homemade bread, cottage pie, and salads, and finished off with potato thingies (latkes), and way too many jam doughnuts.
we watched dogma, and then the k1 fighting, which was REALLY exciting! great fights, especially sapp vs. kimo, which was simply awesome.
*** today ***
grootbek and i then had a serious argument, but it took him a while to stop being childish and actually argue. unfortunately, i then realized that he really was correct, and i'd pushed him unnecessarily hard (figuratively, although i did have to physically threaten him to get him to calm down and stop shouting (he's much bigger than i am)), and i hope my apology was the end of it.
it's tough, living with my big mouth.
sometimes ;)
it's now very much early morning, and i STILL haven't slept, but i have to wait a bit for the water to heat up before i shower, and there's no way i'm going to bed without cleaning up.
hmmm. whatever shall i do?
i know.
c.
or not.
i did almost nothing of value with my day. i played tons of counterstrike, fairing quite well, and then went off to candle-lighting (it's the first night of hanukkah) at a friend's place.
afterwards, we returned home, and had a full three-course meal, for ten people, which in total cost about R100. we had soup, and homemade bread, cottage pie, and salads, and finished off with potato thingies (latkes), and way too many jam doughnuts.
we watched dogma, and then the k1 fighting, which was REALLY exciting! great fights, especially sapp vs. kimo, which was simply awesome.
*** today ***
grootbek and i then had a serious argument, but it took him a while to stop being childish and actually argue. unfortunately, i then realized that he really was correct, and i'd pushed him unnecessarily hard (figuratively, although i did have to physically threaten him to get him to calm down and stop shouting (he's much bigger than i am)), and i hope my apology was the end of it.
it's tough, living with my big mouth.
sometimes ;)
it's now very much early morning, and i STILL haven't slept, but i have to wait a bit for the water to heat up before i shower, and there's no way i'm going to bed without cleaning up.
hmmm. whatever shall i do?
i know.
c.
or not.
Friday, December 19, 2003
19/12/03
*** yesterday ***
i got to bed around 06.00 - 06.30, and i woke up at 11am.
and went to class.
where i remained until 18.30. in our last class, i fell asleep, and apparently missed everyone having a good laugh at my expense, with the lecturer defending me.
nice.
last night was very chilled. i did some laundry, i watched two movies i hadn't seen before (mallrats and office space), and spent about an hour struggling to fly a helicopter.
hovering at about three feet, and landing, is incredibly difficult, and i have learned the utmost respect for helicopter pilots. and they make it look so easy in the movies...
i also played some counterstrike, but i sucked badly. it was an unfamiliar map, but that doesn't excuse my silly responses in tight situations.
oh, and SxS came over, and we played some tekken. i need more practice...
*** today ***
i woke up at 10.30, nay, 10.40, and tried to finish our c assignment. i managed to fix a significant portion of it (i had to rewrite the realloc() function), and then discovered that elusive "one more bug".
and then grootbek walked in, and continued talking to me after i politely told him to leave off, and he broke my concentration. then he got all upset with me, because he'd done me a favour by bringing me a returned assignment from campus.
i could no longer focus on the bug, and gave up (i was running out of time), which basically made all the work i'd done this morning worthless.
i RAN to campus, walking only when it was raining, and printed wednesday's version of the assignment, and handed it in just in time.
i got a lift back home, and now i have to figure out what to do with my day. part of me wants to spend it beating up my flatmate.
i got to bed around 06.00 - 06.30, and i woke up at 11am.
and went to class.
where i remained until 18.30. in our last class, i fell asleep, and apparently missed everyone having a good laugh at my expense, with the lecturer defending me.
nice.
last night was very chilled. i did some laundry, i watched two movies i hadn't seen before (mallrats and office space), and spent about an hour struggling to fly a helicopter.
hovering at about three feet, and landing, is incredibly difficult, and i have learned the utmost respect for helicopter pilots. and they make it look so easy in the movies...
i also played some counterstrike, but i sucked badly. it was an unfamiliar map, but that doesn't excuse my silly responses in tight situations.
oh, and SxS came over, and we played some tekken. i need more practice...
*** today ***
i woke up at 10.30, nay, 10.40, and tried to finish our c assignment. i managed to fix a significant portion of it (i had to rewrite the realloc() function), and then discovered that elusive "one more bug".
and then grootbek walked in, and continued talking to me after i politely told him to leave off, and he broke my concentration. then he got all upset with me, because he'd done me a favour by bringing me a returned assignment from campus.
i could no longer focus on the bug, and gave up (i was running out of time), which basically made all the work i'd done this morning worthless.
i RAN to campus, walking only when it was raining, and printed wednesday's version of the assignment, and handed it in just in time.
i got a lift back home, and now i have to figure out what to do with my day. part of me wants to spend it beating up my flatmate.
Thursday, December 18, 2003
18/12/03
*** 16th ***
i got home around 6am, waited about half an hour for the water to heat up, had a shower, and went to bed. i woke up around 10 - 11am, when she came over.
she left around noon, and i had breakfast, got my gear and went off to tel aviv, for training.
i got there a few minutes late. i received, and put on, my new taekwondo uniform, and we began doing all sorts of silly things, like sprinting, and fighting. having missed a lot of training, being sick, and losing weight / muscle mass (people are commenting, it's quite embarrassing), i found it to be a lot of hard work.
after training, i went to a classmate's apartment to do our accounting homework. an absolutely STUNNING apartment, in the middle of tel aviv, and it's really cheap.
i'm only a tad jealous.
anyway, i couldn't see straight, but we somehow got through most of the assignment. and then i made my way home.
i got home, and found our brit playing with a new joystick, attached to microsoft flight simulator 2004.
and it is GOOOOOOD.
he gave me some time with a training helicopter, which proved to be really difficult, but as i've been obsessed with flying them since i was a child, i was completely absorbed and thrilled.
and i got to practise all the neat stuff i've learned from the jane's ah-64d longbow manual.
she came over with one of her flatmates, and our brit and grootbek came with us to ra'anana to play some pool.
*** yesterday ***
we had a lot of fun, and because there were five of us, it came out fairly cheap, at least by israeli standards.
she and her flatmate returned to gedera, and i logged on to an israeli counterstrike server. and played some AMAZING games! i managed to keep a kill:death ratio > 1, and at one point racked up a beautiful knife-kill...
on my way to bed, i stopped by our brit's room, where he had been sitting for ages, flying a boeing 737, the entire distance, in real time, between two states.
i'd heard the others making fun of him, and, curious, i sat down to watch.
i could not believe that flying and landing a boeing could be so intense, and so riveting. for about twenty minutes, or more, i had to keep reminding myself to blink. i managed to help out a bit, but unfortunately the landing didn't go so well, and resulted in a crash.
but the process is simply incredible.
he then gave me another round with the helicopter. i had one goal: to land the damn thing.
after a few minutes, i managed to figure out the basic idea - you have to pre-compensate for over-compensation, by pushing the rudder pedal (twisting the joystick), and immediately pushing on the other one to adjust. this results, basically, in twisting your hand (pushing the pedals) rapidly from one side to the other, which kind of looks like a nervous twitch.
anyway, i LANDED THE DAMN THING.
AH - YEAH.
totally proud of myself, i went to bed (around 03.30).
i woke up around 11am, or something. i went shopping, bought myself some food, and a 40GB harddrive. i can now use my computer like ordinary human beings.
my programming partner came over around 15.00, and we worked on our assignment, due friday, until 23.00.
my back, and my eyes, HURT.
she gave me a ride to work,
*** today ***
where we're now about to begin. i watched a really funny movie, called the gamers, or something, for which i'll add a link when i get the chance...
good hunting.
i got home around 6am, waited about half an hour for the water to heat up, had a shower, and went to bed. i woke up around 10 - 11am, when she came over.
she left around noon, and i had breakfast, got my gear and went off to tel aviv, for training.
i got there a few minutes late. i received, and put on, my new taekwondo uniform, and we began doing all sorts of silly things, like sprinting, and fighting. having missed a lot of training, being sick, and losing weight / muscle mass (people are commenting, it's quite embarrassing), i found it to be a lot of hard work.
after training, i went to a classmate's apartment to do our accounting homework. an absolutely STUNNING apartment, in the middle of tel aviv, and it's really cheap.
i'm only a tad jealous.
anyway, i couldn't see straight, but we somehow got through most of the assignment. and then i made my way home.
i got home, and found our brit playing with a new joystick, attached to microsoft flight simulator 2004.
and it is GOOOOOOD.
he gave me some time with a training helicopter, which proved to be really difficult, but as i've been obsessed with flying them since i was a child, i was completely absorbed and thrilled.
and i got to practise all the neat stuff i've learned from the jane's ah-64d longbow manual.
she came over with one of her flatmates, and our brit and grootbek came with us to ra'anana to play some pool.
*** yesterday ***
we had a lot of fun, and because there were five of us, it came out fairly cheap, at least by israeli standards.
she and her flatmate returned to gedera, and i logged on to an israeli counterstrike server. and played some AMAZING games! i managed to keep a kill:death ratio > 1, and at one point racked up a beautiful knife-kill...
on my way to bed, i stopped by our brit's room, where he had been sitting for ages, flying a boeing 737, the entire distance, in real time, between two states.
i'd heard the others making fun of him, and, curious, i sat down to watch.
i could not believe that flying and landing a boeing could be so intense, and so riveting. for about twenty minutes, or more, i had to keep reminding myself to blink. i managed to help out a bit, but unfortunately the landing didn't go so well, and resulted in a crash.
but the process is simply incredible.
he then gave me another round with the helicopter. i had one goal: to land the damn thing.
after a few minutes, i managed to figure out the basic idea - you have to pre-compensate for over-compensation, by pushing the rudder pedal (twisting the joystick), and immediately pushing on the other one to adjust. this results, basically, in twisting your hand (pushing the pedals) rapidly from one side to the other, which kind of looks like a nervous twitch.
anyway, i LANDED THE DAMN THING.
AH - YEAH.
totally proud of myself, i went to bed (around 03.30).
i woke up around 11am, or something. i went shopping, bought myself some food, and a 40GB harddrive. i can now use my computer like ordinary human beings.
my programming partner came over around 15.00, and we worked on our assignment, due friday, until 23.00.
my back, and my eyes, HURT.
she gave me a ride to work,
*** today ***
where we're now about to begin. i watched a really funny movie, called the gamers, or something, for which i'll add a link when i get the chance...
good hunting.
Monday, December 15, 2003
15/12/03
*** 12th ***
i got home at 05.30. i got up at 09.30, and stumbled to campus, where i printed out my homework and handed it in. this took me forever, as i wasn't just tired, but STILL SICK.
i did some basic shopping, and went to sleep.
she came over, and we went to sleep.
she left, and i went to sleep.
she came over, much later, and we went to the video store. we took out the professional, with jean reno. and watched it, all wrapped up in a duvet on the couch, eating marshmallows with nutella, and oranges.
and i TOTALLY enjoyed the movie.
i'd seen it before, when i was about 15, and there were a couple of things i didn't appreciate. firstly, it's a luc besson film, with gary oldman. a winning combination, as the fifth element is one of my favourite movies. secondly, natalie portman. good lord! it was really her!
she slept over,
*** 13th ***
and left in the morning. i slept in a bit, and then proceeded to, very slowly (STILL SICK!!), clear out my room for cleaning. pretty much one item at a time. fortunately, i managed to find a whole bunch of important stuff that had gone missing...
my flatmates and a friend dragged me out to burger king for lunch, which was even slower than usual, although they had tofu ice-cream, which didn't do more damage to my sinuses.
she picked me up on our way home, which lessoned the hell of me having to move my body, and we spent about half an hour together, before she ran off to visit a friend. i did some sewing, and our brit, and a friend of ours, joined me in watching a documentary on the shaolin.
absolutely AMAZING.
i made myself some spaghetti, and then put my computer together (after having put the rest of my room back). and then wasted some time.
later, she had a problem with her car, so instead of driving over i walked her to my place, we spent some time together, and i walked her home. i'm very sweet.
*** yesterday ***
i got up around 11am, did my math homework, and went to class. after class we struggled with some rediculously difficult accounting exercises, and then i went off with my project partners to tel aviv, where we hurriedly finished the assignment, and handed it in
*** today ***
at 00.02, two minutes after the due date.
brilliant.
i slept over, learning some useful yoga techniques before going to bed. i slept awefully, however, and far too little.
class today was a little piece of hell. way too boring for my tastes, but then, monday always is.
today i learned how to use oracle's portal to build and use a database. it's very simple, and very impressive.
i gave up on the accounting homework, and handed in a rude letter to the effect that the homework was just too much. i hope i get partial credit. the accounting class itself was totally confusing.
after class, i went home, slept for about half an hour, and then got on the bus to work. where i am now... again...
i got home at 05.30. i got up at 09.30, and stumbled to campus, where i printed out my homework and handed it in. this took me forever, as i wasn't just tired, but STILL SICK.
i did some basic shopping, and went to sleep.
she came over, and we went to sleep.
she left, and i went to sleep.
she came over, much later, and we went to the video store. we took out the professional, with jean reno. and watched it, all wrapped up in a duvet on the couch, eating marshmallows with nutella, and oranges.
and i TOTALLY enjoyed the movie.
i'd seen it before, when i was about 15, and there were a couple of things i didn't appreciate. firstly, it's a luc besson film, with gary oldman. a winning combination, as the fifth element is one of my favourite movies. secondly, natalie portman. good lord! it was really her!
she slept over,
*** 13th ***
and left in the morning. i slept in a bit, and then proceeded to, very slowly (STILL SICK!!), clear out my room for cleaning. pretty much one item at a time. fortunately, i managed to find a whole bunch of important stuff that had gone missing...
my flatmates and a friend dragged me out to burger king for lunch, which was even slower than usual, although they had tofu ice-cream, which didn't do more damage to my sinuses.
she picked me up on our way home, which lessoned the hell of me having to move my body, and we spent about half an hour together, before she ran off to visit a friend. i did some sewing, and our brit, and a friend of ours, joined me in watching a documentary on the shaolin.
absolutely AMAZING.
i made myself some spaghetti, and then put my computer together (after having put the rest of my room back). and then wasted some time.
later, she had a problem with her car, so instead of driving over i walked her to my place, we spent some time together, and i walked her home. i'm very sweet.
*** yesterday ***
i got up around 11am, did my math homework, and went to class. after class we struggled with some rediculously difficult accounting exercises, and then i went off with my project partners to tel aviv, where we hurriedly finished the assignment, and handed it in
*** today ***
at 00.02, two minutes after the due date.
brilliant.
i slept over, learning some useful yoga techniques before going to bed. i slept awefully, however, and far too little.
class today was a little piece of hell. way too boring for my tastes, but then, monday always is.
today i learned how to use oracle's portal to build and use a database. it's very simple, and very impressive.
i gave up on the accounting homework, and handed in a rude letter to the effect that the homework was just too much. i hope i get partial credit. the accounting class itself was totally confusing.
after class, i went home, slept for about half an hour, and then got on the bus to work. where i am now... again...
Thursday, December 11, 2003
11/12/03
*** 9th ***
my ear drove me nuts the whole day. i started the warmup session in tel aviv, but i was literally barking orders, then taking a moment to keep myself upright, as i was seriously in need of not doing anything physical.
i got home fairly late, and spent the evening drinking soup, and trying to sleep. sleep did not come easily, however.
lots of coughing, hacking, and nasal dripping.
on the plus side, the showers have been great.
*** 10th ***
i forced myself up yesterday morning. i don't know how. i had a fever, and my ear was still buggered, but i got to university at 09.05, and sat down for a most productive meeting.
i then went to a class in which i didn't understand a thing. apparently, it was a really good lecture.
i spent the day on campus, doing homework, meeting with people apropos our applied project, and helping others with their homework. by the time i left, at about 18.00, i was completely worn out.
more soup, some really well-made (even if i DO say so myself) tuna-pasta, and a short semi-nap later (accompanied by half a box of tissues), i found myself desperate enough to try medication.
sinu-med.
i think it helped. i took the bus to work, on which i heard the paranormal remix of prodigy - voodoo people, which is such a classic!
*** today ***
we're starting work in a little while, and my chest and head are buggered. not only that, but i've agreed to work tomorrow night too. as much as i'm too screwed to do it, i really need the cash.
workaholic.
*** later ***
well. i got to bed at 06.00, and arrived in class at noon. our last class finished at 18.30, and i managed to fit in an hour's sleep before getting on the bus to work.
i arrived at work about two (2) minutes late, and we're about to start.
good news for today:
the assignment in c that i thought was due tomorrow, is due next week only, and i have someone to do the homework with.
bad news for the day:
sandman and moonflake are no longer together. it is a sad day, and it feels like the end of an era. i hope things turn out okay.
end.
my ear drove me nuts the whole day. i started the warmup session in tel aviv, but i was literally barking orders, then taking a moment to keep myself upright, as i was seriously in need of not doing anything physical.
i got home fairly late, and spent the evening drinking soup, and trying to sleep. sleep did not come easily, however.
lots of coughing, hacking, and nasal dripping.
on the plus side, the showers have been great.
*** 10th ***
i forced myself up yesterday morning. i don't know how. i had a fever, and my ear was still buggered, but i got to university at 09.05, and sat down for a most productive meeting.
i then went to a class in which i didn't understand a thing. apparently, it was a really good lecture.
i spent the day on campus, doing homework, meeting with people apropos our applied project, and helping others with their homework. by the time i left, at about 18.00, i was completely worn out.
more soup, some really well-made (even if i DO say so myself) tuna-pasta, and a short semi-nap later (accompanied by half a box of tissues), i found myself desperate enough to try medication.
sinu-med.
i think it helped. i took the bus to work, on which i heard the paranormal remix of prodigy - voodoo people, which is such a classic!
*** today ***
we're starting work in a little while, and my chest and head are buggered. not only that, but i've agreed to work tomorrow night too. as much as i'm too screwed to do it, i really need the cash.
workaholic.
*** later ***
well. i got to bed at 06.00, and arrived in class at noon. our last class finished at 18.30, and i managed to fit in an hour's sleep before getting on the bus to work.
i arrived at work about two (2) minutes late, and we're about to start.
good news for today:
the assignment in c that i thought was due tomorrow, is due next week only, and i have someone to do the homework with.
bad news for the day:
sandman and moonflake are no longer together. it is a sad day, and it feels like the end of an era. i hope things turn out okay.
end.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
09/12/03
*** yesterday ***
well, no sleep for me. i was in class by 08.30. suffering greatly, with plenty more to go.
after class, we went off to tel aviv, where our group for the year-long applied project spent the afternoon / evening working on our initiation document.
we discovered, around 19.00, that we'd been doing everything wrong from the start. we called the instructor, and he changed our project completely.
everyone else doing the project is doing meaningless little things, as the point of the course is understanding the process, not doing the development. our group, however, is now developing an actual system that will be implemented by the university.
for free.
not impressed. we need to figure out how to get at least SOME financial compensation...
got a ride to training, stopping on the way to pick up a girl who wanted to try it out, and see if it suited her.
i was still sick, and sore (pulled muscles), and hadn't eaten since lunchtime. the training was really, really hard for me.
i fact, i'm surprised i survived...
we missed the bus home by seconds, because i was desperate for a chocolate (i needed the sugar!), and we started walking back to herzliyah. fortunately, about halfway there, another bus came, so i could stop stumbling all over the place.
*** today ***
i had some soup, a hot shower, and went to bed.
and SLEPT! i woke up this morning feeling SO much better. my throat, chest, and muscles are still screwed, and my left ear's been blocked for the past hour or so, but it's all much easier to deal with, now that i've had some shuteye.
funny dream i had -
i was in sea point, and needed to take a taxi with two other people, and the taxi driver walked off for his break. so i stole the car, and we went on our way, avoiding the police, eventually managing to return the taxi, just in time.
unfortunately, the driver could see it had been driven...
well, no sleep for me. i was in class by 08.30. suffering greatly, with plenty more to go.
after class, we went off to tel aviv, where our group for the year-long applied project spent the afternoon / evening working on our initiation document.
we discovered, around 19.00, that we'd been doing everything wrong from the start. we called the instructor, and he changed our project completely.
everyone else doing the project is doing meaningless little things, as the point of the course is understanding the process, not doing the development. our group, however, is now developing an actual system that will be implemented by the university.
for free.
not impressed. we need to figure out how to get at least SOME financial compensation...
got a ride to training, stopping on the way to pick up a girl who wanted to try it out, and see if it suited her.
i was still sick, and sore (pulled muscles), and hadn't eaten since lunchtime. the training was really, really hard for me.
i fact, i'm surprised i survived...
we missed the bus home by seconds, because i was desperate for a chocolate (i needed the sugar!), and we started walking back to herzliyah. fortunately, about halfway there, another bus came, so i could stop stumbling all over the place.
*** today ***
i had some soup, a hot shower, and went to bed.
and SLEPT! i woke up this morning feeling SO much better. my throat, chest, and muscles are still screwed, and my left ear's been blocked for the past hour or so, but it's all much easier to deal with, now that i've had some shuteye.
funny dream i had -
i was in sea point, and needed to take a taxi with two other people, and the taxi driver walked off for his break. so i stole the car, and we went on our way, avoiding the police, eventually managing to return the taxi, just in time.
unfortunately, the driver could see it had been driven...
Sunday, December 07, 2003
07/12/03
*** yesterday ***
the vampire game went really, really badly. i went from bad situations to worse, and now my character is definitely on her way out.
oh, well. it's definitely been a learning experience.
i got home, spoke to her for a bit on the phone, and did lots and lots of homework.
*** today ***
and continued to do lots and lots of homework, until about ten minutes ago, when i had a cold shower, and am now off to my bed, to which i've just added another duvet.
it's really, really cold.
*** later ***
right. another sleepless night. at some point, i was so uncomfortable, that i got up and did some homework...
i got up (although i hadn't got any sleep) at 11.30, kind of had breakfast, and then went to math class. which was really interesting, in a hallucinogenic sense of the word.
i tried to do some work in the computer labs, but i couldn't focus, and eventually gave up and came home.
* stuff happens *
i had a huge supper, and then an awesome shower, and i'm now going to bed. praying for a normal night.
the vampire game went really, really badly. i went from bad situations to worse, and now my character is definitely on her way out.
oh, well. it's definitely been a learning experience.
i got home, spoke to her for a bit on the phone, and did lots and lots of homework.
*** today ***
and continued to do lots and lots of homework, until about ten minutes ago, when i had a cold shower, and am now off to my bed, to which i've just added another duvet.
it's really, really cold.
*** later ***
right. another sleepless night. at some point, i was so uncomfortable, that i got up and did some homework...
i got up (although i hadn't got any sleep) at 11.30, kind of had breakfast, and then went to math class. which was really interesting, in a hallucinogenic sense of the word.
i tried to do some work in the computer labs, but i couldn't focus, and eventually gave up and came home.
* stuff happens *
i had a huge supper, and then an awesome shower, and i'm now going to bed. praying for a normal night.
Saturday, December 06, 2003
06/12/03
*** 3rd ***
i got into bed around 6am, and got up around noon. i spent my day at the doctor's, getting x-rayed, and consulting with an orthopaedic surgeon, and it turned out (after all that) that my foot was actually fine.
the whole process was pretty unpleasant, not helped by my back / neck being out of action as well. not to mention, the general unhappiness of walking into a health care centre, with no people inside, and a wall filled with signs in hebrew that i simply couldn't read.
i did, however, discover a new passion in life - hot chocolate with too much sugar. it really is amazing.
i then went off to work.
*** 4th ***
work was quite relaxed. i got my usual long, long phone calls (lasting upwards of half an hour), and was about to read hunter x hunter while talking them through their problems. i didn't get any homework done, however, as our work machines cannot read pdf files, so that kinda sucked.
i got home at 04.30, and was in class at 10.15. exhausted, and coming down with a throat infection. it was a long, tiring day, with lots of homework to hand in, but we were rewarded at the end with an economics class that was not only informative, but entertaining as well.
it's kinda wierd saying that, but it's true.
i took the bus to our taekwondo gym, where i underwent the examination to test my ability to not die without cause. i always feel sheepish about these things, because they insist on finding out, the hard way, something that i could just tell them myself.
instead of training, i joined her in tel-aviv, at an exhibition of international photo-journalism. it's an incredible exhibition, with amazing pieces, and we enjoyed ourselves. i also ran into a friend that i haven't seen in two years, who's now working for the Associated Press.
good to know.
we came back to herzliyah, i did my math homework, and then,
*** yesterday ***
around 1am, we went to her place, where she made me soup and generally took care of me.
yesterday morning, i was completely screwed up. math class was crazy, and i had two hours afterwards to complete my programming homework, which i almost managed. almost.
i did some basic shopping, and then came home and crashed.
last night, we were invited to a thanksgiving dinner (a bit late), and for a few of us it was our first time. the food was good, the atmosphere was pleasant.
around 22.30, i came home, spent a couple of hours doing homework,
*** today ***
and went to bed. i woke up around 3 / 4am, because my throat was hurting me, and i tried unsuccessfully until 09.30 to get some sleep.
our brit had the same problem, so there're two sick people in this apartment. at least we get sympathy.
our apartment is absolutely freezing.
i managed to get some sleep, and we watched frankie and johnny, and now i'm going to try to do some more homework before our vampire game at 17.00.
i'm - so - cold.
i got into bed around 6am, and got up around noon. i spent my day at the doctor's, getting x-rayed, and consulting with an orthopaedic surgeon, and it turned out (after all that) that my foot was actually fine.
the whole process was pretty unpleasant, not helped by my back / neck being out of action as well. not to mention, the general unhappiness of walking into a health care centre, with no people inside, and a wall filled with signs in hebrew that i simply couldn't read.
i did, however, discover a new passion in life - hot chocolate with too much sugar. it really is amazing.
i then went off to work.
*** 4th ***
work was quite relaxed. i got my usual long, long phone calls (lasting upwards of half an hour), and was about to read hunter x hunter while talking them through their problems. i didn't get any homework done, however, as our work machines cannot read pdf files, so that kinda sucked.
i got home at 04.30, and was in class at 10.15. exhausted, and coming down with a throat infection. it was a long, tiring day, with lots of homework to hand in, but we were rewarded at the end with an economics class that was not only informative, but entertaining as well.
it's kinda wierd saying that, but it's true.
i took the bus to our taekwondo gym, where i underwent the examination to test my ability to not die without cause. i always feel sheepish about these things, because they insist on finding out, the hard way, something that i could just tell them myself.
instead of training, i joined her in tel-aviv, at an exhibition of international photo-journalism. it's an incredible exhibition, with amazing pieces, and we enjoyed ourselves. i also ran into a friend that i haven't seen in two years, who's now working for the Associated Press.
good to know.
we came back to herzliyah, i did my math homework, and then,
*** yesterday ***
around 1am, we went to her place, where she made me soup and generally took care of me.
yesterday morning, i was completely screwed up. math class was crazy, and i had two hours afterwards to complete my programming homework, which i almost managed. almost.
i did some basic shopping, and then came home and crashed.
last night, we were invited to a thanksgiving dinner (a bit late), and for a few of us it was our first time. the food was good, the atmosphere was pleasant.
around 22.30, i came home, spent a couple of hours doing homework,
*** today ***
and went to bed. i woke up around 3 / 4am, because my throat was hurting me, and i tried unsuccessfully until 09.30 to get some sleep.
our brit had the same problem, so there're two sick people in this apartment. at least we get sympathy.
our apartment is absolutely freezing.
i managed to get some sleep, and we watched frankie and johnny, and now i'm going to try to do some more homework before our vampire game at 17.00.
i'm - so - cold.
Wednesday, December 03, 2003
03/12/03
*** yesterday ***
i was asked to work a later shift as well, which i wholeheartedly agreed to. more money. much needed.
i worked until 14.00, when our food arrived. a large quantity of mushroom and alfredo linguine. really good. only problem was that as soon as the food arrived, i remembered that i only had 45 minutes to arrive at our gym in dizengoff.
basically, i ate it all as fast as i could (it was really good, though. bit of a waste), and then ran, literally, all the way to the other side of the train station (which is normally about twenty minutes away. i made the bus by half a minute.
sweaty, already.
i took the warmup session, which was fairly easy, as the kids gave me so much trouble that i spent the whole warmup punishing them.
at least they learned, eventually. the rest of the training was good. unfortunately, aside from my troubles with my foot, i managed to put my back out. again.
crap.
i made it back to work just in time. in between working, i did some homework, and have been reading some hunter x hunter. i find it interesting how some of the things in the tv series are much clearer...
*** today ***
ho, hum. it's 01.43, and we're still going. we're about to start another session, so everything's slightly more tense, but the night's been fairly easy so far.
i forgot to mention yesterday, that i started reading the jungle book on the bus to work, and i got totally sucked in. i almost missed my stop! it's such beautiful stuff, and just the style makes me feel like a child again.
i was asked to work a later shift as well, which i wholeheartedly agreed to. more money. much needed.
i worked until 14.00, when our food arrived. a large quantity of mushroom and alfredo linguine. really good. only problem was that as soon as the food arrived, i remembered that i only had 45 minutes to arrive at our gym in dizengoff.
basically, i ate it all as fast as i could (it was really good, though. bit of a waste), and then ran, literally, all the way to the other side of the train station (which is normally about twenty minutes away. i made the bus by half a minute.
sweaty, already.
i took the warmup session, which was fairly easy, as the kids gave me so much trouble that i spent the whole warmup punishing them.
at least they learned, eventually. the rest of the training was good. unfortunately, aside from my troubles with my foot, i managed to put my back out. again.
crap.
i made it back to work just in time. in between working, i did some homework, and have been reading some hunter x hunter. i find it interesting how some of the things in the tv series are much clearer...
*** today ***
ho, hum. it's 01.43, and we're still going. we're about to start another session, so everything's slightly more tense, but the night's been fairly easy so far.
i forgot to mention yesterday, that i started reading the jungle book on the bus to work, and i got totally sucked in. i almost missed my stop! it's such beautiful stuff, and just the style makes me feel like a child again.
Tuesday, December 02, 2003
02/12/03
*** yesterday ***
i got a great night's sleep, woke up at 07.30, and made my way to class. class wasn't as boring as usual, and our second class, the really horrible one, was actually informative for the first hour or so. which was, to say the least, quite surprising.
i finally got off campus around 19.30, and made it to taekwondo around 08.45. training went well, but the skin on two toes of my damaged foot has gone dark, and numb, and i'm starting to worry about gangrene. or something.
*** today ***
OMFG. as i'm writing this, i'm reading up on gangrene, and it looks quite likely that that's what's happening to my toes. this is most disturbing. scary. and i'm going to see my doctor asap. which will only be tomorrow.
#@$%.
anyway, i woke up at 04.10 this morning, to lots of heavy thunder, and a few drops of rain. winter's here!
i woke up early this morning, and have been at work since 10.04. i'm "taking a break" at 14.00, and going to dizengoff center, where i'm taking the taekwondo class for warmup and stretching.
and brutal punishment.
there're some kids training there who are really rude, and i get to employ all the fun techniques i learned in cape town.
and i'm a bit of a sadist.
and then, back to work. until 21.30, or thereabouts.
i got a great night's sleep, woke up at 07.30, and made my way to class. class wasn't as boring as usual, and our second class, the really horrible one, was actually informative for the first hour or so. which was, to say the least, quite surprising.
i finally got off campus around 19.30, and made it to taekwondo around 08.45. training went well, but the skin on two toes of my damaged foot has gone dark, and numb, and i'm starting to worry about gangrene. or something.
*** today ***
OMFG. as i'm writing this, i'm reading up on gangrene, and it looks quite likely that that's what's happening to my toes. this is most disturbing. scary. and i'm going to see my doctor asap. which will only be tomorrow.
#@$%.
anyway, i woke up at 04.10 this morning, to lots of heavy thunder, and a few drops of rain. winter's here!
i woke up early this morning, and have been at work since 10.04. i'm "taking a break" at 14.00, and going to dizengoff center, where i'm taking the taekwondo class for warmup and stretching.
and brutal punishment.
there're some kids training there who are really rude, and i get to employ all the fun techniques i learned in cape town.
and i'm a bit of a sadist.
and then, back to work. until 21.30, or thereabouts.
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