With a broken elbow, I find typing is a tiring task. Therefore, I will be on hiatus for about a month. Hopefully less.
In the mean time, I will try to find a few guest writers to keep this site running. Interested individual should leave a note here or e-mail me at mnoorsha[at]umich[dot]edu.
Until then, ciao.
p/s – Interestingly, even the Canadian and the French use ‘ciao’. I thought the expression was exclusively an Asian phenomena.
For the first time in my life, I was given a full dose of barbiturate and morphine within a time frame of 10 minutes. It felt so good. Later, I was given another 5 mg of hydrocodone bitartrate and 500 mg of acetaminophen as pain killers. It’s a strong morphine and it is *so* going to help me sleep.
To add to that, my doctor was really pretty. She is an angel in a doctor’s white coat. It’s so funny that even when my lungs were receiving aid from a breathing apparatus (not to forget, facing 1% chance of death due to a very strong morphine dose according to a paper that I signed before my operation), I had a crush on an angel.
Looking forward for my physiotherapy treatment next week. =)
This is just a publicity post.
Since he is one of my best inter-batch friends back at the Malay College, I feel very much compelled to help promote his new site. He is Fqrl and he has just launched a new site called Under These Skies.
Simple but great design with blending color and banner. I’ve added his site under Puppets.
Go. Go pay him a visit now.
And Lada, you need you get your ass up and start updating.
The first few weeks of the semester seem to be very good to me.
First of all, I’ve rejoined the Solar Car Team and applied into the leadership rank. Through this, I hope to join the 2005 race crew. The team will be racing in both the ASC, of which Michigan failed to qualify last July and the WSC 2005 in Australia.
Though I really want to join the crew and seriously want to commit my time to the team, I am currently having a problem with it. If my study schedule runs at its current steam, I’ll be graduating a semester earlier, seven months short of the ASC 2005. And so, currently I am trying to reduce my pace in any way possible.
Zooming back to present time, at hand, I am in the field hockey team and will be up against MSU in Lansing. Admittedly, its just a recreational team but I couldn’t remember when the last time a recreational sport team had gone this far.
This semester is going to be sweet.
Furthermore, The __earthinc has expanded its influence in the blogosphere. It has attracted a modest numbers of people and the visitors are no longer are limited to my circle of friends. This might be the result of me participating forums and newsgroups. The other factor is the search engine. The search words linked to The __eartinc usually could be categorized to the environment, politics, science and sports. Frequently this site has been ranked top ten in various search engines for various searches concerning soccer (especially about Ajax and Holland), economics and the environment. And the best thing is, the search word Eugen Slutsky, the economist that derived the demand equation in The Law of Demand, ranked The __earthinc No. 13 out of 179 on Google and 13 out of 119 at Yahoo!.
The average number of visitor has also risen. Right now, for the past four months, the average have been over 200 people, with average unique visitors (a number of visitors with unique internet protocol addresses per month) may well made up about half of that figure.
I guess, after almost 2 years online, this site is going strong after all. After almost 2 years, my life is heading uphill after a bad fall.
To those of who have helped making is site relatively successful compared to other small sites, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I am sitting here, in front of my computer still trying to sleep. It is a curse to suffer insomnia (or pseudo-insomnia, depending on how you see it) but today, I saw one of the most beautiful things ever, thanks to insomnia.
While I was watching The Pianist in my room alone, I was rudely surprised but the ugly sound the alarm clock made. I had set it to go off sometimes around six in the morning. My first reaction was to shut the alarm off as quickly as possible. I do not know why but the sound of my alarm clock always gives me an adrenaline rush. Anyway, that is not the point. After I slammed the alarm clock with my fist, I saw a line of light far in the horizon.
Curious, I pulled the curtains out of my line of sight and opened up the windows. It didn’t take me long to realize that the light came from the Sun. And it was magnificent view.
A picture worth a thousand words and the phrase is no way untrue.
The sky was dark and the ground was cover with the bluish-white snow. The pavement looked wet and no doubt, it was cold outside. The clouds covered most parts of the sky save the far horizon. The Sun was not visible yet but its light was already brightened up the general east. The light was dully red, almost pink or nearly orange, the sort of colors that you see while twilight was giving way to the night and the formed a line from the south to the north.
I was rather puzzled by the line but soon I understood what caused it. It was the clouds, forming a carpet. It was as if a healthy bulb was lit up and a few feet under it, laid a sheet of thick cardboard. The line of light that I saw would be the light that that would hit the edge of the cardboard. The representation is somewhat way simplified because the spectrum of red light was prevalent around the line.
Slowly, as time passed slowly, the darkness succumbed to light but not without a fight. The deep dark blue was first changed to a softer navy blue. From blue, red took over. The red showed a spectacular array of lights. Farther, the Sun was rising and its shiny yellowish light shot to all areas. The Law School, which looks like a medieval European castle formed an impressive silhouette as the trees covered the modern building as if trying to hide the fact that we are living in the twenty-first century.
Red gave way to a lower level red and that red fell to carrot’s skin. The color conquered vast area of the sky but soon, the Sun was up high. Soon, the lovely cyan declared that it was time to wake up. Soon, the Sun’s brilliance overwhelmed my eyes and no longer could I look straight into the source of all living things.
It was beautiful. These words will no way describe the sunrise. So Batcha, I want my other camera back.