Author: thisduck

new year’s eve

Yes, it’s that time of the year. Where every year, next year happens.

Where was I at 12 o’clock on new year’s eve you ask?
You don’t care? I’ll tell you anyway.
Being the party animal that I am I was out partying with my friends (well atleast I call them my friends, they may think otherwise, but what do they know?).

Our party was a bit different from your normal count-down parties. We went bowling. I love bowling for various reasons which will in due time become evident.

So at 12 o’clock on new year’s eve, we went bowling (that’s a recap for those who’re a little slow). At 12 PM (Dec 31st) folks not 12 AM (Jan 1st).

We went bowling twice during the summer also, it was a lot of fun. High school friends who I hadn’t met for a long time (apart from our online conversations). After the bowling session we had lunch at a near by Tim Hortons/Wendy’s where I managed to bore the hell out of everyone until they left (or made me leave, you’ll hear different versions of this story from different people).

Without further ado, I have created this convenient table which displays the bowling details:

Game 1 Game 2 Game 3 Total Average Spares Strikes

Adnan Dum 140 73 97 310 103 3 5
Brian 80 99 76 255 85 2 2
James 78 89 82 249 83 4 2
John 121 82 73 276 92 3 3
Gary 90 61 46 197 65 3 0
Kevin 80 77 60 217 72 1 2

Now you maybe asking yourself why I’m listed as “Adnan Dum”, let’s just say we didn’t think the “b” would fit.

I love bowling, you may be thinking, “Well that’s because he has the highest score (if that is indeed the true score)”. But I tell you that I don’t just love bowling because I won, but that is the main reason.

There was a point on the last “throw” of the game, I got 3 strikes in a row. Thank you very much.

My friends are great:
Gary:Hey Adnan, how come everytime I see you you’re wearing that Tommy shirt?
Brian: Because he only has one shirt!

I try not to make it too obvious, sometimes I black out the two “mm”s.

Anyway, I has a wonderful time.

my opinion, your opinion

If your opinion does not match with my opinion, it’s alright.
Because we’re allowed to have differing opinions.
But if we do have differing opinions, my opinion is always right.
There are never any exceptions to this rule.

In the case that your opinion does match my opinion. Your opinion will be allowed to be right. Although your opinion must first be verified against mine to ensure that it does infact match and is in complete agreement with my opinion. Only then will your opinion be right.

If you would like to have your opinion matched against mine for approval please email your opinion to the following email address :

opinions [at] adnanali [dot] net

If you can’t decipher my email from that, then your opinion is clearly worthless.

Note : it will take about 24 to 48 hours for your opinion to be processed. Please be patient during this time. I assure you that you will eventually get an opinion matching report from me.

lyrics

terrible, terrible lyrics in the songs of the movie “Kal Ho Na Ho”, I haven’t seen the movie, but I happened to find the CD in the player of the van. I scrolled through the songs looking for a good song. Effort gone in vain.

Terrible terrible lyrics. Did I mention how terrible the lyrics were? It was as if the music was made first and the lyrics made to fit the music. Not to mention the embarrasment of the “Pretty Woman” song. They should be sued.

I can’t believe Javed Akhtar wrote these songs, maybe they didn’t pay him enough and he did it on purpose.

Anyway, I liked one song. Although I haven’t heard all of it. Just the first bit and it goes like this:

Har ghadi badal rahi hai roop zindagi,
Chau hai kabhi, kabhi hai dhoop zindagi,
Har pal yaha gee bhar jiyo,
Jo hai samaa, kal ho na ho.

project

I spend 6 hours (3PM – 9PM) on eid and 5 hours (3PM – 5PM) the day after working on my project.

It’s a lego car, controlled by a nintendo game pad. And this car can’t cross what is a ‘virtual wall’. You’ll understand if you see video #2.

Pictures:

Videos:

Intro (car gets stuck in the wires… grrr):
Link to Intro (15 seconds, 5MB)

‘Virtual Wall’ demonstration:
Link to Demo (15 seconds, 5MB)

Car Dance:
Link to Car Dance(15 seconds, 5MB)

Cruising:
Link to Demo (15 seconds, 5MB)