AMD's VISION - The APU. (And why you should vote for me!)

I'm not usually one to enter this sort of competition, but when the good people at AMD approached me during an event that I held for them, I could hardly say no. I need votes to win, but before I get into that, let me run you through AMD's VISION..

Beyond all the computer jargon and fancy talk, it's all very simple. The folks at AMD had a vision that everyone and their uncles should be able to have a supercomputer. Simple things like full time HD, a battery life of over 8 hours, across the board 3D capabilities and much more were desired. So they built an APU - Accelerated Processing Unit. This is what AMD had to say about their APU:

"Information inside a computer flows between two critical areas: the GPU (for creative and visual tasks) and the CPU (for analytical and logic-based functions). Traditional PCs have separate CPUs and GPUs which leads to a communication bottleneck. This often results in extensive slowdowns for consumers.

Introducing the innovative AMD Fusion Accelerated Processing Unit (APU):

Powerful AMD processor technology and discrete-class, DirectX® 11–capable graphics combined on a single chip. It’s the perfect combination of beauty and brawn—delivering smooth HD video, powerful multitasking and energy efficiency. AMD's new APU features up to 4 x86 cores combined with up to 400 Radeon™ graphics cores in a single microchip."

That's how they describe it. In simpler terms they took, what has always been the more capable chip in a computer the GPU, and built it into the CPU, thereby increasing the processing power by at least 80%! Smart move, eh? You know have a simple chip that has tons of more processing power, making things like extended battery life, full time HD and 3D child's play. All of this is rooted in AMD's VISION engine. I'll let them explain that to you:

"AMD VISION Engine — The foundation of VISION Technology from AMD that enables vivid HD

entertainment, blazing-fast Internet browsing and accelerated media applications."

Pretty sweet, huh? My request now is to get you guys over to their website and vote! Each of the challengers, yours truly included, has to gather votes and the challenger with the most votes gets to go to the Austin City Limits Music Festival to see, amongst others, Arcade Fire, Coldplay Kanye West etc. live!

Help a brother out? Click here to start voting for your friendly, neighbourhood smartass!


M

Brand Bowl & a midget Darth Vader

As is the tradition, every time the Super Bowl comes around you have a huge bunch of corporates running around creating various TVCs that they want to air during that time, seeing as almost the entire North American populace is watching the telly. Not including Canada of course. Or Alaska.

Brands usually spend the around the same as the GDP of an African nation to secure a spot during the Super Bowl. Suffice to say, getting a spot is quite the pinch to the wallet, so much so that even the Super Bowl organizers do their own bit to track overall sentiment and who basically wins the Brand Bowl. Many iconic TVCs have been conceived, produced, aired and made popular by the Super Bowl. In fact, PepsiCo has been notorious for creating some of their most popular ads for the Super Bowl spots, including the celebrity gladiator match with Beyonce, Pink, Britney Spears or the Pepsi Stuff ad with Justin Timberlake.

Come Super Bowl 2011, companies release their ads to the hungry eyes of the world to see. At the time however, young Mali was asleep. The following morning finds young Mali sitting at his terminal at work, clicking and typing away furiously, social media guru that he is. (Yes, Mali occasionally refers to himself in third person). His good friend Arun linked him to something. He said it was a Super Bowl ad. He said I'd like it.

One minute and two seconds later, total productivity = zilch. Amazement = +infinity. Star Wars fanboy = +500 Force.

What I liked about this ad, besides a bite sized Darth Vader, was that the parent played along and boosted the child's imagination. It also represented VW in a more relaxed fashion, playing along consumer passion points. T'was refreshing!

My bid goes to VW for this year's superbowl. Have you guys seen their Beetle ad yet?

Oh dear, I've fallen into it again..

Well it's true, after spending a lot of time contemplating my return to the blogosphere, I did give in and will resume blogging, effective immediately! My initial concern was that I will not have enough to blog about or any specific things I may want to write about. However, what I did discover is I do have things I want to talk and blog about.

I will hereby turn this blog right around and you can expect to see me blog about the following topics:

1. Motorsports. I've recently joined my company's racing team. This adds to my previous track experience, so I guess it's about time I start talking cars as much as I love driving them.
   
   
2. Paintball. Cuz it's awesome. And now that I have all my gear, it's time to terrorize the office.
   
   
3. Video Games. I play a lot of them. It's time to take it a bit seriously.
   
   
4. Campus Radio ME. Along with Ritesh, I started this almost a year ago. Here, I will talk about recent news, updates etc.
   
   
5. Movies. I spend a lot of nights burning through DVDs. Why not share my views? :)

By any means, this list is not exhaustive. But possibly a teaser of things to come.

See you guys around!

M

Guess who's back?

...yes. I'm back.

I'll be honest here, I'm fairly certain it'll take me awhile to get back into full swing blogging, but things are starting to slow down in the real world, and I'm hoping that I'm going to have a little more time to dedicate to my blog. Today was the first time that I set eyes on my blog ever since I went on this break, and I WANT CHANGE. Not now, but sooner or later, I'm going to make a massive change to this blog and make it a lot cooler. It's nice to be back.

I went on hiatus, officially, on the 1st of this month, and it's funny that I'm back within the same month. If I am to be honest, I really expected to stay away from blogging, blogs and all such things for a couple of months at the very least. It wasn't writer's block. It was more of a lack of motivation TO write. Which I could blame on other things, but I won't and I'm glad I can start accepting responsibility for my actions.

Funnily enough, the moment I decided to go on hiatus a number of things popped up and my first thoughts on them were, 'Oh I should blog that!' And then I remember that I've gone on a blogging hiatus and then it's, 'DOH!'

Either way, stuff I'm looking forward to blogging about in the near future:

1. My University
2. Work Ethic
3. My First 'Job'
4. A Memory of a cousin

And other stuff, that I can't remember at the moment. But rest assured, the ZOMG is back and I'll be writing again.

Bring it.


xx


M



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Hiatus.

I know that I have very few dedicated readers, so to those of you I must apologize because this post isn't an update of any kind.

I'm just here to announce that I will be going on an indefinite hiatus from blogging. I might at a later date resume blogging, or, I might not. I'm not sure really.

Will let you know when I know.


Cheers :)


M

xx


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Twiddiction

Image via CrunchBase

Right.

I've an excuse. Really. I'm addicted. The only reason I've not blogged in so long is because I'm addicted. Yes, it's true. It's called Twitter.


I could go on about my addiction to that service for quite some time now, but I really shouldn't and should spend some time to focus on this post.

* At this point the date is now the 20th of February. This post was created on the 14th. Twitter is slowly taking over things. *

So for my first meaningful post in all of February, I'm quite surprised as to how quickly Twitter has grown onto me, and I'm hoping that I'll be able to somehow find time to live my life in between all my tweeting. It's come to the point where I'm considering the purchase of an iPhone or BlackBerry just so that I can stay updated and update my tweets while on the move. Time spent away from my computer makes me constantly think of Twitter and all the tweets that I'm going to have to catch up on once I'm back at my workstation at home. Wow. It's so pathetic BUT I LOVE IT!

Anyway, February has been a relatively eventful month. On the 12th we had the Twestival at Barasti at Le Meridian Mina Seyahi and I attended that along with Lhjunkie. It was fun! We met a whole bunch of people that we only knew as screen names and avatars. It was great fun getting faces for the names. It was also interesting how we referred to each other by the screen names. People like "DaddyBird", "MBzle" etc. Soon after that we also took the time to go meet DaddyBird again on the 16th for his birthday.

Hmm, something else happened in February too that I wanted to blog about at the time, but I can't seem to recall it now.

My eldest brother, Masroor, and his family left for the USA for good. It was always on the cards, but when he actually left, it was weird. I remember telling myself that I won't really mind him leaving because it's not like I'm going to miss him or anything. But on the morning of 14th of February at the airport, I realized how much I was going to miss my brother. Sure we had fights a lot and I'd swear at him (in my mind) but now that he's gone I really miss him. He was the moderator of the house and it was always fun having him around. He also kept me grounded and my big ego needs someone who can pop the bubble from floating and keep me firmly on the ground. Masroor used to do that. I miss him :(

Oh well, too bad he'll never read this. He used to make fun of my blog a lot too.. moron..

Either way, now that I've finally gotten down to writing this post, I'm hoping that it will help me snap out of Twitterdiction and let me focus on writing some more articles.

More posts as addiction is controlled!!!

Cheers!


M


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(PS. OMG I'VE NOT UPDATED THE WEEKLY STUPIDS IN FOREVER!!!! Somebody shoot me.)

Hee Hee EEEEEEE

Hehe hehe hehe HAHAHAH STOPTEHTICKELS!!!

M


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Just a personal update :)

January 2009 is over. The first month of 2009, which I intend to make an awesome year, has been up to par so far, and I'm fairly happy. Exams went well, I'm growing my profile as an MC or Host or Stage Manager, am starting to work in Dad's company more and all around progress in all fields. School reopens on the 8th, so I've got that long to relax before I get back to the University grind.

Unfortunately for me, earlier this month my hard drive was damaged by a dear friend of mine, and the data was unrecoverable and the hard drive was fried. My friend was deeply apologetic, and was sweet enough to reimburse me with a brand new hard drive with the same capacity. Albeit I lost all my data (AND MY MUSIC WTF!!!!) but she's really decent and I couldn't thank her enough. I went to the beach yesterday and gave my old hard drive a burial. The whole nine yards. Toy spade, rocks to mark the grave, sea shells to decorate and everything. T'was an awesome night.

Here is picture of above mentioned grave.


For reasons yet unexplained, the picture refuses to load the right way up, so you're gonna have to tilt your head to your right so see it from the angle that the picture was taken.

So that was yesterday. A lot of guests coming down in the next few days. My eldest brother will be leaving the UAE and heading back to USA for a few years. so we've got a bunch of folks goming down here from all around the place to see him off. My brother from Egypt, an aunt from India, my brother's in-laws, his friends etc etc. A flurry of activity around the house really, and February's probably going to be a busy busy month. A busy and crowded month. Bright side is I get to see the kids and that's always a good thing.

The fact that the kids have grown, means I will have to hide a lot of my stuff. Stuff that can be broken. Stuff that can be dangerous. Stuff that I only have one of and so can't share it with the kids. All these things will have to be hidden if I am to avoid any damages/losses to or of these items as well as to prevent fights amongst the kids.

the 26th of January is the Indian Republic Day, and on that night, I hosted a fashion show at the house of the Consil General of India. It was a part charity part university promortion fashion show, but it was a good one. Met a lot of interesting people there, including the Consul General of India Venu Rajamony, the Consul General of Britain, France, Guineau, China, South Korea, Thailand and many other dignitaries. Also met a fellow Tweeter PKGulati and his wife. Was nice to run into them.

I also took part in a little blogging experiment that T held, and submitted a guest post on the topic of change on his blog. If you haven't already read it, give it a read here.

Either way, that was January 2009 for me. Moving in to February in a couple of minutes or so. Let's keep it going, shall we?

M


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My relatively-glorious return!

After a long break, I'm finally done with my papers and am right back on track to getting a go from 2009.

I remember that during my mini-hiatus I had so many things to talk about on a personal level. However now that I'm actually here I can't seem to remember any of those things. I remember thinking to myself, 'Wow, that'll be awesome blog fodder.' But, alas, with age comes weakened memory and at 21 I'm having trouble keeping good post ideas in my mind. I think I'll pull an Al Pacino and carry a small yellow legal pad wherever I go, to record my thoughts. Hmm. Now that I mentioned it, I like the idea.

Now to find a nice tiny yellow legal pad.

I finished my papers yesterday, signing off with MGT-203: Operations Management. I must say that, that paper was the paper that went better than any of the others, which is interesting because it was one of the hardest. The hardest paper was MGT 204: Legal Environments in Business & Corporate Law. I'd rather not talk about that paper. ACC 201: Financial Management went much better than originally expected, so it's safe to say that I'm happy with the way my semester papers fared. Now if only I was actually happy with my University as well.

The first 15 days of 2009 have been ok to say the least. I've been recently cursed with a flurry of material losses and/or damages. At first, my cell phone lost all my messages. Soon after a friend of mine permanently damaged my external hard drive, frying all my data. I've sent that off to a data recovery service and will now hope and pray that it goes well. It makes for an interesting story though.

I walked in to the data recovery place and I met the person I spoke to on the phone. Helped him refresh his memory on my HDD and then he asked me for symptoms. "When you plugged it in, did it make a clicking sound," he asked with this gravely death-ish look on his face. "NO thank GOD," I responded enthusiastically happy that my HDD wasn't giving us the death rattle yet. "Oh good," said the service technician as he continued to jot down some more stuff. "However,' I said, "when I did plug it in, it began spinning and then it would stop and then it would spin again and then it would stop, and that cycle would continue. So it can't be that bad right? I mean it's spinning at least, with no noise."

The technician looked up at me through his ridiculously large numbered glasses and said, "That's actually worse."

At that point I believe I peed a little. "When that happens it means that the HDD detects a malfunction and shuts down. It makes data recovery much harder. I'd give it a 50% chance," he said as he looked at my HDD like it was a pet that was about to be diagonised with animal cancer.

And just today, my Xbox360 finally gave me what every Xbox360 owner dreads to see. It gave me the Red Circle of Doom. Alas, my trusty sidekick will now be taken to a service center and I pray that they can fix it. I *really* can't live without it. The PlayStation 3 just can't fill the void that would be left behind if it were to perish.

With the recent turn of events on my stuff, T advised me not to drive as well. I laughed, but now every time I look at the car I do find myself wondering if it's gonna die on me.

Anyway, the highlight of the year so far has been successful exams and that I love my paintball gun. I don't know why I just typed that in, but it couldn't be helped. I have two other blog posts in the writing. One on the American philosophy of, "People dying is cool, just so long as it ain't us. Or the Israelis." And the other one is on the true fact that there are Israeli support group with no money who do MORE for the Palestinian-Arab cause than the oil-rich corrupt bastard countries of the Middle East have. There are crappy people on both sides of the fence and I intend on busting both of them. While these articles may not be works of pure journalistic genius, I will try and polish them with a dirty napkin as much as I can. Bravo!

In other news, on T's urging I have gotten in touch with the local organizers of the Twestival and come Sunday I will be meeting with them to see what can be done and/or how I can help. Also, less than 2 months from now, I will be the Stage Manager for the annual Dubai Rock Challenge. It'll be my second time working for them, and I LOVE it.

Also, I've come to realize that I've blown off The Weekly Stupids for a LONG time and in fact, my last TWS post was on the 12th of December. That means I blew off FOUR updates, almost a month's worth. I am thoroughly ashamed of myself and will shoot myself through the roof of my mouth at first given opportunity. Starting tomorrow TWS will be back, better than ever. Tsk tsk tsk...

Well, that's about all I can think of saying right now. Over the next 4 days I have 3 posts to complete 2 of them more serious than the remaining third. So Imma take off for now and will talk to you guys later. Be good now children!


xx


M


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A filler.. And something meaningful..

Not many people actively listen to Our Lady Peace.

But I do. And I've always loved them.

Yes, while this is also a filler, this song means a lot to me, as I've always drawn inspiration from it. To know that you're loved ones are safe, no matter where they are, or how far out of reach they are.


Our Lady Peace - Somewhere Out There




:)


M


PS. I've got a post in writing, but it'll be a while before I post, I haz exams. :(

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Two Oh Oh Nine!

(funny fact: I opened up this window to start this post, wrote in the title, and they typed nothing in for 2 days. Window was minimised and I just went about doing other stuff. Today I opened it again and was like OH THAT'S WHERE IT WENT!)


Well, procrastination is one way to start the new year, albeit not the most effective way. But hey, it's THE start. GFWMG officially ushers in 2009 with this post, with a more positive outlook and a few minor changes to the layout of the blog. I now try to advertise (and link to) my favourite webcomics. 6 links have been interspersed throughout the blog and will add some colour here. Also it'll give you an idea as to the influences of my sense of humour. A quick list beckons:

1. Questionable Content
2. Least I Could Do
3. XKCD
4. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
5. Cyanide & Happiness
6. Dr. McNinja

Now that the new year has rolled in, it means so have my semester end papers. In a week, I begin my exams and start with Economy & Business in the UAE. One of my favourite topics (Econ) blended with the country I live in. Ingenious! The crappy thing about my papers is that they continue without break, so it means I have one paper after another. The flip side of that is that I get to finish in 6 days.

I went out to a New Years party with some friends, and suffice to say, I had a lot more fun than I originally thought I would. I had an inkling that it would be fun, but it turned out a lot better than I imagined. I wanna do it again!

I was asked if I was going to make any New Year resolutions (and not like: I'm gonna lose some weight) and I didn't have to think much. There are a few things I'd like done. Firstly, I want to regain my mojo. I'm already on a fast track there, but I want to hit it YESTERDAY! I want to learn to be more content with my life. I want to learn when to limit myself, in many ways. I want to increase my work ethic. I'm also going to try and work harder to remain in touch with people. It's surprising how many people you can let go of, just because you didn't try hard enough. And you tend to let go of the nice ones, so I'm gonna try and turn that around for myself.

This year, I want to do something more interesting during the summer. I've not given it much thought, but all I know is that summer of '09 is going to be a lot better than the last two summers that I've had. Just need to figure out what it is I'm going to do. India (GOA!) is an option, along with Hawaii, NYC, DC, Houston and Russia with the Cookie Monster. A few of my friends from University also plan on hitting Goa this summer, maybe I'll go with. Or maybe I can try and go someplace for like 2 weeks, but work in a great place the remainder of the time. That would be ideal, but I've got a good 5 months to fuss over what it is that I want to do this summer.

I will also look to this year to really boost my professional side. Gonna try and actively pursue careers in Public Speaking & MC-ing, the media industry and also in the gaming industry via a few contacts that I made in these industries. As for my degree, if all goes according to plan, I ideally would want to do something related to my degree in one of these industries. Hopefully I'll pursue my secondary hobbies (becoming a Game Tester, or, a TV Reporter, or, an Anchorman) along with.

And with that, I'm tying my shoes and rolling up my sleeves.


2009, bring it!


M


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Let's wrap this one up folks!

As promised, this will be my final post for this year, and also a review on how 2008 was for me.

Personally 2008 wasn't one of the better years for me. Similar to 2007, only with a varied timeline and a few differences in the actual happenings, but for the most bit it did not live up to what I had in mind for it. Unlike 2007 though, I remember starting 2008 at a major high. This time last year, I would say that I can't be fazed. One year down the line, I will say that I was wrong.

The first half of 2008 did live up to some of the expectations that I had for it. I was doing well academically, personally and professionally. So was she. I managed to land my first paid job, even though it was a mere 20 day stint, it was still something that I really enjoyed doing, and did it with all my heart. It's something that I'd love to do on a regular basis. During the first half of this year I moved from strength to strength and I had it all planned out. I was motivated, dedicated and ridiculously energetic.

Professionally, 2008 was my first real exposure to a working environment. It's not that I haven't ever worked before. All the time I spent at Make A Wish and ERAD & UNOPS was not wasted time. But this was the first time I was working to better my career. And even though it was a learning experience I can, Alhamdulillah, safely say that I only had good experiences. I hope and pray that 2009 continues my run.

In 2008 I've also actively returned to blogging. I've made it a point to post regularly, and I started a few things that keep this blog alive like TWS and BOM. I'm glad I'm keeping the promise that I made when I started blogging, and 2008 has been the more successful of the two years that this blog has been on the internet.

The last third of 2008 wasn't all that it was spruced up to be though. In fact, it all started at one instantaneous moment, and I guess it was something that I wasn't prepared for and wasn't something that I expected. I lost a loved one to circumstances that were.. are.. beyond my control. I guess if 2008 taught me anything it's that I have a fear of not being able to control the happenings of my life, and letting others affect it. If I could change it I would, but the fact that there's nothing I can do to affect it, sorta leaves you with this helpless feeling. It's like doing great at work, but not getting the credit that you deserve.

4 months since, I can safely say that my thought processes have changed beyond what I'd like them to be. I'm not as confident about myself as I was, and that to me is a major blow. I want to regain it, and over time I know I will InshAllah.

I met T this year after lessay 5 - 8 years. T, I want to thank you for being a great friend and.. I dunno. Thanks again. I may not be as much of a friend to you, as you are to me, but as a new years resolution I'll try and change that (sooner or later you'll stop missing Irfan :P ).

Sana left for University this year - I met her today - and I guess I realized that I really do miss her a lot. She's my best friend. No one functions with me the way she does. She's a rare person and I'm glad I met her. Well whaddya know, Anish did something right after all.

I want to appreciate the fact that Barry and I have also become best friends. If at all MAHE did anything right, it was putting the both of us in the same section, and I'm glad I met you buddy. Although, I have to apologize, I can't take you with me to Boston (Harvard). That travel companion position is reserved. (Guitar Hero tomorrow again?)

One of my closest friends, Hussein Ali, got married this month. I've been with him for a while now and I know that no one deserves it any more than he does, and I pray that he get's everything that he wants and that he lives up to everything that his parents want him to. Hussein I know you're never going to read this, but for the record, you're a great friend. Even though we've not met/spoken as much in the last 2 months, you're a great guy, and I'm glad I invited you for my 18th birthday.

As for you. I really don't know what to say. I guess at the end of it all, I've said everything that I've wanted to, and so have you. It was one hell of a ride. 2 and a half of the best years of my life, however short they both may be. I guess at the end of it all, I know that Allah will guide us to what is best for us and our futures. Both mine and yours. Whether they're separated now, or maybe at some point in the future, joined again. Unfortunately, he can only guide us, but the decision is still made by us. For now, I'm going to stick with mine. I am moving on. But I'm never giving up. Because that's what I would have done last year. And that's what I'll do now.

Do me a favour though. What was the name of that song? The one you made me listen to that night? I think it was by She Wants Revenge, but I'm not sure. Either way, be safe.

This time last year, I expected the following year to be just great. In some ways it was. I got much closer to some people, some GOOD people. A Muslim is defined by the company he keeps. And I think I keep good company. In some ways 2008 blew.

At the end of it, I've learned that we as people have very limited control over our lives, even though we claim to be in total control. We're not. Our lives are deeply affected by the actions of others, both in positives and in negatives. The difference is you only tend to notice the negatives because they make your life that much harder. I'm not bitter about it, it's just something that I've noticed. People tend to remember only the bad, and forget the good.

InshAllah, InshAllah, InshAllah, 2009 will bring a change for me, my life and those in it.

This is a story from the Prophet's (SAW) time. It's not the exact words or translation, but it's the same meaning. A man came up to the Prophet (SAW) once and asked him, "I have a camel. Every night when I travel, should I leave it up to Allah to protect it, or should I tie it up and then pray to Allah?" The Prophet (SAW) responded, "Tie the camel down and then pray to Allah." What it means is that you can't leave everything up to Allah and hope for him to fix things. There are things that you have to do yourself, and only once you've done them can you ask Allah to help you.

InshAllah, he will. InshAllah 2009 will be everything that I want it to be.


This is your writer, signing off after a long, eventful and tumultuous 2008. See you guys again in 2009.


Muhammed Ali Jamadar


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19/12/2008

Come this day I'm finally legal to do all those things that I will never do. It's an odd achievement really. It's like going through 8 years of medical school and then not become a doctor. I got a lot of messages, wall posts on Facebook all saying, "OMG ur lyk legal n shit so u cn lyk do all dat abuv 21 sht. daym man dat's so kewl.."

After I spent some time deciphering what that meant, it was funny to see that turning 21 for me was no different than turning 19, 20 or when I turn 22. I mean yeah, 18 was a big deal, driver's license and stuff but beyond that I couldn't really care.

This birthday is an odd(er) one because it's the first time I'm celebrating it 'by myself.' I haven't celebrated it that way since I turned 18 and had a party where she showed up. It's odd.

My most memorable birthday ever was my [edit] 20th, [edit] when they (read: she) threw me a surprise party with this big ass custom made card, (which I realize now that I did not blog about it then) and cake and friends and stuff. This birthday was quieter but I must appreciate BARRY (moron :P) for buying me something that I've wanted for some time now. Him, Mareena, Alistan and Ritesh pitched in for it (And I think there are more, just not sure who). They bought me a paintball marker. Specifically a PCS US-5 Field Marker (Equipment -> Ordinance -> US-5 Field Marker). It's olive green (one of my favourite colours) and I love it.

In other news, Sana should be back in town on the 22nd, and for some reason my parents keep asking me about it. While I think it's cool, I think it's also kind of unnerving when your parents seem more excited than you do to meet your best friend.

I'd like to throw out an apology to all my readers for not updating in the last week or so. I blame Twitter. I mean that thing is ADDICTIVE and so much more easier to update than a webpage. But still, now that I'm over the initial twittering shock, I will hopefully spend more time on my blog and resume posting at a more regular pace.

Also, this weeks TWS will be slighly delayed due to crappy internet over here in the UAE. It's been off its mark all day and for some reason Youtube isn't working so I'm kinda stuck as I had a nice little video that I was gonna post. So watch out for it, it should be out within the next 2 days.

The other day I fired up blogger and everything and I had a great something to talk about. I logged in and went straight to the create a post page and was sitting there and got distracted for the slightest of seconds. Moment I turned back to the screen, I had this mental gap in my memory and had completely forgotten what it was that I was going to blog about. Darn it. That's the second time that's happened in one week. Age. It's getting to me.

With that, I'll leave you guys until I remember something to blog about. Cheerio!


M


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Clackity Clack..

It's been a while since I updated here so here's my stuff..

December's been eventful lately, to say the least.. Both good and bad things. I normally enjoy my Decembers. They're a lot more relaxed than all the other months. Work slows down as all companies start packing up their yearly fiscals and stuff. Schools slow down as everyone buckles up to study for the end semester papers, so while we still attend University, it's not as hectic anymore.

In October, a then friend of mine made a post that was quite.. vague. Now, that post just seems ridiculously contradictory. It did then too, but now it just reeks of it. So, when earlier this month I discovered some secrets that put a lot of that into perspective, I was pleasantly shocked and the struggle was to keep it in me and not blurt it out. Methinks I actually did a half decent job about it. I didn't post it here or any place. Didn't mention it to anyone either, although I did mention it on my twitter.

Last night I finally did it. I didn't want to do it earlier because the other person was in a state of duress and I did not want to spit it out then. Last night I guess my patience cracked and I did it quite bluntly. Not too happy with the way I did it, but it's irrelevant eventually . I wanted to do it in a better way, admittedly I was quite brash about it.

I almost began writing another hate post last night but I'm glad I calmed down some and did not. That would not have been very mature or fit for the moment. Sure it might have blown off a little steam, but I'm still equally mad now only difference is I'm physically calm.

There are things in life that you take for granted. Amongst them is the untruth that people will stand by what they say.

Nay. They won't. They'll stand by it when it's convenient for them to do so. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine.

The event from last August that led up to my reaction last night proved one thing. Some people are full of shit. They say things and take stands, NOT because it's what's ethical, but simply because it's what makes them look that way. It's all about image. It's all about how a third person, who doesn't know you, conceives you. A dear friend of mine described it perfectly. A Conforming Non-Conformist. Every alternate person that is trying not to blend in with the remainder. By actively trying to NOT to conform with one group, you're conforming to another, albeit smaller, group.

I swore to myself some time ago, that I would not let myself show any emotional outbursts on this blog, simply because I wanted to refine my experience as a blogger. I'm glad I did not break that promise last night, as I'd probably have woken up this morning, read it and felt disgust at myself. So that's good.

I do, however, want to explain my last post. I understand that it might seem vague or, dare I say it, emo. But I guess at its end there was a thought in my head that I wanted to post. Or express rather. I know you very well. You know that. And I've often wondered, that when your anger, rage, bitterness, everything, when it all subsides. When you're no longer bound to the prejudiced judgment that you're normally hardwired to. As in, when your thoughts have finally calmed and have truly become unbiased, and you become who you try to hide from the world. Now this moment may be miniscule in time and space. But it exists. At that point, it may be RIGHT after you get off the phone, or just before you close your eyes to fall asleep. Or maybe even when you open a book, switch on your pc, open a closet. Anything. No matter HOW small it may be. At that single flashpoint.

What DO you say?

Another thing that really shocked me is that how some people walk scot free for something so heinous. Simply because they're fathers know all the right people.

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R.I.P.

In today's early hours my family and I were informed that one of my aunts, my father's eldest sister, passed away. She suffered a heart attack.

I regret that I wasn't able to visit her house when I was in India.

I'm going to miss her. My father already does. Please pray for him and her.


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December December =)

Without a doubt, my most favourite month of the year.

Not only is it that my birthday falls in this month, but it's also arguably some of the best weather that you can get here in the UAE. Sure rain and mud isn't all that attractive but it's much more pleasant than 45 degrees Celsius of heat and 50% humidity.. Either way, some way or the other I always enjoy this month more than any other in the year.

Anyway, as I fired up firefox I had some things that I wanted to blog about but for some reason, now that I'm actually here I can't remember..



......darn it..


Hmm so much for that..

Ok so I guess I'll just leave you all with the thought that I really love December. Birthday, weather, other people's birthdays etc etc., more lovely weather, lovely ambiance everything..


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I can SO relate to Marten and Dora..

Totally... Story of my life..

Although we normally went, 'Hmm. Hmm Hmm Hmm..'

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Brabus Rocket. Yes. I touched one.

In one of my recent posts, I mentioned that the one thing I'd want to own is a Brabus Rocket. This car has been a dream vehicle for quite some time.....

So when I see it outside my University, I make my first ever vlog..




(Did I mention I'm not an awesome vlogger yet?)

To be brutally honest, this particular model had the trim of a regular CLS 350. Theoretically, the Rocket is supposed to be a Brabus version of the CLS 65 AMG. Although, I guess, it is possible for someone to buy the regular 350 and have it transformed into the Rocket anyway, so it doesn't matter. Although I personally prefer the trim and the rims of AMG.

What I'm also going to do is add another video of the Rocket with it's proper trim as it was tested on, 'Fifth Gear.' Here I guess you'll see a much better version of what I humbly tried to do..






On the right is a picture of the Rocket being used as a police vehicle in the Vatican, making it the fastest police vehicle on the planet..







<3


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Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down

I was going through my tags just a few minutes ago and was looking at how frequent each one was. When I saw that my Music tag was the least I thought to myself, 'Post a song that's really been on your head lately..' You know, to balance things out a little..

I jumped onto the 'tube and after thinking only a little, I decided I'd do Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional. It's been on my mind a lot lately, and the song has great meaning to me and someone else. I've loved this song for a long time and this version that I found is one that I particularly enjoyed.

And, above that, GFWMG is celebrating it's 150th post! Great co-incidence and an even better way to celebrate it.

Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down [Live at Abbey Road]



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You're not alone..

"We're not alone,

There is more to this I know,

You can make it out,

You will live to tell."


- You're Not Alone, Saosin




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