18 December 2003, mid-afternoon
I went to Zaffron last night for some Persian food. The restaurant was quite good, and a nice change of pace from the usual venues my friends and I check out. There were seven of us out, Shima, Gary, Ghrace, Rishi, Dave, Martha and myself. I will probably post pictures from that night on We Must Abuse the Broadband.
I’m still a bit sick, but not that bad at all really. Unfortunately, the medicine I was given to take by my Doctor knocks me out.
16 December 2003, the wee hours
I am back in toronto. Bored? Give me a ring at home. Right now I have the flu so I really don’t know how social I will be. Planning on getting Persian food this wednesday, which has me very excited.
15 December 2003, mid-afternoon
I am done my 4A school term as of a few hours ago today. I don’t want to write anything else.
13 December 2003, evening time
I need to write one more essay before I can say this term is over. I’ve managed to do nothing for the past two days, so I will need to change that if I plan on leaving for Toronto on Monday. Going to Linh’s end-of-term-birthday-christmas party tonight, and I think that should be a lot of fun.
Yesterday I went to Philthy McNasty’s with Cathy, Lien, Flora and Gary. We met Shima and her friends in line. Well, we basically budded very close to the front of the line. We pissed off the guys right behind us, but we managed to make things up by letting them go in front of us. They didn’t let people in for the longest time, but finally the bouncer said, “everyone up to here,” and pointed at the group in front of us. Damn. The problem here was that Shima and company were on one side of the line, and we were on the other side, the side that wasn’t going to be let in. Ghrace sweet talked the bouncer and he let me and my chinaman contingent in. “Everyone except whitey” were his words, or something to that effect.
It was a fun night out. More or less.
12 December 2003, mid-afternoon
I handed in my CS 462 exam today. I couldn’t figure out the half of the last question, but I managed to get the other 5 and a half so I think that should be all good, assuming I didn’t make any mistakes. (That’s probably a big assumption.) I need to write an essay for my history class and I will be done all my work for the term, but right now I am tired and don’t really feel like writing much of anything.
11 December 2003, early evening
Went to the post office today to drop off my application for the University of Toronto. Hopefully it makes it there on time, is free of errors, and such a stellar application that they accept me. [Update: It apparently wasn’t one or more of these things.] That would be nice. My Waterloo application will get handed in tomorrow.
8 December 2003, mid-afternoon
I’m in a good mood. Not sure why, but I am. I’m hoping CO 350 is not going to be as big a bitch as the other exams I have written so far. I don’t think it will be, but you never know. I can’t wait to be done. This term is enough to make me drop out of school and take up break dancing full time.
8 December 2003, lunch time
ram is the answer for me
ram is right
ram is ram
ram is running
ram is the culprit
ram is important
Shima sent me some googlisms of my nickname.
ramanan is another unfortunate singer
ramamnan is adamant on making false anologies
ramanan is isomorphic
ramanan is a well respected anthropologist
ramanan is one of the best story
Shima also sent me some googlisms of my proper name.
7 December 2003, evening time
What’s new? Nothing of course. I spent the day studying with Steph at the library. I don’t have the energy, or the inclination, to study for CO 350 (Linear Optimization), so I left the library early. I figure I will get back to work at 7:00, and work hard till I am sick of it. After CO 350 I just have an essay and a take home exam to worry about.
Shima’s been going on all term about how great Queer Eye for the Straight Guy is. I finally watched an episode with her last night. The show is very entertaining, I can really see the appeal. The show is like What not to Wear, Trading Spaces, and a cooking show all wrapped into one, and it’s hosted by five gay dudes. I recommend you watch it if you haven’t yet.
6 December 2003, late evening
God damn. That was unpleasant. I think I may have done worse on my Rings exam, back in 3A, but that is debatable. I hope I passed the exam. I think I did, but one can never be too sure of these sorts of things.
6 December 2003, early afternoon
I have to write my graph theory exam in a few hours. Not an exam I’m looking forward to. Once this exam is out of the way I will feel infinitely better about life. Word Up.
5 December 2003, mid-afternoon
Just finished the crypto exam. I didn’t think it was as hard as the midterm, though it was hardly easy. I think I did fine anyways. Wish they’d tell you your mark on the exam as soon as you hand it in. Now I have to worry about graph theory.
5 December 2003, terribly early in the morning
It’s the night before the crytpo exam. I don’t want to study anymore. I think I may sleep and hope for the best tomorrow. This week has gone by so fast. I can’t believe it is already friday. I don’t trust my calculator so I may have to buy one in the morning. With Graph Theory still to be done on saturday tomorrow will be a long day!
3 December 2003, late afternoon
Exam week is well underway. I haven’t been as productive as I could have been these first two days, so I am trying to make up for my poor work ethic now by working extra hard. My first exam will be this friday, and that exam is CO 485 (Crpyto). I suspect the exam will be quite hard, but we will have to wait and see if I am right about that. My second exam is the very next day, and that is CO 442 (Graph Theory). I can’t wait for these two exams to be done with. I need to do well so I don’t end up with an incredibly low mark in both classes.
Watched Gothika last night with Shima, Gary, Marveric and Antonia. The film was entertaining I would say, an interesting story. I didn’t find the film too scary, but Shima was jumping out of her chair whenever something scary was happening. Though her jumping out of her chair isn’t a good way to gauge how scary a film is I suppose.
Back to work for me. I’ll be back home in Toronto in two weeks, so everyone there should clear there schedule.
29 November 2003, mid-afternoon
Went to Rev last night. I wanted to go to the bomber, but Lien, Cathy and Flora were going to be at Rev, and Gary wanted to go there more. Fair enough. I’m glad I went there instead because they were playing some serious drum and bass in the purple room. It was wicked. I think everyone had a fun night out. Gary might not remember it all.
28 November 2003, mid-afternoon
Handed in my last crypto assignment today. I have doubts about the last question, but I really wanted to go out. We had lots of fun yesterday night. Matt, Shima, Liz, Gary and I went to Fed, the last fed of the term. Signed in some strangers so they could have some fun too. Very nice way to end out the term. Might go see Maestro Fresh Wes tonight if I don’t go back to toronto. Need to work on my last Graph Theory assignment.
27 November 2003, early afternoon
I finished my last assignment in Formal Languages and Parsing this morning. I finished my last Linear Optimization assignment last night. To say I am getting sick of school would be an understatement. Exams are fast approaching. I need to do two more assignments and then I can study. Joy of joys.
23 November 2003, early evening
The party was lots of fun. It’s nice seeing my housemates acting all crazy. The varsity badminton team knows how to have a good time.
23 November 2003, early morning
… but the house full of drunk people is far too entertaining. Some dude is filling up a garbage bag full of puke. My house mates are more drunk then I’ve ever seen them. We only have two bathrooms, so I really don’t see how this is going to work out well. As long as there is no vomit in my room it should be all good.
23 November 2003, terribly early in the morning
… is a wicked song. I’m playing it really loudly right now because my housemates are having a party. I don’t think anyone in the house notices mind you because they are all drunk off their asses.
22 November 2003, late at night
Applications to Graduate Studies, Computer Science, UW I have to apply to grad school here at Waterloo. I wonder if I will regret that?
22 November 2003, late at night
UofT DCS Graduate Studies: Call for Applications I need to apply for grad school at the university of toronto.
14 November 2003, the wee hours
It snowed today. I woke up this morning to discover my alarm wasn’t working. The power had gone out in the night I suppose. Lucky for me it was 7:45. I set my clock again to the correct time, re-set my alarm, and went back to bed. I woke up again to discover my alarm wasn’t working. The power had gone out again. This time it was 9:30. I have class at 10:00. More importantly I have an assignment due at 10:00. I started rushing to get ready. Ready to leave, I realized that there was snow everywhere. I don’t know where the hell it came from, since when I went to bed the previous night there was a thunder storm going on.
Now, at 11:20 on a Thursday night, I am writing up solutions to a graph theory assignment, and trying to figure out how to show the Diffie Hellman problem can be solved with an oracle that can compute ax2 given ax. God Damn.
3 November 2003, late afternoon
Damn the Graph Theory midterm was hard. My approach of, “hoping it would be easy,” did not pan out so well. Hopefully I can do better on the final.
2 November 2003, terribly early in the morning
I’m back home for the weekend. Last night was spent at Jade’s Halloween party. I didn’t have a costume, but Jen found some jacket her mom had bought in the 70s that was pimped out to the max, so I wore that over some of my regular clothes to fit in.
Carvill came over today and we watched the second Lord of the Rings film. I can’t wait for the third movie. Apparently Ju-lians fears it had been delayed were unfounded, so I’m hoping it will be out this Christmas like its predecessors.
My Graph Theory midterm on monday will be the last midterm I write for 4A. The past two weeks have been crazy.
