I have the best Aunt and Unlces in the world. I came upstairs to to just see what my uncle was doing while he was on the computer. I laid down to just nap a little bit and fell asleep. Around 30 min later, i was napping where you are sleeping, but you can hear everything. I could hear my Aunt talk to my Uncle about me sleeping and dinner and if I was gonna skip it etc. My Uncle said just to let me sleep and he put a blanket over me! That was soo tight! On top of that, I'm not that young anymore, but just to see this happen is sooo cool. They are the tytest. My surrogate parents...

I just finished editing the slideshow for the wedding and in the process of converting that stuff for VCD.

The night before I was working all day....borrrrring....was online most of the time.
Afterwards i edited the Garba video some more then went to 3rd street with Bakshi, Illy, and Sophie with additional peeps they knew. When we got back we played 'Mafia.' I was the killer twice and I never got picked, bwahhaha. I was gooooood. Then we played Pictionary until 3 am. That was cool...people get heated...tempers flares...i like rubbing it in...bwahhahaha.

So since I thought "Kal Ho Na Ho" aightz...like I took the song 'it's the time to disco' and I edited out the stupid english chorus....so now its all the regular stuff and the end its the chorus just to close the song. Sounds soooooo much better. If any of you want it, message me.

Today is on X-mas eve...make breakfast for mama, it's her b-day. Plan to finish whatever is with the editing and be done...hang out with Raj, my high school buddy and maybe go to SC to pull an all-nighter...with HALO. ahhhh yes.

Song of the Day: "It's the time to disco"(nefman edit) -Kal Ho Na Ho

Lesson of the day: I learned I have kick ass relatives.

Ok early Sunday morning...I just got back from watching "Kal Ho Na Ho" Indian movie from Naz8 in Cerritos. Ok so it's crap. Ok ...that's mean...the 2nd half is crap. The first half no matter how corny was actually pretty funny, but then you get to the tear jerking 2nd half and with indian movies...its 1hr. 30 min of tearjerkin! Enough already! Damn it....it's annoying. Ever since K3G, Karan Johar like to frickin let everyone cry the 2nd half his movies. like beating a dead horse. It's ok to have a good crying movie.....but when all your characters do the same crying for 1 hr. and 30 min of the 2nd half....arrrrrrG
Ok and the songs are average. They wouldve been a lot better if they didn't have the english lyrics in there....it just made it corny as f***.

This is what I watched instead of 'Return of the King." I most definitely regret my decision.

Finals are over, i luckily finished, I don't know how. On the that same note, i got another parking ticket. I don't think I will ever learn, it's sad....but it's hard man...I think spent over $200 in parking tickets this semester alone. IT's sad.

I edited a portion of the ending for the Garba video....it's funny....at least to me it is with the slow motion and fading...

I also am editing a slideshow for my friends' sisters wedding coming up on the 27th of Dec. It took me most of Saturday and will continue today(Sunday).

My high school friend Raj, came home from George Mason, and we and his old UCSD homie came up to visit him. We all went to Hermosa Beach Friday night and tried to go to Sharkeez, but it was massively packed, so we ended up at Malloys like to bars down and chilled there for most the night catching up. It was pleasant. We saw some old Indian people we never liked...it funny cuz one of them got kicked out apparently for abad id or something....ahhhh...coolness...

ahh gotta wake up and continue the slideshow....peace....

ha ha ha....SO I didn't finish my last log....ahh i got hella tired fooo...can you blame me? So right now I am trying to study for finals...sad, but i'm here....

ok just summarize the end of my last bloooooogggg....Neel had some cool games...my SC crew enjoyed the night..Charuni sang....we all enjoyed....and that's that.

Sunday I proctored the SAT again, mostly the Jewish kids cuz of SAbbath....one girl was there the last time I proctored on a Sunday...I remember her cuz she freaked out for writing in the wrong section that last time....good times!

Sunday afternoon I finally got to tape Garba team intro video. Now I gotta do some pick up shots and then editing.
One of the shots was having the co-captain getting tackled in the fountain in front of Leavey Library....tightness...

Monday....hmmm nothing special but proctor more placement exams! Even longer day! Some studying....

Tuesday....studied on campus for what it was worth. One of the organizations on campus had study break every our and food. Subway then Krispy Kreme then Papa Johns then McDiddy's. That was cool.

Today...Procotored Law Finals exams....and then studied here to the present time now....

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Thoughts:

USC didn't make it into the BCS National Championship. Ticks everyone off....but ...eh...I just wanna see some SC football you know... sign rosenotsugar.com petition!

Ohhhh so check this...so one of my friends read tarot cards....and I know it's haram, and my friend clearly says it is for Entertainment purposes, not to be taken seriously....otherwise I would be scared out of my life to do something like that. So I did it...entertainment in mind. It was funny cuz she basically told me...what you need to know... "Listen to the women around you, cuz they are giving you good advice and you ain't listening..." At that point I was like laughing....cuz I mean...I do get a lot of advice, but she also knows my female friends...so it was funny...entertainment people...I didn't take the other sh** seriously...tauba tauba...

So you might also be wondering why I have been proctoring so much. Two reasons....good pay....second...need the dough that it's not even funny. Ever since I've been driving to campus I've racked up so many parking tickets it's been stupid! And 99% of the times it's been stupid. One time Lot T park was closed one day for a Job Fair on campus. That made me an hour late to class....so when i parked at the meter and I'm thinking...well I'll move the car in an hour after class...no worries, I failed to see the street sweeping on tuesdays sign and I got a phat ticket! BULL! And another ticket by the LA Library....ughh...that one I am going to talk to a hearing officer soon...I did some research about California code on parking tickets. I was not issued a ticket, therefore I am clear of the ticket...but I need to go in to protest it....another bologna sandwich!

My back is killing me ever since Friday night...not cool at all....

Tomorrow (Thursday) is my first final...good luck to me....

That is all for now...more proctoring after my final......so this is what its like to work and go to school....maybe not quite the same...but I see the similarities. Damn it's hard. I really don't know if I can hang on much longer. Between you and me, you being the million internet users and friends that might read this (or just me), who knows how long I can hang on. I've been thinking a lot, and not doing a lot of what I think...it's been weird...I don't know what to say. I feel like I can't do any better than I have. All I can say right now is....I don't know what to think.

I leave you with this question: If the Strength of Schedule component is already calculated in the BCS system as a separate category, why is put into the computer polls? Does that mean USC lost because it's sos was counted twice? Then that would definitely be wrong of the BCS system to take into account....hmmmmm......

Song of the day/night: Outkast - Hey ya(Instrumental) -you'll know what I mean soon enough...

The weekend that was....

thursday -last day of class...who cares....
took the bus home...btw...i've been taking te bus more often cuz the strikes are finally over and i don't NEED to waste gas no mo' than I have to.

Friday- I drove cuz I was going to be on campus later than I had to.
friday is usually my all work day at the "blah" (i'm not telling you where I work!). So I signed up to proctor te Law School finals as well...and they had a review session for us proctors. Damn homie....these peeps have money to spend like no other.

I see Alex and Andy....two new recent friends of mine...they are also proctoring, so that'll be fun fun fun...

Went back to work and then helped proctor the placement exams....nice long and boring...

Funny thing is my bosses are Iraqi's and they have a strong accent and attitude. So when they speak they have that Iraqi sense. All though they mean well...sometimes....ok no...all the time...it comes off rude to people. And most of the time they need to be strit in order to get everyone attention and make sure they follow directions. With that said...you have youngster placing into language and math's etc and they hear this guy give attitude...so they give attitude back.

Silly kids.

In retaliation...my boss says clearly..."you either want to take this test or not...you may leave right now."

ahhhhh fun fun fun.

That night was Winter Wonderland at Parkside. I assisted in getting the DJ....Eid Banquet's Dj, KrazeeVybes to DJ. Since they did Bhangra Nights, Parkside peeps liked them. In doing so, the Residential Coordinator, Michelle, invted them and us to dinner at Parkside...now...when you get free dinner at Parkside....YOU TAKE IT!!!

Parkside Apts/Dorms are new and so is the dining facilities. All you can eat top of the line campus food in that hood. Plus that night was upgaded menus cuz of the last day of school and winter wonderland...sweeeetnesss...the oreo desert....to die for....

moving on...

my friends on teh SC bhangra team performed at the winter wonderland and I was about to go to irvine for a get together....until my homie there said it wasn't worth it...so I stayed on campus chillin' cuz it would be a long drive anyway. I was also going to proctor the SAT's the next morning at SC anyway.

So I slept over and actually woke up on time to proctor thanks to my cell phone alarm, dera, and ily. Each in 10 minute snooze intervals. My supervisor of that room was one of the cool chicas from campus, I shall call her "blondie", from associate director of campus activities. (BTW if you didnt know...every proctor has a supervisor of that room) We played hangman etc...chill time...

Afterwards I went to 433...and waited for the SC/Oregon St. game to start. We kicked butt as usual...

Saturday night was my aunts Eid Party...my Sierra/Sakhi Family was coming to hang out. Got all dressed up and went over...everythign was normal and chill....peeps playing carroms etc. After dinner we played mafia and trivial pursuit. Neel my little buddy and his cooky head came up with these "Warm up games"

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Do we Garba or not? Cuz I saw Vital Signs' video "Samabaon solonee" something like that on Muziq.net and it was the corniest video ever....anyway...the village people in that pakistani village were doing some garba/circular routine....so do we or dont we...i mean...me confoosoled...like is its okay as long as we don't do it around a god? But if anyone knows the answer to that video...lemme know....moving on....

Desi team competitions are coming up soon...and I love making intro videos for the SC teams...something...that I ...well truly love to do and pray that it becomes an actual profession for me like music video directing.

On the current project list is the USC Garba/Raas team intro video for the UC Irvine competition. I planned it out in my head so far....and I will be taping on Sunday. I'm just excited in my head cuz I think it'll be a cool video and somewhat funny I hope. It's all for the people....so we'll see what happens...If you are reading this you can check out the Bhangra video I made, the bollywood video is down....dont know how long for....

that is all....

Well....i guess i seem to lag in the updating department. MY apologies....to myself...

Ok so what has happened...ummm Thanksgiving came and went. We (Sophie and I) had our first meeting the dude from Town and Gown, responsible for Eid Banquet dining facilties on campus. That went bizzzzzaaad-bad. He ended up cutting the meeting short cuz there was an emergency with another event happening at the same time. Go figure. We already know what we wanted anyway. Eid came...Eid Mubarak to all...then Eid went....I was on campus all day with my Desi attire...felt the stares...but it was fun...

Went to a taping of Jay Leno on Wed. Madonna was the guest and so was the "Bra-man." Madonna was mean and stupid, bra-man was dope. He had to unfasten 16 bras in one minute...that was dope...cuz the old lady next to me asked me later in the show, "So, did you learn anything?" Taken a back from her question, "ummm, we'll see tonight...i'll prolly get a slap in the face...." Laughing...we left...oh and Nelly Furtado closed the show.

Thanksgiving was family day...the cousins came and went...there was a big desi thing at Boomers in Irvine...my other Cousin (Face) went to it and came back to confirm the "desi-ness." I got to play Mario Kart- Double Dash!! It took some getting used to, but its turning out to be a dope game! Filled with Mario Kart love and innovation. Can't wait to play it this weekend.

Watched Matrix Reloaded-the car chase scene was dope...love to see unconvential means to show a car chase scene...dopeness...otherwise a normal sequel...nothign confusing or anything big...but that car chase scene man...woooweee...go trinity...

I just hope one day I can get creative to the extent of blowing myself away and just entertaining people like that...that is just dope...

Monday-I got to proctor the National Dental Board Exams....man o man...we had it at the LA Convention center...thats how big it was....ok so im proctoring in one room and our exam finished a little early before the other room....as i head over to the other room i hear screams...walk in and a persian lady is screaming and crying to the director of testing..."nooo nooo please noo sirr...you cant im sorrrry!!!!" I was like holy moly....walk up to my friend who was collecting tests to ask what happened....by they way she is still screaming. He told me the director asked three times for the individual to stop writing cuz time expired and she didn't listen, so he did what he had to do and took her test away and disqualifying her test...and that when the fireworks happened...i was like thats soo coool..in the sense...of she didnt listen..her fault...but i mean it was weird...he started to tell her to leave and she wouldnt and she would hug him and tell him "ill kiss your hands sir please no!! noooo!!!" finally the directors wife came and told that lady to leave....sharply...oh wow was it a warzone...at that point i decided to leave....

Later on that day I saw the same lady all happy and turning in her 2nd part of the test. I am assuming he let her have her test back. Sad. I was hoping for some more action.

That whole day I didn't have anything to eat and when i got back to campus i was hella pms'ing. Not cool at all. Got my Kebab Master....damn good....then took a 2 hour nap...and went home...

The lesson learned this whole journal entry: I think I'm outta shape.