As time flies by…

It’s September. A month has passed. O’ man! Time has wings! I haven’t updated this thing for quite a while. Every time I think of writing, one thing or other comes up.

Today was a fucked up day…. nothing happened, well nothing I want to share with the public anyway. Some things are just too private to share in a blog so I’ll write about various junks that have swirled around inside my head for the last couple of days.

· August had been a wonderful month. I never had more fun or felt better. My Birthday, oh! What a remarkable day to reminisce! I owe Nidzz for making it special. She is really a dudette!!!

· The final year project committee was impressed by the progress report of my project. Somehow, it turned to be much better than other people’s. It cost me three sleepless nights. I still have to get comments from my project supervisor, as he was outta city then. I have collected data of share price of KSE-100 index for one fiscal year. That was quite a job!!! Next step is the analysis of these share prices. Things are finally on the move.

· I screwed up financial managements’ quiz yesterday. I didn’t study at all; rather I watched movie A Beautiful Mind at cable. What an amazing movie that was! After watching movie, I didn’t feel like studying so just went through the lectures at night. The quiz was quite tough, even those who studied all day long couldn’t do better so, from this experience I learned: Don’t Study! LOL!

· I still got to prepare questions for ACM’s Proquest but Sana keeps on forgetting to bring my compiler copy. ProQuest ’05 is coming up in the mid of September. Bushra is working really hard these days. ACM CS-KU chapter has gained reputation in her leadership. Being a president is not easy. She has faced a lot of criticism but she goes on with devil-may-care attitude. Recently, Wajiha blamed her for not giving importance to ACM members. I wonder how she could say that. She never attended any meeting and yet wanted to be kept informed personally by the president. DUH!!! I think Wajiha desperately needs attention, which her boyfriend has failed to provide. Some boyfriend! ;)

· Mr. Shahid Qureshi is the best professor in the whole campus. He has got style and charisma. Just attend his one lecture and you will fall in love with him! Trust me ;)… Everybody enjoys his lectures. Though, his manner of stating truth bluntly, makes him sound cynical at times, but that’s what students like about him. Nobody wants to hear that everything is okay when actually it’s NOT! Prof. Qureshi loves mathematics like anything and because of him I have started loving math. He offered some projects related to CLA (computational linear algebra) and motivated us to work on them. I have decided to study discrete dynamic systems (fractals) but I don’t think I’ll be able to develop an application. I often need motivation & inspiration to do something. Zaiggy gave me motive to work up fractals. I had made up my mind to apply fractal theory to stock prices of KSE-100 index but then, I couldn’t get much help mainly because so far, this fractal theory is more a hypothesis than a practical matter. Besides, it would require a lot of effort and time from different teachers and believe me, it’s really hard to trace teachers. So, in the end, upon the advice of Professor Meenai of stats faculty, I chose time series analysis of stock prices of KSE. I started off with fractals and ended up at time series analysis. Now, I understand why they say that you should always aim for stars. Had it not been fractals (or Zaiggy :p), I wouldn’t have thought about this time series thingy.

· Ms. Sadaf Alvi is the only female I like at campus; the second best teacher at our department. Of course, first is Prof. Qureshi. Ma’am Sadaf is very easy going and casual. We got along quite well last semester and that caused a bit of controversy too, but things are fine now. I became her fan from the day I got to know her. She loves teaching and does it very honestly. You can ask her for anything; anytime; and she’ll help you out. She gets so friendly that you won’t feel like that you are talking to a teacher. Whenever I need an advice, I consult her because she always speaks her mind. One more thing, she got this amazing power of reading people’s minds so don’t ever think of lying to her.

· I have decided to start writing again. I haven’t come up with a single verse since long. I don’t know why I haven’t…just kinda lazy I guess. I have to write couple of articles for ACM’s magazine as well. What lazybones they got in editorial board! To be honest, writing takes a lot of me mentally and I am usually a little tired after writing for an hour. For poetry, I always need inspiration and because of this, I have a very few collection of my poems. See, things don’t inspire me much! ;)… And as for people, ah! They make me wonder, seriously!!!