A Star from Mosul

The vacation ended and studying started again.. I got my marks, all really good; the lowest is 13/15 in Digital Techniques (Which I love but always make stupid mistakes at) and the others range from 14 and 15/15, the only full mark is in Physics. In average, they're the highest marks.

At our class, the best 5 students are 3 girls and 2 boys. Only 3 of us didn't fail in any subject.

I bought the exercising machine finally! The same one I liked before, and it's very good. I kept looking for info about it on the net but didn't find any. It's called Horse Rider, and it has nothing to do with any of the horse riding machines I found online.

I can now access the internet from my mobile phone. Asiacell activated GPRS services for its customers in Mosul finally. It costs $3 to activate, and 1 cent for each 10 kB download/upload. Eventhough I have activated it, I rarely use it, and only to chat, since I have internet on my laptop and fear for my money :)

Some updates on the book project:
4 boxes of books on computer engineering are on their way, and a single book on environmental engineering.

There's this one book I've been trying to buy through amazon but it's making me crazy.. I am mailing it to my uncle in UAE who'll send it to us but it's been months and it hasn't been shipped.. A delay after a delay.
I'm kind of used to waiting since nothing goes smoothly here.. But it's my british friend who paid for it who is very frustrated!

These are two blogs I'd want you to pay a visit to:
Introducing Islam: This blog is not to stop islamophobia, or to correct misunderstandings. This blog is to enlighten those who did not buy that nonsense. I write to those who seek the truth (about Islam). If I say right, then it is God's words. If I say wrong, then it is myself.

Iraqi Hopes: An Iraqi PhD student working on a project and needing help from Americans.

Labels: book project, college, links

I believe that the next time they tell me it's time for the vacation, I'd cry! Studying is so much fun this year, and the vacation is so much NOT.

I will try to learn Yoga for this remaining week, but I need to get my stomach empty first, or I'd regret it.

I'm still stuck at home, didn't get out of the house since the last time I wrote.

There are at least 10 explosions aday, we're not even thinking of replacing the broken kitchen window because it will break again (It already did, 3 times), we put nylon instead.

Dad went to Syria with my uncle who's going to have a big heart surgery there.

HNK is having exams, so mom isn't even trying to get me out of the house. I and HNK will only have 2 days of vacation in common, which means that I do have hope in going out on the last 2 days of my vacation. I'll pray there are no surprises!

Not much to say.. But mom has been pushing me to write instead of whining.

Labels: vacation, yoga

I'm in vacation now, and I'm bored again..

I used to be so eager to go to the university last year, but I was sure I'd regret missing studying one day.. Well, not yet. I so want the vacation to end.

One reason I am really hating the vacation is that we're always at home. Dad says it's too dangerous outside we shouldn't go out for no important reason. And so I'm stuck at home.

A friend of mine gave me a book the last day at the university, called "The Universal Mind" and it's very interesting, I'm currently reading it.
I have been sent three books by a friend of mine, that are both educational and interesting, and I'm planning to read through them too.. I also have two chapter of LOTR to read but this novel has become such a pain to read for me.. I guess it's just not my type. But it's very famous I MUST read it..

So, what to do at home??

I can read, that's one thing that I can always do.. although, well, I still need electricity for lighting. I can surf the net (As long as the laptop is charged/charging), and I can watch TV while the electricity is on too.. But all of this requires no physical effort, and tires the eyes, two things I prefere not to do..

I feel like a prisoner when I'm at vacation.. I can't go out, and I can only do limited activities at limited times.

One thing that is fun and doesn't need electricity is to exersise, and I love doing that. I therefore decided to buy a machine that would help me do more exersises and get more out of it (I already have one, but I wanted one that was more complex). Mom and dad were going out to do some work and so I went out with them to find myself such a machine, and didn't!

There are machines for exersise but not for girls and dad doesn't want me to grow muscles!

Now I really want to do something that is fun, and doesn't need electricity.. Any ideas?

I also need to figure out what better thing I can spend my money on rather than the exersise equipements.

Moving to another subject.. I did well on the exams, and I expect to get the highest marks since my opponent, A, God blesses him, did some good mistakes :D

My friend tells me I shouldn't get happy over someone doing bad at the exam, but, well, I just can not help it!

PS: That's Ayman in the photo, with his two new teeth :D

Labels: ayman, bored again, vacation