Been a while

Thanks for your wishes on my birthday. Some of you took your sweet time *grins*. In either case. I am back from my hiatus. I was extremely busy with school and other types of mundane activities. Not to mention I was extremely sick too. I am back now. Still busy but my health is a little better. Hope to see all of you around. If you still come to my blog that is *hums*

Happy Birthday to Me

I turn 26 on 17th January. An year wiser, an year saner, an year wrinklier, an year closer to fulfilling my destiny, an year closer to making my dreams come true, an year closer to supporting my parents, an year closer to marriage, an year closer to kids, and an year closer to my own death. Happy Birthday Reza Malik. May Allah bless you with whatever you want and more and make you a good human being. Ameen.

I am Back

I am back from my vacation over in Orange County with my cousins. It was a great trip which resulted in bonding me together with my cousins. Time well spent. I gained a few pounds on my Aunt's delicious cooking as well after eating Burgers for so long. Cheers. Tomorrow is the start of the new semester and I am looking forward to it with zest and zeel. Just 2 couses to go before I graduate inshAllah.

Eid Mubarak

Eid Mubarak guys. I hope your Hajj is accepted if you did offer it and if you didn't you get to fulfill it sometime in your life.

A Happy New Year too. May this year bring you lots of what you desire.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to all you guys and may you have a Happy New Year as well. Have fun during the holidays ;D.

Wordpress and Blogger

So there is this dangerous trend I see among my friends wanting to move their blogs over to Wordpress. I ask them why would you that. First of all Wordpress is not free. Some of their advanced features that come free on Blogger, cost money on Wordpress. I think Blogging should be a free activity and noone should have to shell out money for it. I am talking about features such as making your own templates. Sure to many of you that might not seem much of a deal breaker since you guys are fairly content with the templates that are provided to you. But to a guy like me, who loves coding his own webpages, that is definately a deal breaker. I thought about moving to Wordpress 4 months ago but decided it wasn't worth it. Blogger has been criticized lately for all the wrong things. I see no difference in how I blog on the new Blogger compared to the old one. Infact, I quite like some of the features they've introduced.

Just thought i'd write something in support of a place that has given me constant joy as an outlet for my thoughts and ramblings as far back as 2004.

P.S: Haloscan Comments is not working with Blogger Beta right now. There are some bugs which will be ironed out soon. SO comments will be back soon :D. Save em in your head till I fix it.

Update: Comments seem to be working ok now. If someone notices any problems, please let me know.

Tarot Card

Although I don't believe in Tarots and all this stuff, I came across this quiz and decided to take it, just to see what i'd get. Well, I came out something I didn't except. Definately don't believe in it now *grins*.

You are The Devil

Materiality. Material Force. Material temptation; sometimes obsession

The Devil is often a great card for business success; hard work and ambition.

Perhaps the most misunderstood of all the major arcana, the Devil is not really "Satan" at all, but Pan the half-goat nature god and/or Dionysius. These are gods of pleasure and abandon, of wild behavior and unbridled desires. This is a card about ambitions; it is also synonymous with temptation and addiction. On the flip side, however, the card can be a warning to someone who is too restrained, someone who never allows themselves to get passionate or messy or wild - or ambitious. This, too, is a form of enslavement. As a person, the Devil can stand for a man of money or erotic power, aggressive, controlling, or just persuasive. This is not to say a bad man, but certainly a powerful man who is hard to resist. The important thing is to remember that any chain is freely worn. In most cases, you are enslaved only because you allow it.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

I Got Tagged

I got tagged by que sera sera. I have to write 5 weird things about me and then pass the tag along. Now lets see what the 5 things are:

1. I eat cereals with milk at 2 a.m in the morning because that is when I crave something sweet and nothing is better than cereal and cold milk. It helps me sleep better too.

2. When I listen to certain kinds of music, I get pumped up. Pumped up in the sense that I want to go out and beat someone up. I thought music was supposed to soothe the raging beast, not create one *scratches head*.

3. I love dragons. I'veimagined myself fighting them, taming them, riding them etc etc. Maybe it is because I was introduced to them at such an early age? Who knows. Bottom line: Dragons rock.

4. I think beauty is an illusion. Yes I said it and yes I am a man. I think beauty is in the eyes of the beholder and furthermore, beauty alone without character is like a porcelein cup, elaborately designed but empty.

5. I love the smell the rain makes on the ground when it mixes with the sand and earth. I have been known to just sit outside and take it in for hours at end at my grandfathers over in Kashmir. I know most people like it but I still think it's weird.

I am passing this onto Luda, Writers Creek, Arianuz, Heewa and Blue Water.

Semester Ends

So the semester ended. It was one of the most hectic semesters ive taken in any school to date. That's the reason I haven't been able to update as frequently as I would have liked to. Still, the semester passed without any major incidents although the grades weren't entirely to my liking. With that out of the way, I am free until the 7th of January. Mostly I am just playing World of Wacraft all day, listening to music, watching TV and anime, and reading some novels to pass my time, not to mention sleeping. Well, sleeping seems to be a superfluous addition since I am up at 4 a.m writing this post.

Winter seems to be catching on with yesterday and today being the coldest days of this winter to date. I forgot how I managed to survive in Michigan before I came to California. Ah the adaptive power of the human body never ceases to amaze.

These days I am watching some new Animes. If any of you are fans of Animes, be sure to watch Fate Stay Night if you can get your hands on it. It is a good Anime and has a captivative soundtrack to boot.

Merry Holidays.

My Random Musing

Conquer your fears, Vanquish your doubts, Destroy your weaknesses. Be Reborn by the ashes of your struggles; Rise Phoenix Rise, and Burn through the Morning Sky of your hopes, steaking it with your Firey Success.

Reza Malik.

A Small Thankyou

Even though I haven't updated my blog for so long cuz of personal issues and school, I know a lot of you come here everday hoping I will write something new. I apologize for not being able to keep up on the posts with problems cropping up in real life.

On that note, I thankyou for still coming to this blog :). Stay tuned and once again. Keep on truckin along :).

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Career Fair

The Career Fair at the university is coming up. I need to get all spiffy for it and see if I can land some interviews. Assignments are coming left and right from all sides as teachers are picking up speed in order to justify giving something in the midterms. I am enjoying Ramadan and everything is fine. I hope all of you are having a good ramadan as well. Peace for now.

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Exams and the Flu

The exam practically sucked, for want of a better word. I didn't get to do what I could have and it basically pisses me off. The paper was pathetically made covering the most obscure features of the lectures. Maybe it is just me getting the "Grapes are Sour" Syndrome but in the end I messed up and there is nothing I can do about it. Better move on and get the next one aced.

The Flu made preparations insanely difficult. The soapy feeling in your nose, your eyes watering and wanting you to close them every 5 minutes and all that good stuff. I am on the mend now though and will be free of this scourge in a few days.

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Decency

Some people just don't have any decency. Recently someone added me to their MSN list and when asked why the person did it, I was told the person was curious. Ok Fair enough. I can understand that part. But thats when things started to get stupid. I was subjected to a number of rude comments and what not and all the while till the very end I tried to remain calm. I thought it was just a bad day for the person and they needed to take it out on someone so its ok. Although the next day the same thing happened which resulted in me blocking and deleting the person from my list.

Now if you add someone don't expect to use them as a punching bag when they are being nice to you. If you have to take your anger out on someone, do it somewhere else. If you have to be discourteous and rude, do it somewhere else. You know who you are. I suggest you get a life. No offence but you need to learn that people other than you are also human beings and you need to think about someone other than yourself, as hard as it might seem. Good luck to you and I hope you remember, life isn't black and white. Gray has equal meaning.

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Flu Hits

I got hit by a virulent and stubborn flu today and have been in a state of haze and total miserability all day today. Well there goes my great weekend and with an exam coming up too. Studying with a flu is hard, as if studying healthy wasn't a challenge especially in my major. But thats all for now. Here's to a speedy recovery and lots of success *cheers to self*.

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