Four seasons, seconds, flicker, flash I’m alone
A lonely scream provides the scene, it’s no home
Every night I hear you scream
But you don’t say what you mean
This was my dream but now my dream has flown

I'm at the crossroads waiting for a sign
My life is standing stilll but I’m still alive
Every night I think I know
In the morning where did it go
The answers disappear when I open my eyes

I’m no stranger to this place
Where real life and dreams colide
And even though I fall from grace
I will keep the dream alive
I will keep the dream alive.

What's with people saying Oasis' new stuff sucks? I think Don't Believe The Truth is their best effort yet.

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Now Playing: Oasis - Keep The Dream Alive

Bullshit

That was no foul.

Doesn't matter, Italy are going to get creamed by Germany or Argentina next time around - if they can make it past Ukraine.

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Now Playing: Oasis - The Hindu Times

So the F1 was pretty bad, though not as bad as I expected. But damn the Portugal/Dutch game following it was fun.

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Now Playing: Keane - Try Again

Way too depressing

I'm this close to totally not watching F1 anymore. :(

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Now Playing: Hoobastank - If I Were You

Friday Cat Blogging

Cats will one day take over the world. Some people would disagree with such a characterization. Those people are communists. Ignore them.

In anticipation of said feline take-over, a random Friday every month will be dedicated to cat blogging.

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Now Playing: Keane - The Frog Prince

Score one

Khatib, Samey Suhel
Thank you for using the online Internship Petition System

A decision has been reached regarding your petition.
YOU HAVE BEEN APPROVED

Not the response I was expecting, but I'll take it!

This shakes things up a bit for junior year, especially in terms of giving me a LOT more flexibility when it comes to recruiting and the next summer internship.

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Now Playing: Keane - Nothing In My Way

Brazil v Australia

Moment of the game: Cafu shaking hands with the referee who just yellow carded him.

Runner up: Goal #2, scored by a man named Fred.

Edit: I don't need to say it but last night's Italy/USA game was beyond insane. I'm actually a USA fan now, even though they stand little to no chance of making it to the second round.

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Now Playing: Tiesto - Heroes

Apparently...

I can consolidate my monthly bills, reduce my mortgage payments, find cheaper auto insurance, save money by switching to another long distance carrier, lower my auto-loan payment, and get triple miles on any airline I fly, all while increasing my penis size using ultra-cheap prescription medication.

Imagine that.

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Now Playing: Pearl Jam - Wasted Reprise

I will never try to understand people's fascination obsession with alcohol.

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Now Playing: Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees

Bits and pieces

What do you make of it when someone tells you that you look like you're 18, and about ten minutes later she tells you that you sound like someone much older than your age? (20 in my case)

Spent the last hour or so messing around with my blog template. After going from bad to worse to indescribably horrendous, I've decided that I'm better off leaving it for when I'm not sleep deprived and having to wake up for work at 7 am. For the moment I'm going to stick with what I've got now. Maybe until the weekend, I don't know.

Don't expect any insights from me on the World Cup. I'm not exactly a rabid fan. Though I wouldn't mind seeing Brazil win again, just to watch Pace squirm.

F1 is just about the only sport I give a crap about now. It would help if Ferrari and Bridgestone got their act together. Watching Renault outclass the field - and Alonso having a perfect reliability record especially compared to his teammate - is a bit painful.

Yeah, this was an incredibly in-depth and insightful post, but it's past 4 am and I can't sleep. I do have something more substantial in the works actually. Soon as I finish up some framing. Though I get the feeling that just about anyone who's even remotely into that stuff doesn't read my blog anymore. Not that it matters. I didn't create this blog to appeal to readers. Hell, I didn't even expect readership (and it's not like I have much anyway).

Quote of the day: "They stand an icecube's chance in hell!" - Mrinal Sharma on something to do with the World Cup, I can't quite remember what.

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Now Playing: Oasis - I Can See A Liar

My learning curve is flat.

And Tom Friedman is a moron.

Edit: Totally unrelated note, I forgot to link to these from my 4 day trip to Bombay.

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Now Playing: Oasis - Gas Panic!

An exercise in perspective perhaps?

This is the part I least like about visiting home. The mother dearest's usual discussion on my pseudo-independence. Something to do with maintaining my autonomy while complying with family values, honor and tradition.

Yeah.

I guess it figures considering she puts so much emphasis on the extended family, and really is like, communication central when it comes to relatives. Spends at least an hour on the phone everyday talking to family, be it in India, America, Europe, Pakistan, whatever. Family is important to her, and she's the kind of person who would really go to the ends of the earth if she felt like she had to for the family.

I don't know what I've done that constantly prompts these everytime I'm here. The only thing I have to say is that while I do respect my family just as much as anyone else, I would expect them to accept me for who I am and who I choose to be. Even if it means that they have to accept someone who doesn't necessarily comform to their norms of conduct, and well, existence. It may not be the case now but I can think it any number of potential scenarios where it might be.

A little perspective might help now and then.

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Now Playing: Oasis - Gas Panic!

Something to note...

I cannot deny your unbeknownst mistaken certainty that shines through full course, and I must applaud you as to your many ways of communicating your approach to the logic of labor and of our lives to what many must consider something under a law of rich men. After that, though, I can only see a grim future in which we may live if such a thing as what you are arguing for is proposed in any way to our government. You see, it is not like a standard communicative social structure in our government -- much more often something that may be created by the one and the many. I can only sense that one may actually be suggested by such values to completely take away all of our control of the situation of numerous places, and then I must ask you this question: Why is it us that must not be taken aback by such shocking revelations as what you don't know in advance about a situation that may go above and beyond that of your lifestyle. I've discussed with the government what types of opinions they've seen, and there are many, varied, understandable ways of changing situations such as those referenced above into methods of totally seeing anything go through. What many ideas does one have if they all nullify the result of many others feelings on the subject of ownership of a place theoretically bound to understanding of youth by relationships of a non-social climate with the local types of attitude.

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Now Playing: Oasis - Go Let It Out