Study breaks...hmmm

Being exam time and all, we all tend to take study breaks. You know to refresh the mind, so that it can tolerate sleepless nights of tormenting and torture. Stay alive on the precious caffeine. I basically just spend my study breaks jumping or running and slamming myself into the wall or just eat. Weird as it maybe, it was just coincidence that it snowed the night before my first exam and the whole ground was covered in virgin snow. Sparkling, clear and clean virgin snow. It was then, that I got this wicked idea of writing my name in snow:) using....umm lets say, biological ink. Have a look...




My name in umm biological ink









Where the streets have no name (Main St W)

A semeser of LAF :)

Exams have started and that means an end to LAF for the semester. I am goin to miss them kids for the holidays...sniff. Actually, I wont miss them too much. Anyways heres a pic and a vid of the kid I mentor, Dymon. He dosent like basketball. I cannot freakin believe it. Its stuff like that which proves universal facts false. Its a universal anomaly. You will know why, once you see the pic and use those powers of deduction (stereotype).






Dymon reading














Dymon with his Flash (wrestler) pic





And here is the video....

Desert Sculpture

Orange sky / Windy skies
Shifting sands / Dusty lies
Lost king / Uncertain soul
Unworthy search? / Killing vows
Elusive words / Flying whores
Dying king / Flying soul
Numerous promises / Unspoken selfishness
Journey where? / Desert Sculpture
Deceipt everywhere / Expected sorrow
Faithful company / Lost hope
Near madness / Near end
Destined desire / Never satisfed
Choice presented / Mistake made
Water death / Desert sculpture
Shining king / Sculpted king
Lost wanderer / Uncertain soul
Same blood / Wearing gold
Desert Sculpture / Seeking all

Adel Sheikh

There are more than a half-dozen ways to read this poem, enjoy :)

When the night feels my song - Bedouin Sound Clash

Bunch of Links

These are a bunch of links I found for movies and TV shows,

http://dailymotionmovievids.com

http://www.dailymotionepisodes.com

http://www.veoh.com

Don't get addicted, but its nice to have a bunch of movies you can access str8 away.

Aringa Ting Tang, Aringa Ting Tong

Aaghooo, Zizou (mariam)







Long ass time since I posted, my bad.
About the title its what Tarrie told me, people in Grenada say in songs. Its the equivalent of saying that something is wicked. I don't care as long as it sounds cool:)

Been doing pretty much nothing recently. Exams start on the 6th and I say goodbye to this land of Canada temporarily on the 14th, cuz i believe I can fly to LA. Celebrating Eid with familia. "Because a man who dosent take care of his family can never be a real man". Amazing quote from The Godfather.

LAF has been going quite amazing, love it and wish I can do it during 2nd sem.

Big Happy Bday to Elian a.k.a Elaine/Elianna !!! Amazing night at Inside (T.O), must check out place for people who havent been there.

Top 10 WTF movie moments: PART 2

Took me long enough, but now I have got some free time to finish off the list...enjoy!!

6. American History X: A brutal Neo Nazi skinhead named Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is tried and sent to prison for three years for the murder of two black guys who tried to steal his truck. When he returns from prison reformed, his younger brother Daniel Vinyard (Edward Furlong) who idolizes him is on the brink of becoming a Neo Nazi himself. Derek must save his younger brother from a similar fate. The scence I am talking about is ofcourse the 'curb' killing scene. It was for lack of a better word the most innovative way a person has been disposed off in a movie. Some kids actually imitated this and the dude on the receiving end is paralysed for life. DO NOT TRY THIS!! Anyway enjoy the scene...



7. Batoru rowaiaru a.k.a Battle Royale: A random class of Japanese ninth grade student are - in this fictional universe - randomly selected by a fascist government lottery. They become kidnapped and forced onto an isolated island, where they are equipped with food, water, a map and a random weapon. On the island, they have to compete in a violent death match game till only one single victor remain. The movie starts innocent enough but all the random killing done by these kids throughout the movie is just shocking.



8. The Godfather: Vito Corleone (Brando) is the aging don of the Corleone Mafia Family. His youngest son Michale (Pacino) returns from WWII to get back to his life away from the family business. But due to a certain change of events he is forced to become the head of the family and reinstate the Corelone Family at the top. The final scene, where Michale gets baptized and at the same time his enemies are being slaughtered, makes it clear that the Don has returned and means business. My favourite ending to date.


9. Odishon a.k.a Audition: A lonely Japanese widower whose son is planning to move out of the house soon expresses his sadness to a friend and fellow film producer, who becomes inspired to hold an audition for a non-existent film so that the widower can select a new potential bride from the resulting audition pool. The widower ultimately becomes enamored with and fascinated by one particular young woman...but first impressions can often be horribly wrong. The scene when she is silently just sitting in the middle of the room for ages and then suddenly the sack just moves and the gore starts....



10. Psycho: For Marion Crane, it's been quite an eventful day. The day before, she had stolen $40,000 from her employer's client, packed her bags and driven all day on her way to join her paramour several hundred miles away. Now, she is taking a relaxing hot shower after her long day's journey. The remoteness of the motel suit her purposes perfectly. The only sounds heard are the chirping of the crickets, the splashing of the water, and her humming contentedly as the hot needles of water caress her aching shoulders. What happens after is history, Marion stabbed to her end and beginning this classic Hitchcock flick.

Indoor Cricket does not work

Finally I get the news that indoor cricket is starting, all ready and set to go to play and out of a possible 15 people only 4 show up. One of them comes cuz he has work soon. WTF!!

Anyways, I have been doing nothing recently. Just the usual ranting and studying and crap. Big Happy Bday to Khyati!!!

Was in downtown the other day, and randomly took a vid with my cell, it actually sucks but for those who do not know what downtown Hamilton looks like, ummm IT SUCKS!!




For the record I am in Hamilton cuz I love MAC. Its the sole reason for this city to exist and no matter what anyone says, if it wasn't for the university Hamilton would be a hobo joint. Good food though.

Does anybody remember those Tintin comics, well there are a couple of Tintin episodes on Google Vidz, check it out.

Random Times

What have I been doing recently? Frankly I don't know. Bball, eating my meals regulary (either that or sleep regularly) and a sudden addiction to Samurai Jack. Gotta love that Aku, those of you who don't know what I am talking about Youtube it. My favourite right now is Jack and The Three Gems. Check it out...

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Went for dinner to Kelseys, kind of a see off for Elian before leaving for Argentina for a week.
How I wish i had finished my Lava cake:(





Juan, Elian and Moi









Abdullah (The Afghan Refugee) is a lousy pic taker. DAMN YOU!!!









Champions Trophy Finals: The Aussies vs The West Indies. What do they have in common....they both have destroyed India.

Optimisation midterms been handed out tomm, hopefully he does not end my random happy times.


This Years Love - David Grey

My Top 10 Movies : PART 2

Heres the complete list of my favourite movies...

6. Cidade de Deus: Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.Brutal murders, gang wars and a corrupt system....will it all end? Welcome to the City Of God

Quote: You need more than guts to be a good gangster, you need ideas.



7. Goodfellas: A Scorsese classic. The story of Irish-Italian American, Henry Hill (Liota), and how he lives day-to-day life as a member of the Mafia. Based on a true story, the plot revolves around Henry and his two unstable friends Jimmy (De Niro) and Tommy (Pesci) as they gradually climb the ladder of organised crime.

Quote: As far back as I can remember I always wanted to be a gangster.



8. Schindler's List: The true story of Oskar Schindler (Neeson), a German businessman who tried to make his fortune during the Second World War by exploiting cheap Jewish labour, but ended up penniless having saved over 1000 Polish Jews from almost certain death during the holocaust.

Quote: This list... is an absolute good. The list is life. All around its margins lies the gulf.



9. The Shawshank Redemption: Andy Dufresne (Robbins) is a young and successful banker whose life changes drastically when he is convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife and her lover. Set in the 1940's, the film shows how Andy, with the help of his friend Red (Freeman), the prison entrepreneur, turns out to be a most unconventional prisoner.

Quote: I believe in two things: discipline and the Bible. Here you'll receive both. Put your trust in the Lord; your ass belongs to me. Welcome to Shawshank.



10. The Departed: Two men from opposite sides of the law are undercover within the Massachusetts State Police and the Irish mafia, but violence and bloodshed boil when discoveries are made, and the moles are dispatched to find out their enemy's identities.

Quote: One of us had to die. With me, it tends to be the other guy.

Top 10 WTF movie moments : PART 1

Movie moments that just make you go WTF !!!

1. The Usual Suspects: Kint (Spacey) is pressurised into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects. The scene starts with Kint leaving the precint and his transformation from a cripple to the criminal mastermind 'Keyser Soze'. I bet people wanted to rewind this scene when they saw it.



2. Sixth Sense: Malcolm Crowe (Willis) is under the impression that he is helping a young child (Osment) who can see dead people. It is a quite a good movie till the end, where it becomes a stroke of sheer genius. Dr Crowe is also on of those dead people.



3. Se7en: A film about two homicide detectives'(Pitt and Freeman) desperate hunt for a serial killer (Spacey) who justifies his crimes as absolution for the world's ignorance of the Seven Deadly Sins. The scene when the killer unveils his victim for envy and wrath. Couldn't get that exact scene but this is also good.



4.Reservoir Dogs: From the guy playing the worlds smallest violin to the very ending. This movie is a freaking roller coaster ride. A gang of thieves carry out an armed robbery on a Diamond warehouse. The police are after them so quickly that they suspect they have a rat in their company. The scence when everyone just freaks out and just shoots each other and Mr. Pink walks aways with the money.



5. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: Four London working class stiffs pool their money to put one in a high stakes card game, but things go wrong and they end up owing half a million pounds and having one week to come up with the cash. The ending whether the group ends up with 2 million quid or not depends on a pair of old guns being dumped or not. A freaking shockin and hanging ending.

'Bakra' (Goat) Market in Kuwait

This is the Bakra Market in Dhaher,Kuwait. I went to visit my parents in Kuwait and I wanted to eat some goat so I had to get one:) I know all u veggies are hating me but meh it balances out possibly some how. But goats are freaking expensive let me tell you that.

Finally a good sunday.....wait

Its a brilliant morning, birds are singing, the suns out doing what its supposed to do after all this time and I am doing what I am supposed to do...WATCHING CRICKET!! Never, never again am I going to support India,. Have you no shame losing to the same team again and freaking again and again.....even the commentators took a dig at us.

"No asian team has made it, they have all been knocked out." Bob Willis

"..had kaif been in the way of that shot, he would have been carried along with it to the boundary." Rameez Raja

"Harbhajan Singh is India's main strike bowler." Ravi Shastri

"...Ponting has hit bhaji for a four, ....Symonds has hit him for a four, .....Martyn has hit him for a four." Everyone


Although I have to admit the Rameez comment was hilarious. But getting back to our cricket team none of our pace bowlers fired except the mallu dancing doll, Sreesanth, who got in the team because Agarkar was injured. Son of a @!##$!!!!

Thats it from now on tata (bye bye) men in blue, South Africa is my new team now. GO PROTEAS!!!



Btw thats us at 'The Departed' show.....Tarrie, Trudy, Khyati and moi.






So I wake up early to see India get utterly anhilated by the Aussies and I am hungry, NOT a good Sunday.

Nigh-in-gale

Cryptic feelings harboured in a tick of the beat
The beat skips the worthy to live in its own heat
With smashing moons to show from all that beauty
A rearing horse in front of a timid sky with gutless glory
She sings like an unheard nightingale in misery
The nightingale tells its tale not in misery but mayb in secrecy

So here we go to capture that nightingale
To hear its tale in all its ways
TO feel the solitude amidst the thousands stars
To be the first to hear that forbidden song

Three set out to hear the forbidden words
A hero, a lover, a broken soul
With each on his own purpose
Weary to others but the life of eachs own

The hero crashes through on his stallion
Fighting through all he sees
He burns his demons
He brings peace he knows
He slays evil on sight with every blow
He beleives in good and the forbidden words
But suddenly he must let go
Not a whisper he hears and he has lost
The people he saved have stabbed him whole
He cannot believe that he is in a whole
God bless his soul for he was a noble soul


The lover rides on his faith in love
Hustling sorrow with every drop of doves blood
He loves his hatred
He kisses demons to angels
He cries diamonds when love must triumph
He beleives in good and the forbidden words
But suddeny he must let go
Not a whim of her he smells
The lady he loved ate him as a whole
He cannot beleive his heart is black
God bless his soul for he was a nobel soul


The broekn soul prays to his solitude
Crying to make a river an ocean
He pulls a thread of happiness
He tells people solitude is angelic
He laments his thoughts in a parody of faith
He beleives in good and the forbidden words
But suddenly he must let go
Not a tear of happiness
His thread cut hin through
He cannot beleive his life has meaning on a whole
God bless his soul for he was a noble soul


How all they die if I tell you will be a certain lie
But you must know that It was her in her singing die
The nightingale killed them one by one from the corner of her eye
The forbidden words were now you must die
She sang these on her black throne from the icy peak
As she sings more lives to destroy she seeks

My Top 10 Movies : PART 1

These are my top 10 movies of all time from Hollywood in no particular order.

1. The Godfather Trilogy: Starring Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino this movie is a must watch for all movie loving folk. No one can possibly not like this movie, It makes an offer you can't refuse.

Quote: I'm gonna make him an offer he can't refuse.





2. The Matrix Trilogy: Gives u a head rush no other movie can possibly give. Amazing script and concept, definitely up there.

Quote: My name … is Neo!





3. Fight Club: I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Smart as hell and a pure masterpiece.

Quote: Self-improvement is masturbation. And self-destruction.



4. Braveheart: Everytime Wallace yells freedom it just makes you want to yell too.

Quote: they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!



5. Old School: A movie meant for the ages that gives you the right to laugh out loud.

Quote: I see Blue, He looks glorious!




Well thats the first part, the 2nd part will be up soon.

Hilarious Pic

Midterms,champions trophy, randomness and more midterms

Soooo cute:) Mashallah

EID MUBARAK!!! Been ages since I wrote anything here, and it better have been like that for me to get through these 2 weeks. Again EID MUBRAK!! I exaggerate cuz i was studying on all three days of eid, but meh its all over.

Saw Scorcese's The Departed and oh yeah wht a movie. "Nobody gives it to ya, ya gotta take it." Jack Nicholson nails his part, good to see him back in a gangsta flick after a decade of freakin messed up comedies. Other than that had amazing fun at LAF ( Learning and Fun) , had this hyper active kid to take care of and trust me he was hyper active. It took two mentors to settle him down n get some work done (umm drawing cars).

Other than that been watching the Champions trophy, when you can't sleep for more than 3 hrs no matter what, you study and watch cricket. Kiwis and SA through which just slaughtered my dream of an India vs Pakistan Final. DAMN!!!

There is tonnes of randomness i want to write about but damn just too god damn lazy.....

Finally, a big congrats to Hira for getting hitched and may you have a good one:) and i say to you something i just learned Quos amor verus tenuit, tenebit.


Dropkick Murphys - I'm shipping upto Boston

The Cathedral

This is one of the best animations I have ever seen. The background music, the angles are great. As far as the plot is concerned, I think its about a guy trying to find the ever elusive answer to everything.

Its getting cold.....

You are my sunshine my only sunshine ohh take the rain awayyy....its been steadily gettin colder and I hate it. I am missing the sun and its all gloomy just before my research outlines are due and a week of midterms too. I hate it. So what I am going to do other than sing...sing and study and enjoy ramadan with tonnes of good food:)

Today is Tarrie's Bday....my Grenadian bud (Grenada - Paradise being towed by a boat) he is 23 and I gifted him a chicken sandwich. He loved it, further asserting the stereotype that black people love chicken and its beautiful. If you can't love chicken you do not deserve to live. I ain't hating on the vegetarians, just that if you have tried it and you hate it, you do not believe in God. There I said it.

Chicken aside champions trophy coming up and India better not choke, and Ferrari how could you blow a freaking engine. DAMN YOU...DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL !!!
Ad astra per aspera ( To the stars through the thorns)

You are my sunshine - Official State of Louisana Song

Random India pics

Desi Drive-by

Just Outside Mumbai

Narmada Dam Boat Ride

Mid Ramadan and its all just going on

Ramadan is going on and I just happened to find this video, its hilarious. Thnxgiving weekend is on and next week is going to be hell with 2 midterms and research reports and assignments. But the week after that oh wait.....2 weeks from now its all going to be fine. DAMN!!

Saw Jackass 2 and its a must see and those of you who dont like it...WHY???

Btw a big shout of thanx to the MSA for all the iftars...you guys rock.

Mac Cricket Tournament

The Mac Cricket Tournament held sometime some week of which my team was the runner-up and yeah that sucks big time.

Bugatti Veyron vs A plane...amazing!!!

This is a clip from Top Gear of the Bugatti Veyron having a race with a 2 seater light aircraft from somewhere in France to London,UK.
Bugatti Veyron Specs




Guess who wins?


Finished Symphony - Hybrid

20 or so somthing years before 9/11 !!

This was the ad campaign run by PIA (Pakistan International Airlines), advertising direct flights from Pakistan to Newyork. It featured in various newspapers.

What a coincidence!!

Arabian Adventures 2 - DJ Antoine

I am a Leaf on the Wind...Watch How I Soar

A leaf on the wind...watch how i soar
Like a blaring wind...watch me roar
Bit by bit i dont need
Bit by bit I acheive

A fine sword.....watch me stop death
Like a wave....watch me swallow
Bit by bit I hate
Bit by bit i empatize

A blade of grass...watch me in the dew
Like a monk....watch me pride in solitude
Bit by bit i can go away
Bit by bit I will still care

A rock in the river....watch me withstand
Like a beleiver....watch me endure in pain
Bit by bit I wont be moved
Bit my bit i make my point

Adel Sheikh


I picked up that line from Serenity....pretty cool sci-fi movie. Anyways first month on uni is sailing good and I hate my reaserch papers. Doing one on neural networks for my AI class. Its about how we can use neural networks ( artificial brain) to do various cognitive actions of the brain, like recognising shapes etc..

Breathing Earth

Breathing earth displays the birth rates,death rates and CO2 emissions of all the countried in the world all in real time.Hmmm......

The Xbox 360 Ad for India

Don't know what the hell its trying to say but I enjoyed it....Game on!!




Human Love - Dirty Vegas

18 Tricks to Teach your Body

Some really cool 'medical' tricks to help you with your toothache, injections and so on...check it out link

How to get rid of burn marks

Breathe Underwater?

Look Up - Zero 7

The Best Kobe Video

Watch it and you shall love it, with the amazing Clint Mansell score. Watch Kobe....The Legend.

A week of school..

A week of school is about to end. For the first few days I was happy to be back, and then it hits me. This is going to go on for 8 months. Damn!!
Taking a couple software design courses, optimisation and AI. The AI prof is a jerk, and yes I mean it a real JERK. I think he is a Gypsy. Well, no plans for the weekend as yet, hopefully will play some cricket like the gully cricket in India and go to TO to help some ppl move.

That's just a pic of my niece Maryam, she was trying to bite my finger:)

Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars

I Start my blog.....

With the beginning of the school year I start this blog, a guiding light for all you meer mortals and umm me too. This is The Sheikh Blog.