Today was another typical day. However, the heat was unbearable. The morning started off cool and breezy, but when I got home it was just horribly hot. I want the fall/winter to come soon! Anyways, I didn’t do much today. Just work and home. I passed by the mall before I got home. I went into Zellers and was just browsing around. I just couldn’t believe how many jars or boxes people open to “see” what’s inside. Why the hell would people open up a jar of peanut butter? It SAYS PEANUT BUTTER! Not a mystery!!

It just irritated me so much. I can’t stand people who open things and don’t buy it. Arghh.. Anyways, I got home and mom was cooking and she was making up food she read off the net. It was yummy! I love Ramadan because mom tries to be creative and uses the internet productively! hehe.

Then we were randomly talking, my mom and I, and I said, “I am tough!” Then she said, “inty fa2eera wa miskeeny, wallahy el wa7ed beykhaf 3aleeky.” Translation: “You are poor and helpless, I swear we are always worried about you.”  I looked at her and looked at the ground. I told her, “my friend thinks the same of me too. ”

I know I may talk the talk and think I am all tough, but everyone knows I am as vulnerable as a bunny. Oh well. I thought about it and I think my mom was right for once. I am not tough and I am really quiet and always by my self. My mom says, “no wonder your sister is tougher than you and always hits you and screams at you!” I said, “I am scared of her.. she is EVIL!” Hahaha..

Aah.. funny funny.. Isn’t my mom and sister funny!!

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I started off the day waking up at 5! Yes, I slept 6 hours last night, from 11 – 5. Not bad eh? Anyways, I woke up a little before 5 because I had a strange dream. I woke up looking at picture of me and me. I mean a picture of two people which were me. I was looking straight at one side of the picture. I knew it was me, I had dark hair, brown eyes, and round face. The other person was the same person. It was me in the same position and same smile. I looked at it carefully, then I saw it wasn’t me. The person had same eyes, but little lighter, same exact round face, but the hair was very light brown. I woke up at the moment I realized who was in that picture. It was the older version of my young 12 year old sister. Then I thought about it all day, she doesn’t look exactly like me, I mean when I was 12 I looked different. Her and I look alike. You can tell with a heart beat we are sisters, but we don’t look exactly alike.

That dream was just weird. It is weird looking at your self in a dream. Very strange.

Anyways, so today at work I spent the first hour or so fixing up my game. It worked! Yaay. I spent an hour finding one bug. One measly bug! I was at he edge of taking my laptop and throwing it cause I couldn’t find the bug!

I finished the CD and burned it. I made a CD label, and printed it. Done. I went back to my computer, and no internet. I was like huh. I asked everyone, “everyone got net?” They checked and said, “yup!”

I got mad and rebooted the machine. I went back and no internet. I got mad! I then switched to Linux and again, no internet! I went back to windows and decided to try again, then I disconnected the wire and tried the wireless (they conflict with each other), and the wireless worked. I got internet. So I got my co-worker to try my ip address on his machine. It worked. So my ip wasn’t blocked. So must be my MAC (Media Access Control) address or value for my network card. I smiled. I am like huh! I was finally caught downloading movies! No wonder my internet connection was so slow this morning. They were monitoring my bandwith. The funny thing they blocked my MAC address but not my IP.

My boss was busy in a meeting all day. So I didn’t want to bug him, but I emailed him about it. He didn’t say anything, he then came online and said, “you downloading?” I said, ” I stopped it two hours ago!”

I knew he was busy, so I took the matters in my own hands. I wanted internet to be wired because of emails I receive via my email client. So I changed my MAC address number using the network’s control panel. I made up a value, and boom. Without even restarting crappy Windows XP crap, I got internet again.

I told my boss what happened and I asked him, “will I get my original MAC address back?” He said, “you changed it right?” I said, “yep!” He then asked me how I did it and thought I downloaded software, I said nop. Simple as can be. So I showed him, and he laughed. I told him, “does this mean I stop downloading?” He said, “no. All of us here are downloading too. ”

Ok great. I get caught and blocked, and they haven’t. Was I downloading that much? So I decided to just download from home.

Hehehe.

Anyways, when I got home, I read a lot, and ate, and now I am writing. Maybe I will read a lot more or dry my hair. Hehehe..

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I woke up this morning at 2:30 am. I wasn’t feeling good and I spent it in the bathroom. So I went back to bed. I could not sleep. I then sat on the computer and checked my emails and blog and other stuff. I didn’t bother to reply to anyone or anything. The problem is cause I stayed up, I couldn’t go back to sleep at all. At around 3:10 am I went downstairs. My brother and his wife were up cause their cute baby kept them up, and his wife was sick and had a fever and cold. I said, “wuzzup, what you guys watching and why you are not sleeping. I am hungry. How about eggs?”

My brother said, “hmm, good idea, boil some eggs please and we will eat too.” So I did and I had no idea what they were watching. So I watched a bit of their show. They only watch Syrian shows and record them and watch them again. That’s all they do.

So after I ate I went back to sleep around 4:00 am. I had hard time sleeping. I should have read a book or something then I would have fell sleep quicker. I got up at 9:00 am then. I was fresh and awake. It seems the baby didn’t let my bro and his wife sleep at all. My mom was busy too and she told me to watch her. So I did till 1:00 pm. I kept flipping channels on the stupid satellite. My sister than came and said, “are we going to the mall or what!!?” I said, “no I am lazy and I need to dry my hair. Too much work.” She said, “you are a lazy bum!”

I laughed and just sat there for a few minutes. My mom came back and I told her to watch the baby. I went to my room and I was so cold cause my hair is wet.  I decided to dry it and I was like, what the heck. Let’s go to the mall! haha. So I went with my sister to the mall and I bought some stuff that was on sale and then got home around 3:30 pm. My mom started cooking and I decided to help her out for a bit. I then went up to my room and laid down on the bed and guess what. I fell asleep!

hehe.. I woke then around 6:30 pm and I remembered that I had to make an egg salad.  I made it and it was good. The hit of the day! hahah. I like making salads.

Here is the thing, we exchange food us and my mom’s friend. She lives up the street and she is Syrian. She loves my mom’s food and can’t wait for Ramadan. She sends us food and we give her too. It feels like back home. It is nice. My dad is impatient and likes to the send the food 20 minutes before eating. He says he wants to sit down and relax in pajamas and eat. hehe.  So they never have the food ready that early. Today they were late. We were 10 minutes into eating and their daughter came knocking on our door. She brought us lots of food, and I was already stuffed. However, since I like food and I like to try anything, I stayed on the table. I just sat there and looked. I wasn’t eating. I was just looking at the dishes and wondering what’s in what. How was it cooked and how does it taste like. She doesn’t put salt or spices in the food because her husband is very sick. I don’t mind, I got a salt shaker and I am willing to try anything. As everyone left the table to go pray maghreb, my mom then came back and said, “Mona and Maria, aren’t you guys done eating!” I said, “well, she is trying the mushroom soup, it is from campbell’s soup can. It is good, and I am trying this thing with egg plants or something, and this chicken is missing salt, but shake shake, I can shake the salt shaker, and I laughed!” My mom said, “common, stop eating and clean the dishes!” I said, “whaaaaaaaaaat.. I do not clean dishes, I will remove them, I will clean the table, but no dishes!”

So now I am in my room and very dozed off from stuffing my face. I think I will be a moving cow in Ramadan cause of all the food I eat. I think it is cause of the long days. Almost 12 hours not eating during the day and no coffee makes me very sleepy. Anyways, my mom made traditional Arab coffee and I will go grab some. It is very very good and makes a person feel like they are drugged.

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Today I was an absolute bored lazy slacker at work. It wasn’t the coffee this time. No no. I drank a full mug this morning. So I was pretty awake, I think I just needed a bit of excitement and something to do. So I went to the bookstore at the University to buy a bunch of books for my Literature course. Why am I taking it? Good question. It seems for grad school and stuff I need to have some essay background. Makes sense. So my plan is to apply for grad school next semester or in the summer. I am not putting my hopes up, but I got as good as a chance as anyone.

So I had many plans the past two years. I want to very much apply for grad school so I went back to take more courses since I did only a general degree. I took more, and I was really interested in applying for business schools and stuff. I even considered Law since I love to argue for any reason.

Anyways, then I decided, well, if all my plans back fire, I got Comp Sci grad to look forward to. That is last on my list, but I took all the courses I need so far with a very high average. I decided to take the last one, a Software Requirements Engineering course. I was hesitant to take it, but I thought, well, if all my above plans fail, I got something to take with me to the real world. I mean I know my current job will never upgrade my position, but I am very motivated to take a step forward. I love programming, don’t get me wrong, but I like the stepping stone in software project development. I want to do the business cases, and the requirements. It’s what I like. I like to think, research, analyze, and write reports. So I went to class on the first day last week. There were 6 people in the class. The professor is from the industry. I think it is the first time for him to teach and he has real world experience and his own company. He said his software team is making a software for the government of Canada. Hmm, it made me very interested and thinking maybe I can apply for a job with his company and he will hire me since I pretty much work for a government organization. He is not all about academics which I love. So from the first day he kept asking questions and stuff, and I kept raising my hand. I never ever talk in class. Never ask questions or answer from fear of not knowing. However, in this course, and after five years of working, I know the answers. I know all the answers!

So this week, the prof wanted to know our names, and I said Mona, blah blah. So easy and I kept answering and raising my hand. Then the third class was yesterday, he remembered my name. Is it cause he is Italian and the name Mona is pretty famous. Or that my name is very famous, or just cause I am such a geek that I raised my hand so much. I can’t help if I know the answers. I just know a lot. A LOT about Software Development. The prof then kept smiling at me and knew I knew all the answers, even when I didn’t raise my hand, he knew and just asked me to answer. One guy in my class also works at the University, he works at the Information Technology section, which pretty much he knows a lot too. I didn’t mention it and I never said I worked. He did.. hmm, I wondered why. So I decided to not say that I work and I am just a “young” geeky student who knows a lot. My plan is to get a 90+% in this course cause the term project is a joke. The project is to write a requirements document to my boss about 5 pieces of software that a company might use to write a software requirements document. I read it and I was in disbelief. An advanced high level / master’s degree level course has such a project. A term project? I was laughing hysterically in my head. I can do this in a day. So I am going to slack off till December 1st, 2 days before it is due.

Anyways, so that’s that for me. I love school and it keeps my brain stimulated. I think it is the reason I still work at the University, easy access to courses and it is much cheaper to pay for courses as a part time student!

So today, I left work early again. I was bored out of my mind and I am done testing for the 10th time! I am not 100% convinced it is bug free, but I got Monday to double check. So I went to the mall, and I couldn’t buy any clothes, after spending $220 this morning buying books for my lit course, (Children’s Literature), I love the course by the way, but I got to read a lot. Writing is not an issue for me. DUH! It is the easiest thing for me on earth. Writing my opinion and arguing a point is what I love to do.

Today, my mom made yummy food. Good she didn’t make a lot thank God, and I removed the extra extension piece in the dining room table that made it too wide. Before we ate, obviously someone has to argue about something stupid before or after. However, it wasn’t me! I didn’t fight. It was my bro and my mom.. Wohoo!! They fought and I was looking and trying to figure out who’s fault is it. My brother has a very very bad temper. I keep telling him and everyone I know, that my brother has a very bad fuse. It blows up really fast!! hahaha

So my brother was mad. Super mad. My sister came downstairs and said, “what’s wrong with him, his eye brows are crooked down like this .” I laughed and I tried to be the mediator and figure out who should apologize to who and I kept telling mom, “very very bad, your fault, haram (sinful) in Ramadan to get angry. What did he do?” Mom got mad, “what you mean what I did, I am his mother, he needs to learn to behave and learn some manners!” I thought to my self, “hmm, he is 31 years old, manners, learn, ehm… ” So I decided to not say anything anymore, or my mom’s fuse will blow up when I say something that is factual and not of her liking!

Anyways, when it was time to eat, I guess they made up and things went back to normal. I was hoping it was a prolonged fight with more drama. It would have been more entertaining if it lasted more than an hour. Oh well.

So I am drinking an energy drink and wanting to stay up a bit tonight and read some books and stuff. I got lots to read.

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