Wahablog

Coldplay said it best.

A warning sign,
I missed the good part then I realized,
I started looking and the bubble burst.
I started looking for excuses.

Come on in,
I’ve gotta tell you what a state I’m in,
I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.

A warning sign,
You came back to haunt me and I realized
you were an island and I passed you by,
You were an island to discover.

Come on in,
I’ve gotta tell you what state I’m in,
I’ve gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.

And I’m tired,
I should not have let you go.

So I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms.
And I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms…

I saw one of my favorite bands in the world tonight: Depeche Mode, with my sister, at Nissan Pavilion, in Bristow, VA. I wore the t-shirt I got at the very first DM concert I went to when I was about 11-12, in Philly, for their Singles Tour 86-98. The shirt’s black but so faded it had a bit of a charcoal look to it. Good thing I bought a new one tonight.

The concert was so amazing! They played a mix of songs off of various albums, not just the new stuff, which was very refreshing. At the last concert of theirs that I went to, I think they focused too much on their real ‘hits’. This time they played things like ‘It’s No Good’, ‘Walking in my Shoes’, ‘Home’, ‘Fly on the Windscreen’ and ‘In Your Room’, which aren’t their mainstream singles at all. They ended the last encore with ‘Waiting for the Night’, which I think everyone thought was a bit too somber and could have gotten enough of (’Just Can’t Get Enough’ is their usual ender).

I was the happiest at that concert that I think I’ve been all summer. You know you’re really happy when you can’t wipe the widest smile you’re cracking off of your face. I wasn’t even trying to smile, it just came from nowhere when I heard their synths humming and whining along, making the most beautiful sounds. I’m partial to them, you see. Considering all that’s happened these last few weeks, it was a great night and a great way to forget about the world for an all too short 2.5 hours.

It wasn’t but 20 minutes after the music ended when we were walking back that the solemnity and the dissonance that’s been buzzing in my head these last few weeks returned. I climbed a hill to the lawn section to see what the view was like (lawn seats can be fun), and once on top, I could see the whole stage, the field, and the parking lot. It was peaceful, for the 2nd time that night. It was freeing and restricting. Such joy and that smile ended too soon for me; It was late and we had to get home. Home. I was quickly reminded of everything I have left to do, left to fix that’s broken. Left to remember that I can’t fix.

But you can’t have it all.

Smeared black ink… your palms are sweaty
And I’m barely listening to last demands
I’m staring at the asphalt wondering what’s buried underneath
Where I am
Where I am

I’ll wear my badge… a vinyl sticker with big block letters adherent to my chest
That tells your new friends I am a visitor here…
I am not permanent
And the only thing keeping me dry is
Where I am
Where I am
Where I am

The district sleeps alone tonight after the bars turn out their lights
And send the autos swerving into the loneliest evening
And I am finally seeing
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
Why I was the one worth leaving
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It’s July 12th, 2009, and I’m restarting wahobbit.com. Hells yea! There’s a lot that’s changed since the last time I wrote on here. Naturally, the fact that I’m actively writing on here vs. passively squeezing in time between studying to write on here is one of them. I can’t cover all of these changes here, but I’ll go over some main points.

• I graduated! Who knew? I now have a degree in computer engineering.
• I have a job with a great consulting company doing stuff I enjoy: Booz Allen Hamilton.
• I’ve undergone massive plastic surgery to give the world another few years with Michael Jackson. That’s right folks, “he’s not dead, he just went home”. I had to make a plug to MIB, I just had to.

That gives you a bit more insight into my life at the moment. I’ve just been busy working and chilling on the weekends, going white water rafting, playing video games, going to concerts, etc. It’s been a good summer and a bad summer, for everyone I think. By the way, this is just an interim post while I get the passwords to update everything. I think the theme of this summer will be ‘a fresh start’.

Well another semester has come and gone for me. I took a number of classes, including intermediate swimming, which was fun (and harder than I thought!). I don’t think I want to take 6 classes again, but it was fun for a little while. The nuclear engineering class I took was my favorite, and I’m taking another with some friends next semester. Swimming was fun too, but still somewhat hard. It was my way of forcing myself to go to the gym every week, which worked pretty well I think. I can now swim better than I ever could before in my life so that’s cool!

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Just a quick 5 minute update….studying for my 2nd to last exam for my summer class that is tomorrow. 3 weeks to go… how glorious the days will be after this is over. 8-) T-1 month before internship is over too. I’ve got more to say, but it’s back to studying for this one!

So I went white water rafting for the first time ever yesterday with a buncha friends in Ohiopyle, PA…It was SOOOOO much fun!!! We got there at noon after driving for about 3 hours. The weather was perfect! After hanging around as other people showed up, the tourguides talked a bit and gave us our lifejackets and helmets. Eventually we made our way to the schoolbusses to take us to where the river was. ‘BJ’, one of the guides, gave us a good talkin to about safety before letting us carry our rafts down to the river. He reminded us not to get offended if he was cursing at us while we were going down the river. There were 84 people in total, 11 from our group. We broke up our group into two rafts: 5 and 6. I was in the 6 person with Haris, Zoha, DK, Donnie, and Gary…which was obviously the better raft than Hamza’s, with Salman, Huda, Andy, and Hamza’s roommate who’s name I can’t spell.  Read the rest of this entry »

OK so it’s been a while since I’ve updated this, but now that I have my friend Chris’s blog working, I’m motivated to write more on my own.

I’m happily employed at Motorola Inc. in Columbia, MD now, as a Systems Engineering intern. I’m the ONLY intern here (im special eh?), which was depressing to find out when I got there on the first day, but everyone is more than nice and I seem to be getting along well. I’m also taking a compsci class (CMSC330 – Organization of Programming Languages) this summer, which will be over July 27th. We have our first project due tonight at midnight, but thankfully I’m done done done! Woooooot.. Well I think at least…we’ll see if I think of anything I didn’t test…hmm…scary thought.

My days are long as heck…Class 9:30-11am, work until around 7-8pm, and somehow I’m fitting in going to the gym too. Weekends are like heaven for me. I wish I didn’t have to take this class!! Then I could chill with people and have more of a summer…but it’s required and I gotta do what I gotta do. My last day with Moto is August 10.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention-they’re sending me to Illinois for a week at the end of July! Niiiiiice

I’m excited about this weekend…white water rafting baby!!!!

I’m getting hungry, so time for lunch. Later!

Eating more chicken, but i’m using chopsticks this time.

electricity stirs the air as she walks by
stirs the air as she walks by? the air is stirred by her
waves crash down when she moves her hair
crash down when she moves? waves of emotion is she
a solar flare cannot compare her eye’s enduring embrace
compare her eye’s enduring embrace? never before or after, again to never.
Feeling with the hand that you dont have, but has you
that is the heart