Chaosplay

I found this cool coffee place in Arlington. (I think I am addicted to finding new coffee places). Its simply called Amer’s Best Coffee.

So this week I ate at Wendy’s, Ihop, Republic, and Sonic’s. FInding a new place to eat everyday is tuffer than I originally thought. Just 4 more days left in the month.

Oh yeah I am glad 2nd Amendment lives on. While I, myself would never own a gun and even if I have one, i will not use it to defend myself, but I think we will be in serious trouble, if the lawmakers slowly start to erase founding principles of this nation.

last week was nightmare. I changed my work schedule to go in late and work late in the evening. I thought it would give me all the time to do my own things in the morning but I ended up just sleeping trough the mornings. There is not much I can do late at the night. So today I asked my boss to go back on original schedule.

I was on my way to home right but there was huge traffic jam on 360. So I decided to stop by Starbucks. I should have gone for rock climbing.

I didn’t run at all last week. So bad!

And I couldn’t work on my SCJD project and facebook project.

I was super busy with work stuff. I did manage to eat at new and different resturant everyday last week. Let me see, here are some of the places I ate at:

• Cool River Cafe
• Budz Spuds (near work)
• Astoria Coffee Shop (in Addison Circle)
• Boun Giorno
• Coffee Haus
• McDonalds

I have decided to get my own place. I already found the place. I think I will move in there on July 1st.

I just realized that I spend $8.00 to go to work and come back. Ouch!

My vacation got pushed to August. Oh well!

Ralph is back in town.

I guess I will work on SCJD now.

This morning I saw the cutest nurse at my orthodontics’s office. I didn’t know what to do since she was working on my teeth.

I have been contemplating moving out of my parent home. While in actuality I living couch to couch but my base is at my parents home. I feel like I am not as productive as I can be.

Cool Breeze - by Amer

in this hot desert heat
you were a cool breeze

gone in a moment just as you came
leaving me behind to wonder if you will ever return

to mess up my hair
to touch my thristy lips softly

you were a sweet dream
vanished with the stars in the morning

leaving me to wake up in the blinding sunlight
to look for a shade where there are no trees

you were a beautiful song
which i cannot hear anymore in this noise

i tired dancing to you
but there was no floor

a wish which cannot be fullfilled, a desire which will never die
my hope was in vain but i held on to it.

you were a magic happened in a blink of an eye
just as a shooting star disappears in the night sky

you were a poem written with an ink
on paper left in the rain, washed away before I could read

Weekend is almost over. How did I do on my goals?

First the good, I played with facebook api. I figured out a few key things. I setup repository to store code.

Then the bad, I didn’t run at all this week. I did rock climbed twice. I also used stepper but just for ten minutes.

Lastly, the ugly, I could not work on SCJD project. Only thing I did was setup repository.

So the goals for this week are:

• to run at least once
• setup contractor class for SCJD
• display all your friends photos

In the presence of the Beloved, a Lover recalled his ordeals:
“For you, I suffered all horrors in a long war.
Wealth has gone, and strength, and reputation;
because of my love
For you, many, many miseries have attacked me.
Not one dawn found me laughing, not one evening calm.”
Everything that he had tasted of desolation and despair
The Lover told his Beloved, detail by detail, point by point.
And not from revenge at all: he was only offering
A hunderd clear testimonies to the reality of his passion.
The Beloved replied, “Yes, you did suffer all those things.
But open your eyes wide now, and listen very carefully:
You have not accomplished at all what is the root of the root
Of love and fidelity; what you have done is only the branches.”
The Lover cried out: “Tell me, then, what is this root?”
Beloved replied: “to die to yourself and to be anihilated.”
“You did all the rest, ” Beloved added, “but still you are not dead.”
At once the Lover prostrated himself and gave up his soul.
Like the rose, he gave up his life, laughing and rejoicing,
And this laughter stayed with him, like a gift, for eternity.

—from Andrew Harvey’s book: Light upon Light

Last night I saw the ad for $5 large subs at Quizno’s. So today I ate at Quiznos. I would say their large subs are really large. I could not finish mine. Also there is more meat on the sub than Subway. I love to go back there soon.

Note that yesterday, and on Wednesday, I didn’t eat lunch thats why I didn’t post anything here.

Well actually it took much longer than 10 minutes because I got into some issues. First check out my app. It doesn’t do much but its the beginning. The end goal being the dating website.

So here is what I ran into. I followed this tutorial. My webserver uses php4 but the tutorial I got from facebook was for php5. PHP4 does not support try… catch blocks. (I didn’t know that). I had to modify the appinclude.php like this:

//catch the exception that gets thrown if the cookie has an invalid session_key in it
if (!$facebook->api_client->users_isAppAdded()) {
$facebook->redirect($facebook->get_add_url());
}

/*Commented out this section, not sure how to deal with this just yet.

{
//this will clear cookies for your application and redirect them to a login prompt
$facebook->set_user(null, null);
$facebook->redirect($appcallbackurl);
}*/

Then like many other’s I had to upload simplexml44-0_4_4 in php4client directory.

After that it worked like a charm.

So that was the first step towards one of my 2008’s objectives.

I know its a bit late for new year’s resolutions. I actually made these resolutions at the beginning of the year but I haven’t made much progress on these. One of my favorite blog write, recommends that if you are unable to keep your resolutions, then make those resolutions public. Let everyone see your resolutions. Then make yourself accountable by reporting your progress to those who you know about your resolutions.

So I plan to announce my resolutions for this year, and I will report at least weekly progress on these resolutions. Here are my resolutions:

• Get my SCJD Certification
• Run for an hour (I can run and walk for an hour)
• Learn Arabic (I am going to weekly classes)
  

I am also adding my big project of making $1,000,000 to this list. I was talking to Karl and he told me why don’t you make dating website. After some thought I figure why not make this dating website for facebook. A lot of my developer friends are into facebook apps. And I like my friend, Jordan’s saying that in order to get rich you don’t need an original idea. You can use any idea or business and just execute it better. So I think I can make a better dating app for facebook. (although there are already tens of such apps). I don’t think this dating app will make me money but it will be sort of proof of concept.

So I have 4 tasks to report on every week and hopefully more often.

I am 27 right now. To be honest, I had almost given that dream. I thought It was not possible. I got a 9-5 job. I make fixed amount of money every month. I hardly have any money for fun and stuff. There was no way that I could save or invest money from my job and make $1,000,000 before I turn 30.

Luckily, last night I met some extra ordinary people who I am sure to meet again. These people are young, professionals, and motivated to achieve there dreams. They have some amazing ideas for their businesses. Thanks to them I was re-motivated and I am ready to invest my time and energy in figuring out how can I achieve one of my simple goal of having a million dollar.

You will see some more posts from me regarding this soon.