Nizwa Word Inventions

"With ignorance comes creativity"

That's a lesson one of the professors was trying to teach us in Linguistics.

And he Proved it!!! It was Hilarious... what happened was as follows:

Prof: Another way of having new words added into a language is backwards inventions.

Backwards inventions is when one derives a word from another language instead of deriving it from the root. Like "Editor"

Editor was a word in itself... it was derived from another language... people were ignorant about that fact and thought editor had a root word "Edit". And that's how the new word "edit" was brought into the language.

Students: *laugh*

Prof: see how ignorance can be useful?... let's take a live example then shall we?... Give me the root word of "assumption"

Students: *uncertainly shout out* "Assump"!!!

Prof: Assump??... really??... Do you know you've just come up with a word I never heard... nor does it even exist in the english language. The root word for assumption is assume.

*Pause*

Prof: but who knows... perhaps assump would become a new word in the English language invented by 7atharatkum, Nizwa students!!...

After all even though it's ignorance... some use can come out of it.
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Me: tssssk.... ignorance indeed.

Can't Seem To Pull It Off Right!

Alright!!! That's it!!!... I'm gonna have to let this out somehow...
I'm starting to HATE giving presentations cuz NOTHING I say turns out right!!!

1st presentation was about the reformation period. I said almost ALL there was to say about it and the professor said he would consider it a 4/10 because I didn't mention it's impact on the Renaissance Period.

He could've said write about the reformation's impact on the renaissance and not simply the reformation then, surely?

2nd presentaion he told me to talk about Percy Shelley, so that's who I talked about... Percy Shelley!!... but nooo, I did equally bad because I talked about the person.... not his impact on the Romantic Period.
well isn't Percy Shelley the bloody person??!!!

is this my daftness or his English failure in passing the message?

I'm really pissed this will start affecting my marks!!!

Next time, if EVER he asked me to talk about let's say "Satan" I won't. I'll talk about his bloody IMPACT on my bloody thoughts, this very bloody Period!!

Words Unspoken

Words Unspoken

From far within the widest seas
In waters cold and oceans deep
There will be times, when heedless rhymes
Will throw in words for minds to keep

Those words that form one's true concern
With which those eyes would start to weep
One's pointless aim, to give the blame
To minor numbers down the heap

Yet nameless folk would neither care
Nor try to see how things would be
If those who play, would stop their way
And leave their place in history

Then times will come and leave its age
To where its age decides to be
And those who claim, to know the game
Know naught of its adversary

2007
TripleTee

This was a poem I wrote at a moment when my nerves were almost at an end from a forum I partly moderate together with a number of admins and moderators. That would be English Sabla.
That day I started realizing and understanding how certain moderators used to feel and what they had to deal with.
Some started dictating to me that I was wrong in my judgements and perhaps I was, the team themselves responded little, yet showed support in public.
Certain things can be hectic and you can't always please everyone. You try and get snapped at in return.
This poem was just something I happened to feel like writing at a blink of an eye.
Everything has its ups and downs. However, there will be a time when I'll decide to move on and inshalla find myself a better successor.

But ofcourse only when my nerves can't support it anymore... which is a difficult level to reach.

20 Years Later

So I've outlived 20 years now... my last birthday was no doubt amongst the ones I enjoyed the most. I got well wishes from some I never thought would actually remember, so it made me pretty happy, not to mention having 2 cakes made for me.
I just wanted to thank my dear friend SteLLa and her family for granting me that day. I feel like nothing I do could possibly repay that.
In addition to my Blind_Melon :p and her friend whom I had the pleasure of meeting that day.
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If anyone wondered how I feel... well.. I feel not ready... somehow 20 means entering the age of adulthood.... no more teen in the picture. I feel like I have no choice but to go through it and face what the coming years hold for me. In a way the thought scares me. And despite me having a fortune teller << not exactly... just someone who studied my zodiac sign and the exact day and time I was born to tell me about myself.... well despite of her telling me I have a prosperous future due to my personality. Knowing how much I distrust predictions I don't feel any more confident.
Well... who knows... I'll just cross my fingers and try climbing those stairs once again. Perhaps start a new page.

An Old Tree

Through my days I've grown deep roots

Going down to ancient mines

Arrows, armors, scripts and flutes

Dating from beyond the times

Through those times I've lived to see

Streaks of endless history

I have seen what used to be

Secrets kept a mystery

I'm an old unheeded tree

Yet my age goes far beyond

Every day some pass by me

Unaware of times I bond

All the time such natures form

Full of signs and tracks of old

All this time those days once norm

Have become long tales untold

2007

all rights reserved

Tee

Recently

Yess... I'm back in Uni and finally managed to find a way to update somehow. Sorry for the long delay. Still don't have my laptop but I'm doing fine I guess.

Let's see... since I've limited time I'll make this quick:
Recent Random Thoughts.
-Finished giving a presentation about the Reformation period before the Renaissance and the reign of Queen Elizabeth I... Basically talked about Martin Luther and King Henry VIII. (yes I'm showing off my Literature now)

-Getting used to the system here... I realized once you know your way around you've got further options as long's you know how to go by finding them. Somehow... I'm getting familiar with the phrase "There's no point of what you have if you don't know how to use it"

-I saw my mother in uni :o... no... the 2nd version of my mother in uni... a girl... her reactions, her personality, her jokes, her expressions..... are almost identical to my mom!!!!.... if I didn't know better and know my mom was still alive I woulda thought this girl's her reincarnation.

-I think I'm familiar with around over 100 girls now... all of which either live with me or come from outer space... hostels...
I met 3000 aliens>> which is just about the number of undergraduates and graduates we have here... since they're all alike... probably my group of friends and I are the aliens. Ironically.

-I'm learning how to cook Omani food... which the girls here are experienced in like they know their own names.

-I got a 3.4 GPA... due to me ditching one subject... it lowered my mark by 5... and no... I refrained from ditching any more... honest.

there's a lot more to say but I guess I'll leave it for later...
Bottomline is all's well my side...
hope all's well with you fine readers..

Crashed

I want to apologize and announce that I won't be updating for a while due to my laptop crashing. Of all parts the motherboard.... what luck eh?

well I hope I'll manage to get back to motion soon and make up for the delay.

Tag, you are it.

Tagged by dearest 3anooda & Blind Melon:

What will happen to your e-mail when you die?
Float in cyber space until it gets deleted.

Did you try once to give the password to someone? If yes, what kind of relation that you have with this person to trust him/her and give him/her the key of your secrets?
I have... basically because I have no secrets worth hiding from them and because I don't believe they've got any interest or objective to do anything with it. :p

Your famous nickname among your Friends?
Tee

Your age?
19

Your horoscope?
Pisces

Your qualifications?
English Literature

Your character "personality"?
Like doing things my way, and don't like being told what to do

What travel means to you?
Seeing new places, new people, new cultures... etc.

What do you purchase?
What I need (and sometimes what I like :p)

Your time out of peak
Net, games, books, music...... Net...

Features taken from your dad
Confidence
Pride
Eyes, hands and feet :p
Persistence
Leadership qualities

Features taken from your mom
Stubborness
Persistence
being out-going
Kindness
Hi spirits
High self-esteem

The most 6 things you hate-
-people who're 2 faced
-people who give no face
-arrogance
-jelousy
-people who're full of themselves.
-extremists

The most 6 things you love-
-those with high intelligence levels
-the way lawyers think
-cinematic sequences
-stories with morals
-art in all its forms
-loyalty

What a job means to you
Independence

What computer and internet mean to you
-The world in digital form

You would like to pass this tag to:-
M987
Oblivious
Nicobambi
Nella
Phat

Outraged

For these various reasons:

-I can't find my mouse... (been looking for it for ages now and I just can't seem to find it... I soo badly want to draw something good but I can't do that without it... for heaven's sake, people who take such things should at least have the courtesy to tell me. Let me just get my hands on that bro of mine. It MUST be him)

-I'm running out of coloring ideas to make my drawings look like the exact images I have in mind. My outcome's never the same. It's starting to worry me.

-I'm starting to hate Oman's weather now a days. The temperature's just perfect for spreading fevers. I feel a fever's going to hit me all over again. If it was a hint colder or warmer I would've at least known what to wear.

Now it's back to wearing that pink jacket and hope my cat won't attack me again.

As usual... been lazing around in that exact spot you see almost all day.

Trying to decide which software will suit my drawing requirements to make the image I have in mind...

This must be friday's curse... annoying things always happen on this day...
wonder what the zodiac sign says about Pisces and Fridays?... Surely not their lucky day?

Absent Minded

I was in one of the rooms upstairs where there's wireless connection, and usually when the browser stops working I go down to the library to switch off the ADSL and switch it back on again.

Today I went down with the intention of going to the library to do that... except that instead of stopping down the stairs... I continued walking all the way down to the kitchen... and once I was there I stopped still... stood there for 5 minutes... wondered what I was there for.

If only you knew how far the kitchen is from the library... and how long I walked all the way down before I actually remembered that's not where I wanted to go.

I'm really wondering what'll happen when I grow old.

A Walk To Remember

Nope... not the movie... my day. Why? because I spent almost half of it walking.
First it was in the shores of shatti then in the festival. From 6 to 10:30... count that.... 4 and a half hours of steady walking. So how many calories did I burn?
Well, I may as well describe what I saw along the way.

In the Beach:

- I saw holes in the sand that I usually thought were where the crabs lived. Then looking ahead I saw these birds with long beaks digging into the sand looking for something to catch. (there I knew where the holes came from)

-gazing above I saw other birds flying in formation. It was a trick with the wind someone explained to me. Those birds who were flying in circular motion did it where there was warm air to help them rise further up. And those who flew in a triangular shape did it to lower the air resistance. ... Interesting.

In the Festival:

-the usual crowd. Nothing special except the clowns and the fireworks from close up.

Now I'm back home and I realized it feels pretty good to lay down after a long walk. I feel that at least for once ... I may actually deserve it. lol

The Small Things

I'm done with watching Princess Mononoke a dozen times already thanks to Red Dragon's link to torrents.
And I figured something through it. The song I mentioned I've been playing on my org thinking it was a song from that movie was NOTHING like it!!!....
I wish I could create my tunes on the laptop so I could make you guys listen to the difference.
But that would mean something else...
It's pretty much a song of my imagination then. And it's a tune I happen to like... therefore I'm happy something like a movie I've only seen once before could inspire something like that.
When I manage to create it here I'll show you.
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On another note... My cat "Shadow" attacked me yesterday. Just like that. I was sitting, she was staring at my jacket and she out of the blue attacked it so furiously that her teeth sunk THROUGH my jacket. That somehow caused me some scratches...
cats are marvelous creatures aren't they?... but somehow I felt I wanted THAT particular one away from me. Until I found out the reason behind her sudden outburst. Which I until now don't happen to know.
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Muscat Festival started... and for some reason... I'm not that keen on trying out the rides as I used to be. Something's wrong with me... I know I LOVE rides.... but I guess it's no fun when you're the only one willing to go on them while the rest shiver... I guess I'll pass.
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I've been lazing around the whole day today. I feel weak. This weather's been getting everyone sick lately... my time's up. It's gonna last for a while as well. So I guess I'll be lazing around a lot more.
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Listening to: Celtic Moods (River Dance)
Mood: Tired

Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)

New Year's Eve

So another year has come and gone... and here I sit a year later, ever since I accumulated an online addiction. This was the year I learnt most out of, although there were many things I would've wished to turn differently, I do not regret having them as I do now. Who knows what the future holds?... and maybe what seems so disappointing now may be my way to success later.
I'm ready for a new year, with every intention to further develop myself as a person.

I will set no particular resolutions for this year except the fact that I want to complete writing my book and bring together a program to help me create the graphics and music I plan to create. It is not my profession, but merely a dream I plan to make come true. This may take more than a year to accomplish... however, this is the year I plan to start it and hopefully prevail.

So... things never take a strong hold as much as I would've expected them to. That is mainly because the ones involved do not possess the required strength to keep things going....
It seems every beautiful rose dries out one day. But the sun always remains shining...

So Happy New Year everyone. And hope this year'll be as good or even better than the previous one for you. I know it will for me... because with every dead rose sprints a new one. :)

Tagged

Was Tagged by Red Dragon... :)
"list every single nickname and its variation that you have EVER been called in your ENTIRE life"
Hmmm:

-T
-TripleTee
-3T
-TTT
-TT
-TharThar
-Theo
-The Devil
-Soosy
-ThuThu
-Tee

I don’t remember being called anything else before. I guess those about sum it up.

I tag SteLLa, Nabs, AP(Male), BM.... and whoever's in the mood and sees this.

(Sawadi) Another Go on The Jetski

So I've grown accustomed to that water thing... in the past it's always been my dream and now twice my dear friend and her sisters made it come true. Was the day SteLLa got that huge Toblerone Chocolate as you can see on her blog. :p Sometimes I get the feeling she's addicted to buying them and stopping herself from eating them, and I'm addicted to eating them from her.

Well aside from that, I believe jetskis are the best thing about Sawadi... there was also the Banana Ride but I wasn't so sure what it was all about only that you got a bigger chance of toppling over ......which might not be a pleasant thing.

However, the voyage was really enjoyable and is always something to look forward to doing again and again.

First try in illustrator

"Enjoy what's there today, for it may not be there tomorrow"

I was pretty pleased with my last Illustration on Illustrator CS even though I knew I could've put more effort into blending the colors... but I guess it already took a lot of patience out of me to try a completely new program...
This artwork's taken me ages... and by ages I mean endless hours because I kept deleting and recoloring... I guess I finally got the hang of it in a way... so hope you like this one... :)

So Tired...

I woke up so tired today even though I slept almost all day yesterday. In the morning on my way to the farm I slept in the car. After I reached the farm I slept for I don't know how many hours and I still felt tired when I woke up. After having lunch and playing cards with family and friends I had to go back to my dorm and there I slept till next morning... I woke up at 8:30 and went to uni. No one came to class... so I went to the library and I've been lazing around here ever since. I wanted to finish my assignments and look for books, I ended up finding books on graphics and hacking and took them instead... well... now I didn't even open these books that interest me... something's seriously wrong!!
I usually smile at girls who pass by but today I almost frowned or made no expression at all. A girl asked me to plug in her laptop for her and I just took the wire placed it in the socket and switched it on without a word.
I think I haven't spoken as much as 10 words today...

... so tired...

......I think it's the beginning of a fever.

Say Hi to my "Shadow"

I just had to take a shot at her when she came sneaking into my room before I went to sleep. That was some time ago. It was a pleasant surprise. She never used to spend the night with me anymore. But I guess that night she decided she wanted to come back.
Isn't she adorable? :p...
that's my Shadow :)

Just a Dream

Just a Dream

Just a dream, it’s just a dream
Just a phantom of my trance
Visions of an unknown scheme
Cut it short from one long prance

Just a dream, it’s just a phase
Let my silence speak its words
All this time has left no trace
Like a nest left clear of birds

Just a dream, it’s just a thought
Left its owner out of spite
From the joy it could’ve brought
Took its faith out of my sight

Just a dream, that left some hope
That forever shined anew
Only I could never cope
With a weak uncertain view

Just a dream, it’s just a wish
That unlikely could come true
Just a dream, and now I wish
That my dreams dispose of you

TripleTee

Something I felt like writing also inspired by Sarah Brightman's soundtracks...
Hope you like it :)