A Peek into a Mind

Lots of time without update, and lots of things happen. Here’s a news flash: Semester is nearly over, I’m under pressure to submit the last exercises and learn for the exams, Gali is getting married on the 14th this month, I’ve got stuck in a middle of a junction in Jerusalem and had to get the car towed to the garage back in Ashkelon. Stayed the weekend in Jerusalem learning, with Yonit. Helped her with java. Took a bus to Ashkelon on Sunday. Went to the garage to take the car and see what was the problem. Turns out the gear went kaput. 7000 NIS ($1470). OUCH! Drove home. Big Terror attack in Tel Aviv, god damn it! Slept few hours that night, woke up at 4:30am to drive my mom to the air port. She’s on some sort of a EuroMed Education project, this time they meet in Barcelona. From the air port drove back to Jerusalem. Arrived at 7:00am, went to sleep. Woke up 11:00 all messed up. Solved an exercise. Went to the lab. Everything’s a mess since technicians are fixing the air-conditioning. Lab out of work for a couple of days. Bummer. Tuesday morning. Went to the lecture, submitted the exercise. Drove back home to stay with my father until Sunday.

That’s basically sums it up (happy yossi? You’re probably the only one reading this. Well, you and the other 80 guys that stumble here every day…) Anyway, good news - I was hired by an austrian company to develop midlets games (games for cell phones). Already played with the code a little, I’m going to start at Jan. 24th (after my last exam) and probably code a Xonix game and a Surfing game. I’ll post some screenshots and details once I’ll have some.

Meanwhile my ADSL proved worthy - I’ve downloaded the movie TRON and just finished watching it. A real classic - and still inspiring!! Some of the concepts of the movie were already implemented in newer movies, but it’s still a great movie to see. One of the few I would consider buying on DVD. If I had a DVD player, that is. Anyway, go rent it for a night!

The other thing I’ve been doing lately with the ADSL is downloading Ali G video snips. The last one I’ve seen is of him interviewing Posh and Beckham and it was just HILARIOUS! Man, that guy got some Huzpa! (I’m sorry to use an hebrew word - but there just isn’t an english term for it!)

Well, I’m going to stay at home, in Ashkelon, until sunday, when my mom comes back from Spain. I’ll do my best to study for the test but I know it will be much harder when I got a computer beside me and Leonardo downstairs…

I’ve wanted to make a whole post about the Terror attack in Tel Aviv on sunday (23 dead, 68 wounded), but I’m too tired right now, and beside, what can I say that I haven’t said already in previous posts about terror attacks? The only thing that pissed me off is that the UK tried to do some muscles when Our government refused to allow Arafat’s people to go to the “Palestinians Reforms Convention” in London. Hey, sure, why are those Israelis refusing to allow Arafat’s people to talk about reforms? Well, maybe cause it was Arafat’s own organization (fatah-al aqsa brigades) that did the terror attack in Tel Aviv!? He can’t even use the excuse that it was another, opposing, palestinian group! Well anyway, the English tried to do some muscles but the US told them to lay off the thing and that they weren’t really too happy about that shitty little convention of theirs themselves, anyway. Of course, nothing personal against the Uk, guys, actually it’s one of the countries I have more warm feelings towards. (I still like Ireland the most!)

Well, Time to go to sleep. You’ll have plenty of me the coming days, don’t worry.