The Processor

On June 15, 2006, I, Sayam Masood, received a Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc) degree during the convocation ceremonies held in Convocation Hall at the University of Toronto. It was so awesome to see friends again! From what I gathered, it seemed like a lot of people hadn’t kept in touch so convocation kinda served as a reunion of sorts.

This moment in my life has made me reflect on so many things. When starting any kind of study, whether it be at high school, college or university, one is constantly working towards some sort of diploma, degree or the like. Each problem set, each midterm, each final exam is just a stepping stone to obtaining your degree. But in the midst of all the work and stress, one sometimes forgets this and feels overwhelmed. The key is to make the best of each situation, try to find the positives, if you don’t succeed at something, figure out why and make an effort to learn from your mistakes. Try to make the best out of each problem a course presents you with. Hey, it’s better than being negative all the time, right?

My high school and university days were some of the best days of my life. My thanks goes out to everyone who supported me and gave me those awesome memories!

I’ve been dealing with a cold these past few days. I’m feeling a little better today though, so I’m glad that I’m getting back to normal.

I’ve been recommended to put honey in warm water with a dash of lemon to cure the cold. I think I’ll give that a try soon [smile].

Gotta love these mid-summer colds eh? Hehe.

I thought it had been a while since I did any programming in Ruby/Rails so I’ve decided to work on a little programming assignment for myself. Besides, I got sick of playing PS2. I’m done the basic stuff and am just thinking about what else to add. I hope to unveil it sometime soon so keep an eye open for that.

Other than that, nothing much’s been going on…I’m loving the rain we’re having here in Toronto lately. I just love the way city streets reflect light when it’s raining and the flurry of activity when a raindrop hits a puddle…

On with programming!

Yup, it’s that time again…end of the school-year room cleanup.

I’ve been dusting and sorting away through books and papers for like 4 hours now. Phew, it’s time for a break. I didn’t realize how many lecture notes, assignments, midterms and rough sheets were lying around until I started the clean-up.

The most time-consuming part of the exercise was my bookshelf though. What a mess that was! Anyway, the bookshelf’s pretty much all dusted-off now and the books/items on it are arranged in a nice, clean fashion. Although I’m not totally done cleaning up my room, I think my mom will be proud of my accomplishment [smile].

After setting up a blog on another popular blogging system, I came to realize how many awesome themes the WordPress blog system has and really wanted to get in on the action. Actually, a friend of mine also has a blog powered by WordPress and I guess that kinda tipped me over and now I’m with WordPress.

Hope you like the new blog, I certainly do.

I made a trip downtown this fine summer afternoon to meet a friend who had an interview with a company down on University and College. We hadn't seen each other in a while so we caught up over lunch. I had a good time and the food was pretty good too, hehe.

Now, you might be wondering what all that has to do with the title of this post. Well, as you know, there are a few stores in the Eaton Centre area that sell videogames so...I bought two, that's right, two PS2 games!

Hope they're as good as the reviews make them out to be!

Okay, I'm off. Boy am I hungry!

Greetings everyone!

So, you’ve managed to take some time off your day and visit my blog!

I don’t really have much to post about right now, just that my engineering exams are now over so I’m waiting for marks to come out and am looking for a job in the IT industry. If you happen to know any places that are hiring, please do let me know.

In the meantime, thanks for stopping by and be sure to keep visiting. I’ll try to blog as often as I can!