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| Here and there | September 16, 2004, 12:49 pm GMT |
| Well, again decided to start my jogging practice, and had a really nice morning, running around and watching at some sweet gals. The i came home and spent some time on the net and played some Dune, cool, o could pass this stupid level at last, whoohoo,i am so darn happy, but the next one seems to be much tougher:((.
Later today, i went to get some train tickets for tomorrow en route Samarkand, so i hope to spend some great time outthere, then on my way back visited Nodira and we made some good deal and also i promised to set up a website for her, all i need is some info from her. After this, i came home and made some big changes on my Links page and then did my usual everyday stuff. | |
| Free E-Books on my website | September 13-14, 2004, 4:13 am GMT |
| Yesterday my friend Azam came and spent entire evening on my pc, well i am not going to invite him next time, of course he taught me some Photoshop trciks, but all he did was thinking of himself. He literally forced me to download icq, even though i was objecting, just because he wanted to use it everytime he came to my place, so now i got icq:221-183-850 and noone to talk to:((, anyway i was darn happy when he left home, so next time he won't be here.
Well today i was soo busy adding new page to my website. I decided to make Gree E-books page, so that people could come and download any book they like for free, i got Lord of the rings , Harry Potter and many great e-books on my website and now it looks great, if anyone wants to visit my website, here's the link http://uztranslations.wol.bz/base/view/document/ebooks. Other than that, we got some guests today,and the way they came in scared the hell out of me, the thing was that i thought that they were relatives of my ex-wife and were bringing her back home:(((, but when i saw that it was only my dad's auntie, i was very happy. So, when my mom came from work and i told that there's someone waiting for her in the hall, she also thought that it's her, man this is not right...I am sick of hearing her name and of that some of my so-called relatives are trying to help her coming back, but it's none of their business you know... | |
| I feel so sick | September 11, 2004, 6:46 am GMT |
| Well, since the rock concert i got a sore throat and some mild headache, and still doing this damn translation, hope that i will finsh it off today...
Also still feel the pain for all those children died in Russian cuty of Beslan, may their souls rest in peace:(( | |
| Been to the coolest ever ROCK concert | September 4, 2004, 3:30 am GMT |
| Well, i started this morning from jogging and then came back and spent some time on the net. After this did some of my translation, man i am sick of this translation:((
Anyway, i did some of it and then called Yulya, but she wasn't even willing to speak with me, well after this i continued my long and boring translation. And when the time came to go to the rock concert, i got myself prepared and went to the concert hall Turkiston, man everyone loving rock was there, i met my former colleagues and some former mates from my University, well we had a lot of fun:))) THe music was so goddamn good, all i did was scream and dance, i lov rock and of course there were some cool hip-hop bands. but believe me it was so hard to get in. There was helluva people and everyone was trying to get in, goddamn police was pulling people back and everyone was shouting at them, at last everyone pushed these jerks back and got in, it was awesome. I had a time of my life there,hope such parties will go on and on in my city of Tashkent:))) | |
| Got me job< but don't want it | September 2, 2004, 2:27 am GMT |
| Well, this morning was mix of U2 and translation, it was really cool. I took me shower and decided to get ready for an interview, especially after i got a call that it is rescheduled for 1800, but before i had to go to the BBC to get my ticket for a rock concert,yay...
Did some translation, and then went out to the bbc, came there quite late, i had to meet Nilufar and get a ticket from her, but she has already gone.Thankfully, she left the ticket on the table. So i took it and went to the interview at McCann Erickson, man it took me 10 minutes to find this goddamn office, so i came there about 10 min late. Well, the office is not bad, but i just didn't liked it that much. We had kinda test form interview, i translated some stuff, and then she offered me a job,i said yes. Well, but my parents weren't happy with my decision, as well as Nilu, she told me i can find sumthing better and with higher salary. So,i gotta call them, and tell them something like i am sorry , but i won't take this job. | |
| Well, I hate myself | August 31, 2004, 4:34 pm GMT |
| Man i hate myself for not being able to finsh my translation before the set date, and i can't do nothing about this:(((
All i do translate a bit, then go online and again transalte, man i should stop spending my time on the net, but i just can't help myself, grrrr... Like yesterday came my friend Azamat, and he spent about three hours playing some game, of course i was busy , but i just couldn;'t tell him to go away. Today, i moved from a balcony to my room \, hoping it would be better for my translation, well it's not better at all. Also i received a phone call from some advertisement company McCann Erickson Uzbekistan for a creative copywriter position, so i hope that they will take me. Also been waiting for photos Anya promised me, but did'nt sent again, she was promising me to send them for 3 dayz, or maybe sje's just fooling me, hope not. Well, what elsem the net is so goddamn slow, i redesigned my website again and yeah it's our national independence day, lalala... | |
| Visitng UWL | August 27, 2004, 2:17 am GMT |
| I did some translation, then spent some time on the net working on my website. The called some Husan, i had to get some application for my cousin Anvar from him, anyway i was to meet him at 1500, so i went, he was in my frist university World Languages University,my favourite one.
On my way I met Zafar and we spoke for a while, I gave him my website link and went to the versity, there i met Pasha and my ol' friend Shavkat's brother, who just came back from China, so we spoke for a while too and i went to ask an application, that guy told me he can't give me one without a certain date on it, so i had to use someone's cell phone,thanx to my nigga,and mom told me to come back. And we went back talking about China, he told me that i can get a great job as an English or SPanish language teacher, well i gotta think about this. I came home and hardly could translate a page i started this morning, at last i called Anya and we spoke for about two hours,tomorrow they're gonna send me their pics, hope that she and Albina look fine... | |
| Hasan's Wedding | August 26, 2004, 5:29 am GMT |
| Well first of all, I wasn't planning to go to Hasan's wedding, since i thought i'd work hard on my transaltion, but i just couldn't sit anymore, so i decided to take some fresh air and see my buddies.
But first i did some of my translation work, my sis came up to feed me and then to my surprise mom and sis got back from Samarkand, and they asked me to meet Nodira and ask her help,OK. I tyried to call her several times, but all in vain and then decided to go to her office just before going to the wedding. So the time came and i went out to Nodira's office, to my surprise there was only Nilufar and Nodira was in Russia she told me, so i took their new phone and told them that i am ready to make a website for them, and then went to the wedding. By the way, this morning i found out that there might be another terror attack in my city, oh no, some people say it might happen in the metro,i hope not... Anyway,I came to the meeting spot, but htere was no one, so i had to sit and wait, the first one to come was Khurshid. We sat htere talking and waiting for others to come and when everyone gathered we decided to go to Hasan's house by taxi ,but instead we got on the first bus we saw:)) We came to his house and met some other fellahs from World Languages University, and then there was some funniest situation, we were talking with our friends when some man came up to us and started congratulating Shuhrat whom we call Odil, and then we understood why he was acting so strange. This poor guy just mistook Odil for a famous Uzbek chess-player who won the World Championship, man it was sooo funny. So, the time came to go to the bride's house, it's our custom that groom and his friedns go to the bride's house and sit there for a while. After a while we ate some osh and Hasan feeded us some from his palm, it's a custom in Tashkent, which means that he wishes you to have a good wife. His friend gave us some candies and then we went straight to the weding, man it was areally great wedding ,a mixof European and Central Asia culure, which we call here Eurasia:)) Well, after a wedding i went home by taxi, talking to the drive, i like talkingto drivers and then got home, that's it... | |
| First interview since dismissal | August 25, 2004, 2:53 am GMT |
| Well< istarted this morning on my own, cause my sis and mom were again gone to Samarkand to deal with the house and i was with my dad, so i checked my e-mail and worked on my website, after this i continued my work on that pretty long translation... After a while i decided to finish off the wine which was left at the bottom of the bottle and poured all of it in piala [a small cup we use in Central Asia], but guess what there was at the bottom of the bottom a big deadbeatle, yummi:))), well i threw it away and drank the wine, maybe magical powers of beatle will help me in my life, who knows, u never know:)))
Anyway, i went to continue my work, when there was a phone call from ITE Uzbekistan company, so they invited me to an interview, well i took a shower and then went out,i was worried that i won't find the place, but i found it very easily. So there was i, waiting for my time to come, so i entered and was taken to some interviewing room, some lady came out to talk to me. The position was a technical manager, i said i can't do this cause u had to know Coral Draw type programmes and many more, but they became interested in interviewing me for PR Manager, well i hope that i'll get this job, or at least a job with BBC World Service, I also called them this week and they told me they might need me, so i am keeping my fingers crossed... | |
| Translatin' and again translatin' | August 19, 2004, 4:34 am GMT |
| Well,as usually some jogging, then checked me mail and started translating, man it's so damn hard to translate something u never done before, i mean from English to Uzbek, i haven't translated to Uzbek for a long time , and now trying to get back on the track, well it took me many hours just to finish one page and then i took some nap and after continued from the second page, this time my speed was much higher, but man anyway i coudn't finish this damn page... I have to finish all 50 pages within 20 dayz, so ih ope that Allah will help me out, well time'll tell.
In the evening we decided to visit my sister's new family and spent some good time there, we were planning to stay there just for 30 min and then go back home, but instead we spent there at least three hours... | |
| Visiting the BBC Monitoring | August 18, 2004, 2:02 am GMT |
| Well did the same ol' thing in the moring, then surfed the net and played and finished the Call of Duty, badass game, I received a call from Abdulla who wanted to give me some 50 page translation, great:))), plus i was anyway going to the BBC, 'cause yesterday I spoke with Jamil and arranged a meeting at 1630 with him...
I took some shower and then went out, came earlier and met with my former teammates and other colleagues and finally with Jamil himself,I asked if there's a chance of working with the BBC again,at least as an Independent Contractor, he said he'll keep me in his mind, hope he will and i'll get this job at least, until i find sumthing decent, bo man duta kitob duzidam:))), they don't need this anyway... Abdulla gave me the book and asked me to make a copy and bring it back to him today, so i asked Nilu to do this for me and she said OK, but she was in hurry and left me alone with the Xerocopy machine, I was afraid that Jamil will see me and think that I am doin this without asking permission... So, i went home and read some of the copied text and hopefully starting from tomorrow i'll be transaltingf this thing, i have to finish it within 20 dayz, so wish me good luck... | |
| She called and didn't call back,WHY | August 15& 16, 2004, 6:15 am GMT |
| Well ,I spent almost the wole morning making some great additions to my Uztranslations website, decided to make it also a place fro translators, where they can hang out and do anything they want, my mom and sys came from Samarkand, they still couldn't sell the house, too much paperwork they say..
So when they came, we just sat talking, I was sick ogf the net already and decided to take soem rest ,watch TV, and then suddenly there was a phone call from Anya, wow,I was so surprised and happy to hear her, but she said that she can't talk much and promised to call me back later tonight, well she didn't,I've been waiting for some time and then decided to go to bed, man hope that she will call me this week... Well, this morning had to wake up early and to jog, came home and studied some Portuguese and afterwards took some short nap. Again, made some new pages for my website, I hope it will grow... | |
| Well someone's reading this:)) | August 13, 2004, 2:29 am GMT |
| Went to jogging and man got some loose panties which were almost falling off me, hahaha, it's really funny lol, so i quit running and went back home, logged on the net and received a letter from some guy who said he's reading this blog, well i am flattered, really I am. So i replied him back, hope he's nice guy and we'll become good friends, i love making friends[hope u reading this lol]...
After spending some time on the net decided to start working really hard on my Portuguese, that is learning it, learned some new words and phonetics. After a while made a call to Yulya, but she was usy with her newborn son, Alesha, nice name. I called to Klara, to the bank and she told me to come and get the dough,so guess what on the bus stop i met my sis, Rakhshona, well we were going to the same direction so we got on 67, well it was nice to see her again. So i got to the bank and at last got my money, the girl who was counting it was really pretty, so i got the dough and went home, but first bought some medicine for my uncle. At home i logged on the net and spent sdome time downloading Spanish fanzines, man it takes so much time, grrr... | |
| At last I am online:))) | August 11 & 12, 2004, 12:42 pm GMT |
| On 11 woke up early and went jogging, made it really awesome, ran about 8 circles:)))
At home i logged on the net and made about three new pages dedicated to famous world poets and writers.And then after this our phone went dead until today [12], well i had to go and pay to get it back working:((( Went out to go to the bank and get some dough, hoped to get at least, met my buddy G'ulom and gave him some game cds and then went to the bank where i was told to come morrow, cause they have no money yet, man what the hell is that, is it bank or some sh**hole... Anyways after this went to get new battery for my watch, well hope that gay ain't fooling me, after this went to the Nirvana CD store and again bought some rock cd fro 1$, i shouldnt've done so, when i came home i found that the cd is full of damaged tracks, man i hate it. Came home and played some of the Metal Gear and got goddamn stuck... Well on 12, that is today, went to pay for the phone bills and then went to change the cd to a better one, i paid 3$ more and got brand new cd of Cesaria Evora, she rocks, then bough a Collins Spanish-English-English-Spanish dictionary for 50$, well she was asking 80$ but then agreed to sell it for this price and then i went home. Well i was just sitting and listening to music and then went to the chat and met some girl from Samarkand who is studying in the UK now and we spoke for about an hour and well I got cheat codes fro Metal Gear Soid, cause i was facing serious problem with finding C4 to blow up some walls, and man it worked, yay. Well i hate using cheat codes but when u're stuck there's nothing better then this. My sis Raxshona came up to our house and brought some plov, well nice seeing her again, missed her a lot:)) | |
| Earthquake in the morning | August 10, 2004, 3:07 pm GMT |
| We went for jogging, my cousin Anvar who came yesterday was still sleeping and when we came back an eartquake took place, man it was pretty scary...
So after we all got cooled down me and my cousin spent some time on the net, i received a letter from my good friend and we aslo watched Earth vs the spider scary movie, which was sucks. Anyways, we had to go to Parvina bank to get some dough, man i had to wait about 2 hours and we got nothing, gotta go morrow again damit. had to walk Anvar to the metro station and say goodbye, hope he's got to Samarkand safe and sound. I took a stroll along the bookstands, watched some good books and saw a really great book, Spanish-English dictionary for 80$, but man for this price noone gonna bye it, believe me. Came home on hot and crowded 67, spent some time on the net and met a goodd new friend Michel on msn, nice bloke, also made some changes to my Uztranslations website... | |
| Greatest ever trip to Samarkand | August 4 to 8, 2004, 11:50 am GMT |
| Well, well ,well all ican say that on the night of 4 August we were on train en route to Samarkand. Anyway, i wasn't sleeping at all, all the way i read that one horrible book, which i started earlier and was planning to finish off, so from the start of my ride to the end i read that book, still left some pages to read. When we arived i had a strange feeling as if we just entered from the Tashkent train station and then again going out from this place, cause the station has almost the same look and smell :))
My uncle Tolqin aka was waiting outside and took us to his house and we stayerd there for the rest of the week. On the next morning we visited my grandma, whom i 'love so much', we sat there for a while and then we took part at Chil oshi, a special event which is being held when 40 days has pased since someone's death, chil means 40 in Persian and in Samarkand people usually speak Tajik, which is in the same group as the persian language is. After having a really great plov, we went to game room and there i tested some pc games and watched some great movies, i had a real fun there, came back at night and sat talking with my aunties. On the next day, we just visited relatives, mostly from my mother's side and i am again went to the games' room and worked there for a while, just tried to learn how the work is being done there, not that hard i'd say. In the evening me and my 2 cousins, Anvar and Alisher went to get some papers from some women, well these women have a very nice looking girl livng in their house, i 'd say, we chatted for a while and then went out, on our way back decided to go to Internet cafe 'Gladiator' man, connection here really sucks, it took me about 30 minutes just to check my e-mails, let alone seeing my sites... I also got a letter and postcard from Kristi, man i was so darn happy about that, i'd say:)) Next day, we got up pretty early and visited my granddad's and grandmom's graves, man i felt os sad there, how i wish them to be here, the interesting thing that my granddad's death was very mystical i'd say. he died a year after my grandmom's died and just one day before her birthdayt, can u imagine this, but the most strangest thing was that after my grandma died my aunties were planning to get him married soon, so that he was not alone any longer. But each of my aunts started seeing very strange dreams, like that my granda came and told them if they get him married then she'll take him with her, but noone took notice of this and din't paid any attention, so he was found dead just one dsay before her birthday, i feel so bad everytime i remember or has to retell this sad story. Anyways, after visiting their grave we also visited a grave of a holy man called Chil gaz bobo, they say he was very very tall, and had to make three rounds around his long tomb, we prayed there and then went ot some holy places , like Saint Daniel's Tomb, who is the sain of three religions: Silam, Christianity and Judais, can u imagine a place where Muslims and Chrisitans pray peacefully side by side, and this is what happened when we got there, there were some visitors from Russia, so they sat and prayed with us, his tomb is about 10 or 12 metres long and some people say that is until now is growing, can u imagine this. after this nice tour we came back home and i went to see my grandma from my dad's side agian and also some of my other relative, got some great videotapes to watch at home from my cousin Sheroz and then we had a very great deal that day, that is we have a house there, which lays unfinished, so we decided to sell it, we were palnning to sell it for 8000$ but we were lucky and sold it for 10000$, of course we only got 1,500$ for now so that to make sure that they won't change tjeir mind, and my mom is planning to go to Samarkand next week maybe to get the deal done:))) After this i again went ot the game room and there was some accident with a robbery, some guy has stolen some jerk's bike, so he brought his dad and ploceman, the interesting thing was that they were blaming the management for this, but i don't think so, so i adviused them to post a paer which read that the game center administration bears no responsibility for stolen things, was i right:))) Well this was my last day in Samarkand and on the 8 of August at 700 we were on our was to home sweet home,Tashkent, man i finished this darn book,yay, i was so happy, we arrived at 1230 and then got the cab and went home. I was so tired and took some nap, then woke up and checkd my mail and everything ,man i mised my home... | |
| Amusement park | August 3, 2004, 5:18 pm GMT |
| Well i hardly woke up and went to jogging--Again--yup, lol:))
Came home and said good bye to that man who came from Samarkand and started working on my website, man i made it and it rocks, check it out http://uztranslations.wol.bz/, man it took me some time to make it look cool, but i made it, then i had to go with my sis and bro and one distant relative to Toshkentland - Amusment park, man we had a real fun there, except i had no guts to ride a roller coaster, dunno why... Came home and cotinued my work on the net, made some pages for my dad's website and hey i received a letter from kristy, my new friend from the mail.ru chatroom, hope she looks good, anyways, tomorrow leaving to Samarkand and hope that my ride is gonna be a real fun:))) | |
| Setting up website is not an easy thing | August 2, 2004, 4:41 am GMT |
| Went jogging as usually, cma home and started working on my new website , wnated to name it www.uztranslations.tk, but unfortunately tk is not working, man i found this out only after i made everything ready, had to redesign the page 1000 times, the host page is sucks, think gonna change it:(((
Was palnning to visit the office and talk to Jamil , new head of hte unit, but he seemed to be very busy, so i decided to do this some time later. Called to Muslima and got pics form UK sent to my by my cousin, man that girl is so hot, went looking around the CD shops and there while was listening to Molotov met Zafar, my old university mate, i was so happy. o we went on foot from Le meridien until CUM supermarket, there we watched some CDs , and then in Nirvana saw some CD s on discount price for 1$, i took two CDS, but man the one was really busted, so i had to go back to this damn store and change it to Santana. Came home and logged on the net again, anyway worked till night on the page, we had some guest from Samarkand, a real asshole i 'd say, well this is it. | |
| Another Gap | July 31 and August 1, 2004, 8:01 am GMT |
| Well, thanx to GOD, today was much more peaceful and there was such a feeling as if people already got used to those bombings, that's so sad:((, but life seems to go on, no matter what:))
I spent some time on the net, played Quake 3 Arean and did some changes to the website, i love messing with HTML, called Nilu and spoke about the job and then i called Anna and asked do i have any chance of getting my job back, to which she answered that chances are pretty low:((, well gotta try though... I took shower and went to meet guys for the party, a metro station entrance near the Intercontiental hotel was closed due to the recent attack and i had to go all the way down to the next entrance, well noone seems to be scared, but lots of policemen patrolling streets and subway, i came to the place right on time, guys were waiting for me and we went outside... Man, a place for the party was pretty cool, we sat there talking and having fun, then Siddiq came and we spoke about the bombings, we talked about everythinmg , even Abdurahmon came to our party, anyways we sat for a while, about 7 hours and then went home, i came and watched some very interesting movie and then went to bed. Well, today went for jogging, the day looks pretty grim, no sunshine, i found out that i've got 3 new members, now i have about 90 members, wow that's great, worked on the webiste and then i had a great idea of setting up a specialized website on translations. Guess what, today was a really windy weather, and one of the doors in our hall got shut and my sister left in the hall, we tried asbout 45 minutes to pen the darn door. At alst we succeeded and freed my little sis, then i took some short nap, but couldn't sleep cause it was raining cats and dogs outside, then agian logged on the net and spoke to some ladies on the chat:))) | |
| Another terror attack in my country. | July 30, 2004, 1:02 pm GMT |
| The day started pretty nice, went to jogging and wasn't expecting that this gonna happen again, at 1730 local time we recieved news that 3 explosions took place in Tashkent:
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Explosions hit the U.S. and Israeli embassies in the Uzbek capital Friday, a top police official said. A third blast hit the general prosecutor's office and caused "deaths," a Russian news agency reported. Embassy officials weren't immediately available for comment, but Israel Radio said two Uzbek workers at the embassy were killed in what it called a suicide bombing. The radio said no Israelis were hurt. The radio said all the Israeli personnel were safe inside the embassy building, while Uzbek security forces conducted searches in the area of the building. The explosion occurred on the pavement at the entrance to the embassy, the radio said. The Uzbek police official said the blasts occurred Friday afternoon but he had no details on casualties. Interfax reported there were deaths in the explosion at the general prosecutor's office, citing an unnamed source at the office. The blasts come as 15 suspects are standing trial for a wave of violence earlier this year that left at least 47 people dead. Those attacks had included Central Asia's first-ever suicide bombings. The 15 suspects have pleaded guilty to charges of terrorism, murder and religious extremism. They could face the death penaty. They are the first to stand trial for the attacks that killed 33 alleged militants, 10 police and four bystanders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Man, i hate this, why this should happen again, the reason is known but noone is saying that openly being afraid for his life:(( I am shocekd and sad, hope that it will be peaceful at last and no more explosions... | |
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