End of Academic Year 2009-'10

My grade 11th finally ended a few days back when i received the results for the finals. 75.8%. Thats the result. A drop of around 10% from the last year. The year was an academic disaster for me. But was awesome in many other ways. The summer vacation as a whole was really memorable. First was a month in India. Had a really great time, thanks a lot especially to my dear cousins. Then there was a Riyadh-Dammam-Jubail trip. Went all the from the west here to the east of Saudi Arabia there. Had a great time. Made good friends.


People say that living virtually a lot, on Facebook and all, breaks away real life friendships, or at least ruins them, and similar crap, but currently all my friendships have started from facebook. My best buddy right now is the guy I irritated perhaps the most on facebook, and all other good friends became good friends someway or the other via Facebook.


I have started listening to a lot of new music these days. Earlier it was more or less just Linkin Park, but now there's a lot of Simple Plan, 30 Seconds To Mars and some Green Day too, in addition to loads of single tracks from various bands. And I have started using a new, free, legal music service called Grooveshark. Love their radio feature which pulls similar new tracks off the cloud.


Dad bought a new Dell laptop this year, Dell Inspiron 1545. Its got great features, 4GB DDRII RAM, an Intel Core 2 Duo T6600 2.2GHz processor, 64-Bit Windows 7, and so, I use it way more than my dad. Basically I love its speed, our home PC, is a 6 year old Dell Optiplex GX260 with 32-Bit Windows XP 1.25GB DDR RAM and 2.6 Pentium IV processor. It used to be awesome once upon a time ago, but now it kinda sucks. I cant even play any new games on it, so, I just use this laptop instead.


We bought a 37-inch FullHD Panasonic Viera too. Its used as a monitor with the PC because a PC can support more codecs than any player ever may, and, since something's wrong with our satellite dish, we were watching all the shows, news and movies on the PC anyways. Only problem is that the PC has an old graphics card, no HDMI, so we can just use it via the VGA port, which I dont think gives the full experience. But its great anyway.


We had applied and got the US Visa too. Planning on a summer vacation there this year since this is my last year here and then our schedules may not sync. That also means not going to India this year.


Nowadays, Im spending time mostly facebooking, playing around in Photoshop, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. This type of schedule will linger till the new academic year starts, i.e. till Monday. 

The End of 10th Standard

Its been more than a week since my exams were over. Since then I have unsuccess fully wasted a lot of my time, which means I didnt waste it properly. The Arabic and English exams were extremely easy. Alhamdulillah English has never been much of a difficult for me. I expected Arabic to be tougher than it was. But Alhamdulillah I didn't meet my expectations. It was an extremely easy paper. I must have got an average of two marks for every line I wrote. It was a hundred marks paper. I pity those who took the other languages. They had to write a few lines to get a mark. The science paper was a bit difficult but it went well too, so did the Science Practical Skills Paper, which basically is a Multiple Choice Questions' paper with questions relating to the practicals we did during the year.

After that I haven't been doing much except watching JUST one movie a day. I wanted to watch at least three. I also had to get my registration for next year, 11th standard done. Alhamdulillah it was easily done. I went to school yesterday with my father for completing the formalities, which included paying some money for it at the Fee Couunter. This is the task that took the longest. I was given the token number 145 when 100 was going on. After an hour it was at 120. Some friend/relative of my father works in the school's computer department. He went into the fee room and had the task done quickly. After that I had to submit the registration papers to a teacher who was at the upper floor. That took about 3 minutes at the most. While I was doing all this my father went in to buy our new textbooks. This was a slow procedure too. But it was done. After that I went to my aunt's home in Jeddah. I had fun there too. So much for this week, my school will be starting on Saturday.