It was a great sunday, indeed. I got the deluxe edition of First Impressions of Earth, the Juicebox single, The Concert for Bangladesh on DVD, a really cool tshirt with Sonic on it, and a new bookbag. I also finished my LC-A’s second roll of film. I’m planning to use black and white film next. Gonna be great for the concert(s).
I had a bit of Sunday Stomach in the morning, but everything was okay by the afternoon. The rest of the day went pretty good.
A few days ago (the date is confusing from all the news sources I’ve heard this from), a Bengali woman was shot by a stray bullet in Briarwood. It seems the guy who shot her was partying or something with his friends and decided to shoot around like a little dummy.
Today, I went to pray the Friday prayer at the Jamaica Muslim Center. They were talking about the tragedy. After the main prayer, James Gennaro stood in the front and gave a little speech about how he was shocked by the tragedy along with many other members of the city council. The whole time, we saw flashes going off on the TV[1]. After that, we prayed for Selina Akther and her soul.
When we came out, we saw photographers and videographers trying to get through the place. I waited a bit far away since the press people were going to the back. My nephew met up with me and we were waiting for my uncle. I saw the press coming out in front of someone who was walking. When I got close, I knew that it was Mrs. Akther’s husband, Golam Maola, by the look on his face. I decided to stay close and maybe get into a photo, but it was really crowded and I wouldn’t be surprised if I weren’t in a shot. Maola quickly got into a car and drove away with some other people. The press people slowly went away.
[1] The mosque has many floors and rooms so, the rooms have TVs which show what is going on in the main room.
On Saturday, my parents decided to go to Connecticut to visit my cousins. We woke up early Sunday morning and drove all the way. It took like 2 hours, which it normally does.
After going to my cousins’ house, I help my older cousin get stuff onto her iPod from my laptop. I gave her a bunch of videos. The video iPod is like so awesome!
Around noon, we drove to my cousins’ cousin’s house. We hung out and played ping pong and stuff. Then, we went to the movies. My older cousin, my nephew, and some kid my cousins know went to see Fun with Dick and Jane. My younger cousin and her cousin went to see The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Dick and Jane was a very nice movie. It was pretty funny. I think it could’ve been at least a half hour longer, but it was still good. You know how there’s a first time for everything? Well, since there were no grown-ups there, we decided we should sneak into Narnia since our movie was over.
I didn’t see it as that much of a good movie, but it was okay for something like that. I thought there were a few things that were confusing since it is supposed to have some religious undertones in it.
At home, we played a game that I just learned to play. It’s called Egyptian Ratscrew and it’s pretty fun. It can get a bit out of hand, though. Especially when you play with hyper people.
Something very scary happened today. Us kids were all eating breakfast when I saw a flash from outside the window. I thought it was some crazy stalker dude or something but the light was pretty huge. All of a sudden, the house started to shake like crazy. I got scared because I thought it was an earthquake or something. I was gonna run for cover (saving my own life was my top priority) but my cousin grabbed onto my hoodie and wouldn’t let go. It stopped all of a sudden. We got scared but we remembered that lightning never strikes the same spot twice. My little cousin got really scared. My parents were at the mall and when lightning struck near them, my mom got scared because she thought it was a bomb or something. Which is scary, since the whole mall shook.
Photo cred goes to citycrab.
Today, the New York City transit strike went into session. It wasfun going to school like two hours later than normal. I got to see how long things took in the morning if I took my time. I saw that it takes me just 10 minutes to walk to school. Wow. That’s quite amazing, isn’t it? A lot of people seemed to be in a rush to get to school since many had to walk long routes.
We did barely anything in class since each period was shortened to a half-hour. After school, I went to Rite Aid and bought like 16 cards. 4 of them are special ones that I got for four special people from school.
Today, I went to the Apple Store with Rasidul and Sudman. It was pretty fun. We checked out the new iMacs and took Photo Booth for a test drive. It’s pretty cool. Something that’s good for when you have parties and such. You can just fire up your computer and let people take photos. Sudman and I took a really funny one, but we didn’t remember to post it to Flickr.
Sudman got a bunch of iPod nano Tubes for him and his sister. Sudman also blogged from the store. I wish he kept the browser open to his blog. I remember doing that way-back-when I used the old ‘zikken’ subdomain on Blog*Spot. I don’t think I had any readers back then. I just left one of the Macs subscribed to my feed. I also left a videoblog post on one of the (video) iPods.