http://hasanhujairi.com hasan's online portfolio+weblog Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:26:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Maybe I'm finally 'cool' because I finally got around to watching Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange". Then again, maybe I just need to go back to working on my thesis - I'm almost done (and it's always that final leg of the race that's the killer!). http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/11/16/maybe-im-finally-cool-because/ Everyone in my dormitory, including myself, uses the door stoppers outside of our dorm rooms as an umbrella hanger. Said door stoppers are tactfully placed quite high so that they stop opening doors from the top, as opposed to them being traditional placed on the ground, which I imagine could ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/11/09/the-great-umbrella-mystery/ In times in which I am not worrying about my as of yet incomplete thesis paper, I spend time going through the different resources I have to learn more about music theory. Over the past couple of weeks, I have finally managed to set up a very small recording studio ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/11/02/chasing-beethoven/ It's beginning to get cold here in Tokyo. This is the time of year in which leaves start to turn and eventually snow down in a flurry of red, orange and yellow. Other things happen at around this time that not many people - I suspect - seem to realize ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/10/30/sweating-bullets-and-turning-leaves/ I picked up a copy of The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail (Translated by Elizabeth Windslow, with an introduction by Saadi Simawe) quite a while ago, but I skimmed through it again today while taking a break from the endless research-related tomes I have yet to go through. The ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/10/20/the-war-works-hard/ Apparently, there's this guy from Central America who looks like me. He lives in the same dormitory I live in, too. Over the last few months, people would walk up to me, say hi, and then get upset when they realize that I don't recognize them. I've been walking around for ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/10/09/i-bumped-into-my-double-today/ Looking out the window on the train between Kokubunji Station and Kunitachi Station (where my university is located), I spotted someone with what translates to "two birds with one stone" written on the back of his shirt waiting on one of the platforms. At first, I laughed to myself a ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/10/07/%e4%b8%80%e7%9f%b3%e4%ba%8c%e9%b3%a5%e3%80%80two-birds-with-one-stone/ I was waiting in my car yesterday afternoon at the gas station in Saar. I didn't know why the service was especially slow at the precise moment I was there and I started to look for omens (just like any rational, bored 20 something year old would do in any ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/09/24/flirting-with-destruction/ Earlier this evening, I thought I had time to kill before heading over to a small gathering of friends who went to elementary school with me, so I headed into Starbucks (yes, the horror). The woman at the counter insisted that I buy some chocolate frappuccino, but I said that I ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/09/20/frap-karma-mess/ That's right, I spoke to Marcel Khalife tonight! When I introduced myself as an Oud player, he said, "do you have your oud with you?" I said, "yes, I do. It's in the car." He then asked me to go get it! I came back with my Oud and played a ... http://hasanhujairi.com/2008/09/18/i-had-a-chance-chat-with-one-of-my-heroes/