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Well I have been away for quite a while now. I haven't posted on this thing in ages...
So let's see if I can keep you up with my latest updates!

I have recently been into the whole magic scene, you might have realized my interest since my last post and that has been basically what I was doing all that time. I mean, I studied, I downloaded some excellent music (which I plan to tell you about later in this post) but majorly, I practiced and attempted perfection of sleight of hand techniques and some card routines. I'm proud to say I can do routines as: Card On Wall, Card to Wallet, Ambitious Card, Three Methods of Colour Changes, Card to Shoe, Here Then There (as performed by the awesome David Blaine), Card Mind-reading, Blead (an amazing trick where the spectator's selection ends up practically 'on' the magician's body) and several other tricks with relative ease. It has been such a hectic experience trying to get this all together in my studying schedule but well, I did it.

I got three A's and a B in my Mock Exam School Report and I'm having my next Final exam on Friday, 6th of June. Maths! I kinda like maths, it's magic in its own way...Recently, with all the sleights I've been practicing, everything seems to be magic in its own way. I sometimes sit in front of the TV and do a dorky thing like pretending I can change the channel without touching the remote control. It's kind of fun, but I always feel dorky after doing it...I did my first live performance to a single spectator (yes, that's not very nice, is it?) and it was perfection.

That's the beautiful thing about magic...Not the tricks or the illusions, just the look on people's face when they realize that something impossible has just taken place. It's priceless and the moment you have that look (often coupled with hysterical laughter) you know that all that practice was worthwhile. I've been thinking about filming a live street magic performance (complete with a Balducci levitation, a method of making you 'fly' like Lucy in the Sky!) but I've been having second thoughts. I mean, seriously, going on the street and asking people if they wanna 'see some magic' sounded like an awesome idea but now I'm not sure. I think I'm gonna do it anyway, maybe film it too...It'll probably be the most fun thing I ever did in my high school years.

I've been reading some books too! My 'awesome' (yes, those quotation marks are very very intended) school had given me a couple of books and a certificate for being a 'good' student and for getting the top prize in the school essay writing contest. I don't give a shit about being a 'straight A' dude but the essay writing thing was cool. I mean, it sounds very depressing that after all that work, they checked them up and dumped them in the bin but what the hell! At least I'm out of the damn school with a medal, a cup and two books. But the two books...WHOA! They don't seem your regular 'I'm-A-Cool-Book-Buy-Me' type. Nope, not at all. One is Don Quixote by Cervantes which looks like it's infinite and the other is Best Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens.

I know! I was in shock too.
I mean, Charles Dickens probably wrote better shit than 'The Queer Chair' (I'm not sure if he meant the chair stuck a pen up the protagonist's asshole, but the title gave me that very impression). He probably wrote better shit than 'The Madman Diaries' or whatever. I mean, they could've given me Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, anything worth reading...But I get The Queer Chair and other stories with a 10934093049 pages long novel about a dude who likes to dress in metal and has an overweight assistant as a sidekick. I'm planning on donating both books to anybody who cares to read them...

Yes, I think that's quite a small number of people too.

On the bright side, I read Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King recently. I think the man is challenging himself! You always imagine Stephen to be the type of guy who'll talk about telekinetic, troubled, bloodthirsty teenagers or talk about a demon running a shop in suburbia but instead you get that huge epic masterpiece that is creepy in its own way but every once in a while he'll give you a little elegant prose as if telling you, 'I'm still boss here. I ain't done yet'. This is definitely the best thing I've read this year.

I've downloaded some oldie songs (Hearts in Atlantis was about the 60's and I always love listening to whatever atmosphere the book grabs me in if I can)...There's one that sticks to your brain, it's called 'I Ain't Marching Anymore' by Phil Ochs. I highly recommend if you're a Vietnam veteran and if you're not, well you'll find a way of liking it like I did! Phil Ochs sounds like such an extremely underrated performer, he did fantastic on that song. Then you get stuff like Bob Dylan's 'Mr Tambourine Man', which I'm currently in love with. There's also one famous song by Ben E. King called 'Stand By Me' which I'm listening to ceaselessly these days. Simply musical!

And I am back, as you can see. I'll try updating more often now, perhaps even on a daily basis...And hopefully adding some nice blog goodies (ever since some moron decided to put shit in shoutbox, I haven't added anything new but had to reset the whole thing, a definite setback). Hopefully updating the profile soon. I promise regular posting after the 19th of June (THE END OF MY EXAMS AND SCHOOL LIFE!) for all out there waiting (Did I just say that? That sounded like I had a fan base!).

May Allah take care of all of you,
Later!