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My Trip to Israel

2004-06-11T00:22:45Z

Yesterday I got home from My trip to Israel, and so i wont have to explain my trip to people 1000000 times i will just refer them to this LJ and have pictures on it. If you don't like the large pictures then delete me from your friends list because i am posting large pictures and i don't want to cut them.

The trip was paied for by Phlantropist Charles Brofman and through charity organizations, for me and 6000 other people it was completly free. On my bus there were 51 of us, 38 people like myself visiting, 2 group leaders, 8 IDF soldiers, 1 guard, 1 medic, and 1 tour guide:

Well I arived in Israel on May 31st, at Ben Gurion International Air Port at 8 am after a 10 hour flight. Needless to say i was jet laged and tired, but in the end i managed to stay up and do all the activities for the first day. The meals on the first day were rather strange, in 1 day i had Breakfast, Dinner, Breakfast, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner before sleeping. To sleep we went to the En Gev Kibbutz which was more like a hotel/cottage resort on the Sea of Galliee. On the second day we visited the Mystical City of Tzvat, and then we went White watter rafting on the Jordan River. We also went to see a veiw point of Lebenon and talk with a man who lived in near the lebonease border and talked with him about his experiences and moving to Israel from south africa to escape growing anti-semitism during the mid 40's while Israel was still under Britsh Mandate. Along the way to speak with this man, we met up with some soldiers, so here is a lovely picture of me with a huge ass loaded gun:

The next day we went to a Hike in the Golan Heights region. It was absolutly amazing, here is a picture of it:

We also watched a movie about the Yom Kipper war and had a few discussions.

Then the next day we went off to Tel Aviv. We went swimming in the Mediterranean Sea, then to see independence hall (the place where Ben Gurion declared the state of Israel). In Tel Aviv i met up with my sister Jessica who was in Tel Aviv for the month. It was really nice to see her again since she has been in Israel since the begining of the May.

On Friday we went over to Jerusalem where we celebrated the start of the Sabbath at the Kotel (AKA, the Western Wall, or the Wailing Wall). There are no words to discribe how amazing the Kotel is on Shabbat. There is singing and dancing and celebrating, people are crying for joy, or crying from just being overwhelmed. It is something that everybody should experience. I have a few pictures of me praying there, but they are from my vist on sunday since you cannot take pictures on shabbat:

During the trip to Jerusalem we picked up 8 IDF soldiers from different units to hang with us and enjoy the trip with the rest of the group.

On saturday we visited The museum then the Kanesset. However on Shabbat Jerusalem is all asleep, no one is driving, no one is walking, no one is doing anything, they are all relaxing.

On sunday we went back to the Old City of Jerusalem and took pictures and went shopping. After this I prepared for the Mega Event, in this event we had Many guest Speakers and preformers. There was some Israeli bands, percussion music, Charles Brofman, and Ariel Sharon. This is the Address that made the front page of newspapers all over the world. We were the first to know about the Kenesset's approvel of his disengagement plan. I was very pleased because i am a supporter of the plan. Here is a picture that i took of Ariel Sharon:

Then on Monday we went into the Negev Desert where we got to ride camels. There were a lot of fun to ride, but the ride was only a few moments. We stayed at a Bediun tent. The Bediuns are a really interesting (used to nomatic) tribe that lives in Israel. They explained to us about their culture and made use absolutly amazing tea.

On tuesday morning (3 am) we Hiked to the top of Mount Masuda, i was so tired i really do not remember doing it though. After Masauda we went to the lowest point on earth, En Gedi and Relaxed at the Dead Sea Spa. That was an amazing experience, here are pictures of me Floating in the Dead Sea and Completly covered in dead sea mud. Dead sea mud is supposed to be really good for your skin and ever since i put it on mine, i feel smooth like a baby.

After it is time to say good by to the Soldiers that joined us and go home.

The Best part of the trip had to be meeting the soldiers, they were all younger then me and had an amazing insight into the conflict. They told me how children through rocks at them, as a game, little kids who's parents tell them to through rocks, then they raise their guns and the kids run away laughing. Two of the soliders are situated in the West Bank, i really hope for their saftey.

I have tones more pictures if you want to see any just message me and i will send them to you.

Thanks for reading.

Halloween

2003-10-24T01:06:43Z

Halloween is closly approching, and i need to find something to do in the evening. I want to go to a club but not a goth club(meaning not Industrial/Trance music). Savage will be a last resort, does anyone know of someplace that will play retro/goth/rock?
what is going on where? is there anything happening at Zen/Funhaus?

Visual Studio .NET

2003-07-29T21:25:22Z

Hello, i am looking for anyone that has a good cracked or pirated version of Visual Studio .NET. It is quite important that i get it. So if anyone can help me find it, that would be fantastic. :)

jaysin.net

2003-07-23T17:43:35Z

I have made a big update to my website Jaysin.NET. It is now Powered by SQL Server 2000 and is all writen in ASP. The look stayed the same though. I also added Pictures and such.

Happy Surfing. And please sign my guestbook letting me know what u think.

School

2003-07-22T19:04:35Z

Well, it is that time of Year again. Where i am sick of summer and get to talk about starting school again. I still have a month left of summer and i cannot wait to be back at school. I hate doing nothing with my days, or working too much. Yesterday I picked my courses. I will be taking:

Introduction To Computational Physics
Advanced Physics Laboratory
Advance Classical Mechanics
Electromagnetic Theory
Electromagnetic Waves
Quantum Mechanics 1
Nuclear and Parical Physics
Complex Variables
Differential Equations

Marisa also took some very lovely pictures of me at U of T when it was still cold out:

Ungreatful people.

2003-07-11T06:07:51Z

My sister had a birthday party tonight, it was out of control, i don't understand all of her friends. All these guys come up in their crappy/expensive/modified cars, and Steele all of our Alchohol. My mother is a nice person so she went out and bought $200 worth of booze for my sisters friends. On top of that, my brother and I have our own booze, that we foolishly kept in the Fridge. So when I came home today. All my Liquir and all my Beer (48 bottles) were not there any more.

I am so mad, cause this beer was off limits and they basicly just stole it. And actully people were coming in, took 1 12 pack and just left, thats what i hear.
and the same must have been for my amareto, someone just came in and left withit, because i cannot even find the bottle. FUCKING UNGREATFUL PIGS....

well that is my little rant for tonight. off to bed.

I'M BACK!

2003-07-09T00:44:30Z

I have over came my computer problems and set up a wireless network. So as of now i am back online.

Well in regard to the rest of my life. Work is hard but good. I have been seeing a lot of marisa lately, she is so amazing to me, she was supposed to come over today but fell slightly ill and decided to take the day off. I allready have bad indigestion, but i went out to kelsey's and had their Pepercorn Berger anyways.
Last weekend my cousin got maried, the wedding was fun, a lot of free booze and dancing. and next weekend i have another wedding.

I also saw funker vogt on saturday which was an amazing show, however the club was to friggen hot, they should get air condiioning in there.

I also set up a wireless network in my house the other day, it is really cool, so i can be online anywhere in my house and the backyard.

Broken Computer :(

2003-06-29T20:50:56Z

:(

My laptop broke, the harddrive blew and i need to get a new one or try and see if i can get it under warrenty.

:)

2003-06-14T14:11:06Z

OK, I got Good Marilyn Manson Tickets. I can't wait for the show :)

back to sleep for me.

SHIT!!!!!!!

2003-06-11T16:16:19Z

So this is how it is for me, I want to work so badly. I have had the same job for 4 years (this is my fifth summer working there), but this year sucks more then any other. My boss was diagnosed with Crones Desiese about 2 years ago, and recently it has been flairing up really badly. He has been in and out of the hospital for the past bit. Which sucks for his health, but also makes it so i cannot work. Today was supposed to be my first day back since he was last in the hospital. But it seems he developed another fever and i cannot come in. I am trying to be really patient but i have not made any money this summer. And i have been played like this for a month. I have applied for about 30 jobs and i have not gotten 1 email. NOT 1. So i don't know what to do, i need money, or else i cannot do anything. and i can't keep on waiting for my boss.

This just sucks. I actully enjoy working there, it is a small computer programming company just 2 employees and the owner. and i have a lot of fun working there. Pretty much any job i could possiably get i would be downgrading, and i don't want to do that.

Well time to sit here and do nothing for the better part of the day then go and watch the Baseball game with my friends and girlfriend :)

All play and no work

2003-06-02T15:59:40Z

So recently i have been pretty unemployeed. I had 1 project to do for my boss which was in exchange for some other services he supplies me. and now i have nothing to do. My boss is going through some hard times and has no projects for me to work on at the moment. So until he finds more work, i have no work. So for the first time in 4 years i am unemployeed. And i am also faced with a tough descion of weather to wait it out and hope my boss gets a few deals (Which is very possiable he has 1 huge deal that he is 99% sure will go through within the next 3 days) or look for a new job.

Instead of looking for a new job, i was actully thinking of trying to do something indipendent. Start my own small web/application development small business. I have enough skills, i can deal with people, I have marisa who will help me with design and i will be incharged of all the programming. BUT, we have no clients. which means that in order to start out we need to find people that need a job done. I might just end up applying for anything. i think that is what i have to do.

I miss School, in school i never had to worry about work, because i was to busy worrying about school. Now i need to worry about money and that sucks.

Well i am off to be unemployeed.

Shamless Self Promotion

2003-05-25T22:25:16Z

Well as a few of you know i got a website up www.jaysin.net.
I also got a guestbook

So sign my guestbook and make me feel popular :)

thanks folks....

I am working now, computer programmer, it is boring, but then agian work always sucks. I had a good weekend, and i love marisa.
Week in a nutshell :)

Got My Liscence

2003-05-21T00:01:05Z

Today i got my full drivers liscence. The test was ok, i had to go on the highway and do a lot of basic things. I had to drive about 45 minutes away just to go take the stupid test, i was so glad marisa was with me. She made sure I was not too nervous and was really proud with me after I passed. Most people seem to fail this exam, when i wrote it they told me i was the only person to pass all day. So that made me feel pretty good about myself. Now i don't have to worry about taking another road test ever again.

I also got all my marks in from school, I did pretty good. I have a 70% average. That is really average, but i am just happy i passed everything :P

Well i am exausted so tonight marisa and i are just hanging out a little might watch a movie or something. I probably start work tomorrow or thursday, so i better enjoy the free time while i have it.

If any of you folks on my friends list want to have a link from my website (Jaysin.net just respond to tell me so. :)

I love marisa, hehehehe she is here with me :)

I HAVE A WEBSITE.

2003-05-13T17:09:29Z

Hey everyone, I now have a website. If you have one and want to be linked send me an e mail or write me a comment stating that.

It is just a personal thing, in the future i think it will focus mainly on my physics and professional life, but for now it is for my personal stuff.

www.jaysin.net

Please comment telling me what you think.....

1 more to go

2003-05-07T00:55:26Z

I have 1 exam left to go and it is tomorrow. I am feeling ready for it, but i am also feeling a complete lack of motivation. School has been so hard this year and i cannot wait to have it over with, because i really need to relax and have a weekend where i can just relax. An extended 4 week exam break can really stress you out, cause you end up doing so much work in that time.

If any of you care my exam is in Advanced Calculus (that is just multivariable calculus and theory with a scary name).
I have finnished all my other classes now i just have this one to go, i am doing OK in the course so the exam is not really important as long as i keep consistantly OK, i won't get a bad mark...

well i am just rambelling, i should get back to studying...

Room cleaning

2003-04-23T18:24:57Z

I have finnished cleaning my room

Room cleaning...

2003-04-23T15:51:25Z

I am cleaning my room

My Brain is going to explode...

2003-04-20T20:58:53Z

I have been studying for 6 hours straight. yesterday i studied for 12 hours, and same with the days before. I have not been outside in 3 days or even put on actual clothes that are not PJ's. and i have a super extended exam season. I have 1 exam tomorrow, then one on the 30th, one on May 2nd and my last one on the 7th. And they are all going to be really hard exams. Tomorrow my exam is in Electricity and Magnitism, I think it will be really easy to make up for the 30% average she got on the first term test. Nonetheless i have done about 40 problems from the book, and more from previous exams. I have done really well in all of my classes so far, so i just need to keep my marks high by doing well on my exams.

No all new simpsons tonight, but i will take time to watch it nonetheless. I miss Marisa, we have barly spoken over this study break, after our exams we are going to meet up for a bit, but she has 2 tomorrow, so we can only meet up for a short while and she has to study her ass off for her second exam of the day.

I don't even know what to do anymore, i am redooing problems, I redid all my problem sets. Which was not really challenging, i have a 99% problem set average in this course, i lost 1 stupid mark on one problem all year.

All i have eaten in the last 3 days has been Matzah, i put butter and jam, or tuna on it. but that is all, i feel so disgusting and ever since passover started my stomach has felt uneasy...

well this rant has been pretty pointless, i hope people enjoyed me talking about nothing.

Life is good.

2003-04-12T14:34:45Z

Today is marisa and my 1 year anniversary, i am so excited, we are going to have dinner in the revolving resturant at the CN Tower then we are going to spend the evening at a nice Hotel in the downtown area. I am so excited, Marisa means so much to me and, it seems like we have been dating for so long, since we have been through so much together in the past year. It is also amazing that after a year of dating we still have that initial spark that a couple has when they first fall in love. I am so glad i met her, she has to be the best thing that has ever happened to me.

I love you so much Marisa, sorry for embarrassing you :P

And in an unrelated topic, yesterday i was elected as the Vice-President of Social events for the Physics and Astronomy Student Union(PASU). I was really proud of this accomplishment because a lot of people actully came out and voted for me, i was neck to neck with the other guy and i beat him by 3 votes. and over 60 people actully voted. Next year is going to be great, my 4 of my friends also got positions on the council, so it is going to be a really great community there next year. :)

Well off to get ready for my BIG date :)

Strange Days

2003-04-03T01:44:17Z

Exams are quickly approching, yet, i have lost a lot of my will to work and i do not know why. I sit at my computer desk and just look at my books and not aborb any of the information. I am anxious for school to end because i am looking foward to the summer. I got my old job back for the 5th summer in a row, my boss got a wikkid contract so i am going to be treated really well and i have an awsome project to work on. Get to play with and program a lot of nice toys.

Well it is not just this that i wanted to write about, i wanted to write about how sick i am of hearing all this stuff about disease and war. I have gotten to the point where it pisses me off to hear someone say SARS or WAR. They are just buzz words that sends panic through people, and cause people to pay more attention to the news hence getting more obsessed with the situation. It makes me sick to see people who are so insane that they need to wear Gloves and masks on the subway. and it makes me sick to see so many people taking time out of their lives to protest and march up and down endlessly about a war. people can wear masks all they want and people can protest all they want.. in the end, the situation will still be the same. There will still be a war, and people will still be completly paranoid about a disease that 100 people have gotten and 3000000are scared about. Like i know there is a theart but just wash your hands before you eat and stay away from hospitals and you will be fine.

i am finding peoples actions so strange, and i don't blame them, it is the media's fault. They are telling these people what to do and the really stupid ones are doing it. and as for the war, it is crappy that it happened the world could have lived without it, but just get off the streets and stop demonstrating, and if you are really opposed to this war, at least have a good god-damned reason. I don't want to hear that bush is a terorrist, or that this is for oil. because that is just absurd, it is not about oil and bush may be stupid but he is not a teorrist. The people in Iraq are ruled by a vicious dictator who DOES kill people. so there is a reason to go in there and bring him our of power. what i just don't understand is why Bush choose Iraq considering how many more countries have as bad of a situation if not worse.
and from what i have seen from other people and in demonstrations i want to point out that VIOLENCE IS NOT A WAY TO GET AN ANTI-WAR MESSAGE OUT. These people call them-selves anti-war yet they start fights with people who do not believe in what they do. Whether it is verbal or physical it is no way to get a passive point accross.

Well whatever, this is my view on things, i hope they are accurate because i have not watched TV or read a newspaper in at least a week. I just want to live a normal life and not let the media pollute my mind with death and distruction.

sorry for not checking my grammar or spelling, i just do not care to do it. and sorry for anyone who actully read this, i know it is crappy, but i don't care, it is just an abstract about how i feel at the current time on the current "situation"....

back to studying.

I almost lost my pen.

2003-03-25T01:17:55Z

I am so relieved, i have this favourite pen, i have had it for like 10 years and it is a $250 Mont Blanc... I went to go get the mail having it in my pocket, i came downstairs to do some work and it was not in my pocket. I was so scared, I retraced all my steps back to the mail box, then i found it in the jacket i wore, attached to a rip.

I am so relieved, it has become one of those objects that i value very much and i would have been very sad if i would have lost it.

Weekend...

2003-03-23T23:22:03Z

Well I don't normally post about my weekend, and all the things in my life. But this was a special weekend, It has been 1 year since marisa and i first met. So in order to celebrate we mirrored what we did last year by me taking her out on the same date. Last year we went to U of T and watched a preformence of Jesus Christ Superstar, this year we went and saw Romeo and Juilet in the same theater (same seats too). The play was better this year. Afterwards we went out for a really late dinner, at about 11:30 we went for Thin Crust Itillian pizza at Il Fornello's, the pizza was fantastic. Even better was the desert, we got something called Lindt Tarafoto i have no idea how to spell it, nonetheless marisa and i both agreed that it was the best desert we have ever had.

Today we went down to the campus to study, but we got there before the library where we like opened. So we roamed around taking pictures of all the beautiful buildings at the University, marisamidnight will probably post some in her live journal, it was such a beautiful day for pictuers and they all turned out well. After we just studied and went home.

Tonight i am going to kill off by hanging out and working on my physics problem sets, being disapointed about the lack of simpsons this week.

Weird Subway Story.

2003-03-16T05:26:58Z

Today i had probably my single most weird subway incident ever. I was just coming home from Marisa's house and i was really tired on the subway i was leaning against the wall, and some weird 40 year old man puts a Half eaten pickle on my back. After which i turned to him and said: "Excuse me", and to that he responded with a really scary look. After which i changed seats, and he was eyeing me down the subway car. Finally we got to finch and i went the long way around to the stairs as opposed to the escilator. He followed me up and outside into the parking lot. When i was in the parking lot and i saw him i started walking really fast and i just did not look back, got in my car locked my doors drove off really fast and called my brother.

I was so fucking scared, i get so hyped up over stupid shit like that. But the man was beyond creepy, and i don't like pickles.

TOO MUCH WORK

2003-03-12T04:07:49Z

School can be such a downer, i let go and relax for 1 weekend and i am still feeling it. I just am having too many tests and no time to study.
and in other news, i accidently put my favourite pen through the wash, but it still works.

I am going to bed. Good night...

Marisa

2003-03-10T12:34:31Z

I would like to take this post to wish my baby a happy birthday. So if you do not care, don't read it :P

Not only is today Marisa's Birthday it is also 1 year since we met, and i want to tell her that she has made me feel like no one else could, i love her so much. All weekend we were celebrating and having a fantastic time, and today we are going out for lunch. I just want to make sure she really knows how much i care about her.

Well i will stop embarassing her, cause she doesn't really like that. However it is her birthday today so it is alright to embarassing her today :P

Well i am off to school, (I have a test :( )