Patent Bar Prep - Day 27 January 31, 2007
Posted by atharkhan in : Patent Bar Prep , add a commentFinally finished Chapter 11. I did almost 80% of the questions in Chapter 12. I wanted to do all of them but once I seemed to have most of the affidavit rules down, the questions began to seem repetitious. So I stopped and moved on to 13. It was so late in the night and my brain was so fried from the UCC and Wills/Trusts class that I was pretty much picking answers without reading the questions. The funny part is that I was getting about 60% correct. Anyway, I guess that’s enough for the day. I really hope to finish the remaining (14) chapters. As soon as I am done with all 27 of them, I have to go take old practice exams. I will probably have to be selective and focus on exams from 2000 onwards. I cant really go further in history because there are just too many exams out there. At some point, I have to review my notes too.
So thats it for today. Tomorrow evening, I don’t have class so it will be patent prosecution fun all evening.. yaay!
Follow up to previous post January 28, 2007
Posted by atharkhan in : Personal , add a commentJust found out that my friend is unharmed and alive. It was his younger brother who was killed. There was some confusion because the brothers’ names are quite similar. Although I am relieved that my friend is okay, I am not sure how this additional information is any better.
Here is an excerpt from the news story a mutual friend forwarded to me:
The young man was sitting [in] the driving seat with an exit wound on the right side of the temple, the glass of the door on the driver’s side was broken falling outside the car suggesting that the bullet was fired from inside the vehicle…
…The deceased’s wife is expecting.
Today is going to be a Depeche Mode day… January 28, 2007
Posted by atharkhan in : Personal , add a commentI just found out that a friend of mine died. Shot to death. I don’t know yet how or why but I have a hunch it has to do with him belonging to a particular sect/kind of his religion. His dad was gunned down a few years ago for the very same reason in front of his store. I can’t imagine what a family must go through to lose loved ones to violence and hatred.
He had a very particular trait about him — which I have never seen in anyone else. As a matter of habit, he wouldn’t share *any* information about *anything.* “Where are you going?”… “Oh.. here and there… just around.”…. “What are you doing today?” … “Oh… just stuff.” I would laugh every time he answered questions like this. The rest of us could “interrogate” him for hours and he would never give an inch. This was who he was. In time we learned to accept that we wouldn’t know what he was doing, where he was going, or at times, even where he lived! Yet, he was one of those guys that everyone loved.
On days like today, I miss another friend of mine who died in a car crash in Chicago two weeks before his college graduation. I rember two things about him the most. He had those little turtles and he loved Depeche Mode. He wouldn’t let up until I listened to his CDs back in 92. Whenever I think of him, I listen to Depeche Mode. My brain cannot process those two images indepedantly. Whenever I am conscious of one, I involuntarily think about the other.
Then there was a friend who died of asthma in Florida. He was one of my favorite people. He would wear perfectly snazzy clothes — crisp and wrinkle-free but purposely wouldn’t comb his hair. This was “style” to him and he pulled it off. The guy was the life of any gathering and it was a matter of seconds before his infectious laugh would affect eveyone present. Even on my worst days, looking at his bouncy/lop-sided hair would make me smile. This was a guy who lived in his own universe and let others in as he pleased.
I don’t know what any one has to do with the other. But, today, I miss them all… as I listen to Depeche Mode.
