From: fass@bucknell.edu (david fass `93)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.college
Subject: Re: omar's personal bio
Date: 16 Nov 1992 19:59:24 GMT
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
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In article <1e0d6dINN144@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu>, henrydm@HYDRA.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU (Daemeon) writes:
|> 
|>       	Who wants to see a copy of Omar's incredibly arrogant bio?
|> 	He wrote it himself.  I'll underline the things that I think
|> 	are the silliest.  No, on second thought, I'll let it speak for
|> 	itself.
|> 
|> 
|> Well, 
|>         I decided to send a biography of myself, so you'd know who you
|> are dealing with here         
|> *****************************************************************************
|> Name: Syed Omar Ali Zaidi
|> Age: 19 
|> Birthday:April 29,1972 (I was one of the youngest people in my high school
|>         class)  
             ^---- who cares  ..... now if you were the oldest .. 
|> 
|> Nicknames:Om, Ohm, Prince ("Syed" is the Arabic word for prince), 
|>         The Dungeon Master (I play  Advanced Dungeons and Dragons)
|>         and The Texas All-State Sax Player (I won the State championship
|>         for playing a classical music piece (one of the few times its been
|>         done))
|> 
           
|> School: Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
|> 
|> Address: Box 931  
|>         Rose-Hulman
|>         Terre Haute IN 47803
|> 
             ^ -- HE ACTUALLY WANTS  TO ADMIT HIS ADDRESS ...

|> Hometown:Austin Texas (the capital)

                  ^ --- only a texan would say something like that ...
|> 
|> Major:Electrical Engineering/ German with a mathematics minor
|>


 
|> Description: From head to toe
|> 
|> Hair: Dark Brown to Black
|> Eyes: Dark Brown
|> Complexion: OK, not the world's greatest but I haven't heard any complaints
        ^ -- apparently he hasn't been reading this newsgroup ....

|> Height: 5'9"                                
|> Weight: 145-150, it varies.                        
|> IQ: 145 (last time I checked (3 years ago)) 

	^ -- he has iq -- but no common sense ...
|> If you want to know anything else, ask me.
|> 
|> Hobbies: playing my saxophone in pep band and jazz band, playing on MUDs, 
|>         playing AD and D, programming computers, hacking the HP48 calculator
|>         (in assembler!!),playing on the VAX drum majoring the band here at 
|>         Rose, reading, writing letters and poetry and 
|> 
               And what ...

	 ok, two commendable things .. MUDing & D&D ...

|> Sports: Bowling, swimming, running and bicycling
|> 
|> Likes:  Meeting new people ( I keep all the friends I make, that's the truth
|>         Any friends I have lost over the years have been due to them, not me)
	       ^-- Are  you sure about that ...

|>         people who can be honest and not beat about the bush.
|> 
|> Dislikes: People who think they own the world and that they are the best.
|>          People who think that I am not capable of beating them (see below)
|>          People who are superficial in their personality
|> Favorites:
|>         TV Show-Doogie Howser MD, both Start Treks
|>         

					 ^-- never heard of start trek ..

|>         Music-U2, Rush, Pink Floyd, Devo, and many classical composers, 
|>                 although I don't mind easy listening if I have someone to dance with.
|>          
|>         Movie-The Alamo (I love John Wayne and I am from Texas)
|>         
|>         Actors-Michael J Fox, William Shatner, Bill Cosby, Patrick Stewart
|> 
|>         Actress-Well, let me get back to you on that one
|> 
	   ^-- in other words ... he prefers men ... so run away .. be afraid
                                   be very afraid ...

|>         Food-Chocolate
|> 
|> About me: Well, I have a surprise in store for you. I am dark skinned,
|> not black, but brown. I am proud that my parents are from Pakistan and that
|> I have the family tree (43 generations) If you are familiar with Muslim
|> culture,you know that Mohammed had a close friend named Omar (whom I am named
|> after). I am the oldest male in my generation of the family. I also wear 
|> hearing aids in each ear to help with a severe hearing loss, although most
|> people don't know it. I tend to get ridiculed a lot because I am different
|> from everyone else, but I think its made me a better person spiritually and
|> mentally. I am a Muslim by birth and I absoutely abhor the extremeists who
|> use the religion as an excuse to kill other people. I can marry a Christian if
|> I choose. 
|> 
|> The right female: Someone who is funny, who knows who she really is,
|>         and who wants to be a close friend but most of all someone who
|>         is intelligent and who won't flirt with me. At this point in my
|>         life, I'm ready to find someone who can really appreciate me for
|>         who I am and not ask me to become a different person!!!

		^-- he should wish for lot o' luck ... 
                     Cause there are  very, very few women who match
                     what he wants ... except maybe a cadaver or two

	No flirting and no asking for change ... 


|> 
|> Communications: I love reading and replying to e-mail. I'm usually
|> on the VAX in the evenings, so I'll write to you if you write me.
|> 
|> 
|> 
|> 
|>                 If anyone else wants this bio, they can have it.
|> 
|> 
|> E-mail address: zaidioa@rosevc.rose-hulman.edu
|>  
|> 
|>                  Write soon
|> 
|>                         
|> 
|> 
|>                 Omar Zaidi


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