Sha'Nar or Niki a beloved friend of mine is gone
:((((((((((
It's still unreal to me. Anyways I
have to cope with that somehow. Yesterday was one of my best
friends burial (Nikolay Paskalev). His departure from this earth
was something shocking both for me and for many close friends ...
Last I went to his home on Saturday. We even played a bit of Teken
on his Playstation 2 as well as we watched a movie of Angry
Nintento Video game nerd. His health condition has worsened
recently. I didn't really realize his condition was so severe. On
Monday it seems his breathing problems and his general condition
was critical so he and his mother went to the hospital to check his
heart. The cardiology results were terrible, his doctor called an
ambulance and he was hospitalized. In the ambulance the doctors
decided to gave him some kind of pills to calm him down to help him
breath more easily... As a result Niki slipped into a deep sleep a
coma and then his heart dropped operation completely. Nomen called
me in around 3:30 or 4 and informed me he is in the rehabilitation.
20 or 30 minutes later around 4 he called again and told me Niki is
gone ... I couldn't believe I still really cannot believe and
cannot get used to the fact that I'm not going to see him even more
on earth. He is gone now. Niki has suffered with a terrible
uncommon disease "spinal muscle atrophy". His life was far from
perfect but anyways he never complained. Even in his last days he
just said "I don't fell OK" the last time I saw him on Saturday and
that was it. He even wouldn't share that he felt physically bad if
I haven't asked about it. I know him since he was a child, I know
him for maybe 10 years and now he is gone to the place that's the
best as the Larry Norman sings in "Spirit in the Sky". Niki was a
great fan of sci-fi, he posessed an extraordinary intellect for his
age. His competence was in all spheres of knowledge. History as a
subject was a matter of great interest for him. He also was
believing Christian! Many times our goings out for a walk in his
case for a drivewas a great joy for me and I hope him as well. His
English fluency was much better than mine. He had just graduated
11th grade this year. Next year he was supposed to be complete his
study. For a long period he was big fan of World of Warcraft and
devoted gamer in general. He has completed most of the games I even
know. I'll never forget him as a friend and a brother in Christ.
Yesterday during the burial and even though I saw his body in a
coffin I remained called, I'm sure Niki has prayed to the Lord for
us the sinners who stayed on earth. I would say that a grace came
out of his body. As an orthodox christian we believe that his soul
is on a journey to God now. A journey to be completed on the 40th
day after his departure from earth. I pray that Our God and Saviour
Jesus Christ with the Father and the Son in one unite and holy
trinity keep him and grant him eternal joy peace and rest in
heaven! Amen A news is also available in Bergon's forum where he
was quite active.
Here is a
link to it . A link to Niki's profile in facebook is
here Some of the pictures we have together are
here . His skype name was: "lunarstill". I know also Niki did
had also a profile in youtube. However I don't have his profile
yet. Asap as I have it I'll try to post it. Today I had a bit of
work even though I haven't had much of it. I wrote two small shell
scripts to help me with my routine administration tasks both of
them are in Memoriam of Niki. The scripts 1st script lists all
emails of a current vpopmail domain and can be seen
here under the
name list-domain-emails.sh . The 2nd one lists all the
databases and there sizes in MBs within a MySQL server and can be
seen
here:
check-databases-sizes.sh . Niki we miss you man ... And yes
Niki you was a really good guy and a real blessing for us
throughout the time we spend together. Again we won't forget you
Niki!