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!