Friday, September 30, 2005
Thru the megalopolis of the east
C'est la Vie. It was good to catch up with Nitin and Kate before the wedding. The boy still hasn't gotten a gift to give his parents tomorrow at the rehearsal. Jeff and I finally inspired him to make some thing they would appreciete... that was a fun lil project. Good times!
Thursday, September 29, 2005
Obesity Check?
The way the pyramid is designed, is a game where kids use a combination of foods that will get their ship to planet power! Its a nice effort, but will have to wait and see how much it really works with the kids.
Hopefully this will helps kids understand being health for them selves. Being an over-weight kid is definately no joke, and I can attest to that first hand.
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
More about FEMA
Tuesday, September 27, 2005
Not one for sightseeing any more?
Nevertheless, we were contemplating taking helicopter tours that they give around town but weren't able to make it to the last one but instead went out on one of the Circle lines ferry rides. Being a beautiful day out we have the best view of the Statue of Liberty and the NY skyline from the Hudson.
Too bad Im not in town thru the weekend to get to out and about town with people, haha I got an evite telling me Im missing out on an awesome party! =D
does this mean more good news in the near future?
Monday, September 26, 2005
Observations driving thru Pennsylvania
- Real scenic drive thru the Pocono mountains and the Penn forest.
- NOBODY follows the speed limits of 65 miles an hour even thru rain with not the greatest visibility
- They have BIG dots in the middle of parts of the highway, to apparently help people pace themselves and NOT "Tailgate" the guy in front of you. Apparently we are to keep a two dot distance between us and the car in front of us =S and this just randomly pops up in parts of the highway and disappears after about a 3-4 mile strech.
-so many truckers that they have signs posted telling cars to keep alert because of the heavy truck traffic!
Overall though, it was a pretty nice drive thru.
Friday, September 23, 2005
Nostalgia galore
This situation is vaguely familiar to the one from last year when FL was hit by 3 hurricanes one after another in a couple months time!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
3 year old marathoner for sale... Only Rs.800
I can barely run-walk about 3 miles a day, this kid apparently does about 35 miles a DAY and that too at 7 hour streches :-\ gawd I feel so small
He runs seven hours at a stretch, sometimes as much as 48km (30 miles). On a daily basis. And Budhia Singh is just three and a half years old. When Budhia's father died a year ago, his mother, who washes dishes in Bhubaneswar, capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was unable to provide for her four children. She sold Budhia to a man for 800 rupees ($20)...
...Mr Das said he noticed Budhia's talent when scolding him for being a bully. "Once, after he had done some mischief, I asked him to keep running till I came back," Mr Das told the BBC... more
*sigh* if only I had HALF the stamina!
Time for a change?
This was an article that my friend Adi sent me a few minutes ago. Im not quite sure what to think of it, should I consider it a failure of the Indian government that need to revise the Marriage laws that they have, which state that for people to marry, the groom must be 21 and the bride atleast 19; or should it be one for womens lib for her taking matters into her own hands to get things done the way she reckons is the right thing to do because of parental disapproval.
Minor knot: Girl marries lover’s brother for 2 yrs
AHMEDABAD, SEPT 12: For Sneha Patel, a 19-year-old college-going girl, everything is fair in love. Even if it means signing a contract marriage with her minor boyfriend’s elder brother for the time being, an arrangement that will ultimately allow her to marry the man she loves two years later...more
Granted such laws were in place to protect people from the age old tradition of child marriage in India. I think they need to be revised once again!
Saturday, September 10, 2005
Thank you Vince Young!
oh l'horreur... je déteste!!!
Iowa got beat pretty bad against ISU, that was rather sad. Granted Im all for the Big 12 usually, they Big12 North jsut hasn't been up there lately.
I do hope that OSU looses to Texas tonight!
Friday, September 09, 2005
A change for the better?? .. a little to late?
Director of FEMA Stripped of Role as Relief Leader
WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 - Under intense pressure to improve its response to Hurricane Katrina, the Bush administration on Friday abruptly removed the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Michael D. Brown, from oversight of the post-storm relief effort, and replaced him with Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen of the Coast Guard... more
Its rather sad to see the role that the organization has been playing is not one that has yet made much of a difference to the lives of the victims.
Ophelia on the other hand has been raised to a hurricane again now that its wind speeds have picked up over 75mph.
Ophelia lingers in Atlantic, could threaten U.S. coast
FLAGLER BEACH, -- Ophelia regained hurricane strength Friday on a course that could take it into the U.S. coast, and forecasters urged residents of northern Florida and the Carolinas keep close watch on its path over the next few days.... more
As if Florida hasn't been plagues with enough in the last year. Makes me rather happy that I'm not in direct line for many natural disasters
Sunday, September 04, 2005
Sentry duty
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Super soaker + me... ahh fun times!
Here are a couple shots that Tara took. Heh, they all thought it was rather funny I was out shooting whilst wearing a "security T" on. =D
The sad thing is Jish was able to shoot more accurately at the targets even though she wasn't able to lift the gun half the time! C'est la vie!
Football madness!
Go CATS! Go BLUE!
Thursday, September 01, 2005
Leap, Martha. and Nate
Not to mention Gas prices have been soaring like none other, and predicted to end up as high as $4/gallon in some places! I miss not being home where gas prices don't fluctuate on a daily basis. *sigh*
Americans open their homes and wallets to help Katrina victims
...The Chatmans popped the trunk on their aging Oldsmobile and pulled out garbage bags bursting with baby formula, clothes, shoes, sheets, and food. The Baton Rouge family didn't know anyone affected by hurricane Katrina. But when they heard a local television station was a designated donation drop-off location, they gathered up all they could and headed into town... more
Its sad that its only in the wake of disaster do we become more human. The rat-race that we go thru every day de-humanizes so much so that no one ever really cares for another.