tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-274900892011-12-14T21:55:17.301-05:00I never try to make any points. But if you read carefully, there is a point in there somewhere. In this blog, I will write about anything that I find of interest going on in the world and give my 2 cents on it.<br /><br /> <i>And to all those who are unfamiliar with Cricket, search for Silly Point in google to find out what it is.</i>MCMLXXXIIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09419720216997200371noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27490089.post-29915572511582371072009-03-02T21:42:00.002-05:002009-03-02T21:55:17.554-05:00

My iPod died last night. It started showing the sad iPod icon which made me sad as well. Now I am not a big fan of apple, and I don’t feel the need for buying every iteration of iPods that have come since I got mine. I have a 4th generation 20GB iPod with click wheel. This was the one that came before the iPod photo or those video ones never mind the touch. I don’t care much about videos nor

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I first heard the whirring sound of the 5 liter engine before I caught the white Mustang in my side view mirror. It was going all the way in the left lane and soon had caught up to me and we were neck and neck. It is this moment that I love most. I performed the obligatory cop check, which is much more than just checking the mirrors and looking out towards the horizon. You also have to look for

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The top 5 reasons why no one reads my blog are:The URL is too hard to remember. Seriously, what was I thinking? mcmlkjhgfdsi? Who can remember that? I should go for something simple like myblog.blogspot.com.There were no new posts for 2 years! Why would I expect people to visit my blog when I never put up any new content? If you write it, they will come.The posts are not that interesting. If

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And so the blog returns ...Just 7 days short of 2 years since I wrote something on my blog, I felt the need to resume writing again. so much has happened in the last 2 years but I had been too busy to go online and publish a post. Now however, I have fallen victim to the plunging economy and an unemployed person seems to find too much time than he has use for. So here I am, writing this post out

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1 - Eiffel TowerThis is the obvious choice for the first thing you should see in Paris. It would be unimaginable to visit Paris without seeing the Eiffel Tower. You must go there both during the day and the night. Go to the top of the tower during the day but do expect to spend an hour in line. The quickest way to the top is to take the stairs to the 2nd level (if you feel fit enough) and then

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I almost died as soon as I set foot in London. And after realizing the mistake I had made, I wondered why more people don't die as soon as they step out off Heathrow Airport. Although I was aware that people drive on the left (read: wrong) side of the road there, I paid no attention to it as a pedestrian.My heart jumped a few beats when I instinctively looked left and saw no cars coming and put

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Recently on my flight from London to Paris, I was going through security at London's Heathrow Airport. There was a long line, about 50 people ahead of me, and everything was running very very slow. Pretty soon, when it almost got to my turn to go through the metal detectors, an officer comes out of an inside office and walks straight towards me. He comes to me and says, "Excuse me sir, you have

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I feel very good today. Maybe it was the weather or something. It is very cold here. When I woke up to drop my brother off at school, it was 19 degrees Fahrenheit. It has been brisk and windy all morning. The cold was partially responsible for waking me up early and I got dressed and got into work before everyone else. I also wore a tie today, which is not something I do too frequently. So what

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It is not often that you come across movies such as these. "Thank you for Smoking" is simply great. The cast is wonderful and the acting is great. The dialogue is sharp and witty and the writing is unlike I have seen ever before. This movie is worth seeing just for its entertainment value alone. This comedy had me laughing through out the movie. And unlike the modern comedies of questionable

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I became an uncle yesterday. My sister Maria gave birth to a cute little daughter. She has been named Abir. Here are some photos. (As always, click the image for a larger version)

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Today, on the 5th Anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks, I sat down thinking about the most influential days in the history of mankind. Having lived through 9/11, I was able to determine a few factors that makes days like these so influential. First thing I noticed, is that the people living through that day have a feeling that what they are witnessing is something exceptional in history

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If you are a stranger and don't know me, then you must be unaware that I am a die hard cricket fan. Now cricket is a very interesting sport. Those who are alien to the sport, see it as being more complicated than rocket science. Many consider it as being foreign and distinct from American culture. But those people are mistaken. Cricket is as much American as American Pie!Cricket is interwoven in

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I realized I still hadn't put up any photos of Katie. Here are the ones I took the day I got the car. The rear of the car has changed since then. I got the spoiler attached and also that ugly "Wayne Mazda" sticker is now gone. As well as the temporary registration and license plates which were added later on. I would have put up new pictures with the spoiler but the car is really dirty and it has

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I fail to see why more people are not going to see Snakes on a Plane [Trailer]. Tell me one good reason why you shouldn't see this movie? It was one of the most entertaining movies I have seen this year and the poor box office returns does not do justice to it.This movie was filled with hype from the day of its creation. Interestingly enough, the hype was not studio driven but fan driven. It was

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This is the most painful post I have ever written. The pain is indescribable. It feels like a part of me has been torn away. I never knew that it could hurt me so much. I had never expected this. Especially after just 31 days of falling in love with her. But my beloved Katie has suffered a blow and it has left more than a mark.I was driving along peacefully on route 80, around 9:30 pm tonight.

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Everyone who has ever been to school would know the joy that people feel when they pass a test which they expected to fail. This is one such story.It was 5:25 PM, and I left work in a hurry. I had discovered that the testing facility would be open till 7 PM that day, and I wanted to get there in time for the test to complete. I knew that I was ill prepared for it, there were a few things I was

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I was chilling at home today, when I said to my dad, "Lets go shop for a car." Now this wasn't totally out of the blue. I had been waiting to buy a car since last year. I had set plans for May, but I never really got around to it. Today I felt like going car shopping so I asked my dad, and he said, "Lets go."I had been thinking about a car for a long time. I wanted something that would excite me.

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The day after I came back from California, I was driving the minivan to New York on I-80. The whole family was in the car, including my sister who was sitting in the front. It was about 2 PM and it was raining on and off. As we got past exit 56, it had stopped raining and the sun had come out. But the roads were still wet. I was driving in the left lane and on my right was an 18 wheeler going

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Aisha, this blog is just for you, because no one else cared enough to ask me to write another blog.Frankly, I didn't have much to write about. I almost tried writing a few times but for some reason or another I didn't get the chance. I was going to write the "California II: The Return" blog (Which I thought was such a wonderful title) but the moment passed. I almost wrote a blog when Brazil lost

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Lenny Kravitz’s song “California” goes something like this:I was converted to the other sideFrom the day I'd gotten there…When I moved to CaliforniaCaliforniaThis is how I felt when I first came to California in 2002. As soon as I was here I knew there was something magical about this place. I had always been a city guy. Living in the NYC metropolitan area suited me perfectly well. But LA was

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If you have never seen "Lazy Sunday" (SNL Narnia Rap) It would be advisable to see that first. Click here for the original.Lazy workday,Leave work in the late afternoonCall Max just to see how he's doin'Hello?What up, Max!Yo Monis, what's crackin'?You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?Platters!Man it's happ'nin'!First, call up Lu. But he wont pick up his phone.Forget about him, when its platters, every

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Perhaps some of you had thought that after posting 3 entries in two days, I might have calmed down a little. In fact, it has been the opposite. During this time I have been working really hard trying to redesign the template and the result is before your eyes. Although I liked the old template a lot, but it had such a "used" feel to it. It compelled me to sit down and design something of my own.

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While surfing on BBC today, I stumbled on to the World Cup Daq (http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldcupdaq/). This is one of the most interesting things I have come across recently. It acts like a real stock market, instead of companies, there are the 32 Fifa World Cup teams taking part in the month long tournament beginning 9th June in Germany. You start off with some virtual credit (£10,000) and purchase

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Thank God for the Hispanic community in the US. Without them this World Cup would have been such a disappointment. It is surprising that most Americans don't even know what the Fifa World Cup is. It is the biggest sporting event in the world. Yes, even bigger than the Olympics. The Superbowl is peanuts compared to it. 93 Million People watched the Superbowl this year, compared with 1.1 billion

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I admit it, my previous entry was too long. Had it been a masterpiece of literature, I could have expected my readers to endure through the boring parts and read it completely. I promise I will keep them shorter from now on.I was going to write about my Memorial Day weekend, but there wasn't anything exciting to write about. Had I been white-water rafting in Pennsylvania like my colleague, it

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First of all, I apologize for not writing a blog for a while. And just now, many of you will be asking me, "Who am I apologizing to? Who reads these blogs anyway?” I wouldn't blame you for having that assumption, not many readers of my blogs leave a comment. But I am really appreciative of those of you who do write a comment. Thank you! Maybe I should just start commenting on my own blogs

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There was a pleasant surprise when I was browsing for some news on BBC today. There was an article about the Sultanate of Oman [info]. It was so wonderful to have any news about the country because it rarely makes the news. Its a mostly insignificant country and most people have never heard of it. I have spent 6 years of my life in that insignificant piece of paradise and it holds a special place

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I spent the early part of my life living in the Arabian Gulf. It was a common site for us to see oil rigs, long lines of dozens of huge storage tanks, Even had a couple of school trips to the refineries. We would learn about fractional distillation in 6th grade and then going to the refinery to see the huge distillation column was something. I still remember those visits; I was about 12 at the

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So here I am writing this while sitting at my sister's graduation commencement ceremony. I feel so powerful, knowing that I can write blogs from my phone. I feel kind of like a foreign news correspondent who can send news while on the go. You have to marvel at modern technology you can do almost anything right from the palm of your hand. One more reason why I value them more than other objects

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So I am in Detroit, drove here all night and wanted to test if I could post a blog from my blackberry by emailing to it. I guess we will find out if its successful or not. I suppose the elitist here would argue that this blog post is not a real blog post. But since some of u complained that I didn't post anything for two days (that's referring to u bugz) so here is some new content to please u

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Ok, so I am getting addicted to this thing. Another post in less than 12 hours. But I will try to keep this one short. There are two main topics that I want to discuss, I will start with Da Vinci.So two days ago, my brother tells me that Google has this Da Vinci code quest, similar to the original webquest. You can see it for yourself by clicking here. I have found some of it to be of a decent

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First posts are just like any other firsts. Its stepping into unfamiliar territory, going into the unknown, or to quote Captain Kirk, "To boldly go where no man has gone before!" (I quote a lot for some reason, so get used to it.) I suppose I am a little late to join this bandwagon.This isn't my first attempt at starting to blog. I had tried a few years previously and now I remember why I stopped

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