Saturday- I had to wake up little earlier than usual in Zanesville, Ohio to go to Maggie's Wedding in St. Nicholas Catholic Church. After parking the car, Debbie, her Mom, and I entered the church through the side door. It was a fabulously ornate church with great historical designs. When the protagonist bride (Maggie) entered the church everybody ( Read more... )

Thursday- My deep sleep was woken up in my New York City apartment to take a shower and hop on a plane to come and land in Canton, Ohio with Debbie. Debbie's mother came to pick us up in the airport and then we drew straight to Zanesville, Ohio to attend a wedding on Saturday. Debbie's mother booked a suite in Marriott Hotel and we sneaked through ( Read more... )

Sunday- Checked my online New York University account to find that I have been awarded a four thousand dollar fellowship (Graduate Dean Fellowship) for this academic year. I was excited and thought for a second, free money from NYU (private school)? Even though I have won many bigger scholarships before, it was all from public universities in ( Read more... )

 9/11/2001 --I was just one month into America. Just one month back (Aug/09/2001) I got on an aircraft for the first time in my life to embark on a journey to a far away dreamland named America for which I have been studying at least 10 hours a day, for years, to get a visa. My mother told me  "your visa to America is the happiest moment of my life ( Read more... )

Tuesday- I saw the news and couldn't resist my laughter that "Sarah Palin's Church promotes converting homosexuals to heterosexuals." What is it, a disease they are trying to cure ? Ironically, even psychologists used to think a few decades back that being homosexual was a disorder and then realized their blunder and resorted to normality by ( Read more... )

 Our computer is infected with a virus with icons on the desktop saying "Gay & Lesbian." Every time we delete those icons it takes some of our other personal files to the recycle bin. Our computer is now working as if in a "Charles Babbage" era computer phase. Today I was planning to buy a new computer for Debbie and so went to the Apple computer ( Read more... )

Tuesday- Debbie went to her first Counseling psychology class for fall semester and came back home to add to her volume of research she is been doing for her 3 hour presentation next month in Chicago named "Companionship in times of grief". She ran in to the CNN today's news titled "Brothers admit stealing parts from 244 corpses." If interested in ( Read more... )

Saturday- We went to watch the movie "Vicky Cristina Barcelona." I should say it is one of the best outrageously fantastic movie of Woody Allen. We all know that Allen like to shock us by deviating from the normal. This one not just with the story but the way they say the story too. Couple of years back before meeting Debbie I was writing a ( Read more... )

Tuesday- I was browsing through New York Times online and found "N. Korea threatens to restore the plutonium plant which is in Yongbyon, north of Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea." Check the link if interested more.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/asia/27korea.html?ref=world

We all know that N. Korea is a state which is alleged to sell ( Read more... )

Saturday--I took a long evening walk on the east river side  from Manhattan till Bronx. During the walk what I noticed very obvious was there are more number of men than usual with their fishing rods waiting for their bait to be bitten by a fish. As these fish are not edible because of the mercury content in it due to unimaginable pollution in ( Read more... )