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The Poet Dictator!!
Wednesday. I was elated to see a soft copy of this photograph taken almost a month back when I was standing beneath the monumental dome (American Georgian Architecture) of the New York City Hall built in 1811. That day was a special day for me to be invited officially to be part of a celebration headed by two New York City (NYC) councilmens. One ( Read more... ) -
Are We All Parasites?
Saturday. I and Debbie went to her friend Shannon's home in Brooklyn borough of New York City. After showing us around her new home which is decorated to the finest taste she took us to her backyard where I was fascinated to see a beautiful garden. While we were sitting and talking in the garden Shannon brought out her small Terrarium. It had many ( Read more... ) -
Is "Survival of the Fittest" ethically right in modern societies?
Thursday. In my Developmental Economics class our teacher showed us an hour long documentary video of China's economy. I loved the video because it showed many facets of the Chinese economy. One of them was the living and working conditions of migrant workers who come from southern Chinese farms to big cities in hope of making a better living. ( Read more... ) -
Who do you admire?
Wednesday. I and Debbie planned to go for a walk in the river side but she felt it is too hot to go. Remember apple needs refrigeration so she decided to go to her gym near our home to work out in A/C. She wants me to work out with her today and I don't have a membership in her gym but in New York University gym. so she took a coupon of 3 day guest ( Read more... ) -
Are You Up for The Challenge?
Tuesday. I went 15 minutes late today to the third class of the second session of summer. As you know my first session which got over last month was "Ethics in International Affairs" and in the second session it is "Developmental Economics". I took the course with this teacher because she has worked in United Nations since 1968 and teaches as well ( Read more... ) -
Will Americans Ever Have Affordable Medicines?
Monday. Debbie went to get my prescription medication from the neighboring pharmacy. The pharmacist said the medication is $180. Debbie said well I get the same medication for the past few months and it is only $45 with insurance and how did it become so high this time. The reply was well his insurance limit for prescription medicine insurance pay ( Read more... ) -
Are all New Yorkers Part of a Symphony?
Saturday. I and Debbie were on our way to go to New Jersey to a newly married couple's (Abi & Dhwani) house warming party. We had a good time with them and other friends Baris and Chris. On our way we saw something which triggered my interest to post here. In NYC in order to get in to the Subway train you have to swipe your metrocard as shown in ( Read more... ) -
Are You Ready to Resume Your Broken Friendship!
Friday. July 4th America's Independence Day-Just 236 years back (July 4th 1776). It is also the day Debbie's father died when he was 45. That reminded me of the day both America's second president John Adams and third president Thomas Jefferson died: (July 4th 1826). I and Debbie went to the movie Wall-E. One of the most fantastic movies ever made ( Read more... ) -
Do You Argue With Your Authors?
Wednesday. I was teaching Lauren word problems because she lost 4 points in word problems which brought her down from getting a perfect score in last final. When working the problems she said she has hard time grasping and remembering important points mentioned in the word problem questions. So I said just do read questions like you are having a ( Read more... ) -
Will we Ever Evolve to a Human?
Tuesday. What a surprise. After 5 months of waiting I finally got the Rome second season DVD's (HBO series- Made of a whopping $100 million) from the public interlibrary loan. It was more wonderful than I expected. I started reading books on Roman history after reading all the American founding fathers' biographies and come to know that they all ( Read more... )