Happy New Year!

Drove to Niagara with some friends. Nature, beauty and fun — a good recipe to end one year and brace up for a new one. As a year ends, a lot of stuff is water under the bridge. I hope that the times to come bring warmth, sharing and togetherness for everyone! Happy New Year [...]

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PSI Asian Lunch

Vihn, Yiming, Lokman and Changhong got together to invite us for a delicious treat of Vietnamese, Chinese, and Hong-Kong food. Never knew that Coca Cola Chicken was a local delicacy in HK. The veggie spring-rolls were awesome.

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Montreal

Somehow one never develops the confidence that siblings would ever grow up. I was expecting the kiddish, unkempt, confused little brother’s welcome when I arrived at Montreal. Pleasant surprises are awesome, especially when they come at not-so-pleasant times. And I’m glad for this one. Have spent some time in this beautiful city, and am loving [...]

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Book Review: The Geography of Bliss by Eric Weiner

Why do we want to have friends? Why do we want to make money? Why do we want to travel, or explore? A lot of these whys trace their beginnings at the quintessential human search for happiness. Happiness — the great motivation behind so many of our actions — who to call a friend, what to [...]

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"Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq" by John Pilger

After Iraq invaded Kuwait, In the 10 years (1991-2001) of sanctions imposed on Iraq by the UN, US and UK, the harsh restrictions on imports of everything, including access to key medicines, resulted in more deaths than the two atomic bombs combined. The point was regime change, but it never came. The overwhelming majority of [...]

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A Laptop for each Kid

Laptops for 130 dollars? http://www.laptop.org/ Way to go!

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Future, Opportunities, and Science

‘Structure of Materials’ is a class that I had a lot of problems understanding. So, what’s big deal? Don’t all of us have problems with one or the other thing in life… ? Well, yes, and no. This post is about the changing times of today, where most of us will have opportunities to solve [...]

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