Category: This Thing Called ‘Life’

  • 11-11-11

    A once-in-a-lifetime occurrence, 11/11/2011 had been deemed by the Chinese as the luckiest day to get married.  For them, it’s the best day to leave the single life behind. In the U.S., 11/11 is Veteran’s Day – a national holiday.  It was President Woodrow Wilson who proclaimed this holiday on November 12, 1919, to celebrate…

  • October 5, 2011 – Steve Jobs Goes Beyond

    My early adulthood years hero is dead. Since I had my first Apple II back in 1980, I had looked-up to Steve as my idol.  He was brash, handsome and had that unmistakable air of invincibility in him. I was working in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in 1982 when I first saw the fantastic Apple IIe – as well as…

  • There Are Saints…But There is No God???

    Every weekday, after arriving from work, I always see my father, in his advanced age of 90, sitting on the La-Z Boy. That may not seem unusual but for the past 3 years, he had been talking more and more – and, in a very loud voice to almost everyone to who sets foot in…

  • SFO: So Many Things to Do…So Little Time!

    Since I moved working environs from Fairfield to SFO in late August this year, I hardly had the time to update this site. San Francisco is such a bustling city that getting used to this new lifestyle will take me some time. Fairfield was really so boring, after all! What’s coming up? I have on…

  • The Tropical Life

    Nothing beats a view from a tropical beach with a cold drink in your hand during summer. I mentioned ‘tropical’ to refer to any part of the world where the weather seems to be mostly humid and partly rainy, most of the year. There’s always a certain charm to these places that defy explanation —…