Archive for the ‘Opinions’ Category

Macys and Walmart sell same product at different prices

Friday, February 4th, 2011

Having studied and taught Economics/Law I now understand the meaning of 'Caveat Emptor'  (buyer's beware) fully. I was shopping online and stumbled upon this last night. My friend gave me a slight push and I just could not resist posting it on the blog.  Should be helpful for others who ...

B1 Visa denied

Sunday, December 26th, 2010

Has your B1, also known as the Visitor Visa to the U.S. been denied ? It happened to someone very close to me. It happened at a time one was not expecting it at all. I had already made a rough sketch of travel plans and other things to do.Now its ...

Facebook and the changing reality of relationships Pt 1

Monday, December 13th, 2010

I added Facebook to my life in 2010 This year I added Facebook to my life. This Thanksgiving, Facebook was among some of the things I was thankful for...:D Can you believe that?? I had an account for several years but never got hooked onto it until now. Being a private person ...

Facebook and the changing reality of relationships Pt 2

Monday, December 13th, 2010

Facebook Learning Curve Over a period of time I have experienced a learning curve on Facebook. Effectively you have to learn to manage your 'facebooking' to a point where you can interact easily in 'online' and 'real' worlds. Just curb the need to hit update each time you experience joy or ...

Year 2010 was the year of catastrophe

Friday, December 10th, 2010

Fareed Zakaria's 2010 catastrophe numbers blew my mind! Recently I was watching Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN. During the program he gave some mind-boggling numbers on how 2010 was a year full of natural disasters, or you may say natural turbulence. That made me wonder: What's going on? Where are we ...