Picture Show

I haven't taken too many pictures through out the years. I am not comfortable in front of a camera. Usually as soon as someone says 'smile' I turn into this 'most wanted' look. I don't even know why, might be genetic.

Beijing, China

This is me, 100 days old. This is also the only piece of evidence I have to prove that I was, at least once, cute! According to my mom this is the best picture I've ever taken :P

As you can see this picture was taken many many years ago, which says alot about who I am. I am still the same girl, playful, goofy, funny looking, slightly nuts, stubborn, with the same curiosity of a cat!

The second window from the bottom was my home for more than 10 years. It was a small two-bedroom apartment. The smaller room was mine. It was cold in the winter and hot and stuffy in the summer. Nonetheless it was my little world...

This is where I used to 'park' my bike :P

Old fashion public washroom.

Corner of the living room of our new place

Saskatoon, SK, Canada

Can you not say it is a beautiful place?!

Little side street where my apartment building was on

Black screen of death at work

Allow me to introduce Honey. Saskatoon really exceeded my expectation!

to be continued...

Birthday, Office and Stuff

This Tuesday was my 33th birthday. Lately my biological clock has been ticking loudly every night like a bomb. So I decided to lay low and let the day slip away without notice. But people!



Flowers from Barb from Saskatoon! (thanks Barb, you are the best!)













Cake and silly birthday song from my coworkers. I was told I was the first one who tried to cut a square cake in a 'pie' way!







Our manager was away for a few days, and this was what was waiting for him when he came back!!!








More balloon attack!!!
















My cubicle now :P

The Catcher in the Rye

"...Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around-nobody big, I mean-except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff-I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy..."

--- The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

What You Don't Know Does Hurt

I don't know what's with me and horror movie. I crave for it once in a while. It works almost like 'reboot' and periodically gives me a good shake. Good horror movies are even more rare than good movies. This results in me watching way to many awful horror movies. The last one I watched was Reaping. This is one of those movies that makes you feel that the creator actually think that the audience, you, are idiots. Anyways it did remain me of something else, what's more dangerous than devil worshiping is ignorance.

There are complex issues in this world, so complex that few people or nobody understands, but there are also questions that seem so confusing only due to lack of basic knowledge of natural and social science. Here I am recommending 3 books. They cover the fundamental things everyone should know of natural science and history. They were all written in layman's language, easy to understand. The first two were also written with great sense of humor, a true fun read. The last one is honest, sincere and compassionate. It takes the mystery out of the biggest fear of all time - death, because of this it is actually comforting.

1. A Short History of Nearly Everything
by Bill Bryson



2. The Human Story: Our History, From the Stone Age to Today by by James C. Davis



3. How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter
by Sherwin B. Nuland