As with most people, I’ve been on the receiving end of many a scam email over the years. As irritating as they are, it puts a smile on my face when I see one of them getting creative.“Dearest in Islam,” begins the one I received today. The salutation is unique enough to divert my finger […] Read More…
Monthly Archives September 2007
My Heart Goes Out 28th
An Offer I Can Refuse 5th
As soon as I slowed down I realised I was making a mistake. I had just come out of a job interview and was lost in thought as I walked through the SoMa neighbourhood to the San Francisco CalTrain station. The man looked at me as I passed as if he knew me, and I […] Read More…
Sign of the Times 5th
After a day wandering Chicago’s city streets, from Bronzeville to glitzy retail stores in The Loop to a nighttime view of the skyline from the Hancock Center, I headed to Giordano’s for some Chicago-style pizza. I passed an old lady begging for money.“Can you spare 10 dollars?” she asked.It was the surest evidence I’ve seen […] Read More…
Summertime 4th
There are a few things I miss about Washington DC. One, the people I grew up with. Two, bagels and whitefish. Three, the sudden summer downpours. So I was more than a little pleased when my bus from New York dropped me off at a DC Metro station just as a storm burst from the […] Read More…
Doctor Warren 4th
From Friends / FamilyListening to my sister’s thesis defense presentation, the culmination of 6 years of hard work, I found myself simultaneously impressed and baffled. The thought crossed my mind that getting a Ph.D. is like learning a language only you and a handful of professors are able to understand. Read More…
Home Soil 4th
The passport control guard looked at my customs declaration slip, then suspiciously at me.“What were you doing in all these countries?” he asked, referring to the long list of names I had written in the “countries visited on this trip” section. I wondered if he might confiscate my passport and accuse me of being un-American.“Travelling,” […] Read More…