The devastation of a city…

More pictures and stories have made me even more worried and sadder.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/the_short_but_eventful_life_of.html
The cemetery I know too well. The burning house I’ve driven by countless times on my way to work.
The images are scary and baffling. I talked to a friend who’s safe in Houston, whose father is trying to find out what happened to their [...]

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Ike’s Fury…and My Own Loss

I left Galveston a long time ago. And my family moved out from the area a year ago. Ties still exist, obviously, with friends and their families, with my high school, with the place I worked and learned. Hurricane Ike started off with a “another storm, huh?” and then slowly the fear and anxiety mounted, [...]

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How Time Flew By…

Not this post, ‘course. You can bet on that

Sha La La, Full House OST
‘Coz how can you not listen to this and remember Song Hye Kyo posing around on her trip, and wish you could pose around and look as pretty on your trips?
Right after I made my first post about my recent [...]

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Impressions

Yeh Tara Woh Tara, Swades
For the first time ever, I’ve been really jetlagged. For the past couple days I’ve been in a zombie state, and crashed randomly come 8-9pm. I think its the joint effect of being sick for most of the trip and getting little/no sleep, plus traveling constantly which makes for a terrible [...]

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Krakow, Oh Crakow!

From Oswiecim the train to Krakow costs about 11 zlotys, and the ride is about and hour and a half. We reached Krakow around lunchtime and headed straight to our hostel. The hostel, which we reserved beforehand, was wonderful. Highly recommend it to anyone who’s planning to make a tourist stop at Krakow. Krakow, being [...]

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Poznan by Night: In Pictures

Yay pictures!!
I just thought I’d upload a couple here. A bunch of other pics, including all the ones with people in them, are uploaded on my Flickr account.
Here is a picture of the Old Square in Poznan, at night. Its decorated for Christmas, with lovely lights and music, and a festive spirit [...]

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Poland: First Few Days :)

Dzien Dobry! (Good day to you in Polish)
I reached Poland after a long, long trip, being sweaty, filthy and smelly by the end of the last leg. I had myself originally planned it that way so I’d see bits of other countries and their people from the airports, but I had forgotten that Iceland has [...]

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A Glimpse of Fall…and the First Snow

I’d been planning to take some shots for a while, luckily I managed to finally do it just before the first snow fell.
(I really wish I could stream music now…my favorite tunes to match the mood…but the best I can do is upload em like this…Yay! thanks to merriwether I found another way [...]

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