Chil’s Point of View….

Last week, I was happy that I did not have to attend a Saturday class. It was one of those fronted loaded classes which would meet the whole day Saturday, and had a 3 day (away from home) retreat built in. It was amazing how having this one class would pretty much take my weekend [...]

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Nelly and I just came back from our vacation trip to Zambia.
Compared to last time, our all our bags made it.
For the first time in any customs control, Nelly and I were asked to open all our suit cases. They went ahead and searched; and found nothing. Oh well – how about that for a [...]

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I am looking forward to 2010. It should be an exciting year, and hoping that it is way better than 2010.
Some of my new years resolutions that I am willing to share with the rest of the world.
They are not in any particular order

-          Kick Butt at Work!
(Work hard; Produce more; Learn more; and have [...]

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This should really have been titled ‘Norwegian Cruise Line’ (NCL) vs ‘Carnival Cruise Line’ (CCL).
The Alaska trip was fun – when we were not dealing with NCL.
Nelly and I had our first cruise experience last December, when we took the Carnival Pride to Mexico. It was such a fun, and relaxing cruise, that we constantly [...]

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My Twitter account was sending out spam last week. Mikey was one of the people who called me to alert me of spam-links which were being sent. I immediately changed my password, but it seemed to have continue. So I then immediately post a comment (a tweet) alerting people that my account was sending posts, [...]

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This year, I tweaked the code a little bit.
if(day==18 && month==7)
{
       // Nelson Mandela and I are celebrating some magic today
       bigGuy.age++;
       Mandela.age++;

       if (Mandela.age == 91)
       {
               // Nelson Mandela just turned 91!
               // I seem to be moving closer to his age
       }

       if (bigGuy.age <= 31)
       {
              // This year, reset to 21.
              [...]

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THIS IS NOT A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCEMENT
My birthday is coming up on Saturday, July 18th. But just like last year, I do not want any birthday presents :-).
No party + no presents; but I don’t mind if you wish me well on my day though.
What do I have planned?
Well, just like every year, I will be [...]

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A post appeared in the Zambian papers suggesting that the old passports are no longer valid. But let me try to translate what they are saying -

If you live in Zambia, you need a new passport to exit
If you live outside Zamia, you have until August 31st to enter the country.
 But you will need the [...]

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I must have some weird luck when dealing with my passport renewal process.
Last year, I was back-and-forth with the embassy trying to get my passport renewed (see the last passport troubles post).
Well, this time, my parents were able to get my renewal issued. But guess what – FedEx lost the damn document.
It is pretty weird.
My parents [...]

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After being on a long vacation, I am finally back home.
Email – I think I am caught up with email. If I have not hit you back, my apologies – I may have “accidentatlly” forget to hit reply when I read your email; process of triaging through hundreds of emails.
Text Messages – I think I [...]

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