Chil’s Point of View….

‏I ran in the Seafair  Torchlight Run [http://www.seafair.com/events/torchrun] on the weekend. I did the 8K Run.
 
The route started off near South Lake Union, hit into Seattle downtown, went through the Alaska Way Viaduct and back to 9th Ave and Republican.

[Torchlight route]

 
Turn by Turn directions starting off at 9th Ave and Republican-
- Run down 9th Ave [...]

Read Full Post »

 
Aloha!
Just came back from the Big Island in Hawaii. We were in Kona on the Kohala Coast.
It was a pretty cool relaxing holiday, and we planned to take it now as we anticipated that it might be a really-really-really-really long time before Nelly and I have another ‘just the two of us’ vacation. [ Why?  [...]

Read Full Post »

Cool. I am done with my Masters (MBA)!
I finally join Nelly’s Club of being done with school [See Masters Nelly post].
Our (Nelly and I) graduation ceremony was June 13th at Key Arena, by the Seattle center.
it was pretty – I sat next to Nelly at the ceremony, and our names were called in order.
A few [...]

Read Full Post »

What has happened since?
Finished the 1st session of ProSports bootcamp.
It was a good session, and it got me back to running weekly.
No records were broken this time as I am still in the 8+ minutes a mile speed range. Fun stuff none-the-less.
It’s wedding season -
Attended Andy and Maggie’s wedding earlier in May.
Congratulations guys!
Mikey also had [...]

Read Full Post »

 Real title should be – “Youngsta got married”
Marasi is now officially off the bachelor market.
I just attended his wedding, as his Best man.
He had always wanted a Garden Wedding, and he got one.
He was really blessed with the weather as it would not rain during his scheduled appearances. Like on the wedding day -
- It [...]

Read Full Post »

 
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 [...]

Read Full Post »

This last weekend, it was Zambia’s 45th Indepence Anniversary. The Zambia Association of Zambians in Seattle WA (AZISWA) hosted a celebration event for Zambia’s new milestone.

New place/ New program / New members
The last couple of years, the Independence party had always taken place in Auburn; this time, the event took place on October 24 (the exact anniversary [...]

Read Full Post »

I took the interns on a team outing – Went on bumper cars to play Whirlyball.
What is WhirlyBall?
“WhirlyBall, dubbed “The worlds only totally mechanized team sport”, is best described as a combination of Basketball, Hockey and Jai-Alai played while riding an electrically powered machine, similar to a bumper car, called a WhirlyBug. Although the WhirlyBug [...]

Read Full Post »

Title really should have been – Tawanda is heading back to Beantown.
He has decided to put work on hold, and head on out to Harvard Business School. A few people put together his ‘almost’ suprise farewell party in Seattle on Saturday.
“Almost” a surprise because he had an idea that something was going to be happening.
Continuing [...]

Read Full Post »

Start of the fun weekend.
Mitika’s birthday celebration kicked off on last Friday night (Jul 24 ). I was able to catch on, and perfect my bhangra moves.

After learning some new moves, I had to demo them to Nelly .

The rest of the birthday picture are here.
.

Read Full Post »