When a favorite pet dies, there is a huge feeling of despair that some consider embarrassing to express to others. It’s OK to go ahead and express the strong pain you feel, because in truth, losing a beloved animal can be sometimes even more overwhelming than losing people you’ve known in life. Animals give us […]
Anime Review of Akira
In almost two decades past, the Japanese animated movie titled "Akira" is still a classic. Akira was released in Japan on July 18th, 1988 and would be released to the United States a year later. However, I would not see the movie until I was well into my tenth grade highschool year. As a child, […]
How to Cure British Columbia Bad Breath
No matter where you live, whether it is in Timbuktu or British Columbia, bad breath is a big problem. There are so many things that are affected by bad breath that it is not even funny, like the ability of a person to get a job, the ability of a person to make friends, to […]
The Whirl of Technology
The other day my wife pointed to my pile of cassette tapes gathering dust in a corner and asked me to get rid of them. "You don’t listen to them any more anyway", she said and then added for good measure that I didn’t have a functioning cassette player. That night, after every one was […]
Siddhartha Deb : The Point of Return
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Any one above 40 reading Siddhartha Dev’s debut novel will be forced to make an inward journey retracing their steps into the past and revisiting their history. This book can be read and read again and each time with different emotions. At one level , this an account of the life […]
Filipinos forced into Iraq deployment
Three days ago or so when a news broke out about the forced deployment of a group of Filipino migrant workers to Iraq. The said workers were recruited to work in Dubai,but in their astonishment they ended up in Iraq and was told to work as a construction workers in one of the project being […]