Saturday, October 20, 2012

Traveler IQ

Traveler IQ is an interesting game which seems to be improving my geographical knowledge.
The Traveler IQ challenge ranks your geographic knowledge against 9,074,219 other travelers.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

Vantage Point of Parenting



As I held my daughter in my hand for the first time, I could not stop thinking about my dad. How would he have felt when I was born? What would he have thought I would do in life? How much would I have disappointed him? I should not force my daughter to become something that I want. Well, my parents did not force me into anything. May be, when I was born, they had the realization that I am having now. Sometimes you have to wear the shoes to be in the shoes of the other person. The son becomes a father, and realizes that the father was a son.  

As 8000 miles separates me from my parents, the thought of them missing my daughter does not bother as much as the feeling of me missing them. I can pray that my daughter turns out better than the son that I am, but I can work on being as good a father that my father is.