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  • The 2012 Manila Flood

    Back in 2009, Typhoon Ketsana, known locally in the Philippines as ‘Ondoy’, dropped a lot of water on Manila in a short amount of time and caused extensive flooding.  I remember there was a lot of public concern outside of the Philippines for the well-being of the people, not just in the Philippines but in…

  • World Wide Open

    Earlier tonight, my wife and I met up with a friend of hers that she hadn’t seen in about 15 years at the Waldorf=Astoria.  While we waited on her friend to get back from her day of sight-seeing, we walked around the hotel looking at the stuff behind glass in and around the main lobby.…

  • The Hawks at Washington Square Park

    The last place I expected to see a hawk for the first time was at Washington Square Park, in the middle of New York City, but that’s what happened.  My wife and I were passing through and saw a crowd of people gathered with their phones and/or cameras out. Part of Washington Square Park is…

  • Poor Viewing Areas For 4th of July 2012 Fireworks in New York City

    Years ago, the fireworks show on July 4th used to be held on the East River.  I remember going there and standing on the elevated highway.  The view was amazing!  It was also real close to where my mother’s apartment is.  If we wanted to, we could have just gone to the roof, but going…

  • An Excellent Day at The New American Wing of the Met and JKO Reservoir

    Last Saturday wound up being one of those days that just turned out right.  We got a late start because we both slept in, but once we got out the door we were rolling.  We started our day off with a visit to Udon West, a great Japanese noodle shop on St. Mark’s Place (8th…

  • Weekly Flea Market Ave A and 11th Street

    I’d forgotten about this place until I started going back through my photos.  Last week, my wife and were walking down 11th Street.  I don’t recall where we were going, but we saw a flea market and stopped in to look around.  I’d always thought of flea markets as being a uniquely ‘Southern’ thing and…

  • Israeli School of U.P.K. Black Jewish Supremacist Extremist Group

    Last Saturday my wife and I were in Times Square, heading to Olive Garden to have a nice dinner for our anniversary.  We got off the train at 42nd street and walked through Times Square to do a little site seeing first.  I was surprised to see what looked like a hate group preaching in…

  • 4 Year Anniversary Dinner at Olive Garden in Times Square

    Last Saturday was my and my wife’s fourth anniversary together.  We spent our first anniversary in Singapore.  Our second anniversary was in the Philippines.  Our third anniversary we spent apart.  I was here in the US and she was in the Philippines.  We spent a lot of time talking about how we would spend our…

  • NYU Spiritual Life Center Ramadan Workshop Update

    Last Wednesday night I went back to the Spiritual Life Center at NYU.  My class at City College was given the choice to vote between whether they’d rather have class at CCNY or go back to the Ramadan Workshop and they chose the workshop.  That was good, because even if they hadn’t, I’d have skipped…

  • The Islamic Cultural Center of New York

    Last Tuesday I had the opportunity to go to the Islamic Cultural Center of New York on a field trip for my summer anthropology course: “Islam in the West”.  If you don’t count my visit to the Islamic Center at NYU’s Spiritual Life Center, this was my first visit to a mosque.  I don’t suppose…