My bit of nostalgia

It's rare I get nostalgic about things, but yes, it happens to the best of us........

I found myself flipping through the channels, which led me to ABC - figure skating. Watching it reminded me of watching the winter olympics last year sometime around this time, maybe a couple weeks after this time last year. So much was happening at that time.

Wow, a lot really did change that semester...but it was absolutely amazing.

Though that is not all I have to say about that, that is all I will say about that...

We got our first woman candidate, we got our first African American candidate...now our first Hispanic candidate?

This just keeps getting more and more interesting. I wonder what candidates will pop up on the Republican side of this "game".

Click here to read the CNN news article

I watched a ABC news interview with him this morning, in which Bill Richardson said he is absolutely not interested in becoming vice president. If he is not voted as the Democratic candidate to run for presidency, he will go back to New Mexico and complete the remaining 4 years of his term there as governor.

More to come later.

Hillary Clinton running for president!!

Too much excitement for one week. She finally launched her much awaited bid to take over the White House. Now, our first woman president, or our first African-American president?

...Or a president-vice president duo?

Click here to read the article

Now, to sit back and enjoy the show...

Barack Obama of Illinois to run for president!

Well, it's about time we had a minority candidate run for presidency. Senator Barack Obama launched a presidential campaign on Tuesday, which would make him the first African American, if elected, to be president and occupy the White House.

I think the United States definitely needs someone new to take things into his/her hands and bring people's spirits back up. The war in Iraq is something so many people are against. With Bush having the lowest ratings in the history of the presidency, it's definitely a good thing for people to begin directing their attention to the new faces who might be leading our country a couple of years from now.

He's only spend a little more than 2 years in the Senate, which may work against him since his experience is less than others [for example, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton who as of yet has not announced her decision to run for presidency].

Speaking of which, it should be quite interesting if Hillary Clinton launches a bid as well.

Senator Barack Obama, the first African-American president, or Senator Hillary Clinton, the first woman president? That should be an interesting debate, to say the least...

"2 birds killed with 1 stone" ... or 2 kids found in 1 shot ... same thing

Two boys kidnapped four years apart and found in the same suburban St. Louis apartment smiled shyly but said nothing to media at two hug-filled news conferences Saturday, a day after they were rescued.

Unbelievable, isn't it? One boy, Ben Ownby went missing just this past Monday, and the second boy, Shawn Hornbeck, disappeared when he was 11 years old, now 15 years old. His mother was so emotional, addressing how her boy had "grown up on her".

It is so rare that a boy missing for 4 years shows up one day. The most unbelievable part of all of this, is that cops were not even in the area to look for the boys. They were there at the same apartment complex with a warrant to arrest someone else for murder. It was when they spotted the same rusty white Nissan pickup truck another boy described as the vehicle racing off at the site where Ben Ownby had been kidnapped on Monday, that they took pictures and went in to investigate.

Lo-and-behold, after getting a warrant and going into the apartment, they found Ben Ownby. That was joyous enough. Then when Shawn walked out and identified himself as Shawn Hornbeck, the boy who had gone missing four years ago, nobody could believe the incredible coincidence.

Not everyday you hear about something like that...and it's always nice when you do.

My celebrity look-alikes

Don't ask. My friend Jayashree submitted my picture on www.myheritage.com and it came up with the celebrity look-alikes that you see there. Just a little time-waster when you are bored.

I know, I know, it's not like me to do something like this...I blame it all on Jayashree!

http://www.myheritage.com

Happy New Year

Happy New Year to all! Hopefully 2007 turns out to be a pleasant and rewarding year.

My New Year's Eve/early New Year's day was spent at the Ranganatha Temple and with good company, so can't quite complain about that.

Time to keep myself busier than I have ever been...partly because I want to, and partly because I have to...

Anyway, not much of a point to this blog entry other than to wish you all a very happy new year. Have fun!