Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Short visit to non-violent action group in Occupy Oakland
My friend Tim, who has been heavily involved in Occupy Oakland, sent me information on an Occupy Oakland group centered on non-violent activity. There are a lot of different agendas represented in OO, and I wanted to throw my support behind a group interested in constructive, non-violent activities - and multiple sources have observed that the Occupy movement has to move beyond occupying public spaces to capitalize on the media attention it has garnered, and maintain politically relevance. This sounded like the right group and I have to thank Tim for getting me connected.
The group collected actionable topics and broke into small groups to further discuss them. The overall structure seemed identical to what I observed at Code for Oakland earlier this year. The emphasis in this group was non-violent approaches to the OO agenda - this involves defining what it means to be non-violent, and also addressing some of the factors within the OO that stand in the way of giving a fair voice to pacifist/non-violent approaches. A very large fraction of the attendees were concerned with this issue of internal OO procedures and leadership. I'm glad so many people were interested in it - as a newcomer, I have no idea how those things operate and what to do about them, though I understand that all too often, the most aggressive voices carry the day.
It was an interesting meeting, and reminded me of the hard work in involved in democracy - giving people a fair voice, at the same time appreciating, but setting boundaries, around the louder, more (hyper)active personalities involved. My small group worked on political action and leadership, and it included an enthusiastic, but loud, ranting and somewhat disruptive participant. The facilitator did a fairly good job of giving him voice, while working hard to set boundaries so that he did not monopolize our group and/or disrupt other groups. Despite her efforts, we still had some visits from other groups. But that's the messy business of participating in democracy and the politics of dealing with personalities.
Hopefully I will find time in my schedule to participate more - though things are busy now with work, holidays, incoming baby, home renovation and find a path through the OUSD kindergarten enrollment to a good school for Ansel...
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Blog reboot
They did it for Battlestar Galactica:
and Hawaii-Five O:
and (perhaps more appropriately) Beavis and Butthead:
So maybe I can reboot my blog as well?
Unlike Battlestar or Hawaii-Five O, the lovely Grace Park will not be replacing your regularly scheduled brown man (that role is still played by me). And also unlike Battlestar or Hawaii-Five O, the new blog won't be grittier with more athletic, sexier but angst ridden characters (maybe just the opposite).
Will it be more like Beavis and Butthead? Hmmm...
In any case, the major changes since the last posting in 2006 are fatherhood and marriage - both of which are wonderful and all consuming roles. Still, I hope to be able to post some things now and then - stay tuned!
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Bicycle Pilgrimmage
This past weekend I went on a long bicycle ride, the Buddhist Bicycle Pilgrimmage which is a 150 mile bicycle ride that visits 3 spiritual centers in Northern California: Spirit Rock Meditation Center, City of 10000 Buddhas and Abhayagiri Monastery. After the ride, we realized that this whole section of northern California is filled with spiritual retreat areas - a few Christian retreat centers were outside of Occidental, and Mt Tabor, an Eastern Orthodox hermitage, shares the same mountain as Abhayagiri, just to name the ones which were along the route. A pilgrimmage that visits all the potential spiritual and religious sites would have an awful lot of stops!
In any case, we began the trip on Saturday morning with a short talk about exercising mindfulness, compassion and mutual responsibility as we rode on the pilgrimmage. Tan Karunadamo, a guest monk at Abhayagiri, and a meditation instructor (who's name I confess to forgetting) gave the talk and launched us on our way. I should point out in advance that my camera has an uncanny tendency to focus on Buddha images in the background instead of the people in foreground. Sorry for any focus errors! (maybe it's a Buddhist camera?)
My riding partner was Laitheng, a very dear and charming friend who was a constantly cheerful and enthusiastic companion on the whole ride. The only thing that could distract her from riding happily along, was the prospect of tasty vegan pastries...
We passed a row of cows chowing down that morning - I suspect their meal wasn't vegan pastries, but they didn't seem to be complaining...
The morning passed relatively quickly - we had been told around the 30 mile mark that we had passed through all the tough hills for the day - what a relief that was! Until we started the ascent to the mid-point checkin, at the 50 mile mark in Occidental. Occidental is at the top of a long uphill ride through a forest lined road. It was a wonderful ride (and the ride down into Guernville was spectacular!). But it was still a seemingly serious uphill - don't these Buddhist types know that lying is a precept violation!?
In any case, our friend Loc caught up with us in Occidental and we all had a delicious lunch at Howard's Cafe. They had a nice selection of delicious veggie sandwiches, as well as vegan pastries (welcome to northern california!).
The next 50 miles that day passed very quickly - the ride down from Occidental was fast and fun, coursing through the shady road into Sonoma. We were aiming to get into the campground before 6pm, so that we could clean up, setup the tents and have dinner. Along the way we caught up with two of our friends on the ride, Jason and Megan, and then eventually Annie who had suffered a flat tire a mere 2 miles from the campground! We stopped for maybe half an hour to try and change the tube, but Annie's new ride had totally new tires that were impossible for newbies like us to remount. Eventually we left Annie in the hands of the more experienced support team and made the final ascent into the KOA campgrounds. Just before the final hill to the campground, I tried some of the highly caffeinated "Gu" sports goop which was being handed out. I can't tell if it helped my performance or not, but I must say I prefer my espresso in liquid form (not in slime form).
The evening passed fairly quickly - sadly I had misconfigured my alarm (accidentally setting it to go off at 5:50pm instead of 5:50am) and missed the morning meditation, but Franklyn, the de facto captain of our riding group, made sure we woke up in time for breakfast! Yay Franklyn!
We staggered to breakfast - looking at the photos, it is clear that for the riders, it was a "the morning after" or maybe even a "coyote morning".
But Suzanna and Valerie looked fresh and happy (and even a little stylish!).
Perhaps because they didn't have to ride 95 miles the day before??!
But we were grateful for all their cheerful help as part of the support crew. The three amigos above would look a lot more bedraggled without our wonderful support crew to feed and keep an eye out for us!
Because there was a special lunch being prepared for us at City of 10,000 Buddhas (CTTB) it was important that we arrive there on time. We made good time, despite relatively windy
conditions. Along the way about 14 of the riders got into a drafting line, which bumped our average speed from 14 mph to maybe 18mph. We covered a lot of ground pretty quickly, but like all phenomena, it proved to be impermanent and dissolved about 5 miles before CTTB. Still, it gave us a needed boost and we got to lunch on time!
At CTTB, I took this photo of Franklyn, the de facto leader of our merry band of Berkeley Pilgrims. He looks like the Rivendell Bicycles poster boy. And I kid you not, he was saying "Grant" as I took this photo.
But in all honesty, I asked him to say Grant. And his bike is very nice...but wait, are those clipless pedals...?
Lunch was at CTTB, which was prepared by the Jin Kong restaurant at the monastery. Jin Kong prepares delicious vegetarian food that uses no garlic, onions or eggs. Essentially these are meals that do not involve the suffering of animals, and many of the plants are grown organically in order to preserve the environment. Surprisingly (for some people), the food is also delicious - demonstrating that you don't have to be a culinary martyr in order to eat foods that follow Buddhist precepts. After the meal, Heng Sure and Tan Karunadamo gave a brief talk and led the bicycle pilgrims on a tour of the main Buddha Hall.
After lunch, we departed for the final 20 mile stretch of the 150 mile bike ride. We left CTTB with Valerie to ride for Abhayagiri. Valerie's bike was a relatively heavy bike with front suspension fork, seatpost suspension and big, lumpy, slow wheels. The difference between her bike and our relatively lean and fast bikes was plain to see. It was hard for her to maintain the average speed of 10mph that we needed to sustain in order to make it to Abhayagiri in time for the closing ceremonies. After riding with her as long as we could, we made a dash for monastery and arrived in time to sign in and grab some snacks before the final ceremony!
Over 150 miles completed in 2 days of riding. We had been lucky to have all the training rides in the weeks before to build up not just our stamina and climbing ability, but also our bike handling skills. Along the way we spent lots of time looking out for each other, helping each other out on bike repair and upgrade projects and in general fostering the bonds that make a community - both among my local band of Berkeley bike pilgrims as well as the broader community that rides in the Bicycle Pilgrimmage.
The mailing list for the training rides is still live, and it sounds like people plan on continuing to ride in groups locally. They won't be formal training rides, but will probably just be non-competitive group rides to spend time outdoors in pleasant company. If you're interested, please see the Dharma Wheels website.
Here's a photo of our Berkeley crew of bicycle pilgrims along with some friends from the CTTB community: Franklyn, Megan, Jason, Minty, Steve Lin, Annie, Loc, Laitheng, myself and Valerie. Everyone had a great time, and we're all planning on doing it again next year!
In any case, we began the trip on Saturday morning with a short talk about exercising mindfulness, compassion and mutual responsibility as we rode on the pilgrimmage. Tan Karunadamo, a guest monk at Abhayagiri, and a meditation instructor (who's name I confess to forgetting) gave the talk and launched us on our way. I should point out in advance that my camera has an uncanny tendency to focus on Buddha images in the background instead of the people in foreground. Sorry for any focus errors! (maybe it's a Buddhist camera?)
My riding partner was Laitheng, a very dear and charming friend who was a constantly cheerful and enthusiastic companion on the whole ride. The only thing that could distract her from riding happily along, was the prospect of tasty vegan pastries...
We passed a row of cows chowing down that morning - I suspect their meal wasn't vegan pastries, but they didn't seem to be complaining...
The morning passed relatively quickly - we had been told around the 30 mile mark that we had passed through all the tough hills for the day - what a relief that was! Until we started the ascent to the mid-point checkin, at the 50 mile mark in Occidental. Occidental is at the top of a long uphill ride through a forest lined road. It was a wonderful ride (and the ride down into Guernville was spectacular!). But it was still a seemingly serious uphill - don't these Buddhist types know that lying is a precept violation!?
In any case, our friend Loc caught up with us in Occidental and we all had a delicious lunch at Howard's Cafe. They had a nice selection of delicious veggie sandwiches, as well as vegan pastries (welcome to northern california!).
The next 50 miles that day passed very quickly - the ride down from Occidental was fast and fun, coursing through the shady road into Sonoma. We were aiming to get into the campground before 6pm, so that we could clean up, setup the tents and have dinner. Along the way we caught up with two of our friends on the ride, Jason and Megan, and then eventually Annie who had suffered a flat tire a mere 2 miles from the campground! We stopped for maybe half an hour to try and change the tube, but Annie's new ride had totally new tires that were impossible for newbies like us to remount. Eventually we left Annie in the hands of the more experienced support team and made the final ascent into the KOA campgrounds. Just before the final hill to the campground, I tried some of the highly caffeinated "Gu" sports goop which was being handed out. I can't tell if it helped my performance or not, but I must say I prefer my espresso in liquid form (not in slime form).
The evening passed fairly quickly - sadly I had misconfigured my alarm (accidentally setting it to go off at 5:50pm instead of 5:50am) and missed the morning meditation, but Franklyn, the de facto captain of our riding group, made sure we woke up in time for breakfast! Yay Franklyn!
We staggered to breakfast - looking at the photos, it is clear that for the riders, it was a "the morning after" or maybe even a "coyote morning".
But Suzanna and Valerie looked fresh and happy (and even a little stylish!).Perhaps because they didn't have to ride 95 miles the day before??!
But we were grateful for all their cheerful help as part of the support crew. The three amigos above would look a lot more bedraggled without our wonderful support crew to feed and keep an eye out for us!
Because there was a special lunch being prepared for us at City of 10,000 Buddhas (CTTB) it was important that we arrive there on time. We made good time, despite relatively windy
conditions. Along the way about 14 of the riders got into a drafting line, which bumped our average speed from 14 mph to maybe 18mph. We covered a lot of ground pretty quickly, but like all phenomena, it proved to be impermanent and dissolved about 5 miles before CTTB. Still, it gave us a needed boost and we got to lunch on time!
At CTTB, I took this photo of Franklyn, the de facto leader of our merry band of Berkeley Pilgrims. He looks like the Rivendell Bicycles poster boy. And I kid you not, he was saying "Grant" as I took this photo.
But in all honesty, I asked him to say Grant. And his bike is very nice...but wait, are those clipless pedals...?
Lunch was at CTTB, which was prepared by the Jin Kong restaurant at the monastery. Jin Kong prepares delicious vegetarian food that uses no garlic, onions or eggs. Essentially these are meals that do not involve the suffering of animals, and many of the plants are grown organically in order to preserve the environment. Surprisingly (for some people), the food is also delicious - demonstrating that you don't have to be a culinary martyr in order to eat foods that follow Buddhist precepts. After the meal, Heng Sure and Tan Karunadamo gave a brief talk and led the bicycle pilgrims on a tour of the main Buddha Hall.After lunch, we departed for the final 20 mile stretch of the 150 mile bike ride. We left CTTB with Valerie to ride for Abhayagiri. Valerie's bike was a relatively heavy bike with front suspension fork, seatpost suspension and big, lumpy, slow wheels. The difference between her bike and our relatively lean and fast bikes was plain to see. It was hard for her to maintain the average speed of 10mph that we needed to sustain in order to make it to Abhayagiri in time for the closing ceremonies. After riding with her as long as we could, we made a dash for monastery and arrived in time to sign in and grab some snacks before the final ceremony!
Over 150 miles completed in 2 days of riding. We had been lucky to have all the training rides in the weeks before to build up not just our stamina and climbing ability, but also our bike handling skills. Along the way we spent lots of time looking out for each other, helping each other out on bike repair and upgrade projects and in general fostering the bonds that make a community - both among my local band of Berkeley bike pilgrims as well as the broader community that rides in the Bicycle Pilgrimmage.
The mailing list for the training rides is still live, and it sounds like people plan on continuing to ride in groups locally. They won't be formal training rides, but will probably just be non-competitive group rides to spend time outdoors in pleasant company. If you're interested, please see the Dharma Wheels website.
Here's a photo of our Berkeley crew of bicycle pilgrims along with some friends from the CTTB community: Franklyn, Megan, Jason, Minty, Steve Lin, Annie, Loc, Laitheng, myself and Valerie. Everyone had a great time, and we're all planning on doing it again next year!
Saturday, July 15, 2006
No photos, nothing pretty: a witness to devastation in Lebanon
Hiba Bou Akar is a friend in Beirut that graduated from MIT and was planning on returning to the US this fall to pursue her PhD at Cal. She's been displaced from her home and her family is now in a shelter, along with the thousands of other innocent Lebanese that are being brutalized by the indescriminate, disproportionate and unjust revenge that Israel is taken out in response to the kidnapping and murder of Israeli soldiers by Hezbollah. Hiba's letter, copied below, is her firsthand experience in Beirut.
While Hezbollah is clearly a terrorist group that is a proxy for Iranian interests, and the murder and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers is a hateful and unacceptable crime, Israel's victimization of the entire country of Lebanon, targeting soldiers, civilians, women, children and core infrastructure necessary to sustain a viable nation, is unconscionable. Israel's brutal exercise of military power against innocents betrays any claim to a moral high ground. Democratic Party leaders like Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi have moral consciences that are short circuited by their allegiance to various lobbies, and the Lebanese people are being hung out to dry. The rest of us are not so morally dysfunctional.
Please examine your conscience and do what you can.
International Red Cross Bulletin
Lebanese Red Cross
Web site of Dianne Feinstein
Web site of Nancy Pelosi
From: hiba.bou.akar@gmail.com Hiba Bou Akar
To: Undisclosed-Recipient
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:49:09 -0700
Subject: Lebanon is under Attack- A Humanitarian Crisis
Dear all,
Many thanks to all of you who asked about me and showed their support. I really appreciate it and need it to cope with all the destruction and death surrounding me. I need your support to stop the mass massacre that my people are facing as a result of the Israeli attacks on my country that have been non-stop for 4 days.
My country is under attack with a level of aggression that I have not seen in my entire life. Barbaric acts against civilians, with no attention paid to the difference between children, women, elderly, and the handicapped on one hand, and fighters on the other. Everybody is a target for the bombs that are falling on us like black rain, like fire balls, from military planes that have not left our air since Wednesday July 12th, 2006. Their horrific noises have deafened our ears. Children's cries of horror are tearing our hearts. We asked for the international community's help to broker a cease fire. They did not care. All they care about are their regional interests. Israelis did not stop the bombs! Did not stop deaths! Continued their mass destruction! We are under attack without hope for an end.
The aggression is not only against people, but against infrastructure. All the bridges, tunnels, roads, electricity plants, fuel tanks, IT networks, water dams, and every other aspect of infrastructure has been or is being destroyed. Thousands of people have been displaced. We are currently helping people to settle in schools and other public facilities, and trying to supply them with minimum survival amenities. The entire relief effort is through personal initiatives since there is not yet an aid organization helping with the crisis.
It all started 4 days ago, when Hezbollah took two Israeli soldiers as hostages. We as Lebanese citizens condemned this act. We were surprised by this military operation. We did not want war, but they did not ask us. We Lebanese people are tired of war, we want peace. Too many loved ones have died over 20 years of wars. I was born in war, grew up in war, lived through wars, through Israeli occupation, through assassinations, through horror, through displacements, and I had enough, we had enough, Lebanese people had enough, Lebanon had enough! Enough Destruction..enough!
Unfortunately, two Israeli hostages were taken and three were killed, an operation which I am deeply sorry that we could not stop. But does this justify a barbaric attack that has up until now killed at least 160 people, injured hundreds, displaced thousands, and ruined an entire country? Israel bombed today a bus with 21 women and children fleeing from their village. Innocent people, running for their lives, not terrorists, not military people but women and children were burnt. Today Israel bombed three such buses! The international community remains silent.
This summer was our summer. We were happy to show our beautiful small country to the entire world after we have been rebuilding it for 15 years. We invited friends, family, business people and promised them a lovely time. We were so proud of what we accomplished. In four days Israel shattered our dreams in an unbalanced, crazy, sad, barbaric act of aggression; high-tech military planes high in the air bombing unarmed and defenseless people on the ground. In 4 days, Israel destroyed our country, killed our people. Blind Unjustified Aggression!
We are under siege! We are under attack from the air, from the water, and from land. We are cut off from the entire world, without any form of aid or support. Medical and food supplies are limited. Hunger is already creeping into those villages that have been isolated from the rest of the country. Injured people are stuck under ruins. Lebanon is officially facing a humanitarian crisis. Please help us in spreading the word. I and all Lebanese people need your support.
Thank you very much for your help!
Best Regards,
Hiba
While Hezbollah is clearly a terrorist group that is a proxy for Iranian interests, and the murder and kidnapping of Israeli soldiers is a hateful and unacceptable crime, Israel's victimization of the entire country of Lebanon, targeting soldiers, civilians, women, children and core infrastructure necessary to sustain a viable nation, is unconscionable. Israel's brutal exercise of military power against innocents betrays any claim to a moral high ground. Democratic Party leaders like Dianne Feinstein and Nancy Pelosi have moral consciences that are short circuited by their allegiance to various lobbies, and the Lebanese people are being hung out to dry. The rest of us are not so morally dysfunctional.
Please examine your conscience and do what you can.
International Red Cross Bulletin
Lebanese Red Cross
Web site of Dianne Feinstein
Web site of Nancy Pelosi
From: hiba.bou.akar@gmail.com Hiba Bou Akar
To: Undisclosed-Recipient
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 14:49:09 -0700
Subject: Lebanon is under Attack- A Humanitarian Crisis
Dear all,
Many thanks to all of you who asked about me and showed their support. I really appreciate it and need it to cope with all the destruction and death surrounding me. I need your support to stop the mass massacre that my people are facing as a result of the Israeli attacks on my country that have been non-stop for 4 days.
My country is under attack with a level of aggression that I have not seen in my entire life. Barbaric acts against civilians, with no attention paid to the difference between children, women, elderly, and the handicapped on one hand, and fighters on the other. Everybody is a target for the bombs that are falling on us like black rain, like fire balls, from military planes that have not left our air since Wednesday July 12th, 2006. Their horrific noises have deafened our ears. Children's cries of horror are tearing our hearts. We asked for the international community's help to broker a cease fire. They did not care. All they care about are their regional interests. Israelis did not stop the bombs! Did not stop deaths! Continued their mass destruction! We are under attack without hope for an end.
The aggression is not only against people, but against infrastructure. All the bridges, tunnels, roads, electricity plants, fuel tanks, IT networks, water dams, and every other aspect of infrastructure has been or is being destroyed. Thousands of people have been displaced. We are currently helping people to settle in schools and other public facilities, and trying to supply them with minimum survival amenities. The entire relief effort is through personal initiatives since there is not yet an aid organization helping with the crisis.
It all started 4 days ago, when Hezbollah took two Israeli soldiers as hostages. We as Lebanese citizens condemned this act. We were surprised by this military operation. We did not want war, but they did not ask us. We Lebanese people are tired of war, we want peace. Too many loved ones have died over 20 years of wars. I was born in war, grew up in war, lived through wars, through Israeli occupation, through assassinations, through horror, through displacements, and I had enough, we had enough, Lebanese people had enough, Lebanon had enough! Enough Destruction..enough!
Unfortunately, two Israeli hostages were taken and three were killed, an operation which I am deeply sorry that we could not stop. But does this justify a barbaric attack that has up until now killed at least 160 people, injured hundreds, displaced thousands, and ruined an entire country? Israel bombed today a bus with 21 women and children fleeing from their village. Innocent people, running for their lives, not terrorists, not military people but women and children were burnt. Today Israel bombed three such buses! The international community remains silent.
This summer was our summer. We were happy to show our beautiful small country to the entire world after we have been rebuilding it for 15 years. We invited friends, family, business people and promised them a lovely time. We were so proud of what we accomplished. In four days Israel shattered our dreams in an unbalanced, crazy, sad, barbaric act of aggression; high-tech military planes high in the air bombing unarmed and defenseless people on the ground. In 4 days, Israel destroyed our country, killed our people. Blind Unjustified Aggression!
We are under siege! We are under attack from the air, from the water, and from land. We are cut off from the entire world, without any form of aid or support. Medical and food supplies are limited. Hunger is already creeping into those villages that have been isolated from the rest of the country. Injured people are stuck under ruins. Lebanon is officially facing a humanitarian crisis. Please help us in spreading the word. I and all Lebanese people need your support.
Thank you very much for your help!
Best Regards,
Hiba
Monday, May 29, 2006
Pt Reyes
A few pics from a recent trip to Pt Reyes...
The falls near our campsite...cool, crisp, wicked cold water...
Colorful deposits from a stream that trickled down the rockface down to the pacific.
Cow parsley reaching for the sun.
The falls near our campsite...cool, crisp, wicked cold water...
Colorful deposits from a stream that trickled down the rockface down to the pacific.
Cow parsley reaching for the sun.
Sunday, May 21, 2006
Gradumicated!
The last 2 weeks have been a whirlwind as final projects were wrapped up, written up and then served up. Here's a couple of photos of dear friends and family from the final project presentations and graduation.
This is my final project team, Sarai, Sarita and myself. I could not have imagined a more relaxed, talented and smoothly running team. Sarita has been my collaborator throughout grad school, and I'll miss her dearly when we goes off to GA Tech for her PhD. I hope those folks at GA Tech realize what a prize student they're getting! And Sarai, who is quiet, but always cool and intelligent, is going to Google to use her slick design skills to make Google even more usable and cool looking.
Here's Ben, myself, Mano and Judd - not only are they three of the smartest and nicest guys you'll ever meet, they're also incredibly cool, dynamic and interesting people that demonstrate the academic diversity of the SIMS department: engineer, historian and anthropologist - all in the same program.
How cool is that!?
Here's my family and close friends from outside of SIMS. To my left is Uppeka, and going across are Stan, Mariko, mom, dad, Andrea, Alvin, baby athena and Corrina.
My parents came to see me graduate, but I'm not entirely sure they understand what it is that I've been studying the last 2 years :-)
Here's a big chunk of my original project group from the first semester IS202 class, plus one extra person is also happens to be a good friend. Irina, Melissa (not actually my daughter), Sarah (not actually my neice) and Kavita (not actually Melissa's mom)
This is my final project team, Sarai, Sarita and myself. I could not have imagined a more relaxed, talented and smoothly running team. Sarita has been my collaborator throughout grad school, and I'll miss her dearly when we goes off to GA Tech for her PhD. I hope those folks at GA Tech realize what a prize student they're getting! And Sarai, who is quiet, but always cool and intelligent, is going to Google to use her slick design skills to make Google even more usable and cool looking.
Here's Ben, myself, Mano and Judd - not only are they three of the smartest and nicest guys you'll ever meet, they're also incredibly cool, dynamic and interesting people that demonstrate the academic diversity of the SIMS department: engineer, historian and anthropologist - all in the same program.How cool is that!?
Here's my family and close friends from outside of SIMS. To my left is Uppeka, and going across are Stan, Mariko, mom, dad, Andrea, Alvin, baby athena and Corrina.My parents came to see me graduate, but I'm not entirely sure they understand what it is that I've been studying the last 2 years :-)
Here's a big chunk of my original project group from the first semester IS202 class, plus one extra person is also happens to be a good friend. Irina, Melissa (not actually my daughter), Sarah (not actually my neice) and Kavita (not actually Melissa's mom)
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