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2011-10-17T21:24:00.000-04:00

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Job Search

2011-07-19T23:41:00.000-04:00

So I am currently searching for a job and the job market is not proving to be really good. One thing that I have learnt is that I have to rely on a network and people to recommend me in this climate. So I am currently trying to build my network and gain access to people who are influential in the industry that I want to eventually work for. I am currently seeking Business Analysis positions and Account representative positions.

I will let you guys know when I find something that I like and is something where I can grow as a business professional.

J How "Catch Us" Official Video

2011-04-18T00:24:00.000-04:00

HollandTurner Media Group

2011-04-08T14:15:00.003-04:00

Meet The Holland-Turner Media Group

2011-03-22T15:46:00.000-04:00

Meet The Holland-Turner Media Group

J How "Catch Us" Official Video

2011-03-14T10:27:00.000-04:00

In the studio.

2011-03-07T11:18:00.000-05:00

In the studio.

2011-03-07T11:17:00.002-05:00

2011-03-07T11:17:00.001-05:00

Recording

2011-03-07T11:16:00.002-05:00

In the studio.

2011-03-07T11:16:00.001-05:00

2011-03-07T11:15:00.000-05:00

2011-03-07T11:14:00.000-05:00

Swinging in Spring!

2011-02-27T19:55:00.000-05:00

Dinner at Continental Mid-town

2011-02-27T19:54:00.000-05:00

Korean Food

2011-02-27T19:53:00.000-05:00

Had dinner this weekend with some Korean friends. Delicious food and great company.

Gramz "I Have Arrived" Official Video

2011-02-13T20:07:00.000-05:00

Gramz "I Have Arrived" Trailer

2011-01-20T00:41:00.000-05:00

Homeless man w/golden radio voice in Columbus, OH (Update-FINAL)

2011-01-06T01:57:00.000-05:00

Israel & New Breed - Alpha and Omega

2011-01-06T01:51:00.000-05:00

Christmas 2010

2010-12-26T19:51:00.000-05:00

Christmas 2010, first Christmas that we spent together.

Inspiring Speech that I came across.

2010-11-29T21:26:00.000-05:00

SPEECH BY ANNA QUINDLEN

This was a speech made by Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Anna Quindlen
at the graduation ceremony of an American university where she was
awarded an Honorary PhD.

"I'm a novelist. My work is human nature. Real life is all I know. Don't
ever confuse the two, your life and your work. You will walk out of here
this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be
hundreds of people out there with your same degree: there will be
thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will
be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your
particular life. Your entire life. Not just your life at a desk or your
life on a bus or in a car or at the computer. Not just the life of your
mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank accounts but also
your soul.

People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier
to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is cold comfort
on a winter's night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when
you've received your test results and they're not so good.

Here is my resume: I am a good mother to three children. I have tried
never to let my work stand in the way of being a good parent. I no
longer consider myself the centre of the universe. I show up. I listen.
I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make
marriage vows mean what they say. I am a good friend to my friends and
them to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today,
because I would be a cardboard cut out. But I call them on the phone and
I meet them for lunch. I would be rotten, at best mediocre, at my job if
those other things were not true.

You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you
are. So here's what I wanted to tell you today: Get a life. A real life,
not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger pay cheque, the
larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if
you blew an aneurysm one afternoon or found a lump in your breast?

Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on
a breeze at the seaside, a life in which you stop and watch how a
red-tailed hawk circles over the water, or the way a baby scowls with
concentration when she tries to pick up a sweet with her thumb and first
finger.

Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who
love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Pick up the
phone. Send an email. Write a letter. Get a life in which you are
generous. And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you
have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its
goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have
spent on beer and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big
brother or sister. All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good
too, then doing well will never be enough.

It is so easy to waste our lives, our days, our hours, and our minutes.
It is so easy to take for granted the colour of our kids' eyes, the way
the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of to live.

I learned to live many years ago. I learned to love the journey, not
the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that
today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good
in the world and try to give some of it back because I believed in it,
completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling
others what I had learned. By telling them this: Consider the lilies of
the field. Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear. Read in the back yard with
the sun on your face.

Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness, because if
you do, you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived".

Jeff Ragwan

2010-11-29T21:24:00.000-05:00

First frame freeze
Renton Ragwan

A new birth is breath itself, cos with every breath you pass me by
Like frames on a movie reel, you’re never the same today until you die
Can we pause, a freeze frame, so we can share this moment in time?
Waiting so long I’ve saved up, I can buy you the biggest dime.

Let’s go in slow Mo now, absorb every experience emphatically
One frame a day, enjoy each other more fanatically
Like pictures in an album you will remain with me forever
Here come a valley, let’s fast forward this, however

But I’m not superman so I can’t stop time itself
But I can try to at least prove myself
And write you a movie that never ends
Don’t say we should just be friends
I can’t do it all over again
Can’t we just stay still with this frame?

Now let’s press record and here my life begins
With you, rushes of life like needles and pins
This movie is still being written
One memory at a time, now life’s worth livin’

Now here come the credits, black and white
Screans dead now, turn on the light
Its judgement time, where are the keys
Last frame roll, first frame freeze

Who let the Dogs Out

2010-09-27T10:41:00.002-04:00

Andy Reid got it right for once. He opted to go with Michael Vick as the starting QB for the Philadelphia eagles after Vick's veteran performance against the Lions last week. And boy did it pay off. Vick threw 3 touch downs, including a 61 yard pass to DeSean Jackson, and ran for 1 touchdown. He was on fire. Those who doubted his potential and whether he could return to full strength were eating their words when Vick put up one of the most complete games by a QB this season.

So how did that make Kolb feel, well he was on the side line cheering on the team, but I am certain that there were some question's and concerns that were running through his head.

Well Reid made the right choice this time as the Philadelphia sports wagon starts rolling. We will see you at the next stop, where you too can hop on and be a part of restorative justice process in Mike Vick!!

Back in the USA

2010-09-03T11:18:00.002-04:00

So we finally arrived back in the USA and things are back to normal. Its great having Yeshodha here with us and it makes the whole long distance thing the past. So we are all back at Eastern University and tired but we will make it through this semester.