This week I have been counting the days. Hubby is coming and home and then we will be off on our wedding anniversary. Maybe just so excited that I can’t do anything except daydreaming. Haha, I ought to be busy with my preparation for going back to the Philippines. Goodness knows I love to do it when it’s almost time. It’s supposed to be almost time now.
Category: Travels
the places we’re going to, and the places where we’ve been
Street scene
A scene in one of our tour stops in Mumbai. Actually we would see it almost everywhere where it is allowed or accessible. Just some people enjoying their peace behind the busy Mumbai.
Frontier trivia the day:
it is projected that by 2010, India’s population would be 1,175 millions for all ages.
The service driver
Meet Munjit, the driver. Opps, we can’t see him here. But you notice that indeed the vehicles in India are right-hand drive. Munjit was the company driver when I was there. He wears a white turban around his head. He was picking me up to hubby’s workplace for a visit and tour. Mumbai is very large and it would take us an average of an hour to get through our destination pass through the endless traffic and blowing of horns.
Frontier trivia the day:
India gained its independence in 15 August 1947 through the nonviolent resistance to British colonialism led by Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru.
Mumbai constructions
The flat, rather lifeless shot of the buildings being built in Mumbai, which to my observation is blooming with many new high-rise constructions. This was on a trip with Munjit the driver. Well, India is pacing after China and I can clearly see their progress to industrialization.
Frontier trivia the day:
there are 22 official languages in India from its total of 1,652 languages including dialects.
When life is gray
When life is boring and gray, there is a place where we can focus and see the beauty and fun around it. This is how I see this picture. It is so divine for me. What can you say about this?
Frontier info the day:
CIA estimated the total population of India at mid-July 2008 to be 1,147.966 million. That is billions!
My Travel Document
This time it is totally useless, as well as the $305 we paid for the Advance parole which would have let me enter into the USA if I leave without my Green Card yet. It was just that we don’t have any news about my green card for so many months that applying for travel document I-131 was comforting, knowing we have something to wait upon. But since my green card came, before being given travel document, it is now part of the experience dealing with my papers here as wife of a US Citizen.
Today I got a response from USCIS that they have received my application a month ago and still take them some 60-90 days to process it. I’m just thankful my green card came, mid-October we would have to use it, and for sure travel document would not be up yet, by estimating their time frame, before they can make a decision, it will be too late. 🙂
Way in New Orleans
Which way in New Orleans? Most of the New Orleans land is below the sea level so you can see a lot of bodies of water there and they get flooded easily. They kept saying us that everything in New Orleans is unique even their way of calling directions. They described directions with respect to the waters, which weave around the city: lakeside means toward Lake Pontchartrain; riverside means toward the Mississippi River; upriver refers to Uptown; and downriver refers to Downtown.