Pizza...not so mmm these days

Today was another day of feasting on pizza. Last week I had pizza every day. This week has been better, today was my first time (its only Wednesday). So those in charge at the SID program almost always get pizza (because it is the most feasible), from the local pizza joint, for our meetings, seminars, and other random gatherings we have. Lately, as many students especially international prep to go home, mutterings about weight gain have slowly taken precedence over the crap happening in the world, from men and women! It's no surprise with our high consumption of pizza, like the one in the photo, which yes I did have 2 slices of today.  I did some googling and found that one slice of cheese pizza has 230 calories (http://www.dietbites.com/Calories-In-Pizza.html). I would say in each sitting we average about 2 slices (for me 3 if there's enough). So thats 460 calories in one sitting and with our massive workload and utter exhaustion many of us don't make it to the gym. Even patting down the pizza in efforts to get rid of the grease is apparently proving to not be enough. You know what, for the time being the mutterings will continue until the next slice comes our way, because hey, until us starving graduate students start making money, we'll take the FREE food any day. Cheers to the next slice! 

This is TEXAS size heat!

I think everyone in the Boston area wishes they were this duck today. It is a whooping 90 degrees here!!!! Thats worse than back home, which is at a cool 72. But I'm not complaining. I'll take this heat over freezing any day! 

The photo was taken during my first trip to D.C. in Oct., 2008. The duck was taking a dip in the reflection pool in front of the Lincoln Memorial. I would love (and hoping) to move to D.C. once I graduate from this place. 

"Funny The Way It Is"

I took this photo in 2003 while in undergrad with my old school film SLR. I was learning/experimenting with composition of photos. I like how this one turned out. The only connection of this photo with the title of the post is that the title is Dave Matthews Band's new song, Funny The Way It Is, and he plays the guitar (not this one, but a guitar). : ) I definitely recommend the song. Can't wait for the new album coming out this summer. Here are a few verses from the middle of the song: 

Funny the way it is 

And if you think about it 

Somebody’s goin’ hungry 

And someone else is eatin’ out 

Funny the way it is 

Whether right or wrong 

Somebody’s heart is broken 

And it becomes your favorite song 

The way your mouth feels in a lover’s kiss 

Like a pretty bird on a breeze 

Or water to a fish 

But a bomb blast brings the building crashin’ to the floor 

Hear the laughter while the children play war 

Funny the way it is 

And if you think about it 

One kid walks 10 miles to school 

While another’s droppin’ out 

Funny the way it is 

No matter right or wrong 

On a soldier’s last breath 

His baby’s being born 

Technical Difficulties

I have nobody in particular to ask this techy question to anymore...so to the general public (as if anyone I don't know reads this, but just in case) How come photos I post on the blog are losing the vibrancy of their colors and how do I fix that???

Awakening

So Spring is FINALLY here in Boston. Slowly people are coming out from hibernation. The streets are more active day and night and I've noticed people smiling more or at least I like to think so. Walking down Mass Ave. yesterday to get to the train station on my to school I saw this tree. I love how some of the branches have leaves, marking the spring, while the other half is still struggling to leave winter. A perfect display of the tree's battle against winter. I'll be watching this tree to see how quickly it progresses towards winning a full spring bloom. 

Changing Gender Roles

I took this photo a couple of weeks ago during my first trip to NYC. My friends, Lilis and Lier, and I had been walking around all day in Manhattan on a chilly Friday morning. After walking through Soho and doing some jewelry shopping we went to curry hill to have some Indian Food at this great restaurant with an all vegetarian buffet. We were so hungry that we literally did not talk for the first 15 minutes as we were stuffing our faces. It was after we had finished and were unable to move that I noticed the South Asian family sitting across the way. As the man was feeding his daughter and the mother was eating, I slyly (at least I hope so) took his photo. There is something very loving about seeing a man interacting with his daughter.

I'm currently working on a paper about how to measure empowerment. One of the key measurements for empowerment is the changing nature of the relationship between men and women. I would say this photo illustrates that well. I wonder how many men would take the time to feed their child, especially their girl child. I'm sure there are quite a few and I'm even more sure that we still have a long way to go, but for now at least I've captured one. Slowly, but surely the gender roles will evolve.... at least I hope so. : )

Procrastinating

Is this right side up?

Or is this???