Category: General

Could the USCIS be any more inefficient ?

Billions of blistering barnacles X-( First they announce that in July, all priority dates will become current for the AOS stage. Then on 2nd July, they announce that all numbers have been used up and they will be rejecting all 485 applications. I’m not surprised about the second announcement. After …

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Trip to a Zoo

San Francisco zoo is open on 4th July (wednesday) and offers free admission that day (being the 1st wed of the month). It is open from 10am to 5pm and some of the areas in the zoo closes at 4:30pm Oakland zoo is open from 10am to 4pm. It is …

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photos of our children

It feels really good to see little angels’ (Aanya) photo on Kutchvalley site. Everytime I look at her photo, it reminds me of Bhumi and Keya’s new born faces. How about KV families upload their childrens’ photos (mainly 0-3 months)? Prashant was going to teach Apurva Dedhia how to upload …

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Serious Fun

This was the title of the article in Newsweek (June 18th issue) where they talk about five parks in the US that go well beyond obligatory slide, seesaw and swing set. Two of them are from CA. Guadalupe River Park : Their web site is www.grpg.org. Main attraction here is …

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Religious Activity

After a fabulous Picnic and fantastic Camping activity, its time for a Religious activity to build up some Samuhik Punnya for ourself. Here the options which strike my mind that we can do 1> Bhavna 2> Snatra Puja 3> Navkar Jaap 4> Perform Puja and then do Chaityavandan together. Dates …

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Upcoming Exciting Desi Phillums

I have seen some posts on KV discussing upcoming exciting Hollywood attractions this summer. Of course, living in America we can not escape the massive ad campaigns of Hollywood sequels and “n”quels and many new grand movies to be released soon. However, I have not come across any buzz about …

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Who is Sunita Williams?

Who is Sunita Williams? is what I asked my BIL when he pinged me this morning and mentioned – she is on every news channel out here in india. How soon I forgot reading article about her launch etc. She is returning back to earh and bringing lot of glory …

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