Local Museums

Recently, we discovered that there is a local history museum within two miles of my house. Miloni had a field trip at that museum. I had never heard about that museum before. It is just a old fire department building. I volunteered so I went along with Miloni’s class. It …

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Family Doctors / General Practitioners

This post created to collect references for Family Doctors / General Practitioners. Recently we collected a list of Pediatricians. But now we want Family Doctors and General Practitioners. There was an older post (2006) “Would you like to recommend a doctor?” which got replies mostly related to pediatricians. So don’t …

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KutchValley – the Bay Area Chapter of Kojain

The email lists KutchValley and Kojain-BayArea have finally been merged as of Feb end 2015. We will now communicate on one email address which is kutchvalley@yahoogroups.com. Some notes: 1) kutchvalley@yahoogroups.com now has about 350+ email addresses. 2) kutchvalley@yahoogroups is now a moderated list (with multiple moderators) 3) As always when …

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ATM Shoulder Surfing

A man was recently arrested this week in Milpitas on charges of being an ATM shoulder surfer and withdrawing money from ATMs after people had left the ATM without making sure that their session had ended. Here is the article Milpitas post reports “The preliminary investigation revealed the victims used …

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MitrMilan – Outings for Seniors

Came across this site – MitrMilan (http://mitrmilan.com/)which advertises itself as Quality Outings for Seniors. Many a time when parents come to USA, they are bored sitting at home. This could provide them with an opportunity to meet with other parents and do things independently of their kids. Nice idea, not …

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