Category Archives: General News

Thanksgiving Turkey, Treadmills, and Tamil Nadu

So, it has been a pretty busy month for me, and as such I haven’t really written much here. I just finished another class (Integrating Educational Technology in the Classroom) and jumped straight into another (Standards-Based Curriculum and Instruction), installed MediaWiki on the IFMR server and put up some articles to start the “content” base, [...]

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They just like to be petted

I went to Madurai last week, and while I was there, I remembered about a video I hadn’t yet uploaded. So here it is! Amy’s grandmother, Henny always likes to comment about animals that “Oh, they just like to be petted….” despite her complaining about how they are messy, and take up too much time [...]

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Raining Words of Wisdom

So, the rains seem to have started, though I’m still not certain that this is supposed to be the Monsoons. From what I hear, the weather has been irregular in the past couple of years. Where hasn’t it been? Global warming maybe?

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New (old) Pictures

Wow. Posting three days in a row? Don’t expect it to become a regular feature…. I’ve recently added a few galleries to photos.mrdwab.com, so be sure to check them out at some point.

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“The Smell of Sulfur in the Air” aka “Stereoscopic Explosions” aka “If only Martin were here….”

One of the many leftover packages Amy picked up from the streets near our flat. Yes, you too can be a naked baby dancing around to the explosive sounds of Divali…. (or at least you can act like one) Well, last Saturday was Divali, and it sure was a different experience here than what I [...]

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Exciting day!

Amy has decided to join me in my online adventures by setting up a website on my site! It’s work related, and she refuses to write anything about herself on there, but I guess that’s fine—everyone will just have to learn about how cool she is through her work instead. Anyway, setting up the page [...]

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Slow news month….

Man, where has September gone? I don’t quite know what happened this month, but it certainly flew by. Well, a lot has actually happened. For starters, I turned 28 towards the beginning of the month—and Amy and I got to celebrate our four-year wedding-proposal anniversary. My website design for the Centre for Micro Finance where [...]

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School news….

A little too patriotic looking for me, but I’m still happy with it. Well, I’m now halfway through my master’s degree. Six classes more to go and I’ll be done. My most recent class was pretty interesting. It was a class on curriculum design, and during the class, we looked at different (broader) views and [...]

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Madurai

Just one of the many temple shots you can find in the Madurai photo gallery Last weekend, Amy and I accompanied the CMF interns to Madurai. We got a chance to visit a microfinance institution (MFI) and a non-gonvernmental organization (NGO) that works with self-help groups (SHG). How’s that for a slew of acronyms? Madurai [...]

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Anniversaries

A little over nine years ago, Amy gave me a kiss on my neck while I was saying goodbye to her on the front porch at 729 De La Vina street after our first date. I wanted to kiss her back, but my body reacted by running away quickly—but not nearly as quickly as my [...]

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