Our Trip to Karachi, Pakistan

Karachi and its people proved to be wonderful subjects for my very amateur photography skills. These photos were taken with my new Fuji F-70 EXR, my third camera within the span of a year. Let’s hope that this one doesn’t get lost or stolen as the last 2 did. Between Karachi and Dubai I took over 1,000 photos but I managed to delete more than half of those. The Karachi portion came to a total of 329, which is still a lot to go through, so I split it up into a number of albums, including a Best of Karachi.

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My Top Songs of 2009

Top Songs of 2009Every year, Adi and I get together with my friends Kerry, Pavel, Kristen, and Tommy and review our albums of the year (mine and Pavel’s). We seemed to let a few years get away from us but we did do it for 2008, 2007, and 2006 this past May. For 2009, we will definitely maintain the tradition. But, I wanted to publish something on my blog that is end-of-the-year music related. So, here are my top 25 songs for 2009 in alphabetical order (by artist). In many cases, this year for me was very much a “Singles Year” and in a lot of cases, I may not even like the entire album that these songs are on.  And I will admit – it is very pop and diva heavy but give me a break. I had a tough year being unemployed and all. So what if Lady Gaga, Shakira, and Rihanna helped me though it! Note that some of these songs may have been released in 2008 but were played a lot in 2009. Enjoy and please comment with your favorites regardless of whether they are on my list or not! Continue reading

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