Last week I discovered that keeping your mind active on the computer is like discovering the fountain of youth, well youthful brain anyway, now comes word from a Japanese researcher that wolfing down meals may be enough to double a person's risk of being overweight... so now I know how to cure obesity. Holy Schmoly, I never realized I was so smart!!! So that's my problem with weight, because we all know that I totally inhale my food. I eat way too fast and devour all that healthy food like a rabid dog... That's why I'm not a skinnny minnie! It's because I eat too fast! I just knew there had to be a reason!!! Of course the researcher is Japanese, and Japanese people are always thin, so I'm thinking that key may not be in wolfing down the food, I think the answer lies in chopsticks. Have you ever used chopsticks? I think that's the real key to obesity. You can't eat fast with chopsticks, that's probably how that Japanese guy came to that conclusion in the first place. Those chopsticks give the brain the signal that the stomach is swelling and it's time to quit eating because it takes so long to use them... Well, now that I've solved that problem, maybe I can do something about that election? Is it too late for me to throw my hat into the ring???? Here's the CLICK to the article if you want to read it... Post a Comment

I was very sorry to hear about the Landiktotal dog who was biting people, especially the 5-year-old girl. I do have two young boys the same age as her,l, as I cannot bear the thought of my sons getting brutally bitten and not get treated for rabies due to lack of access to the vaccine.

I remember the uproar in San Francisco in 2001, when two dogs killed Diane Whipple of San Francisco as she tried to enter her apartment. It was very close to home for me as I lived two doors down the street from Diane’s apartment at the time. It was scary that this could happen in a large city like San Francisco. 

I strongly believe that the community of Landikotal needs to take action and get animal control or the authorities involved in taking the dogs off the streets and making them safe for children and other citizens.

This event also needs a lot of media attention so people can put pressure on the government officials in Landikotal to take action. You can read more about what happened in San Francisco in 2001 at

http://www.dogbitelaw.com/PAGES/Whipple.html

My trip to Pakistan has come to an end, I am going back home to San Francisco tomorrow. 

I had a wonderful time in Pakistan, visiting different cities and meeting wonderful people.
At the end of the day, people of Pakistan want the government to improve their standard of living: lower inflation, better education for their kids, power and water. People are the same regardless where they are, in Pakistan or America.

It is time for me to go back home to San Francisco as I miss my kids.

I am now in Lahore, Pakistan.  I spent the last two days in Islamabad talking to university students and other citizens regarding the elections and issues with America's intervention in the region. The drive from Islamabad to Lahore was fairly uneventful,  there was hardly any traffic on the road.  People have the 18th and 19th of February off for the elections. It is a public holiday. All the shops and offices are closed for the elections. I guess the Pakistani government is concerned about security and pre and post election violence.

I just got into Peshawar.  It was certainly a very strange experience taking a plane from Lahore to Peshawar. First there were not a lot of people boarding the plane and they all seem scared. I had a very strange encounter with two Pakistani men one was a ex-Air force pilot. First he asked me why I was going to Peshawar, when I said my dad grew up in Peshawar and just visiting, he asked if I was a journalist. I said no, he said that Peshawar is very unsafe and I should not go especially , a woman, before the election for site seeing.  He had to go for business otherwise he would not. That was his opinion. I certainly did not ask his opinion. He was trying to put the fear of  god in me. It was very strange. The whole flight was weird!