An immigrant's thoughts

From the last page of interpreter of maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri.

..."In my son's eyes I see the ambition that had first hurled me across the world. In a few years he will graduate and pave his way, alone and unprotected. But I remind myself that he has a father who is still living, a mother who is happy and strong. Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he can not conquer. While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination."

The headscarves of Istanbul, outside Dolmabahce Palace. 

Outside Dolmabahce Palace - Auj's pic. 

IT Residential Infrastructure

From the NYTimes -

In Japan, for example, there are now three million homes connected directly to the Internet via fiber-optic cables. Compared with typical United States home bandwidth data rates of 500,000 to 1.5 million bits per second, Japan has bandwidth of 100 million bits a second for $30 to $55 a month, according to Osamu Ishida, an engineer at the NTT Network Innovation Laboratories, an advanced development laboratory in near Tokyo.