Dr. James

With my dean, Dr. James Siegel.

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After food drive at the pizza shop.

Even this little kid has some knowledge of racism, and here he wanted to know if Prez. Obama hair is like his who is black@# racism is evil

I just like the way he thinks@Genius Bill Gate

@St. Patrick's

Wait,...what?? with my friend Angel Torres

Incredible love for the flowers

With my friend, the two college awards winner Marwa from Egypt

With my amazing friend Monica~congrats

Officer Scott

Food Drive

Food drive to help feed the hungry in the community, what a noble cause that was???

Some collections!!!

Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Last day in the student Senate; just handed over power to the newly elected seated senators; to the far left is David, next Mohammed my good friend, Alex K, and the rest. With Jerry Milfort

Nice one with Liz

With the Birthday woman Liz

Scholarship night with Dania Brown

Happy for little Sean

Big meditation and reflection time at St. Greg

Little Sean's first communion@St. Gregory

Great picture

Yes I:)

With Mark H@Sky Room, NYC

Great one with Sameer, Manza; now back home in Pakistan and Priscilla~Congrats to you all.

Great smiles with Alex and Amanda

Great shot  after graduation, with Angie Shymon to my far right, Marwan Zaid, Alex Ojeda, and to my immediate left is Amanda Jay; one nice young woman and then Eugenia, an alumni and now studying at Buffalo University.

Love this one too, she is such a sweet heart:)

I love this picture as well as the evening it was talken. That was my dear friend and neighbor Liz Craig's 24th birthday with some of her friends in NYC. The day I almost burned my GIT with some spicy Korean delicacies,lol.

From Hardwork Buffet

Oh yeah!!!, with my complex minded brother, Rene Midouin

Woohoo!! Uncle Eugene and grandpa Gaetano

With our dear family friend and well-wisher Elizabeth Zellner

Mama Barbara to the right and Papa Ben

Zoe and I with Papa Ben

With Zoe, she was equally happy I got my first degree. What a nice girl she is?? always happy to see you anything I got home from school or work.

Pull your Pants up!

I was on board a bus headed to the City, and next to me was this brother of color with his pants literally down below is knees.

 I wanted him to pull the pants up but I needed an approach that would be fair and not humiliate him, and ignoring him was going to make me feel bad inside my heart for failure to say a word. 

So I decided to engage in conversation with this brother; ranging from school, his age, his height since he looked super tall, his relationship status. To my dismay, he was very cooperative and all my questions were being answered with great satisfaction. From there, I decided to us that opportunity to hit the nail directly on the head, oh yeah. How amazing that was. 

 But bottom line, I made that brother to understand the fact that, without his pants below his knees, he was still cool and his girlfriend will always love him, as he looks tall and handsome with good sense of approach to everything I asked him. And now, could you please pull your pants up, I requested? And without hesitation, he did. We all felt great afterward and when I got to my destination, he said "bye and thank you".

The morale; don't try to get people to do something with a command because very few or nobody like to be commanded, and if you can, find out why people do the things they do? And then chip in with what you think ought to be about that situation. Don't judge people impulsively and don't be a coward in approaching issues. Give it the best of your conventional wisdom and chances are, you will win.

Happy Friday

Colin Powell 2012 commencement speech

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