by atiqulhoque | Feb 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
In college, I had a teacher, Douglas TheWhisperer (not giving the real last name intentionally), who would start talking in a normal voice or may be little louder and then his voice would gradually go down to whisper and around the end I wouldn’t hear anything...
by atiqulhoque | Feb 2, 2017 | Uncategorized
I know a lady who first fled her country to another country for a better life and then staged a marriage with an American citizen to come and stay in the USA. She described it as a “business deal”. According to her that marriage was never consummated. Later she became...
by atiqulhoque | Jan 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
On the day of my baby boy’s birthday (last Sunday) we were eating pizzas. At one point my mother was telling me not to eat pepperoncinis that come with papa john’s pizzas because she thought it would give me gas. I ignored and ate two anyways since I never got problem...
by atiqulhoque | Jan 26, 2017 | Uncategorized
Last year when we remodeled our kitchen we bought a microwave oven (over the range), dish washer and a regular oven (free standing gas range) manufactured by whirlpool. Within first week the handle of the microwave was deformed by heat. It had warranty for a year, so...
by atiqulhoque | Aug 19, 2016 | Uncategorized
My mother’s mother is an unfortunate woman. She lost a daughter at its infancy, a son died at his childhood, a daughter died leaving three little kids – she raised the youngest one of them. Her husband died in her mid forties. Never married again she lived most of her...
by atiqulhoque | Oct 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
This was the first year when I went to butcher shops for Kurbani of Eid-ul-Azha (Annual religious sacrifice). We deposited $500 to a butcher shop in Pipersville, PA to get a bull of around 1800lbs. That was a Thursday and he told our organizer that he only had big...
