Holi Pictures Mar 23, 2008

After a long time I really had a chance playing Holi with my Family Friends. It was really nice experience to have my first Holi in United States. A family friend of ours had organized a Satyanarayana Pooja at the Shirdi Sai Baba Temple in Montebello, CA. As this coincided with Holi Festival, it was a perfect opportunity to celebrate.

Below is the link of pictures that I took. Happy Holi. Enjoy.

Holi Pictures Mar 23, 2008

One month after adding Adsense

I added Adsense on my blogs on July 18th, 2007. Its been over a month now and the ads have fetched me $20.92. I believe this is really great as it worked. When I first added AdSense, I was really doubtful if I would reach even $10. But now that I have got around$20 and this is mostly from one single blog of my H1B Stamping it gives me confidence that Adsense really works.

Just adding adsense on the blog doesn't work. It needs traffic. I had around 2200 hits on my blog in one month and it had got only 76 clicks. The page CTR was 1% which is slightly less than average. This took a bit of effort. Many appreciated my blog for providing useful information but the problem was that I had to spam mails groups and repost on every H1B Stamping forums. But without doing this I don't think it would had been possible to generate $20 bucks.

Hopefully my next venture to launch my Siebel website would generate much more traffic and money. I have committed to launch this website on September 2nd, 2007. I am keeping my fingers crossed.

I-140 and I-1-485 applied

I was glad to see an email from my company attorney that my I-140 and I-485 has been applied. Now all I have do is to wait for the approval. Hopefully this happens soon. Also I am anxiously waiting for the October 2007 bulletin. This will give some insight on how the Green Card will be processed in the future. So wait and watch.

The Haka

I have colleague named Simon who is from New Zealand. He had recently been to New Zealand and he got me a small stuffed toy kiwi and that toy is wearing an All Black rugby uniform. That reminded me of a the Haka which is done to piss off the opposite team every time before the rugby game starts. See the haka video. It is very interesting.

Green Card Relief -- August bulletin

August bulletin is late but has some good stuff for Green Card seekers. People can apply for their I-485 all the way till August 17th 2007. I am sure that so many including me got some relief after looking at the August visa bulletin.

I believe Immigration Voice, AILA and Murthy have done a great job in addressing the issues caused by the July 2007 bulletin fiasco. Efforts included flower sending campaign, Rally at San Jose and email petitions. I guess all this has paid off. I specially thank Immigration Voice. I think they played a big role in this.

So now I have sent all my documents to the attorneys. I am waiting to hear back from them. I am so relieved....Cheers..!

Thousands attend Legal Immigrants Rally in San Jose

Thousands attended the Legal Immigrants rally on July 14th in San Jose to protest the July visa bulletin fiasco. Hats off to all those people who attended this. I am glad and this will hopefully will send a right message to the government. See video below.

Some Old Pictures of WSU

While talk to one of my old friend, he shared with me some of the pictures he had taken at Wright State University. I was real happy to see these pictures as it had some old memories of me. Also, I could clearly make out the difference between Dayton, OH and Los Angeles. There in Dayton, OH we had lots of snow and greenery when compared to Los Angeles which pretty much had the same kind of atmosphere through out the year. Below is the link for picasa web album.

Wright State University