Oh ok! Sorry, I'm all confused!

That's awesome!

We gotta quit editing!

So, where are you from then?

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3/26/2009 1:48:27 PM

from previous page:

baby was born in the UK... that's where my wife is from

more clarification: we live in saudi arabia. wife is british. she left mid-feb to go deliver in the UK. baby and wife still there. i went to visit them for a week in mid-march. they will be coming back (to saudi arabia) soon, once all the paperwork is done.

NEW: i am from south asia, but was born in and have lived in saudi arabia most of my life, except for 1 year in turkey and 6.5 years in the US. i don't really identify with any culture (definitely not arab culture, and not south asian either), and just do my own thing

gotta go to a mall now... bye!


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3/26/2009 1:51:39 PM

Quote :

"my wife"

i missed that too



yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay for your baby

3/31/2009 2:37:21 PM

So how the hell did you find tdub? Did you attend NCSU while you were here?

3/31/2009 3:02:09 PM

^^ thanks!

^ yeah of course i did, but graduate school. i went to http://www.hamilton.edu for 3 years of undergrad, and then 1 year at http://www.sunyit.edu (BS in Applied Math). then came to NCSU for my MS. as for tdub, i can't remember how i found it. maybe chalked up somewhere, i guess.

3/31/2009 3:13:15 PM

Quote :

"just do my own thing "

sounds like an american to me...

4/1/2009 4:40:49 PM

its nice that you'll be (relatively) close to your parents for the first few years. they are probably going to be invaluable to you in the next few years.


best of luck on receiving your daughters visa quickly. I do so much "praying" over mine on a daily basis, i`ll send a few thoughts her way too.

4/1/2009 5:28:48 PM

^^ yeah i am probably more 'murrcan' than anything else (which is interesting, because being american means being yourself, and not following trends/traditions/cultures, which is true for me)

^ yeah it is great that my parents are in the same city as us. last year in april or may, my mother was like "you are so stupid... your mother is alive and well, so you should have a baby and take advantage of it!" well now, i do have a baby, and she is very happy, and just dying to see her. she even said a few days ago that she can babysit while we go off to work.

thanks for the good luck wish. papers will be submitted to the saudi embassy in london tomorrow. hopefully it shouldn't take more than 10-14 days. and thanks for your prayers.

4/1/2009 7:25:11 PM

good for you!

4/1/2009 10:02:54 PM

pics or it didn't happen

4/1/2009 10:06:33 PM

^ there are too many horrible people on here, and i wouldn't put it past some of them to take one of the pics and photoshop it into a porn pic


UPDATE: The MOTHERFUCKERS nice, caring, and concerned people at the Saudi Embassy in London rejected the visa application for Luciana. They want a letter from me authorizing my wife to travel with the baby. Because letting an infidel mother steal a theoretically Muslim baby away from the baby's Muslim father would be a horrible horrible thing. They just want to make sure she has the father's permission. Jerks.

Anyway, I already typed a letter, printed it, signed it, scanned it, and emailed it (they said scanned is fine... as long it has my signature). That was on Thursday. But they won't see it till Tuesday (Friday is the Muslim Sabbath, Sat/Sun weekend, and Mon is Easter). Bummer.

There is one more objection they could throw our way, and that would really really suck... because rectifying that one would take at least 2 to 3 months. I hope they don't.

I am missing out

4/11/2009 8:40:18 PM

congrats!

4/11/2009 8:41:37 PM

^ Thanks.

Should I spend $953 on a plane ticket to go see my daughter for 5 days? And of course I will have to spend about $100 there.

I miss her too much, and still no sign of when they can come back here

There is also another ticket for $1,333 that will give me 7 days there.

I don't know what to do...

4/18/2009 9:46:06 PM

put that monies in her tution fund!!!

4/18/2009 10:23:31 PM

her visa has been approved! they should be back in the furst week of may... the wait is almost over!

i am sooooooooooooooooooooo happy!

4/21/2009 7:03:17 PM

Why couldn't she be born where yall are living?

4/21/2009 7:03:58 PM

1) because then she wouldn't have been an automatic UK citizen. we would have had to apply for it... and we just wanted to avoid the hassle and the paperwork.

2) also, if she were born outside the UK, then her kids would have had to be born in the UK to be UK citizens. otherwise, they couldn't become UK citizens (unlike her). reason for that is that my wife herself was born to a UK father and S. African mother in S. Africa. so she is a UK citizen by descent, not by birth. but now, her kids could be born anywhere in the world, and they will be automatic UK citizens, as she is a UK citizen by birth.

3) even though we are legally married, our marriage certificate didn't have the attestations to show to the government here that we are married. so if she had given birth here, they would have asked for our marriage cert and then we could have been in trouble (because you can't have kids out of wedlock here, or live together if not married). of course, in anticipation of that, we started the attestation process in january (which meant sending the cert to 2 different countries by courier) and it arrived back with all attestations just a few days after she travelled on feb 15.

4/21/2009 7:13:18 PM

She got the visa... they are coming back Friday 1st of May, 8:25 pm local time!!!

My life will change drastically forever that day.

I think my posts per day count would be easier to look at as days per post from then on.

I can't understand how qntmfred and punchmonk post so much here, have jobs, take care of the house, and still manage to raise such an amazing child!

4/25/2009 12:49:29 PM

are we still betting on your kid taking on qntmken's in math?

4/25/2009 12:52:38 PM

oh hell yeah.

my goal is middle school algebra by the age of 6, and high school algebra by 8.

calculus by the age of 6-8 (my initial goal) is too ambitious (possible if she truly is a born genius... which she might be, who knows!).

4/25/2009 12:57:50 PM