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But so little time… Its like a bottle neck affect. When you have so much stuffed in you nothing comes out, specially if you have few minutes in your hand. And I am the kind who needs some time in hand to start pouring… I guess I need some practice. I hope to get better with some practice here…

I know I have promised you guys a story… I think I will just tell you mine… But it is a long one, though I will keep it short it will still take some time to go down the memory lane. And I also want to share with you guys about this whole process of setting the H4Help.org.

I hope one of these days I am actually going to write what I have been saying I would write and not just add another thing that I am going to write to the list of “things I am going to write”

will post soon… just curious- Anyone even reading these posts?

Yup, that is the number of year I have been in the US. I was only 18 then and no I did not have a childhood marriage. You know its funny, everyone just assumes that I must have married someone and tailgated him to US, when I mention that I am on H4 visa, not that there is absolutely anything wrong with that. Not so. Its been a long struggle. Sorry to disappoint you folks who stereotype H4s “as the opportunists who use their marriage certificate as a license to come to US and does nothing but whines about their unfortunate dependency on their husbands”. How narrow, anti-progressive mind can a human being, sorry an educated human being of a “developed” world, possess? How on earth can anyone think it is ok for a human being to be forced not to be able to earn their own living??? My “dropped jaw and raised eyebrows” towards these folks is a reflection of how many of these I have come across while I was researching to write about the H4 dependents. And to my surprise most of these people are women!!! Quite a few of them second generation Indian immigrants who had it easy, thanks to their “narrow minded, sticking to their own type, racist, moron immigrant parents”!!! Some even claim to be feminists for god sake!!! Do they even know what the word means???

Phew, I didnt know what I was getting myself into when I started this H4Help.org project… Today, I sat down to write a story about what these H4 dependents face and here I am compelled to waste my time ranting about these $&&(!#

I am not going to waste anymore of my time or energy on these bigoted ungrateful people. If you want you can go read these post at your leisure:

http://www.madhoo.com/archives/2004/08/unhappy_in_amer.php

http://www.madhoo.com/archives/003105.php#003105

There were few more, but I cant seem find the paralinks for them…..

I will write the story I sat down to write later… Stay tuned

It has been long since I left
Left for the land, to live what I dared
Where freedom is worshiped
Where system is fair
I was led to believe so
Or else why would I flutter, why would I fly?
Leaving my world so far behind??

Why am I restricted, why am I a second class?
I am here legally, you welcomed me to this land
To support who is working hard
Building the nation, playing their part
Enough have I waited behind
Behind the window of inspiring views
Hopes, wishes, dreams coming true
In the home of the free and land of plenty
That is all I am entitled to
To the view of the world, where dreams come true

Where would I go, who would I talk to?
In the land of strangers, the culture all new
Most doors are closed, some even say don’t bother knocking onto
I don’t exist here, not even to few
You call me legal alien; I am not much different from you
I have dreams just as you do
Remember, you welcomed me here,
I didn’t force myself through!

I have followed your rules, the old and the new
I respect your laws, wouldn’t dare not to
What am I being punished for?
Barred from the basic human right,
To work and to provide for
Is it really too much I am asking for?
The freedom to live and to contribute
To exist and to be independent
To reap my hard work and to utilize
To play my part, to be the view
Beyond the walls, you have locked me into
In the home of the free, and where dreams come true!