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The Roles of a Modern Naval Fleet By ClassAircraft Carrier- The typical centre piece and flagship of the fleet. Can carry Marine Detachments, Rotary Wing assets and most importantly, fixed wing assets. With reference to the Royal Navy, the Queen Liz and Prince of Wales can each carry up to 36 F-35s on a war time footing. They provide air support to the fleet, project power and act as fleet flagships when a battlegroup is deployed.Cruisers- The largest surface combatants at sea, barring Russian Battlecruisers, they carry a lot of missiles, act as primary Air Defence Networks with the brilliant AEGIS system. The Ticonderoga Class (Tico) has 122 Vertical Launch Systems for missiles, and acts as the mainstay for Air Defence in the fleet. Primarily chained to a carrier to act as a Missile Defence, Air Defence and Surface Defence asset.Destroyer- In most fleets, these are the mainstay. The US Navy Arleigh Burke serve a general purpose, with ample Anti Aircraft Warfare, Anti Submarine Warfare, Anti Ship Surface Warfare and Anti Surface Warfare armaments. The Royal Navy destroyers are geared towards AAW. The Daring Class, or Type 45 Class displaces at 8,500 tonnes.Frigate- Now, the US Navy does not employ frigates but the Royal Navy does. The Royal Navy employs frigates in an Anti-Submarine Warfare role, and as light picket duties for Anti-Missile and Anti-Aircraft duties. They are more numerous than destroyers, displacing at 4,900 tonnes. The Type 23 is the workhorse of the Royal Navy.Corvette- The role of a Corvette, not that the USN or RN employ any, is to act as a cheaper, weaker frigate. With a smaller crew and easier to maintain. They have lighter SAMs and CIWS than frigates, but tend to be faster and can fight submarines effectively too.Nuclear Submarine- The role of British Nuclear Submarines is not only to provide Britains nuclear deterrent with ICBMs, but also to provide security on the GIUK gap. Typically working alone or in pairs, they are to fight Russian submarines that try to push into the Atlantic, as well as keep the Russian surface fleet contained. These submarines are meant to duel other subs, and deal with any surface threat.Attack Submarines- The role of an Attack Submarine is simply as the name states, to attack. It’s job is to harrass and damage surface fleets, merchant mariners and enemy submarines. Sacrificing missiles for torpedoes, Attack Submarines are less autonomous and less expensive than Nuke Boats, but are shorter in range and capability. The British Vanguard Class also carries a land attack capability, having missiles in abundance.“Si vis pacem, para bellum.”

First a Tribute to Pioneers and Early Immigrants:First please let me pay tribute to the pioneers, Early immigrants(Chinese, the East Indians, the Asians, First Nation, Inuits, Europeans and West Indians, South Americans, Mid Easters and Africans who had built this beautiful country. Before we(My wife and I) came here in the early 70 s.Hats off to the Canadian pioneers and following immigrants before we came here, who made this country world class, by sacrificing their present for our future.Canadian pioneers - Google Search:Second Tribute is to hard and good work ethics and team work:No matter where you go hard work is one of the key ingredients:Three generation of Canadians at work, on the weekend: My wife (First generation), two Canadian born and raised sons( 2nd generation) and our monkey(Grandson) third generation.The kid just loves to stay with his uncle, it is win win situation to learn Canadian North American way of strong and hard work ethics.Now the answer to your question:Sir/Madam: I was once like you in the same situation, my wife and I came to Canada, with landed immigrant status. It was early 70 s, and we both were at the beginning of the twenties. I like to say we both are authentic Punjabi from India, and so that you fully understand the identity to correlate your SEA, I am not sure what it means. India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Nepal/Sri Lanka/Bhutan/? This identity says something, for example, Indians have their community then there is further diversity South and North. This precise background makes a big difference, for example, some communities are very well established than the others. In some cases, it may be helpful to the new immigrant, if nothing else at least solid advice. Regardless, that is your decision to keep this identity SEA.I like to put this disclaimer. Also, I am not an expert in this field to advise you or give directions. My suggestions or these writings are based on my thoughts, observations what my family and I went through in Canada. In case you find it useful take it otherwise no harm done.We (my wife and I) are here, and soon it is 50 years in this country.Pioneers to Canada, had the same question/s as I had, and your question/s are no different.History of Canada - WikipediaA short answer to your question (Is it worthwhile emigrating to Canada? : It depends on the individual and his/her circumstances. No one can answer this question for you, except you. Nothing is cut and dried, we all are different and our objectives and goals are different.A long answer with explanations:Once again I am writing my observations and my first-hand experiences.1. I had one M.Sc. from U of Punjab, and three years experience in my field, my wife had excellent credentials.2. In those days these credential meant nothing unless you get Canadian degrees/credentials. I vowed to do that, and I did another M.Sc., then I became overqualified. First M.Sc. from U of Punjab, was meaningless but with the other first also became meaningful, now in the interviews, I was told this job is for B.Sc. you have two M.Sc. degrees. They continued: You have good credentials, but lack “Canadian Experience”, since you are over qualified, you will not enjoy this job. I was willing to do anything, but sure my “ happiness” to the interviewer was prime importance. Sure, it was very thoughtful.3. My wife and I did almost every single job in this country, to survive. At the same time two little monkeys came along, as if we were rolling in the money. At the same time pressure from back home was there too. The cousin you never knew, his parents were writing to you: Please do not forget “ your cousin” do something for him too, besides he misses too. When in India, we never had one meal together, now sure he misses me. The constant worry about the aging parents, would keep me awake sometimes all night. Some days I came home at mid night, after back to back, shifts of hard labor. I did not feel like eating/snack and tried to get some sleep before the alarm clock goes again 5 AM. And, the cycle of ups and downs and internal wars with myself would start all over again.4. My wife also went back to college to reinvent her entire career. Some days we were totally pessimists, for the opposite winds (failures) and some days we were optimists (with ray of hopes) and some days we adjusted sail on boats in the wind direction(accepted the fate and moved on for better tomorrow).5. In those days, India was weak, and for us going back or even to think about it was not an option.6. It was a long haul and struggle to rise inch by inch. Finally, we both reached the height of our careers; it was bittersweet successes. I did get the keys to the executive suite; my wife also found her decent place in the Sun.7. Now the “ Canadian Experience” it is a catch-all phrase, it is a very sophisticated code word for Fresh off the Boat people, it is popularly called FOB. It applies to all new immigrants, especially from economically less developed countries. We were called Pakis in the early 70 s (Blanket term for SEA in fact for all brown people). Please do not stress, all people have/had names even Europeans, no one was spared. Everyone paid a good price to settle in a new country. This “ Canadian Experience” is in fact is the ability to work with others, to speak and write proper English without accents and there are some other aspects of it also, for example dress code, personal appearance, interactions with the boss and above all with clients and public. Yes, after working all our lives here, indeed Canadian Experience is different than our country. You will find out when you work here for a few years, of course it is experience, no matter how much I try, you have to “ experience” it yourself. In this part of the world, value of time and punctuality, being very organized and being very truthful are very important.We all have different interpretation to this term, BTW it is not new it was there at least I know close to 50 years. My predecessors also mentioned this term but like me they could not articulate enough for me. I made my own interpretations, and adjusted myself with the wind. You will too, learn this term and adjust your sail as per the wind.Early Chinese Immigrants to built railroads and worked extremely hard, most likely had the same question/s which you and I have today.https://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/settlement/kids/021013-2031.3-e.html8. Canada is one of the very best places on the earth, but for us, it was very hard and long journey. We raised two boys, they did very well in education and opportunities. The question I ask today: Will we do it again? Answer: Most likely not. But when we see our second and third generations our two sons, and now Grand Kids, then we both(my wife and I ) say may be.9. In a layman terms, no matter what credentials you have, moving to another country, establishing yourself is a long journey. In case one is looking for extreme challenges, cut throat environment, failures and struggles, for those paratrooper any country, any place is good.This is 50 years of hard work, sometimes back breaking, sometimes very emotional (Both parents passed away one by one, without I being there serving and taking care of them). Nothing comes without a price now each and every new comer has to weigh how much he/she is ready to pay.10. Also: it is not unusual to see/meet very qualified people doing almost anything to survive, regardless of new immigrant. It is not new thing at all, now due to huge availability of internet/email/blogs/social media, more people are aware of it.11. Some immigrants did not achieve anything, they are far worst than they came here. They do not have any hope from their next generation, they lost that too due to so many wrong attractions.12. Please keep in mind, at the turn of the century the west was cracked open to the Asians (Chinese/Indian) for straight back breaking labor jobs. Then as the time progressed, the west needed semi skilled laborers, and as the time progressed further now they may need workers in the IT(that is what I have heard). I do not believe they are looking for manager/directors/VP s levels and to reach to those levels will be a long journey. As one viewer suggested please do your own due diligence to find the opportunities, Nothing is granted, and I am no expert to suggest that there are job in IT sector.13. Well, all new immigrants must think this way, the power structure and keys to the boardrooms are secured in some hands. To reach to the doors or to get keys it is very hard work, and some do make it. In case you are darn good and hard working, at that stage color/religion/caste/creed/ accented and grammatically wrong English has no bearing. At that stage, so far a cat kills the mice, color of the cat does not matter anymore. However, it may take very long to reach that level, but it does not hurt to dream.14. No matter where you go, favoritism, nepotism and preferences or selection processes with bias, regardless of country/company/region it is alive and well around the world.In olden time it was vocal and open and now it is all subtle, politically correct and very polite. Nothing you can do about it, except to work hard and out shine the competition to survive.15. This story of my life is 100 percent correct, we four guys came from the same city, same school and more or less similar family background. We all four came on the same flight, in those days, flight from India came via NY. Two of us were destined to U.S.A. and rest two( my childhood buddy and me) continued to Canada.a. One is/was a star of stars; he was one year ahead of us three in school. A real genius. Let us call him A, he had B.E. (EE) from a very prestigious college,b. One is/was high school. Let us call him B.c. Third with some college education but it had no value here. Let us call him C.d. I had M.Sc. with three years experience at a right level. Let us call him D.Even after more than four decades if I plot a graph of four lines, the gaps between and among the lines is more or less the same. Not only of personal achievements even for the achievements of second generation the gap is more or less same.The point is we all are different, and so are the performance levels, no matter which country we migrate. These factors such as Initial level of education/training, fire in the belly, work ethics, continued education/training/ working with others/ adapting to new environments/ family support/ not limited to these factors listed here, there are so many uncertainties play a major part. The above all, my wife and I have had sacrificed our whole lives, denied every luxury, vacation, fancy clothes and parties, for the sake of helping back home and for the total future of our the next generations. Only time will show was it worth it or not. Only the time will show, there were times we were ridiculed, laughed at and made fun. Mostly it was due to our devotion to other things than the activities, we were busy in continuing our education, kids up bringing and other responsibilities. To work to pay bills, to keep body and soul together, to carry on the education and training to be something sure took its toll.Let us fast forward: These is my (D) summary, A achieved for better than D, even his second generation is doing very well, than our second generation. B and C due to lack of higher education struggled along, but as we know, God did not create everyone the same otherwise the world would have been very boring place.16. I find this very amusing and it is true just browse through these fancy names for not so fancy job, by clicking the link below.Fancy names for not-so-fancy-jobsHere is the summary of more than four soon be five decades: As said earlier, nothing comes without a price, everything has a price tag. All it depends on what do you want to pay for it?My mother at the airport before us boarding, made my wife and I to take vows that we will bring great name to the family, our birth country, forefathers, keep our culture, traditions and we both would study there to get North American education rather than wasting your previous credentials. Above all take care of each other, we both vowed and kept our vows so far.My wife and I came to Canada in the early 70 s, soon in a few years it will be 50 years, we total had eight plus 500 Canadian dollars. Once we walked out of the Pearson International, we had no idea. We were tied to each other for support, that is all we had in life. We both had extreme fires in our bellies, and we both were two bodies and one soul. We were equally determined to be something in our lives.Now here is the long, some hard and some so so experiences, some successes and lots of failures too of our life story.We all members of the family acquired North American education and experience; The author, Two M.Sc. degrees one from U of Punjab, and second M.Sc. U of Guelph Canada from humble beginning to executive level to self employed, younger son, B.E.(EE), LLB, sitting, Amy Seth Arora MBA(Harvard, University, HBS, batch of 2008, Ajay Arora (Son), B.E.(EE), M.E.(EE), MBA(Harvard, University, HBS, Batch of 2008,The following is very recent picture:Now we have another Monkey on board: Arav Arora( future, Bruce Lee and Chuck Norris rolled into one, I really want him to train at Shaolin Monastery with the grand master(we wish).My take:I was very determined so was my wife to make it, but there were times we were totally exhausted and almost gave up. At that time we fully realized that talk is cheap.We also realized talking about bravery, playing war games on the video console is one thing, making fake wartime stories are beautiful things. But working in up -30 C, going out in snow blizzards, sometimes loneliness, helplessness, consistent failures are other things. But again, going back was not an option like a defeated soldier.The total is: For my wife and me, and to some extent for our boys, it was not walk in the park, it was all blood, sweat, and tears. However, the third generation and to some extent second generation will be beneficiaries we hope. However, each story is different, some made it big in the first generation and some are in several generations may not have found their true calling. At the end of the day, all it depends: Fire in the belly, and how much price you are willing to pay.Courage Quotes - BrainyQuoteAnd when my wife and I thought, now it would be somewhat easy, and we would have a bit of time to relax. Then God has blessed us with two Monkeys. He(Almighty) is very smart; He dangled not one but two “ Carrots.” And the saga continues, and now there is more energy, inspiration and a super strong spirit to survive for these two extremely affectionate Monkeys. To be something, in life nothing has changed, and there is price tag for everything to pay. Be it our lives, second and now third generation, nothing has changed, to find super spots in good school is no different than finding good place for the kids in top schools. Cut throat competition is everywhere, here some kids from certain community are extremely hard core, to compete with them is not a walk in the park.Chapter 3: of our lives starts all over again, including diapers, sleepless nights because we want to take extreme care and upbringing of them. We strive to be far better than what we did or could do for our sons because “interest is far dearer than principle” They are total center of the universe for Grandmother and of course apple of grandfather’s eyes.

Welcome to Paradise, this spot is not only in World Wonders; it is a spot where two great nations meet the mighty U.S.A. and Canada. The love and respect for each other should be a world model for two neighbors. For us going to the USA is going to a second home or going to your brother’s house.There is no substitute on the earth, for Canada, the most beautiful country in the World. I joke with my family, most of the people have to die first to go to paradise. However, individuals who worked very hard here achieved that status without that considerable sacrifice. My wife and I came in a total of 500 plus eight dollars, almost penniless in the early 70 s, this country gave us, everything, super education, employment and one of the best food/water/clean place to live in this beautiful country. Thank you, Canada.Canada could be a paradise for some and some well..less than paradiseHowever :1. The downside was you have to work very hard in the beginning years, some make it, and some complained all their lives. In those days unless you have Canadian credentials, others were mostly useless.2. We learned that lesson and made sure we got Canadian credentials.3. Once we got Canadian credential, it was no walk in the park; now you need Canadian experience, now the real struggled started to find our place in the sun.4. Accepted everything, as a progressing stone.Law-abiding citizens have nothing to worry about:However,1. You break the law, rest assured you will pay the price, it looks very relaxed to the newcomers. Once you break their trust, now wait being branded for life.Minor shoplifting is a criminal offense, drinking and driving is a serious/crime, before you venture into these things, think again. Once you create a criminal record, you are more or less done here.For hard-working immigrant kids, keep the yardstick of Asian children:Education is very liberal, so it seems, some children coming from other countries think the system is very loose. In reality, newcomers do not realize they are giving you a rope long enough to hang yourself. In the end, they are going to put a filter and filter it out. Want to be a lawyer….write LSAT, Want to go MBA…write GMAT and so on…The filtering system is very efficient.However,Education is liberal and so it seems, they have a transparent system to measure you, they separate “ Chaff from the Wheat” very nicely in the end.2. Asian kids are going to eat the competition alive (means they are very hardworking and disciplined, well most of them)3. Game for excellent schools/colleges/ university is no different than most competitive places on the earth.4. Some newcomer kids think they can wing it, and they talk about Harvard/MIT/Stanford/ U Waterloo/and acing SAT. But in the final analysis, when the cookie crumbles, you see them in a community college or private academies (some advertise to make them rock stars in no time) and some end up working in the service industry more or less at minimum wage and big talk. Here I am talking about the kids who estimate this system to be too lenient and liberal. Don’t take me wrong some do make to huge name schools others end up with reasonable careers.The country is breathtakingly beautiful, and the health system is an envy of the world, everything is excellent:One of the world wonders:However:1. Rest assured you are and will be paying for each and everything.2. When you write back to your native country, your wages, and before they call the whole village for a party.3. Also send them the tax structure of this country, 50 cents on a dollar, most Canadians will not see.The unemployment rate may little say 7 percent:However:1. Permanent jobs with benefits and lavish retirement packages of the past are gone.2. Most of the posts are contract jobs/part-time/ self-employment. Some experts are predicting in coming 5 to 10 years, 45 percent of Canadians will be self-employment.Intuit says 45% of Canadians will be self-employed by 2020, releases a new app to help with financesIntuit says 45% of Canadians will be self-employed by 2020, releases a new app to help with finances3. Now look for life-long working life, retirement will be a thing of the past.The country is beautiful; the landscape is breathtaking, parks look great:However:1. Wait for the winter, before you send beautiful family pictures home, because of some winter blizzards, extreme cold and power breakdown may be on the downside.2. Sometimes cities call the military to help.Every immigrant except a few have an almost same story:Italians, Greeks, Ukrainians, and so on, Japanese, East Indian, Chinese and so on all paid the price. Your achievements are directly proportional to your good work ethics.However:1. Some became billionaires with hard work,2. Some are still complaining, of discrimination and unfairness.3. Unfortunately, there was no free lunch for most of the newcomers irrespective of the color, creed, religion, and so on.Getting PR, we used to call landed immigrant is a beautiful thing.However.1. It is not an invitation to sit on a high chair in the board room.2. First Canada wanted unskilled straight muscle, to build roads, rail lines and so on.3. The second wave semi-skilled to run the machines,4. Present wave, to do the white-collar, mostly in the IT sector.5. Do not expect any high powered positions, a job to job, temp, contract and so on will be a way of life. Basically, start digging another well before the first one goes dry. Sword of uncertainty will always be hanging, except for a few. Full-time permanent jobs with benefits are thing of the past. There are some publications which predict up to 45 percent of Canadians will be self-employed not too far in the future.6. Two income family is a must, one salary is not going to cut it especially in TO area. It is a myth, that one salary pays all the bills after taxes/insurance one has to sit down and do the math.Intuit says 45% of Canadians will be self-employed by 2020, releases new app to help with financesIs there the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.Yes, there is for some, for those Canada is paradise.Living in Toronto is very nice:However.1. The very high cost of rents/real estate/ make those pictures on the calendar make somewhat foggy.2. Commutes are very long.3. Insurance is very high.4. In the beginning years, due to shift work, you may not see your spouse for quite some time.We all come with good intentions, high hopes, big dreams, the intention of hard work:However:1. Some are poor overall; some immigrants worked very hard all their lives on two or three jobs. They came with little or no education, or skills finally took refuge in the “ bottle.” Next-generation saw their parents, breaking their backs on hard work and in second-generation view, they had nothing to show for. They wanted to make fast and big bucks very quick, as we know there is no legal avenue left for making a fast buck. I want to stop the story here because in some cases story gets very nasty and in some cases very tragic.2. In the end, their kids turned out to be complete bums, and they have nothing to show for in the end.3. Some were very proud of their roots, culture and raised big fists, and great slogans of their heritage, their next-generation did not give two hoots. They (next generation) stomped on their dreams, these people came poor, stayed poor and died poor. In the end had no identity what so ever, they are/were the most pathetic ones.4. Some lost their lifetime dreams, of spending their lives together, due to tremendous pressure ended up in divorce in the later part of lives.5. By the time some tried to find a place in the sun here, sought to settle, pull their relatives out of poverty from back home. They ended up in hospitals themselves.6. Some made it excellent, their next generation and third generation went like rockets up in the horizon. They are the ones who won big in this beautiful land. They are the real winners, in my view, whatever they did, it was breathtakingly beautiful in the end.7. Keep in mind no one can fight the Will of High command upstairs, the Almighty the ultimate decision-maker, or some people call it luck and some call it a lottery.Getting credit, plastic cards, buying the first house with as little as 10 percent down payment or maybe even lower or sometimes no down payment, leasing a nice car, buying state of art fridge/stove/washer/dryer with all kind of latest technology are all very easy.*However:1. Some will never be able to pay back to get rid of the mortgage.2. Some will be eaten alive by the credit cards.3. A few, lucky ones can pay off one million dollar house in Toronto.4. By the time you pay for fancy fridge/stove/washer/dryer, the lights will be getting very dim on those ones. Now time to buy another set. The cycle of borrowing and paying continues.Having said: The question is for “ Downsides” and it did not ask for a bright side. My conscious does not allow me to paint one-sided stories, I like to add as follows:Some immigrants made huge gains, their achievements are breathtaking, hats off to them for their mind-boggling successes. In my view, they are/were extraordinary/focused/extremely hard working and an excellent money manager. Their next and following generation is brilliant, disciplined and far more focused than their parents and grandparents.Hats of those immigrants: These immigrants came from Italy/Greece/, in fact, all over the Europe /Asia/Africa/ Middle East/ Caribbean all communities produced stars.A true story when we were Fresh of The Boat FOB, in early 70 S. Please do not get offended it is a generic name for all new immigrant.It used to Paki for all brown people of color. Again do not get offended everyone Italians Greeks, Japanese, Chinese we all have/had names, it has nothing to do with color/religion/) it is the title we earn in this country. Now we have coined a new name FOB, irrespective of color/origin/ creed/religion/ any newcomer is called FOB. Paki is old and disappeared.I like to share one personal thing when we came here in the early 70 s; life was very tough to settle. Our parents used to be worried sick about us. To make them happy, we would try to send them very rosy pictures. These images would include a half-decent car, fake Ray Ben glasses, and usually a nice park or high-end apt buildings. My parents would feel excellent, but the reality was far far away.Finally, my wife and I did stand on our feet, and we could afford to send a ticket for my mother to come here for a visit.When we were doing much better than when we came so we thought, but my mother was shocked stunned and cried. You do the math, why did she cry??? I leave it up to you? We know why?When some people write back home they have bought a house(people usually miss the fine detail, with 10 percent or less down), car (which is a necessity to survive), mention big paycheque ( missed fine detail about taxes, high rent and insurance, babysitting and other childcare)Story no. 2,Before we came to Canada, my father used to rave about this young man who was/is the younger brother of his acquaintance. My dad thought, he was some big shot and thought he was a big hero: He envied that family and used tell me how many Canadian dollars he was sending back home. Fast Forward: It used to hurt me inside when I was struggling in India, Regardless, when I migrated to Canada with proper credentials, I vowed to go and see that legendary guy.I moved to Toronto and went to his address unannounced; I knocked at the door. He was home; he was living with 6–7 other guys, I saw beds on the floor, I asked him curiously, how many boys are here. He said 7, and I said: There are four beds he said some go in night shift, therefore one gets out and the other gets in.Anyway, making the long story short, I found out he was illegal and a school drops out. He came via a very strange route to Canada, he was here and overstaying his visitor visa, with fear to be caught any minute.How can he be rolling in dough here? I asked myself, and concluded, this was another one of those tall stories.This was early 70 s and times have changed now, I am not saying every story is like this, but this one stuck with me, somehow. This story affected me when I was struggling and left extremely low in life.I am very sure there are and were very genuine real deal cases, all the time.He asked me if I would like to go for coffee, I said sure, when the time came to pay, he stood there like a statue. I summed up his dollars which he had been sending home in a minute. Needless to say, I paid, and as expected he did not flinch.Fast Forward: I bumped into him after several decades, he had the papers now for Canada but he was still looking for his next big thing. I asked him would he like to go for coffee, he said sure, as usual, he did not even offer to pay, just stood there stoned face. It was no big deal, I simply felt sorry for him.Seeing is believing and did not believe tall stories that the kid is sending huge dough back home, there was no such thing. I felt very relieved and tried to put my nose on the grindstone.Sum Total:Soon it is fifty years here in one of the most beautiful countries in the world. It is/was journey which is/was very long, hard and with a lot of ups and downs, struggles, happy, sad, successes and failures. The saga continues, with our two new “ Monkeys” the third generation. My wife’s center of the universe are these two monkeys, and these monkeys are attached to us with “crazy glue.” When we thought we paid our dues, and now we have some time to ourselves. Wrong and dead wrong. The Almighty Great puppeteer, dangled not one but two carrots in front of us, and these two monkeys grab your legs and say grandpa and ma pleaseeeeeee. What can you say now and try to say “ No” to them, and find out? For us, the whole universe revolves around these two carrots, because as they say “ interest is more dear than the principle”BTW: this is a real picture, there is nothing borrowed, these are indeed our own outfits. Our parents are long gone, we have no one to send pictures to so that they are not worried about us.We all members of the family, did two sometimes three jobs, but we vowed to have North American education and qualified experience.One (son) B.E.(EE), LLB, (Daughter in Law) (M.B.A. Harvard, batch of 2008, Second ,(Son) B.E.(EE), M.E.(EE), MBA Harvard with second year in deans honor, batch of 2008, Myself, M.Sc (Dairy Science)(Punjab), M.Sc. (Food Science)(Guelph, Canada), Wife, B.A.(Punjab) R.N.(Ontario, Canada), CDE, (Canada). Except our two monkeys we all gainfully employed. Half of the family is the U.S born and half Canadian born.Quality Times with Grandsons.When it is all said and done, this what my wife and I have to show for the SUMTOTAL of a huge journey,This is the grand total of my life, rest everything was just drama and illusions of the Great Lord. Period.We both, my wife and I know their (our two grandkids)love and attachment to us pure, unselfish and honest. Even when they were toddlers, they were attached to us with crazy glue. They had no idea about money, toys or any worldly affairs. They have nothing to do with their parents.