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 15:12 | 18/Jun/2008 |
| for old times' sake | |
| Visiting my page after months ... have had little time to indulge in leisurely stuff like blogs. Been working hard and partying harder ... ahhh, back to life! Working, Mothering, Travelling, Loving, Facebooking, Orkuting, FlickRing, Housekeeping, Waxing (now waning), Binge-ing (now fasting), Socializing, Drinking, Saving, Spending .... all but bl...
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| 12:45 | 5/Aug/2007 |
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| ;-) a friend with weed is a friend indeed .... and a friend in need is a pest ... LOL .... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305vRNoofr8
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| 00:50 | 3/Aug/2007 |
| Mom, what does sexy mean? | |
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| I’m pissed.And here’s my rant. My daughter stands in front of the mirror and sucks in her stomach to make it look flatter. She then breaks into a dance move involving some serious pouting and hip shaking. She’s just five. Out shopping, she picks shiny sequinned high heels while I scout for anti-skid sturdy strap on shoes. She wants a midriff baring...
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| 23:17 | 24/Jul/2007 |
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| I had written this on a piece of paper and given it to my husband … way back … some seven years ago, when we decided to start a family… Quite methodically, we gave up smoking, alcohol, birth control [in that order] and tried to detox or purge ourselves in preparation…[However, I ended up conceiving on the night when we were supposedly having last o...
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| 18:40 | 19/Jun/2007 |
| Look what I found... | |
| Because woman's work is never done and is underpaid or unpaid or boring or repetitious and we're the first to get fired and what we look like is more important than what we do and if we get raped it's our fault and if we get beaten we must have provoked it and if we raise our voices we're nagging bitches and if we enjoy sex we're nymphos and if we ...
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| 20:19 | 22/May/2007 |
| Great Indian Downloads | |
| Indians are an intrusive lot.We dare to tread where most ‘polite’ Westerners dread. In this Sunday’s Brunch [a supplement with the HT] I came upon an article. The author whacks us eloquent on the issue of getting embarrassingly personal when we converse. Even when we are dealing with people we’ve just met. It’s an Asian sub continent trait. [ As is...
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| 20:17 | 22/May/2007 |
| Timepass Staring | |
| There’s another one I’m yet to figure.We stare. It seems like a national past time. And we’re not alone. This is an Asian characteristic. Shameless and unabashed, we stare to our heart’s content be it in trains, in malls, in buses, on beaches, in temples, at parties or wherever. Oh, and its not the gender based staring where men ogle at women. This...
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| 15:43 | 23/Apr/2007 |
| Cultural Shift? | |
| ''Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority. They show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. They contadict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up their food and tyrranise teachers''Socrates, 5th Century B.C.................................................... ..............................
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| 10:07 | 29/Mar/2007 |
| A Woman Should Have | |
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| MAYA ANGELOU'S BESTA WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own even if she never wants to or needs to... A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .... something perfect to wear if the employer or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour... A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ... a youth she's content to leave behind.... A WOMA...
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| 14:40 | 12/Mar/2007 |
| Two Wicked Ones | |
| Wicked Dee is back! These two I had written for Sandy's last contest. The brief was - ''true life incident where you deliberately planned, strategised and carried out an entire gimmick to simply scare/con someone. You were a child then, under sixteen and you thought you absolutely had to do it...it could be serious, funny, rude, whatever..."..........
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| Rinky Bansal | 04:44 | 18/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (43)
| City: Mumbai
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| Little Harry...I know |
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| I know little HarryHe never does anything rightBut he does the right thing With his two left feetHe swamps the dance floorFrom the start of the music tilleveryone else gets soreBut not the whole hearted HarryShaking to every beatWatching him is a treat I know little HarryHe never does anything rightBut he does the right thing He has a croaking voic...
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| tarun goel | 18:03 | 8/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (143)
| City: Ghaziabad
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| Hi Everyone u all r free to call me on ' 9350718305 ' 4 any kind of sharing and suggestion u can mail me also on my id tarungoel.srm@gmail.com links : ohuohu.rediffiland.com ohu-ohu.blogspot.com
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| Gudiya | 09:30 | 9/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (79)
| City: Aurangabad
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| Shani Ka Chakkar! |
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| Yesterday an incident happened, which left me wondering. I want to share it with my ilander friends. Hopefully, they might give a new dimension to my perception of the situation. So, here it goes……….. His phone was switched off. I tried the whole day but response was the same. At last, I dialed his friend’s number and left the message for him. He ...
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| Manu | 22:04 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Chandigarh
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| More Haiku from 2007 - Don Quixote on ca... |
| January winter chill wrapped around homeless's bodytakes drag at beedi amid owl's hootsmorning papers arrivecock crow amid owl's hootsmorning papers arrivedaybreak gardner tending flowerslovers sprawled in embracespring... through bonfirethe rising Gurgaon skylinehuddled workers starnite overworkers roll up red carpetsback to reality child vendorse...
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| ravisha mall | 17:54 | 14/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (8)
| City: Delhi
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| Claustrophobia |
| The stench of unwashed bodies assaults my nostrils..layers and layers of grime and filth..settled on human skin...A wave of nausea hits my stomach..as i try to to ignore a strange faceless hand..mistaking my butt for a stray wallet...i grope around me...trying to find support and finding nothing but stale beedhi smoke...i turn around...interrupting...
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| Irreverent Iyer | 23:26 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| 'Quotas' & the private sector |
| An interesting article pertinent to the issue of reservations in private sector, and the divergence between not just what people say and what they do, but between what people believe they do and what they actually do. http://www.livemint.com/2007/10/25235224/And-your-fathe r-does.htmlRaises a number of issues that I believe are under-explored in the...
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| INDER VIG | 15:31 | 14/Jun/2008 |
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| City: SILVASSA
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| We are the trustees ONLY. |
| A religious person has nothing to do with organized religion, but he has some thing to do with inner poetry, the poetry of life. He has some thing to do with the inner dance; he has a dancing energy. He is in deep romance with life; he is in romantic love with life.He is immensely grateful for each moment of joy that God goes on giving. And we are ...
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| chaitali rai | 22:18 | 25/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (625)
| City: in my sweet little world
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| Modern Panchtantra Story [ IT HUMOR ] Once upon a time , there was a software engineer who used to develop programs on his Pentium machine, sitting under a tree on the banks of a river. He used to earn his bread by selling those programs in the Sunday market. One day, while he was working...
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| amar snh | 20:18 | 3/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (1224)
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| Is it possible ? |
| Hi Friends,There are couple of Utopian ideas that keep taking twists and turns in my mind so very oftenI must admit these may sound totally outlandish or plain silly, specially to those of you with special bent of mind towards all things ScientificFirst of these is :- Is it possible for man to develop some sort of wings, of course mechanically a...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (618)
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Mahesh Patwa... | 18:12 | 28/May/2008 |
| Friends: (232)
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| Those Wonderful Brand Propositions |
| Seriously, do they think we are idiots? The ones who come up with all those goofy ads - the ones that make you want to tear your hair out or inflict great amounts of damage around you – you know the ones I’m talking about. You would have to think really long and hard to come up with a reasonable explanation for all those ridiculous promotions pollu...
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| Amit Agrawal | 18:26 | 10/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (286)
| City: New Delhi
| Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
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| faisle ki ghadi hai |
| faisle ki ghadi haiya shaayad nahintumko ye pata nahinfaasle zaroor tai kar lenafaisla gar lena hoto hausla rakhnachaahe uske baad dil pekoi pathar rakh lenahayaat e shareekhone ka alag nasha haikuch ehsaas tum phir bhipalkon ke saath baandh lenaaye dost ye waqt bhi guzaregasahar phir se hogiis ghadi mein tum phir uskiyaad ka daaman thaam lenawo bh...
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| monu g | 21:14 | 11/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (191)
| City: This Heavenly Planet
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| REward Or Bribe |
| Its when I had just completed my PG & was about to leave the town to join for my new job in a different city.. The time gap between the announcement of result & my departure dat was very short. I had to collect all my documents which included my no-dues certificate & the migration certificate from the university before leaving.. Hence I had been r...
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| Nischal Thapa | 02:40 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (349)
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| OOPS! q: Sorry for disappearing... Hope you guys will like this one. enjoy | nischal
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| sahil banga | 15:21 | 3/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (246)
| City: Delhi
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| Kalingini, the Story. |
| No one knows what lies ahead, and because curiosity is greater than fear, and truth is stranger than fiction, we all are searching, like our predecessors. Actually trying hard to face the future. Just like buying an umbrella on the onset of black clouds hovering upon the mauve sky like the ghosts of the 18th century. 18th century. What a period in ...
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| Kanchan Bhat... | 22:34 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| Forlorn Days |
| Forlorn Days I listen to the bird-songWalking homewardAt sundownWith the haze of dreamsOn the wet groundAll night longI spoke to the starsAmidst the fields- Unaware that all those daysPassed by,I never met thoseOf the other kind-OthersWhose amphoras and urns Clink and gurgleThe sounds of waterAnd when in my dreamsI hear their sighIn the star lit ni...
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| Deepa | 18:29 | 12/May/2008 |
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| Who am I? |
| I come to you when there's no one aroundbut I can haunt you even when there's everyone aroundIf you are happy, I can't touch youIf you are sad, I can break youYou shun me, you curse meyou break away from mego to the movies or get friends togetheror go out on a hike and say I don't botherBut I would come back when there's no one aroundand I can even...
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| Wise Donkey | 13:45 | 20/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (103)
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| Baby Blue |
| She looked so much like a lady, but she was so much like a child. A devil when she held me close, an angel when she smiled. She always held it deep inside, but somehow I always knew She's go away when the grass turned green And the sky turned baby blue. And baby blue was the color of her eyes. Baby blue like the Colorado skies. Like a breath of spr...
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| alfred mariano | 15:40 | 31/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (4)
| City: Mumbai
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| The Day I would Love to forget the most |
| hi,I just completed my school and i was happy to join college. Its was December '03. I was coming from college and my friends dad came to pick him and he told me what happen. Not ready to belive him i stayed on till the whole of Mumbai turn ugly. It was called Riots.I remember my mom saying get a religion tatoo on my hand in case there is riot they...
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| Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (75)
| City: Mumbai
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| to give or not to give |
| Psychology says people choose to be sick (this sure is not the same as pretend to be sick)...they hold on or attract certain sicknesses because if offers them preferential treatment...even logic and evidence based medicine recognises "psychosomatic illness"(the origin of the illness in the mind)Now which parent would yell at a sick child for low gr...
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| Saurin Parikh | 14:59 | 2/May/2008 |
| Friends: (128)
| City: Ahmedabad
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| Tashan Ve |
| It was a good thing that Tashan didn’t release in multiplexes. A hell of a lot of money was saved with cinema goers not having to fork out 150 bucks per ticket.Single-screen theatres were expected to do good business thanks to the movie not releasing in multiplexes, but with lacklustre reviews coming in from all corners, no one really went to a sin...
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| arti saggi | 16:49 | 2/Mar/2007 |
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| Holi hai!!!!! |
| Holi is round the corner and I suddenly feel that there’s nobody who would like to colour me with different colours of holi. In fact I’d be cleaning my house that day. Every festival comes and goes and I keep thinking in my heart that one of these days I will have someone to share the joy of these fests with me. But in the end find myself alone sit...
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| Baldeo Pandey | 00:47 | 14/Apr/2008 |
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| Bhod Gyalo! |
| At Jantar Mantar….Rising fists…. Bhod Gyalo! Bhod Gyalo!Manju Ka Tila…..Dreaming eyes….. Rangzen! Rangzen!Fort Kochi...‘Torch of Shame without flame’,Hey! Sino Monsters! Bodies could be butchered,Not souls….Frightened sinners,Blood licking beasts…Frustrated to see…Sons and daughters of soil committed for ultimate sacrifices…In Amdo, Kham, Machu, Pa...
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| Ash K | 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008 |
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| Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar... |
| The novel has an honest attempt - to make you laugh till your sides ache. The book is replete with humor, laughter and funny one-liners which keep you on the edgeto the last word read. Certainly this one tickles your funny bone. The novel's protagonist Samrat Ratan, son of second generation US immigrantschooses to leave hot shot investment banking,...
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
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| GOOD WIFES |
| Hello friends after a long long long time iam back to you all. I missed u all aloooot but conditions are like that for me.This blog is a general blog and especially women should not take it as a serious one because i just read this one from one of the newspaper.How to get a nice wife! There are times in a person's life when he needs to take crucia...
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| Anil Goel | 13:50 | 8/May/2008 |
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| A code jock emails from USA in '99 |
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| I recently came across an email (A printed copy I had saved in an old diary :)) I had sent to Planetasia circa March 20, 1999 while cleaning out my cupboard at home this week. Two years into the IT industry, I was working as a code jock for TCS at a client in North America. I was allegedly already an expert in MSFT technologies and was working at a...
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| cajetan vaz | 21:33 | 6/Jan/2008 |
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| how far back can you remember? |
| 13:27 | 15/Mar/2007 | 37 Comment(s) How far back can you remember? Some of my oldest memories - Tripping and hurting my knee on my way to nursery - My first day...
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| A J | 15:32 | 2/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (276)
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| It's only pain... |
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| Duniya mein kitna gum hai, mere gum kitna kum hai.Logo ka gum dekha toh, mein apna gum bhool gaya(Translated: There is so much sadness and pain in this world,In comparison my pain is so meagre,For when I see the others in deeper painI forget my own)This is a beautiful song no doubt, but somehow I can never get myself to agree with it. ”I cried for ...
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| Mommies AtWork | 20:18 | 16/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (114)
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| Of Little girls & difficult - to - expla... |
| Though I am going through a phase when I'm usually harried or depressed....there are some genuinely light moments....thanx to maya.A few days back, maya & I were watching some movie on tv. Noah was asleep. Since its diwali hols, sleeping deadlines for maya are a lil relaxed. Among the ads that play again & again in between the numerous breaks, ther...
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| Sandhya Suri | 21:47 | 21/Jan/2008 |
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| Smirk |
| Wandering…The dark alleys of the mind’s deepest corridorsResounding… Crying…Grasping the folds of the silken shawl of memoriesSearching… Seeking…Truths too bitter to tell, too smattered with the bloodSpreading… Covering…Hiding the realities, the ignorant bliss of a heartless mindSalvaging… Begging…For redemption from the knowledge that defies the s...
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| honey arora | 11:38 | 30/Jan/2008 |
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| C# split by string |
| strange .. split function in C# does not take string as delimeter.. anyways heres a workaround for the sameusing System.Text.RegularExpressions; public static string[] Split(string inString, string delimeter) { Regex r = new Regex(delimeter); // Split on hyphens. string[] sa = r.Split(inString); for(in...
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| shree n | 16:51 | 17/Apr/2008 |
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| The Grass, Glass, and Apple Core |
| The Grass, Glass, and Apple CoreThe grass is soft, he says, So let's run and play free forget the flowers, for the sun is ours and the field is ours This glass is flawed, he says, So let's break it There's no philosophy about it we know everything we are everything.... The apple core, he says, Let's just toss it it is sour and inedible and it...
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| Sudipta Sarkar | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007 |
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| Separation and Travel |
| Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...
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| Manisha Bane... | 23:25 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| Forty plus |
| The last blog got repeated unnecessarily. The poem that cameinto my mind is this……… Forty Plus At forty, you realizeYou can’t outnumber the daysThe great hall has no seat for youHave to stand out and welcome guestsAs part of a Mr.-Mrs. Show. Gone are the daysWhen you could slip outFor a splash in the rainAnd a bite in the choc-bar……….. Your teeth ...
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| Friendly Ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008 |
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| Our world is coming unravelled |
| I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...
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| S Ramakrishnan | 21:56 | 10/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (90)
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| Presenting manners |
| Having lived in both India and the US, I have observed the following differences when people present gifts to one another.1. No "thank you" notes. In India this concept doesn't seem to exist.2. People open presents only after the occasion is over. In the US, the person to whom the gift is presented opens it almost immedaitely, in front of everyone ...
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| Srinivas HR | 22:15 | 7/Aug/2006 |
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| First-Aid |
| In case of Wound the job of first-aider is to remove or reduce the problems that hamper healing such as dirt, infection, movement, etc. Leave the wound undisturbed. Clean the wound by washing them with running water. If there are splinters, thorns and pieces of glass inside the wound remove them with a pair of tweezers so as to avoid infection. The...
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| Anup nair | 15:55 | 13/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (188)
| City: Nasik
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| What a Shame !!!!!!!!!! |
| By the time you read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels ‘Sanjay Dutt relieved by court’. ‘Sirf Munna not a bhai’ ‘13 saal ka vanvaas khatam’ ’although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay c...
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