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 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008 |
| Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar... | |
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| 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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| 23:42 | 6/Oct/2007 |
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| Althought my tryst with the world of words, prose, similes, metaphors, euphemisms and literature began with the advent of i-land, I also owe part of this passionate endeavour to the poem penned by William Wordsworth. The poem is plain and simple, yet has a style which is unique and one of its kind, hard to emulate kinds. Stumbled upon this poem on ...
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| 15:54 | 28/Jun/2007 |
| The Road Ahead | |
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| Murky skies, Unknown land, Indecisive moments, Grand dreams to chase, Questions cropping, In deep chasm of mind, Nourishing thoughts, Harboring emotions, Burning desires, Fanning feelings, Evasive ambitions, Tarnished emotions, At cross-roads, Follow the "right path" Just tread on.. The road lies ahead..
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| 13:00 | 25/Jun/2007 |
| Nature's Fury | |
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| (An ode to torrential rains which has been prevalent for last few days in Southern India. May everyone find peace, strength and solace amidst the chaos) Torrential Rains,Uprooted Trees,Violent wind,Plundered habitats,Homeless lives,Mouths to feed,Penury's triumph,Abandoned child,Deafening thunder,Eyes wide awake,Praying souls,Water playing havoc,...
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| 11:35 | 25/Jun/2007 |
| Monsoon Bangalore | |
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| Shower of heavenly drops, The fresh deluge, Pink and Violet blossom dotted roads, Soaked and drenched, Bites of Corn-cob, fresh and sizzling hot, Palmeral vendors with the rickety carts, Gushing wind, Swaying green boughs, Quintessential Bangalore , Monsoon mirth, I surrender to thee, Bangalore ’s like a blushing bride, Fresh and smiling, Déjà vu, Déjà vu!!
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| 20:30 | 31/May/2007 |
| Part II - TIME... | |
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| TIME(Disclaimer : This is a piece of fiction and any resemblance to any person living or dead in this post is purely a coincidence). Writer's Verdict: Had to add this disclaimer when the speculations from some expert i-landers predicted that the fictional post was closer to someone's life. This actually is picked from what I have seen happening to ...
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| 00:53 | 24/May/2007 |
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| Shivani was just any other happy-go-lucky girl of her age. Cool, peppy, bindaas and carrying loads of energy and life within her 5’5” lean and lanky frame. Shivani represented the young, techno-savvy breed of wannabe independent youth circuit who had seen-it-all and done-it-all at the age of 25. She had everything what a person of her age would as...
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| 21:41 | 19/Apr/2007 |
| Rain and Nostalgia... | |
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| Tiny shimmering drops, Pitter and patter, Soothing earth's fragrance, The bathed look, Fresh, vibrant, wet, The nostalgic feeling, Puddle jumping joy, Drenching in heavenly shower, Lush green foliage, Growth, freshness and joy, Stirring my soul, Déjà vu feeling, Rain rain come again!! Rain rain come again!!
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| 23:14 | 4/Mar/2007 |
| Oh......Life!!!! | |
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| Up and shining,Next moment whining!Funny bags of tricks thrownCatch! Catch here! Catch there!Phew! Sigh!Suddenly in doldrums,There is a ray of hope,Win one battle! Stands another one,Ready to be conquered, Tremendous faith and strength,One mighty blow!Down in deep shit,Soothing words and morale boost,Cloud with silver lining,Where does this end?Why...
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| 23:00 | 5/Feb/2007 |
| Desire for 'Moon' | |
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| Dark murky skies,A lonely celestial body,Beautiful and appealing,One fathoms the presence,Of this pristine mass,Epitome of Love,........But I am a lonely nebulous being,Inspiring lives,Spreading hope and delight,……But there are so many stars apart from me,Whine and long,For owning this divine light, ……But I have bad ugly designs on me,Accept the ci...
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| Rinky Bansal | 02:14 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (88)
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| Have you ever pondered over such a dubietyAs you float across the writings known-unknownOf how to saviour a poem or a proseSo all you wise fellas here's my sayOn how to eat down the poemNot too quick, and just not too sloweach has a flavor kind unkindSo take it downDown your tongue to touch the soulFeel it. Smell it. Look at it. Listen to it.And Oh...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (620)
| City: Bombay
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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... | 13:00 | 29/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (234)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: film, photography...
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| Euro fever |
| How much does the game actually capture the imagination of our public? Apart from pockets in the country, like Kolkatta and Kerala, does it really fire up people in other parts of the nation? You can see kids kicking a football around with great enthusiasm but does it really equal the maniacal craze that the game of cricket generates? No.. but stil...
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| Amit Agrawal | 03:15 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (295)
| City: New Delhi
| Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
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| Get a good educationget a good job change to a better job ----do we really understand why job is being done for money most of the time and more often than not we are probably not looking at ways to get rid of money-dependence and its impact on our time pressures? Thoughts/Comments?
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| monu g | 21:54 | 10/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (196)
| City: This Heavenly Planet
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| MY space |
| Strange is the notion of "being mine".. When i look into myself everything seems to be, when i look outside nothing really is.. Of late i have been noticing, this notion of "my space" spreading far & wide ... bole to, , the places i want to go, the clothes i want to wear, the food i want to eat, the way i want to talk, the things i want to do so on...
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| Nischal Thapa | 02:09 | 5/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (386)
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| no offense... q: enjoy | nischal (:
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| Deepa | 19:32 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Just another cliched blog :) |
| "Have any of the things that you badly wanted been granted to you?", Soums asked over lunch.I reflected and took a while to answer that. If she had asked me this probably a decade ago, I would have answered like many other melancholic, dispassionate, disappointed youngsters, "Never...I've never had any dreams of mine come true ever in my WHOLE LIFE...
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| Wise Donkey | 00:30 | 24/Jun/2008 |
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| You raise me up. |
| This one's for you ma:When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;When troubles come and my heart burdened be;Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,Until you come and sit awhile with me.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up: To more than I c...
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| swati rohatgi | 23:18 | 29/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (457)
| City: Delhi
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| Terminator- 34 |
| Ok ok, thats the training batch ID to which I belonged T34. No there were not 34 of us from whichever end or middle you might count. I was off to the other end of India for the training. The executive hostel where we stayed had no wi-fi so after a long break of 19 days amback to civilisation. From initial furtive steps to Charlie"s Angels, Chomu an...
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| udita chaudhary | 18:06 | 3/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (244)
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| "What a Wonderful World"-Louis Armstrong“ I see trees of green, red roses too I see them bloom for me and youAnd I think to myself, what a wonderful worldI see skies of blue and clouds of white The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night And I think to myself, what a wonderful world”The soulful rendering of this song evokes vivid images of a vib...
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| rajesh vora | 17:09 | 10/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (43)
| City: in the middle of no man's land
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| Artificial Intelligence |
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| TheYear : 2020 AD Iam a 30-something old guy. (yes, I will be 30 then too and I will be 30 in 2030and thereafter too….). Coming back to the year 2020, a lot has changed in thisworld. Web 2.0 has become passé. The world has advanced much more than whatpeople had envisaged in the year 2008. Internet too has evolved so much thatbroadband, wi fi, wi m...
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| vishal rathod | 03:10 | 16/May/2008 |
| Friends: (71)
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| Ijust cant write now-a-days.Its tough to put the thoughts on paper.I was readinga book but couldnt read more than five pages again and again.I tried to write abook instead.I did better.I wrote ten pages.Then i gave up.Life seems to movein 10 second ads.The movie has just begun... “ What do people do when they dont know what to do?” I stareout of ...
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| febin joy | 08:19 | 25/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (465)
| City: Cochin
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| Shells |
| Hi.... Here is an experiment with a home made soft box...... hope u guys will like it :) Love.... febz
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| Vikram Karve | 21:14 | 25/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (40)
| City: Mumbai
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| My Pet |
| Dear Reader, Just click the link below and read what my pet has to say http://vikramkarve.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/07/sherry -karve-1.htm
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| shishir bhate | 19:52 | 21/Mar/2006 |
| Friends: (161)
| City: Mumbai
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| Are more H-1B visas good for India? |
| By the end of this month, if will be clear if the US Senate Immigration Reform Bill introduced to decide whether H-1B visa limit should be increased from 65,000 to 115,000 has been defeated or allowed to sail through successfully. Everyone says an increase in the H-1B visa limit will help Indians the most. Will it, really? But more on that in just ...
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| Shreyta T | 22:09 | 17/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (41)
| City: Auckland
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| Change........... |
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| ............................Iland is changed so much.............Where was I.... Why did I go... May be for the good......... or may be for the bad.....Change.... May be thats the word.. Life is a complete change after this one long year..... so much that I gained and so much that I lost.....Change... everthing changed around me...................O...
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| Arindam Chat... | 11:19 | 1/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (65)
| City: Serampore
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| Confessions - II |
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| Raju … is an old friend. If I can recall it right - I remember him from my days in a Nursery School called Sishu Aakash somewhere in South Calcutta. Hence, he was the person there whom I had known for the maximum numbers of years now. Not that we were the best of friends but somewhere we both were proud to know each other for such a long time now. ...
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| Jahan Bakshi | 10:55 | 23/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (199)
| City: Sibsagar
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| Review: Mumbai Meri Jaan |
| Don't even bother to read this, just go and watch it- Nishikant Kamat's unbelievably heartfelt and magnificently realised film demands to be seenOriginally published on NOWRUNNING.COM Ah. Finally, it has come- that breeze of fresh air, that booster dose of good, genuine and honest cinema that keeps our cynicism in check, that removes the horrible b...
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| Sonu Katha | 19:29 | 4/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (538)
| City: Dubai
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| Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? |
| How can I tell if my best employees are getting ready to leave?Why would they want to leave?How can I keep them?This article looks at how to tell if you're in trouble, and what to do about itTop 10 Clues Your Best Employees are Leaving * They start dressing better * They take lunches at different times * Their production drops off * Th...
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| Sabarinath Nair | 21:23 | 10/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Chennai
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| Wedding Sari blues |
| "There are only four types of saris. The cream ones, the blue ones, the green ones, and the maroon ones." said my friend Sethu, circa 2002. I'm in total agreement with him. I am still clueless when my mom gets confused over buying one from two saris, both of which look the same to me!With the wedding preparations getting into the groove, I am being...
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| anjuli dhiman | 11:06 | 25/Jul/2006 |
| Friends: (96)
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| Ishq ne tere Ishq ne... |
| Hey guys, check out the song Ishq ne tere Ishq ne ... from the movie Ahista Ahista , Jayesh Gandhi and KK have done a wonderful job, I have actually fallen in love with the song. I have been a die hard fan of KK but who is this new kid on the block ...Jayesh Gandhi ....really sings well...
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| Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007 |
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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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| Mana Andrews | 13:54 | 31/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
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| Somebody is remembering u... |
| Your eyes would become moist while laughing..Your words would be lost while talking..There is nothing to get scared about...Somebody is remembering you, that's all!!U see so many faces on the roads while walking...They would look alike after you start watching...You would see just one person all around...The world would have only 2 souls & nobody a...
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| Isha Cally | 11:50 | 20/Oct/2006 |
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| City: Delhi
| Interests: Nothing,,,,,!
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| SHUBH DEEPAWALI |
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| WISHING ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,,,,JOY, SPLENDOUR, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERTY ON THIS FUN FILLED OCCASION OF DIWALI,,,! MAY THIS FESTIVE OF LIGHT BRIGHTENS & BRING PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN LIFE... HAPPY DIWALI,,,!
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| Rathi S | 07:35 | 12/Jul/2008 |
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| 51 things about me! |
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| My best friend did this on her blog and asked me to do the same quite a while ago; i thought now would be the right time to take my mind off a few things...jus sit down , relax and jot down a few things about me from the top of my head....it was a fun experience. I think everyone should try doing this!I think every single dimension of life is simpl...
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| Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007 |
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| SAND |
| im never myself and never for myselfand that was why i had dug down the sandfor some short messagesthe bucket was deepand the sand mostly dryi took it out one after otherbucket in hand i emptied my messagesand my world went tring tringno one knew where i had hidsuch was the load of unread messagesi was dog tiredbut i still tried and tried to keep t...
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| Siddharth Sa... | 02:01 | 19/May/2006 |
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| HIV Aids... Important Information... |
| Dear All, Kindly take a couple of minutes to go through this mail. This happened in Paris recently and may happen anywhere. A few weeks ago, in a film theatre, a person felt something poking from her seat. When she got up to see what it was, she found a needle sticking out of the seat with an attached note saying- "You have just been infected by ...
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| Raghavendran... | 21:56 | 24/Aug/2008 |
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| Listen to My Songs |
| It long since I have contributed a song blog…here comes some musical entertainment for you all….enjoy my collection….ha ha ha ha ha ha ha…the various colour fonts are used to identify the songs…ennnjoooyyy… J J J “dil cheejh kya hai..aap meri jaan lijiye…bas ek baar mera kahaa maan lijie… is anjuman mein aapko … is anjuman me aapko..aanaa hai baar ...
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| Sunny V | 10:19 | 22/May/2008 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| Make a Difference |
| You are Wonderful!!! The following story captured our heart. It happened several years ago in the Paris opera house. A famous singer had been contracted to sing, and ticket sales were booming. In fact, the night of the concert found the house packed and every ticket sold. The feeling of anticipation and excitement was in the air as the house manage...
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| myna mg | 10:44 | 17/Jun/2008 |
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| HAPPY? |
| Happiness Is Not Comforts ‘Does Happiness depend upon comfort? ’ Happiness lies in not comforts alone! Happiness is not a static quality of the human mind, body and soul. All can’t remain happy all the time. It would be foolishness to wish for a life, filled with happiness alone; Happiness is more when woes come in-between. Happiness is just a feel...
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| warm sunshine | 18:39 | 7/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (138)
| City: Bangalore
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| JUST A GRAIN OF SAND |
| As I write this, I lie on the sea shore, resting and reminiscing about the days gone by when I used to wonder what my purpose in life was.I was a miniscule part of the great Sahara desert till I latched onto the shoes of a tourist and traveled across continents and countries. I always used to wonder if this was the life I was supposed to live. Be a...
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| Thinking Ash | 12:09 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| Back after a sabbatical |
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| Its been awhile!!! Blogging is fun but ive just not got around to having fun with it of late. The usual excuses make the round.... no time, bz bz bz, blah bla bla! As a friend said gotta make time to smell the flowers but..... what if the flowers arent the fragrant kind or worse still, they aint no flowers on this path of mine. :) Idle musings thes...
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| Divya Sharma | 19:36 | 17/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (177)
| City: Ghaziabad n now Bangalore
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| On this Sunday Evening...... |
| Just thought of dropping in a line for myself to myself on the blog! It’s been really a long period of time that I penned down something.Just to begin with, I have got a new job! I wasn’t jobless on the last day of the year and I had a ‘chutti’ on New Year to begin with. What a beginning? The organization is one of the big ones, I mean it’s a dream...
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| Tusky M | 09:36 | 7/Oct/2007 |
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| Cyril Paul | 09:07 | 23/Apr/2008 |
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| Just Between Friends (Short Story) |
| Pushpa Saxena. Age 23, 5'5 in height, slender built, fair, attractive. I know a lot about Pushpa Saxena. Like her address, for example (#3003, 3rd Floor, Olympian Heights, Napean Sea Road, Mumbai). Or her cell number, both Vodafone as well as Airtel. Or her email address. I really know a lot about Pushpa Saxena. In fact, I think I know a lot more ...
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| Debasish Cha... | 05:47 | 1/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (123)
| City: Delray Beach, Florida,USA
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| Effort |
| There is a little story...that teaches a lot... A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young boy. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went ...
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