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 21:20 | 31/Aug/2008 |
| Le Cafe - Pondicherry | |
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| If you are on a leisurely walk on the beach on the Goubert Avenue , Pondicherry, The Le Cafe must fascinate your eyes . During the French period, the present Le Cafe building was Pondicherry"s harbour office. It was the first site the Europeans saw and landed on. In fact , the harbour captain and his staff worked here. The 200 years old building wa...
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| 18:27 | 29/Apr/2008 |
| Sardar fir se champion | |
| Dont get foxed by the title - it has nothing to do with "bhajji".Its funny but real story.My sardar friend "Happy Singh" [name changed] is in Canada on deputation from a leading Indian software company.He wanted to gift me something from Canada.My MS office 2007 trial version expired.I thought what will be best gift other than a "Pirated Office 200...
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| 13:13 | 21/Oct/2007 |
| "Jab We Met" vs "Saawariya" | |
| Here is how the movies are competing in blogosphere."Jab We Met" will be released on this Friday Oct 26th & "Saawariya" on next Friday Nov 9th.I must say its neck-to-neck.Going by IndiaFm music reviews "Jab We Met" [3.5] has slight edge over Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya" [3].When I heard "Tum se Hi",I simply loved the track.Although to much of my ...
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| 02:58 | 19/Aug/2007 |
| Chatty Cathy Vs Silent Steve | |
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| It seems the difference between "Chatty Cathy" and "Silent Steve" has just grown thinner.In past plenty of survey findings suggested that Women talk more than men, in fact Women talk three times as much as men with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.Underlying reason behind that - Men Are Computer...
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| 14:30 | 18/Aug/2007 |
| Are You A Good Liar? | |
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| Are you a "Good Liar"? Most people think that they are, but in reality its something different.Using the first finger of your dominant hand ,simply draw a capital letter 'Q' on your forehead.Read ahead once you are done.Some people draw the letter 'Q' in such a way that it can be read by someone facing them,with the tail of the 'Q' on the left of t...
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| 14:37 | 8/Aug/2007 |
| Luck Factor? | |
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| Toast always lands butter side down. You never win the lottery, but other people you know seem to..were you born unlucky? A study led by one of Britain"s pre-eminent psychologists Richard Wiseman suggests "The luckiest people in the world are born in May. The unluckiest, or at least the people with the most negative view of their lives, are bo...
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| 13:11 | 7/Aug/2007 |
| Lage Raho Munnabhai | |
| Judge Kode slapped a six year imprisonment verdict on immortal Munna in 1993 serial blast case.Munna has been transfered to Yerawada prison, in Pune, from Mumbai's Arthur Road jail and he is preparing for Mahatma Gandhi Exam.This entire saga reminds me of one humorous conversation between "love struck Gandhi badi" Munna and "reputation worried" Cir...
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| 22:33 | 5/Aug/2007 |
| Can A Hug be Viral? | |
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| Yes that's what Free Hug Campaign is all about. Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whose sole mission is to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.Juan ,an immigrant to London, had to come home Sydney.Finding no one to welcome him ,he felt like a tourist in his hometown.All he wanted someone out there ...
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| 13:50 | 29/Jul/2007 |
| All I need is love.But a little chocolat... | |
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| For some it's an aphrodisiac, for others an addiction and for someone very special "All I need is love.But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt ".Sinful is how women has always described chocolate. But despite so, do you know that 99% of all women love chocolate and female chocoholics outnumbers male chocolate lovers?? What exactly about ...
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| ajit balakri... | 03:53 | 21/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (47)
| City: Mumbai(Bombay)
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| "Rani Comes Safe Out of the Ruins" |
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| One of the pleasanter outcomes of the ongoing newspaper wars in Bombay triggerered off by the launch of Hindustan Times, Bombay Edition and DNA has been the dramatic flight to quality of all including the incumbent, Times Of India. "The Mumbai Mirror" is a something the Times now distributes free with the main paper and good , hard, well reported ...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (620)
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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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| Uday Sodhi | 13:29 | 23/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (255)
| City: Mumbai
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| Lonely on an island.... |
| Once upon a time, a man decided to vacation on a cruise shipin the Caribbean. It was wonderful--the experience of his life! He was waited upon hand and foot. But, alas, it didnot last. A hurricane came up suddenly and the ship wentdown. The man found himself, he knew not how, swept up on the shore of an island. There was nothing else anywhere...
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| Mahesh Patwa... | 13:00 | 29/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (234)
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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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| Omkar Shende | 11:28 | 1/Jun/2007 |
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| Svacchanda |
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| This is my first blog ever :)Just wanted to make a start, a Hi to all who view this page. I'll be writing about my own experience, thoughts, ideas etc.To start with, it rained last night in Mumbai and it was such fun. The anticipation of next day heat after the first rain, did not bother us. We were high on the fragrance she was emitting. It was th...
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 Jeevanand | 11:57 | 31/Jul/2008 |
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| Jake: Do u have a book called 'Man, The Master of Women'? Salesgirl: The fiction deptt is on the other side, Sir.
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| Rakshita Verma | 15:56 | 29/Aug/2008 |
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| The Canvas |
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| The Canvas The painting is pulled downFreed of the frame Repaint, recreate a storyPut up on a fresh frame The canvas is clogged Will the amateur artist know?Layers of lonely shades How’ll the colors in contrast show? Smear and smudge The sob story is over Young, smart strokes are hereHope is hopping over (Experimenting with Alliteration)©...
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| jasmeet singh | 09:49 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (37)
| City: Mumbai
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| Re_locate |
| Dream, reality...nightmare? The grime under his chipped fingernail is inky black as he points in the direction he wants me to take. "Sirji aap gol chakar se dahiney haath mud jao, phir ring road se outer ring road ko ho lena...bas." He has a belly that I can rest my breakfast tray on, a handlebar moustache that coils funnily at the tips and a dark ...
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| Lesliey Tripaty | 05:31 | 14/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (161)
| City: Bhubaneshwar
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| In Orissa,Civil Society has been hijacke... |
| In Orissa,Civil Society has been hijacked by CriminalsLife is becoming increasingly unbearable.I been crusading for justice all alone in Orissa.Its pathetic to see VICTIMS BEING VICTIMISED in Orissa and India.The victim if she's a female is subjected to greater harassment by the evil society.People are having fun watching my sufferings.A deadly m...
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| A J | 16:10 | 29/Aug/2008 |
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| The threesome - 3 (I love her love) |
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| Did you read part 2? Do it firstShe looked at him, sitting next to Swati’s chair, lovingly holding her hands and kissing them. She could see that they loved each other crazy and nothing could ever come in between them. Lavanya was glad that for once her profession had been more than monetarily rewarding. She had met Nakul through a contact at a pa...
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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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| Priya | 10:17 | 8/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (331)
| City: Navi Mumbai
| Interests: christian mysticism
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| Woman’s (?) Day |
| I am writing here after a long time...and its Womans Day which actually made me get up and write!!! The Day seems to have truly arrived...atleast on print. Never mind the fact that more than half the women in this country do not even know of its existence. Yesterday it was 'party time' at my workplace. Each of us were presented with a flower, c...
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| Bobby RoyCho... | 09:38 | 19/Aug/2008 |
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| Life and it's bloody games!! |
| Sometimes life plays "games" - games which I for one fail to totally understand. I mean, I thought and I know for a fact that I am in love with "K" and she is in love with me too. Although she have had a past relationship, but she clearly mentioned it to both her ex, and to me that it was her past and it's surely not gonna haunt our relationship. A...
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| Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (1468)
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| This MAY BE LAST POST FROM ME, IT ALL WI... |
| This may be my last post, depending on the out come of the decision of Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice Dalvi at 2.30 p.m. Case detail is given in the image which is given at the end.If this is the last post, then see you in the next world (if what the religions teach is truth). If not, then it does not make any difference, because then, we will...
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| Reshma Thakkar | 16:13 | 28/Jun/2008 |
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| EMOTIONS |
| Emotions cause you pain and they actually dictate behaviour to you.In other words when you are emotional you are no longer in control.For example, when you are excited you might think excitement is good.You cant actually think clearly.The emotion of excitement takes over and leads you to act.Its not always the best action that is born from exciteme...
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| Karuna sanghvi | 15:50 | 27/May/2008 |
| Friends: (114)
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| Rules For Managers |
| Rules For Managers 1. Never give me work in the morning. Always wait until 4:00 and then bring it to me. The challenge of a deadline is refreshing.2. If it's really a rush job, run in and interrupt me every 10 minutes to inquire how it's going. That helps. Even better, hover behind me, and advise me at every keystroke.3. Always leave without tellin...
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| sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007 |
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| ‘Eating the Earth’! |
| Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...
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| praina shetty | 04:03 | 1/Sep/2008 |
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| City: The other side of heaven
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| యే రోజైతĺ 3; చూశానĺ 7; నిన్నĹ 8;... ఆ రోజే నువ్వĺ 4;పోయా నేనూ... యే రోజైతĺ 3; ĵ...
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| sankalp social | 14:25 | 21/Aug/2006 |
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| City: ichalkaranji
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| TREE MAKE US POLUTION FREE |
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| TREES CAN MAKE US POLUTION FREE AND WE COULD TAKE FRESH AIR. SANKALP REQUEST YOU TO PLANT ATLEAST ONE TREE. PLANTATION OF TREES CAN GIVE OUR CHILDRENS A FRESH AIR. JOIN US IN MISSION OF PLANTATION. CONTACT US IF YOU HAVE ANY IDEAS THANKS AND REGARDS SANKALP SOCIAL AND MEDICALS DEVLOP ASSOCIATION
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| sonali sengupta | 19:18 | 16/Aug/2008 |
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| Claim The house is empty.Snow has covered the dusty windowpaneDry flowers are looking at me from the old blue vasDo they blame me? Helpless, I stood on the floorThat creaks under my shoesCold, lifeless; full of qualms and rage. Was it long ago, when under the starry nightYou brought me in through this doorUnder the warmth...
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| prasanna duvvi | 00:41 | 25/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (28)
| City: Beaumont, Texas
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| Decission Making Unraveled |
| Some call it luck while others call it fate when they see a successful man. Humans rarely realize that success is a mixture of hard work, right decision making and passion. Although humans had developed ways and means to optimize hard work and discover passion lying dormant in one’s self, the art of decision making had always been a well kept secre...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 19:15 | 30/Aug/2008 |
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| "I wanna be a Rockstar" |
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| Just saw 'I wanna be a Rockstar" by Nickelback. Great video!Enjoy, here's the link on Youtube!... and well, if you like to singalong (like I do),here are the lyrics!I'm through with standing in lineto the clubs i'll never get inIt's like the bottom of the ninthand I'm never gonna winThis life hasn't turned outquite the way I want it to be(tell me w...
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| black dronser | 11:17 | 18/Oct/2006 |
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| best wishes |
| Khushi bhi doston se haiGam bhi doston se haiTakraar bhi doston se haiPyar bhi doston se haiRoothna bhi doston se haiManana bhi doston se haiBaat bhi doston se haiMisaal bhi doston se haiNasha bhi doston se haiShaam bhi doston se haiZindagi ki shuruvaat bhi doston se haiZindagi main mulakaat bhi doston se haiMohabbat bhi doston se haiInaayat bhi do...
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| gulbir rekhi | 10:02 | 7/Feb/2007 |
| Friends: (233)
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| I/HAVE A DREAM ---MARTIN LUTHER KING ! |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation...
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| Arindam Sen | 17:04 | 8/Nov/2006 |
| Friends: (313)
| City: Ahmedabad
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| Last post in the interview series! |
| CAT experiences of IIMA students - I received quite a good feedback for the interviews. CAT aspirants have now a guideline and benchmark to follow. I remember we were quite unsure about how many to attempt! Some of us screwed up CAT just because they had no idea how many is adequate and ended up trying for the impossible. Now you have a definite pl...
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| silver sky | 14:53 | 3/Mar/2007 |
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| City: Gandhidham
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| money and love |
| log on to this site and get MONEY & LOVE of your choice www.money4funds.org www.gift4lovers.org
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| Balu Nair | 17:02 | 10/Nov/2007 |
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| Perfect Man & Woman |
| Once upon a time a Perfect Man and a Perfect Woman met. After a perfect courtship, they had a perfect wedding. And their life together was also perfect. One snowy, stormy Christmas eve these perfect couple were driving their perfect car along the winding road, when they noticed someone at the side of the road in distress. Being a perfect couple, th...
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| manoj singhania | 10:55 | 24/Jul/2007 |
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| Jindagai Ka Safar |
| Safar Jindagai Ka to Har koi Tay KArata Hai; Koi Yun Hi Mit Jata Hai ,Kisi Ka Nam Amit ho Jata Hai.
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| Shyama Menon | 13:12 | 28/Apr/2008 |
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| Sree-Bhajji and a few reactions... |
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| The mallus today are a confused lot! The men in particular are perplexed, dumbfounded even to see their poster boy of aggression, Sreesanth, weep like a baby on the IPL ground. I suspect some of them feel exposed ...a little emasculated collectively, maybe. Now don’t kill me guys I’m nothing but an observer! :D Is this the real macho mallu? A sobbi...
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| Paila Venkat... | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
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| Mathematics in Life |
| My freind has passed this mathematics in Life and I share the same:If A to Z are given the values 1 to 26, thenH+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8 + 1 + 18 + 4 + 23 + 15 + 18 + 11 = 98%K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E = 11 + 14 + 15 + 23 + 12 + 5 + 4 + 7 + 5 = 96%L+U+C+K = 12 + 21 + 3 + 11 = 47 %M+O+N+E+Y = 13 + 15 + 14 + 5 + 25 = 71%It can be seen that Money and Luck contrib...
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| Shankar Dasg... | 16:08 | 29/Dec/2006 |
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| New Year Resolution - Oh Gwad Not Again! |
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| First let me tell you a story - my own story! Around lunch time today, I started thinking whether I should seriously decide to have a New Year resolution this time. And if I decide then once for all, I must, this time, achieve what I set myself up to. As I looked up my scrap-book, I was feeling guilty of finding that I had not quite managed to kee...
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| Raman Joshi | 05:01 | 10/Nov/2006 |
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| The need for speed! :) |
| I've been quiet for a while, studying for one of those pesky entrance exams. Many of which now have computer aided component to them, which does not help Indians of humble means. I have a Pentium 3 which was the most amazing thing that a monthly installment scheme of Rs 3,500 could buy (a non-trivial sum for many folks around here I presume), but t...
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| SOUMYA BANERJEE | 00:32 | 17/Nov/2006 |
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| Ode to a Nightingale |
| It is 12:40 in the night.Questions pummel me.I ask why God must take away someone so benevolent.I can find resonance in the feelings of a British poetwho wrote an ode almost 2 centuries ago, in memory of his deceased brother."....Darkling I listen; and, for many a timeI have been half in love with easeful Death,Call'd him soft names in many a mused...
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| Indigo Iris | 10:59 | 9/Aug/2008 |
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| Far In The Distance... |
| Far in the distancewhere the vision palesa murmur beginsas high wind ralesYet all around a stillness gnawsover clods and rillsvast meads across And the tall pines softly sorely sighto see the late day sadly dieOne faint exotic star alonepeers through the woolly veilto tell me not all is lost,a bright spot could be found stillif you could see, if yo...
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| Sujoy Mazumdar | 10:54 | 27/Dec/2006 |
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| wishing all my friends a happy new year 2007 and hoping the year ahead brings joy, happiness, peace, success, prosperity to all.
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| Kumar Rahul | 01:47 | 1/Sep/2008 |
| Friends: (628)
| City: Mumbai
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| Child Again |
| Drawings Drawing like a child :) Remembered mother and thought to draw her picture on MS Paint. Drew one picture, she looked like a girl whom I know :) Drew second and then third, but all looked like girls, hardly anything near my mother :) Then I returned back to a child’s comfort zone: drawing flowers and a home. :) Rahul
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| Sushanta Hazra | 18:17 | 7/Jul/2007 |
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| Night is good if u can sleep forgetting all ur woes.
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| nishant shah | 12:05 | 20/Aug/2008 |
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