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Astronomy, Astrophysics, music, thrillers, sci fi movies, fan of Arther C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Michael Crichton , Carl Sagan, Spielberg-Ku-Lucas
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 09:45 | 24/Aug/2007 |
| Loose to gain | |
| It's better to loose your EGO to the one you LOVE, than to loose the one you LOVE because of EGO . -------- John Keats.
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| 13:20 | 13/Aug/2007 |
| Dreams of Life... | |
| "Dream is not what you see in sleep,is the thing which does not let you sleep." - Anonymous
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| 14:39 | 7/Aug/2007 |
| Do it yourself.... | |
| The more I study, The wealthier I become…. When I only hear, I forget, When I see, I remember…… But when I do, I understand.
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| 10:12 | 2/Aug/2007 |
| Lessons of Life | |
| "A lesson learnt in life has no meaning unless u make sure that u don't have to learn that again" - Anonymous
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| 10:57 | 1/Jun/2007 |
| Knowledge and Wisdom | |
| " Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. " - Robert Frost
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| 13:06 | 28/Mar/2007 |
| Out of Box Thinking | |
| While passing by a group of elephants, I suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that those huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away free from the ropes they were tied to, but for some reason or the other, they did not.The trainer...
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| 13:09 | 8/Feb/2007 |
| Different Strokes | |
| Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak. Sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.
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| 15:48 | 21/Dec/2006 |
| The Corporate Shark | |
| The Japanese have always loved fresh fish. But the water close to Japan has not held many fish for decades. So to feed the Japanese population, fishing boats got bigger and went farther than ever. The farther the fishermen went, the longer it took to bring the fish. If the return trip took more time, the fish were not fresh. To solve this problem, ...
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| 16:24 | 18/Nov/2006 |
| Points to Ponder | |
| The paradox of our time in history is:We have taller buildings, but shorter tempersWider freeways, but narrower viewpointsWe spend more, but have lessWe buy more, but enjoy it lessWe have bigger houses and smaller families More conveniences, but less timeWe have more degrees, but less senseMore knowledge, but less judgementMore experts, but more pr...
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| Lissome Lady | 18:24 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (200)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Life, people, lit...
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| THE RAVA IDLI SAGA |
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| This was my first post on iland on 17 July 2007 at 10 am.. I am a few days away from being 5 months old on this blog. I feel I've been here forever. No time to write anything new... in a recklessly busy state now..so if you dont hear from me for a while you know I have succumbed to work pressure.. and gone to a valiant end. After all the theme thes...
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 12:00 | 7/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (619)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Fitness
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| NRI's & NANDIGRAM |
| 74 NRIs, belonging to a diverse group of academics, professionals, lawyers, activists and students, many of them volunteers and supporters of the organization - Association for India's Development – have filed a collective Right to Information application at the Indian Embassy in Washington DC. The Questions raised are the following:ü Have d...
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| Insignifican... | 00:01 | 6/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (419)
| City: Chengdu
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| SHE~~*~~The meaning of my Life |
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| She May be the face I can"t forget The trace of pleasure or regret May be my treasure or the price I have to pay She May be the song that summer sings May be the chill that autumn brings May be a hundred different things Within the measure of a dayShe May be the beauty or the beast May be the famine or the feast May turn each day into a heaven or ...
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| Make Money | 12:15 | 7/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (312)
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| FREE Online Data Entry Jobs |
| Youmay have seen the ads promoting work at home data entry programs. Many of theseprograms are scams and simply ask for your money and provide you with anoutdated list of companies that don't really need your services. Othercompanies provide you with a blueprint that involves data entry, but not in thetraditional sense. The following report will he...
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| maidn india | 22:56 | 3/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (62)
| City: Haryana
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| Nuked and Numb in November... |
| This whole last MONTH....! From All Saints to HIV/ Aids Day.... it has been one helluva month... Pardon the language. NO sense of celebration at the arrival of the Festival / Wedding Season... Instead a strange fatigue, almost wariness of any invitation card... News stories SCREAMING out horror after horror ... Day after blessed day ...almost...
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| Sweet Sweetie | 15:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (238)
| City: Where Legends Are Born
| Interests: This is the story...
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| Days slowly go by, |
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| Days slowly go by,I keep wondering why,Why are you not here by my side?Why is there such pain without you here?Why do I feel this hurt in my soul?I want to be with you forever,I want to hear the music of our dreams come true,I never want the fears to sink in,All I want to do is give you all of my heart,I want to stare into the gates of eternity,I w...
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| Abhiroop Bha... | 20:39 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (194)
| City: Kolkata
| Interests: computer,internet...
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| RODEO DRIVE PLASTIC SURGERY |
| Are you looking for plastic surgery in Los Angeles forslimming waistlines or trimming over sized breasts. Are they undermining yourconfidence? It may be due to pregnancy, illness or simply ageing. The fataccumulation in some part of body; changes the shape, make you overweight. Thisinvites many other complicacies too. Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery ce...
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| S M | 14:17 | 4/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (196)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Reading, Writing,...
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| The Future Redefined |
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| The Future Redefined The books are way of life and the collection of books that we keep is our knowledge source often. It will be crazy idea to keep a collection of books handy while on the move or going for work for any book worm. When is the last time you bought a newspaper on the news stand to keep abreast with the latest happening. Have you eve...
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| Aravind KK | 19:03 | 4/Apr/2007 |
| Friends: (9)
| City: Cochin
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| Au revoir! |
| And the Chappell era of indian cricket comes to a close.Of all the coaches that indian cricket had till now, none captured headlines like Chappell. Probably because none before him had taken on the established inertia of the system and tried to bring changes. I admire the courage of Chappell. It was so much easier to let things be where the big st...
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| smiling fool | 21:42 | 14/May/2007 |
| Friends: (86)
| Interests: smiling and fooling
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| pl wait. I am sweating out the story!!
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| Cpyder Graphix | 20:43 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (88)
| City: Lucknow
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| Yellow Pepper |
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| Hello iLanders, after a long time I present to you three of my pics that I shot in last two months. Hope you will like them. Waiting for your comments... - CpyderGraphix
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| Aham Aham | 14:37 | 24/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (18)
| City: Everywhere
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| Practical Spirituality – Part III |
| Self Realization From previous posts in this series, we have seen that the ultimate goal of our life is to attain eternal happiness. Pragmatically, in a smaller scale, the purpose of our day-to-day activities also is nothing else but to be happy by fulfilling our desires. At the same time, as we have discussed, happiness is not something to be “ga...
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| Preposterix ... | 10:25 | 26/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (64)
| City: Chennai
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| Whats in a sexual identity? |
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| I first learnt about them when I was 13 years old. My cousins, were referring to them in vulgar terms and cracking jokes. I was naive(then) and asked my mom what those terms meant. She patiently explained them to me. By them, I mean the sexual minorities. Male and Female are the sexual majorities, the transgenders, the minorities.(For an explanatio...
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| nishant shah | 03:43 | 1/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (516)
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| Remember the days |
| Remember the DaysRemember the days when,We played at the beachside shed,Cloning the villas of sand and clayAnd when the oceans touched our feetWe would gleefully gaze the sun in crimson redRemember the days when,We used to hide candies from Mums eyesAnd our grandpas narrated the fables of the timberland.We swirled in the wind to catch the butterfly...
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| Binu Abraham | 17:54 | 9/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (583)
| City: Cochin
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| This is what True Love is all about: |
| It was a busy morning, approximately 8:30 a.m., when an elderly gentleman in his 80's, arrived to have stitches removed from his thumb. He stated that he was in a hurry as he had an appointment at 9:00 am. I took his vital signs and had him take a seat, knowing it would be over an hour before someone would to able to see him. I saw him look at his ...
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| gal gal | 14:18 | 9/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (99)
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| LOVE.....AN INSANE QUEST..... |
| A long relationship....shattered within secondsA surging pain splittin nervesA vengence for love A hatred rootin withinA sorrow A pain....A trajedy..................words scribbled, blog after blog....teary eyeddays weeks month pass bya sour wound dries upa slow relief dawnsA better mornin a peaceful nitePain and sorrows are past......................
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| shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (1383)
| City: Noida
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| Ever You Wonder ………(Some stray thoughts…... |
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| Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner? If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight? Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered? Why, when you change...
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| bushra ali | 21:31 | 15/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (135)
| City: meerut
| Interests: reading, observing
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| terii Khushbuu kaa pataa karatii hai |
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| terii Khushbuu kaa pataa karatii hai mujh pe ehasaan havaa karatii hai shab kii tanhaa_ii me.n ab to aksar guftaguu tujh se rahaa karatii hai dil ko us raah pe chalanaa hii nahii.n jo mujhe tujh se judaa karatii hai zindagii merii thii lekin ab to tere kahane me.n rahaa karatii hai us ne dekhaa hii nahii.n varnaa ye aa.Nkh dil kaa ehavaal kahaa kar...
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| Ze Pipe | 17:48 | 10/Jul/2007 |
| Friends: (49)
| City: here
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| Adieu to iland for longer |
| lets hope i get back faster until then friends i take leave good bye good luck to all rediff bloggers ZZZZZzzzzzzzzzze pipe!
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| Me Rediscovered | 10:34 | 29/May/2007 |
| Friends: (85)
| City: Pune
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| Reflections |
| Everything in life is temporary. Darkness of the night; or a bright day Even sunrise is temporary; so is sunset. So if things are going good, enjoy it because it won't last forever. And if things are going bad, don't worry. Because it won't last forever either. Everything passes by.
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| Star Trekker | 19:10 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (266)
| City: galaxy
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| startrekker's calender 2008 |
| startrekker's calender 2008 launchDear friends!I am so glad to have completed an year on the iland and I thank all of you for the love and support you have shown me.I launch the startrekker's 2008 calender made with my digital art by me...it almost feels like launching the Kingfisher's calender..hahahah..(i'm inspired by Vijay Mallya) hehehe..The c...
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| Indigo Iris | 17:04 | 27/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (71)
| City: terra firma
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| The Maker's Will... |
| Faces unknown stare at youWhat do they say, you wonder anewEyes that tell many a taleTake me home, some sadly bewailOft they plea, hear me outYou're left to cringe, shudder and doubtOf God's mysteries, old as rockSome to cradle, some to mockOthers left to dusty trailFull of woes, and oh, so frailNone ever to bail them outOn their own must fight the...
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| Rakshita Verma | 16:08 | 19/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (309)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: jokes, poetry, pu...
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| Ghazal |
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| Sab kuchh apne saath le aayi hunKuchh yun zindagi baant aayi hun Ek mutthi hansi, ek katra aansuEk naya chehra maang laayi hun Kuch tukde khayaalon ke samet keHar fikra se bekhayaal ho aayi hun Rishton ke tokre se is baarPhir apna naam chhaant laayi hun Zameen se thokar kha ke mainAb ek parat aasmaan laayi hun Ek dibbi bhar ke khushi seGham k...
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| bronzegoddes... | 07:38 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (94)
| City: Chennai(Madras)
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| Hey!! Wassup? |
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| “Hey! Wassup?”“Hey! How’s it going?”These are the most common questions that are asked to us and these are the most questions that we ask people every other day.Analyzing these, they are the most meaningless questions and we give such bullshit as replies.And even when we ask these questions how many times do we really mean it from our bottom of our...
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| Shree Sharma | 21:37 | 27/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (464)
| City: Bangalore
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| Why? |
| In India we think of very high of those people who are living or working abroad !!! As a student or as a professional we grow up with a dream of studying or working abroad.I feel nothing in the world is like India. We leave behind our families and the place where we were brought up, once we leave then we realize what we have missed.I have seen a bl...
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| L Kini | 13:52 | 6/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (782)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Funny Equations |
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| I hope everybody remember about A Rasna cooldrink advertisement in our school days. One cute little girl in that advertisement always telling that "I LOVE YOU RASNA" Want to see her now Obviously Scroll down =========================Funny Equations!Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoyDonkey = eat + sleepTherefore,Human = Donkey + wor...
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| mysterious lady | 17:59 | 29/Dec/2006 |
| Friends: (38)
| City: Mumbai
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| HAPPY NEW YEAR |
| WISHING ALL U FOLKS A VERY HAPPY, PROSPEROUS, ROCKING N KICKING NEW YEAR............................ HAVE A GREAT YEAR AHEAD......
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| Binu G | 22:20 | 17/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (77)
| City: Thiruvananthapuram
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| Study: Chinese Herbs May Be Best at Reli... |
| Australia-based a study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests Chinese herbs may be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression."All available measures of effectiveness confirmed the overall superiority of Chinese herbal medicine to placebo, no treatment, NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-in...
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| Joseph Antony | 01:56 | 14/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (323)
| City: Kottayam,Changanacherry
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| " NICE " |
| TRUST is a very important factor for all relationships. When trust is broken, it is the end of the relationship. Lack of trust leads to suspicion, suspicion generates anger, anger causes enmity and enmity may result in separation. A telephone operator told me that one day she received a phone call. She answered, "Public Utilities Board." ...
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| suvasis pradhan | 10:36 | 3/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (68)
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| InLove |
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| Fast and deepersinks my heartgaze extending miles of lonely pathDry and dusty my lipstrees half deadgreen no more I could see death Shadow so darkstronger than lifeready to stab backno easy escapeLovers mock death ... and rebornSlow and steadyfostered insidedreams unfulfilledand wishes aboundLove eventuallynever so greenso alive for youmoistened m...
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| shiney ss | 22:19 | 9/Nov/2006 |
| Friends: (29)
| City: Dhanbad
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| Ek Chehraa |
| jee rahi thi.........bas jee rahi thisukh ki kaliyon ne apna aanchal na kholaasha ke rath par savaar hone ka mokaa na miladin guzarte the jaise barf pighalte hontumhen bhoolne ke baad dil mein yahi kashish thidil tha kya...........socha na thaman ki kya chah thi,samjha na thasanson mein kuch hulchul thi,mehsoos na kiyaaankhon mein bhi koi sapna na...
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| shreedipta m... | 17:05 | 9/Dec/2006 |
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| Mysteries of the sexes... |
| Last time when i posted my blog about men, it sure created fury amongst many men. But i sure didn't mean to hurt anyone. It was just a dab of fun i wished to share.Here's something i found interesting......Women wonder....1.Why do men think that women are bad drivers even though they have found evidences to the contrary, time and again? 2.Why do ev...
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| nisha gupta | 19:15 | 28/Jul/2007 |
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| rain |
| As the leaves stir in the breezeThe breeze becomes a wind,A wind so mad ,She howls, And howls.The clouds They shimmer,shimmers the lightningroll the cloudsand soon, RAINDROPS,Big fat drops plopupon the sandand the earth are kissing As they meetso they become onemeld into each otherand soon,rhere remains none. So,my heart does yearnf...
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| Pavement Freud | 14:48 | 22/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (249)
| City: Vasai, Maharashtra.
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| The Sunday Paper (Complete Version) |
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| As Sorabjee made his way down the wooden stairs, he took extreme care to do it as noiselessly as possible. With his left palm firmly on the banister, he placed his feet very carefully on the rungs, much like one blows softly into a lover’s eye. He descended the stairs in steps of ones and twos, halting after every six rungs to catch some breath, a...
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| cherry s | 13:38 | 17/Jan/2007 |
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| Beyond the Brain - The Intelligent Heart |
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| We've all been told, at one time or another, to follow our hearts. And it sounds like a great idea, in principle. But the problem is that actually following our hearts--and loving people, including ourselves--is much easier said than done. Where do we begin? People talk about following their hearts, but nobody shows us how to do it. What does follo...
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| vidya joshi | 14:46 | 3/Oct/2007 |
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| City: Pune
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| Chak De India |
| Hello friends after long time i felt to write something .Recently i have seen movie Chak de India . I felt the movie was worth watching and totally paisa vasul.After seeing this movie i felt that its really unfair that in India where hockey is our national game its lagging back .Hockey has always been given a differential behaviour .Where we get lo...
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| Lovely Venus | 10:56 | 21/Nov/2006 |
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| Waste of time... |
| Today morning on my way to the office I came across this poster stuck on the back of an autorickshaw...It says " Bible or Quran , which is the words of God...a Debate...at Lalitha kala thoranam..open grounds. at so and so time...." Some so called experts from both communities participating...."Now what does all these mean...Is there a need for all ...
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| sowmiya sowmiya | 20:44 | 4/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (131)
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| FRIENDSHIP DAY WISHES |
| It started on that fateful day with a very simple "HEY"we carried on talking and got close from therefriends like youare very fewour friendship is faithful strong and truewhen i need you your always therei value your opinion'cause i do caretheres another poem thats very truefor special people like you I'm Glad i met you and that our friendship is t...
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