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 17:41 | 1/Jul/2008 |
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| And how it POURED today...Last month on this same date, I was lamenting the heat of summer and eagerlyawaiting the onset of the rainy season...Today, I am smiling and humming to myself as I look out of my office window...My very own friendly neighborhood hills are verdant green... lush grass, bushes,and trees with their squeaky clean washed wet loo...
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| 08:12 | 1/Jun/2008 |
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| Yearning for RainYesterday afternoon, summer's heat reached its very peaksurely it can"t rise any more without annihilating us each...Last night, I dreamed of three peacocks dancing in the jungleperhaps there my wishful thinking and fantasies did mingle...At dawn today, I heard a duet sung by a myena and a koelthese harbingers of the rains were sur...
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| 23:14 | 24/May/2008 |
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| Glorious NatureAs I glance out of my bedroom window tonightI see somethings - far away, almost out of sightTwinkling stars peeping out from behind a cloud puffI wonder if they are playing a game of blind man's bluffI also see the huge orb of a moon, bright and all a-glimmerIn the pitch dark night, it really seems to gleam and shimmerI realise once ...
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| 23:30 | 12/Apr/2008 |
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| Revenge or Gandhigiri?Yesterday evening, I was the victim of road rage of sorts. And, while my heart and soul sought revenge, I desisted from exacting it.Let me tell you what happened. I was driving home from work. It was early evening and I was in the lane on the right, and right on track behind a bus. At a point slightly ahead, the road became si...
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| 17:44 | 28/Mar/2008 |
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| CIRCUSYesterday evening as I closed my art workshopAnd headed for the Ring-a-ling circus" big topExcitement built up in me as I waited for a bus to stopAnd take me to see wild animals do a mean hip hop!On the ride, I wondered if this thing is really fairWhat if unfortunately humans too had lived in a lairAnd were trapped and forced to hop in the ai...
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| 15:32 | 12/Feb/2008 |
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| Questions about life - Q.1Yesterday, as I was heading for home, I was reflecting about life - something I do very often these days. Nothing very major, I hasten to add, just wondering about why we do the things that we do, and also why we often don't do those things that we know we have to and in fact must do!Is it just procrastination? Is it a fea...
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| Cubes 3B | 14:03 | 9/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (48)
| City: Pune
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| Rain and Romance |
| Finally The Rain has come. It was much awaited after the blazing sun was literally baking the earth and the beings on it. With it the rain has brought not only relief but also filled the air with romance. The birds have started chirpping, the trees have started looking green, and all the souls are filled with satisfaction. Its a beauty how rain can...
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| Meenhaz Imran | 12:21 | 1/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (2)
| City: Kolkata
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| six months of masti |
| As part of my curricullum i had a chance of staying in a city other than kolkata for a span of six months.Luckily i chose delhi , the most intersting and rude city in india. This six months were one of the best in my life because it was full of activity , I started earning and there was so many thing to know to see and to explore, yes exp...
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| Lovely Views | 15:45 | 1/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (183)
| City: Delhi
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| Fun Stuff!!!! |
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| Hope you all enjoy it. Cheers---------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- -Man: Is there any way for long life?Dr: Get married. Man: Will it help? Dr: No, but the thought of long life will never come. ----------------------------------Why do couples hold hands during their wedding? It's a formality just like two boxers ...
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| satya dubey | 17:09 | 16/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (113)
| City: NOIDA
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| Burning Issues |
| In the light of very thoughtful comments posted by friends/contributors on my blogs- particularly on Globalisation, Media, Family, I was thinking to write on Globalisation- II and Media -II.At this stage, I keep them pending for some other day and I want to share my views with others on some burning issues;categories and the level of our sensitivit...
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| ROHIT BAWEJA | 13:50 | 16/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Delhi
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| sona chata hoon |
| sona chahta hu main magar so nahi pata rona chata hoon main magar ro nahi pata jaane kaisa gum de gaya wo mujhko ke marna chahta hoon main magar mar nahi pata
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| mahesh sowani | 14:34 | 24/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Mumbai
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| Looking Good |
| Looking good is very important these days. The media by all means is busy convincing us how important it is to look good. All these celebrities are too careful about their looks. Salman Khan had a hair weaving for the second time. Even an actress like Kajol who cared a damn about her looks (as according to her what she did in front of the camera w...
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| praveen sharma | 12:28 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Delhi
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| MY WISH |
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| I wish that I could cause the sunTo warm the world with loveRemove the clouds a momentTo reveal the stars aboveI wish that I could wipe that tearFrom the corner of your eyeBring happiness for your sorrowBring a smile for your sighI wish that I could better thingsPut hope within your heartMake today the best you've hadRight from its' very startI wis...
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| sheik maideen | 10:59 | 24/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Chennai
| Interests: Music, photography
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| It's very easy to keep a woman happy....... |
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| 1) How to Keep a Woman Happy:It's not difficult… Just a few things…!!!All you have to do is to be:1. A friend2. A companion3. A lover4. A brother5. A father6. A master7. A chef8. An electrician9. A carpenter10. A plumber11. A mechanic12. A decorator13. A stylist14. A sexologist15. A gynecologist16. A psychologist17. A pest exterminator18. A psych...
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| Sukhbeer Tha... | 13:29 | 12/Jun/2008 |
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| ON FATHER’S DAY |
| I wish to thank my father for all that he has given us (we are four siblings), in terms of values in life. Once while reading a Readers Digest I came across the following quote “the best thing a man can give to his children is to love their mother”. These words struck me so hard that these kept coming in my mind over and over again. How true. I tho...
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| dev singh | 16:25 | 30/Apr/2008 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| “The Silver Lining” A solitary tree, a distance from a temple.No leaves green, heat and dust ample. The soil burn, the rocks turn, all in a shambleThe living unseen here, even the demon fear to trample. The thorny bush, the clear-cut skylineYou might believe, it has been, since beginning of timeBut this land has a legacy of t...
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| Charu Govil | 07:17 | 23/Jun/2008 |
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| On the Path of Genocide… |
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| A religion is a guideline or discipline for a serene life in this world. God is a fear to limit us to follow the right path, and be afraid of an external power that rewards or punishes you, as per your deeds.Hinduism is one of the oldest religions, evolved after covering one of the most tortuous paths of reforms and varied civilizations. The cult i...
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| Monalisa Smile | 21:09 | 23/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Hyderabad
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| Devilishly divine..... |
| I am a 50 year old man qualified from one of the premier institutions in India, blissfully married for 26 years and blessed with two beautiful daughters. I work in one of the most reputed companies in the country and I am at a very envious position in life. My daughters are very well educated and work in excellent companies for handsome salaries. M...
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| A M Daniel | 17:35 | 21/May/2008 |
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| BE A RIGHT PERSON |
| When the Person Is RightOne rainy Sunday afternoon, a little boy was bored and his father was sleepy. The father decided to create an activity to keep the kid busy. So, he found in the morning newspaper a large map of the world. He took scissors and cut it into a good many irregular shapes like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he said to his son, "See if you ...
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| nocturnal cr... | 10:03 | 4/Oct/2007 |
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| fast life |
| There are songs that come from the blue-eyed grass,From the dust of a thousand country roads,From footprints in white sand.Aboriginals call it 'songlines'-Mapping steps through the silk route of time.If only, we could pause,And hear the songs around.The one on our shoulder,The one on autumn's last leaf.On monsoon's first rain drop—Riding on a butte...
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| Vish Iyer | 09:28 | 5/Jun/2008 |
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| 11 things you won't learn in school |
| Bill Gates recently gave a speech at a High School about 11 things they did not and will not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it! Rule 2: The world...
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| BEST FRIEND | 06:55 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| Travel Light to enjoy the journey of Lif... |
| HiThis is an article by Tia Paranjape which appeared in the Times of India newspaper yesterday and was worth sharing.I often wonder: Is it possible to love without attachment? We do have so much love to give, but is it the right kind of love? We tend to feel a kind of ownership over all that we love though we don"t own anything or anyone. It is ea...
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| Jasmine Jassi | 16:24 | 29/Jun/2008 |
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| ?Kuch iss tarah teri palkein mere palkoun se mila de Ansoun tere, saare, mere palkoun phe sajade Kuch is tarah teri palkein mere palkoun se mila de Ansoun tere, saare, mere palkoun phe sajade?Tu har ghari , har waqt, mere saath raha hai Haan yeh jism, khabhi dur, khabhi paas raha hai Jo bhi ghum hain yeh tere unhein tu mera pata de Kuch is tarah te...
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| bhaskar sharma | 11:22 | 30/Jun/2008 |
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| were are you |
| she came and stood before meshe had come from rainshe was smiling laughingwith rain drops on her face and headand she had applied a tilak of red mation her foreheadaha...i had no words for her beauty and lovei wanted a rain drop from her faceshe understood and went away laughingand went away forever... oh where are you now ?i am living so you a...
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| Satya | 11:30 | 31/Mar/2008 |
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| City: Hyderabad
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| Of late, I have seen people / colleagues not reacting to the increments & promotions they get...... whether bonus or increments or incidents of happiness on personal front ............Is it that they choose not to react or is it 'a sign of maturity'???? May they don't want to celebrate..........Not many are trying to share their happiness (or are t...
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| sohamswami | 09:12 | 24/Jun/2008 |
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| City: HIMALAYAS
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| BANOMALI AND THE GOD |
| Banomali can be fearless. He really can be fearless,when he is drunk. As the alcohol flows inside,it washes away all the grief,sadness and fear. Banomali ponda, at his level has nothing to loose but he fears death and he fears humiliation. He can remember vividly how he lost his entire family-his son,daughters and his wife Kamala, in that devastati...
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| Sami Ahmed | 08:39 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| A Tale of Love - Part3 (Final) |
| (Please read Part1 & 2 before reading the final part.) She nodded. “Come on, I will take you to our secret place, which was the origin for this zero.” Malati dragged him to the back of the school building. There, it was filled with nothing but trees and bushes grown haphazardly. Malati led him into the bushes further and into a small clearing, whic...
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| ajay rana | 21:37 | 29/Jan/2008 |
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| Consciousness in the Single Neuron |
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| Are the contents ofconscious perception tied to individual brain cells? Can we use singleneurons to determine someone’s subjective experience? A recent studiespublished in PNASsuggests otherwise: there are no specialized neuronsthat carry information about what enters awareness and what not. If oneholds the picture of a butterfly in front of one ey...
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| Amrendra Saxena | 13:33 | 24/Dec/2007 |
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| PARADOX OF OUR LIFE |
| “WE HAVE TALLER BUILDINGS,BUT SHORTER TEMPERSWIDER FREEWAYS, BUT NARROWER VIEW POINTWE HAVE MORE DEGREES,BUT LESS COMMON SENSEMORE KNOWLEDGE, BUT LESS JUDGEMENTSMORE EXPERTS, BUT MORE PROBLEMSWE SPEND TOO RECKLESSLY,LAUGH TOO LITTLE, READ TOO SELDOM,WATCH TV TOO MUCH AND PRAY TOO SELDOM,WE HAVE MULTIPLIED OUR POSSESSIONSBUT REDUCED OUR VALUESWE LEA...
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| Kumar Ahuja | 17:16 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| Cheers |
| A guy, sitting outside his home about to be evicted from his house, was contemplating how the future would be after he had divorced his wife, lost his children and lost his job.He notices a crate of beer bottles and walks up to it.He takes out an empty bottle, smashing it into the concrete wall swearing, "You are the reason I don't have a wife", se...
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| sunshine | 17:03 | 1/Jul/2008 |
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| MALE OR FEMALE - |
| MALE OR FEMALE A lot of non-living objects are either male or female. Below are some examples: FREEZER BAGS: MALE - they hold everything in, but you can see right through them. } } PHOTOCOPIERS: FEMALE - once turned off, it takes a while to warm them up again. They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also ...
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| INDER VIG | 18:08 | 2/Jul/2008 |
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| THE BULLY |
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| How the bully scores?The school bully must have been a familiar figure to you, but have you met the office bully yet? He is probably standing right next to you at this moment, browbeating you into doing something you don't want to, stealing credit for your work, making you feel small and powerless, just as you did in school. That bully could well b...
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| DENSON JOSEPH | 22:39 | 27/May/2008 |
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| AARUSHI MURDER CASE |
| Assuming Dr Talwar is innocent,I am just forced to think about the trauma which this broken hearted father might be going through.Here is a dead soul,who has just lost his dear daugther, his pain had not even subsided that he was arrested, accused & stigmatised as the "killer father", and to cap it all;is now currently being tormented, tortured & t...
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| sunil sachdeva | 18:33 | 25/Dec/2007 |
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| MY WEALTH MY GRIEF |
| O’ LordI’ll gladly share \My wealth and happinessWith one and allBut my griefWith none at allThose are treasured momentsOf my strifeLocked with gifted memories Of lifeWhen morns golden rays blackedAll colorsNights silvery octopus tentaclesSqueezed lifeHot lyrical gem talks melteddown ears, When doors slammedAt sightTurning colors of hopeBlack or wh...
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| Joseph Antony | 00:06 | 4/Jul/2008 |
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| " FOR EVER " |
| I hereby Stops all my activities n iland. And treat this as my apology - If any of my posts or any comments hurt / wounded anybody.Thanks, Love & Regards to All my Friends. HAVE A NICE DAY ............ No one is born happy... But all of us are born with the ability to create happiness...So....today, make others happy... Flash your sweetest s...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| City: OUTER SPACE
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| A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE |
| Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...
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| Vikas Vij | 14:41 | 17/May/2008 |
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| City: Delhi
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| Of a Happy Life |
| [Written in context of the various criticisms that Amitabh Bachchan has been facing ever since he became a fellow-blogger.]OF A HAPPY LIFEFacing personal vilification and condemnation is the exclusive privilege of men of eminence. They thrive on it, and it only makes their positions stronger. Whether it is the timeless heroes like Socrates or Jesu...
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| Karuna sanghvi | 15:50 | 27/May/2008 |
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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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| Ashok Kumar | 16:19 | 20/Aug/2007 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| Very Witty |
| A wealthy man decided to go on a safari in Africa. He took his faithful pet Dachshund dog along for company. One day, the dachshund starts chasing butterflies and before long the dachshund discovers that he is lost. Wandering about, he notices a leopard heading rapidly in his direction with the obvious intention of having lunch. The dachshund think...
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| pooja agarwal | 09:18 | 26/May/2008 |
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| TRUST......HIM |
| Just read this morning from one of the books i have been reading "YOU CAN HEAL YOUR LIFE" and jus one thought is so beautiful and can change our lives and pattern of thinking Learn to trust GOD ...The most important thing we need to live is our ...BREATH...and hegives it to us without us asking for it...imagine if we dint breathe the next second ?...
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| MAD BRO | 10:44 | 3/Jul/2008 |
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| All is well that ends well |
| Wonder years - Chapter 14It was the last week of June 08. It was a pleasant evening with gentle breeze caressing the hearts and minds of nearly everyone. Oblivious to all these, Mano was waiting anxiously in a restaurant. He had been waiting for more than fifteen minutes. Would she come or would she not? He did not even know her mobile number...
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| rakesh kadian | 17:26 | 21/Jul/2007 |
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| Am posting under the head of religion because when i posted under love,no response came from any one. although basically what am i looking for is a spiritual friend and that falls under religion. now it would be intersting to see if someone buys this argument.
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| Himanshu Kuk... | 10:44 | 12/Jul/2007 |
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| A Nice Lesson.. |
| A nice lesson....... A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wifestayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so he prayed: "Dear Lord: I go to work every day and put in 8 hours while my wifemerely stays at home. I want her to know what I go through, so pleaseallow her body to switch with mine for a day. Amen. God...
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| amit patil | 21:44 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| kids keep your heart happy |
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| Keep Your Heart HappyMost kids are born with a healthy heart and it's important to keep yours in good shape. Here are some things that you can do to help keep your heart happy:Remember that your heart is a muscle. If you want it to be strong, you need to exercise it. How do you do it? By being active in a way that gets you huffing and puffing, like...
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| Abhishek Muk... | 07:28 | 13/Nov/2006 |
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| Blogspot |
| I have moved to blogspot.com http://abhishekmukherjee.blogspot.com/ It is just easier to use and I can use picassa to directly upload pictures. I just find it more convineant. I apologise to you all iLand lovers as I have nothing against rediff but google and its supported products is like my internet crack.
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