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 07:35 | 12/Jul/2008
51 things about me!
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... more...
 22:37 | 2/Aug/2007
Looks like I am back !
Aah its been so long...so long that i almost forgot my username and password....and when i login i see this endless list of comments, new friend requests and guestbook entries from old friends...askin if i was alright...oh thank u so much guys (esp.Ash, Rajesh, Cyril...)...Yes i'm doing fantastic and life is not the same anymore....I had a baby gal... more...
 12:03 | 22/Sep/2006
I've been tagged!
Hello felo bloggers,Havent blogged for a while ... due to a variety of reasons ... but Rajesh did it ... he tagged me ... so here I go jus from the top of my head --->1. How tall are you barefoot?Before pregnancy 5.8, Now 5.5 ( excluding footwear)2. Have you ever smoked before? Yes I have (First one was my dad's ... & my mom knew, the second one, t... more...
 13:26 | 16/Aug/2006
For The First & Last time Ever!
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER....Love surged through her existenceand surfed through her soul!Like a candle in the wind...Like a tear in the rain...Washed out by time...Seperated by a horizon...Threatened by destiny...Embraced by darkness...Bruised by life's tragedies...An impossible dream that was never meant to be...A new beginning that came tagged wit... more...
 07:48 | 8/Aug/2006
A good friend's dedication
sochun main uske baare meinwo jo nanha farishta khil raha hai mere tan meinuske baare mein sapne dekheuse paane ki chahat jo ho meriphir kisi aur ka kuch bola kyun sochun mainmeri duwaayen lele tu, teri balayen le loon mainkoi dard tujhe choo na paayeteri taraf aane ki har mushkil mujhe takra ke jaaye tere hi khayal gungunati rahuntujhse yun meethi... more...
 14:44 | 18/Jul/2006
An Hour of Enlightenment!
An hour of pure enlightenment!100s of the emperor penguins start their march together from their usual habitat during a particular period of the year to their traditional breeding ground that is 100s of miles away, with a single goal in mind - to find LOVE - as a result pocreate. Some males are rejected upfront and return home (only to try their lu... more...
 11:02 | 12/Jul/2006
Tragedy is not the word!
A few 100s of our fellow citizens fell victims to the irrational ideologies of some insane fundamentalist, all over again. Yes, Its extremely infuriating. However, we can do nothing but just wish that this disaster never happened and wait for some Godforsaken terrorist group to claim responsibilty for the shameful act, only to insult the value of t... more...
 09:56 | 27/Jun/2006
3rd Anniversary reminiscence
June 30, 2003 should go down in History, as the day that two of the most craziest people on earth met each other to become best buddies in no time. Literally no time!How would you feel about livin under the same roof for 5 months in a foreign land with someone thatz just a lil more than an acquaintance. Well, for me...it turned out to be just perfe... more...
 12:13 | 19/Jun/2006
On the Edge!
Wish I could list all of 'em down right here right now...but i decide otherwisebecause it will only highlight them in bright red for me, like the exit signs in the movie halls, i cant possibly ignore 'em thereafter, they'll end up staring at my face all the time. EEKS! very undesirable!Some people just piss me off...i dont even know who exactly I'm... more...
 13:14 | 8/Jun/2006
When I saw you for the first time....
When I saw you for the first time.... Tear drops dribbled down my cheeks My heart Skipped a beat Inscrutable chemicals rushed into my skull My elated nerves Intertwined in joy While all my senses defied time and space in a flash Oh my progeny you streched your limbs... for a moment I felt like God! A tiny inspiration after my 13th week Ultra Sound more...
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 narendra shah | 23:29 | 8/Jul/2008
Friends: (446)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: music-classical,r...
WEEK DAY PRAYERS
Prayer for Monday - Wash DayLord, help me wash away all my selfishness and vanity, so I may serve you with perfect humility through the week ahead.Prayer for Tuesday - Ironing DayDear Lord, help me iron out all the wrinkles of prejudice I have collected through the years so that I may see the beauty of others.Prayer for Wednessday - Mending DayO Go...  more...
 chandrakant ... | 17:23 | 10/Jul/2008
Friends: (117)  | Interests: film music &frien...
padakar delete karo...........
to all ilander previous blog maine apne bare me likha hai .bahot msg aate hai. to main delete kar dalta hu ,koi dil pe mat lena yar................................. knyoki thodi mast jaruri hai... inder vig aur aamchce bindas mumabikar ...ko salam.........................  more...
 Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (1468)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Social upliftment
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...  more...
 Sudaman TM | 15:16 | 25/Apr/2007
Friends: (96)  | City: copenhagen  | Interests: Simpsons family.....
Sing it
sing the state of penniless momentssing the world of abysmal miseriesjob is lost sing itmoney is lost sing itlove is lost sing ityou are lost sing itsit in the corner sing ityou are young and you lost your fathersing ityou are old and you lost your sonsing ityou are one and you are nothingsing ityou are lone and you need someonesing itthe light in ...  more...
 rajesh vora | 17:09 | 10/Jun/2008
Friends: (43)  | City: in the middle of no man's land  | Interests: ICICI - 9% ...
Artificial Intelligence
 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...  more...
 anshul banga... | 18:21 | 5/Aug/2007
Friends: (338)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Love life,romanti...
the magic of kissing
the magic of kissing.........Kissing is one natural ex-pression of humankind which has been there since times immemorial....it could be out of love,out of passion,out of care,out of lust,out of warmth and so on....but i will speak or rather write about the kissing done out of passion and love...Kissing between two opposite sexes is common to all na...  more...
 Aparna Kumar | 23:11 | 1/Aug/2006
Friends: (294)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Life, romance, fi...
Affairs of the Heart
The last I posted a blog on a married woman’s affair, the response I got came in a flood. The friend who I wrote about, read both the blog and the response and arrived last night for a heart-to-heart with me. We spent all night talking. I wrote about her erotic encounter with an ex-boyfriend and both she and I agreed that the film Unfaithful came c...  more...
 Sanjeev Verma | 23:16 | 7/May/2008
Friends: (208)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Film, Western Cla...
Echoes of the Past
By Sanjeev VermaCinema—and I usually say this when the wife is out of earshot—is my first love. For me it’s cinema. Or films. Never movies. I painstakingly—and I am sure gratingly—object to even my nine-year-old son calling them movies. Why, he asks? Aren’t they synonyms—films, cinema, movies, et al? No they most certainly not. Movies, I maintain, ...  more...
 mohan daniel | 22:49 | 25/Jul/2006
Friends: (1)  | City: Chennai(Madras)  | Interests: Theatre, Event Ma...
Dramatic Christmas Musical
Hi Friends, We from Mellow Circle (friends for charity) from Chennai is looking for a Christmas Play. If you can suggest a dramatic Christmas Play, we are a group of 100 people, we act, sing, sell tickets etc to raise funds to support HIV affected children.So far we have organsied 5 different Christmas Plays. In 2005 we staged 'Two from Galillee', ...  more...
 Trishna Mumbai | 16:43 | 20/Jun/2008
Friends: (10)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: ...
Season of Acceptance
  It’s been a long two months. The vacant look in mum’s eyes is slowly giving way to a twinkle – very slowly but surely.  I suppose letting go of 40 years of togetherness is a tall order for anyone. When she reached Mumbai and I saw her, my whole being froze up. A forehead sans the familiar vermillion and the mangalsutra gone, her appearance gave a...  more...
 sunjay jain | 16:31 | 28/Jan/2007
Friends: (5)  | Interests: reading cricket &...
World cup-07
The stand up performance by Sourav Ganguly has given answer to those who believe only Foriegn coach can help to raise Indian cricket . Dada performance show that Indian cricket require coach who understand them & moralise them to play with confidence & unitedly.Today with so many experiment the cricketer are not sure whether they are going to play ...  more...
 amit khanna | 07:32 | 6/May/2008
Friends: (173)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Baying at the moo...
It rained.
There are somethings in life that bring out the child in everybody. Those wonderful years when you were young and restless come back to you in bits and pieces. Of course you never remember the event in entirity, only little parts can be remembered. The rain drops hitting the skin feels the same, it was the same ages ago when I was in Chittaranjan. ...  more...
 Magnum Opus | 10:49 | 4/Oct/2007
Friends: (15)  | Interests: I read a bit. I w...
The Bridges to Someplace Else
This has been triggered by The Bridges of Madison County. The movie had been recommended by two close friends and, one workday afternoon, I decided that even if caused the collapse of my empire I must watch it.The movie is about a middle-aged houswife and an itinerant photographer finding love during their four day tryst. The meeting does not last ...  more...
 jeevan menon | 15:53 | 17/Jun/2007
Friends: (18)  | City: seremban  | Interests: reading, keeping ...
MIRACLES
Does anyone believe in miracles happening. Well I for one was a person who never thought it possible for miracles to happen. Lately I got to thinking if miracles were to happen will we be able to recognise it and calassify it as one. Miracles for one thing need not be such a great thing as to make an impact on you or your lifestyle.It can be any sm...  more...
 kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007
Friends: (275)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: making friends, c...
GOOD WIFES
Hello friends after a long long long time iam back to you all.  I missed u all aloooot but conditions are like that for me.This blog is a general blog and especially women should not take it as a serious one because i just read this one from one of the newspaper.How to get a nice wife! There are times in a person's life when he needs to take crucia...  more...
 Friendly Ghost | 12:02 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (351)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Our world is coming unravelled
I'm continually amazed by a kind of public blindness to the obvious realities around us. I don't want to go into details, arguments, justifications etc. because they obscure the big picture. I don't want to talk about global warming, unsustainable growth, extinction of species etc. because they seem like distant theoretical stuff to us.I'm stating ...  more...
 Anil Goel | 23:13 | 3/Jul/2008
Friends: (770)  | Interests: Bollywood, Group ...
R2 Book Tour - NOIDA
"Release 2.0 India Book Tour" - Noida programmes organised by Book Cafe...Two excellent enactments of key scenes from "Dear Popples" and "The Prayer" by 3 actors from the National School of Drama (NSD)Book reading and signing by Anou and me...I read through the scene where William is contemplating giving Sudharshan a brief slot on his diary that ha...  more...
 Ash K | 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008
Friends: (110)  | City: --  | Interests: Reading, Food, Mo...
Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar...
The novel has an honest attempt - to make you laugh till your sides ache. The book is replete with humor, laughter and funny one-liners which keep you on the edgeto the last word read. Certainly this one tickles your funny bone. The novel's protagonist Samrat Ratan, son of second generation US immigrantschooses to leave hot shot investment banking,...  more...
 sri nivas | 22:28 | 30/May/2006
Friends: (4)  | Interests: Music,Movies,Art
Long Week end.
I have visited San Fransisco downtown,Golden gate bridge, Half Moon Bay ,Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay in the Long-weekend , which finally came to an end.Had a good time visiting the places. I remember, I used to play ‘Test Drive’, a racing game, back in hyderabad, it was good 7 yrs back I guess.   It had the races in a few United States’s cities lik...  more...
 Sandhya Suri | 21:47 | 21/Jan/2008
Friends: (658)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Life
Smirk
Wandering…The dark alleys of the mind’s deepest corridorsResounding… Crying…Grasping the folds of the silken shawl of memoriesSearching… Seeking…Truths too bitter to tell, too smattered with the bloodSpreading… Covering…Hiding the realities, the ignorant bliss of a heartless mindSalvaging… Begging…For redemption from the knowledge that defies the s...  more...
 Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007
Friends: (75)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: knowing the diver...
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...  more...
 Cyril Paul | 09:07 | 23/Apr/2008
Friends: (27)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Whoa...! Music/ M...
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 ...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 00:47 | 14/Apr/2008
Friends: (1219)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Trust ...
Bhod Gyalo!
At Jantar Mantar….Rising fists…. Bhod Gyalo! Bhod Gyalo!Manju Ka Tila…..Dreaming eyes….. Rangzen! Rangzen!Fort Kochi...‘Torch of Shame without flame’,Hey! Sino Monsters! Bodies could be butchered,Not souls….Frightened sinners,Blood licking beasts…Frustrated to see…Sons and daughters of soil committed for ultimate sacrifices…In Amdo, Kham, Machu, Pa...  more...
 Jahan Bakshi | 14:02 | 2/Jun/2008
Friends: (194)  | City: Sibsagar  | Interests: Cinema, reading, ...
Review: Woodstock Villa
Hansal Mehta's latest (non) effort is nothing more than a painful choreOriginally published on NOWRUNNING.COMImagine a near-empty movie hall. A few people sat shifting in their seats at the back of the theatre- muttering and sulking, waiting for Woodstock Villa to end. Away in the front rows sat I, howling with laughter. Movies like Woodstock Villa...  more...
 Krishna Reddy | 00:19 | 30/Jun/2008
Friends: (319)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Art of Living, Sw...
My new blog
Friends, I have started a new blog http://krishnareddy-blog.blogspot.com/ , a hotchpotch of everything under the sun.. Me and the doggy-dear at my Mumbai home lobby However,  Krish Wonders will remain my primary blog as always :)  more...
 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
Friends: (620)  | City: Bombay  | Interests: BREAKFAST: Assam ...
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...  more...
 udita chaudhary | 18:06 | 3/Sep/2007
Friends: (243)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: self-improvement,...
 "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...  more...
 febin joy | 17:32 | 5/Jul/2008
Friends: (451)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Music, Drawing, P...
Hide and seek
Hi friends... Here is one more pic for u all... took this some time back... on a trip to Valparai along with a group of other photographers from a flickr group - "Malayalikootam". The location is near Athirappalli. Keralites must be knowing the place... :) Just thought of sharing with u all....Enjoy the weekend... have a nice time... febz  more...
 atul sabnis | 10:39 | 30/Mar/2007
Friends: (155)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: Swimming, Aquariu...
Management Lesson
 Management Lesson   One fine day, a bus driver went to the bus garage, started his bus, and drove off along the route. No problems for the first few stops - a few people got on, a few got off, and things went generally well.At the next stop, however, a big hulk of a guy got on. Six feet eight,built like a wrestler, arms hanging down to the ground....  more...
 sonu k | 18:25 | 13/Feb/2008
Friends: (532)  | City: Dubai  | Interests: news,investment,l...
The most important relationship you can ...
One day all the employees reached the office and they saw a big advice on the door on which it was written: "Yesterday the person who has been hindering your growth in this company passed away. We invite you to join the funeral in the room that has been prepared in the gym". In the beginning, they all got sad for the death of one of their colleague...  more...
 Amit Agrawal | 12:52 | 7/Jul/2008
Friends: (289)  | City: New Delhi  | Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
searching....
Somebody told me on my Jo Hari window exercise that I am searching! (Jo Hari window is a behavioral model to help one figure out the perception of others about them)Someone's blog says that their interests are "Googling" :)So I thought that I will write some gibberish on this.Why are we searching?Why are we searching so often? (Indians do billions ...  more...
 chandra mohan | 19:28 | 9/Jul/2008
Friends: (205)  | City: Atlanta  | Interests: Nethin X-treme, B...
Very addictive songs
Kinda like these songs ....very easy on the ear    more...