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| So, here is your latest dose of torture. Here's hoping you enjoy. Please give your comments and feedback so I can finetune my torture techniques :) When we were fifteen,I heard her say in her heart, to me'Will you love me?'Her eyes were clear as the sky...'I am incapable of loving,Will you cure me, mister?For my heart will, inspite of me, love you ...
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| 20:50 | 19/Jul/2008 |
| A bit of me! | |
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| So here I am again with your latest dose of torture. :)Cigarette smokingThe dreamy-eyed Piscean at IIIT Hyd would be proud -- proud to hear -- as soon as he does -- that I can now properly smoke. Take a cigg in between the two fingers and sans any noise or huff-puff, fill my lungs with the smoke, hold it there, and exhale. I went to this room -- a ...
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| 14:36 | 12/Jul/2008 |
| 'What’s wrong with you?!’ | |
| ‘Have you heard about David Rockefeller?’‘Of course I have,’ she begins, like she begins all sentences, followed by answering the question in mid-sentence, ‘we read about him in our first year MBA classes’, and goes on to build her case, ‘I mean every MBA student reads about the success story of the Rockefellers, and David Rockefeller is worshipped...
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| 13:10 | 24/Jun/2008 |
| The Mad Aunt of Kashmir | |
| Mad Aunt loved children only they would never come near her. They would not because of the children she already had – her three dog-children who would constantly bark at us children whenever we would go near her house, as though in perpetual possessiveness of the love of their ‘mother’, too afraid to share it with anyone else. Sometimes when she wo...
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| 10:37 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Dedicated to YOU | |
| It makes you reticentIt makes you talkIt makes you to stopAs it makes you walkIt makes you liveIt makes you tooIt feeds fat your egoThen lives off youIt implores you thinkPassionate, crying issuesIt makes you mull all dayAnd live in the blues In this perishable worldIt implores you to be happy, sad, indifferent, agogThe Profound Need, to sooner or ...
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| 12:46 | 2/Jun/2008 |
| Journalistic Terrorism by The Times of I... | |
| There have been two reports of late in The Times of India which are essentially a giveaway in that they tell us of the rampant corruption in the mainstream media. Let us look at them one by one. Neither on the left nor on the right side of the argumentThe first report was an editorial published on Saturday, 31st, May. More than being a report it w...
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| 00:09 | 24/May/2008 |
| Wo kaghaz ki kashti aur wo kaali ghaneri... | |
| Memories from the decade of the nineties when I grew up in LucknowThe rainwater would make a guttural sound as it gushed outOf the pipe in the aangan(1)that ran down the wall from the chat(2)I would set the paper-boat along the current gushing outThe boat would just as soon be overturned with the waterraining down!If we would be playing cricket and...
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| 12:08 | 20/May/2008 |
| Mrs. De, Ms. Roy, Jaipur blasts, etceter... | |
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| Reviw of Shobha De's Superstar India After having read her “politically incorrect” essays on cricket and football in the Sunday Times of India, I decided to never buy Mrs. De. However, I always try to keep a track of the content of her writings and its appreciation/criticism by the masses as well as by critics. So it was with Spouse. Now that her l...
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| 12:39 | 19/May/2008 |
| Listening To Grasshoppers | |
| By Arundhati RoyGenocide, Denial And CelebrationIt's an old human habit, genocide is. It's a search for lebensraum, project of Union and Progress.I never met Hrant Dink, a misfortune that will be mine for time to come. From what I know of him, of what he wrote, what he said and did, how he lived his life, I know that had I been here in Istanbul a y...
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| 12:39 | 15/May/2008 |
| The Times of India, propaganda, and a gr... | |
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| I thoroughly believe that the Times of India newspaper has propaganda, an agenda for furthering their own cause viz. their profit and is also part of a ‘grand global conspiracy’. Very often you see the colourful box headlined ‘celebrate with The Times’ where ‘the times’ has a double meaning. They also have another line viz. ‘move with The Times’ or...
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| Nikhat Fatima | 21:00 | 17/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (139)
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| Commuting Experiences VI |
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| Paradise coffin Makers Another thing I never fail to observe during my commutation is the way my thoughts are suddenly drawn to death.If I am on the right side of the bus, I can see the Catholic cemetery. But most of the times I am seated on the left. And on the left side, just opposite to the cemetery in the same vicinity is a small shop with th...
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| N Talwar | 12:03 | 26/Jun/2008 |
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| In the Borders of Our Life... |
| I am re-publishing this piece of writing, as a blog, years after it was awarded a prize in "Soul Space" in the Deccan Chronicle.Last month my middle aged father died unexpectedly. He was an excellentdoctor but could not get adequate attention in his time of need. When Isaw his body after his death, he looked calm and peaceful, as if in adeep slumbe...
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| Sarath Chandra | 02:34 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| The Breaking Point |
| A chill ran down my spine. So this is how it feels, I thought. I never felt it again. It was a rope of ice pulled along my spine and held for a split second longer at the lowest point. In my numbness, I noticed the floor boy happily waving me out. I knew the psychology of his happiness. It wasn’t worth the effort to verbalize it. I was just refused...
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| Meera | 18:04 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Part III - North Darshan |
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| Woke up at 7am, had bath, got dressed and then we were all set to go for our mini picnic…As planned the journey to Agra would begin at 7:30 am…To reach Saket it took us 45 minutes…So we reached at 8:15 am as Shashi our dear friend who would be our “Raju Guide”. We were waiting for him at PVR…Ravi, and Sikku were enjoying the chai ka chuskees…I foun...
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| LAUKIK | 09:40 | 16/Jun/2008 |
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| TWICE IS THE BEST |
| The hard reality Read Twice The hard reality The hard reality is that when you need advice, everyone is ready to help you, but when you need help, everyone is ready to advice you…..!
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| anil verma | 14:37 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| GIFT FOR ALL |
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| Dearest, All friends at my blogs this is an exclusive Full Photo of Sai Samadhi with Sai charan. You can download it and if anybody want then I can send by mail.
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| Arpit A | 20:12 | 17/May/2008 |
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| Nice Experince |
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| Hey Friends, Long time since I scribbled something here. Was way too busy with my own office chores but I regularly used to visit most of ur blogs and commented to them too frequently. Well , had a real nice experience abt 10 days back. The main power supply of our office had some problem that day and somehow huge flames of fire started coming out...
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| RAGHUPAT | 15:21 | 17/Jul/2008 |
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| size of your heart |
| It isn't the size of your house as such That matters so much at all. It's the gentle hand and its loving touch, That make it great or small. The friends who come and the hour they Who out of your house depart, Will judge it not by the style you show, But rather by the size of your heart. It isn't the size of your head so much,It isn't the wealth yo...
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| gman | 16:13 | 19/Jun/2008 |
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| THE PERFUME |
| THE PERFUMEAs she stood in front of her 5th grade class on the very first day of school, she told the children an untruth. Like most teachers, she looked at her students and said that she loved them all the same. However, that was impossible, because there in the front row, slumped in his seat, was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. Mrs. Thompson...
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| vijayaram reddy | 12:11 | 16/Jul/2008 |
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| నువ్వĺ 3;నా ! ఎలా వున్నĹ 4;వ్ ? నన్ను తలుచుĵ 3;ోటాని 093;ి కూడా వీలు కాన...
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| JAYDIP DAS | 00:24 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| Tiger Safaris at Jim Corbett National Pa... |
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| Jim Corbett! a foot ball player? no the legendry hunter. You will not find anyone not knowing him. Still today you will find his books in popular internet book sellers like amazon.com likeMan-Eaters of Kumaon (Oxford India Paperbacks) (Paperback)by Jim Corbett (Author) "I WAS shooting with Eddie Knowles in Malani when I first heard of the tiger whi...
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| Naina | 02:31 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Hope and love- at loggerheads?! |
| “If cupid strikes an arrowWhy doesn’t he make it a twin strike?Why does he sometimes-Merely injure one and kill another!” What is love? When is love “love”? Is it only when two people happen to fall in love with each other that love finds its complete meaning? Is one-sided love somehow incomplete?Is unrequited love just an excuse in the name of lov...
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| Frozen Sun | 18:55 | 25/Jul/2008 |
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| Pre Marital Woes |
| My life usually doesn't take sudden turns. So this was absolutely out of the blue and did shatter my peace and quiet for a while. The shattering noise echoed across Indian subcontinent and Malayala Manorama (the tabloid from Kerala) reported it as an earth quake of scale 7. Now, what is this you'll ask? MY MARRIAGE CONSPIRACY it is! Not to worry gi...
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| sandeep koul | 10:19 | 24/Jul/2008 |
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| Suicide by a patriotic....and his last p... |
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| JAMMU, July 23: A youth taking part in the chain hunger strike against cancellation of forest land to Shri Amarnath Shrine Board (SASB) today sacrificed his life after consuming poison in protest against the remarks of National Conference chief, Omar Abdullah in Parliament yesterday that the land to Amarnath shrine Board will be returned only over ...
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| Namrata Hari... | 10:20 | 6/Mar/2008 |
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| Good For Nothing |
| GOOD FOR NOTHING-15 That was an unusual quiet day in terms of workload.I was on night duty with ‘my’ staff busy in their respective duties. I had a rather unwritten agreement with the hospital management to provide me with my chosen set of nurses, ward boys and other paramedics during my night du...
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| nataszah | 19:59 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| MY ONLINE FRIENDS |
| I wonder if anyone of you feels the same way as I domaking friends online by texting or emailingThe fact that most of us enjoys the time we shareWith friends online most of the time....I cant imagine the shared feelings Even for a rough day or for a tough jobStill find time to enjoy the reality of making friendsWithin the net or sending text on mob...
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| Jasmine Jassi | 20:23 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| when 'm gone.... |
| ...When things come to the end ..either life itself or in general …the first thought knocks ..’ll they really care or remember for a few moments ,‘ll life be d same as it ever was… .. thoughts arrive with a mix of emotions.. as shades of evenings or warmth of sun.. loads of sorrow or handful of fun ..........here goes a touching song of...
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| deepthi menon | 22:50 | 9/Apr/2008 |
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| memoirs of a geisha |
| after a gap of 2 weeks..i got this book" memoirs of a geisha"..by Arthur Golden i found this one intresting but not touching ..geishas are a kind of devadasis of ancient india,who can be called as entertainers.. (not prostitutes) not of a must read category ..but a good one
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| datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008 |
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| Jobs of editorial proofreading. |
| Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm
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| angel | 23:17 | 15/Jun/2008 |
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| m happpeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! |
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| I am happy...... :) ....dis is my 2nd blog 2day....nt cuz m bored....bt coz m happy tht my faith is strong enuff 2 keep me from breaking down!!!!I dunno...if i really hav d will power i need....but having faith sometimes really helps.....from d past 1 week i was sooo disturbed....for things i hav done...for sufferings from things i have'nt done.......
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| cadence | 18:17 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| 11 AM:I’ve had my coffee plus bread plus vodka,my pulse racing along at a merry clip, alert and shakydespite all, love kindles, there were worse lives after allit’s always possible, even in the ashes of our long-over livessomething stirs, a phoenix, bad as it is, lets get fried I look at him, a preposterous fake house on a fake hilldredged up from ...
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| Tammanna | 20:23 | 25/Jul/2008 |
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| Getting down and dirty |
| Getting down and dirty Let me deconstruct Your dream-girl image of meSitting here hooking my toesInto the ends of my torn jeansI may present a pretty pictureBut I tell you there is more to meThan just a pretty face and sweet smileIf I had to begin listing the evilThen I’d confess I had arm-pit hairAnd just the hint of immoralityThat shades a few of...
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| Tinkerbell | 12:36 | 5/May/2008 |
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| Raindrops keep fallin on my head... |
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| boomp3.comRaindrops keep fallin' on my headAnd just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bedNothin' seems to fitThose raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'So I just did me some talkin' to the sunAnd I said I didn't like the way he got things doneSleepin' on the jobThose raindrops are fallin' on my head, they keep fallin'But the...
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| Vibhuti | 12:15 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Hi after the break!! |
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| My Dear Friends, Missed you all very much, I was visiting your iLands as and when get time but was missing the regular interaction with all of you and the most important thing… was missing sharing life with you. With lots of work life was running me Ulta-pulta….So again having hand on writing something of my own and starting from recent nice though...
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| Freedom Unbound | 23:45 | 24/Jul/2008 |
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| Billy Cobham |
| Awesome Billy Cobham. The greatest and my favourite drummer. For them who freak out on drums, this is a treat. The first one and third are solos, the second is a lovely Jazz number and the last one is Ultimate - dont miss it - be patient and watch him take off in an awesome display of artistry in a recording of 1968.
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| Eye Weekly | 21:21 | 9/Apr/2008 |
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| Shaurya |
| this is one of them which flatters to deceive. rahul bose is a good actor but he has his limitations which are very clear in the movie. it would have been more interesting to see javed jaffery in the role of a protagonist for a change.the director has done a decent job but he has been unjust to the story and goes off on a tangent about racism. the ...
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| Devi | 16:22 | 18/Jul/2008 |
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| Tall, dark and Handsome |
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| From God’s own country and God’s own creation, introducing India’s most handsome and eligible bachelor, Febin Joy. Tall, dark and handsome. Elizabeth calls him Stallone of India and I totally agree, even though I gave him tough time for wearing that cap J. A prize winning photgrapher, biker and computer pro. In the previous post some people point...
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| amit goel | 23:12 | 25/Jul/2008 |
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| My Visit to Pakistan- Part- 2 |
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| Pakistan has more than a plateful of political turmoil and external interference. India has been a historical opponent, but the later problems outweigh the burden of Indo Pak misgivings. After years of abject surrender to USA they realise that for them the superpower rivalry has been a near disaster. Afghanistan under the Russians was a bitter enem...
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| Tarun Giribuwa | 11:24 | 23/Mar/2008 |
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| This is awesome!! |
| I have been spending the last few days soaking up this wealth. Do click on the link below to read about the migration of humans and various sects across the human history https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/globe.h tml#/index/
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| ekantapadhika | 09:50 | 21/Jul/2008 |
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| I haven’t seen Charlie Chaplin’s film “ The Great Dictator” and I was curious when afl (http://floatingleaf.rediffiland.com) gave a link to his speech in the film , in the comments’ section of Jolly’s post on war(http://blackswan.rediffiland.com) which the comment said, would explain the whole thing. It's quite a beautiful exhortati...
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| Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
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| Contemporary Indian Art from Raja Ravi V... |
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| This is the first part of the three articles to be published on this subject.What is contemporary Indian art? This is a question that has gnawed at the global literary consciousness time and again. Indian art has its roots in myriad folk styles and traditions and has also fed on the social and political ethos of not only India but also of the world...
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| Amitabh Dasg... | 19:20 | 10/Apr/2008 |
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| Shopping for Marriage |
| Marriage is an event for a lifetime. Every youth wishes to make that special moment a memorable event not only for him/her but for all those who become a part of it. Today wedding ceremonies have become a status symbol for all therefore the marketing aspect plays a very significant role in the whole celebration.Of the several aspects that come up o...
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| Noanee Kapadia | 14:04 | 17/Jun/2008 |
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| My country can be better place. |
| "My country can be better place , clean ,green and beautiful" read Kiran Naiks blog .As he says I too do not litter on streets be it somthing small like bus or a cinema ticket , it goes in my pocket back home in garbage I am sure all cld do this .Also wherever I can on the treks ,I pick up the garbage left behind by others and clean up the ground ...
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| lucille iaco... | 22:29 | 13/Jul/2008 |
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| Time |
| Technorati Profile I find myself in an incomprehensible position... a situation real enough to kill me, should I lose my balance on a loosening tightrope. Yet so surreal I sometimes think my death will be nothing more than an instantaneous vaporization of the molecules I call my body. I am dying... we are all dying. But for most of us, living life ...
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| tamilini A | 13:40 | 21/Jul/2008 |
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| A soul within a soulA heart within a heartThe quench ever persistsSeperate identities hardly existsIrresistible and irrevocableAll enchanted and mesmerizedSoothing mind, body and soulMaking both their lives wholeWhere sharing is the best wayWithout togetherness joys nayLove is the way of lifeWithout a single strifeRemaining anchor for the otherIn t...
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| Lissome Lady | 13:06 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| THE VIRTUAL WORLD OF CHAT – PART I |
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| ‘Second Life’ is a parallel virtual world created on the web where, as expressed in its title, people can have a second life – one in which they play God and choose for themselves identities and personas that have been hitherto only dreamt of or achieved by dint of hard labour or genetic happenstance. The lame can walk and the mute can sing. ...
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| alpana | 09:42 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| love me sweet love like you never loved me before this time dont let me anywhere else goin your arms hugged close to make me your retreat in your arms let me be my face pressed close let me hear your heart beat...and when i close my eyesit will be cause i am not asleep it will be so i can sense youand tell you i am forever yours to keep...so sweet...
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