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 01:12 | 6/Jul/2007 |
| Show it to me :) | |
| Got this from one of the blogs that I read!Really liked the way the song was sequenced!!--------------Oh it seems to me this whole world’s gone crazy There’s too much hate and killing going on When I see the bare chest of a woman My worries and my problems are all gone.-----------nice song, nice video (Rodney Carrington)!http://www.pleaseshowthemto...
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| 19:01 | 5/Jun/2007 |
| 'SPIN' on the law changes! | |
| http://lifestyle.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2096496.cms -------------“Under the ancient Hindu law, a concubine had to be given maintenance and if the partner died a part of the estate had to be given to her. Now the position of the women in live-in relationships is equal to that of a concubine, is it not?” says Susila Devi, senior advocate of crimin...
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| 20:04 | 4/Jun/2007 |
| SECOND LIFE anyone ?? | |
| I am a member of second like, but am yet to get active on that! Buying Linden $s is going to cost me real $s ..so am holding off for now! Read the below from DNA, atrocities even on second life, it seems !!! There is no longer a place which can be considered safe, I guess!----------Is virtual rape really a crime?When Linden Research, a software fir...
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| 20:42 | 25/May/2007 |
| And who said they need MEN ?? | |
| Music along with an orgasm :) Read this somewhere ..and posting it here. Very innovative :))---------A British sex toy shop's ad campaign for a vibrating iPod peripheral has drawn ire of Apple Inc. The vibrating sex toy accessory for the iPod appears to have got Apple's legal team all hot and steamy.According to a British Tabloid reports, adult sto...
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| 23:41 | 24/May/2007 |
| where does this stop ?? | |
| Read this on DC:----------One of the world’s most prestigious health journals has lashed a fast-growing trend in the United States and Britain for “designer vaginas,” the tabloid term for cosmetic surgery to the female genitalia. The fashion is being driven by commercial and media pressures that exploit women's insecurities and is fraught with unkn...
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| 22:40 | 14/May/2007 |
| More On Phaedrus!! | |
| "And what is good, Phædrus,And what is not good...Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?"What is Quality in thought and education ??And: "I think there is such a thing as Quality, but that as soon as you try to define it, something goes haywire. You can't do it."So, thats how Phaedrus approaches the whole concept of quality.He goes on "Quality...
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| 22:15 | 8/May/2007 |
| Happiness Quotient in marriages | |
| How does one define the happiness quotient in one's marriage ?? The major difference in the Indian and Western lifestyles is the elasticity of relationships, w.r.t marriage. I know everything cannot be quantified, and the topic that I am dealing with is highly qualitative and subjective in nature. Still, being at that stage of my life, I always pon...
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| 00:25 | 3/May/2007 |
| Is Gilli guilty of Glove-tampering ??? | |
| Okay guys, Aussies have won 3-in-a-row! This is probably going to remain unbeaten, easily for the next 30 years, if not more.They won, because of one player. Now, did he do anything unfair ??http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21642663-232 12,00.html As the above story says, in his own admittance, he used a part of a squash ball in his glove. W...
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| 00:18 | 3/May/2007 |
| And its Springtime in D.C .. | |
| And with it, D.C comes alive! The Cherry Blossoms are some of the best, for the 2 first weeks of April. The cold weather is all gone, all the sweaters, heavy jackets and scarfs have long been dry-cleaned and vacuum-packed to the basements. Tourists are now swarming around the D.C downtown, the monuments and the museums! Tourists - I just feel like ...
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| 07:22 | 29/Apr/2007 |
| They make it 3-in-a-tow!! | |
| And they did make it 3-in-a-row! (the end was so wretched, that one didnt even feel like its cricket anymore) and what a stage Gilli chose to demo his wares!Wanted to give one parting note(w.r.t Worldcup 07) - to who else, Sachin! Sachin, I dont care if you play another 3 or 4 years, I dont care if you want to make another additional 250 or 300 cro...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (505)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: Everything
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| Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai... |
| About four years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes, who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by the U.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderous Fernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliation quietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, the f...
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| Jolly Jacob | 12:22 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (211)
| City: Planet Earth
| Interests: music, reading, w...
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| My Lord calls to me |
| My Lord calls to mein the early morning light‘kuhu-kuhu’ she singsin joyous dulcet tones.My Lord enfolds mein the early morning mist,ethereal and uplifting,a mother's embrace.My Lord sings to mefrom the violin’s bow,gliding on the stringsin heartrending melody.My Lord looks at mefrom beggar-child eyesin desperate hope,for alms, for love.My Lord com...
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| lucille iaco... | 20:57 | 8/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (241)
| City: Cape Cod, MA
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| My sincere apology... |
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| My dear iLand friends... I apologize for leaving the conclusion of my hummingbird story up in the air and hope you will forgive me. The sad truth is, I have been in a state of physical distress which has not allowed my mind to transcend to that touching experience, or any other pleasant memory. Please know that my connection with everyone her...
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| Kumar Rahul | 13:37 | 13/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (387)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading and writing.
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| Propaganda of Retail |
| BusinessPropaganda of Retail A government ‘study’ has come up, proving that organised big retail is harming the unorganised small retail shops’ business. [Link] This survey (and they call it a study) was started on the directive of UPA chairperson. The survey involved around 1000 small retailers in four Indian cities, including 800 who were within ...
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| Ashish bhasin | 14:22 | 8/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (1)
| City: Delhi
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| war of dividends ... |
| Often when I see company declaring dividends 100% or 200% of there face value. I always thing should company pay dividends to the shareholders. (for many this tyopic sound stupid). But when a person invest in wealth creating instruments like shares, they never expect the return in the form of the dividends. They want the value should be created. Sh...
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| Eva Braun | 11:25 | 25/Nov/2007 |
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| Imagine an iceberg the size of your neighborhood. Imagine a smaller iceberg the size of your apartment. Now look at the ice cube that you just popped into your whisky and soda or your cola. Where did the ice go! Huh! Walk down by the seaside and watch the waves ripple down the sand and on to your feet. Feels nice isn’t it. Now do you know w...
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| L KINI | 13:52 | 6/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (781)
| 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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| News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (946)
| City: Chandigarh
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| please income |
| SantaSingh got his promotion and became principal in colledge. To keep up with his status, he decided tospeak only in English to all his juniors. One morning, his peon peeped through the doorto see if his principal was busy. Santa Singh noticed him and shouted, 'Why areyou outstanding! Please in...
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| Vijay Sarathi | 11:47 | 12/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (31)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: keep moving
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| Everyday you read something good that you want to share with all because you were moved by it... today's highlight... enjoy... The Sparrow told the gardener at morn Why the earth brings out the blossoms Which die in the prime of their youth Whereas the accompanying thorns grow to an old age -- Mohd. Iqbal (written in Urdu)
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| sunita som | 11:46 | 25/May/2007 |
| Friends: (220)
| City: Bangalore
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| Aashiyana |
| One of my frens on the Iland (Neetha Nair) suggested that i write something about my new home....i was seriously thinking on those lines when the Radio FM played this wonderful song from yesteryear.....this song says it all....it is from the movie Saath Saath released in 1982 with Farooq Shaik and Deepti Naval playing the lead roles....a timeless m...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 06:31 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (366)
| City: Mumbai
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| Higher Electricity Bills .. again ? |
| If you don't take action now .. you may end up paying higher electricity bills .. again !!Just a small reminder that there is a Public Hearing on Dec 6th at the YB Chavan Auditorium (Opp. Mantralaya), Mumbai - at 11 am. This is to hear public suggestions / comments on MSEDCL's petition to increase electricity tariff in lieu of imposing second "stag...
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| Bad Angel | 13:30 | 13/Oct/2007 |
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| Words Fiesta - A compilation of my favou... |
| Words Fiesta! A compilation of my favourite poems on iLand. “Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” - Carl Sandburg To My LoveIf ...
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| Jayalakshmi ... | 19:16 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (117)
| City: Vishakapatnam
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| Life Without Sports (Is Anyone Listening... |
| Not entirely, perhaps...with the ICC working overtime, life cannot really be without sports. (I am strictly talking about television here, any suggestion of active sport is out.) But with action on the motorsport circuit, in my view, having long ended for the season, the weekends are pretty dreary. There is no hint of scarlet to brighten my Sunday ...
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| AR Ramanathan | 17:08 | 26/Oct/2007 |
| Friends: (8)
| City: Bangalore
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| Existence of GOD |
| Thisis one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and sufferingthat I have seen: A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut andhis beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation.They talked about so many things and various subjects.When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber s...
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| C V | 14:49 | 9/Aug/2007 |
| Friends: (176)
| City: India
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| Dreams |
| Each one of us has been endowed with the innate capacity to dream. We begin dreaming very early in life as kids. All of us recollect those times in ourchildhood, can’t we, when we dreamed of wanting to excel in our studies or ofhaving that special toy and when it did materialize, what was it that we felt? A feeling of joy, ecstasy? A dream come t...
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| Binu Abraham | 17:54 | 9/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (583)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: Reading
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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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| friendly ghost | 10:19 | 10/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (327)
| City: Mumbai
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer Loans |
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| Stop Credit Cards & Consumer LoansToday, we have an affluent economy, with only a small fraction of our economies' output devoted to basic needs. Environmentalists say that we are reaching the limits of growth due to ecological constraints. Here in our cities, we have not only reached the limits of human needs but overshot them many times over. Wha...
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| Swati Sensarma | 22:36 | 21/May/2007 |
| Friends: (14)
| City: Calcutta
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| nothing majorly out of the ordinary happened today.......it was one of those typical mondays which arouses in one, the common mournful sigh, at the realisation that another long week full of tiring work-days,was beginning......yes,the weather was grey and dull,one of those sluggish,gloomy days so characterisitic of kolkata monsoons......but otherwi...
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| cubicile blues | 11:36 | 18/Mar/2007 |
| Friends: (18)
| City: Gurgaon
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| my thoughts, ur words |
| I’m convinced that this anxiety running through my life is the tension between what I “should be ” n what I am. My anxiety doesn’t comes 4 thinking abt d future but 4 wanting to control it . it seems to begin whenever I smuggle into my mind an expectation about how I or others should be . it is d tension between my desire to control the world n d r...
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| P Nayak | 15:37 | 20/Jun/2007 |
| Friends: (72)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Listening, readin...
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| Wanderings of my mind |
| Today I read an interesting peice in TOI. The writer says we begin by blaming the others for any problems. i.e. "You" are responsible. Then as we grow spiritually we start saying "I" am responsible and as we evolve we say "No one is to blame" ! Interesting, right? I am sure it must be right, there must be a deeper meaning of the self, ego et al. My...
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| mihir mishra | 02:01 | 29/Oct/2006 |
| Friends: (25)
| City: Bokaro
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| our fantasies |
| Before going ahead i should inform all of you that i am not a great philospher or a thinker.all i can say that it just came to my mind.i am relatively newborn in blogging arena so feel free to air your comments of my blogs.to me fantasy is a weired hidden or a suppressed feeling for which finding a right expression may not be possible.it could be f...
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