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 12:40 | 24/Sep/2007
Today's Quote
Don't Just Quote It. Read It. more...
 14:31 | 18/Sep/2007
Difference Of Love
A Girl Loves For Herself . and A Boy Loves For Herself . more...
 14:52 | 31/Aug/2007
5 WayTo Make Your Relationship Worse
1. Always Criticize Criticism is good way to live, until you criticize people can’t change/improve themselves and you will get into trouble. Amount of criticism and way of it will decide whether you are building relationship or destroying.2. Always Tell LieThere is not necessary to tell truth always, even many times you will be trapped after tellin... more...
 16:40 | 26/Jun/2007
Why we can't blog in Hindi
Suddenly an idea came to my mind to blog in hindi, but rediff doesn't provide it while it provide same thing in mail system.I wonder why it is.I also thought why  I need blogging in Hindi, I got answer that sometime it is just easy to express ourselves in our regional language and also sometimes dil chahat hai just writing a simple poem in hindi.I ... more...
 12:58 | 22/Jun/2007
Brain signals control robot
This BBC news published in June 1999 shows that scientist have tried to control the robot through rat's brain signal and succeeded in the experiments.News is old but interesting and therefore i want to share with you.News says "The scientists trained rats to obtain water from a robotic arm by pressing a small lever. Each rat had electrodes implante... more...
 12:02 | 18/Jun/2007
I am victim of my random thoughts
I am victim of my random thoughts.They sometimes loose my concentration and sometimes give me new idea and sometimes save me from going into depression.Reason i think, for my random thoughts,my mind always wants to be busy and when i don't give it matters to nourish & to grow, it searches its own raw matrial. Sometimes these auto-searched raw mater... more...
 17:29 | 8/Jun/2007
Life is not easy
Life is not easy as seen by naked eyes,there are dust in life as they are on lenses of spectacles.These dust are real actors in life,they come,they reduce visibilty to truths,they never go themselves until you take hard action to wipe them.And after some time when you don't care, they again started to come and make a throng of themselves.I'm not st... more...
 10:36 | 1/Jun/2007
My Fight with Migraine
After two years continuing allopathic medication which was nothing but hard pain-killers, i came close to my best friend Mr. P.N.Dubey who worked hard to get me rid of my migraine through yoga,pranayam & morning walk.Migraine (one side severe headache) was initially accompanied by nausea, excess saliva & excess sweating.My life had been disturbed.I... more...
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 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
Friends: (618)  | 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...
 Uday Sodhi | 10:16 | 22/Nov/2007
Friends: (206)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Internet, Travel,...
Letter to Bill Gates
 Dear Mr. Bill Gatesa, This letter is from Banta Singh from Punjab. We have bought a computer forour home and we found problems, which I want to bring to your notice.1. After connecting to internet we planned to open e-mail account andwhenever we fill the form in Hotmail in the password column, only ******appears, but in the rest of the fields what...  more...
 ratna rajaiah | 10:51 | 9/Dec/2007
Friends: (269)  | Interests: reading, writing,...
Question of the Week - Richest Indian
Is there anything that Mukesh Ambani looks at and thinks to himself:"Aw gee - I wish I could afford to buy that..."  more...
 Priya I | 16:54 | 23/Jan/2007
Friends: (37)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: People, Travel, M...
My Happy Place
I have a happy place in my mind An empty beach, windswept, Shimmering white sands,Watching the tide sweep in, Waves coming in, receding…Coming in, receding…Coming in, receding…The roar of the sea, the sound receding with the waves…It’s funny how often I visit my happy placeWhen life throws a googly or two up at my faceBut, yes, my happy place waits...  more...
 Yeh Aasma | 00:28 | 21/Nov/2005
Friends: (4)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading,Music,Ppl...
My Dairy Of Destiny .. {My}
"MY"My - This word has so many meanings to it...People say the use of word 'My' Means Possession.They Team this word with neagative attitudes...'My' is often considered a word of  Superiority Ego,but is that true??         Some things really depend on how you look at them...and somethings depend on how we make people look at them..        My - does...  more...
 Kanchan Bhat... | 23:49 | 12/Dec/2007
Friends: (116)  | City: Jabalpur  | Interests: Impossibole... th...
Randomized
Randomized You women lie Kneeling and praying Dancing in endgames Praying as life ebbs To the Goddess of stupid things, Just nothingness Rejoicing in my death Forever A blindfold through The stakes Kill me Would you Or rather, Wont you? © kanchan 12 Dec 2007  more...
 Isha Dixit | 13:39 | 10/Oct/2007
Friends: (75)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Travel, reading, ...
I found My ANGEL
…Puff…………. The Marijuana, dissolving and liberating, cathartic and somber…into the lungs, into the blood streams, straight to the head.. The young boy, though had not eaten a good meal in days, was ecstatic for he could see stars in the mid noon. His head felt heavy, but nevertheless good. And he levitated. That’s how he felt, six feet above the gr...  more...
 deep sharma | 09:36 | 13/Apr/2006
Friends: (11)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: Reading, travelli...
Forced Mourning
Death of Rajkumar reminds of the Adage , when a big tree falls the ground shakes, True a lot of people must be feeling low because of the demise of a idol . But to pay tribute to him should we burn Busses? Unfortunately this is becoming an acceptable behaviour. If there is an accident, Burn busses, If you are not getting Pension hikes , Stop work...  more...
 shilpi gandhi | 12:46 | 14/Dec/2005
Friends: (7)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music making new ...
Fantasy word itself creates fantacy imagination in the mind... A person fantasise and when it comes to be true he / she is feels on top of the world.... but when the imagination doesn takes place he / she is unexpressive... its very important to manage and limit our imagination upto a boundry where not much of joy and not much of sadness should be ...  more...
 Vish R | 20:40 | 28/Nov/2007
Friends: (60)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Football cooking ...
Matrimonial Blues
  "Hello...""Hi buddy.Wassup?""First congratulate me...""What for? Gotta a pay hike?""I got engaged man..."         ...i got engaged man... i got engaged man...( Its an echo for dramatic effect)I couldnt believe my ears.The words kept ringing like a pathetic free ringtone one downloads when half drunk."Whats the big deal?" i kept questioning myself...  more...
 The Witch | 23:29 | 4/Jan/2006
Friends: (51)  | City: Oz  | Interests: Fair is Foul And ...
My Stupid Suicide Plan - Chetan Bhagat
Last week, an IITian committed suicide. People who commit suicide do itwhen they feel there's no future. But wait, isn't IIT the one placewhere a bright and shining future is a foregone conclusion? It justdoesn't add up, does it? Why would a young, hardworking, bright studentwho has the world ahead of him do something like this? But the answer isth...  more...
 Krishnaswamy... | 21:56 | 7/Dec/2007
Friends: (120)  | City: Fremont, CA  | Interests: Cricket & Discuss...
DRUNK EPISODE
 Woman knocks husband out with potatoThursday, December 6, 2007The potato was later mashedAll couples have their arguments, but usually vegetables aren"t used as weapons.When things got heated between a husband and wife in Nicholson, Georgia, she reached for the first thing that came to hand - a spud.When her partner called her by a rude word, she...  more...
 Siddarth-The... | 19:59 | 22/Oct/2007
Friends: (135)  | City: Madurai  | Interests: Anything under th...
At 10.40 pm
At 10.40 pm are you thinking of me?Or are you thinking of the other person who betrayed you At 10.40 pm are you level headed?has the spirit left you enchantedto leave the bitter taste behind to a sweeter paletteto kill the person who did all the stuff to you with a machette At 10.40 pm are you sane ?Are you attempting to jump out of the window to f...  more...
 Neeraj Jain | 17:35 | 14/Nov/2007
Friends: (167)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: I am a profession...
Lakshmi is Reborn - A Miracle
Neeraj Jain, 14th NovemberWhat a miracle? The doctors of Sparsh Hospital at Bangalore successfully completed an operation on Lakshmi and separated her from her parastic twin. Kudos to her parents and the chief surgeon who made it possible!Lakshmi suffered from a rare disease. She had four hands and four legs. As a result, she could not walk besides...  more...
 Saurin Parikh | 15:04 | 11/Jun/2007
Friends: (119)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Sunrise & Sunset ...
Great to Greatest
Everyone great person wants to be the greatest. Every person who has achieved something in his (or her) field wants to be the paramount achiever in that field. One would like to believe that it is only till the person has achieved it all, that he (or she) would like to rest. Or if you take the case of the Australian Cricket Team, not rest at all. K...  more...
 anjeneyan an... | 13:57 | 10/Oct/2007
Friends: (61)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: movies, reading,s...
The silent treatement and others.
 A man and his wife were having some problems at home and were giving each other the silent treatment.  Suddenly, the man realized that the next day, he would need his wife to wake him at 5:00 AM for an early morning business flight.Not wanting to be the first to break the silence (and LOSE), he wrote on a piece of paper, "Please wake me at 5:00 AM...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 20:35 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1173)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Humanity ...
पूरी र...
बांछें खिल गई थी,दरवाजí 5; पर खड़े देवदूत,भë 2;पेट भोजन का निमंत्र...  more...
 Anil Goel | 12:28 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (749)  | Interests: Bollywood, Group ...
Can Maruti make car bombs?
Brainstorming exercise for fiction writers.Can someone stop Maruti Udyog if they decide to manufacture car bombs? Here's the thought... We go through security checks at airport or at important places where too technology and people are able to scan us for 'known' threats...in most cases electronic items are usual suspects as are metallic devices an...  more...
 Mommies AtWork | 20:18 | 16/Nov/2007
Friends: (114)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: parenting, relati...
Of Little girls & difficult - to - expla...
Though I am going through a phase when I'm usually harried or depressed....there are some genuinely light moments....thanx to maya.A few days back, maya & I were watching some movie on tv. Noah was asleep. Since its diwali hols, sleeping deadlines for maya are a lil relaxed. Among the ads that play again & again in between the numerous breaks, ther...  more...
 mini francis | 11:38 | 18/Aug/2007
Friends: (234)  | City: delhi  | Interests: Reading, travelling
LUNCH WITH GOD
hi, friends, a forward just come to my way, thot to share with u.A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring...  more...
 shrirang nar... | 22:29 | 11/Dec/2007
Friends: (40)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music,travel,read...
I will kill you...
An 8th standard student has killed his classmate.  Commonly a person, who is mentally & physically normal, hates to see bloodshed. People react very strongly to the violent acts even shown in the media. They call it civilized society. Then what kind of emotion is this that has cropped up this kind of hatred in a teenage boy’s mind?  I’ll definitely...  more...
 Gopi Krishna | 17:05 | 12/Nov/2007
Friends: (57)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Movies,Music,Masti
The Midnight adventure..
Simple Life  It was a cold and chilly winter night in Bangalore. At 9.30 pm I set out to travel some 30 kilo meters on my bike. Some voice inside me kept yelling, “Are you crazy? Dude you have lab exam tomorrow morning at 8 am.” I kept telling myself “Hey, I will be back by 12 o’clock, I will revise it all till 3 am, I will rise again at 5.30 or 6 ...  more...
 AdityaDas Menon | 15:57 | 5/Dec/2007
Friends: (1170)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Romantic Yogi.....
" THE PRINCESS" ....Part One...........
"The Princess".......... Part One... Dear Reader, My Blog “ The Princess “ is nothing but simple scribblings of my wandering thoughts based on a story describing Panchali’s secret fascination towards the Star of Mahabharata – Karna ……Infact I read that few months back in a weekly.As per them, it was described in Puranamanjari.I don’t know whether i...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 20:33 | 1/Dec/2007
Friends: (1863)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: drawing,reading,s...
HAPPINESS AND SUCCESS
Happiness and success are two concepts intertwined with one another. These are two of the most important ingredients that would eventually define a person’s life. If one would think about it, happiness and success are two things that are relative to a person’s point of view since these are dependent on one’s ideologies. Happiness and success relate...  more...
 Began Began | 11:28 | 11/Oct/2007
Friends: (33)  | City: Chennai(Madras)  | Interests: Natures are our b...
Paper Boat
P a p e r     B o a t   Rainy Water Flows in Streets, My Paper Boat Sails on it, Mummy Daddy Scold on me, Note book Paper Waste on it, But the joy will stay Ever on it.     -Began. B  more...
 atul gandhi | 21:35 | 16/Sep/2006
Friends: (215)  | City: Kolhapur  | Interests: investment,travel...
RISHTE
Treat life as Sea, your heart as Shore, and your friends as Waves. It never matters how many waves are there, what matters is which Wave touches the Shore....  more...
 V T | 17:59 | 29/Nov/2007
Friends: (126)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Hoi Polloi & Riff...
Laal Salaam
लाल सलामएक ज़माना थाबहुत गुस्सा आता थादिल करता था के धूआँ उ...  more...
 shashi tahil... | 23:09 | 11/Dec/2007
Friends: (240)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Making friends,Su...
PLACEMENT OF EMPLOYEES
HOW TO PROPERLY PLACE NEW EMPLOYEES   1. Put 400 bricks in a closed room. 2. Put your new employees in the room and close the door. 3. Leave them alone and come back after 6 hours. 4. Then analyze the situation: a. If they are counting the bricks, put them in the Accounting Department. b. If they are recounting them, put them in Auditing. c. If the...  more...
 sunshine | 20:27 | 10/Dec/2007
Friends: (259)  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07
STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07 This week many a thoughts crowded my peanut brain leading to utter confusion on many issues. The unabated rise in the share prices is giving me sleepless nights. I have seen three crashes in the past two decades of my life. I have also seen blue chips being sold like peanuts… and have also escorted some people t...  more...
 chitra priya... | 19:58 | 21/Oct/2007
Friends: (382)  | City: ernakulam  | Interests: YOU CAME FROM NO ...
School memories Last bench chatting… silly fights Under bench munching Those yawned teachers Naughty pranks … out stood classes School uniforms … school trees Deep friendship … game period Lunch time … special classes Your lab galattas … b’ day treats Exam hall … beating from teachers Those never written postponed tests Last minute preparations …Fi...  more...
 Kush A | 20:53 | 12/Dec/2007
Friends: (184)  | City: Mysore  | Interests: Football, books, ...
Poetry at the iLand
My fave poems at the iland. Poems by: Indigo Iris, Friendly Ghost, ZEUS ZEUS and one by yours truly.  Maya By Friendly Ghost1. Two PoemsMayaIt is half filledAnd it remains only half filledNo matter what I achieveOr acquire. It is half emptyAnd it remains only half emptyNo matter what I fail at doingOr what I lose. (Ah! But this cup feels fuller whe...  more...
 binny bunnz | 16:58 | 30/Nov/2007
Friends: (137)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: The woods are lov...
Santa..Dii..Maa...Dii..Chitthi.....
Sardarji"s Mom"s LetterDear  BantaVahe  Guru ! I am in a well here and hoping you are in the same well there. I"m  writing this letter slowly, because I know you  cannot read fast.  We  don"t live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in  the newspaper  that most accidents happen 20 miles from home, so we moved  20 miles.  I wont be able t...  more...
 dilip krishnan | 16:20 | 27/Nov/2007
Friends: (216)  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
An Evening in ChanakyaIn the late seventies and early eighties, the government-run Chanakya Cinema was one of the very theatres in Delhi that regularly screened English films. Once in a while, Chanakya also hosted foreign film festivals. The Nirula’s had set up shop nearby and their pizzas and ice creams were indeed a treat those days when there wa...  more...
 Bole Toh | 16:42 | 9/Aug/2007
Friends: (289)  | City: alien city  | Interests: kabhi haddi todna...
Munna..... Kidhar se wapas tapka?
Kya mamu log..... maze mein? Kya aanti log......... kaisa chal rahela hai? Blog-giri mast chal rahela hai ki nahi?Ae Circuit, tu kya udhar-ich ko-ne mein khada rahega? Arre! kam se kam haal-chaal toh poochna mangta hai na!Circuit: "Bhai, apun ko sharam aa rahela hai. idhar ladki log bahut aati hai na..... apun ki toh ladki log ke saamne ek-dum tigh...  more...
 Phaedrus Zen | 01:12 | 6/Jul/2007
Friends: (26)  | City: D.C  | Interests: cricket, economic...
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...  more...
 shabdika Sharma | 18:23 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (155)  | City: Amritsar  | Interests: music,reading,sin...
Awake India
Today i m going to share golden words of a young 22 yrs boy and a great patriot of our land who sacreficed his life boldly for his motherland." MADAN LAL DHINGRA ".He was born in Amritsar,punjab.After passing BA he went to london for higher studies of law,where he came under the influence of  great guru of freedom fighters Sh .Vir Sawarkar Ji. In t...  more...
 ramesh m | 11:49 | 10/Dec/2007
Friends: (110)  | City: iland  | Interests: making others happy
Performance v/s Position
A priest dies and is waiting in line at the Pearly Gates. Ahead of him is a guy who's dressed in sunglasses, a loud shirt, leather jacket and jeans. Saint Peter addresses him, "Who are you, so that I may know whether or not to admit you into the Kingdom of Heaven?" The guy replies, "I'm Joe Cohen, taxi driver, from New York." Saint Peter consults h...  more...
 ramnath rajaram | 06:17 | 13/Dec/2007
Friends: (1054)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: HEALTH AWARENESS,...
GOOD MORNING- POLARIZATION
GOOD MORNING POLARIZATIONThe philosophy that I live by is that everything in life, eve life itself, takes but five minutes. That my childhood dayshad all been but five minutes, my high school years had gone in five minutes, the Bachelor degree that I had earned had been accomplished in five minutes, and when I find myself, God willing, on my deathb...  more...
 Gloria Aurora | 16:52 | 28/May/2007
Friends: (462)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: In almost everyth...
Run.....the race of life
Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the fastest lion. If he cannot, then he will be eaten. Every morning in Africa a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger. Whether you choose ...  more...
 bulbultuk bu... | 10:46 | 2/Dec/2007
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I LOVE YOU
I LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUI LOVE YOUHi ILAND FRIENDS , BULBUL IS ALIVE AND KICKING,FLUTTERING AND FLYING,HALE AND HEARTY,CHEERFUL AND POSITIVE AND WILL BE BACK SOON.....THE ABOVE SHOWS HOW MY LOVE FOR YOU ALL IS GROWING BY THE DAY..ONCE I AM  BACK I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE JUSTICE TO MY RETURN AND BE ACTIVE AS EVER OR I...  more...
 Thohe Pou | 18:03 | 22/Nov/2007
Friends: (782)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Reading philosoph...
Thoughts of the Day!!!
    Appreciation sprouts in the land of jealousy free zones.          more...
 naina chopra | 10:23 | 9/Nov/2007
Friends: (126)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: netsurfing,music,...
Kal Ho Na Ho
  Kal Ho Na Ho Title Track Enjoy!   http://www.youtube.com/v/lRcQZ2tnWeg&rel=1"> name="wmode" value="transparent"> http://www.youtube.com/v/lRcQZ2tnWeg&rel=1 " type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355">  more...
 Muskan M.C.N | 12:41 | 1/Dec/2007
Friends: (96)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: songs,reading lov...