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 15:06 | 25/Sep/2008
Thought Provoking
Once a king called upon all of his wise men and asked them, " Isthere a mantra or suggestion which works in every situation, in everycircumstances, in every place and in every time. In every joy, everysorrow, every defeat and every victory? One answer for all questions?Something which can help me when none of you is available to adviseme? Tell me i... more...
 15:28 | 12/Mar/2008
Scrabbled worlds
Srabbble an art of rearranging words. Check few example of the same. Appended is a mail from one of friends. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)! DILIP VENGSARKAR When you rearrange the letters: SPARKLING DRIVE PRINCESS DIANA When you rearrange the letters: END IS A CAR SPIN MO... more...
 16:12 | 31/Jan/2008
Small Joys
We never know when we would get some thing that makes you feel complete. For past few months we were preparing our daughter Ashi to be more responsible and caring but no fruits to avail. Just like all kids even she starts throwing tantrums on just drop of a hat. Last 21st was a day which would remain in mind. That was a day when we got blessed with... more...
 15:41 | 3/Nov/2007
Happy Diwali
It is दीवालì 8; time again. The only time when the families come tother to enjoy and share the festivity. It is only time because there is no other festival like दीवालì 8; (DIWALI). May each one of you grow and get prosperity with this Diwali. Happy Diwali. more...
 19:17 | 2/Nov/2007
Why wedding ring should put on the fourt...
As sent by a friend but is amazing..........   Pls follow the below step, really god make this a miracle (see picture)  1.        Firstly, show your palm, centre finger bend and put together back to back2.        Secondly, the rest 4 fingers tips to tips3.        Games begin, follow the below arrangement, 5 fingers but only 1 pair cannot split  4. ... more...
 15:24 | 6/Oct/2007
CANT STOP LAUGHING!!!!
These are Boys ads taken from one matrimonial site and were forwarded by one of my good friend, a few remarks with it.These are actual ads on a matrimony site. Grammar and spell errors have no place in a profile description as everything is straight from the heart! Disclaimer : I am not responsible if you forget your basic grammar after reading thi... more...
 18:27 | 5/Oct/2007
LAMA- contrast
When you hear this word a photo of a bodhist Monk comes in front of the eyes. He is a person with great Patience and knowledge. But i was surpriced when my marketing team made some lama's and kept in our office. Yes these are Lama's.It is a form of paper made self standing POP's made to display your products or other info about your products and se... more...
 09:01 | 26/Aug/2007
Happy Onam
It's festival time again and all the friends and others are celebrating Onam in Kerala. Topday i felt how diveres are we? Being the part of same country still our festivals are different. Truly speaking after coming to South (now kerala) only now i came to know the values of Different Family festivals. Coming back to Onam according to me it is a fe... more...
 18:32 | 20/Feb/2007
Life
It is really a sad day for me, while handling the pressure of new branch launch away from my base location i felt like cicking all buts of the people who delay the decisions and are bussy in meating when something more important is left unattended. I am sure you all would have gone throug the same feelings at some time or other. But we need to live... more...
LATEST FROM MY FRIENDS
 Gloria Aurora | 15:04 | 27/May/2008
Friends: (580)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: In almost everyth...
Height of...........
HEIGHT OF MY FRIENDSHIP  I always mail, u don't . HEIGHT OF ISOLATION: Two persons sitting side-by-side using emails to communicate with each other. HEIGHT OF COWARDICE: Two persons fighting through emails.HEIGHT OF HELPLESSNESS: Receiving no emails for a week. HEIGHT OF FRUSTRATION: The email server being down.HEIGHT OF CARELESSNESS: Writing a lov...  more...
 smita gupta | 20:36 | 9/Jul/2008
Friends: (110)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Browsing.Dancing,...
Question - ???
Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads.              A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, meets a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was simply 'amazing', very much of her dream guy, she believed him to be just that! She f...  more...
 Joseph Antony | 23:30 | 21/Sep/2008
Friends: (529)  | City: Kottayam,Changanacherry  | Interests: reading,movies, f...
" GOOD MORNING "
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 K Nagesh | 11:03 | 11/Sep/2008
Friends: (666)  | City: BANGALORE  | Interests: Music (Karnatak),...
BIMA BACHAT
Single Premium Plan From Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) That Offers,15% Each Of The Sum Insured At The End of Every 3 Years From The Commencement,Sum Insured To the Nominee In Case Of Policyholder's Death Without Any Deduction Whatsoever, Should It Occur Any time Before Completion Of The Policy Term Chosen,Return of the Entire Premium Pa...  more...
 kishore gupta | 08:12 | 23/Sep/2008
Friends: (307)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: hell...Nothing
FBI
 The FBI had an opening for an assassin.   After all the background checks, interviews, and testing were done there were 3 finalists.   Two men and a woman. For the final test, the FBI agents took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun. 'Wemust know that you will follow your instructions no matter what thecircumstances. Inside th...  more...
 SARAYU | 04:27 | 8/May/2008
Friends: (295)  | City: dieciséis abriles  | Interests: adoring beautiful...
FRIENDS I AM BACK:)))))
                                       missed all of  you  very very much my beautiful and sweet friends                 can say i am back...... BIG FRIENDLY HUG TO ALL OF YOU                     MY DEAR FRIENDS:))))))))))                    first of all muchas gracious(thank you) to all               my sweet iland friends for showing so much     ...  more...
 soloman will... | 21:02 | 9/Sep/2008
Friends: (410)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: koi rog jaruri ha...
Azaadi?????
Azaadi ?????Quoting Ms. Arundhati Roy, from The Outlook, "For all these years, the Indian  state, known among theknowing, as the Deep state, has done everything to subvert, suppress,represent, misrepresent, discredit, interpret, intimidate, purchase- and simplysnuff out the voices of the Kashmiri people. It has used money (lots of it),violence (lot...  more...
 manisha sharma | 11:43 | 22/Apr/2008
Friends: (432)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Reading,Listening...
How To Catch/Kill a LION
Newton 's Method Let, the lion catch you. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Implies you caught lion.   Einstein Method Run in the direction opposite to that of the lion. Due to higher relative velocity, the lion will also run faster and will get tired soon. Now you can trap it easily.    Software Engineer Method Catch a cat ...  more...
 Gudiya | 11:14 | 7/Aug/2008
Friends: (145)  | City: Aurangabad  | Interests: Doing something t...
WHAT THE HELL?
Everything fine and as usual. Sometimes life transforms into a routine and everything is monotonous. This is what is happening now a days in my life. Eveything is set and fixed.Good for some but as you know, " The Grass is greener on the other side."You really want the things to go haywire sometimes, you need to be in a messy situation!But, here I ...  more...
 mehek | 22:38 | 13/Sep/2008
Friends: (0)  | City: dreams  | Interests: flowers
har baar
haste haste har baar kuch asnq nikal aate hai bas yahi nahi maalum wo kushi ke thay ya chupe gum ke  more...
 Rakshita Verma | 15:56 | 29/Aug/2008
Friends: (710)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: jokes, poetry, pu...
The Canvas
         The Canvas The painting is pulled downFreed of the frame Repaint, recreate a storyPut up on a fresh frame The canvas is clogged Will the amateur artist know?Layers of lonely shades How’ll the colors in contrast show? Smear and smudge The sob story is over Young, smart strokes are hereHope is hopping over  (Experimenting with Alliteration)©...  more...
 Ashish jain | 17:26 | 16/Sep/2008
Friends: (42)  | City: FAIRFAX VA  | Interests: Driving, Poetry ,...
Riches, mediocrity and poverty begin in ...
Good news orbad news? It depends on how you see things. You can be bitter afterbeing cheated. Or you can choose to move on with your life…   Robert DeVincenzo, the great Argentine golfer, once won a tournament and, afterreceiving the check and smiling for the cameras, he went to theclubhouse and prepared to leave. Some time later, he walked alone t...  more...
 DENSON JOSEPH | 23:31 | 21/Sep/2008
Friends: (742)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fitness
BJP creating terrorists
Let me come directly to the points.Every day we shudder to go out thinking of  a new terrorist attack & rubbish stories of police trying to stem terrorism.The truth is that the police are clueless & the terrorists are striking at will.I ask the government after all who created these terrorists.... I strongly feel that the Gujarat riots & the heartl...  more...
 vinod bhaskar | 11:46 | 6/Apr/2008
Friends: (79)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading, spiritua...
Happy New Year (Gudipadawa)
As sunshine creates morning glory. Fragrance fills years as flory. All darkness is far away, as light is on its way. Wish you a very happy GUDIPADAVA. A very happy new year. -Vinod Bhaskar  more...
 ma ya | 20:21 | 30/Aug/2008
Friends: (280)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: watching cricket ...
RAMADAN MUBARAK
HEARTY CONGRATS TO ALL WHO ARE AWAITING FOR MONTH OF BLESSINGS, WHO LOVES PREACHING ISLAM  AND PLEASING THE ALMIGHTY WITH THEIR GOOD DEEDS... KHUSH AMADEED RAMADAN..the month which brings happiness, togetherness, love ,peace,harmony, n lots of good blessings to all muslims.  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 16:13 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (2401)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying life as ...
EMOTIONS
Emotions cause you pain and they actually dictate behaviour to you.In other words when you are emotional you are no longer in control.For example, when you are excited you might think excitement is good.You cant actually think clearly.The emotion of excitement takes over and leads you to act.Its not always the best action that is born from exciteme...  more...
 sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1051)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: theatre, journali...
‘Eating the Earth’!
 Eating meat, dairy and eggs threatens our planet.You use much less land and water if you eat crops directly. Animals use most of the protein they eat to live, not 'grow' meat. So eating meat adds to water shortages, forest clearing, soil damage, use of oil-based pesticides - and climate change. "By 2050 the world's livestock will be consuming as m...  more...
 Mission Drea... | 12:46 | 24/Jul/2008
Friends: (318)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: http://openmedia....
Private Banks ki naak mein nakel
A Letter to Reserve Bank of IndiaDear Sir / Ma'am, This is to request your kind attention towards my complaint no. 2801 lodged with The Banking Ombudsman during the financial year 2006-07, against ICICI Bank. The complaint was closed neither with a resolution nor a consent from me. But I have not closed the complaint. I had been regularly following...  more...
 rahul bhadra | 21:34 | 19/Sep/2007
Friends: (28)  | City: Pune  | Interests: treaking, gyming ...
creatures mysterious or not ?????
Hi Mystery Creature What is there in a name............?????? I want to get the message acros  more...
 VEENA DHAMIJA | 11:57 | 31/Jul/2007
Friends: (14)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music, going for ...
wethewomen
we the women what anyone will think aboul the subject,that i am a woman and want to explore more and more about a woman, make more and more friends, know more about women activities, workshops, area activities, tell them about me us and our activities. yea you are write. Actually every human on the earth faces a lot of problems, good happenings and...  more...
 sangeeta swarup | 00:35 | 3/Apr/2008
Friends: (30)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: poetry
"विश्वास" 57;िश्वास --यह शब्द कह करइंसान यह बता देता हैकिकहीं ; ...  more...
 Ashok Kumar | 16:19 | 20/Aug/2007
Friends: (81)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Watching TV,Music
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...  more...
 ashok tiwari | 11:41 | 25/Sep/2008
Friends: (320)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: I am having keen ...
vaccum
My fellow islanders Namaskaar! Reading blogs posted by fellow islanders and adhering to some of the ideas contained therein can be an exhilerating and enriching experience. It acts as a de-facto learning experience as most of the write-ups are based on real life situations faced by people. It gives us a platform  wherefrom one can utilise the wealt...  more...
 Harmeet Singh | 11:34 | 24/Sep/2008
Friends: (1412)  | City: Birmingham  | Interests: Having a good laugh
You are in the Army now!
Airman Smith was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Jones noticed that Airman Smith was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruits he advised. Rather than ask about this, the Capta...  more...
 sameer sayed | 21:33 | 29/Aug/2007
Friends: (7)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Surfing,painting,...
Good Oppurtunity !
To all my friends... a good way to earn without much effort, and it works too.... Try for urself, just click on the below links and experience the same...1. Call or Send SMS to any phone anywhere in the world Free! - http://offr.biz/HLGB7313084NMCCSNE2. Download Free ScreenSavers and Wallpapers! - http://offr.biz/HLSCR313084NMCCSNE3. Download Weath...  more...
 dew | 16:05 | 13/Oct/2007
Friends: (67)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading blogs
Coconut Crab
                                          This species is the largest terrestrial arthropod in the world. It is a rare and endangered animal. The claws are so powerful that they can lift objects like vegetation or rocks weighing upto 28kgs.     Courtesy : The Internet  more...
 Silent Words | 22:30 | 6/Nov/2007
Friends: (79)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Writing, Reading,...
Celebrations & Festivals
A wonderful diwali to everyone in advance as most likely things will get so haywire and busy that I won't find the time to write. Planning to have a wonderful diwali and all other upcoming festivals. Want to make the celebrations a remembrance for them...leave them with very very happy memories. Am planning on telling Gaurav soon perhaps in January...  more...