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| Sipping a good cup of herbal tea, i looked at my cup and began to wonder just when i switched to this exotic concoction. To my surprise, I realised that i could trace the drinks in my life to the period i lived in and each one has its own charm about it.Many years ago when i was in my 6-10 yrs, I remember drinking bournvita - the most favoured dri...
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| 08:12 | 12/Sep/2007 |
| Love you Nalini Attai | |
| On an eventless Sunday noon, my voicemail informed me that my aunt (Father’s first cousin) had finally succumbed to cancer. News of the death of a close one always numbs me at first and this one numbed me more than ever. This is for you Nalini Attai to tell you that you are always going to be with me in my thoughts and actions. I was besotted with ...
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| 12:01 | 9/Dec/2006 |
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| I have harboured this thought for a long time and a worthy article in "The Hindu" ensured that i could not hold this inside me any longer.Whats up with bollywood thinking that they are the only film industry in India? A recent "INDIAN MOVIE FESTIVAL" held in goa served only to be a place to flaunt hindi masala movies and to promote Dhoom 2 while ma...
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| 23:15 | 25/Sep/2006 |
| Tagged!! Yes me too! | |
| Ive been a lazy oaf all these days and the days i wasnt lazy...i was working my ass off. But here am back again. Thanks monu for reminding me what a lazy bum ive been. Ahhh...It took me soooo much time to catch up guys. I have lots to write..but let me do my duty and pay my homage to the tag god going around.1. How tall are you barefoot?5'4" ( i gu...
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| 22:07 | 30/Jul/2006 |
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| Jinxy boy had tagged me to write about rain and what I would like to do when it rains. So here goes my sojourn with rain. The first memory I have of rain is when I was a small kid, some 6 yrs old. I loved jumping and dancing in the puddles. I loved the squish squash sound and liked to get wet. I liked it better when my mom hugged me, threw a long t...
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| 09:08 | 20/Jul/2006 |
| Global pain | |
| Dec 26, 2004 08:15 AM Chennai, India She was pacing up and down the small 2 bedroom apartment. Every 15 minutes she ran over to the small pooja room and stared at her favorite gods. She glanced across the hall and looked at her husband for support. Tears involuntarily flowed down her cheeks and she turned away her glance from her husband as sh...
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| 23:18 | 6/Jul/2006 |
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| Sometimes you reach a comfortable point in a relationship where you think you know everything about the other person and theres nothing more to know...you know his/her faults, goodness, virtues, quirks, stupidity and you love him/her with all those. Then something happens..and you realise theres so much more to know!!!It was a veryy long weekend in...
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| 00:22 | 27/Jun/2006 |
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| Back after a long time..Long time due to Footbal fever, work virus and some real fever and weakness. I want to write about football too...but Nis, Ash and Vishal seem to be doing a great job of it. So..am sticking to news.While i was away....this is what happenned. Ok..Mika and Rakhi sawant had a kiss session and it splashed all over the headlines....
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| 03:09 | 9/Jun/2006 |
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| June 6th, 06- 666 - The whole world is talking about devils. One city in Michigan had even planned a hell party to welcome the day of devil and you have the rerelease of Omen. Am looking back to trace my jouney with the devil,ghost,evil spirits, draculas, mohini pisasu,bhoot...It all started with my attaipatti (dad's aunt) scaring me as a 2 yr old....
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| 22:52 | 2/Jun/2006 |
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| Hello All. Karthik was talking about writing something and since he is wayyy too lazy to start his own blog, i magnanimously :) gave him some space in mine. Ahem! Views below are strictly not mine and this is a guest post.-It was a long weekend celebrating our engagement. Vidhya had invited a few friends over and we were having a ball. It was one j...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| 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...
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| Amit Agrawal | 03:15 | 13/Aug/2008 |
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| Get a good educationget a good job change to a better job ----do we really understand why job is being done for money most of the time and more often than not we are probably not looking at ways to get rid of money-dependence and its impact on our time pressures? Thoughts/Comments?
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| monu g | 22:10 | 31/Aug/2008 |
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| A NIGHT TO REMEMBER... |
| Have u ever thought about the most memorable moments of Ur Life??? Have u ever thought what makes them so special and close to Ur heart?? It’s usually the FIRST time u feel or find something U’ve never felt or found before… And what IF something soooooooooo hilarious makes it even more memorable………. Hehehehehehehe…. There was this lovely couple who...
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| Deepa | 19:32 | 23/Jul/2008 |
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| Just another cliched blog :) |
| "Have any of the things that you badly wanted been granted to you?", Soums asked over lunch.I reflected and took a while to answer that. If she had asked me this probably a decade ago, I would have answered like many other melancholic, dispassionate, disappointed youngsters, "Never...I've never had any dreams of mine come true ever in my WHOLE LIFE...
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| Wise Donkey | 00:30 | 24/Jun/2008 |
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| You raise me up. |
| This one's for you ma:When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;When troubles come and my heart burdened be;Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,Until you come and sit awhile with me.You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;You raise me up: To more than I c...
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| Srinivasa Ra... | 19:40 | 24/Jul/2006 |
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| My first journal publication is in print... |
| It is just a small achievement like a rain-drop to an ocean, but it's very much special to me. Yes, its my first scientific achievement, a research paper, which has come in print (accepted for publication last October) in number 1 journal (related to space heat transfer), thus acknowledging my entry into the elite's group. I thank my guide, Prof. K...
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| swati rohatgi | 23:18 | 29/Jul/2008 |
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| Terminator- 34 |
| Ok ok, thats the training batch ID to which I belonged T34. No there were not 34 of us from whichever end or middle you might count. I was off to the other end of India for the training. The executive hostel where we stayed had no wi-fi so after a long break of 19 days amback to civilisation. From initial furtive steps to Charlie"s Angels, Chomu an...
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| rajesh vora | 17:09 | 10/Jun/2008 |
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| 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...
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| vishal rathod | 03:10 | 27/Aug/2008 |
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| The (lost) voice of India |
| It all began whilst flipping through the various TV channels on a rainy Sunday afternoon. I dropped anchor at a news channel I hadn’t seen in years...The national news showing a certain woman speaking in an inset and another one speaking with her hands. I smiled, giggled, laughed, cracked every idiotic morose joke I could think of, and finally set ...
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| sanket raaj | 09:43 | 21/Mar/2007 |
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| BOB WOOLMER (1948-2007) : REST IN PEACE |
| Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.” BOB WOOLMER : REST IN PEACE 1948 - 2007 Death may be the essential condition of life, but its suddenness can shock and benumb feelings. Good men must die, but death cannot kill their names. The sudden death of Bob Woolmer has sent shivers down my spin...
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| febin joy | 07:37 | 3/Sep/2008 |
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| Crane |
| Hi frnds... Got this on a trip to kumarakom... I know its lil over burned.. it was around noon and it was a sunny day.... check it out... luv... febz
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| Rajesh iyer | 21:07 | 12/Feb/2006 |
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| Prayer 2006 |
| Oh God Almighty!!May my password get acceptedAnd my explorer get connectedHelp me upload my data foreverNot let a hanged out serverKeep my floppies working in their driveGive me place to back up hard driveHelp send my emails fasterShield me from virus disasterScan my folders without failAnd filter out all junk mailGive my entire download a surgeSto...
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| Krishna Reddy | 04:51 | 5/Sep/2008 |
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| Happy Ganesh Festival! |
| Wish you all a fabulous Ganesh Festival! Yesterday, on the auspicious occasion of Gahesh Chaturthi, I have launched a cool new website krishna-reddy.com and started my latest blog blog.krishna-reddy.com. Let us see how and where it will go!Ganapati Bappa Morya!A Ganesh Pandal at Mahim, MumbaiOver the next few days I will post more photos/videos of ...
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| Sonu Katha | 19:29 | 4/Aug/2008 |
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| Are Your Top People Ready To Leave You? |
| How can I tell if my best employees are getting ready to leave?Why would they want to leave?How can I keep them?This article looks at how to tell if you're in trouble, and what to do about itTop 10 Clues Your Best Employees are Leaving * They start dressing better * They take lunches at different times * Their production drops off * Th...
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| Bari Kokani | 00:11 | 25/Mar/2007 |
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| Please Fix Bangladesh & Bermuda Match |
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| I am sincerely requesting Bookies to please fix the match between Bangladesh and Bermuda. Let Bermuda win and give India one last chance to face the world cup.Bookies,please fix this at the larger interest of the Indian public, there are 1 Billion Indians behind you. You guys can involve the BCCI to get some financial help, even the Indian players ...
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| Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007 |
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| 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...
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| shahid akhtar | 23:45 | 13/Jul/2006 |
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| MY DEAR FRIEND...HERE ARE SOME THINGS EVEN U DONT KNOW ABOUT URSELFFacts of life:1. At least 5 people in this world love you so much they would dieforyou.2. At least 15 people in this world love you in some way.3. The only reason anyone would ever hate you is because they want to be just like you.4. A smile from you can bring happiness to anyone, e...
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| Isha Cally | 11:50 | 20/Oct/2006 |
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| SHUBH DEEPAWALI |
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| WISHING ALL OF YOU AND YOUR FAMILY,,,,JOY, SPLENDOUR, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERTY ON THIS FUN FILLED OCCASION OF DIWALI,,,! MAY THIS FESTIVE OF LIGHT BRIGHTENS & BRING PEACE AND PROSPERITY IN LIFE... HAPPY DIWALI,,,!
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| ajay sattikar | 17:15 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX |
| Below are the Interview Questions, which were asked in HR Round.....Be careful while you answering, No one will GET second chance to impress....Very very Impressive Questions and Answers..... ... Question 1: You are driving along in your car on a wild, stormy night,it's raining heavily, when suddenly you pass by a bus stop, and you see three people...
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| Raghavendran... | 00:00 | 6/Sep/2008 |
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| Every time was I born, I was dead! sometimes they burnt me, sometimes they buried me! Sometimes I was left to rot in the open! I am crucified so many times! They ask me, “what I mean by I? is it my physical body or something else?” I am talking of “I” as my physical body right now! but then I don’t mean that I am always a physical body with f...
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| kala Subrama... | 11:42 | 6/Aug/2007 |
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| Happy friendship day!!! |
| "I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537) Happy Friendship Day to all my iland friends!!!
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| myna mg | 10:44 | 17/Jun/2008 |
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| HAPPY? |
| Happiness Is Not Comforts ‘Does Happiness depend upon comfort? ’ Happiness lies in not comforts alone! Happiness is not a static quality of the human mind, body and soul. All can’t remain happy all the time. It would be foolishness to wish for a life, filled with happiness alone; Happiness is more when woes come in-between. Happiness is just a feel...
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| warm sunshine | 18:39 | 7/Feb/2008 |
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| JUST A GRAIN OF SAND |
| As I write this, I lie on the sea shore, resting and reminiscing about the days gone by when I used to wonder what my purpose in life was.I was a miniscule part of the great Sahara desert till I latched onto the shoes of a tourist and traveled across continents and countries. I always used to wonder if this was the life I was supposed to live. Be a...
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| Divya Sharma | 19:36 | 17/Feb/2008 |
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| On this Sunday Evening...... |
| Just thought of dropping in a line for myself to myself on the blog! It’s been really a long period of time that I penned down something.Just to begin with, I have got a new job! I wasn’t jobless on the last day of the year and I had a ‘chutti’ on New Year to begin with. What a beginning? The organization is one of the big ones, I mean it’s a dream...
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| sumita bhatn... | 11:28 | 16/Apr/2007 |
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| Few Definitions |
| School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays. Life Insurance: A contract that keeps you poor all your life so that you can die Rich. ...
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| Tusky M | 09:36 | 7/Oct/2007 |
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| Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007 |
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| The Bourne Series...... download now!! |
| The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...
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| Baldeo Pandey | 14:33 | 7/Aug/2008 |
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| Never Alone |
| Inhaling aroma of her presence,Feeling her touch with cool breeze,With closed eyes,Peacefully accepting her existence….Tears start rolling down on cheeks….Midnight,When entire world sleeps…She creeps in the life,Days of laughter,Day dreaming,Vanishing in one-another….Time strands for a while,Letting her memory to reflect on the canvas….Never alone,...
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| Lakshmi K | 08:48 | 10/Apr/2007 |
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| Your Name |
| Some beautiful...wordings that I got. Would like to share with myRediffIland friends... Just words....Your Name....I wrote your name in the SKY,but the wind blew it.I wrote your name in the SAND,but the waves washed it away.I wrote your name in my HEART.and it will forever stay... - Jessica BladeMe too will complete my 1 year at Iland on 15.04.07.....
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| Shivaram Ram | 22:31 | 31/Mar/2007 |
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| EAST-WEST |
| ಪೂರ್ವ-ಪಶŇ 7;ಚಿಮಸೂರ್ 47; ತಿರುಗುತ್ ;ತಿಲ್ಲ; ಇದ್ದಲ್ಲೇ ; ಇದ್ದಾನೆ. ಅವನಿಗ...
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| kumar vishal | 18:59 | 20/Apr/2006 |
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| The NUN RUN |
| "2 Nuns - Logic and Maths"NUNS ON THE RUN Two nuns went out of the convent to sell cookies. One of them is known as Sister Mathematical (SM) and the other one is known as Sister Logical (SL). It is getting dark and they are still far away from the convent. SL: Have you noticed that a man has been following us for the past half-hour? SM: Yes, I wond...
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| Ash K | 00:16 | 9/Jun/2008 |
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| Book Review: Keep Off The Grass - By Kar... |
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| 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,...
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| kishore lakk... | 15:21 | 20/Apr/2007 |
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| 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...
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| seema shaikh | 11:01 | 12/Aug/2008 |
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| I believe there are three D's associated with daughters' - Daughters are Daddys' Delight!!. While mothers love for her children is widely written & spoken about , the stern faced but soft hearted Daddys are often overlooked.As I try to recall memories of Daddy when he were younger, my mind conjures up a hazy picture of a skinny man in bell-bottoms....
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| Prashant Shi... | 18:52 | 13/Jun/2006 |
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| Continiuning New Posts |
| Hi Friends,Sorry its been long time that i have posted, had been busy in migrating my site www.koolkrazy.com to a new server and its still not done.. Anyways i have started posting all my whacky jokes & funny stuff at http://forums.koolkrazy.com . Do visit it and check all the latest jokes and fun stuff there.I am signing off from RediffIland now. ...
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| kulbhasker love | 17:37 | 22/May/2006 |
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| abt m e |
| dear fnd, i miss u .how u find ur life again 2 gain .i mis u lots of u .i wt2 do some more abt u .i like 2 move my life .how u find usr life paryer .i tk u do`nt remember m e.why .i like u becose i must too busy . i miss u i like 2 say some 2 do handsome work all my jos . can i do some move woth m y plan abt do again . my life go...
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| Mahe R | 02:22 | 25/Oct/2007 |
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| Jai Jai Communists of India |
| Its been a long while since my last appearance on the Iland space, though unintentional.I could not resist, when I came across this piece of news that said : " five out of 17 nuclear power plants have been shut down for want of fuel", but say Jai Communism. Long live Communist party of India ( M), Communist party of India(a), Communist party of Ind...
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| Mahima Natraj | 21:15 | 18/Sep/2006 |
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| Dil Dhoondtha Hai |
| Hamara dil aap ka haiDil mein hai aap ki dhadkanDhadkan ne baandhi aise bandhanHum bane aap ki dulhan (khwabon mein)Koi toofan na karsaka humko doorHamari pyaar mein thi itni taakat huzoorHamari pyaar thi hamari ghuroorJo aaj hogay hai choor choorNa aap bewafa na humDil ki ghar mein hai ghumJahan abbhi dhoondhe hai humDhadkan aapki, aapki kasamAap ...
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