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 12:59 | 25/Feb/2008
How Heavy is a Glass of Water
A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "How heavy is this glass of water?" Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it.""If I hold it for a minute, that's not a problem. If I hold it for an h... more...
 15:22 | 9/Feb/2008
Social Responsibility
Yesterday, I missed my Bus and decided to take a train from Andheri to Dadar in Mumbai. I am quite skeptical about traveling by train in Mumbai. Probably, due to the heavy rush & push the commuters have to endure while boarding & disembarking the train. Hats off to people who do it day after day. I also feel they are mostly victims due to lack of c... more...
 16:17 | 5/Feb/2008
Aamchi Mumbai
Aamchi Mumbai Is Mumbai a place which would be for people who come from a particular sect / caste / creed etc. I have always felt it to be a land of oppurtunity; accomodating everyone & anyone from all across the country. The incident on Sunday (and still debated) is really an unfortunate event for Mumbaikars. Thankfully, this is voiced by a factio... more...
 12:02 | 27/Jan/2008
Welcome to my Blog
Welcome to my Blog....  Basically from Chennai .... Currently in Mumbai & staying away from my family for work. Hope to get back to chennai soon... Miss my family & kids..... Look forward to interesting posts from friends all over the world ... Have a great day ahead ..... Velan more...
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 Smiling Dolphin | 14:18 | 23/Feb/2008
Friends: (194)  | City: Gurgaon  | Interests: Reading, Travelling
How to make our contribution?
I would like to make a contribution in making India stronger and better. I would like to see all poor people get a better life. How do I do that??  more...
 gopika gopi | 09:10 | 24/Feb/2008
Friends: (7)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: writing,reading,l...
Managing expenses in rs.1500…
Managing expenses in rs.1500… Ever thought of managing your expenses of a whole month just by rs.1500? And still successfully save about 700-800? The thought itself shocked me. When I returned home I asked my mom the same question. She said you have to, this is life…The attendant in my clinic does this so coolly and still manages to wear a smile an...  more...
 Nandil Gaggar | 15:27 | 2/Feb/2008
Friends: (14)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music,Book readin...
Yahi sach Hai
"People are made to be Loved and Things r made for use"The confusion in the world is People r being used and things r being loved.    more...
 Dolly | 14:40 | 15/Dec/2007
Friends: (80)  | City: XXX  | Interests: friendsHIPPPPPPPPP
Poetry.com,Rate my Poem
http://www.poetry.com/voteforme/poemvote 1.asp?PID=12515880  more...
 prasanna sri... | 17:39 | 24/Feb/2008
Friends: (493)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: in everything
Crazy Letter
Dear Monisha,Thanks for being my love for one and half years, when you receive this letter I believe you might have selected a new boy friend and started enjoying your dating. Every lovers needs to struggle a bit to get a boy friend or girl friend.Monisha … In order to recover your missing, I got another girl from next street & as you know this is ...  more...
 ratna rajaiah | 21:52 | 12/Feb/2008
Friends: (307)  | Interests: reading, writing,...
Sepia - a poem
Do you dieWhen you die Or when the memory Of you Begins to fade...  more...
 Nischalson C... | 23:14 | 11/Feb/2008
Friends: (302)  | City: iland  | Interests: i am not that tal...
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no comment. q: actually, i'm more stressed during the raksha bandhan day... q: love | nischal (:  more...
 K B | 21:19 | 22/Feb/2008
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Just Like That
Just Like That!      more...
 swati rohatgi | 00:02 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (271)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: to have fun, shar...
Status quo??
hi!!The way messengers have invaded our lives it has become the essential meeting ground. Status messages are taglines against your name which were used to inform : stepped out, out for lunch, not at desk etc etc. Some of the interesting ones:Golden rule: he who has gold, rules. I want to die sleeping peacefully like my grandfather and not screamin...  more...
 Jasir Alavi | 13:58 | 27/Dec/2006
Friends: (193)  | City: lazibonia  | Interests: interests?? darn!...
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the epitaph    more...
 rekha kumar | 05:54 | 18/Feb/2008
Friends: (131)  | City: ajmer  | Interests: singing, reading,...
Sindoori si saji rahoon....
Ek subhaa hai jo har rose ayegi Ek suraj hai jo roshni bikher raha Umeed ka daman le ayaa hai Yun is tarah se jindagi main Us daman ko pakad rehi Logon ki kami nahi thi Sirf pyar sa paya, Phir bhi adhura sa lagta Aap ke aane se pyar parosna seekha Umeed hai is pyar ke kabil bani rahoon Ardhangani ban kar saji rahoon... Sindoori si saji rahoon.... © Rekha Kumar  more...
 Srinivasan P... | 19:47 | 20/Feb/2008
Friends: (54)  | City: Trichy  | Interests: Human Resource De...
The story of a mother - Final Part
The years 2000 - 2005 were very excruciating years for Bama. Her husband became bedridden and he had to do his daily chores only with the assistance of somebody. Their son Cheenu - the writer - who was living  near by was of some help in this regard. But he shifted residance in 2003 near his son's school and this help was withdrawn. Bama was pullin...  more...
 kishore gupta | 11:12 | 30/Dec/2007
Friends: (204)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: Dancing in the na...
Farewell 2007-Welcome 2008 !!!
Dear all Ilander Friends,   Wishing with you Good Bye 2007!   Let the coming year be the Harbinger of more HAPPINESS and better HEALTH & Harvest promising HOPE and path-breaking HAPPENINGS for all.   Wishing you a Great Bliss 2008!   SMILE a little bit more in 2008 than 2007…a resolution I recommend???   Cheers Kishore  more...
 Mohan jadeja | 20:51 | 7/Nov/2007
Friends: (39)  | City: CALGARY  | Interests: cricket,reading
Wish you all the Best Laxmi
In everyday news of politics and terrorism there was pleasant surprise to see a little multi limbed girl from Bihar being brought to Banglore for very complicated operation.As for now operation is succes. Lets wish her a very healthy and warm recovery. Also hatsoff to medical staff who has operated her free of charge, A total Dr Munnabhai style tre...  more...
 anjeneyan an... | 11:25 | 15/Feb/2008
Friends: (66)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: movies, reading,s...
Definitions of designations in business ...
Project Manager is a Person who thinks nine women can deliver a baby in One month.   Developer is a Person who thinks it will take 18 months to deliver a Baby.  Onsite Coordinator is one who thinks single woman can deliver nine babies in one month. Client is the one who doesn't know why he wants a baby.  Marketing Manager is a person who thinks he ...  more...
 Licensed Pirate | 06:46 | 25/Feb/2008
Friends: (320)  | City: kuala lumpur  | Interests: Blogging.surfing ...
Great Job Opportunities
The following letter was received by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture regarding government iniatives to restrict the number of hogs being raised in the U.S.Dear Sir: My friend, Ed Peterson, over at Ute, Iowa, received a cheque for $1000.00 from the government for not raising 50 hogs. So, I want to go into the "not raising hogs" business next year....  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 21:51 | 23/Jan/2008
Friends: (1199)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Trust ...
My First Love
When I saw her smiling,She was a stranger for me....Quite tender and innocent....I started creeping towards her....Now she was my destination,My thirst and hunger.....My days and nights...Her arms were my gateways...I lived her every moment....She was mine....It might be one way traffic,I loved her......Her rosy lips invited me.....I kised her,Bles...  more...
 Cajetan Vaz | 21:33 | 6/Jan/2008
Friends: (1139)  | City: Goa  | Interests: silence
how far back can you remember?
13:27 | 15/Mar/2007 | 37 Comment(s)               How far back can you remember? Some of my oldest memories - Tripping and hurting my knee on my way to nursery - My first day...  more...
 Ramki Krishnan | 00:29 | 2/Jul/2007
Friends: (12)  | Interests: Music,Cricket,Pho...
High beam = Low visibility (Pic says it ...
Doesn't the pic say it all...!!  more...
 friendly ghost | 21:59 | 11/Feb/2008
Friends: (347)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Channa God
Channa God There is much that I am learning from my son, my spirit friend, my guru Sri Sri Gattu Swami.  Early in 2007, he coined a new word, “channa”. Channa initially meant ‘cute animal’ -- like a kitten, puppy or a pet rat. “Eyy-yy, what a channa anee-muhl! It is so tutti-tutti!” Gattu and his sister would say in an ecstacy as they handled a cut...  more...
 alpana | 22:56 | 14/Feb/2008
Friends: (255)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: painting, reading...
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 Madhavan PK | 18:00 | 19/Feb/2008
Friends: (355)  | Interests: Books, crossword,...
When a man loves a woman
I read numerous valentine billboards, messages, commercials, cards and suddenly remembered this song, " when a man loves a woman". When I looked up google search, I also saw this lovely piece by Latimer. I post the lyrics of the Percy Sledge song  and the write up by Leah Latimer. "The best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mothe...  more...
 Vibhuti | 11:53 | 14/Feb/2008
Friends: (371)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: M Living life eve...
Love!!
Here is one more V’day blog from me…….isnt it really wonderful message to understand LOVE.Love can only Blossom in Freedom. When freedom is restricted, love suffocates. You need to be free. Often love stifles, when you are in love or you love somebody, you feel stifled because you are obliged. When there are so many obligations that you need to ful...  more...
 Seeniraj Siv... | 17:27 | 20/Jan/2008
Friends: (84)  | City: Tuticorin-628005  | Interests: www.shivamaha.com
மேரி க...
1மேரி க்யூரĬ 7;யின் சாதனைĨ 5;ளுக்க 009; அங்கீĨ 5;ாரமாக இரண்டĬ 9; முறை நோ...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 18:21 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (1996)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying life as ...
The Seven Wonders of the World
Junior high school students were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes: 1. Egypt's Great Pyramids2. The Taj Mahal in India3. The Grand Canyon in Arizona4. T...  more...
 Amba R | 19:20 | 4/Feb/2008
Friends: (146)  | Interests: Reading, music, s...
secteranism
I am back on iland after a long time.What brings me back is Raj Thackrey and his antics.What Raj Thackrey and his doing is yet another instance of how low secteranian politics can fall.Mumbai a city represnting the dreams of millions of Indians is being divided.Raj Thackrey while declaring Mumbai for only Maharashtrians is forgetting some simple th...  more...
 sanjeev snehi | 01:07 | 31/Oct/2007
Friends: (1038)  | 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...
 Tumble Weed | 00:39 | 25/Feb/2008
Friends: (337)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Soch ko badlo, si...
I am a Nonconformist! and loving it...
  “The spirit of a warrior is not geared to indulging and complaining, nor is it geared to winning or losing. The spirit of a warrior is geared only to struggle, and every struggle is a warrior’s last battle on earth. Thus the outcome matters very little to him. In his last battle on earth a warrior lets his spirit flow free and clear. And as he wa...  more...
 Hellz Angel | 18:11 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (405)  | City: The other side of heaven  | Interests: lazin ma ass off....
Dire Straits - Part I
 I told him how I felt about him, at last!!! What was I thinking??? I don’t know. I really don’t know. But I had to tell him. It was the night before his wedding, just 20 hours or so before he would be some one else’s husband.  *** Every one was in a festive mood. His relatives and the bride’s relatives were all having the marriage-masti. Playing g...  more...
 Namrata Sriv... | 18:39 | 22/Jan/2008
Friends: (210)  | City: Kanpur  | Interests: interested in alm...
..child is the grandfather of man..
I tell you, its tough to deal with kids, but its tougher to deal with old people and this becomes toughest, when you have two generation of people, who are absolutely 'anti' to each other, living under the same roof... and an exactly same situation is there at my home. Sometimes I see my mother in a tug-of-war fixed between my grand father and dadd...  more...
 meena sundar | 06:13 | 25/Feb/2008
Friends: (554)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: Life
Man is Divine
 Personality Development by Vivekananda Man is Divine Children of IMMORTAL BLISS – what a sweet, what a hopeful name! The children of God, sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. Ye Divinities on earth – sinners! It is a sin to call a man so; it is a standing libel on human nature. O lions,  Shake of the delusion that you are sheep; you...  more...
 J G | 19:06 | 21/Feb/2008
Friends: (515)  | City: Noida  | Interests: Reading, Music, K...
Have you Ever?Have you ever climbed up in a tree and sat there for no apparent reason? I still remember the joy it brought me.I didn’t know at the time why I had the urge to climb the tree, a mature May Flower tree whose heavy lower limbs were a good eight feet off the ground in the near by hill. It had been 19 years or so since I was in a tree for...  more...
 Leonard Jemonie | 19:45 | 21/Dec/2007
Friends: (173)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Friendship, Photo...
Christmas Gift
Hi friends its been really a long time since I have written anything.Christmas is here  and  I  was thinking of the christmas of last year. Preparation starts from the 1st of December onwards with   decoratingour house, putting up stars outsinde house, hanging misletoeand gifts on the christmas tree buying new clothes and gifts.Asusual I had purcha...  more...
 Veena Jayaraman | 17:47 | 6/Feb/2008
Friends: (144)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Music, c...
Mumbai is for Mubaikars
All this hoopla about Mumbai for Maharashrians is such a disheartening episode in the history of one of the largest melting pots of the world.I am not making  a political statement neither is it some kind of a regional point of view, but just an ordinary citizens' disgust about the whole razzmatazz.I have been living in Mumbai for 2 years now and h...  more...
 V T | 08:47 | 15/Feb/2008
Friends: (149)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Hoi Polloi & Riff...
The Avatar and the Living Room
They did it again. Put me on the home page, that is.  Now, I will not say I love or hate that. Just that I am bit curious about the criteria part of it. How do they decide what goes to the home page? If the quality of a post is the sole criteria then I think I need to redefine my quality parameters. Sigh! Anyways, here is yet another post about my ...  more...
 Chosen One | 13:47 | 5/Feb/2008
Friends: (29)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: living life to th...
TRANSFORMATION : THE RATIONAL TO THE (W)...
FOR ALL THOSE WHO ALWAYS PONDERED ON HOW AND WHY BEING RIGHT OR DOING RIGHT IS WRONG IN THIS WORLD.    I work on ships. I had been out at sea most of last year. But the sailing last July was different. It made me feel that I probably have been out at sea for my whole goddamn life! I had been thinking a lot… but it was just probably the combination ...  more...
 chocoholic | 16:25 | 24/Feb/2008
Friends: (119)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: Magic ride came t...
…. MY DESTINY…
        One more day of my life is going to consume a role in a bonfire, a day that I write by the hour, minute by minute, second to second in the book of my destiny, a blank book that reaches every second of my life ... Because I do not believe that the fate exists, no, I refuse to believe that we have a destiny written and that no matter what we ...  more...
 Percussion | 15:41 | 18/Jan/2008
Friends: (3)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: writing poems, li...
Never relieved
There have been many facesto the face that was never believed.It is never easily forgotten never that i have been relieved.Those talks still linger on my mindas though a never ending song.Had not have gone into so muchif only he could have been more strong.I had a desire,If i may.I had a desire,so much to say.Only have been words beating my ears,So...  more...
 shashi tahil... | 21:47 | 20/Feb/2008
Friends: (303)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Making friends,Su...
TUM MILE DIL KHILE
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 neetha nair | 09:58 | 29/Jan/2008
Friends: (363)  | City: Everywhere  | Interests: All that is betwe...
The bird flu and Me
There is  news about avian flue in West Bengal  every day. There are pictures with the news – of men and women carrying the  dead and alive birds and taking them away for “Disposal”. I have not even the vague idea of how this “culling” is being done exactly. There were pictures all over, of even live birds  being thrown to  pits and  covered alive....  more...
 krunal modi | 21:57 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (33)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: readin,writing,tr...
CRICKET SOLD or CRICKET KI MANDI
20-2-2008  we seen the fair where cricketers or game of cricket sold by power of money n glamour....insaan iss tarah bikte hai aisa pehli baar dekhaa.....aisa lagaa jaise cricketers kii mandi lagi ho aur jaise kilo ke bhaavse sabji bik rahi ho aise cricketers bik gaye........so cheap.....aisa lagaa jaise puskar ka ya kahin gaon ka mela yaa market l...  more...
 jack jai | 19:05 | 24/Jan/2008
Friends: (10)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: poetry,
MINIPACKAGE-CALLIT AS YOU LIKE IT
MINI PACKAGE ---CALL IT AS YOU LIKE IT ?!!       QUIP!….. 1 Words, words  may ripSo  never  let  it   slip Nor trip  between  your  lips Gossip you ought to whip Garrulity you must ripCaution !  this only  is just a tip .  NET  TRIP -  TREPIDS     2 Chillness in the air Reflected without…. Irksome chilliness  Refracting within … Eyes look on screen...  more...