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 avinash | 02:15 | 18/Mar/2008
Friends: (141)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: music,playing sno...
BEST PROGRAMS TO MAKE MONEY THRU INTERNE...
1)  EARN $40 EACH TIME SOMEONE JOINS UNDER YOU.ITS FREEFOLLOW THE STEPS GIVEN BELOW :-1. CLICK ON THE LINK GIVEN BELOW AND GO TO THE WEBSITE.2. CLICK ON THE 'EARN CASH' TEXT AT THE TOP OR AT THE BOTTOM   OF THE SITE.3. REGISTER YOURSELF FOR FREE AND START EARNING.CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW - http://www.1on40.com/495400422)  EARN $20 EACH TIME SOMEONE ...  more...
 Vish Iyer | 08:51 | 21/Mar/2008
Friends: (109)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading, Sports, ...
Do we really care enough ?
We will live a fast-paced world where self-interest and personal gain at every level is the most important metric of any relationship. This post has been inspired by a series of inputs that I have received in the last couple of weeks that have left me shocked, pained, humbled but most importantly better prepared for the future. Couple of real-life ...  more...
 Mona Suan | 04:57 | 16/Feb/2008
Friends: (344)  | City: Baroda  | Interests: dating
Shakkela -- Aunty actress
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 Arpit A | 12:34 | 21/Jan/2008
Friends: (79)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Listening music ,...
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 datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (545)  | City: Ranchi  | Interests: computerjobs
Jobs of editorial proofreading.
Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm  more...
 myfortuna | 20:54 | 29/Jan/2008
Friends: (94)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: investment counse...
VERY RARE OPPORTUNITY
YET ANOTHER CHANCE TO GET A MF UNIT OF RELIANCE AT PAR..THOSE WHO HAVE NOT APPLIED FOR AND WHO WERE NOT FULLY ALLOTED THE THE  IPO OF "RELIANCE POWER LIMITED" NEED NOT BE WORRIED.HERE IS  ANOTHER CHANCE  TO APPLY FOR A BETTER  NFO - "RELIANCE NATURAL RESOURCES FUND"THIS IS AN OPEN ENDED THEMATIC EQUITY FUND (investing in companies engaged in the pr...  more...
 News Domain | 12:36 | 6/Oct/2007
Friends: (961)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
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...  more...
 SHASHANK SINGH | 21:28 | 10/Jan/2008
Friends: (115)  | City: Kanpur  | Interests: life, travel, wri...
Victory
light and dark have a carnal connection,one consumes other without much affection,the end for one is the beginning for the other,the star twinkled sky is not all the same,its where you stand at the start of the game,victory for one is defeat for someone,a surreal perception through the prism of desire,shut the wailing and open your eyes,tomorrow's ...  more...
 shailesh S | 17:12 | 8/Jun/2007
Friends: (1409)  | City: Noida  | Interests: Internet, surfing...
Ever You Wonder ………(Some stray thoughts…...
Why are they called stairs inside but steps outside?Why, any tool, when dropped, will roll to the least accessible corner?  If love is blind, how can we believe in love at first sight?  Why 'abbreviated' is such a long word?How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?  Why, when you change...  more...
 L Kini | 05:55 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (860)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Netsurfing,Nature...
Finger Prints
            Finger Prints It is already an accepted fact that every single person in the world has a different set of fingerprints. The Chinese have devised a way to read personality & destiny traits by studying the waves and the circles that appear at the tips of everyone's fingers – indeed so convinced are they that in the old days the fingers o...  more...
 Amit Nagpal | 12:05 | 19/Dec/2007
Friends: (30)  | City: Singapore  | Interests: Reading, Writing ...
What Kind of a Dad Are You?
“BRRR…It’s Cold Dad!” – said my soon to be 6 year old son, shivering and shuffling slowly, fully attired in his smart school uniform, loaded with extras such as a pair of warm gloves and a cap.  At 6:45 AM on a cold and foggy December morning, with temperatures dipping to 3-4 degrees, you could expect only 3 types of people to be fully awake and up...  more...
 ZEUS ZEUS | 22:23 | 9/Jan/2008
Friends: (563)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: nothing. absolute...
'Away From Her' - A Review
An aged wife tells her husband,“You could have just driven away without a care in the worldfor me, and forsaken me”With a pause pregnant with unsaid emotions he whispers,“Not a chance.”Inthese two lines which appear to be so unambiguously banal in content at first glance there might lay the ultimate test and triumph of  an alliance forged over a li...  more...
 narayan sato... | 11:17 | 18/Oct/2006
Friends: (227)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: programing ,sport...
best wishes
Khushi bhi doston se haiGam bhi doston se haiTakraar bhi doston se haiPyar bhi doston se haiRoothna bhi doston se haiManana bhi doston se haiBaat bhi doston se haiMisaal bhi doston se haiNasha bhi doston se haiShaam bhi doston se haiZindagi ki shuruvaat bhi doston se haiZindagi main mulakaat bhi doston se haiMohabbat bhi doston se haiInaayat bhi do...  more...
 manoj dubey | 22:42 | 7/Oct/2006
Friends: (3)  | Interests: travelling,joggin...
mind games....
he could not believe what he read in the end...."your untimely demise has left us,your extended family with a great void in our lives ,which can never be filled".....he is no more and I was to call him!..he fanatically turned the pages...OBITUARY..was the title!How could I ..he thought..he was so pre occupied with his own thinking that he did not b...  more...
 Arindam Sen | 17:04 | 8/Nov/2006
Friends: (313)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Management
Last post in the interview series!
CAT experiences of IIMA students - I received quite a good feedback for the interviews. CAT aspirants have now a guideline and benchmark to follow. I remember we were quite unsure about how many to attempt! Some of us screwed up CAT just because they had no idea how many is adequate and ended up trying for the impossible. Now you have a definite pl...  more...
 shivraj dhumal | 18:10 | 29/Feb/2008
Friends: (328)  | Interests: business networki...
Learn Guitar at home
Have you ever wondered what it takes to learn guitar? I know you like guitar. That's why you stopped here at my blog after seeing the title.Do you really want to learn guitar at home? Yes that's true. You can learn it at home like the professionals. But you got to have the right thing with you. That is >> the right source for tutorials. I have buil...  more...
 Nikita Sharma | 19:26 | 23/Sep/2006
Friends: (59)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: blogging
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 Hellz Angel | 18:11 | 22/Feb/2008
Friends: (406)  | 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...
 A S | 14:43 | 20/Mar/2008
Friends: (378)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Food, Books, Movi...
Me, Marathi
Me, MarathiBy Shoba De Correct me if I am wrong, Raj... but I consider myself an assal Marathi manoos. Born in Maharashtra to Maharashtrian parents etc. Proud to be Marathi (even though my language skills in my mother tongue are embarrassingly dodgy). I don't know how to make the perfect puran poli but I do love aamti.This is clearly not enough any...  more...
 Friendly Ghost | 07:18 | 15/Mar/2008
Friends: (347)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Pedestrian Satyagraha
Let us all launch a Pedestrian Satyagraha(Civil Disobedience Movement)Dear Concerned Citizen,Mumbai's planning is vehicle-centric and hawker-centric. Roads are widened to allow for the growing numbers of vehicles, and regulations are loosened to allow explosive growth of hawkers, roadside garbage etc. But what about the fast-growing population of p...  more...
 mesha bhat | 08:49 | 26/Sep/2007
Friends: (130)  | Interests: reading,poetry,pa...
He..He...This one rocks..
"The Obedient Wife" There was a man who had worked all his life, had savedall of his money, and was a real "miser" when it cameto his money. Just before he died, he said to his wife..."When Idie, I want you to take all my money and put it in thecasket with me. I want to take my money to theafterlife with me." And so he got his wife to promise him, ...  more...
 Sonya Alimbe... | 00:19 | 19/Mar/2007
Friends: (67)  | City: Y  | Interests: Painting, writing...
Will still be away
Dear friends,Thanks for visting my page and leaving your comments.I am very busy with series of work trips now, so will be unable to post for couple of more month.Will be missing you all.S.AWhen we share our dreams for our lives and the world, we set something powerful into action. Like a giant ball of energy growing speed as it rolls downhill, a p...  more...
 myna mg | 12:00 | 2/Jul/2007
Friends: (106)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Reading and Music..
"LIFE"
" ONE PARAGRAPH THAT EXPLAINS LIFE!Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he Gotdue to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983.From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which  conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?To this Arthur Ashe replied:The world over ...  more...
 seeniraj siv... | 18:24 | 14/Mar/2008
Friends: (86)  | City: Tuticorin-628005  | Interests: www.shivamaha.com
ஆயுள் ...
முன்கĬ 9;றிப்ப 009;: நினைவĬ 7;ல் நிற்கĬ 9;ம் இரண்டĬ 9; முயற்ĩ 0;ிகள்:1. த ;ிருĪ...  more...
 P Srinivasan | 22:58 | 17/Nov/2007
Friends: (50)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading Sci Fi, t...
Thanks to the General
A thousand speeches, articles and andolans could not  have achieved what Mushraff achieved in one single stroke.  By charging Imran Khan with terrorism he has reduced the anti terrorism laws to their truthful state - a new tool for the powerful to oppress people who dissent or disagree. Thank you General.  You have made people realise that anybody ...  more...
 umesh sonkar | 13:13 | 21/Aug/2006
Friends: (4)  | City: Lucknow  | Interests: intelligent build...
BIO-INTELLIGENT BUILDING
HOW GOOD THE CONCEPT OF BIO-INTELLIGENT BUILDING?looknig forward to conceptualize the various functions of bio-intelligent building. normally any intelligent building (as in india) includes photo-electric sensors for opening and closure of doors,window,ventillators to allow the visitor/occupant and the sunlight to get into the building.though some ...  more...
 subhadip maj... | 20:03 | 22/Aug/2006
Friends: (35)  | Interests: WRITING STORY POE...
The Quest
                                           The Quest                      Subhadip Majumdar                              Three bikes are fiercely moving through the National Highway.The night is cold, the wind blowing with disguised teeth, sky clear with shining stars. The lights of the bikes are cutting sharply all edges of the darkness. The silen...  more...
 Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (1463)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Social upliftment
This MAY BE LAST POST FROM ME, IT ALL WI...
This may be my last post, depending on the out come of the decision of Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice Dalvi at 2.30 p.m.  Case detail is given in the image which is given at the end.If this is the last post, then see you in the next world (if what the religions teach is truth).  If not, then it does not make any difference, because then, we will...  more...
 pavan kumar | 14:01 | 21/Jul/2006
Friends: (9)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Developing good r...
unexpected questions
This incident happended to me when i am travelling to calicut from chennai during my MCA days.My main hobby is to keep interaction with others and to develop good relations with them...on the way to my journey i met a gentle man and discussion went on with him for nearly 3 hours and at the end of the discussion he asked me some questions to which i...  more...
 Sailesh Cousik | 09:08 | 4/Jun/2007
Friends: (64)  | Interests: Reading, Music, M...
My Favourite Things (Re-Revised)
JULIE ANDREWS TURNS 69 To commemorate her 69th birthday, actress/vocalist, Julie Andrews made a special appearance  at Manhattan's RadioCity Music Hall for  the benefit of the AARP. One of the musical numbers  she performed was "My Favorite Things" from the legendary movie, "Sound Of  Music". Here are the lyrics she used: Maalox and nose drops and ...  more...
 meg shetti | 18:34 | 22/Oct/2006
Friends: (13)  | Interests: Mumbai Reading ...
Happy Deepavali to all
I Pray to God to give ALL Shanti, Shakti, Sampati, Swarup, Saiyam, Saadgi, Safalta, Samridhi, Sanskar, Swaasth, Sanmaan, Saraswati, aur SNEH. SHUBH DIWALI...  more...
 Mahima Natraj | 21:15 | 18/Sep/2006
Friends: (7)  | City: Mysore  | Interests: Travelling, Photo...
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 ...  more...
 Yasir kalapp... | 19:00 | 13/Jul/2006
Friends: (5)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: movies,travel,rea...
oru naattidavazhiyude ormayil
my friend reghu who is an nri was here on leave last month. his academics found its fullstop even before he completed 10th. he told me once :'' while in gulf , as the sun begin to set a naattidavazhi {a village road} would storm into my mind ,no, straight to my heart. who can explain nostalgia ina better way.  more...
 sony johnson | 15:46 | 1/Jul/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: travelling, liste...
ohhh..time n again its truing prove that we human beings really like to be loved more rather than to love..eventhough doesnt express this feeling..      more...
 ujjal saha | 21:33 | 29/Jun/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: Making Friends, T...
Friendship!!!!
Friendship:)      This word is not only a matter of sudden thoughts, Feelings. It is a very sacred idea to helpsome one really needy, to support someone helpless. A true friend is who, by his heart, feels the sorrow of his friend. Wants to walk with him when he is alone. But now a days this things are one kind meaningless.There was an time when peo...  more...
 Lakshmi K | 08:48 | 10/Apr/2007
Friends: (54)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: Drawing, painting...
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.....  more...
 Sandhya Suri | 21:47 | 21/Jan/2008
Friends: (656)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Life
Smirk
Wandering…The dark alleys of the mind’s deepest corridorsResounding… Crying…Grasping the folds of the silken shawl of memoriesSearching… Seeking…Truths too bitter to tell, too smattered with the bloodSpreading… Covering…Hiding the realities, the ignorant bliss of a heartless mindSalvaging… Begging…For redemption from the knowledge that defies the s...  more...
 malvinder m | 10:14 | 12/May/2006
Friends: (3)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: reading, writting...
" the saga of overtly o'
 as i continue on my quest to catch up on my cinematic hunger, i stumble upon 'the story of o' i had heard about it vaguley as a cult film of  late sixties early seventies, since i had not ever seen it i picked it up and watched it last night weelll what can i say about the interpretation of pain pleasure subjugation humiliation sado-machoism of wo...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 00:34 | 17/Mar/2008
Friends: (1204)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Trust ...
Tibetan Lions and Monday’s Ultimatum
By Baldeo Pandey What will happen to Tibetan freedom fighters today?Monday…….Yes! Today is Monday……..Dragons can not coerce the Tibetan consciousness,Hundreds of sacrifices,Now they are awakened fighters,Roaring lions,Such days rarely come in to one’s life…..Vowed to get back Fatherland…..Spiritualism of Free Tibet,Free Soul…..Lhasa, no more a ‘Lan...  more...
 Mahe R | 02:22 | 25/Oct/2007
Friends: (49)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: INDIA-politics , ...
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...  more...
 kian Artnamus | 19:59 | 24/May/2006
Friends: (27)  | City: Bangalore  | Interests: ETC
ETC: What’s the obsession?
ETC: What’s the obsession?Three wildly readingly unread bogs and a great hiatus later……this seemingly dreamy early monsoonal evening in bangalore has got me pondering on the ETC.....and these variegated responses that it has managed to invoke (from my fellow bloggers):Are you stupid or am I?What is the eternal obsession with ETC…?Can’t you write ab...  more...
 Babu Ramaswamy | 15:10 | 30/May/2006
Friends: (11)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: reading, travelling
Long lasting relationship
Well, what is a long lasting relationship? I think it’s a relative concept. All what I can say its an enduring relationship where there is a mutual filling of needs. Many people tend to believe that everything should stay the same in life. But we know that the things keep changing. Anyone in a relationship is going to face its ups and downs as we a...  more...
 Anil Goel | 20:18 | 18/Mar/2008
Friends: (759)  | Interests: Bollywood, Group ...
Go on guys - save a child's dream!
Have A Dream? Save A Dream! Very often we are bombarded with emails selling us a myriad things. we do it ourselves to seek your attention. but do treat this mail differently. it is a bit long but not reading it could cut many a life short. Like you and me Anouradha Bakshi had a dream. The only difference was that Anou's dream was to save the dreams...  more...
 Lesliey Tripaty | 06:26 | 12/Dec/2006
Friends: (159)  | City: Bhubaneshwar  | Interests: http://www.leslie...
WELL  DIS IS A CLIP OF INTERVIEW OF MINE FEATURED IN AN ORIYA MAGAZINE  more...
 sudheer kar | 14:36 | 30/Jun/2007
Friends: (43)  | City: India  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
INSPIRATIONS
"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."Give to yourself the highest of expectations. And all the while, be patient with yourself as well. Know for certain that you are surely born to do great things. And know also that real value takes time a...  more...
 vikram barthwal | 16:08 | 9/Jun/2006
Friends: (40)  | Interests: Computers, Cricke...
Myth of Aryan Invasion Theory
According to the Aryan Invasion Theory (AIT), India was invaded and conquered by nomadic light-skinned Indo-European tribes from Central Asia around 1500-100BC, who overthrew an earlier and more advanced dark-skinned Dravidian civilization from which they took most of what later became Hindu culture. This idea totally foreign to the history of Indi...  more...
 Shweta Iyengar | 15:40 | 20/Feb/2007
Friends: (75)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: knowing the diver...
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...  more...
 Nandan Newla... | 01:20 | 22/Aug/2007