tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10031754595084706442024-03-12T21:24:06.500-07:00Fast Music Slow Traffic!Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-80766334538047317752013-02-14T03:38:00.000-08:002013-02-14T04:29:02.362-08:00OMG!! Liebster<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wow! I received five Liebster nominations, and from whom?? <strong>My five favorite bloggers!!</strong> <em>(eeeeee)</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Actually this is what blogging community is all about, appreciation and recognition! Can’t thanks, Meenakshi, Deepak, Jahid, Guspazha Chinar, Meera, enough for acknowledging my blog, Congrats to you all and Thank you so so much!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Meenakshi – I can never ever stop praising her, she is a wonderful writer, poet and thinker, her poems, especially haiku (she specializes in haiku!) and articles have deeper sense and meaning to it… its so good to read her!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Deepak:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is the one who wrote Katy & Dug!! – I also own an e-book ! Everybody I know, knows Deepak! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Jahid:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he is a captivating blogger; his memoires take you to that time & place, It seems like I know his friends personally now -parag da! special mention, because of his ‘great escape’! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Guspazha Chinar: She is young, she is enthusiastic and she has so much energy (read youth) in her writing I just love her</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Meera: Oh I first read her short story, it was real fun, real short but interesting enough to hook me to her blog – Rat Nibbles (he he he Loved her intro)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Sorry for blogging so late (I am not going to give too-much-work-in-office excuse anymore, so just say I have been Lazy!- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">its not true, I am loaded with work!</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Now as a nominee of Liebster Awards I must to do following things </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Write 11 things about myself- That’s easy!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">b)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Answer the questions by the blogger , who nominated me – Will be a mixed bag</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">c)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Nominate 11 bloggers (with less than 200 followers)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">d)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tell all the bloggers I nominated by posting in their blogs</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">11 Things about Myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From Allahabad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and an Allahabadi in every sense! Language, attitude, creativity, intelligence, humor, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">politics, power-lust, show-off...</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am a voracious reader, I read all the time! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love Russian literature, Ivan Turgnev, Maxim Gorky, Tolstoy…Just love Charles Dickens (have read all his books) Romantic poets Keats, Wordsworth, Shelly… I adore Harishankar Parsai! Modern writers : Khaleed Hosseini! Aravind Aadiga , <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I read espionage/spy novels as well- Alistair McLean, Robert Ludlum are my favorite.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believe in myself, I believe in God<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Professionally I write! For leisure I write!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I Love my self- <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am trying to be humble here that’s why its mentioned at #6<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am a passionate about my work and I am a perfectionist </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">8.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am painfully honest; I have never lied to my parents!! Sometimes I have lied to other people , friends, collogues, vendors, but only for a good … (that’s what I think!) <em>-If its good you will know, if it’s bad you will know</em></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span></i></b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I love Music- hip hop , R & B , Trance to be precise and like all Michael Jacksons fan I too think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am the biggest MJ fan in the world.<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Volunteered many times for society servicing, Women upliftment and Child Education primarily</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By this time you must have guessed I have never done any crazy stuff in my life<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so I might as well accept- I have not! , you may want to call me boring!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Answer Questions by bloggers who nominated me!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">He he he I am going to choose the easiest ones! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mention 3 things which give you happiness<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Good Food, Good book and Animals (except reptiles)<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">How many hours of TV you watch daily<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><strong><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></strong></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hour most of the time<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The reason you write?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My emotions are better expressed in writing, I also think I inherited it, My mother is a famous Hindi writer<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What do you admire about yourself and why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am honest and I admire everything about myself ! and why? Because I am blessed to be me<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">What’s your idea of charity and why?<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I think in place like India, its better to devote time than to give money, so I prefer to spend time and do things myself <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">You can’t leave home without…<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I can’t leave without my Phone!<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Emotion or logic<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Vijaya; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Mix of both, logical emotions<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">8.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="IN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">Can love happen more than once?</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">True love can happen only once.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="IN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">Who is your idol?</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mother<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="IN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">What will you do if you get to know that there is no God?</span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">If there is no God I will find someone else to pray , to believe in..<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="IN" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">11.<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="IN" style="color: black; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-themecolor: text1;">What can you die for, if anything?</span><span lang="IN" style="color: #555555; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-ansi-language: IN; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">a.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Truth!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The bloggers I nominate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Heartiest Congratulations! You all are amazing bloggers!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pink Orchid- </span></span><a href="http://aasthebeginning.blogspot.in/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The Fire in Me</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Eswarji- </span></span><a href="http://www.miraarvind.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Tryst with writing</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Needhesh- </span></span><a href="http://nidheeshn.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Expression</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Saurabh Chawla- </span></span><a href="http://www.saurabhchawla.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Saurabh’s Lounge</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">TTT- </span></span><a href="http://tomatotwist.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Tangy Tomato Twist</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Ravi ji- </span></span><a href="http://chroniclesofraviakula.blogspot.in/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ravi Akula Chronicles</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">NanI- </span></span><a href="http://www.southexplored.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">South Explored</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">8.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Himanshu Nagpal- </span></span><a href="http://www.beingtraveler.com/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Being Traveler</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Titli-</span></span><a href="http://titli15081977.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">The Little Princess</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Prasoon- </span></span><a href="http://www.notionofdreams.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Life is short and Time is Swift</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Sathish- </span></span><a href="http://daystillinmind.blogspot.in/2013/02/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">It slips a beat</span></a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Now My chance to ask question ( I will try to make it simple </span><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">From where you get ideas to blog (streets, newspapers, daily soaps…)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">2.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Why your blog name?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">3.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Poetry or prose what do you prefer and why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">4.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The last book that touched your heart & why?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">5.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Fame or Money <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(yeah yeah I am asking this to writers but I have my reasons…)</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">6.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Adventure or serenity- idea of perfect vacation</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">7.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Work: Idle time everyday</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">8.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thoughts on online relationship</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Religion v/s rational what’s your opinion</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">10.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Being Married is better than being single?- your thoughts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">11.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are Indians first then why there is a difference (read conflict) between South & North India - Thoughts</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Ok I did it!! Would love to see other bloggers (besides the one I nominate) to answer some of these as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">well, whenever they have time</i>. I read them a lot and would love to know more- </span><a href="http://theoriginalpoetry.blogspot.in/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Deepak</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> (Not a surprise), </span><a href="http://beyondwoman.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Meenakshi</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> (Not a surprise either), </span><a href="http://panchalibolchi.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Panchali, </span></a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span></span><a href="http://amitaag.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Amitji</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">, </span><a href="http://jahidakhtar.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Jahid</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">, </span><a href="http://road-to-sanitarium.blogspot.in/"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Jay</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> (oh I simply love his blog, road to sanitarium)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Thanks once again Meenakshi, Deepak, Jahid, Guspazha, Meera, for acknowledging my blog… </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ok Today it happened: My Laptop
finally freaked out and screamed ‘ Oh Get Up!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pick me up! You are hooked to wrong things! First You come back home,
LATE!! Every day!! Then you play stupid games on ipad : <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Empress of the Deep?? Who is she? Why you are even bothered? Why do you
want to bring her justice? And haven’t you finished the game already? You want
to play part 2 now? What’s it with the empress and you..Are you even straight,
hanging around with empress all the time??’<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘I am not with the empress for
last two days ‘, I defended<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Oh Yeah??’It shrieked , ‘And
while you were not with it, you were busy watching stupid SITCOMS? Since when
have you become such a TV freak? You are watching everything even ‘Everybody
Loves<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raymond’!! Everybody Loves<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Raymond’??Seriously??, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought you didn’t like that show! You never
liked Ray Romano’s nasal voice! Why you are doing it to yourself? Just to avoid
me eh?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘My Choices have changed! ‘<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Choices or priorities??’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘My Choices!’, I stressed, ‘ You
are still very dear to me, remember I was with you for the whole day, last
Sunday’<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Oh Oh Oh Don’t you get me
started on it now! You mean mean person. Last weekend was the most painful
weekend of my life!’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Ccmon we were together, what do
you want?’<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘Together my foot! You have used
me for your ecstasy you played Plants and Zombie ENTIRE DAY damnit! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">What is that stupid game? Super unrealistic,
plants firing zombies and killing them?? And you love it? You finished all its
levels, its mini games, its puzzles even survivals!!</i> Survivals – That’s a
new low even for you! While you were drawing some sadistic pleasure out of ‘killing
zombies’ I, had pretty hard time pleasing you. I tried showing you I am
exhausted that day, by buzzing several times, by getting warmer but you !you…
just put a cushion underneath and continued? Same stupid game! And today you
have the audacity to remind me of our times together? Sorry Boss We are not on
same page anymore<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">When you brought me home, you
promised me you will give me happy time each day, you will read, you will write,
but now it seems I am with a different person altogather , You are a selfish
jerk ,you have used me only for pleasure. Listen carefully . <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong><em>I am not one of those who can be played with!’<o:p></o:p></em></strong></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘I..err..’, I stammered <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘And don’t you give me crap about
your office work. I got to speak with your office laptop yesterday, you may be loaded
but compared to other writers you are not! You are a writer, you are SUPPOSE to
write, professionally and otherwise so stop cribbing<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Either its me for something or Nothing,
<strong>Play one more time and I am outta here’<o:p></o:p></strong></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">I saw it again, my silver sleek
Sony Vaio. It is still glowing, it is still beautiful. I have been mean to it.
I remembered happy times together, when I was writing a book, when I use to
write articles every day read a lot. Today I hardly get to see it. I felt sorry
, tears rolled my eyes. I hugged it tight, felt it again with my fingers. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">‘I am not going to be mean to you
again baby’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I promised. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">For those of you who think I am
bluffing with my laptop- Well you are correct!!<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="font-size: large;">Muaaahhhhhhh (Devilish laughter)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com32tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-37986915620887704212013-01-11T02:32:00.000-08:002013-01-11T02:33:16.577-08:00Deep in Ditch, Drenched<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I didn’t realize I have fallen! Worse I didn’t even realize I have been in this dirty ditch all this time. Yes! what I have been thinking as the <span style="color: red;"><strong>bed of roses</strong></span> (curse the human power of imagination) was actually <em><strong>a dirty stinking ditch</strong></em> with ,what seems like, abysmal depth!- What was I thinking?? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was thinking of world where –LOYALTY, HONESTY, INTEGRITY, ETHICS, VALUES really means what is written in the dictionary, not <strong>what it has become now</strong>. Loyalty became sycophancy, Honesty is new foolishness, integrity is innocence (you will learn as you grow up) ethics and values are like dinosaurs <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(interesting to read but extinct long back)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I was thinking of the world - where relationships exist in its purest form and last long only because of love in heart <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not mullah in bank</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where when a sister calls her brothers it’s because <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">she wants to</i></b>, not because she <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wants something</i></b>. When father spends on son it’s because he knows his son’s <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">smile is priceless</i></b> not because he wants the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">price of it back with interest</i></b>! Where mother does not want the son to payback her warmth in cash and gold!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dreamy and mesmerized by all the goodness around me, I never noticed the fall, frankly to me then it was an exciting fall... Zero gravity!! Extreme exhilaration! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I looked around again, things have changed miraculously. Truth does not exist anymore- Everything is make belief. I noticed I am one of the victims of convulsive social system. I raised my voice several times but it was drowned in the cacophony of hypocrites, trying to prove that this is a better world and there will be a better tomorrow. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is a sense of paranoia; everyone is living on the edge, people have been betrayed so many times that they have stopped trusting their own blood! Purity in relationship has lost its luster. It’s not white anymore! Purity does not exist, everything is amalgamated every relationship is impure. I could smell the strong stench of rotten relationships here and it’s getting worse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Even God has been questioned and dethroned. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone is disillusioned. Everyone is making their own rules, implementing their new laws of nature. Everyone has painted the world Grey. Individuality have been crushed freedom has been chained. It’s suffocating here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am tired of this place! I looked up, there I saw the real world the world that I imagined -the world as it should be. I saw hope! I staggered, trying to reach up, it is an abysmal depth, but I will try! I have nothing to collect from here I just want to elevate. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am just back on my foot, I can stand upright. Oh well it’s raining heavily now and its blurs my vision, but I could still see that light. It’s a long distance but I will try. It’s slippery and dangerous, but I will try. Now that I have seen hope I will try.</span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-22817561412016635232012-12-20T22:30:00.000-08:002012-12-22T01:40:14.211-08:00 A Mediocre Post<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So it is the same here! Every day, same life!! There is no excitement no depression It’s <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just the same everyday..mediocre to the core</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We call ourselves, Hardworking?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><strong><u>Well they call us BORING!!</u></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We struggle hard to meet our personal and professional deadlines.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">1<sup>st</sup> I must pay rent, children's school fee and maids’ salary! 1<sup>st</sup> I must stock my ration!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are not risk takers!! Our heart beats 10 times faster on slightest of risk. Oh we are so calculated!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Taking a 10 ft<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>roller coaster ? woaah!! Too much.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are happy on our recliners. More than 3 rotations on our office chair make our heads spin (literally and other wise)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Petty clandestine operations? Manipulations?- <strong><em><span style="color: red;">higher studies </span></em></strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We , mediocre, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have learnt that – The sky <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will not fall on occasional delays in deadlines</span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-46454914166911240742012-12-13T01:30:00.000-08:002012-12-13T01:35:19.861-08:00Of Preachers and Followers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We humans are a unique breed. We claim to have evolved to be at top of the echelon, but in true sense we are still part of the jungle.The innate qualities of being in herd, in continuous paranoia of attack and unwillingness to start something new, still exists. We are still like animals of the jungle and worse. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">We are still part of a larger herd, we still follow - whom we assume ‘alpha’!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">While going around the streets of Chennai with Ms Melhotra; I noticed something strange- she is turning her head away from all the temples/churches/shrines. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Strange indeed</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When finally I asked for the reason, she said her ‘guru’ refrain all his followers from idol worship! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Oh Oh…so she is not an atheist but a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>believer- believer of different God! </i>Idol worship is highly debatable and<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> I</i> would have let it go, had I not happen to visit the Ashram of her preacher. In middle of the sprawling 30 acres property they (followers) have erected a 10 ft gigantic statute of their guru and were praying it every time they were passing by it – <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Followers!! Wake up!! This is idol worship!! <o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Irrational minions!! They are playing with you<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We, human beings are strange lot, for we are searching for answers of the questions nobody asked. We want peace but cannot find solace within and then we turn to someone <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">we</b> believe is capable of bringing peace. We do not trust ourselves!! We like to follow and are afraid to lead our life the way we want- The way it should be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is no harm in following a great deed and understanding the nuances of being a better soul. There is no harm in listening to the positive sermons to uplift you. There is no harm in learning ways of meditation and becoming a better individual. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><em>Spirituality is not harmful!! </em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am not against spirituality!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the extremity of it which concerns me! It’s the blind faith that worries me. My heart sinks when I see 10 year olds doing ‘ 108 hari naam jaap’ at ISKCON!- I am believer of the ISKCON foundation, our forefathers have been instrumental in making it happen ! But I never did ‘hari naam jaap’ <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>till I was mid twenties ,old enough to understand, what it means. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A 10 year looking for spirituality? Cmmon be rational!! He doesn’t even know what he is holding and its significance! For all I know he could be just playing with the beads!!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Explore your own spirituality! Don’t jump in bandwagon- or if at all you have jumped, keep your senses alive. Don’t be blind don’t be slave. Reason!! Don’t turn spirituality into fanaticism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I remember members of ‘<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u>people’s temple’</u></b> who believed in their preacher – Jim Jones, to an extent that they gave up everything they had, to live a humble life in Jungles of Guyana (South America). They trusted their leader so much so that they all committed suicide in November 1978, on command of their leader <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(mass suicide of 909 individuals, second highest loss of American civilian life, highest being in 9/11 attacks)</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Aham Brahmasmi !! Believe me you are God yourself!</span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-24582032527077068072012-12-05T10:30:00.000-08:002012-12-05T10:30:55.859-08:00FD aayi?? Haan aa gayi!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So yet another thought on FDI in
retail? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>topical blogging eh? But what to
do then - this is what everyone has been talking about for a long time now and my
puny brain with limited access to knowledge is bound to get influenced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, I will refrain myself from talking
its implications- All News Channels hosts, Indian Intelligentsia, Humanitarians
are talking about it and I have a feeling I might end up emulating them<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Besides I don’t want to dilute my
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policies/schemes)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Accept it or not, we Indians have
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at all. Even though sometime government do things/bring policies <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">(let’s not question the intent here, for we all
we go in different tangent then)</i> which are actually beneficial for India as
whole, Indians start protesting it before its implementation (or drafting
sometimes)- It actually kills enthusiasm of the whole project <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its Conditional Reflex, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">They (Govt) introduce</b> a
policy/bill/scheme/anything and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">We
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I remember liberalization of
economy dated back late 90s. Here the ever so quite P.V Narsimha Rao thought of
liberalizing the Indian Economy and there BAM!! Entire India is on street! I remember
rallies and protests where white Kurta clad, Allahabad Universities Student
Head/would be Politicians ,were actually throwing ‘so-called-imported’ stuff (clothes
basically) in fire and shouting “Angrezon Bharat Chhodo!!” <em><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Seriously I am laughing as I am writing!)</em> Later
these would be politicians were <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>found celebrating
– <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after tearing few shirts, breaking few
vehicles and middle finger to law -</i>at the local bar; todays special order “Aaj
to Angrezi piyenge” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">That’s what it is! Nobody is
bothered about the common man. He is still stray, still clueless!! – If 100s
are saying its BAD its BAD, join in! <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">If
FDI in retail will come what will happen to the mom & pop shops? in 20 years they are
like my family… they <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will go out of
business, poor and homeless and what not</i> common man is compassionate, that
why he is being exploited. His heart is more commanding than brain. His heart
is letting them (hypocrites) win!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">However, I am happy, after all
the revolt and non-cooperation, FDI in retail is passed! Many Thanks to UP
majors SP, BSP- I Love you guys, for the first time you actually DID something
for the nation, YOU DID NOT VOTE!! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am looking forward to its
implications – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I am sure it’s not going
to be what social workers/opposition is pointing at! </i><strong>It’s all going to be
good. India will shine again<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></i></strong></span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-16568481390534624232012-12-01T22:41:00.001-08:002012-12-01T22:42:08.548-08:00Ode To A Simple Man<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US">He trudged all the way through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">Yet he never sweat <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Nor he stop smiling</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">They sneered, they laughed<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">He laughed with them too<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">But never stopped<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">And walked all the way through<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">Achievements you have none<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">They said. He agreed!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">And he never told them about<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Relativity of Success<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">They materialised and numbered it too<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">But he savoured them all<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">As he walked all the way through<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">‘Gold I have many’- <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">Often he use to say<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">‘But its a golden heart I treasure<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">What good is wealth? <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">If it cannot make your loved one smile<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Love is only wealth that counts when-<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">You walk all the way through’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">He died like a simple man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">Quietly from our world to beyond<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">He left as the morning sun rose<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">But little did people know<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">The man was a wizard<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">Who mastered the magic of simplicity<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US">As he walked all the way through</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>* Dedicated to my grandfather- a great philosopher, visoner and a very simple man</em></span></div>
Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-24708808539465180402012-11-27T02:07:00.001-08:002012-11-27T02:07:16.283-08:00Fast Music Slow Traffic<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">To move you, with it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In Trance!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mind raced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">There is no looking back!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will run! I will achieve</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I will bring the change!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In trance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mind raced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">New ideas developed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">New revolutions made</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>2 minutes of achievement</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In trance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mind raced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thoughts at speed of light</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Stirred feelings -of accomplishment </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of what has been done</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">And will be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Of freedom and ecstasy</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Thoughts grew, took shape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">In trance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">My mind raced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alas! I opened my eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am still at the same place!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Drivers honking</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Traffic moving at 10 Km per hour</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dreams & Reality </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not at the same pace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Its suffocating</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I feel caged</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Transcendent and back</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Reality hurts! Illusion escalates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I closed my eyes </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Back in trance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I let my mind race</span></div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-49708354166165672612012-11-24T19:46:00.000-08:002012-11-24T19:52:16.834-08:00In the Mirror<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Thank you for being there for me – I am
blessed to know someone like you…..” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Only if I would have find you years back my
life would have been much better…Thanks”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“ With you around I feel much more stronger
…Thank you for standing like a rock for me…”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US">And there are still more words/ sentences of
similar effect, I keep hearing from people I <em>barely</em>
know … -so repetitive and so similar in nature that now it is analogous to the
cluttering of a machine to my brain- which has stopped accepting the emotions
underneath at all- love and appreciation do not stir a ripple in my heart any
more. I do not doubt the intent/sincerity of people who said such things to me-
I better not! The question which leaves me pondering every night is- “How can
somebody be so special for every one??”-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Its not something to boast about, it’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">strange</i> it is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">weird</i>, it’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">scary</i>!!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">At this point it is important to explain to
readers, who are chuckling at my baseless disclosure of a common phenomenon and
exaggerating upon it , following important points:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">a)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">I am not a Counselor nor a
spiritual leader neither a doctor or a lawyer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">b)<span style="font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 7pt/normal "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">I am not running an NGO, for
upliftment of society<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">And more importantly it’s only since last few
years, I am being given garlands of such appreciations. Every one like to be
loved & respected in the society, then why am I not happy? I am no
different from others! I am standing in front of the mirror ,its already past
midnight, I am all alone, I am all by myself, feeling bad about the guy who
told me in the evening ‘how I made him a better man’… I almost felt my
reflection smiling at me as if its saying : “What a waste of time!- go off to
bed” – I cant! not today, I frowned at my reflection, tomorrow is weekend!, so
I stood there gazing at myself (oh! I m beautiful!!)…I saw myself I am so
imperfect, so diabolic, so scheming type <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I actually make someone a better human?
When, I am not even near human myself. If humanity has 100 points I would
barely get passing marks!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US">My Mashlow’s pyramid is inverted:</span> </div>
</span><br />
<span lang="EN-US"> I have
attained self actualization before other basic needs like Social Stature! I
know I am no God, infact <strong>I am close to devil</strong>, but yes <i>I know that </i>for
sure and never felt godly before, may be that does make me an elevated
individual. <i>Atleast I know</i>! Or may be I am lucky “bitterness” is what I
have in me, and I speak that too, ascerbity has two effects- depression or
elevation, my listeners took my harsh words sportingly (No one committed suicide,
or left the job in hand) and became “better humans” instead; however if anybody
is taking chances with their life in future (or after reading this) I know I
will come out clean, I am born in the family of lawyers! This is what all spiritual
gurus are doing…. And man they are rich!!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US">So far so good I have no regrets – not even
for wasting one hour in front of the mirror (oh! I am beautiful)- my heart’s
feeling light now and I can go off to sleep finally. If I am contributing in
making even a man a better individual I am happy I better not think of expurgating
my diabolical thoughts- that someone else’s job!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I went off to sleep immediately and in my
dream I saw thousands of people sitting with hands clasped, praying silently as
if the god in front is the answer to all their worries and pain. The people are
ready to give up all their asset and gold just to have a blessing from one
that’s sitting on golden throne, surrounded with “greens” and “yellows” while people
around chanted prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the prayers
grew stronger and people became more anxious just to see the face of God, flame
of the lamp glowed . I could see the face of God myself! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">There on Golden throne sat a goddess so
serene,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Her smile was pure her intentions clean <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">She never objected your yellow or green <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">For she can make you a man you wanted to
be<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Away from all pain careless and free <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">And as the lamp’s flame glowed her face
I could see, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN-US">Sitting on golden throne was noone but
me! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
*Wide Awake*<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span> </div>
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-41216101042186659662012-11-23T03:42:00.000-08:002012-11-23T04:33:19.890-08:00Looking At The Broken Auto Meter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Present Time....</span></b></div>
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Me : My Booking Number is 2345 I have booked a Cab for 9 A.M, its already 9:00 where is the Cab??<br />
Call Center Executive (female) : Oru Nimisham<br />
2 mins hold<br />
Call Center Executive (Male): Madam Driver is on the way<br />
Me : But I want it at 9:00 I have a meeting to attend<br />
Call Center Executive (Male): <em>Some Gibberish</em><br />
Me : Please Speak in English<br />
Call Center Executive (Male): Madam Taxi not available, Taxi at 10 :00 A.M<br />
Me: But I BOOKED LAST NIGHT (yes I shouted)<br />
Call Center Executive (Male): <em>Gibberish again</em><br />
2 mins hold <br />
Me : What are you doing its 9:10 already<br />
Call Center Executive (Male): Madam driver on the way<br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: large;"><b>Flashback ....</b></span><br />
<br />
Not so long ago in Suburbs of Chennai... <br />
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I waived my hand to stop the speeding Auto-rickshaw,to take a ride back home. The black and Yellow Auto (as it is popularly called) came to halt few meters before me.A well built Auto walla peered and said something in Tamil, I guessed he must have said "where" so I told my destination which is not even two kms from where I was standing . <br />
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<i>Yes I could have walked!- had that 1Kms stretch near my house would not be deserted and pitch dark and unsafe </i><br />
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There!! I heard him say- unabashed !! "<b>80 Rs Madam!!</b> 80 Rs?? for two Kms?? I must have heard it all wrong!! I confirmed..."80?? or 40??" He gave me a strange look - A look you want to give to a retard, chuckled and left<br />
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Later I heard that Autowalla has been admitted in hospital due to shock he got after hearing the number 40 <i>Some people say he took it as an insult and went into depression!</i> <br />
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Next Auto came, I told my location and got100 this time "100??" I exasperated... "but the earlier Auto said 80!"<br />
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"OK Madam!! OK 80!!"<br />
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And 80 it was! I sat for the first time on shaky spirally rollar-coastery ride on wrong side of the road. for 40 Rs/Km (Wow!). I saw a meter inside !! <i>Question : What is that meter doing in the auto??</i><br />
<i></i><br />
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Since then I kept paying 80 without revolt! I have accepted the inevitable, 80 then became 90 and then 100 in no time. Sometime 20-30 Rs extra for traffic as well!! <i>Question : What is that meter doing in the auto??</i><br />
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How was I to know that worse is yet to come!<br />
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And one unfaithful day it happened!! I shifted to another office location -11 Kms far from my house!!. I did my Unitary method calculations and got unbelievably high numbers. Auto commute can end up sucking my whole salary!!<br />
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An 'expert auto traveler' gave me a sense of relief - "don't worry about long distance travel, its not that much. Like for short distance minimum is 50 for long distance it is 150 to 200!" To put it simply in his words - '<i><b>What they see is 50 what they can't is 200'</b></i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>Question : What is that meter doing in the auto??</i><br />
<i><br /></i>I braced myself for new battle! the 'expert auto traveler' was correct, Auto walas always quoted something between 150-200 !, I tried negotiating several time but in vain! However what that 'expert auto traveler' did not tell me that - <i><b>Auto-wala may just abandon me on that 1 Km eerie road and ask for more money in order to drop me home!! </b></i>Tired of extortion I decided to switch<br />
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I switched to Cab Services!! 100 Rs for 1st 4 kms and 13 Rs/ Km there after. <b>Cab runs on meter!!</b><br />
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Not bad! cheap and convenient AC transport. Enough of cluttering of Auto and 'heart in mouth' travel experience , Now I will travel in peace- <i>well that is what I thought</i>.<br />
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I booked a cab from my house to office at 9:00. Boy I was in for some surprise! 9:15 already and nobody came!!! The driver called me at 8:45 and told me that he will be there at 9:00 its 9:15 and he is still not here.. I called him several times and got busy tone. Finally by 9:25 he reached. He was apologetic, spoke English and drove safe and best of all- I saved myself from negotiation slugfest. Anybody can be late! I did not bother<br />
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I swear late coming of Cabs (15-20 mins) did not deter me day one, or two , or three.. I accepted it just like I accepted irrational auto fares!! but then they pushed me too far - frequent 2 hours delay!<br />
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Also banging phones on my face is not what I was in for!!<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Back in Present Time....</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Familiar interiors!!..it has nothing but images- 2 of God, 3 of a Tamil Politician (different Avatar) and one in the corner of a Tamil film actor. The incense stick was burning in front of the politician. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">As the Auto sped past all the vehicles, breaking all traffic rules, on footpath! I looked at the broken meter, I thought it smirked!After all its non-existence won! I sighed,once again I have accepted the inevitable! Defeated I put on my ipod and acted as if nothing ever happened </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It was always like this and will always be</b></span><br />
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-22829885731950250062012-11-17T22:00:00.001-08:002012-11-17T22:01:48.864-08:00Thinking Out Loud<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Exactly after 6 months and 25 days here I am back on the same track.... Sitting idle on Sunday Morning <em>after few hours of sleep</em> and blogging..or as I would like to say "Thinking out loud".In these 6 months and 25 days my thoughts have been centrifuged to just one thing - ME! Yes this post is going to be about me.<br />
<br />
Random & confusing!<br />
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Reality hit me only yesterday- it seems like I was under a spell all the time and its only yesterday I heard that clap and snapped back into reality! <em>The present time!!</em> Time where everything has moved on except for myself. While the world is looking forward to 2013 ...For me it is still April! That poem I started composing is still unfinished... The picture that I wanted to paint has not been coloured. I have not learnt a new trade or art.<br />
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6 months 25 days!! Gone!!<br />
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Like everything in the world this too has a reason. I can sit here lament the loss- <em>which I have been doing all these days! Evaluating loss!! Escaping reality</em> !! -Tell you all about it and prove that its not my fault but then I will be lying! <br />
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Volenti non-fit injuria*!! <br />
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Its a loss yes! can it be avoided?- I don't know.. Will it happen again?-May be... ...but then I know I will come back, like today someday, I will be back again. Will it happen soon?- I will not let that be!! I remember an honest answer I gave in the final round of Ms Fresher 2005 contest, to the question "what qualities you have in you to keep you going?" I said "<strong>I am resilient" </strong><br />
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Back again!!<br />
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<br />
Aparna <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><em><span style="font-size: x-small;">* the precept that denotes a person who knows and comprehends the peril and voluntarily exposes himself or herself to it, although not negligent in doing so, is regarded as engaging in an</span></em><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: small-caps 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">assumption of the risk</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; display: inline !important; float: none; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font: 13px/normal Arial; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></span><i style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">and is precluded from a recovery for an injury ensuing therefrom.</i><br />
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Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-75670322396177895582012-04-23T00:29:00.000-07:002012-04-23T00:33:27.452-07:00A house with a mango tree<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometime it has given fruits<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That lasted for months<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And some seasons just flowers bushy<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Why don’t you cut it?’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">People often asked then<br />‘And sell its wood for money’</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father would tell </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would never do so<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘For only we have a house with a Mango tree’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Street Children would pelt stones<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To bring its juicy fruit to ground<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And sometime just to tease<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘It is a menace to us!’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My mother would crib then<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Cut it! For your family‘<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father said<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would never do so<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘For only we have a house with a Mango tree’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Neighbors would come to pluck its <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>leaves<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For all pious occasions <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And end up ruining our morning peace<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘Why don’t we cut this thing?’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My sister would say then<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘We are not doing charity!’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My father frowned<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He would never do so<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">‘For only we have a house with a Mango tree’<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The tree has been cut down today<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For mammon is stronger than god<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As all emotions cease<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Cut this damn thing!"<br />My uncle said<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“For I need space for entry”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Alas! My father is no more<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Else he would never let him do so<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">For only he built that house with a Mango tree<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Dejected dishevelled <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In need for love & care<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I looked in his eyes<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Pleading begging<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Truthful and fair<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I lifted him up<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> From abysmal darkness<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Brought him to light<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> With love and kindness<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alas! I did not see<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> The stagger he kept for me<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For I don’t have third eye<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Fie! I saw my love die<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> As the stagger hits me<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Paying back for my generosity <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Here I lie pondering alone<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Bruised and battered from fresh wound<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> How am I to know?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That humanity exist no more<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That mullah has gone strong<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And you say I am wrong?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p>She called me that dreaded night<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Alone and cold<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Crying with all her might<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For she has been shunned <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> By the one she loved most<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> With no one by her side<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She was standing at death’s coast<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I hugged her as tight a hug can be<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Wiped her tears<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Made her a family<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alas I couldn’t be<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> To her a family<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Or a friend to love & share<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Deepest secret, dreaded fear<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> She blatantly blamed me<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That I helped her to flee<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> From every one she loved<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Ah! My faith too has been shoved<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Into the deepest well it’s gone<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Leaving me cold and alone<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> How am I to know?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That truth exist no more<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> That faith doesn’t last long<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And you say I am wrong?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How one decides right or wrong?<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Meek or strong?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> If one doesn’t know or feel,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> What he is to world is not real,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> There he is someone he wants to be,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And his imagination cannot change reality<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Alas! But A man’s fad cannot be cured,<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> To the system he is so inured <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Which he never wants to quit<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Does everything to fit<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Where good and evil does not exist<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> For truth there is no place<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It’s just about saving his face<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In mad conceited race<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> To be best in system they follow<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> System so mercurial! so shallow!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Turning him against his own self! making him hollow!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>just another man in throng <o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Hating the one who does not belong<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Or who rise above in revolution<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> To refrain forced inclusion<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> In system where there is No black & white<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> No wrong or right<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Weak or might<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Where truth and beauty doesn’t make song<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And to that world I do not belong<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Here I am still the same still strong<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And pondering for long<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where am I wrong?<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day motorcyclist will feel he is a man</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not a mole scurrying in small spaces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day Auto drivers will drive Auto-rickshaws</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And not fly a helicopter</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day when man will stop running</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The day Bicycles will not run on footpath</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flagged vehicle will not own traffic cops</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To cross the signal stops</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will not wish for good luck when you are gone</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I promised myself that I will post something or the other everyday.... so much is happening in the country!! SP came with clear majority in UP! and now that Akhilesh Yadav have sworn in , UP will have an educated CM with a degree from University of Sydney! Mrs Pratibha Patil's speech yesterday in join Assembly session have been disrupted by slogans such as - Jai Telangana!!! <em>That's height of non sequitur(ism)...</em> ( following posts may have some bit of Indian Political scenario there is so much to write not to forget perennial issues such as 'AI pilot blunder', 'match fixing' -<em> yes! it has become perpetual</em>,'volatile market', 'escalating gold prices' aur ' KASAB KO PHANSI KAB HOGI' etc) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I promised myself that I will post everyday yet I did not yesterday.... why?? well I had to work on an article for a magazine, the sad part : I got to know about that article @ 6 only, I worked till 9 and when the publisher of the magazine gave me two more days as well as an extra page - I GAVE UP!! <em>I am still weak from my sickness - a days late night work and my fever relapsed today!</em> As far as the pleasure of writing is concerned , I was content yesterday- <em>in this manner my job is quite fulfilling</em> :) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes I promised myself I will post everyday there is so much is happening in the country... and within myself</span></div>Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-35013044421905671072012-03-10T01:28:00.000-08:002012-03-10T01:28:06.779-08:00What was once my first post....<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am forced to write… And worse people come from ecclesial background and suggest me topics on which I should write (Thank you! I appreciate it. I am normally out of themes to write on ….but there is just one problem your theme is <strong>stale, old</strong>, and <strong>Stinking on web since internet was first launched</strong>! I know you are acting smart…you are giving me all the rotten ideas to write upon while you keep the good ones for your self!! Right ?? <em>(Say yes, say yes, say yes or I will commit suicide only with the thought of wasting 1 hour (<strong>ONE HOUR)</strong> listening to your “revolutionary idea”))</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That’s not all there are even smarter breed of people who give me theme like “<strong>UFO Invasion!!</strong>” and worst they even have story ready!!(<em>Now what to you want out of me!!! I quit everything and become a typist?? Typing a story which I would rather see in fire than in library? And you are not even PAYING ME!!!!!)</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You think it’s all?? You are nuts!!- This “one” kind, I am about to mention, I love (read loathe) most….they never force me to write (how can they? They are writer/poets themselves….these people would pick up my composition, change a line or two (giving it a different meaning altogether) and will send it back to me!!! <em>(What??? Why?? Why me? I am still searching for these answers! Really!!)</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Motivators come in all shape and sizes…. With the ideas most eccentric and stories most weird! These are people lord Vishnu sent to earth with a mission “Go my dear soul…there are so many ‘<em>hanumans</em>’ on earth they are yet to know of their power within…..go soul go and tell them that I have blessed them with art of blogging” and there they are minions of Lord Vishnu torturing every soul on earth helping them to find a writer (read blogger) within!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here I am, motivated by minions of God, well-wishers of humanity and preachers of art,- blogging my thoughts…</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And no it’s not that I hate writing, I love it , in fact I take it very seriously … and soon you will know! it’s just that I have my inhibitions in blogging… Why?? Honestly when people encourage you too much to pursue something you tend to get apprehensive – <em>nothing but human nature </em>*smiles*</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sit back enjoy as I take you through – human seasons (why I named it so will be my next post… but before let me get hang of this blog…) well now though the name of blog differs intentions remain same</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">* P.S : None of the incident quoted above is figment of writer’s imagination or has been exaggerated. All what’s mentioned is but truth (except for the lord Vishnu part, yet to know the truth <img alt=";)" class="wp-smiley" src="http://s1.wp.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif?m=1336659725g" /> )</span></div>Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1003175459508470644.post-33592600348442972492012-03-10T01:22:00.000-08:002012-03-10T01:22:56.467-08:00moved!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Day 1 and I moved to another blogsite!!.... I am becoming mean, <em>something which I always wanted to</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why I am here? : Well this one is simple convenient and easy to use ...<em>see what did I say about being mean part. </em>Besides this lady sitting next to me- who inspired me to blog like no one else, <em>by glamorising it!- </em>refferd this site as the best!; to put it in her own words ' its so convenient that I can post from my mobile!' and there I was struggling to upload a picture (on that other blog).... decision had to be made real quick... If you are unable to upload a picture in three attempts.... its time to move on!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sad part : well I had my post there (my first post!) and a comment (the first one...that too not a bad one either!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Way out : I am putting my post as well as the comment here!! <em>take that! my pessimist self!!</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some Promises* : </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will <strong>not</strong> I repeat <strong>not</strong> write anything which anyone tells me to... Not now, not unless I feel I should</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will not review books/movies/TV shows</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will neither be too philosophical or emotional</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will not be too acerbic <em>seriously I will try hard!!</em></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With promise of great start and ..ahem..longer association (with the site)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I start again</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Courier New; font-size: x-small;"><em>* All promises are subject to writers mood and may change with the external environment. Please do not read it too carefully and take it to heart before commenting :)</em></span></div>Fast Music slow traffichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18106573615982630563noreply@blogger.com2