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 Writing Village | 21:08 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (461)
| City: Gerrards Cross
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| Contemporary Indian Art from Raja Ravi V... |
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| This is the first part of the three articles to be published on this subject.What is contemporary Indian art? This is a question that has gnawed at the global literary consciousness time and again. Indian art has its roots in myriad folk styles and traditions and has also fed on the social and political ethos of not only India but also of the world...
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| Kainaat Crea... | 20:29 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (1227)
| City: Birmingham
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| Very Hot |
| A Zen master visiting London City goes up to a hot dog vendor (Indian of course) and says, "Make me one with everything."The hot dog vendor fixes a hot dog and hands it to the Zen master, who pays with a €20 note.The vendor puts the bill in the cashbox and closes it. "Excuse me, but where’s my change?" asks the Zen master.The vendor responds, "Chan...
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| Saniya | 14:49 | 29/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (167)
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| You CAN ,yes only you CAN .... |
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| The only thing You CAN do is.... You say, “I wish I could do that. But I can’t.” Sometimes the thing you desire seems most evasive and elusive to you. You may seem to think that you need money or something else that is external to you for you to be able to achieve your desire. And because this external thing is away from you and you don’t have it, ...
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| Vikas Vij | 02:38 | 24/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (505)
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| Har shaakh pey ulloo baithha hai... |
| About four years ago, the then Defence Minister of India, George Fernandes, who was on an official visit to Washington, was "strip-searched" by the U.S. security at the airport. In response, the usually thunderous Fernandes behaved like a scared puppy, and stomached his humiliation quietly without telling a soul. A year later, Strobe Talbott, the f...
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| Lissome Lady | 18:24 | 12/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (199)
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| THE RAVA IDLI SAGA |
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| This was my first post on iland on 17 July 2007 at 10 am.. I am a few days away from being 5 months old on this blog. I feel I've been here forever. No time to write anything new... in a recklessly busy state now..so if you dont hear from me for a while you know I have succumbed to work pressure.. and gone to a valiant end. After all the theme thes...
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| sunshine | 20:27 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07 |
| STRAY THOUGHTS IN MUMBAI ON 10.12.07 This week many a thoughts crowded my peanut brain leading to utter confusion on many issues. The unabated rise in the share prices is giving me sleepless nights. I have seen three crashes in the past two decades of my life. I have also seen blue chips being sold like peanuts… and have also escorted some people t...
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| chaitali rai | 12:24 | 29/Nov/2007 |
| Friends: (483)
| City: in my sweet little world
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| Around the corner I have a friend,In this great city that has no end,Yet the days go by and weeks rush on,And before I know it, a year is gone.And I never see my old friends face,For life is a swift and terrible race,He knows I like him just as well,As in the days when I rang his bell.And he rang mine but we were younger then,And now we are busy, t...
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| lucille iaco... | 20:57 | 8/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (241)
| City: Cape Cod, MA
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| My sincere apology... |
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| My dear iLand friends... I apologize for leaving the conclusion of my hummingbird story up in the air and hope you will forgive me. The sad truth is, I have been in a state of physical distress which has not allowed my mind to transcend to that touching experience, or any other pleasant memory. Please know that my connection with everyone her...
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| dilip krishnan | 16:20 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| An Evening in ChanakyaIn the late seventies and early eighties, the government-run Chanakya Cinema was one of the very theatres in Delhi that regularly screened English films. Once in a while, Chanakya also hosted foreign film festivals. The Nirula’s had set up shop nearby and their pizzas and ice creams were indeed a treat those days when there wa...
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| Hidden Aura | 05:02 | 24/Jun/2007 |
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| The first lesson I learnt !!! |
| For the past few weeks I's busy with my hectic schedule ,though found some time to read the blogs of friends,didn't find time to post something new.--*********************************************--Wh ile returing to hometoday to my room saw something that reminded me my childhood days. A young kid used some abusive language and immediately chased up...
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| Matthew Schn... | 15:47 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| On the trail with Anita Desai |
| To read Anita Desai is to know her genius. It is plainly evident in works such as Fire on the Mountain and Voices in the City. The characters she crafts, the strands of narration she weaves and the issues she explores in-depth are her hallmarks. To meet Anita is to see her brilliance shine brighter. It’s exhilarating to interact with such a dynamic...
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| anasua chatt... | 20:38 | 2/Nov/2007 |
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| Happiness is a choice |
| Are we all messed up inside? The older I get the more convinced I am that there is nothing termed as a "normal" person. "Normal" should be deleted from all languages. Normal is such a vague term, I grew up thinking that the journey of life would be just so, but I found out that the road was so convoluted and there were so many exits, so many crazy ...
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| Sandil Srini... | 21:50 | 25/Aug/2007 |
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| Voting abuse |
| C ouldn't find any other word to describe it. How can Chang possibly be voted out, ahead of Prashant and Ankita? Whoever voted for those two is fucking deaf. Here is the dentist's blog again, Buddha Soliloques . Atleast, that's a consolation - he'll be back to dentistry and blogging soon. Here's a video about him A star anyway, no?
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| bijit borthakur | 08:02 | 19/Oct/2007 |
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| Share my Films |
| Dear friend, Hello! Thisis Bijit Borthakur, an admire of world cinema. I have got a good collection offilms on DVD/DCD format which I wish to share with my friends and relatives.What follows is an incomplete list of my collection of films. If you areinterested, you can contact me at the following address. I am also more thaneager to know about yo...
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| Abhiroop Bha... | 20:39 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| RODEO DRIVE PLASTIC SURGERY |
| Are you looking for plastic surgery in Los Angeles forslimming waistlines or trimming over sized breasts. Are they undermining yourconfidence? It may be due to pregnancy, illness or simply ageing. The fataccumulation in some part of body; changes the shape, make you overweight. Thisinvites many other complicacies too. Rodeo Drive Plastic Surgery ce...
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| prabu metha | 19:24 | 2/Sep/2007 |
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| alive |
| friends......i am very sorry for not posting anything for long time..... i am too busy..... i never forget to read your posts....... keep going... keep smiling.. with you...prabu me
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| jayprakash p... | 14:45 | 15/Sep/2007 |
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| Policy for U’khand Film Industry is need... |
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| Policyfor U’khand Film Industry is need of the hour!ByJayprakash Panwar “JP”It is an ironic situation that the Uttarakhand government is not taking theregional film industry in a serious way. The latest agitation and hunger strikeby the artists and regional film community is an inevitable action against thedecision makers. So far, no such window ex...
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| J G | 22:51 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| This is a forwarded msg. hope worth sharing with you all...If you have a function/party at your home and if there is excess food available at the end, don't hesitate to call 1098 (only in India) - child helpline. They will come and collect the food. Please circulate this message which can help feed many children. PLEASE, DON'T BREAK THIS CHAIN, "He...
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| Jolly Jacob | 12:22 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| City: Planet Earth
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| My Lord calls to me |
| My Lord calls to mein the early morning light‘kuhu-kuhu’ she singsin joyous dulcet tones.My Lord enfolds mein the early morning mist,ethereal and uplifting,a mother's embrace.My Lord sings to mefrom the violin’s bow,gliding on the stringsin heartrending melody.My Lord looks at mefrom beggar-child eyesin desperate hope,for alms, for love.My Lord com...
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| raj aandipatti | 22:28 | 15/Jul/2007 |
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| THE DEFEATED |
| Defeat is colourless......all alone......you.............................lick your wounds.......thinking, what might have been......Your dreams......lying shattered......in myriad pieces........What has gone wrong.......?.......................................... .....Agonising........you are all alone........................
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| Chitra Venka... | 14:49 | 9/Aug/2007 |
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| Dreams |
| Each one of us has been endowed with the innate capacity to dream. We begin dreaming very early in life as kids. All of us recollect those times in ourchildhood, can’t we, when we dreamed of wanting to excel in our studies or ofhaving that special toy and when it did materialize, what was it that we felt? A feeling of joy, ecstasy? A dream come t...
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| Jessica Singh | 09:49 | 13/Sep/2007 |
| Friends: (847)
| City: Ever heard of Nadir ?
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| Sleepless in ...... |
| I have always been a dreamer.But, these days I am not even able to sleep properly. A constant irritation itches on in my mind and I know not where it comes from. As a child, our own Doctor Uncle used to point out that diagnosis was pivotal to medication. I somehow found a deeper meaning in those words in connection to our daily lives even when I wa...
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| Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007 |
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| The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution |
| Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...
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| Jissy Thomas | 19:26 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| Pride |
| Another anecdote from the collection of J. Maurus.It was an insult. George Bernard Shaw looked again. Yes, the letter was addressed to a George Bernard Shawm. In a beard-tossing fury, he roared to his wife that his correspondent could not even spell the name of the world's greatest man. Moreover, fumed GBS, there was no such word as 'shawm.'Mrs. S...
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| totally insane | 19:04 | 4/Sep/2007 |
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| Hope Springs Eternal |
| Its been almost two months since I stepped into this warm,well worn �and cosy parlor.The�cool floor,tired of waiting,has seemed to have held innumerable conversations with the odd sunbeams passing through,and begun a habit of disinterestedly drawing patterns in dust,in sheer boredom.The garden air almost races through the opened windows,in brea...
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| Cyril Paul | 23:23 | 9/Nov/2007 |
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| Phataaack!!! |
| Explosions everywhere. An otherwise dark sky is lit up in a grey haze. Some people run - some don't, choosing to stay and watch the explosions. Deafening noise all around, the kind that makes your heart leap to your throat. Sporadic gunfire - even little children know how to handle guns adroitly these days. A series of explosions go off somewhere t...
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| nishant shah | 03:43 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| Remember the days |
| Remember the DaysRemember the days when,We played at the beachside shed,Cloning the villas of sand and clayAnd when the oceans touched our feetWe would gleefully gaze the sun in crimson redRemember the days when,We used to hide candies from Mums eyesAnd our grandpas narrated the fables of the timberland.We swirled in the wind to catch the butterfly...
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| GirlWid Curls | 21:24 | 29/Jul/2007 |
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| Come true |
| Some one once told that me there are two angels on both our shoulders that hear our thoughts & find ways of communicating it to the universe. I dont know how true this is , but I was reading this book called the Secret that said exactly the same thing. It specifically said that the universe does our bidding. It will give us what we want & exactly ...
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| aravind das | 17:28 | 26/Nov/2007 |
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| CHEERS FOR TEAM INDIA |
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| Three cheers for ANIL " THE JUMBO" & his men in blue.By defeating pak in the opening test anil kumble has opened his account on a winning note & pushed vigour into the team to aim for 3-0 win.Another person to be congratulated is our 10dulkar...By surpassing allan border's runs he is now standing next to LARA.Hope he will be numero-uno by next ye...
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| Gloria Aurora | 16:52 | 28/May/2007 |
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| Run.....the race of life |
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| Every morning in Africa, a gazelle awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the fastest lion. If he cannot, then he will be eaten. Every morning in Africa a lion awakens. He has only one thought on his mind: To be able to run faster than the slowest gazelle. If he cannot, he will die of hunger. Whether you choose ...
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| muralidhar p... | 13:33 | 2/Dec/2007 |
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| What I long for?!! |
| What I long for… Here...in the arid sands as the clock ticks on… I miss the frosty mornings of the yoreAnd the temple hymns that wakes up the sun I miss the hot cuppa tea that brings life to my dayand the chit–chat with dad n mom and my wife & kid I miss the laughs of my little one and so her criesAnd the soothing winds that blow on m...
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| Valsa Lall | 22:56 | 3/Dec/2007 |
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| Nuked and Numb in November... |
| This whole last MONTH....! From All Saints to HIV/ Aids Day.... it has been one helluva month... Pardon the language. NO sense of celebration at the arrival of the Festival / Wedding Season... Instead a strange fatigue, almost wariness of any invitation card... News stories SCREAMING out horror after horror ... Day after blessed day ...almost...
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| el amor | 04:57 | 5/Dec/2007 |
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| City: London
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| COP 13- Bali, Indonesia. |
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| UN- 13th Conference of Parties (Cop 13) on Climate Change is taking place from 3rd- 14th of December 2007 in Bali, Nua dasa. Why would they have this Conference in Bali this time? Any idea? The most exploited, vulnerable and disaster prone place in the world is Indonesia. The world is calling us to make a change…..change your ways….….change your l...
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| pooja ram | 20:59 | 25/Feb/2007 |
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| Bye Bye Friends... |
| This is Pooja Ram signing off ....In this short term of iland life i was acquainted with so many good friends...well wishers...beautiful thoughts....excellent rapport.....I feel now is the right time to leave this iland as pooja ram.....I might come back also...I don't know....Wishing all my iland friends a great life and success in all their endea...
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| eden iram | 23:48 | 17/Jul/2007 |
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| World’s tallest vehicular bridge |
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| Millau ViaductWorld’s tallest vehicular bridgeThe Millau Viaduct (French: le Viaduc de Millau) is a cable stayed road bridge that spans the valley of the River Tarn near Millau in southern France. It was formally opened on 14 December 2004 and opened to traffic on 16 December 2004. Designed by British master-architect Lord Foster in collaboration w...
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| Giftson SJ | 18:13 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| City: Tirunelveli (stationed: Lagos, NIGERIA)
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| BATTLE OF THE SEXES |
| Hiee Buddies..... The Battle continues..................................., Love you all.....!!!!! Cheers.....:-) ~:gift:~
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| Amiya Lahiri | 18:23 | 29/Nov/2007 |
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| NEWTON'S LAW OF LOVE |
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| Newton in Romantic Mood...... Universal law of Love: " MySpace GlittersFirst law of Love :" a boy in love with a girl, continue to be in love with her and a girl in love with a boy, continue to be in love with him, until or unless any external agent(brother or father of the gal) comes into play and break the legs of the boy. " ************* Secon...
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| hari sree | 15:38 | 3/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (92)
| City: Cochin
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| Soon I will will be aloneMy mother who bakes cakesfor me every easterwill departmy sister who fetches the pale of waterlistening to my footfallshall walk awaymy dog that will faithfullywait for mewill pass the river not to tcome backmy wife who has come this farwill stop and sitleaving me to continueI shall have to walk onseeing my son rode on afo...
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| Shyama Menon | 10:28 | 1/Dec/2007 |
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| Sporting me! |
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| You know how it is, one fine day, you end up playing some sport and realize how fit you really are. It may be a company sports event or maybe a club sports day that lets you know your fitness level. For me it's our building association’s fancy sounding “Winter Olympics”! So there I was participating in all sorts of things these last two weeks and d...
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| Madhavan PK | 19:30 | 27/Nov/2007 |
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| The lure of the land |
| I was traveling in a chartered bus in Delhi, when a young thing, a girl distinctly Delhi bred sitting next to me was talking to her friend beside her about a fabulous place, her native place, she had visited in the summer. I couldn’t help eavesdropping on the conversation. She was waxing eloquent about the greenery, the rivers, the food, the peopl...
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| Cju Chandy | 15:30 | 11/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (111)
| City: Pune
| Interests: Eating & Dating
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| 10 Quick Ways to Pray |
| Do you struggle to find time to pray during your hectic daily life? These 10suggestions for quick ways to pray will help you catch a few moments to talkto God in the most unlikely of places, from the shower to the elevator. Get started on your new daily prayer routine now. 1. Give an Alarm Clock Alleluia:When your alarm goes off in the morning, ope...
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| L Kini | 13:52 | 6/Dec/2007 |
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| Funny Equations |
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| I hope everybody remember about A Rasna cooldrink advertisement in our school days. One cute little girl in that advertisement always telling that "I LOVE YOU RASNA" Want to see her now Obviously Scroll down =========================Funny Equations!Human = eat + sleep + work + enjoyDonkey = eat + sleepTherefore,Human = Donkey + wor...
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| dew drop | 20:34 | 5/Dec/2007 |
| Friends: (113)
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| pyar |
| Humne dekhi hai un aankhon ki mehakti khushbooHaath se choo ke isse rishton ka ilzaam na doSirf ehsaas hai yeh, rooh se mehsoos karoPyar ko pyar hi rehne do, koi naam na doHumne dekhi hai un aankhon ki mehakti khushbooHaath se choo ke isse rishton ka ilzaam na doHumne dekhi hai…Pyar koi bol nahin, pyar awaaz nahinEk khamoshi hai, sunti hai kaha kar...
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| beena john | 10:52 | 10/Dec/2007 |
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| Acres of Diamonds.. |
| One of the most interesting Americans who lived in the 19th century was a man by the name of Russell Herman Conwell. He was born in 1843 and lived until 1925. He was a lawyer for about fifteen years until he became a clergyman.One day, a young man went to him and told him he wanted a college education but couldn't swing it financially. Dr. Conwell ...
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