tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18151178374641726952011-08-16T20:05:37.489-07:00Cogito, ergo sum!Ratanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08447521265766157446noreply@blogger.comBlogger901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1815117837464172695.post-1755806195993030802009-01-11T08:27:00.000-08:002009-01-11T08:39:36.785-08:00

1O Laziness, thy name is indolence!This tuneless number in thy praiseWill amplify thy significance.A fleeting minute in thy embraceIs like manna inA sordid place.Thy abode is tranquilWith anxiety and melancholy wrung,Yet parables of saintsHave blamed thou for life unsung! 2Thou hath ruled kingdomsRendering their proprietors languid;Thus preventing wars for freedomOf territories

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This the cutest family I have ever met. Featuring here are Julie and Paul Cameron with their angel of a daughter - Anna Cameron!Mesmerizing, isn't?!

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Locks of hair lying strewn over at the barber's and a satisfied ex-Sikh, who has recently lost his identity, gazing wisely at the mirror, deliberating proudly over his recently marooned scalp is a familiar sight in present day Punjab and obviously the world over.These so-called wise men argue that one should roll-along with the tide and 'reconcile' oneself with the trendy fashion. There's nothing

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Young India’s blitzkrieg at Durban assured them a date with Pakistan in the finals of T20 World Championships. It was a marvellous teamwork against the mighty Australians that saw Indians roller-coast past them. Yuvraj Singh snatched the match from the kangroos by hitting 70 in 30 balls and S. Sreesanth did the same with his match-winning balling statistics. Not to forget those precious overs by

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India’s neighbours are in a state of political turmoil and their so called democracy is in a state of chaos. India must chalk-out foreign policies in order to cushion the unforseen ramifications that the neighbouring unrest may have on us.General Musharraf did his very best to counter Taliban-like government which was germinating at the Lal Masjid, Islamabad by ordering a military strike. But,

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Twenty20 cricket has turned ballers into robotic balling machines. Willow wielders never spare a chance to hit massive fours or sixes on each and every delivery. Recently, we saw Yuvraj Singh epitomising on the same by hitting English paceman Stuart Broad to pile a massive 36 in an over. No tactic to ball is enough to arrest a batsman’s agressiveness in this format of the game because the latter

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Mr. M. Karunanidhi (CM, Tamilnadu) recently dismissed the existence of Lord Rama as a myth and even went ahead to challenge the God’s credentials mouthing that He was no engineer to have built the Ramar Setu. This has hurt almost every ardent follower of Hinduism. The Tamils are having a hard time coming in terms with what their most loved and admired leader has given tongue to. Meanwhile, Sonia

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-- A friend, indeed, is a friend in need.-- It is deliciously easy to find faults with others but exorbitantly difficult to prove them.-- I hardly give any surprises.-- Yesterday, I went to buy a PS3. On the way to the shop, I helped an old man cross the road. Later, I dropped the idea of buying it.-- Beggars and lepers are, as well, criticized.-- Teams are formed to build a product and not

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'Belief' and 'faith' are often misused while describing our alliance with the supernatural. We 'believe' in something when its existence is corroborated scientifically or punctuated with facts and figures. 'Faith' germinates in our hearts as children when we are made to accept His supremacy by our elders. It's foundation stands on experiences - sans scientific facts and figures.As a child, I used

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Anil Kumble, with more than 560 test wickets to his credit, added another feather in his cap when he wielded his willow to play a deft knock of 110* against England on the second day of the third test at Oval. His tremendous innings helped India pile a massive total of 664 runs.What makes his maiden feat so special is that it has come at a time when Kumble has already bid farewell to the shorter

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Pratibha Patil may become the first female president of the Indian republic. But what are we going to call her - Rashtrapati Prathiba Patil or Rashtrapatni Prathiba Patil?!If anyone has thought 'bout this, then do let me know.

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The hunt for the president of Indian republic has become quite eve'ntful! "Eve'ntful" because the final decision rests on the shoulders of three most powerful eves - Sonia, Jaya, Maya. Whatever the trio decides will be humbly acceptable to all political parties and the people of the Indian republic.Simultaneously, the hunt for the Indian cricket team's coach is on. Guys have been shortlisted for

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Yes, CA does stand for California but TN does not mean Tennessee. It's an abbreviation for Tamilnadu - a portion of the Indian sub-continent known for it's scorching heat, dusty roads and gruesome politics and where I'm destined to spend a few days of my youth.It all happened so suddenly. I used to come to office unwillingly every morning and prod through the day imaging that I were a king! After

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I started this blog with the sole purpose of putting 'profound' thoughts into writing which often flash across my imagination. Initially, I did some really serious writing but gradually began adding perpetual pinches of humor and glamor, until this blog became as monotonous as a Sunday magazine or until I lost interest in it and gave up the idea of updating it regularly.Satire is the best way of

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"I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability, transcendentalizes intercommunications incomprehensibleness". This is a sentence where the Nth word is N letters long.

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Google has emerged as a winner among search engines. I am a Google buff because it helps me find what I precisely want. Google Mail or GMail, as we better know it, is known the world over for it's immense storage and simplicity of user interface. And, of course, GMail flaunts one of the best built-in spam filters, which has been rated 99% effective!If I'm such an ardent fan of Google, then why

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I live in the lonely suburbs of Los Angeles...alone! I am neither a party animal nor a travel freak; which inadvertently adds to my woes. With long evenings and forever lasting Sunday afternoons to plough through, I dig into ways of spending quality time using my wonder machine - the laptop! Before landing at Skype, I used to browse sites like Youtube, Google Videos. The problem I found with the

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Xgl is an X server architecture designed to take advantage of modern graphics cards via their OpenGL drivers, layered on top of OpenGL via glitz. It supports hardware acceleration of all X, OpenGL and XVideo applications and graphical effects by a compositing window manager such as Compiz or Beryl. The project was started by David Reveman and first released on January 2, 2006.Here is an amazing

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What a masterpiece Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Abhimaan is! Human emotions are captured beautifully on celluloid by this ingenious director. I enjoyed every second of this movie; specially the emotional reunion of the couple towards the climax.Abhimaan is the story of a marriage torn apart because of husband's jealousy towards his wife's success. Amitabh and Jaya Bachan play the warring couple.After

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After playing a superhero in Krrish and a macho super-smart thief in Dhoom-II, Hrithik Roshan has carved a niche for himself in the world of action cinema. Hrithik Roshan has not only made enough dhoom in Bollywood but is all set to do the same in the glittering world of Hollywood as well. Rumor goes that Hrithik Roshan will be crowned as Sylvester Stallone's successor for the Rambo series. If

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With rapid commercialization, India has developed itself into a self-sufficient country and has changed for the better. During this transitory phase, Indians have switched to western outfits, western food, western dance, western style of living and even western music and have almost left behind the well established legacy of our ancestors.Music in any form is soothing to ears as long as it in

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It's difficult for me and any other human-being with moderate EQ to erase the tragic memories of 9/11. It was a brutal mass-murder carried out in the name of religion in order to 'teach American government a lesson'. And well, a lesson was indeed taught to a billion people that this world is not any more a haven for their children. What followed 9/11 was the 'War against Terror', which culminated

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World will see the release of another killer application from the arsenal of Apple Inc. - the iPhone. As put by iCEO, Steve Jobs, iPhone's going to rock the world as did iMac and iPod way back in the year 1997 and 2001 respectively. The iCEO is aiming a 10 million sales figure within 6 months. The wonder gadget packs an iPod, a navigator and a mobile phone in one. Jobs blurted out the long kept

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Something we should all live by. This timeless song is sung by Bobby Mc Ferrin. Pay special attention to the lyrics and dance steps.Tags: bobby mcferrin, mcferrin, mc ferrin, bobby, be happy, happy, how to be happy, happiness

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Valentine's Days come 'n go,I'm still waiting to be someone's paramour!For me 14th of February is just another day for the celebration of bachelorhood. But specifically on this very day, I buy myself a bouquet of roses and a box of dark chocolates in order to congratulate myself for having adhered to the rigorous vows of celibacy, successfully. Just kidding...!!!Valentine's Day, as I believe, is

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My Dad did his best to preserve memories by clicking photographs during almost all the stages of my childhood. But during early eighties shooting moving pictures was not a luxury for one and all. Video cameras for personal use started becoming popular in mid 90s. I wish I could see myself walk, cry, eat the baby food, play with everything available around me, in motion.Talking about preserving

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I had a great time at Cincinnati; which I attribute to my four cars. No...no...no...I didn't own these cars at the same time! But I rented them from Enterprise. Although it cost me a fortune, yet the investment was worth it.Tags: cars, cincinnati, kia, rio, chevrolet, cobalt, aveo, nissan, sentra

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Sometimes a recreational activity may prove fatal if adequate precautions are not in place. Watch this hilarious video to witness the same yourself!Tags: careful, games, hazards, problems, funny, fun, video, funny video, tennis, metacafe

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Software giants like TCS, Infosys, CTS and Wipro are recruiting heavily these days. They pick up freshers directly from the campus or through off campus recruitment drives. TCS recruits freshers through its DT Recruitment Drive (or Direct Trainee Recruitment Drive) and the talent test is held in almost all major cities all over India. The division has a famous tradition of repeating

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At times, animations may look foolish and unnecessary. But they may also be helpful for attracting prospective users. Yahoo! has done a great job by introducing Liam as an indicator of user log-in progress. Although I've switched to GMail, yet I log into Yahoo! Mail often, only for the fun of watching Liam performing a gimmick. Altogether, five versions of Liam have been launched till date and

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A hilarious short film called "Meri Vohuti da Viyah" (My Wife's Marriage) by punjabi comedy king Gurpreet Ghuggi is making it to the top in Punjab these days. A well-crafted song describing the happiness experienced by a dying husband who completes his sacred duty before death by marrying his wife to a deserving candidate.One of the song describing such happienss is presented in my voice below.

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The following dialogue between Yaksha and King Yudhistra has been recorded in Mahabharata. It brings to book the essential elements which each human being should know and try relating to.Yaksha: What is heavier than earth?Yudhistra: MotherYa: What is higher than the sky?Yu: FatherYa: What is faster than the wind?Yu: The mindYa: What is more in number than twigs?Yu: WorryYa: Who is the friend of

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Seaworld, San Diego, is the place to be. Sea animals dancing to the tune of their master in more or less human-like ways - using their fins and flexible limbs dexterously. I went to the Seaworld after doing some research over the Internet and came to know that Shamu show termed "Believe!" is the best. I liked dolphin and walrus shows equally but Shamu's show used technology to it's maximum

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Listed below are my favorite music videos. Gurpreet Ghuggi, in the first video, depicts in his inimitable style, the ruckus created by the relatives of the groom who come to attend the ceremony.The second one is Kaun Banega Crorepati's theme song. It's lyrics is witty and the sequence is wonderfully chreographed.This is another wonderful music video from Khosla Ka Ghosla - a bollywood movie which

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People say that biopics "are simply visual rendition of a true story", void of any message and leaves the audience with a sense of incompleteness. I disagree. If not more, biopics do go a long way in motivating an individual.Most parents narrate stories from epics like Ramayana and Mahabharata so that their young ones can understand the essence of best practices by Rama and Krishna and emulate

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India is proud to be called the land of sages. Roots of major world religions are embedded in this holy country. India never attacked anyone, but sent messengers of peace to wary nations. It produced great warriors and sages who protected their motherland with their courage, penance and austerity.Faith in religion can be seen at the banks of Sangam of the Ganga, the Yamuna and the imaginary

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Bored of the same old XP theme? Wanted a Mac since childhood but could not afford it? Worry no more. Point your browser to FlyakiteOSX and download the XP skinning package for free.Install the software and transform your XP into Mac OS X. The software can be uninstalled whenever desired without any harm to the machine. I myself tried the same and was astounded by the amazing results!

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These are some of the best paintings, which I think, a human mind can produce. I received these and a lot more as part of email attachments. I chose the very best among them to depict how much creative a human being can be!A pavement painting depicting a shark making it's way through the pavement. Amazing! Isn't it?A beautiful illusion painting.A heartrending sketch depicting poverty.Humanity in

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I stumbled upon the aforementioned article by Nitasha Sharma at Hindustantimes.com which tickled my funny bone to an extent that I converted it into audio. So listen to it and enjoy!

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Sholay (1975) is one of the biggest hits in the history of Bollywood. It's a complete entertainment package bundled with comedy, romance, action and adventure. It's the saga of hatred between a dacoit and a landlord. The latter pledges to catch the former alive and avenge the atrocities borne at his hands.As every story has something to say, similarly this one, as well, teaches useful lessons to

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World comes to a standstill for a victim when the open end of a gun's barrel is pointed right between his eye-brows. A sudden gush of adrenaline evaporates the saliva and the tongue goes dry, heart overworks to appease the excited organs and legs shake under the body weight. The vanquished lies at the mercy of the vanquisher.Extortion can be far more easier than that painted in the picture above

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Vista has been released and developers, third party software vendors etc. have started releasing their products for the new platform. But wait! Will this platform support their software or will it meet the same fate as had "Matrix" for Windows XP?Watch this hilarious video to gauge at the losses.

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I hold a neutral view on the recently released Microsoft's baby - Windows Vista; because I hardly care about the same. I'm happily running Windows XP and do not wish to spend another 100 bucks on an upgrade which promises a bug-free environment. But thank you Mr. Gates, I've become quite accustomed to the frequent crashes and silly bugs that MS promises with each and every product it ships to the

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Recently, I read a wonderful article in Hindustan Times which made me realize that selfless service is what He has programmed us to do, but we, the mortal fools, are interpreting life in our own dubious way.Read on to actualize what we've been missing all along...Sometimes in our daily lives, complete strangers cross our paths and leave lasting impressions with their noble and magnanimous acts. I

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I love to listen this song from Happy Feet over and over again. I'd advise to watch the video where the penguins are shaking their booty with the music. It's awesome! Trailer is available at iTunes.

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Wearing a jacket to office every morning is tedious. Summers are not only a welcome change and a relief to my torso but a flag bearer of my freedom. But happy times are often harbingers of trouble than they are of happyness, because I somehow fear that jacket free summers may cost me my job. ... Ahead of leaving for work during summers, I make sure that I take just enough water to prevent

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Anger is contagious and so is happiness. The former may destroy you while the later may bring you back to life. Watch this amazing video to bring some scattered facts to book!

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This patch of writing is dedicated to my perseverance in search of a fine writing instrument. I decided to gift myself a pen for no obvious reason except that I wanted to own something as 'delicious' as a Parker. I sired some twenty words describing the type of pen I wished to possess in that tiny little search box of Google's and it returned me a million results. The first result was

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Tonight I take the opportunity to present before you a very special guest. It is none other than 'Mr. Culinary Skill' (CS), i.e. 'My Culinary Skill'. CS has been the most un-influential part of my psyche. It has been unused for years and , perhaps, will remain dormant for the next 50 years to come. Let us ask a few questions to CS and know how it feels to be sitting idle among the most

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I I was a Pizza Delivery Boy,Who's as fat as a stuffed-elephant toy. The reason for health,Is surely not wealth.But those pizzas, I had been eating with stealth. Once I was caught eating pizza on duty!And I asked my boss, 'How do you say I'm guilty?' 'You are eating the one that needed to be delivered',I stood wide-eyed - surprised and bewildered! 'You have been doing this since the time you were

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"Run Lola Run" is an interesting movie. It shows the permutations possible for a single event taking place in the physical world. Bollywood films bear a close semblance to "Run Lola Run", because each new movie is the permutation of it's predecessor.

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I often use color legends in spreadsheets to highlight milestones conquered during a project's lifetime. I'm not a blue-green-red sort of guy. My spreadsheets reflect my attire...my personal choice of colors to say the least. Light color with medium hue and saturation mixed with a tinge of ivory blue dictates my romance with the genius of nature. But some of us, or maybe most of us, or perhaps

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Life of a software developer is nothing but a constant battle with time and deadline; and so is mine. Trying to break the tenacious code even and bleeding after the program's output sometimes drives me jitters. Life has become a messed-up multithreaded program. All objects supporting it are gradually being garbage-collected by pre-scheduled daily routines. I have almost forgotten to express

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I often visualize myself driving a vintage car, through a frightening jungle in the middle of a foggy night. Where I am heading to or where I am coming from in this inclement weather is not quite known. I lay my foot pressed over the pedal as I egg my way through the thick of night in anticipation of arriving at an unknown destination well before dawn. To use 'destination' will be quite

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'Who am I?', 'What am I doing?' and 'Where am I going?', form the base of a prism which corroborates the human intellection. 'What am I to do?', the tip of this prism is, indirectly, the conglomeration of the other three idiosyncrasies. These four together cast a hypothesis that begins and, probably, ends each chapter of life. I call them 'nodal questions'; answer to one of them automatically

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I know I am.He knows I am.She knows I am.We know I am.They know I am.No one knows I am! The child knows I am,The kid knows I am.The boy knows I am,The man knows I am,The old-man knows I am.The sick knows I am,The healthy knows I am.The poor knows I am,The rich knows I am.The widower knows I am,The groom knows I am.The vanquished knows I am,The vanquisher knows I am.The dead knew I am. But, who

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Hmmm...!

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God, You have given me everything;Healthy food to eat, nice job and a beautiful house to live in.You have fulfilled every wish,Spotless clothes to wear, scholarly books to read,And loving parents, whom I always miss!What more can I ever ask for?I may ask for jewels, gems and success,Fooling myself with worldly pleasures, amissSatisfaction and Happiness!I know to give me more, You are much eager,

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As soon as I touched down the American soil late last year, a shiver went down my spine, teeth began to chatter and goose bumps appeared all over. I was right into -3 deg C, which was quite very uncomfortable for someone like me who had spend his entire childhood at the foot of a plateau. Although my jacket was not meant to protect me against temperatures as low as I was experiencing then, yet I

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Fresheners and strawberry scented urinal cakes for toilets are quite common. They come in handy when one takes a deep breath after releasing one's long-held bodily nectars. Apart from air-purifiers and automatic flushing, I often find people, standing beside me at urinals, common, as well. It'd be rather unconvincing if I say that it's a mere coincidence. The timing is so perfect and exact, that

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[Tip: Read through by placing yourself in this situation.] I My boss to my utmost dismay,Makes me work night and day. I start from my dorm,When it's not yet morn. Down I run to my office,In order to avoid my boss's atrophies. Once I'm in,And lo I'm pinned. With permission neither to drink nor pee,I sit in my cubicle like a golf ball in a tee. Difficult tasks to which I've no clues

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Yesterday, I woke up into a beautiful day, switched on my computer, clicked open TextPad and keyed in the title of my day's blog. No sooner did I pen down the first word, I realized that my interest in writing was beginning to wane. I no longer felt attracted to the idea of producing yet another blog for the world to read and to see my work published 'for free'. Inadvertently, I closed TextPad

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King Abdul Aziz University, Jedda, Saudi Arabia. This is where Mr. O.B. Laden mastered the fine art of management, gained partial knowledge in economics and was led astray on Islamic politics. But, his expertise in management is worth an applause! Why I use 'applause' is worth an explanation. We should admit that at some point of time we all hate what we do for a living. If a software developer

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Writing to me is like a sanctuary wherein I talk, argue and discuss, particularly with my own self, on many topics, existent or intrinsically non-existent. This intellectual asylum enshrouds me into a temporary domain free from any worries. I find myself in perfect harmony with the surroundings - ecstatic and enigmatic; and nonchalant to the inarticulate idiosyncrasies of the masses. But before

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Exercising often comes as an inconvenient complement to gluttony! In order to cut short the downtime which wholly belongs to the exertion regimen, I refrain from changing into jogging trunks and prefer ploughing through the sidewalk in a pair of faded blue jeans and T-shirt. The trousers, almost sticking to my legs, allow me no more than the pleasure of a scant amble. Weather too being hot and

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- Lap top- Palm Top- Desk Top - On Stop- Stop

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I have a medical-terminology-challenged intellect. Aesculapian terms slip-off my head as does mercury on floor. 'Upper Respiratory Infection' baffles me, but 'Common Cold' appears somewhat more friendly. Internet has always come as a handy doctor for me since I've moved to the States. It's better to register with an ISP for a free consultation and diagnosis over the Net, than to go with a

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Object Orientation is a metaphor, inadvertently used by today's cyber-infatuated world, for explaining the physics of hypothetical correlation among seemingly related entities. Polymorphism, encapsulation and inheritance tend to enshroud the reality into a subjugating whole. This concept, sometimes called 'OO', explains that any creation is a cloistered integration of many unrelated bodies

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'End' is a hypothetical basis to demarcate between two events which may or may not be related in space and time. It is either celebrated with an euphonious trill of silver laughter or is commiserated by a profound conglomeration of emotional idiosyncrasies. Sometimes, the contrasting events are so very much related that their seemingly obvious juxtaposition sublimes into a unique whole. To '

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'End' is a hypothetical basis to demarcate between two events which may or may not be related in space and time. It is either celebrated with an euphonious trill of silver laughter or is commiserated by a profound conglomeration of emotional idiosyncrasies. Sometimes, the contrasting events are so very much related that their seemingly obvious juxtaposition sublimes into a unique whole. To '

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Since childhood, lack of oral care has borne a distinctive disadvantage over my prolific smile. I was averse to brushing my teeth twice a day and even flossing them after meals. As soon as I was forced to do the same, I used to become rambunctious and out of hand. Sometimes, mother used to catch hold of my tiny little hand and force me to stand in front of a jet of running water with a toothbrush

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Bus-Stops are some of those rare places on earth, where life actually stops. Unchristened by the elusive worries of the days ahead and those of the days gone by, we let ourselves live in the present for the very first time. Impertinent worries about the bus failing to keep up with time, swindles us out of our ubiquitous temperament to steal the ambivalent future. The confluence of roads at the

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The concept of chain marketing has penetrated into the lives of umpteen households who are in search of some quick royalty bucks. This can, as well, prove useful for those who want to be their own boss and get rid of that salmon-fishing-bait stuff. The idea is simple; include as many people as you can in your fraternity and earn royalty throughout your life, for the products they sell. But, this

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Name forms a congruent and characteristic part of human personality. 'What are you called?' is often used as a tempting quagmire to kick-off most conversations and to gain some ground before detouring to the obvious. English and American names are not much a part of conventional jargon. They do not comprise of day-to-day words. Most of them are hand-picked Biblical nuances. Family names are

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Praise Almighty, for my parents did not name me William J. Gates, alias Bill Gates, who has some eighty million Google search results to his credit! Had I been cyber present, I'd have been buried under a million search results. Whew...What a nightmare to visualize myself under a huge electronic debris! My name would have created a lot of confusion - my wife would have been frequently kidnapped

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I love getting up in the morning. I clap my hands and say, 'This is gonna be a great day'. But with this clap vanishes all my vitality. I feel burnt down by the scorching heat and weary with the idea of another do-nothing day at the office staring foolishly at me. Soporifically, I scamper out of the bed and try to get on with the idea of doing the same monotonous job of brushing my teeth,

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Since long, I have been toying with the connotation that implies directly to electronic emails and human psychology. Have you ever thought that if we plot a graph to show the exchange of personal emails between two human males (not females for some obvious reasons), how it probably looks like? Hmm...I guess, it's like a bell. It starts from a point which is called the 'Point of Conception'. It

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One aspect of male psychology is the overwhelming desire to appear masculine. Men don't prefer studying in Mary Washington College but women have no problem pursuing their career in colleges named after men. Every action of a human male is indirectly focussed on being attractive to women. Women, on the other hand, cherish male counterparts with Herculean traits. But, as had been put by Freud,

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"Tis in my memory lock'd, and you yourself shall keep the key of it." - W. Shakespeare in Hamlet (A I, S III)Yesterday, while browsing the Internet - going through the progress in the Middle East, I suddenly became nostalgic and got drifted into those pleasant memories of childhood which every individual as a child cherishes to behold. The first thing, I did next, was to type my school's name in

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With declining hardware costs, cyber space allocated to each individual is increasing in heaps and mounds. Way back in '97, I got registered with Yahoo! for a free email account. It provided me some 10 megs of storage space. Later I signed-up with hotmail, with somewhat bigger presence of 250 megs and now the brand new GMail boasts of more than 2.5 gigs of cyber space and that too for free.

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"But love is blind, and lovers cannot see." - W. Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice (A II, S VI)Its truly said - 'Love is Blind', but marriage is an eye-opener. Love's a temporary insanity curable by marriage. I keep getting adviced by one of my friends about what an ordeal marriage is! When he got married, he knew the reason for his happiness, but now when he's happy, he wonders why at all he

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You may ask why six and why not five, ten, twenty or one-o-one. Because I only had some genuine reasons to write and I did not want to bog my readers down with 95 more unuseful tips. Not to take otherwise, this log provides some useful insights for those extra-ordinary employees, who are capable enough of completing their job six hours before time. I'd like to thank all my friends for their

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We all work in an unhealthy environment. As economy of almost every country is shooting up these days, so is the cut-throat competition. Some work hard for full eight hours and get themselves graduated to be called a manager, only to find themselves working harder and that too for more than twelve hours. But when it comes to that month-end tip off, capitalists shy away from paying what an

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The problem with this weblog is that it hasn't been reviewed by an editor. If you find any grammatical errors or anything misspelled, here is a quick help. In case you do encounter anything horribly incorrect or out of place, just send me a smoke signal. Set your bed on fire and control the smoke with your Gucci shirt (brand name works), or enjoy reading this log with all those grammatical errors

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If you are reading this web log during office hours, then you are the man, you got potential to beat the system. If not, just do it! Yesterday, while street surfing, I was thinking about something weird and unimaginable. I was thinking about the legal system of India. Had I been into law making, I'd have awarded death penalty to any person caught committing suicide. Why? Answer is simple. This

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Spam is a very delicious way of advertising. Its a form of direct marketing - a funda, which might have been coined by an MBA. These marketers do not know their targeted audiences. Remember, they may even offer free Viagara to an octogenarian. Mind you, all these offers are free, but they can be redeemed, only if an individual purchases some endorsed products from the participating sponsors. In

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I love my Kodak DX7590 digital camera. The best thing about it is it's freedom to point and shoot. No feeding of rolls, no fussing with the lens and no film washing. Just download the photos to your computer and print them on your mini digital printer. Shoot ten images of your girlfriend and choose the very best among them; delete others. This sort of freedom is not possible with a regular film

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How many of us can guess when our friends, peers, colleagues or whoever is lying? I think many of us can. It basically depends on one's experience, shrewd guesswork or when an individual knows the very truth behind the scenes. I have been lied at by many of my friends and you might have had been as well.To substantiate, a lie can be categorized into three broad categories:- context lie- mural lie

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Here is the complete list of my works. Navigate through the following hyperlinks to read them in full. Comedy History Tragedy Poetry All's Well That Ends WellAs You Like ItThe Comedy of ErrorsCymbelineLove's Labours LostMeasure for MeasureThe Merry Wives of WindsorThe Merchant of VeniceA Midsummer Night's DreamMuch Ado About NothingPericles, Prince of TyreTaming of the ShrewThe

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