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Ed in co-ed

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I was in a co-ed school only till my class 5. While many say I missed out on a lot of fun without being in a class with guys after that, I think we girls did have fun in our own way. But in this post, I just want to talk about some of my 'boy' classmates I had in primary school.Even when I was in kindergarten, I ended up fighting with many little guys. One of them especially (I think he was called Manoj), drove me mad. This chap always used to steal my lil' cutely shaped erasers (cycles, humans, ...

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Block!

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

Projects...sigh! As much as I love my course and the projects that I have to do, it does get on my nerves at times when I struggle like Atlas under a world which meant only projects for many weeks.Right now, my mind is desperately crying to get away from my computer desk and get out. How much of it I can fulfil, I don't know. That's why a break - to blog.Just can't help smiling thinking of the debates I took part in recently, one on my birthday when I almost made a fool of myself too.Debates in ...

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Suresh, Devika and Girija (+ little Preethi)

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Updating my blog after a long time with a story written when I was vetti, yes, during my summer vacation.Suresh's family had four people including him - his mother Girija, widowed when Suresh was barely two years old; his older sister Devika, divorced four years back, and Devika's little daughter Preethi.Things used to be so bad in their family; so bad that you'd think you were watching a typical Tamil mega serial. The happenings in their family would be so similar to a daily soap that you would ...

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Spamania

posted on , by Vani Viswanathan

You open your blog after a long day of work.(well, actually you've been opening it through your day of work, but let's not really talk about that).You've not updated your blog for a long time, but still keep checking it to see if someone cares to drop by your blog.Ah! There's a new comment!!Eager to see who it is from, and already planning to thank the person for checking your blog, you click the comments section link with anticipation.And what do you see?A comment from Jon, telling you about Nike ...

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This isn’t made up; it hasn’t happened either

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Read on.She glanced at the clock.9:00I looked at my watch with anxiety.11:30Ugh, it’s not yet time.She went back to her Ananda Vikatan magazine. Sujatha’s story was proceeding at a very interesting pace.I looked at my “A History of Communication Study” and stared at the chapter about Carl Hovland. My eyes were just scanning at the text: nothing went in, I made no effort to try to register the text.I looked at my watch again.11:47I sighed. There was still time.I opened my blog and started reading ...

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