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The rich girl

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I had met her often. She just lived in the street perpendicular to our slum road. Our slum was pretty huge, with over 150 huts lined in one street. It was parallel to the railway line of the city’s metro rail, and our huts shook with tension every time a train passed through. Trains had become so much a part of we kids’ lives, that we would feel odd when trains didn’t pass through at their designated times.The little girl was just my age, and lived in a neat 3 floor apartment. Her house was in ...

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The thing called a Tag

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I want to put up a better post, but this will be the filler while I'm writing that better post. I think I've done these sorta tages so many times before that people who've been around my blog for sometime will know what I'll say! Anyways, here it goes:The rules1) The one who's tagged has to specify 8 different points about his/her lover.2) The gender of the lover has to be mentioned.3) Tag 8 more people.4) If tagged once again,reject it.Gender: MalePrayers: Give me the patience to think of 8 points!1) ...

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Trials and tribulations

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It happens everyday. At least twice a day. It starts with my hands shaking to such an extent I’m scared they’ll just fall off my shoulders. And then it happens. And it leaves me teary-eyed.I’m not suffering from depression. It’s just this difficult to put a drop of eye-drops into each of my eyes.It started more than a month when my doctor suggested I use these drops four times a day to reduce the irritation in my eyes because of staring at the computer screen for long.Things were fine as long as ...

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Return of the Jholna Pai

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I can't help laughing as I see modified versions of the jholna pai becoming hep these days. I don't think it has caught on much back home yet, but in Singapore it's doing rounds like crazy.For the uninitiated, jholna pais are what journalists in movies back in the 80s used to carry about and go. They are also the bags that people in their 60s and 70s take when they go out. I remember how a few years back I would find the very idea of taking one out revolting. And it's back!Of course, not in the ...

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Discoveries in life

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I'm scared of dogs. Though I find them adorable, it takes a lot of courage from my side to actually go close to one, and I'd be the happiest person if I could muster enough courage to go pat or stroke one (we're strictly talking about grown-up dogs here, not puppies - I have held puppies in my hand!)So it happened two days back that I saw, for the first time, a stray dog in Singapore. I was sitting in the bus stop waiting for a bus when I saw the dog in the opposite side's bus stop. I was surprised, ...

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Existence, life, world, universe, sun………

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“Am I really alive?”I touched the desk. What was I feeling? Wood. What’s wood? How did I know what I was touching was wood?I sighed and tried to listen to the Marketing lecture. Marketing, what’s that, my mind prompted.I was really irritated now. Vague questions were popping in and out of my head. You’re in a lecture, listen, said my mind. But the very mind was questioning my existence and reality.What if everything’s a dream?“Value creation for our customers,” continued the professor “is the most ...

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Happy birthday, dear blog! :)

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MY BLOG TURNS ONE TODAY!!!! Yippppeeeee!!!A wish I had since class X finally got fulfilled a year back when I posted for the first time. I had started the same day a whole year back…a day when my lovable computer would come to me only ten days later; I was patiently typing out something I had written some months ago in my hostel computer room.My first comment was from Twin-Gemini, and I was surprised and shocked at how someone totally unknown to me had found my blog; and I had no clue what to do ...

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And life changes....again.. ...