tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-339044972011-11-27T15:36:34.021-08:00'S'http://www.blogger.com/profile/05558187007694446472noreply@blogger.comBlogger711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904497.post-42938930881696748502008-10-29T21:59:00.000-07:002008-10-29T22:01:10.812-07:00

Hey People....I have officially moved to wordpress...just some stray posts on this blog...most of which are also there on the new one....You can find me at....http://restlessprincess.wordpress.com/

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Finally saw the movie! It was one of those very hyped movies for me and a lot of people told me how wonderful it was…and I guess in this case….expectations reduced joy!It was very cute….but an entire movie without any major dialogues to watch at home is a little difficult! Whenever I am watching a movie at home I have a tendency to multitask…which was not possible with this movie has you had to

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This was a book of 19 short stories selected and translated by Khuswant Singh.The stories were around Punjab/Pakistan /Independence. They were nice to read because of the Indian context and I could somewhere relate to them as I have heard my grandparents version on the partition.Overall, I think the stories lost their charm in translation. The couplets and the phrases which would have been oh so

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I am trying for the last 15 mins to put up my post on my new blog in wordpress http://restlessprincess.wordpress.com/.....but I am simply unable to open it!!!And it is not the wordpress service that is down...cuase I can view other blogs on wordpress....just Reflections of a Restless Princess is just refusing to open up and that is making me very restless indeed!!!I wanted to put up a post before

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Hey People I have finally moved....to http://restlessprincess.wordpress.com/Not to comfortable with wordpress and I am still trying to get the hang of it.I may continue to post on both sites for sometime...and eventually move completely to wordpress.So people do check out my new wordpress page…update your links if you have linked this one and tell me if I should move on continue to stay here!Hope

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Read an interesting line on this topic in an unlikely source.."India Unbound” by Gurcharan Das (I am just on chapter 3 in this book and there are 20 more chapter to go…so in case I continue to read the book chances are many more posts would be inspired by the book!) The author writes very well….It is almost like he is talking to you…the English is simple and you can picture the scenes that he is

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I was tired and not in a mood to write now…but I have been writing regularly(read everyday) for the last few days so I did not want to have a break in the posts.It is not that I did not have anything to write, My days are quite interesting, I manage to meet interesting people.. have some interesting conversations....read some interesting books..and Ialways have an opinion and a though on

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I had my first visitor from Pakistan today (on my blog not home...!) and this is what they were looking for “In VADA PAV make some more improvements"They reached my post on Beggars… because it had the word ‘Vada Pav’ on it! I am sure she would have been disappointed cause it did not give any inputs on how to make better vada pav’s!. (Gender biases so I am assuming it was a she who came looking

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Went for an interesting discussion organized by Tata Memorial Hospital in their Khargar Campus on “Technology with Poverty related Health Problems in Rural India” ..Beautiful place…very much out of the way…but very beautiful…I met some interesting people… was a nice crowrd with all scientists, researchers…IIT professors..oncologits…basically a very highly intellectual crowd talking about rural

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I just started reading it a book called “India Unbound” by Gurcharan Das It is suppose to be about India’s journey from Independence to the Global Information age.Reading books of this genre on our economic liberalization or the Information Reveolution (The world is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman) makes me feel like I have lived though history…It is like world changing events have happened around me

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I had to get to a meeting and was standing at the station trying to get a cab and since it was a short distance the cabs were not to happy to go. Suddenly a policeman came to my rescue and said… in marati..“kothe jaye cha aahe..?” “Where do you want to go?” and I told him my destinationHe very sweetly (unlike a policeman) asked the cab who refused to go..the reason he was not willing to go. The

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Brilliant movie..! Short Crisp fast paced and with a very interesting twist which makes the movie special!Almost everyone who had seen the movie told me it was brilliant…and I had very high expectations of the movie…'expectations normally reduce joy' and a movie that is praised by so many people can be disappointing ..but 'A Wednesday' was an exception!I will not want to say anything about the

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Should we be giving money/food to beggars? Is it a good thing to do or is it encouraging a wrong practice?There are a set of people who are absolutely against begging and on the other side there are people who feel the need to give something to every beggar who asks!I have personally been on both ends of the spectrum and I am currently somewhere in between….not sure which side is right…( WTF!

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Came accross this intersting contest by Google called Project 10100 (pronounced "Project 10 to the 100th") ...I think it is a brilliant concept...! It is a is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible! I only wish I had a nice idea to put in! I dont...atleast not as of now...maybe I will think of something my 20th... Check out this linkhttp://

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If anyone is by any chance actually following my posts you would notice I have skipped “Teach India -Week 7”. This is cause I missed the session as I was tied up with something else...however it was not a teaching session that I missed but a quiz session for the kids so I am not feeling too bad.I had an interesting session this week and finally got time to talk to other volunteers and made some

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I really really wanted something….and I did not get it….:-( I always like to believe that I am a very lucky person and I get everything I really want and if I don’t get something I think I want….I tell myself…"hey may be not getting was for the best…I just don’t see how yet!!”This seems to be becoming a pattern with me lately and If I have to believe the statements above….I guess maybe I have

'S'http://www.blogger.com/profile/05558187007694446472noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33904497.post-85679524323772356932008-09-28T12:43:00.000-07:002008-10-02T05:49:04.876-07:00

Hey People…Sorry I have not written so long...there are many reasons to it…some of them being1) Been Very Very Busy2) Been slightly lazy about writing since I am considering moving to another blog3) Not had the time/inclination/drive to actually start a new blog….so I am somewhere inbetween “na yaha ke na waha ke” typesWell I have lots to write about…1) Teach India Week 82) Review of the Book “

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New ideas and horizons beckon to you on Monday, thanks to the entry of the illuminating Sun in your sector of philosophy and spirituality. Of course, anyone who knows you is aware that you love to be unpredictable. The only consistent quality you have is your inconsistency. You'll have a lot of fun exploring your new pursuits, and you'll learn a lot, too. On Saturday your emotions take you on a

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I have always felt I need to have the freedom to choose….But I have come to realize that choices stress me out….they spoil the fun of the moment…This weekend was a great example…Had a hectic week with a lot of clashing interesting things to do and I had to choose! As usual I want to be everywhere and do everything….but it is not humanly possibleSo I made the best selections and had a great

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“Expectations Reduce Joy" This wise piece of advice was quoted by my younger but smarter bother….I think it is soo true….If you don’t expect something from someone…there are good chances that you wont get disappointed and feel let down….!So what should you do? Don’t expect anything ?? Keep a safe distance? Don’t trust anyone? But If you have no expectations from someone….I guess you cant call

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Someone at work coined a name from me today… “Restless Princess“ The princess part was just so it sounds nice and rhymes Restless is the key word here….To explore further I asked him…so tell me why do you say I am restless? And he said…overall your “Demeanor is very restless!”Now I don’t think it was compliment ….chances are it was definitely not…but who cares! I take it as a compliment! Focus on

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I plan to move out of blogger…at least from the current site..Since I intent to continue to blog so I am considering moving to wordpress as the publisher.Now the question is why do I want to move?1) Just for the kicks!2) Wordpress is suppose to be better. Easier to use, better features etc etc3) Wordpress has an import functionality so I can easily move from blogger to wordpress4) I can access

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I like to read philosophical books…but normally I never read it end to end(Dr Brain Weiss is books are an exception) but a friend of mine give me this book “The Buddha in Your Mirror” written by Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin &Ted Morino, three authors from USA and I really liked it. It spoke about happiness, relationships, death among other things. I quite like the take on relationships work and

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Today I finish a month of putting a blog post everyday!I started August 14th and somehow it happened that I had something to write continuously for a week and then I decided let me keep up trend and write everyday till the end of the month. I managed to reach the milestone and then I decided…let me set another goal for myself…one post everyday till the end of the month and I have achieved it

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Finally had a good session with the kids after a 4 week break! I had almost forgotten what it is like to go there and go there and teach….1 month is a very long time!I was honestly quite lazy to go on a Saturday afternoon and I so wanted o sleep but I pulled myself up cause I had committed I would be there and went for the session and it was totally worth it.I had a total of 15 kids today over

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Was a looong week… an exhausting day…and a fun Friday evening. It was a friends b’day so the jingbang went to Alfredo’s for dinner.Had a really nice time there as usual ..…but I was wondering what is so nice about the place…It is loud…..too loud for a dinner place…too soft for a lounge….so loud that you can bearly hear peopleCramped up…..the seats are so close together that there is bearly any

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In line with yesterday's post…here are some entrepreneurship forums I accidently came across…is it a sign?? Is it fate's way of telling me to move on?? (Read http://lipak.wordpress.com/2008/09/11/the-language-of-signs/) ..As usual I really don’t know!!Check it out…and tell me if you have heard of them!Young Leaders Forum - http://www.imcyew.org/The Young Leader's Forum (formely YEW) was setup by

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I dream to start something on my own someday but I don’t know if I will really ever get down to doing it.So many people who are working and have this ‘loose’ dream that they want to become entrepreneurs…Some manage to go out there and take off …others always keep talking about it.I have a feeling that I belong to the second category…..but I really really want to move to the first and actually

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Discovered something new today on “stat counter” thanks to a friend at work who is also a fellow blogger.We were discussing blogs as usual at work in between our attempts to do work and he was showing off the wonderful statistics that wordpress has to offer. I was really quite fascinated and had half a mind of shifting from blogger to wordpress so I would also get to know some more details on

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Everyone makes mistakes….and I make plenty!Type of Mistakes1) Known: You know it maybe ‘wrong’….but you still do it…..these are the “greys” in life. I believe that life is not all black and white…and there are a lot of things which are grey!2) Unknown: It is a genuine slip…and you realize it once it is done. This is actul mistake! It just happens and you realize…oh my god!3) Blind

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Well the trek worked out finally and it was rocking!!!After much debate on time/place/mode of transport 11 of us set out to go to Saguna Baug and then we moved on to a waterfall….had a wonderful time!I am up since 5 in the morning thius extremely exhausted now to write any more….so just check out the snaps…And if you want to read more..Check out my friends blog….. http://lipak.wordpress.com/

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The last trek we went to Lonavala was wonderful and we wanted to go for another trip before it stops raining and we believe that the more the merrier…So all of us decided to call “other” friends…and make a biiiig group….and we did….we are 11 of us in the last count I took…From the last two days I have been trying to coordinate the whole thing and it has been such a pain!!!…No consensus on place!

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Well end of the week…don’t know what to write….so I guess I can put one of those posts on the week that was….Saturday : 30th AugustCelebrated Saturday and slept all morning! Finished the book “Earning the Laundry Stripes”...Went for the Teach India session only to be disappointed as no kids turned up and then went to play Badminton in the evening….did not get to play too much…but that is my fault

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Visarjan done….I feel like writing on of those school time essays which end with “we were tired but happy!” but chill that is not what I am going to do.From the time we have started keeping Ganpati at home almost 11 years back, the visarjan has always been at Juhu Beach… For all those of you’ll who have never seen Ganpati immersion at the beach it is a site worth seeing…it is beautiful…the sea is

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We brought Ganpati Bapa home today! Was a nice day....had lots of people coming home!My old friends from Juhu....new friends from SGI....new friends made at Badminton court all came home for ganpati darshan.....and many for the first time!!Neighbors Relatives Friends..... I love people visiting!!I guess i just love being with people...Not in a mood to write much...so will sign off and go read....

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Finally saw “Rock On”…and it Rocks! I am not a rock music fan per se….and cant really directly relate to being a part of a band etc….but the movie is great and the music is good…..It is one of those movies you come out smiling….:-) and feeling good…Farhan Aktar looks hot……Arjun Rampal….looks like a looser…….well that is his character in the film so he looks that part! Good acting by everyone….

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Florence Littauer classifies people into four personality types. I had attended a workshop on this a few months back and then I found a book written by her a few weeks back and it revived my interest. It is quite an accurate classification and now every time I look at someone ...I think..ah he is a PC/PS...or a PM/PP...or eh....this was a typical PS statement..If nothing else it is fun to bucket

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We were all excited about watching Rock On since the reviews were so great. We made a group of about 5 of us forced some of the hesitant ones booked tickets online at the Vashi Fame Raghuleela. There were a lot of seats to choose from so my friend booking tickets choose seats furthest away from the screen and paid online.We reached well on time, picked up our tickets and walked into the cinema

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I went all enthused for the Teach India session today after two weeks of holidays (Rakhee /Janamastmi Saturdays) only to be disappointed.There was some program going on in school and barely any children turned up. So today there were more volunteers than students!!Since I did not have any students for my session, I decided to make use of my time and see how the others were teaching be a silent

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Been a hectic week…. I am sooo exhausted. Looks like I am getting old. But I managed to put a blog post everyday…not bad na…..The week that was in very brief…Late Friday night…preparing for “ I object your honor” and dinner at good old Mac Donnalds!Early morning last Saturday for “I object your Honor” and late night…dinner at Basalico!Early Sunday morning….LonavalaEarly Monday morning…Review

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I am going to be tell you a small story…it is “inspired” from none other then our very own bollywood…and how many of you’ll have watched “Bunty Aur Bubby”….well my story also has two thieves and a policeman….and ofcourse me…!But since the story is only inspired and not copied…the similarity ends there!I am gonna talk about…..this man and a women who haunted me for many days and nights….made me

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The TCS Toastmasters club organized a two hour Humorous speech workshop starting 7.30 in the morning!!! Crazy is’nt it…who starts a session so early…I guess they they may have though it was a humorous way to begin!The previous evening on my way back from work…I was contemplating of I should take the trouble to go for the workshop or no…I called up a friend from the club to check who all are

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I got a new book to read today (“Earning the Laundry Stripes” by Manpreet Sodi Someshwar) which was highly recommended to me by someone in my ‘all boys’ sales team...(I am a rookie as far as ‘sales’ is concerned…..enjoying it tremendously for now!)It seems like an intersting book. If and when I finish reading it I may post my version of the book review here. I have just read the dedication in the

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Today looked like my lucky day… I managed to hitch a ride with boss while going and coming back from work. Boss dropped me at a spot close to home near his ‘sutta shop’ and I got into a rickshaw to go home. Half way home I digged into my bag to sms a friend and realized my phone was not in the bag anymore! I clearly remembered putting it in the outside pocket….but I checked all the various

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We were suppose to go for a Water RYLA this weekend….RYLA for those of you’ll who don’t know are RYLA stands for Rotary Youth Leadership Awards. It is camp organized by the Rotary for the youth. The camps normally have a theme and there are talks and activities around the theme. Over all it is fun like camps are always…night out in some remote place are always fun…even if some of the talks are

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I had a blocked ear because of too much accumulated wax in the ear(self diagnosis) and I could hardly hear anything!I did my bit of self medication and put soliwax but my ear seemed to keep getting worse. The drops were clogging my ear even more. Now along with the feeling of a blocked ear, I could also feel the liquid ear drops making bubbles in the ear canal.I was uncomfortable and put almost

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I needed something to be sent to me from Kotak securities.I called their helpline number (30305757) expecting to get a quick resolution, but that was not to be.I was given another me another helpline number (66216666)..and everybody I spoke to at the new number wanted to direct me to the earlier number! I had to give my details to 6 different people without any use…and by the time it came to the

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An open Window DREAM As Everyman’s Guide To The SpiritAuthor Sri Madhava Ashish I picked up this book because I liked what I read on the back cover of the book. This is what it read..“This brief but profound book assails the conventional understanding ofdreams and their interpretation, drawing attention to a much neglected aspect ofdreams as a source of guidance of spiritual aspirant”Wow I hoped

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My role- model and mentor from my company,a 35 year old man was diagnosed with Cancer.I was shocked…scared…depressed….worried…Till I met him and then I was inspired! I always had great respect for this gentleman….but now I am in awe of him…what an attitude to life! Amazing…There he was sitting on a chair and smiling…laughing….telling jokes…and stories despite the dreadful diagnosis of having a

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The time to be happy is now! The place to be happy is here!And the best way to be happy is to make others happy !And the best way to be happy is to make others happy !And make a little heaven right here!!This was a little song/poem I learnt in a yoga course I did sometime back. I though it was really nice

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Last Saturday was my 4th week of teaching the children. I took three batches of children instead of the normal two batches! I had a total of 9 children this week.Batch 1- Soheil and RupeshSoheil is a very serious type of a student and says he does not watch television/movies. Rupesh is very quite and shy. Soheil came about half an hour late for the session. Making conversation with Rupesh alone

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9th August SaturdayCelebrated Saturday morning …..Had a laazzzy morning...slept late…had a leisurely bath and then was off for my Teach India volunteering duty! Teach India Week 4 was quite interesting. I was there for three hours and took three batches of kids and I had a total of 9 children and had a really nice time. Will write a detailed post on this soon! In the evening I went for the RC

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Quite a cute movie…..Three heroines….and one Ranbir...Thank god he is not romancing them together at the same time! The movie is about Ranbir’s love affairs over about ten/twelve years. The Manisha/Ranbir plot is a take on DDLJ and it is quite well done! They meet DDLJ style on the Eurail. Manisha is a girl who is enamored by DDLJ and has watched it seventeen times and she is hoping she finds

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"Me Shaaret Marathi Sheekli…pan mala marati bolut yeat nahi"“I learnt Marathi in school but I cannot really speak the language!”Although Marati is the local language...not knowing Marathi has not hampered my progress in life…but if I did not know English…chances are that I would not be standing here as a part of Tata Consultancy services…giving a speech at the toastmasters club.But Why am I

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I went for the Bombay West Installation today….and it felt really nice…almost like going back home!It is all so familiar…everyone knows you...you know almost everyone…you have been a veteran there and you identify yourself with the club…everyone there is a friend….you may not be in touch with them all the time but you all been through so much together as a club. The Rotarians know you….the office

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All the posts that I have written have been about what I do over weekends…I wonder why I have never written about work. After all I spend a good part of my waking hours at work! I have had a very non traditional career path…my post on analysis..paralysis will give you a brief so I will not get into that here and jump straight into what I am trying to do currently!I am working with one of those

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So many people I meet online and in person tell me they have read my blog and they always have something to say about it…(good/bad/otherwise) (by the way the most liked one seems to be the” Analysis Paralysis” post). But hardly anyone leaves a comment on the site…. :-(People when you come to this site….see it…do leave your mark before you go!For all those of you have their own blogs I need not

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This Saturday was the 3rd week in my teach India program and I was really looking forward to meeting my kiddo’s again. A girl from Kotak education foundation called me to confirm what time I would like to come. I was surprised that I had a choice of timings and told her I would prefer the 3.30 to 5.30 batch provided I get the same children. She assured me that I would get the same kids that I

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Crazy movie….not very realistic….but I guess any director should get his ‘creative freedom’. I always feel If you want to watch reality…watch the news! Malika Sherawat is looking as hot and sexy, so if nothing else especially the guys can go watch the movie for her! She plays the role of Pagli very well indeed and is absolutely crazy….so crazy that it is not realistic, but then it is the

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I had an interesting weekend learning to do new things on the net! Although I work in an IT company I am an absolute non techie so even small things which are normally out of the way are difficult or too much of a pain for me to try out.But this weekend….I was inspired by an old colleague of mine from Bangalore to put up a counter on my blog to know the number of visits. He told me you will have

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It is natural to have apprehensions when we start something new. All the volunteers who were a part of the program had reservations, concerns and problems when they initially started interacting with the student. This post will list out some of the issues faced by the volunteers.1) Do not know how to start the conversation with the child?2) How can a sustain a conversation with a child with whom

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I have a friend who is a budding journalist. She has just joined one of those ‘hi-fi’ journalist schools in town and is learning to be the next Barkha Dutt! Assignment one was to interview a celebrity you would like to meet! Celebrity hunt stated….and “Mr Well Connected” came to her rescue and got her an interview with Ratna Pathak!Our budding journalist needed a cameraman and her boyfriend could

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I volunteered for the Times of India “Teach India campaign” and was assigned to the Kotak Education Foundation at Chembur. I was assigned to their Student Intervention Program(SIP)Kotak Education foundation has tied up with a number of municipal schools in the area. The teachers from the NGO would teach the children basic English for one hour a day everyday after school. We as volunteers would

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Good Morning everyone!When I finally sat last night to prepare this speech I opened two bio-data’s I have.#The first which is written by me to find my ideal job and#The second which is written by my parents to find the ideal son in lawI thought I would use the Microsoft most widely used Cut Copy Paste technology and quickly get done with my speech,but then I thought of you’ll my dear audience for

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I don’t know if I believe in soul mates or love but I have always been afraid of even considering I will find the ‘ideal’ partner. I have always been so skeptical about it that I have never even allowed myself to think what is it that I am really looking for in an ‘ideal’ but then I read somewhere We make our own reality….. we paint our own picture of life. You get what you want…..You only need

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Something beautiful I read and it got me thinking.."The Purpose of Life is a Life of Purpose"I don’t know what the purpose of my life is.....but I know I want to learn and experience a whole lot of things before I move on to the next level…The purpose of this posting is to· Make a list of things I want to learn before I die· Inputs from readers and friends on the best place and

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What is friendship all about? Who are your true friends? Have you ever though about it?What follows is some thoughts on different types of friends and a video depicting my first and last category of friends! Please read it and give me your comments...Do you have friends who fit in these categories?1) True Friends- Are people you genuinely liked and currently are in touch with but distance is

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The law of “cause and effect” is as scientific as the “law of gravity”. It is exact, it is definitive and impartial. Every action has a reaction every effect has a cause As you sow you shall reap. Life is eternal,you may not remember or be conscious of all the causes you have made in the past….but the law of cause and effect is fair and just. If you want to know what causes you have made in the

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What happens If I throw this pen up in the air - I am sure no body things that the pen will fly in the air. We are all familiar with the “Law of Gravity”,we cannot see it but we all know it exists If I throw a small piece of paper in the air it will fall down, It may take longer than the pen but the law of gravity will definitely act.Ladies and Gentlemen for the next few minutes I am going to

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Well ...I really dont know what to write...never written blogs...never even read blogs.....

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I finally purched a new laptop....got a acer aspire series...for 1280 SGD....i think i got a good deal...but not so sure...and actully does not matter any more...!Well i had decided to start writing a blog once i get a new laptop...and i am connected to the world....so here i am..write my first ever blog post...at 1 in the night..when ideally i should be fast asleep !!It took me 4 weeks to decide

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