2010 in Review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 6,700 times in 2010. That’s about 16 full 747s. In…

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Small Deed #5

 Read Small Deed# 4   How about a little thoughtful deed for your mom today? As you read these lines, pick up your phone, dial your mom and  compliment her – for what? You don’t have to think hard. Be it even for the curd rice you had in class 4, just do it!  I was walking…

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Death

I’ve told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation. – Dr.Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D. (A medical doctor, psychiatrist, and an expert in thanatology – scientific discipline of death and dying) I have left the title with just this single word because nothing else…

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Let’s Forgive our Dads!

Definitely we love our fathers! Their efforts, sacrifices, humiliations – all that it took for them to nurture us – are far above the 23 chromosomes they’ve sponsored. Yet, undeniable is another side to this relationship! Well, your father doesn’t have to be a drunkard who beats his wife and children and roams around the…

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Frustrations…..Keep a Watch!

  Frustrations……!!!This post is not going to discuss what causes them, not going to advice you on how to handle them, not going to help you come out of them. Then…??? It comes to remind you that sometimes they are right there, just behind your shoulders.  And one turn – you might be saved!   This is what a frustration-filled…

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Buddha Purnima

It’s Buddha Purnima today! As I was going through articles on the celebration of this day, I thought of writing new facts that I came to know today about Siddhartha Gautama’s (Buddha’s birth name) life and on Buddha Purnima.   On the night Siddhartha was conceived, Queen Mayadevi (Buddha’s Mother) dreamt that a white elephant with six white tusks entered…

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Know Your Soul

“Man is a soul and has a body” “My  angel tells me to get in touch with your family. I need to incarnate on earth in a year as one of my soul mates is already there” “Nice to meet you. I remember spending time with you in a train journey 200 years before,  somewhere near central…

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Back to School

It was a conversation over a dinner with my good old childhood friend about our school days, which has incited me to start this chapter on back to school.  “You know what, I wish I could have studied ‘electromagnetism’ more sincerely…..and also that part on ‘waves’!!!” “Why even, ‘relativity’ ….and that ‘thermodynamics’ …were over my head all the…

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