tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12062862295994853392024-02-19T10:35:55.469+05:30Blah!...Blah!...Blah!....STATUATORY REQUEST:by chance you happen to read this blog....pls do not leave without commenting :)Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-63061404322692167362015-08-15T17:18:00.000+05:302016-03-05T17:34:16.254+05:3077. THE SG50 MRT 'MARATHON'<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
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offers countrywide –Shops screaming out 50% discounts,
concession for entertainments, museums, zoos, amusement parks and other
activities -you are literally spoilt for choices. However, all these offers
happen at the same time for a limited time, and you get so confused which ones
to go for, that by the time you zero in on one, the offer is no longer valid. <o:p></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 16pt;">K</span></div>
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<span style="color: #3b0042; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">On the National Day, it was announced that we could enjoy
free public transport the whole day. It was Sunday, and all I had scheduled for
the day was church. Nothing much was planned for the evening, because the whole
nation would be in celebration and plague like crowds were to be expected
everywhere.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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utilize the free rides, except for the couple of trips to and from church. </span><span style="color: #3b0042; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Little did I know this random crazy thought that zipped past my
mind, would transform into a 5 hour long MRT-marathon.</span><span style="color: #3b0042; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Small as the country may be, there are still a
lot of areas of Singapore that still remain to be explored by me. So I
just thought of dragging a friend along and go to all the MRT stations, explore
the area a bit and click a few pictures and chill. It took some effort and a lot of bull-crapping to get a
friend to buy this idea –w<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">e would have
to wait another 50 years to get a similar offer;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It would be a lifetime achievement; think
about the money we could save and blah blah..</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hours, he came along with two other friends, equipped with DSLR and a tripod!
Woah looks like he took that a bit too seriously...</span></div>
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gantries. My hands kept reaching to my purse for the ez-link card as I
approached the gantries<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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too crowded and we had trouble finding a proper place to set up the tripod and
the camera. So we contented ourselves with a selfie. The passerbys stared at us quizzically, trying to figure out what's there in an MRT sign board to take picture
of!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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reached Choa Chu Kang, we were quite exhausted… that was only the 4th stop! We
had 21 more to go! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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climbing up and down the escalator and running back to catch the next train
drained us. We took a water break at Yew Tee and then continued….<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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gave cool(read lame) captions for each. For example at Newton, we posed with
our iPhones. (Netwon=Apple=Iphone…..smart eh?:P) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interest and regretted having come up with this stupid idea. I couldn’t wait for
this to be over!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-size: 16pt;">At Toa Payo, we realized that by the time we reach the last
station, the SG50 parade would have finished and we would have to face the
plague like crowd. So we went to Marina South Pier directly and came back to
where we left. The station was still </span><span style="font-size: 21px;">crazily</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> crowded! It was with great difficulty that we managed to get back inside
the station after taking the picture. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Ghat…Somerset…Orchard…Newton…Nouvena…Phew! It was finally over!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">We were thoroughly exhausted when we finally checked in at the last stop and my friend suggested taking a cab back home. That would so not serve the purpose of utilizing free MRT rides and I strongly opposed the idea. They couldn’t stand another MRT ride. So after a bit of arguing and debating, we took a bus, which crawled its way to Clementi.</span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">Total Money saved: 0.73x25=18.25$ each!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">Total Hours lost: 6hrs each!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 16pt;">I got so used to not tapping at the gantries, that the next few days I found it so inconvenient and annoying having to use the ez-link card to access the MRT. </span><span style="font-family: "wingdings"; font-size: 16pt;">K</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the
past couple of years that I have been outside India, I have come across many
people from different countries and cultures. It was great to find out how
people across the globe know Shah Rukh Khan, and Modi and the 3 Idiots movie.
All izz well…. It was indeed heartening to know that I come from a famous
country, but it was also disheartening to find that there are a lot of
preconceived (and mostly untrue) notions about India and
Indians. Some of them are ‘harmless’, but some of them are quite annoying.
So here goes the list of common myths about India.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Dark
skin doesn’t imply you are from the South, and fair skin doesn’t imply you are
from the North. There are fair skinned people all over India, and the same goes
for dark skinned people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have
had countless people ask me if I am from the South and if my roomie who is also
a Mallu(Malayali), is from the North. But the worst came from a Gujju(Gujarati)
friend who commented on my neighbor that she was way too good looking to be a
Mallu! :-|<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Not
all Indian men are rapists. Yes, from the insane number of rape incidents that
make headlines everyday, rape seems to be a favorite pastime for Indian men,
but decent and respectable men still exist in the country. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have
friends who have been asked how come they haven’t been raped after staying in
India for so long!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#This one
is especially to Singaporeans and Malaysians: Tamil is not the national
language of India. I know that majority of the Indian population in Singapore
is Tamil, but in India, Tamil is spoken by less than 6% of the population. We do
not have a national language, probably because of the hundreds of native
languages we have in different parts of the country.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Hindi is
the language. Hindu(ism) is the religion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Speaking
of Hinduism, not all Indians are Hindus. There are Muslims, Christians, Sikhs,
Buddhists, Jains, Zoroastrians, Jews and Free Thinkers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">#Not all
Malayalis get drunk everyday. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Interestingly,
one of the most disciplined and lengthy queuing systems in India can be found
in front of liquour shops in Kerala:P)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt;">The City:</b><span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> The city seemed to be quite developed. Roads and
public toilets were relatively clean and maintained. A few beggars could
be seen near the MRT stations. 7-11 seemed to be the national shop of Thailand
as you can find one or two after every kilometer. The general architectural
style of the city seemed to be that of the temple one – </span><span style="font-size: 17px;">most</span><span style="font-size: 13pt;"> of the buildings, houses and even bridges have roofs with
ornamented gabled-ends. The entangled mess of overhead electric lines would have baffled Mr. Kirchhoff himself :P</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Traffic:</b> One word for it –Horrible! The worst experience was that
of the 1-hour bus journey for a 2 km distance. So taking MRT wouldn't
be a bad idea, for traveling to MRT accessible places during peak hours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Public transport:</b> MRT and sky train systems are so poorly
integrated, and have poor connectivity to places. They are not cheap
either. Sharing a cab by 3 or 4 would be cheaper and advisable for traveling
during off peak hours. Patience bears a metered taxi. Wait for it. We
never tried the public bus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Food:</b> Again, one word for it –Awesome! I guess Thai is one of
the few cuisines that suites Western, Indian and South-East-Asian taste buds
alike. Also it has a lot of options for vegetarians as well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Weather:</b> it's better to always carry a rain guard with you. Weather
is similar to Singapore and Kerala.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Safety:</b> If you take care of yourself and travel in groups and go
around at the right places, it's decently safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>Thai vocab:</b> Sawadika - hello (for females); Kab koon -
thank you (for females)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.0pt;"><b>My takeaway:</b> The trip was quite nice and educative. It made me realize
that I really really need to travel more. Travelling can really modify your
perspective and make you grow. Being in a group, the members of which I wasn't
really close with, I learnt that different people have different preferences,
concerns and skills. There are foodies, shoppers, explorers, photographers and aimless people.
Timely and good food is important to some. Enough rest for others. Leisurely
pace for the others. I can't chop chop everyone every time. Planning beforehand
saves a lot of time, effort and money. Raincoat makes walking around in rain
more comfortable. Shelling out a few bucks for a local sim-card with data is
not a bad idea. Travel adaptors are a must. Don't
hesitate to speak up your ideas and wants and needs. And don't get disappointed
if they are not heeded to. Helping others always helps you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com1Clementi, Singapore1.3161811 103.764937700000021.2526831 103.68425670000002 1.3796791000000002 103.84561870000002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-1208145365553157922015-02-21T20:20:00.001+05:302015-03-09T20:12:07.919+05:3073. It happened/happens to me….. again!!<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Airhostess</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> (announcement):</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> “The seatbelt sign has been switched off, however for your own
safety…blah ..blah.. blah… refreshments will be served shortly. We will be
serving food for the children first.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Me</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> (Gosh! I’m so hungry, now I will have to
wait till all those pesky kids are fed! Hmph! )<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Airhostess</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> (reaches the row behind my seat, with her
food trolley and her one-liner): </span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">”We will be
serving the children first”.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <o:p></o:p></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Me</span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> (How much longer?! Sigh!...The smell of food
made my tummy growl) <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Airhostess </span></i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">(reaches my row and repeats her
chant):</span></i><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> “We are serving the children first”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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I recently came across a free offer from Vistaprint to get name cards. Though skeptical about this tempting offer, I went ahead with ordering 250 of them. Had to tread through innumerable pop-up menus offering added offers at ‘low’ cost before I finally got to the shipping page, when I realized the catch –I had to pay for the shipping<img src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/gagan.exe/SLLL9q2CBHI/AAAAAAAAAkM/yA63ILiHZ0c/39.gif" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="thinking :-?" />. But I guess 250 of these pretty cards was worth paying 7$ for the shipment. I just love the design <o:p></o:p><a gult="0" href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=1206286229599485339" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"><img src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/gagan.exe/SLFfLZammsI/AAAAAAAAAc0/Nk2svBAxF24/s144/1.png" style="border: none; position: relative;" title="smile :)" /></a></div>
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If it were not for the orientation programs conducted by the innumerable clubs and faculties in the campus, I would have died of either too much whining or too much boredom or too much loneliness, if not of too much joblessness. There are a lot of departments and clubs in the uni, and each of them organize various fun activities at the beginning of the semester for introducing themselves to the newcomers. Most of these events not only involve various interesting activities, but often food and goody bags are also provided for all those who drop in to help them fill their seats. I see these as perfect opportunities to get back at least a fraction of the money invested in the exorbitant tuition fee at NUS. Sometimes these goody bags are really good with really goody stuff. So far I have managed to collect items ranging from Coffee mugs, water bottles, notebooks, t-shirts, post-it notes, travel pillow, marker pens , gift vouchers etc.<br />
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Thus my calendar, during the initial parts of the semester was filled with the schedules of all the orientations in various departments and those with either goody bags or free food were <span style="background-color: lime;">highlighted.</span><br />
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Coming back to Nam Wah Pai, it was one of the orientation programs that I happened to attend. Like I said before, I didn't have any clue as to what it was, other than that it was some kind of sport and f<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: lime;">ree refreshments would be provided</span>. Yes free food...so I didnt have to think twice ;)<br />
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I arrived 20 minutes late for the event, helping to reinforce the general opinion of the Singaporeans that Indians indeed have poor time-management skills :-/<br />
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From the costume of the students there, I figured out it was some kind of martial arts. The students were working out in pairs -one helping the other to stretch. It was the warm-ups. I stood there watching and wondering how silly this looked, when 'Master Shifu' asked me to join in. I was to help a girl to do the stretches in a similar manner. Piece of cake...or so I thought...<br />
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I found out she was quite flexible!...way too flexible... I was so afraid to help her stretch too much, fearing that her back might just break into two! But she just kept insisting to push her back down and down until her torso and legs touched. There were few other scary stretches like the ones shown below, and I was glad to finally get done with it.<br />
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Little did I know my happiness was short-lived for it was my turn to be stretched next. I found that my entire body was stiff, and my torso, legs and other joints couldnt stretch beyond 30 degree angle. But I had help -from the girl whom I had helped a little while ago. And gosh did she help!! I felt my entire body being ripped apart and feared that my ligaments and bones would snap any moment. I was cursing her under my breath, wondering if she had some personal grudge against me. :-|<br />
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<br />Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com3114 Windsor Park Rd, Singapore 5741781.352083 103.8198361.098093 103.503979 1.6060729999999999 104.13569299999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-84119249112362796512012-06-20T17:47:00.000+05:302015-03-09T20:17:21.518+05:3070. It happened/happens to me!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><i><b>Me(</b>at Japanese Cuisine Stall) : </i>"Auntie, one Curry Rice"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><i><b>Japanese Stall Auntie</b>(scans me up and down): </i>"You student here ah?"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><i><b>Me(</b>nods vigorously smiling) :</i> "Yes Yes"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><i><b>Me</b>(wow! thats new.... at least in this part of the world, they think I look older than what I really am..*grins broadly*:D)</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><i><b>Japanese stall Auntie</b>(grins back):</i> "You look very small la!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"><b><i>Me</i></b><i>(grin disappears :| )</i></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">The same kind of food; the same kind of mouth; the same kind of hands -but gosh! there are a hundred and one different ways of making the food reach the mouth!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">This is one of the observations that I have made during the past few months in S'pore. Many gadgets have been discovered over the centuries to aid people in this 'laborious task' of making the food reach its destination. With varying latitudes and longitudes, the permutation&combinations of different tools used varies -fork&spoon, knife&fork, fork,knife&spoon, chop-sticks&spoon and so on. However, from what I have observed, whatever be the kind of food they are dealing with, people generally prefer to eat it the way they have been taught at home by their mom, during their 'table manners' course. So that means, be it rice, noodles, yong tau foo, the Chinese can tackle anything that comes across their way with the help of two puny sticks. Likewise, the Europeans equip themselves with fork&knife. Singaporeans -fork and spoon and occasionally a pair of chopsticks too. And we Indians...well we don't usually require any eating aids. Why bother when God has given us awesome hands!! (But still most of the people, all over the world are taught that eating with bare hands is ill-mannered!! <i>[sigh]</i>)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Rice and curry, I can eat with a pair of spoon and fork; noodles and the like, I can manage with a pair of chopsticks(my latest achievement :D ) but when it comes to chicken and other such dead animals which have bones, I need my hands desperately.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">I realized this truth when I was lunching with some of my European and Singaporean friends.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">It was the Dutch guy's birthday, and the birthday co-ordinator selected this fancy Indonesian restaurant to celebrate his b'day. Browsing throug the menu card made me 'gulp'. The starting price for the main-course was10S$. I ordered roasted chicken rice for myself since it was the only comprehensible item in the menu that suited my budget. (My brain was calculating: 10S$ = Rs 400. I recollected those days in my UG college when one month's canteen fee was around Rs. 1200 = 30S$ . I gulped again.)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Our food arrived in no time,and all of us geared ourselves with fork and spoon to attack the food. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">'Uh Oh'... The chicken had bones, unlike the usual chicken rice. I so totally don't know how to tear the flesh out from the bones using fork and spoon. The Dutch guy was complaining too -he wanted a knife instead of the fork. I sat there wondering what in the world to do with the two metal pieces in my hand. My hands longed to reach out to the morsel.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Nevertheless, I dug in. With all my might and skill, I managed to finish off the first piece fairly decently. Hmmm...Unlike most of the other times when the chicken was half cooked that made me gag, this one was especially tasty. Yumm...I was into my second piece trying to do the flesh-bone-separating act, when, the spoon slipped and the chicken and the fork went flying away in opposite directions. I sat there stupefied, while the others burst into laughter. Needless to say, I was embarassed to the core:| And I was sad, and guilty too -sad for the chicken who sacrificed its life for nothing, and guilty for wasting money...that chicken piece would have cost atleast 2 S$. Sigh!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">My so polite friends(Europeans are always nice) bent down to take the spoon for me, and I deftly used the time</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;"> to grab the next chicken piece and have a bite ;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Our random conversations reached the Indian boundaries, and the Singaporean friend suddenly remarked: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">"The way Indians eat their food is so cool. They have special skills to eat their food. They not only eat rice with hands but can even tear dosa and pratas with one hand easily. The way they maneuver their fingers dexterously to take food and push it inside the mouth is amazing."</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #0c343d;">Well what can I say? I beamed at my 'awesome dexterous skillful hands' and ever since I have a special regard for my hand whenever they 'maneuver their way to get food into my mouth'. ;)</span>Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com321 Lower Kent Ridge Road, National University of Singapore, Singapore 1190771.2966426 103.776393900000021.2331441 103.69571290000002 1.3601410999999999 103.85707490000001tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-70434799551953464772011-03-31T00:50:00.000+05:302015-02-28T11:22:21.604+05:3068. Bleed Blue!<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com4Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India13.060422 80.2495830000000312.916343000000001 80.157828500000036 13.204501 80.341337500000023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-85038918595179222132010-12-01T01:11:00.002+05:302015-08-09T20:48:35.709+05:3067. Short-‘lived’ relationships<div class="MsoNormal">
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The latest one came to my life quite unexpectedly…</div>
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It all happened last Sunday, when I was buying flowers at the florist’s after church…(I love red roses!) I was haggling over the price with the florist lady. That’s when I noticed ‘him’ –medium built, strong firm arms, long slender legs…..He was sitting there alone…But it was the bluish-green colour that appealed me the most! It was love at first sight...I knew he was the one for me (but so have I thought with the rest of ‘em too..sigh!!) </div>
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Suddenly, I stopped my row with the florist over the price, ditched my red rose, and quickly picked the pink one on which he was perching, eagerly awaiting for me. He’s all mine now!! :D </div>
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com1Trivandrum, Kerala, India8.487495 76.9486238.4026044999999989 76.831893499999993 8.5723855 77.0653525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-33517458565233613272010-08-09T01:42:00.009+05:302015-03-09T20:17:53.941+05:3065. Do you like often like like saying 'like'?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Got stranded in a little old street shop for 2-3 hours due to the rain. We pretended to be interested in their jackets and gloves, and kept trying on various clothes and asking their prices until the shopkeeper realising that we had no intention of buying anything from him, kicked us outta the shop.(These hindi people can be rude at times! hmph!)<br />
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Our car could move only at snail's pace. My shopping day got ruined. But I guess it was worth it, to be out in the rain in the capital city ;)Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com12Trivandrum, Kerala, India8.487495 76.9486238.4026044999999989 76.831893499999993 8.5723855 77.0653525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-11870914316911807972010-06-25T23:23:00.001+05:302015-03-09T20:18:34.032+05:3062. The purse<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><i>Last year she refused to let me borrow the purse because it was gifted to her by </i></span></span><i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">him......</span></span></b></i><br />
<i><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"></span></span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><i>..... today she gave me the purse, insisting that I keep it for myself</i></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"> </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">because</span></span></b></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;"><i> it was a gift from him.</i></span></span>Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com6Trivandrum, Kerala, India8.487495 76.9486238.4026044999999989 76.831893499999993 8.5723855 77.0653525tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-24296021884406358272010-05-16T01:41:00.000+05:302015-03-09T20:18:47.317+05:3061. It takes all kinds to make this world-IIINew guy on the net:<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">New guy: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Hey Nee, I think my flirting skills are getting better and better day by day!</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Me: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Oh really?! How do you know? :P</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">New guy: Abhay</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;"> am serious. Gals out there are crazy about me!!</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Me: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">really? :P :P</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">New guy: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Yeah! they not only like me, but even keep expressing their fondness towards me!!!</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">Me: r</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">eally? how?:P :P :P</span></i><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">New guy: </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">whenever i say something over the chat, they keep saying Lots Of Love....they even use have short form for that -'</span></i><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">LOL</span></i></b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">' !!!!</span></i><br />
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-65026062098190025762010-04-02T09:04:00.005+05:302010-04-03T11:08:37.699+05:3060. It takes all kinds to make this world-II<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTb4cUilDVr9BKUrj3AZsyWrhK4byOmXxvsmZ0hcQIltGZp0k3xJVpFfQnwhAa21zFAHu6VXmItYhvvYW0SJYAKMnETFRST-5RDrqmE6JrKtQUhlistFZ1mMH2OXTK2V0Z6PyDocZnOKvA/s1600/colored-people.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5455780697812224114" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTb4cUilDVr9BKUrj3AZsyWrhK4byOmXxvsmZ0hcQIltGZp0k3xJVpFfQnwhAa21zFAHu6VXmItYhvvYW0SJYAKMnETFRST-5RDrqmE6JrKtQUhlistFZ1mMH2OXTK2V0Z6PyDocZnOKvA/s200/colored-people.jpg" border="0" /></a>The final sem is nearing to its end. We were browsing through the academic calender searching for holidays to go home for the last time, as b-tech students...Someone suggested Easter hols. The others nodded their heads in agreement.<br />Suddenly #/\/\@ jumps up excitedly(as usual) and says:<br /><br /><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="color:#009900;"><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,102,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">"Hey wow! </span><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: rgb(204,102,0); FONT-STYLE: italic">this time</span><span style="COLOR: rgb(204,102,0); FONT-STYLE: italic"> Good Friday comes together with Saturday and Sunday. We'll get 3 days holidays :D"</span></span><br /></span><br />Yes indeed, it takes all kinds...... ;)Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-519714279599544982010-03-25T01:32:00.009+05:302015-03-09T20:19:07.855+05:3059. It takes all kinds to make this world-I<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCPRzz8MW4nOMsTs1AfycFse95VxBRAZBY-pi88PoF1qRCeoJ5GLQnH130pFgaUtttA2UPbelq9EAQW0juLDnO2EyW1LmzmzR8lyqJ-LEv06hpInhkrYdRnfRlj4AT2oQVzrrYFIONi0V/s1600/average_oneworld.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigCPRzz8MW4nOMsTs1AfycFse95VxBRAZBY-pi88PoF1qRCeoJ5GLQnH130pFgaUtttA2UPbelq9EAQW0juLDnO2EyW1LmzmzR8lyqJ-LEv06hpInhkrYdRnfRlj4AT2oQVzrrYFIONi0V/s200/average_oneworld.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452636208409598994" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 200px; margin: 0 10px 10px 0; width: 200px;" /></a>During the tech round of PI(personal interview) by a leading software company... hmmm....lets call it \/\/||?%@<br />
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-10755396308155713362010-01-16T01:42:00.021+05:302015-08-01T20:32:37.146+05:3058. Being Inspired...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5Ov1z5GM4t9_tzis4mMFjCky6GCkep_4fZs8-FZFC3ip-xD2Y-ljidTA9KR_I4nglA0tD8YE976kdbGXKzD2S1SQ9c12dg9-salGr6uPn8nHPx2elzbNKPLNva8LR0njnUAg6paFf91D_/s1600-h/!DSC04751.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a><br />
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-63792708731671322222010-01-15T23:26:00.000+05:302015-03-09T20:20:26.719+05:3057.I saw it too..:D<div style="text-align: left;">
Yea, I too witnessed the much hyped, once-in-1033-years 'solar feast' -First a projected image in the Physics department, then a more clearer view through NDTV, CNN etc, then through an X-ray film in LH, and then finally i caught it with my very own k750i...a very crude image though!</div>
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com9Chathamangalam Omassery Road, Kattangal, Kerala 673601, India11.3243298 75.93562480000002811.322383799999999 75.933103300000028 11.3262758 75.938146300000028tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-72003301830974643752010-01-09T08:29:00.008+05:302015-03-09T20:21:16.486+05:3056. I wanna grow up once again...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQZM-iHemgN7xOE8P0tFo7bIbyK1f5fZFL5aHfaMKENCiGu7a_IuTCEY3hMA8MCcgMa8BX__KTwOH2Mmgsww-1iLdL4GS5P1QAFrVv72gpnUzHOlXYQcJxlo1AKeXrqw1qmB-7xkclzaB/s1600-h/sunshine.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyQZM-iHemgN7xOE8P0tFo7bIbyK1f5fZFL5aHfaMKENCiGu7a_IuTCEY3hMA8MCcgMa8BX__KTwOH2Mmgsww-1iLdL4GS5P1QAFrVv72gpnUzHOlXYQcJxlo1AKeXrqw1qmB-7xkclzaB/s320/sunshine.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424573806975614226" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 143px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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</span></b></span>Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com31Chathamangalam Omassery Road, Kattangal, Kerala 673601, India11.3243298 75.93562480000002811.322383799999999 75.933103300000028 11.3262758 75.938146300000028tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-1245098247104178802010-01-04T02:11:00.012+05:302010-01-06T23:13:36.090+05:3055.Just millimetres separated her from a 3 storey fall!<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">T</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">he year barely started and it’s already filled with action. Happening things are happening everyday, except for studying and this is really freaking me out.(my status is still unemployed-and-dunno-what-lies-ahead </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Wingdings;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">K</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">) Now to my account of the suicide attempt that kept the LH on th edge....</span></span></span></span></div> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">It was at about 9.30 while I was returning from Chacko’s room, after a futile attempt to crack the geo assignment, that I noticed a little commotion going on outside my room. Some girls were leaning over the balcony parapet. Fear and horror were written on their faces! I feared the worst –a suicide attempt?No it can't be.... I was shocked to find that my worst of the wildest imaginations was being materialised right before my very eyes!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">She was standing on the edge of the sunshade. A chill ran down my spine! I froze! My whole body became numb. My throat had gone dry. I couldn’t even give out a scream..... just millimetres separated her from a 3 storey fall!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgs4m4EN80YqxI2HoJWFs3iupM1c-EkzA18__pytATpSEXt0w6EFR_t2ya7kDed8bPpTl_nGFWWByyjt7ur4dek2NroKx8jzLXacRy3X-Hn8aSKGG2TUtdzGWEi5Z6ZppPrZoROBtK4SA9/s1600-h/DSCN2358.JPG"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgs4m4EN80YqxI2HoJWFs3iupM1c-EkzA18__pytATpSEXt0w6EFR_t2ya7kDed8bPpTl_nGFWWByyjt7ur4dek2NroKx8jzLXacRy3X-Hn8aSKGG2TUtdzGWEi5Z6ZppPrZoROBtK4SA9/s400/DSCN2358.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422617925167424242" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We tried using hangers, broomsticks and ropes, but the feline seemed to find them more life-threatening than a fatal fall.....After about half an hour of cajoling, coaxing and trying to lure her to safety, she finally jumped to the relatively flatter and broader part of the sunshade, where the inclined shades came to a stop. From there, many interconnecting sunshades and pipes could serve as her route to safety. Phew! We returned to our rooms. At least no bloodsheds on the 3d day of the year!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">An hour later I heard voices and hurried footsteps outside my room. I opened it to find nearly the whole wing gathered in front of the room. I followed their transfixed gaze down the balcony. The paranoid suicidal kitten had returned to the suicide point!</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">We held our breaths –sure to witness a tragic free fall. Some weak souls turned their faces away. Some said ’tch tch’. A few tear drops were shed.....(okay that was a long shot! :P)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI9Ns0ik5e6rKKfUNwW61-V9A_Rjpo5ixFnfv_FqZNs7gEehMt4E0ftUVSDWxdtyeWfbCDkxhgaK-gCQBONWi2kE2CIaY88ENoh26GYQWThz78nOH_9V6iPZw5XTbdvMubtHWeDeRXFqy/s1600-h/DSCN2360.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkI9Ns0ik5e6rKKfUNwW61-V9A_Rjpo5ixFnfv_FqZNs7gEehMt4E0ftUVSDWxdtyeWfbCDkxhgaK-gCQBONWi2kE2CIaY88ENoh26GYQWThz78nOH_9V6iPZw5XTbdvMubtHWeDeRXFqy/s320/DSCN2360.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423683068603134210" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">What are we to do?</span></span></p> <span style="line-height: 115%; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">Suddenly, our hero –</span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">The Che-Kkan</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;">-enters the scene. Under the frenzy to save the kitty, Chekkan tried to jump over the parapet and save her.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnnktWGGFQ17tyKf_rQrej4FRweD0SHNd8eFllmDqU-pEPWI01dRO_-A5c24fAMCTtPkd6ThwOaCol-Lh8wzQMhfa81yfH4AJhk3IoFC-WdIwWcLFlJbL8DYslF_EHH4ALtVJXN_ZicGw/s1600-h/DSCN2361.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEnnktWGGFQ17tyKf_rQrej4FRweD0SHNd8eFllmDqU-pEPWI01dRO_-A5c24fAMCTtPkd6ThwOaCol-Lh8wzQMhfa81yfH4AJhk3IoFC-WdIwWcLFlJbL8DYslF_EHH4ALtVJXN_ZicGw/s320/DSCN2361.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423682385976926898" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " /></a></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;color:#0000EE;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; text-decoration: underline;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">But we were in no mood to witness multiple murders on the same day. We pulled Chekkan back in.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px; font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>Come on, think something smart!...and quick!...</i>.someone suggested a bucket(Gee!was that me?:D) </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 18px;font-size:medium;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">I volunteered to give my bucket. So now I will have an excuse for not taking a bath tomorrow! ;) The bucket was brought and lowered in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIh02vWb4iwx2PkSHixBhOFYrdqsfCpRCySQorbIzEpr_NBi06fqEV0TZ8-d1uMm9VvpU0RzvOhFXR5Icm9Ff4KDSPqsvFYNtSTmrLFaBy4ALp-FIdl37BbYU3v49Vk16qWrBhf7o4dlN/s1600-h/DSCN2364.JPG"><br /><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIh02vWb4iwx2PkSHixBhOFYrdqsfCpRCySQorbIzEpr_NBi06fqEV0TZ8-d1uMm9VvpU0RzvOhFXR5Icm9Ff4KDSPqsvFYNtSTmrLFaBy4ALp-FIdl37BbYU3v49Vk16qWrBhf7o4dlN/s400/DSCN2364.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422622164469369330" style="display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px; " /></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Look at her! What </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Jaada</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">! What <i>Ahangaaram!</i> She wouldn’t get in. Guess she was rather enjoying the limelight.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>Come on again...think </i></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i> </i></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>something smart</i></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i>er!</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><i> </i>Someone suggested a bait (Gee! Was that me too? :P)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Saliny(now Tintu Mol :P) brought a piece of cake from her room and threw it inside the bucket.(I made a mental note to pay her a visit soon). The cat fell for it. It was inside the bucket, and Swoosh! Kitty was bucket-lifted to safety. Somehow, the cat reminded me of Joey( I told you I am watching too much of F.R.I.E.N.D.S these days!)</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">So thanks to </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">Che-Kkan</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"> and the piece of cake(and my bucket too!), the day is saved!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;">PS: This incident made Che-Kkan to go down the long list of the legendary Khans(Shahrukh-Khan,Aamir-Khan,Salman- Khan,Ghengi- Khan,Sher-Khan,Moor-Kkan ......:P)</span></p></span></span></div></div></div>Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-35972269463864469002010-01-02T01:18:00.004+05:302015-07-20T20:57:51.209+05:3054. The ‘perfect’ first day!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqU378q8zXqPdulGB5NqHEAOlFAK_eaNaPV3VLI9vqUXP3mTwzgTFlN_MUr0nn3etNNlSCmskdzfwNoSB6b5KqEu0WfkVutX701SJSdJIwp0wt0oAZCaIr14vloT8scjIjsygKspzK4VO/s1600-h/2010newyear_lights.preview.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421894287170338130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNqU378q8zXqPdulGB5NqHEAOlFAK_eaNaPV3VLI9vqUXP3mTwzgTFlN_MUr0nn3etNNlSCmskdzfwNoSB6b5KqEu0WfkVutX701SJSdJIwp0wt0oAZCaIr14vloT8scjIjsygKspzK4VO/s320/2010newyear_lights.preview.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 239px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><br />
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A new year, a new beginning –a time to set things right, learn from mistakes, start over again, hope for the year to turn out to be good. I doubt if there is any other single day hyped so much all around the world, as the New Year day!-a day of resolutions and new determinations, everyone wants the day to turn out to be PERFECT.</div>
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I woke up cursing the girl banging at the door threatening to break it. The cursing transformed into an alarmed shriek in an instant, when my phone blinked 7:29am at me. Gosh! I had exactly 31 minutes to ‘prepare’ for my ‘perfect’ day and hit to the class. Ran to the bathroom with my bucket –had a ‘quick’ bath and brush which consumed more than half of my total available time. </div>
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I realised I hadn’t completed the seminar ppt I was supposed to present that day. I had left the finishing touches for the morning. You see, my perfect day was supposed to start at 5:30am. But I don’t even remember when I fell asleep last night. All I remember was that I wanted to do the last post of 2009 before hitting the sack....but then it was total blackout...<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hangover</i>?!!</div>
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No time to have breakfast either. Attending first day first class on an empty stomach! Noooo!...this is not at all my ideal day! Little did I realize then, that my fist meal of the year wasn’t until 8.00pm....I stuffed the ppt file into a pendrive, and ran to the class. I didn’t even iron my clothes...Later in class I noticed that my umm.....zipper(pant) was undone and the price tag of my new top still dangling from the back collar. Thankfully(hopefully) my top and my hair was long enough, and nobody else noticed....Reached class in time, but sweating and panting –at least I didn’t get kicked out on the first day. I thanked God. Then I realized, that I forgot to pray! :-|</div>
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In the steel design class, I forgot to bring the code book, which is like an indispensable part of the course. I realized that my bench-mate and I shared more things in common, than the totally lost and frustrated look on our faces. I was too proud to borrow codes from others on ‘my perfect 1<sup>st</sup> day’. So was she. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Once a borrower, always a borrower. </i>So the rest of the class, I was scribbling this post at the back of my notebook. So much for the atleast-first-day-listen-attentively-in-class resolution.</div>
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I felt really bad when our group had to shun away from presenting the seminar ppt (it was an optional course, but we spent hours searching for the materials). Said NO to a task assigned on the first day itself. <span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">L</span></span> The meeting with our project guide, and the proceedings at the PAN card mela took so much time that I barely had enough time to go back to hostel and have lunch. I was hoping to have lunch from outside, with a friend, but one shouldn’t hope/expect/assume too much. It really hurts when people close to you hurts you –intentionally or unintentionally. It really does! </div>
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If you are an LH inmate, or an NITC student, or atleast faintly acquainted with the college, and if you exercise your brains a little, you can easily guess the next part of the day. It was 7.25pm when we reached the hostel, and the hostel guards made a fuss for about 15 minutes before we were let in. We weren’t disappointed, nor pissed –atleast we had food to look forward to. Ate (read gobbled) like 3 hungry beggars who saw food for the first time in the year. </div>
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Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1206286229599485339.post-73531134505455488412009-12-31T20:42:00.001+05:302010-01-02T01:01:51.982+05:3053.Another year to look forward to....<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Another year goes by, and yet another year comes...Just had my last supper(er..of the year) now-(got it parcelled from Broast :D). I so badly wanted to see the last sunset of the year –Sigh! only if the beach had been a bit closer to the campus :( </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">.....</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Talking about the sun, did you notice the sky today? It was so gloomy, the entire day. The sun looked like a 40 watt bulb!!:O </span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Apparently there is gonna be/ there was a lunar eclipse tonight. But, why did the sun look sad if the moon was going into hiding for some time?:O</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As the last few minutes of 2009 tick away, I look forward, wishfully, to what 2010 has in store...</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On a personal level,</span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> * </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ll be shifting to a new house next month, leaving the house where I had lived for the past 21 years. (Should I be happy or sad? I’m confused!)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> *</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My cousin will have her surname changed....hope my brother too gets married soon!!( i so badly wanna do some extravagant shopping!)</span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> *</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My underweight evil twin will start earning. She’s gonna work in some ‘Boasting and Consulting’ company :P</span></span></p> <p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> *</span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">As for me....I’ll have earned my very first degree....but...Ah! a future all so bleak awaits me. Neither have I a university to boast about, nor a job to fall back on,yet. Never did my life seem so ...so...uncertain..undefined...</span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">On a global level,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*Spain will take</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> over the Presidency of the council of the European union</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">from Sweden</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> on January 1</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Burj Dubai</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">, UAE,</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">will be completed in January. It is already the tallest manmade structure</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ever built.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*The longest annular eclipse of the 21st century will occur on January 15</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOtDjcIj9uiTjbrQlMjjagobXOzKjzLKnDTkhMP6imGLsNRAoLlAk5VWtPOWF3iPgmdNS4kWWNujPi6IJgSH7T4c85OTMok3oSwFZIBWsz58QdjOZ0SO6l6G-poygEmsu3Esqf6KXruHd/s1600-h/World+YOUTH+OLYMPIC+GAMES+2010.jpg" style="text-decoration: none; "><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOtDjcIj9uiTjbrQlMjjagobXOzKjzLKnDTkhMP6imGLsNRAoLlAk5VWtPOWF3iPgmdNS4kWWNujPi6IJgSH7T4c85OTMok3oSwFZIBWsz58QdjOZ0SO6l6G-poygEmsu3Esqf6KXruHd/s200/World+YOUTH+OLYMPIC+GAMES+2010.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421850276525645842" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 196px; " /></a></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The Harbin international Snow and Ice festival, in China during, January </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*Winter Olympics</span></span><strong><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></strong><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Vancouver, Canada in February </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">*Winter Paralympics Vancouver, Canada in March</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">·</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"></span></span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> *</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010 FIFA World Cup</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> in</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> South Africa</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">,</span></span></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">during June- July.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 24px; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: normal; font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> *</span></span></span></span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The </span></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">First world YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 14 - 26 August 2010</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebJovZnmAImYsctfFehyphenhyphenmfK2tcvW7dQ8ZYXsGJS2vLDTlpVyPoljAZkZcmXW8LYTNOTBnQF8ro4DD0ouW5Y2LqNvfxDCJUzG_dXrydlonm2f9PCf7xIesJqXqgRdoYr1X8DB1hFFaaUnf/s1600-h/Commonwealth+Games+2010.jpeg"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebJovZnmAImYsctfFehyphenhyphenmfK2tcvW7dQ8ZYXsGJS2vLDTlpVyPoljAZkZcmXW8LYTNOTBnQF8ro4DD0ouW5Y2LqNvfxDCJUzG_dXrydlonm2f9PCf7xIesJqXqgRdoYr1X8DB1hFFaaUnf/s200/Commonwealth+Games+2010.jpeg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421499360705560418" style="float: right; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 108px; height: 108px; " /></a></span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOtDjcIj9uiTjbrQlMjjagobXOzKjzLKnDTkhMP6imGLsNRAoLlAk5VWtPOWF3iPgmdNS4kWWNujPi6IJgSH7T4c85OTMok3oSwFZIBWsz58QdjOZ0SO6l6G-poygEmsu3Esqf6KXruHd/s1600-h/World+YOUTH+OLYMPIC+GAMES+2010.jpg" style="text-decoration: none; "></a></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">* The 2010 commonwealth games, Delhi in October</span></span></p> <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOtDjcIj9uiTjbrQlMjjagobXOzKjzLKnDTkhMP6imGLsNRAoLlAk5VWtPOWF3iPgmdNS4kWWNujPi6IJgSH7T4c85OTMok3oSwFZIBWsz58QdjOZ0SO6l6G-poygEmsu3Esqf6KXruHd/s1600-h/World+YOUTH+OLYMPIC+GAMES+2010.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia, serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"> * </span></span></span></span></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcOtDjcIj9uiTjbrQlMjjagobXOzKjzLKnDTkhMP6imGLsNRAoLlAk5VWtPOWF3iPgmdNS4kWWNujPi6IJgSH7T4c85OTMok3oSwFZIBWsz58QdjOZ0SO6l6G-poygEmsu3Esqf6KXruHd/s1600-h/World+YOUTH+OLYMPIC+GAMES+2010.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;">General Motors is expected to produce a commercially viable model of its<br />hydrogen-fueled drive.</span></span></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebJovZnmAImYsctfFehyphenhyphenmfK2tcvW7dQ8ZYXsGJS2vLDTlpVyPoljAZkZcmXW8LYTNOTBnQF8ro4DD0ouW5Y2LqNvfxDCJUzG_dXrydlonm2f9PCf7xIesJqXqgRdoYr1X8DB1hFFaaUnf/s1600-h/Commonwealth+Games+2010.jpeg"><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebJovZnmAImYsctfFehyphenhyphenmfK2tcvW7dQ8ZYXsGJS2vLDTlpVyPoljAZkZcmXW8LYTNOTBnQF8ro4DD0ouW5Y2LqNvfxDCJUzG_dXrydlonm2f9PCf7xIesJqXqgRdoYr1X8DB1hFFaaUnf/s1600-h/Commonwealth+Games+2010.jpeg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><span class="apple-style-span"><span><span><span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> * The East African community will implement a common currency called the East African shilling</span><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhebJovZnmAImYsctfFehyphenhyphenmfK2tcvW7dQ8ZYXsGJS2vLDTlpVyPoljAZkZcmXW8LYTNOTBnQF8ro4DD0ouW5Y2LqNvfxDCJUzG_dXrydlonm2f9PCf7xIesJqXqgRdoYr1X8DB1hFFaaUnf/s1600-h/Commonwealth+Games+2010.jpeg"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#000000;"><br /></span></span></a></span></span></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style=" line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Looking forward to it?</span></span></span><span style=" line-height:115%;Arial","sans-serif";font-family:";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FF0000;"><b>HAPPY NEWYEAR!!</b></span></span></span></div></div></div>Neethuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18211306141948313673noreply@blogger.com6