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 23:04 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| CRIMINALS!!! WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?" | |
| It had to happen that some unexpected events would come crashinmg inand consume huge amounts fo my time. As most of you know I am committed to fighting all sorts of criminals in whatever guise they present themselves. I was approached by a member of the public whom I knew for about 10 years. She asked me if I would listen to what she had to report....
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| 13:47 | 3/Jun/2008 |
| VIOLENCE | |
| Thye violent situation that swept many areas of South Africa has been covered by many news channels in both print and audio visual. The tragedy is that many peope lost their lives and others were displaced. The hype of xenophobia hass been echoed by many people including many in government, the media, and ordinary people. The upper and middle cla...
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| 21:16 | 7/May/2008 |
| EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW | |
| EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH ZANELE MAGWAZA MSIBI I had to interview this phenomenal individual and part of the interview is contained herein. The interview is very wide ranging and covered matters relating to Economics, Ideology, Military, Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Unemployment, Housing, Crime, Elections, Religion, Public Representatives, Appointed...
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| 21:44 | 23/Apr/2008 |
| eclusive intervieews | |
| I conducted two interviews with two of the most prominent people in SA - 1. His Excellency Prince MG Buthelezi who is the Presdent and Leader of the the Inkatha Freedom Party well known as the IFP- and Ms Zanele Magwaza Msibi who is the National Chairperson of the same party. She is also teh executive mayor of the Zululand Dstrict. I will post only...
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| 21:23 | 17/Apr/2008 |
| ADULTS ONLY | |
| Anyone can use any of these quotes and adapt them to specific situations that they encounter. Be advised that you do so at your own risk. I compiled them from many sources.If you use any of them I am DEFINITELY not liable for any consequences that may befall you. 1. There’s nothing wrong with him that making him try to see reason won’t make worse...
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| 18:18 | 8/Apr/2008 |
| WHATS IN A NAME | |
| I would like someone to tell me the meanings and origins of the following names if you would be kind enough to do so: 1. Usha or Oosha 2. Sigamoney perhaps I get more information of a general nature regarding the significance of names.
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| 22:02 | 1/Apr/2008 |
| ZIMBABWE | |
| A neighbouring country to us called Zimbabwe had elections and now the counting and results of the elections is being announced piece meal. This is a relatively small country with an equally tiny population. Since its independence from Britain in 1980 numkerous reports of gross violations of human rights have been reported in one media or another. ...
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| 21:17 | 27/Mar/2008 |
| DREAMS | |
| A man that I did not particularly like recently passed away ( died) I have my own reasons for disliking this individual while he was alive. Today I went home very early as I had to attend to ssome matters till 3am and was quite tired. I dramt that this man was in my car driving along a busy road. I saw a car in front of me driven by someone that I...
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| 14:30 | 26/Mar/2008 |
| WOMEN AND MINI SKIRTS | |
| Recently woman wore a mini skirt and went to a taxi rank to board a traxi in Johannesburg. A taxi driver accompanied by some others assaulted this wonman and tore her skirt. A similar incident happened in a place called Germiston. In Kwa Zulu Natal in a certain place called Umlazi women are harassed when they wear pants. Now many privately say the...
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| 20:21 | 14/Mar/2008 |
| STEALING | |
| WHAT WERE THEY THINKING - IF THEY WERE? Last year a group of discovered that the Board of Trustees of a certain pension fund were busy mismanaging, allocating contracts to unqualified people, living a life of luxury at the expense of members of the fund, took decisions at meetings other than board meetings and signed resolutions purporting to have...
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| RAJEEV GARG | 17:01 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (535)
| City: HARYANA
| Interests: LISTENING MUSIC,O...
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| INDEPENDENCE |
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| INDEPENDENCE DAY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY TO ALL FRIENDS AND RELATIVES. ...
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| krishna agarwal | 07:34 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (378)
| City: Bhubaneshwar
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| General Knowledge |
| Can You Give You Woman A Deeper Orgasm?Author: Jerry LeungAs a man, you will probably want to learn more ways to give your lady deeper orgasms. Yet, the fact is that no many people can really do that. In fact, there are some methods you can use in order to give your lady a deeper orgasm. Here are some tips for you to do so.At this point, some of th...
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| praveen sharma | 10:44 | 14/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (933)
| City: Delhi
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| Azadi Diwas |
| Independence Day "Longyears ago we made a tryst with destiny, and now the time comes when we will redeem our pledge, not wholly or in full measure, but very substantially. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we ste...
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| Ramya | 14:18 | 7/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (235)
| City: Chennai
| Interests: singing
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| ***Friends Forever***We met online, had a good time,chatted again and became good friends.Time went on and we"re still hereand i truly belive you"re someone dear!Here"s something I"d like to share with u,for all of your love and kindness too.it a symbol of the friendship we share together,...
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| Manu | 22:04 | 12/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (66)
| City: Chandigarh
| Interests: Movies, music, Fo...
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| More Haiku from 2007 - Don Quixote on ca... |
| January winter chill wrapped around homeless's bodytakes drag at beedi amid owl's hootsmorning papers arrivecock crow amid owl's hootsmorning papers arrivedaybreak gardner tending flowerslovers sprawled in embracespring... through bonfirethe rising Gurgaon skylinehuddled workers starnite overworkers roll up red carpetsback to reality child vendorse...
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| bimal raj | 15:37 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (195)
| City: Chengannur
| Interests: writing,painting,...
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| SMILES TO REMEMBER |
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| The first smile I remember is my mother’s, when I was two, too young,That was the day, all celebrated my second birthday, she was very happy,I remember her face, a happy mother’s face, with a smile of satisfaction, likeEvery mother’s smile, when she watches and feels happy of their kids. The second smile I remember is father’s smile when I called h...
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| Lovely Views | 19:20 | 3/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (214)
| City: Delhi
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| Why Kiev is a HOT Destination!!!!!! |
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| My couple of visits to Ukraine in recent months have been quite an experience. I was going to a country I knew hardly anything about. In hindsight it was good that I was totally in the dark about Ukraine as the place gave me a pleasant surprise. I traveled to Kiev (capital of Ukraine) on KLM, which flies’ there via Schipol Airport in Amsterdam. The...
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| Renu Ayyar | 16:13 | 12/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: Mumbai
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| Adieu.. |
| Dear iLanders, Sometimes, in life priorities change…what matters the most to you become secondary or perhaps redundant!‘Normal’ becomes boring, mundane and very off-beat!!! And as always,’ Change’ becomes the only constant in our lives….!!!! All of us understand that excess of anything is always bad, injurious & harmful to health. Yet, we commit t...
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| RAGHUPAT | 09:58 | 9/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (119)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: "I dare to dream"...
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| love is not.............. |
| Love is Not......... ......... Love is not body that feels attraction, It comes from soul divine,That is a part of God Divine,That lights your body and mineLove is not friendship based on mind,It is Holy soul indeed,That unites the mind of similar thoughts,So you get joy and peace,Love is not blind without a logic,It is a soul, you fool,That sees ...
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| PAULAMI DAM | 12:11 | 10/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (186)
| City: Raiganj
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| KISIKO VOOLNA ASAN NEHI HOTA |
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| Hello FRIENDS, MAI AUP LOGOSE EK BAHAT JARURI BAT KAH NA CHAHTI HU. Mai jab is Iland pe nai ayithi , tab meri sabse pahli dost thi "KRANTI" Mai inko sabse pahle " Add me as a Friend " request bheji thi. Next din maine dekhi ki bo mujhe ACCEPT karli . Aur uske sath unune mujhe kuchh likhhke vi veja. Mai bo dekhkar bahat kush huyi. Ab meri karib k...
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| Chirag Kothari | 10:56 | 24/May/2008 |
| Friends: (82)
| City: Mumbai
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| || Amisha Patel - Thoda Pyar Thoda Magic... |
| Saif & Amisha ka tashanhttp://full2fun. com/viewPhoto. php?fileID= 13255Wet & Wildhttp://full2fun. com/viewPhoto. php?fileID= 13254Hai Hai ye majboorihttp://full2fun. com/viewPhoto. php?fileID= 13253Black & White - Rani & Amishahttp://full2fun. com/viewPhoto. php?fileID= 13256Meri chunari mein laga daag hai..isliye amisha hi tumhare liye saif hai.....
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| Silkysmooth | 18:42 | 19/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (27)
| City: Bahrain
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| telefon to GOD...!!!!!!!!!! |
| Contact HeavenMost of us have now learned to live only with telefon, Mobile fon , voice mail, internet telefony etc as a necessary part of our lives. Technology as it develops , sometimes causes us impatience ,of late in most of the instances particularly when we are over fon trying to reach someone quickly.We need everything to be done instantane...
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| karamal giri | 15:57 | 12/May/2008 |
| Friends: (3)
| City: Bangalore
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| Needed Solution |
| Dear, Its deeply feels your effort to improve situation of people sufferingcrime,HIV AIDS.I Love to suggest why they become reason for crime.What was basic reason for HIV AIDS than sexual intercourse.What was the reason for their indiscriminated sex. How it can be face as same as giving shelter to Person suffering HIV A...
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| Phalguni Pan... | 11:35 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (22)
| City: Pune
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| Homeopathy is healing system which treats illness by stimulating body 's own immune system . own abilities to make itself well, based on the principle of "like cures like.Homeopathy treats diseases but people. The concept of diseases is a convenient approach for collecting together the information about common patterns of symptoms, so that ...
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| Shweta | 09:57 | 11/Feb/2008 |
| Friends: (52)
| City: Pune
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| Insane Suicide |
| I am unable to accept the fact "Death" as and when I hear that someone has died i keep on thinking on the same fact for days together . I know that where there is Life there is Death, still I am unable to accept.Yesterday I heard the death of 8year old girl who committed suicide yes suicide . Isnt it Hurting. In our parental Village their was a lad...
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| Guddu | 20:47 | 5/Jan/2008 |
| Friends: (17)
| City: Kolkata
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| Happy New Year |
| Happy New Year 2008Wish every one a very Happy New Year , with good health n wealth. May God bestow His Divine Bliss to my fellow ilanders who reading my post now.I would like to request to my fellow Ilanders to suggest new year resolution for me .Thank u Would b back very soon with a blog reflecting my personal experience.Have a nice .Take Care....
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| suresh sharma | 14:34 | 26/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (52)
| City: Jaipur
| Interests: music religion
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| take me away iam not me. ihave been lost. i do not know why iam here. what i want ,what iam doing and what is my purpose
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| Shalini K | 01:07 | 24/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (260)
| City: Singapore
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| Taboo words |
| Yesterday morning I overheard my 6 year old son say "Stupid" and immediately my 4 year old daughter said in an almost threatening tone "Ho-ho, you said a bad word. I am going to tell Amma." Yes, "stupid" is a taboo word in my home. Call me "stupid" but I believe that the word is one of the most demoralisng words that can be used on another person ...
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| anjali | 10:01 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (80)
| City: same planet
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| the other side of the coin |
| She was smarter and more confident than other children of her own age(at least people used to feel so)as in the age when generally the children use to go market with their parents and purchase things according to the choice of parents , she was the one in her family who was responsible to make the list for monthly needs , go to the nearest and p...
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| Ranjeet | 18:00 | 24/May/2008 |
| Friends: (7)
| City: Jaipur
| Interests: music and singing
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| Give me answer: Agar ankhein milne k baad 2 or 2 = 4 ho jati hai To 2 dil milne k baad 1 kyun ho jata hai
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| Insignifican... | 11:22 | 20/May/2008 |
| Friends: (61)
| City: DreamLand
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| No Ordinary People |
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| Walking on the road, you pass so many people. Some look confident, purposeful, well-dressed and well-maintained. But the majority appears so ordinary, wear ill-fitting clothes, unfashionable footwear, have too much fat or too little, nothing remarkable about them, nothing attractive. But yet: Someone somewhere eagerly waits for this unimpres...
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| neekie | 18:26 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (214)
| City: Mumbai
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| yeh kaisi aadat hei |
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| गुलज़ 66;र साँस लेना भी कैसी आदत है जीये जाना भी क्या रवायत है क...
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| Mahesh Patwa... | 13:00 | 29/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (233)
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| Euro fever |
| How much does the game actually capture the imagination of our public? Apart from pockets in the country, like Kolkatta and Kerala, does it really fire up people in other parts of the nation? You can see kids kicking a football around with great enthusiasm but does it really equal the maniacal craze that the game of cricket generates? No.. but stil...
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| ant r | 18:08 | 13/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (203)
| City: Calcutta
| Interests: Just a girl.. duh!
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| The other side.. |
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| Location: Yarpur Slum, Patna, Bihar Average Daily Income per household: Less than Rs 50 Access to Basic Services: Nil Nutrition: 1 meal a day Smile: Intact, Unadulterated
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| anuradha aseem | 02:26 | 3/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (138)
| City: Kolkata
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| friendship day |
| Heres wishing all my rediffilander friends a Happy Friendship Day,a friend is a blessing from the Almighty,only a blessed man can have a true friend. Friendship is the most precious relationship,and it has to be nurtured with great care, it is the only relationship, that stands by us without any personal benefit,or selfish reasons.We must pray fo...
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| lonely | 10:47 | 20/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (344)
| City: Hyderabad
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| Far away from reality..!!! |
| Yester day while watching TV there was an advertisement that caught my attention.. I think most of u people have seen that. It is an advertisement of some **** water purifier, where there was a guy in a desert collapsed on his knee becoz of dehydration. Some people near to him observe and rush towards that guy and offering some water. If suppose u...
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| kim agrawal | 11:18 | 8/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (221)
| City: Raipur
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| कुदरत की कोख में, जीवन का सौंदरî 1;य कब, कहाँ और कैसे रंग भरने लगत...
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| Meena Ballal | 21:02 | 3/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (14)
| City: Mumbai
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| Examination Special !!!!!! |
| Three Examinations special 1) Special offer....... . Bring a chit on exam day, scratch and show it to your nearest teacher and win free trip to Principal's office and enjoy 3 years vacation at home.Hurry offer valid until exams only....2) It takes 15 trees to produce the amount of paper that we use to write our exam once (excluding supplementary) ....
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| shikha | 17:13 | 11/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (63)
| City: Dreamland
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| Me, as a part of you.... |
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| If I could be any part of you, I would be your tear...... To be conceived in your heart, Born in your eyes, Live on your cheeks, & die on your lips!
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| asha wilson | 11:40 | 21/May/2008 |
| Friends: (21)
| City: Cochin
| Interests: reading,music..
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| Poor Wall Clock |
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| Yesterday My Dad repaired our Old Wall Clock.Actually when it started ringin',den only I just remembered of it.!Poor Clock.I wondered Y we didn't noticed the poor clock for so many years...Coz when I was a child my routine was based on dat clock....Means its ringin'...It rememberd each moments of our life with its gentle tic-tic..& hourly 'dindong'...
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| ashish | 17:27 | 23/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (56)
| City: Delhi
| Interests: music
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| join orkut |
| hi everybody, join www.orkut.com its great fun..................................
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| A M Daniel | 17:35 | 21/May/2008 |
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| BE A RIGHT PERSON |
| When the Person Is RightOne rainy Sunday afternoon, a little boy was bored and his father was sleepy. The father decided to create an activity to keep the kid busy. So, he found in the morning newspaper a large map of the world. He took scissors and cut it into a good many irregular shapes like a jigsaw puzzle. Then he said to his son, "See if you ...
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| smita gupta | 20:36 | 9/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (110)
| City: Jaipur
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| Question - ??? |
| Read this question, come up with an answer and then scroll down to the bottom for the result. This is not a trick question. It is as it reads. A woman, while at the funeral of her own mother, meets a guy whom she did not know. She thought this guy was simply 'amazing', very much of her dream guy, she believed him to be just that! She f...
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| RANJANA BISWAS | 21:12 | 27/Mar/2008 |
| Friends: (7)
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| Are we so fragile |
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| Are we so weak and fragile that we fall like autumn leaves.Then why ,why , Amit killed his wife Rinku??A simple talk ........may be having a touch of romance in it made him take such a drastic step.Who r we to blame??????????The life style? The 24x7 job pattern!!!!!!!!!Long hours of separation betwe...
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| Tanishka | 15:45 | 14/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (165)
| City: Dehradun
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| YOUR LOVE IS MY happiness |
| What became my sweet life when the distant reality surpassed the intimate fantasy in an act of true love. Only I just remember your kisses to re-flavor as butterflies revolote all over my body. Do not feel again your hands and anxious sleepers if both pleasure and joy I rose to the sky. Still hear your laughter of children such laughter that fascin...
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| A S | 21:53 | 23/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (461)
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| Am off to Bangalore |
| Well folks, i am off to Bangalore tomorrow. I take off at the unearthly hour of 7.50 a.m. which means that i have to leave my house at 6.30, while all of you'll are busy snoozing!! :(I will be in Bangalore all of this week. (Come back on sat morning) and though i already have way too many outstation friends a few more can not hurt. :) so anyone w...
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| Happiness | 01:26 | 20/Apr/2008 |
| Friends: (30)
| City: Blue Planet
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| Autumn in Auckland |
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| Autumn or is it winter ?Its very cold .The leaves are turning brown and daylight saving has ended.The day starts earlier which is always welcome.Its lovely to welcome the morning sunshineThe grapefruit tree and the mandarin tree are laden with fruit all over and in a month are two will be all golden and juicy to be enjoyed.Each year i distribute s...
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