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Gut feel over logical reasoning
(Have not been active here, and do most of my posting on twitter Today I wanted to write something, which is tough to fit into 140 characters, so here I am.)
When making an important decision, I think it is better to go with gut-feel than with logical reasoning, especially when the choice is a close call.
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Our angel & life update
On 26th February 8.44pm our angel took her first breath.
This marked the end of a very eventful, challenging & interesting 9 months in our lives and is the beginning of a lot more interesting, challenging & happy-fying life ahead.
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Door darshan serials from 80's and 90's
I was remembering Chanakya the TV serial based on the life of a great scholar and politician, and started looking on youtube. I was glad to find a lot of those videos uploaded mostly by this user.
Finding this gave me enough motivation & incentive to look for other serials from the old days.
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25 things
25 things (tagged by rileen on Facebook)
Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
1. I loved playing sports, especially ( Read more... ) -
Remedies for common cold
Here are 2 remedies for common cold that have worked well for me.
Those who have known me well, would know that I am very vulnerable to a cold and most of my engineering days & a little later too - I almost always had a cold. You would see me with a jacket in summers, and friends cracked numerous jokes about my love for the handkerchief...
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Back to blogging
With my last post on asthma, I am back to blogging.
A few weeks back, I had decided to separate tweets & blogs and also decided that I will resume active blogging.
You can follow my tweets here.
I did not want to post this resolution till I made a real post.
For the few of you who still hang out here or syndicate me, thanks! and leave a note if ( Read more... ) -
Asthma and Bangalore
This is my story about asthma in Bangalore.
I have had intermittent asthma since childhood, typically once or twice a year at most.
It was never too severe & I managed mostly using homeopathic medicines.
I moved to Bangalore in 1998, and then it started getting more frequent & worse. In 2000 I was advised the Asthalin rotohaler, first as an SOS & then ( Read more... ) -
Asthma & Bangalore asthmatics
I just created a group for Bangalore Asthmatics.
The group is meant to enable sharing of experiences, remedies and advise from folks who suffer or have suffered from this ailment.
If you are / were suffering from Asthma in Bangalore, do join in.
My own asthma story is specific to Bangalore:
Whenever I am travelling, whether it is to Jaipur, Hyderabad ( Read more... ) -
It is easy to point finger on others but takes courage to accept our mistakes and correct our own se
Just received an email from a friend Arun, and I think it puts things in much better perspective than most things I have read recently.
In a time when we seek solutions from the government & blame countries & religions, its good to pause & look within ...
With his permission, here is the email:
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Barkha dutt's excuse - there were no rules, so we did not break any
Barkha Dutta responded to the various critics
(I wrote this as a comment to that post, but it grew big enough for me to put it here)
Essence of what Barkha says - "Because there were no rules in place, we could not have broken any".
Proves to us viewers that you have no conscience or intellect that tells you what is right and what is wrong.
Its this ( Read more... )
