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Frustrating
This is a rant ..... just trying to see if it helps relieve any stress ...... ( more ) -
Taj Mahal
Yesterday my movie-buddy and I watched "Taj Mahal" at the local multiplex. Since I don't have access to the Indian satellite channels, I am no longer bombarded with trailers and songs from movies before they are released. This means everything is fresh and new. I don't know how much "Taj Mahal" was hyped in India ...... from what I could see, the ( Read more... ) -
Iraq
"Nobody was beheaded or killed," a defiant Bayan Jabr told a news conference Thursday, saying that only seven of 170 detainees showed marks of torture.
"Those detainees, those criminal killers inside the bunker were not Indians or Pakistanis or Iranians," he said, waving a stack of passports in the air. "Those are your Arab brothers that came here ( Read more... ) -
Deepavali ....
... as seen from Airport Road in Bangalore. The building in the picture is the Leela .... all lit up and pretty :)
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Asatoma Sadgamaya
This week I heard an interesting story at the Toastmasters meeting ( Read more... ) -
Shades of Autumn
Saw a man dressed as Frankenstein in the grocery store ........ egad it was awesome !! He wasnt wearing a mask but had great makeup on. This made it all the more real. My heart skipped a beat when I first saw him. If I ever wear a costume, thats the effect I would like to have. Brilliant stuff ( Read more... ) -
Lost my gray jacket ...
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Off to the east next week ...
Months of hard work and three weeks of deep dedication ...... and its time has come ! We are taking our baby (a new feature) to the network labs next week for testing. This is exciting on many fronts. One fallout has been that I get new equipment with more mobility. Hopefully the tests will go off well and we wont have too many issues :D People who ( Read more... ) -
The Rising.
There were men and women before us. We know they lived and died. We can only imagine what their strengths, their weaknesses, their motivations were. Its easy to read from textbooks and not truly feel that they were human too. Yes they were. Not everything is black and white. Not everything is as simple as the textbooks make them out to be. It is ( Read more... ) -
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"September 11 for me was a wake up call. Do you know what I think the problem is? That a lot of the world woke up for a short time and then turned over and went back to sleep again,"
- Tony Blair
Think again Mr Blair. The world does not wake up when Americans or Brits die. Maybe Americans and Brits do. The world is filled with many many many ( Read more... )