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 naina chopra | 20:52 | 10/Feb/2008
Friends: (71)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: music,reading quo...
When Things Go Wrong When things don't work out the way we want them to, we maintain our faith by shrugging our shoulders & saying.... "God works in mysterious ways"  more...
 kartik shriv... | 19:11 | 12/Feb/2008
Friends: (461)  | City: Bhopal  | Interests: Software Engineer...
sirf tum............
छीतीज़ से छीतीज़ तक बस तुम ही तुम हो,तुम 81;हारी इन झील से गहरी आँख...  more...
 nocturnal cr... | 10:03 | 4/Oct/2007
Friends: (64)  | City: Gwalior  | Interests: chemistry,bloggin...
fast life
There are songs that come from the blue-eyed grass,From the dust of a thousand country roads,From footprints in white sand.Aboriginals call it 'songlines'-Mapping steps through the silk route of time.If only, we could pause,And hear the songs around.The one on our shoulder,The one on autumn's last leaf.On monsoon's first rain drop—Riding on a butte...  more...
 Elisabeth | 11:38 | 20/Feb/2008
Friends: (291)  | City: Amsterdam  | Interests: painting,drawing,...
NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES ( PART 4)
                   "Flight to Heaven" - Jeroen Bosch (Dutch painter) 1450-1516 Maybe one of theDr. Pim van Lommel                                                                   first artistic imaginations Cardiologist (Retired)                                                                    of near-death experiences!Division of Cardiology, Rijn...  more...
 Joseph Antony | 03:32 | 21/Feb/2008
Friends: (428)  | City: Kottayam,Changanacherry  | Interests: reading,movies, f...
" When............. "
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 Chanchal Nis... | 14:03 | 23/Jan/2008
Friends: (138)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Solitude
Good Bye and Take Care
Free like a BirdI fly away from hereLeaving all that’s mineBreaking away from illusionsIn search of new dimensionsTo explore the unseenThat’s wrapped in time Free like a BirdI fly away from hereSlipping out of your gripsTo find my destiny for myselfSeeking salvation in the far landTo find the real meI had kept in disguise Free like a BirdI fly away...  more...
 roopesh pras... | 00:29 | 3/Dec/2007
Friends: (10)  | City: Coimbatore  | Interests: I am not an Eunuc...
How Crazy r u / ll b in romance ?
Recently I started a thread in a forum with the above topic and posted the following fantasies of mine :1. Observe fasts for him2. Decorate my home with fragrant candles n tasty foods 2 welcome him on a special day 3. Will make his name my e-mail password or share an account with him with our names joined as id4. Write his name in my palm, switch o...  more...
 Silent Words | 22:30 | 6/Nov/2007
Friends: (79)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Writing, Reading,...
Celebrations & Festivals
A wonderful diwali to everyone in advance as most likely things will get so haywire and busy that I won't find the time to write. Planning to have a wonderful diwali and all other upcoming festivals. Want to make the celebrations a remembrance for them...leave them with very very happy memories. Am planning on telling Gaurav soon perhaps in January...  more...
 star | 18:33 | 8/Nov/2007
Friends: (35)  | City: galaxy  | Interests: Being THE star* o...
Happy diwali
Dear Friends, Wish you all a very happy Diwali..I am blogging from my main id star trekker.So my friends here please add star trekker id as your friend. Regards, star Star            more...
 Ishan Arora | 22:37 | 13/Feb/2008
Friends: (147)  | City: Jullundhar  | Interests: Muzik,musik,....n...
Happy VALENTINE's DAY
I wish all my i-land friends........very happy VALENTINE' s DAY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    more...
 Sandeep Ozarde | 10:47 | 26/Oct/2007
Friends: (618)  | City: Bombay  | Interests: BREAKFAST: Assam ...
The Real Shopping-Cart Revolution
Five hundred years of progress packed into a sack of flour.By J. Bradford DeLong, Wired MagHere's some food for thought.A smart shopper can buy a 5-pound bag of Gold Medal flour for 69 cents. That's enough to feed three people for a day - 7,500 easy-to-digest, relatively nutritious, and potentially tasty calories. All for less than 0.7 percent of a...  more...
 Uday Sodhi | 13:06 | 18/Jan/2008
Friends: (221)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Internet, Travel,...
Jagjit Singh Prem Geet
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 Rakshita Verma | 16:08 | 19/Sep/2007
Friends: (392)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: jokes, poetry, pu...
Ghazal
     Sab kuchh apne saath le aayi hunKuchh yun zindagi baant aayi hun Ek mutthi hansi, ek katra aansuEk naya chehra maang laayi hun Kuch tukde khayaalon ke samet keHar fikra se bekhayaal ho aayi hun  Rishton ke tokre se is baarPhir apna naam chhaant laayi hun Zameen se thokar kha ke mainAb ek parat aasmaan laayi hun Ek dibbi bhar ke khushi seGham k...  more...
 A Meet | 00:12 | 26/Jan/2008
Friends: (264)  | City: New Delhi  | Interests: hayaa aur hayaat
dua ka asar
masroof yun hai meri zindagiki tanha nahin kabhi rehta mainbheed itni hai mere ird gird kisannate ko kahin chhod aaya maindil bhi rootha dost bhi chhootamujhse mera bachpan chhootaitni sard kyun hai muskaan meriye kis mukaam pe aaya maindost ne saath na chhodachaahe saath chalte nahin ab aasaanmauka milna to uski inaayat haihar mod pe usko mil paay...  more...
 ratna rajaiah | 21:52 | 12/Feb/2008
Friends: (303)  | Interests: reading, writing,...
Sepia - a poem
Do you dieWhen you die Or when the memory Of you Begins to fade...  more...
 monu g | 11:57 | 3/Feb/2008
Friends: (175)  | City: This Heavenly Planet  | Interests: To Live Life To I...
Thoughts on THOUGHTS
Strange are the ways of thinking & stranger still the thoughts... The eternal business that our mind keeps itself engaged in 24 x 7...  They don’t have a self unless, one gives them a shape, a shape they can acquire when given a name... But strange enough as soon as they get a name, they are categorized as Good or Bad... Love is Good, Hatred is bad...  more...
 Nischalson C... | 23:14 | 11/Feb/2008
Friends: (299)  | City: iland  | Interests: i am not that tal...
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no comment. q: actually, i'm more stressed during the raksha bandhan day... q: love | nischal (:  more...
 ahsan ghori | 15:11 | 27/Jan/2008
Friends: (389)  | City: Thiruvananthapuram  | Interests: Tennis my passion...
Jay Walkers
Educate them first 25 January 2008I THINK the best way to create awareness about the dangers of jaywalking is to first educate the people about its consequences. Jaywalkers endanger their own life as well as those of others, especially surprised motorists.Once awareness is created then fines and penalties can be imposed if people continue breaking ...  more...
 Isha Dixit | 13:39 | 10/Oct/2007
Friends: (90)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Travel, reading, ...
I found My ANGEL
…Puff…………. The Marijuana, dissolving and liberating, cathartic and somber…into the lungs, into the blood streams, straight to the head.. The young boy, though had not eaten a good meal in days, was ecstatic for he could see stars in the mid noon. His head felt heavy, but nevertheless good. And he levitated. That’s how he felt, six feet above the gr...  more...
 Vish R | 20:40 | 28/Nov/2007
Friends: (60)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Football cooking ...
Matrimonial Blues
  "Hello...""Hi buddy.Wassup?""First congratulate me...""What for? Gotta a pay hike?""I got engaged man..."         ...i got engaged man... i got engaged man...( Its an echo for dramatic effect)I couldnt believe my ears.The words kept ringing like a pathetic free ringtone one downloads when half drunk."Whats the big deal?" i kept questioning myself...  more...
 rekha kumar | 05:54 | 18/Feb/2008
Friends: (131)  | City: ajmer  | Interests: singing, reading,...
Sindoori si saji rahoon....
Ek subhaa hai jo har rose ayegi Ek suraj hai jo roshni bikher raha Umeed ka daman le ayaa hai Yun is tarah se jindagi main Us daman ko pakad rehi Logon ki kami nahi thi Sirf pyar sa paya, Phir bhi adhura sa lagta Aap ke aane se pyar parosna seekha Umeed hai is pyar ke kabil bani rahoon Ardhangani ban kar saji rahoon... Sindoori si saji rahoon.... © Rekha Kumar  more...
 febin joy | 06:22 | 17/Feb/2008
Friends: (392)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Music, Drawing, P...
Making a Softbox at home
Hi friends,I’ve read in some website long ago about making a softbox.. I didn’t try it @ that time and forgot about it. This month’s smart photography magazine contains an article on soft box and I thought of making one myself. It’s very simple and very cheap. I just thought of sharing  it with you guys.RequirementsOne cardboard boxButter paper/Tra...  more...
 parag jain | 20:44 | 5/Dec/2006
Friends: (32)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Creative writing ...
A must read.
When 27-year old Sarathbabu graduated from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he created quite a stir by refusing a job that offered him a huge salary. He preferred to start his own enterprise -- Foodking Catering Service -- in Ahmedabad. He was inspired by his mother who once sold idlis on the pavements of Chennai, to educate him and h...  more...
 Siddarth-The... | 12:50 | 22/Jan/2008
Friends: (136)  | City: Madurai  | Interests: Anything under th...
Mirror, mirror on the wall
I am what you call a khabri,a person who passeson information to the police on the location and whereabouts of mygangster boss. Yes, like the old Hindi movies, I too had a widowedmother and a young sister who was unmarried despite being of the age todo so.I had to take odd jobs as I was ‘uneducated’, (not educated enough to work in a blue collar jo...  more...
 Khushi A | 00:22 | 4/Feb/2008
Friends: (80)  | City: Michigan  | Interests: Poetry, blog writ...
Affsos
Pyaar karta hun par bataa nahi saktaHaq rakhta hun par jataa nahi saktaAaina bhi dekhun to nazar aati ho tumKhayalon se tumko hataa nahi saktaMere khwabon ki taabeer, tumeh saraah nahi saktaMere dil ki jaageer, tumeh paa nahi saktaKhudah se badhkar hai kuch azeezon ki marzichaah kar bhi khilaaf main jaa nahi saktaHadd se zyada hai tumse mohabbat, p...  more...
 Saurin Parikh | 16:48 | 11/Apr/2007
Friends: (124)  | City: Ahmedabad  | Interests: Sunrise & Sunset ...
The Male Ego & Women’s Liberation
My wife got a job that pays her more than what I earn. I was telling a friend about it and she asked me if my ego would get in the way of my wife’s progress. She didn’t ask me in a harsh way, but it was the most obviously apparent question to that piece of information. For long, our society has been male dominated. And it still is; but in parts. Th...  more...
 Ajay Sattikar | 12:00 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (124)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: music, sports, ou...
Love and Maths
( when maths teacher writes love letter )My Dear SweetHeart, Yesterday, I was passing by your rectangular house in trigonometric lane. There I saw you with our cute circular face,conical nose and spherical eyes,standing in your triangular garden.  Before seeing you my heart was a null set, but when a vector of magnitude (likeness) from your eyes at...  more...
 kala Subrama... | 11:42 | 6/Aug/2007
Friends: (53)  | City: Siliguri  | Interests: financial plannin...
Happy friendship day!!!
"I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship." -- Pietro Aretino (1537) Happy Friendship Day to all my iland friends!!!  more...
 Debasish Cha... | 05:47 | 1/Mar/2007
Friends: (118)  | City: Delray Beach, Florida,USA  | Interests: Browsing, Network...
Effort
There is a little story...that teaches a lot... A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine. Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young boy. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went ...  more...
 Licensed Pirate | 06:29 | 21/Feb/2008
Friends: (320)  | City: kuala lumpur  | Interests: Blogging.surfing ...
Big Mistake
Conservative Member of Parliament Geoffrey Dickens tells of attending a fair in his constituency and being followed around by a sweet but exceptionally ugly woman whom he couldn't get rid of. A few days later he got an admiring letter from her asking for his photograph, and signed, after her name, "(Horseface)." Dickens was touched by her humorous ...  more...
 Dheeraj Khanna | 21:15 | 19/Aug/2007
Friends: (338)  | Interests: cricket, movies, ...
The Bourne Series...... download now!!
The Bourne Ultimatum has turn out to be huge this summer in Hollywood. So I thought, why not give a tribute to that great spy-master Robert Ludlum who created Bourne and made him a delicious character, an anti-thesis of James Bond.So I give you the The Bourne Trilogy. Now available for download.Go ahead, get ready for a thrilling ride.Downloand the...  more...
 Baldeo Pandey | 21:51 | 23/Jan/2008
Friends: (1199)  | City: Chandigarh  | Interests: Trust ...
My First Love
When I saw her smiling,She was a stranger for me....Quite tender and innocent....I started creeping towards her....Now she was my destination,My thirst and hunger.....My days and nights...Her arms were my gateways...I lived her every moment....She was mine....It might be one way traffic,I loved her......Her rosy lips invited me.....I kised her,Bles...  more...
 Dhee Kar | 14:36 | 30/Jun/2007
Friends: (43)  | City: India  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
INSPIRATIONS
"Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal."Give to yourself the highest of expectations. And all the while, be patient with yourself as well. Know for certain that you are surely born to do great things. And know also that real value takes time a...  more...
 Ash K | 23:42 | 6/Oct/2007
Friends: (119)  | City: --  | Interests: Reading, Food, Mo...
Daffodils -
Althought my tryst with the world of words, prose, similes, metaphors, euphemisms and literature began with the advent of i-land, I also owe part of this passionate endeavour to the poem penned by William Wordsworth. The poem is plain and simple, yet has a style which is unique and one of its kind, hard to emulate kinds. Stumbled upon this poem on ...  more...
 vicky podiz | 12:47 | 11/Jun/2007
Friends: (49)  | Interests: Blogging , video ...
17 years ago !
A big hello to everyone!  Its been a long break from rediff iland and I hope the citizens of rediff iland would pardon me for the long absence considering my new marriage status !  When I was digging into a pile of old files and papers , I found some interesting piece of papers ! It was written on Feb , 1990 . 17 years back !  17 years back there w...  more...
 Cajetan Vaz | 21:33 | 6/Jan/2008
Friends: (1137)  | City: Goa  | Interests: silence
how far back can you remember?
13:27 | 15/Mar/2007 | 37 Comment(s)               How far back can you remember? Some of my oldest memories - Tripping and hurting my knee on my way to nursery - My first day...  more...
 Apurba Sen | 13:13 | 21/Oct/2007
Friends: (73)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Trend Spotting,SE...
"Jab We Met" vs "Saawariya"
Here is how the movies are competing in blogosphere."Jab We Met" will be released  on this Friday Oct 26th & "Saawariya" on next Friday Nov 9th.I must say its neck-to-neck.Going by  IndiaFm music reviews "Jab We Met" [3.5] has slight edge over Leela Bhansali's "Saawariya" [3].When I heard "Tum se Hi",I simply loved the track.Although to much of my ...  more...
 Sandhya Suri | 21:47 | 21/Jan/2008
Friends: (656)  | City: Jaipur  | Interests: Life
Smirk
Wandering…The dark alleys of the mind’s deepest corridorsResounding… Crying…Grasping the folds of the silken shawl of memoriesSearching… Seeking…Truths too bitter to tell, too smattered with the bloodSpreading… Covering…Hiding the realities, the ignorant bliss of a heartless mindSalvaging… Begging…For redemption from the knowledge that defies the s...  more...
 Shikha Walia | 18:55 | 4/Jan/2008
Friends: (105)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: listening to musi...
WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR   more...
 Sue | 02:13 | 25/Jul/2007
Friends: (446)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: relationship, bei...
Separation and Travel
 Traveling to distant places is perhaps one of the most exciting things that could happen to me. I enjoy traveling and visiting places. It has always been my dream and I coveted a job that would include travel once in a while. But strange how motherhood changes everything. I have to travel to USA for work, and whenever I have this opportunity, I st...  more...
 friendly ghost | 21:59 | 11/Feb/2008
Friends: (347)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Our economists & ...
Channa God
Channa God There is much that I am learning from my son, my spirit friend, my guru Sri Sri Gattu Swami.  Early in 2007, he coined a new word, “channa”. Channa initially meant ‘cute animal’ -- like a kitten, puppy or a pet rat. “Eyy-yy, what a channa anee-muhl! It is so tutti-tutti!” Gattu and his sister would say in an ecstacy as they handled a cut...  more...
 alpana | 22:56 | 14/Feb/2008
Friends: (255)  | City: NOIDA  | Interests: painting, reading...
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 mini francis | 11:38 | 18/Aug/2007
Friends: (251)  | City: delhi  | Interests: Kids, Reading,
LUNCH WITH GOD
hi, friends, a forward just come to my way, thot to share with u.A little boy wanted to meet God. He knew it was a long trip to where God lived, so he packed his suitcase with a bag of potato chips and a six-pack of root beer and started his journey. When he had gone about three blocks, he met an old woman. She was sitting in the park, just staring...  more...
 Shailey | 14:23 | 26/Nov/2007
Friends: (55)  | City: Faridabad  | Interests: Life is beautiful
Thanks & Bye
Doston, Bahut dino tak aap logo ka sath raha, bahut izzat aur bahut pyaar mila aap logo se, par ab kuch karno se aap sabhi se izazat leti hu.... is vade ke sath ki wapas aaoungi ek din.... ek nayee jindagi ki shuruat ki khabar liye.... Aap sabhi ko mera bahut bahut shukriya.... Love Shailey      more...
 Madhavan PK | 18:00 | 19/Feb/2008
Friends: (354)  | Interests: Books, crossword,...
When a man loves a woman
I read numerous valentine billboards, messages, commercials, cards and suddenly remembered this song, " when a man loves a woman". When I looked up google search, I also saw this lovely piece by Latimer. I post the lyrics of the Percy Sledge song  and the write up by Leah Latimer. "The best thing a man can do for his children is to love their mothe...  more...
 anoo k | 11:15 | 12/Feb/2008
Friends: (310)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: Music,singing,ske...
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i am hurt,bruised,shaken...have nobody to blame but myself...guess am too weak a person,too sensitive,too damn impractical to survive in this world...have to learn...have to learn to be brutal,scathing,heartless,cold,menacing...have to learn to not let people take me for granted...have to learn to give back without crying...  more...
 Joy Kaidharath | 09:07 | 21/Nov/2007
Friends: (1462)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Social upliftment
This MAY BE LAST POST FROM ME, IT ALL WI...
This may be my last post, depending on the out come of the decision of Justice Radhakrishnan and Justice Dalvi at 2.30 p.m.  Case detail is given in the image which is given at the end.If this is the last post, then see you in the next world (if what the religions teach is truth).  If not, then it does not make any difference, because then, we will...  more...
 A S | 19:18 | 6/Feb/2008
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