tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-181668292024-03-08T04:50:29.395+05:30DAYLIGHT AGAINraufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-31134762336335144402012-01-23T18:00:00.001+05:302012-01-23T18:02:53.616+05:30JONATHAN LIVINGSTON<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Its been a while. This post is not annoying, let me assure you.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't want to get back to the blog with an annoying post.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That will come later.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Its dark in there, and there is no light in Daylight Again, covered by over grown weed,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>tall grass surrounding it.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Leave it alone i thought. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>But i want to live there without clearing the weed and cutting the grass.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i still have a lot to tell you</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>will it stop ? Even when no one wants to listen to me ?</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh ! He's looking at me wondering what i am doing</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Two kinds of seagulls here, i am not an expert, they are seagulls i think.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Just flying across, with no apparent purpose. Just flying back and forth, go soaring high and dive all of a sudden. Rising again inches above the water. Go up again, fly across, disappear, come back darting again.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Same routine, just flying for fun. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i saw nearly all the seagulls behave like Jonathan Livingston. They just fly, darting across, up and down, disappear and reappear. Wonder if they have read the book.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Have you read the book ? i shout</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What book ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Jonathan Livingston.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Oh Richard Bach ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>yes.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We don't have to, we all are Jonathan Livingstons here. He shouts</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yes i see that, i shout back. </b></span></div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They are so fast. Its like they dart across with near lightning speed. i fail to capture them in the camera most of the time. i get only the tail or part of a wing in the picture.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We all want to be different from others. But can't afford to be too different when we live in a society.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>98% of the world population are followers. They follow something or the other, Myths, religion, philosophy.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>humans are programmed to follow by the natural selection. Its safer to live in groups or a society and you can't afford to stay away or be too different from the others.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Only 2% have the courage to be rational. </b></span></div></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>When she has to pay 100 rupees for onions, she is not going to smile any more. With oil prices gone up, the cost of all the essential commodities have gone soaring high.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who has wiped the smile from her face ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>President Barack Obama.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He does not deserve an inch of the Nobel prize that was thrust on him without any significant achievement in any field.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a very strange case.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This perhaps was the first time that the world accepted one person as a world leader.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He became a symbol of hope over night. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There were many expectations of him.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Perhaps that is why he was awarded a Nobel Prize expecting him to bring peace in the world and close the ever growing gap between the rich and the poor which has gone to staggering levels now.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i understand this is not easy. This can't be done in a short period.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No steps were taken in two years of Presidency</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nothing.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>First thing he was expected to do was to lower or control the oil prices, which are connected to almost everything. He couldn't control the inflation.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please remember these are the views of an outsider, i am not an American. He must have done a few good things for the US citizens, i am not concerned about that. i am talking about President Obama as a world leader.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>START did not make him a world leader either.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>START is a joke. Russia is ruled by a bunch of thugs. You can't have a treaty with them. 2000 nukes and just two nukes make no difference at all. Reduction is not a solution. And you can't control China's nukes. There is no point in START with any one. It was a waste of time and money. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Reduction in oil prices, controlling the inflation and bringing an end to the war will make him a world leader. He has less than two years to become one. He is running out of time. Unfortunately he is turning out to be just another Corporate stooge like the Presidents of past few decades.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i am angry and i have a right to be angry. Farmer's suicides, ever growing poverty, suffering and deaths due to starvation is a direct result of US policies and corporate control. Indian government also is a partner in crime. What ever happens within the US affects rest of the world. American citizens are 5% of the world population but using up 30% of the world resources. Laziness, wastage, comforts and luxury of a few is affecting rest of the world. Perhaps American citizens can afford the comforts, luxury and wastage, perhaps they can afford the oil price hike, but rest of the world can't. People are dying.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Looks like the Americans are not aware of 'rest of the world'</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>So what the Nobel prize winning President is doing to bring down the misery of 'rest of the world' ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nothing so far.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Well, he can say that i am just a President of one country, 'rest of the world' is not my responsibility.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> but you can do something to help the poor to afford one square meal a day.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>please be less dependent on oil</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>please use public transport, if you don't have, you can demand public transport in your area</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please avoid flying within the country, demand re establishment of already established network of trains.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>fast inter city trains </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i'll write about wastage in flying, this post is getting too long.</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">all my love</span></b></span></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com62tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-74327612869256879872010-12-02T16:03:00.014+05:302010-12-02T19:12:13.584+05:30BEGINNING OF THE END<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Congratulations !</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Good news ! We are going.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think the present generation would live to see the beginning of the end of human race.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is going to be fast, it will not take millions of years.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Good for the planet, Good for the animals, they'll have a party.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The monkey would dance</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is not my opinion, the experts say the same</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;">"If all the insects on earth disappeared, within 50 years all life on earth would disappear. If all humans disappeared, within 50 years all species would flourish as never before" </span><b>- Jonas Salk</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The recent WIKI LEAKS marks the beginning perhaps.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What are they doing ? they are operating from Sweden. not from a different planet. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They are aware that they are dealing with the CIA. The most powerful organisation in the world.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>so powerful that they can stop the sunrise</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you are staring at me</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>yes the CIA can stop the sun from rising</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ok. it was a bit wide, please adjust. It was just to make you understand how powerful CIA is</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>CIA can finish Wiki Leak people in a matter of seconds, but they'll make a mess of it. They are very messy people. They can finish me, they can destroy my house kill my family and my neighbour's who don't even know know what a CIA is and i would be standing outside scratching my yeddu. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>These chaps can't light a cigarette without setting the house ablaze.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Right hand does not know what the left hand is doing. Where ever they go, they leave a mess behind. What ever i know about CIA comes from various books i have read.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have not met any of them, thankfully.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Then why would Wiki Leak people take such a risk ? Unless CIA leaked the information themselves ?.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why would they do that ? except for the embarrassment, the information doesn't help any country, not even the USA. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Does it help any one ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>yes it helps the corporates to gain control over different countries. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In another 50 years we will have only corporates and no countries. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is just the beginning, beginning of the end of human race. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Corporates have near total control over USA and unfortunately people are not aware of it. They think they vote and see 120 varieties of coffee to choose from and they think they are free. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Corporate control is spreading all over the world.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> It is a bit difficult to gain control over India. No one runs India really. India runs by itself. It is not even walking. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>India is a carriage drawn by four horses going in different directions. The carriage is not going anywhere as it is too heavy with people inside resisting any movement.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think i am wrong here</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>India is actually controlled by a bunch of demented rats called astrologers,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and moonstruck cockroaches called Gurus Bhagwans and swamis. Most of the politicians go fall at their feet. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Think of four different astrologers advising our four different leaders. You can imagine the mayhem, chaos confusion gripping the country. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Part of India has been sold to the corporates by our greedy and corrupt politicians. The corporates partially control Indian agriculture now. This being the main reason for the spate of suicides among farmers. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have written about it<a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_969301362"> </a><a href="http://whitesroad.blogspot.com/2008/02/poison-globalisation.html">HERE - THE POISON - GLOBALISATION.</a></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The governments however inefficient and corrupt, are afraid of the people. The corporates are not. They own everything, they own your life.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you don't have money to buy food, you die. Simple.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This takes care of three fourths of world population, there will be mass suicides like the farmers of India. It is happening in Orissa.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There would be no racism, only useful and useless will be differentiated, not blacks and whites or browns and yellows</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>the useless have to go. the corporates can't feed the useless like me..</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>So what remains ? Only a few millions of useful people who will die in corporate wars.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There goes the human race.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
But the corporates forget one thing</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The will to survive, the fighting spirit and the willingness to sacrifice found only in humans. This will defeat the corporates.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And they forgot the power of love. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please don't worry </b></span></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com40tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-14504536077647280862010-11-16T10:24:00.015+05:302010-11-24T01:54:00.883+05:30MY FAIR LADY<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yes, you got it right, i am matrimonial. changing my profession, </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>there is money in matrimony</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Matri and money...... See ??</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Match maker is old fashioned. i am matrimonialist </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>how about matrimonializer ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Quite a mouthful it is.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Good morning</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>One Common factor in the picture above</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fair</span></span></b><b> Fair <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Fair</span></span> </b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">fair</span></span></i><b> <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fair</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fair <span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> fair, </span></i></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">we Indians are obsessed with fair skin</span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span></i></span></span></span></b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair and good looking</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair around 25</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair good looking well propertied ...Well propertied ?? deeah me !</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair professional</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>pretty slim fair tall, professionally qualified employed girl ...oops ! Tall order ! some god wants to get married i suppose</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>what else do we have heeah ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair Brahmin bride, Brahmin is a high caste Hindu</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair and beautiful, oh that is simple, thank you</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair slim preferably in US/Canada, it is getting tougher</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>9LPA Fair clean habits ? wait wait,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What ?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is THAT ? 9LPA Fair clean habits ? </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i can picture the guy wearing rubber gloves, holding a hose pipe in one hand and a can of disinfectant in the other, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hey open your mouth psssssssk, spray the disinfectant in the mouth</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>hokkay, you can talk now </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is 9LPA ?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fair and clean habits ! oh i am exhausted!</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>please don't ask me about the other code words there, i have no clue myself.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Raghu and Ketu are not two brothers seeking a fair bride. They are stars in some galaxy, something to do with astrology. Don't ask me. Its a big thing in India. . Astrology is big money here. If i don't make money in matrimony, i'll take up Astro-money. Its easy to cheat people.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What else do we have up there in the picture ??</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Divorcee Innocent ? oh ! innocent... wow, poor chap</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you are too innocent your wife will pack her things very fast and call her mom.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Then we have 'God fearing and divorced after 5 month marriage' Perhaps our friend shoved too much of fear of God down his wife's throat. She must have given him a warning.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Any more God and hell scare, i am leaving.. and she left. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>As i went along, the matrimonial classifieds were getting more and more absurd. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And this commercial is even more absurd</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>please watch this. </b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>please watch a couple of related videos as well.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>What they say is, being fair is the secret of your success. You get your dream job, you get a handsome prince if you apply their fairness cream.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why are these people dumping all the fairness creams on us spending millions on commercials promoting them ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> Because we want them and we are demanding them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't blame the manufacturers, i don't blame the insensitive and irresponsible advertising agencies. They are here just to make money. Corporates want your money, that is what they are living for. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Give them some money and tell them to make a film on how nice it is to chop the trees. They'll convince you to chop all the trees in your garden and chop all the trees in the world..</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They are smart. They are vultures. They feed on your fear, they feed on your weakness, they feed on your obsession of becoming fair, how ever harmful it may be for your skin.</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They don't care, They want your money. And you happily give it to them</span></b></span>.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is Shankari. Gorgeous she is ! She is happy with her skin. No fairness creams for her. Everybody loves her. She has lots of friends. She has a great job. Without using fairness creams. Qualification talent and experience counts in getting a job, not how fair you are. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>And This is Selvi, sweet thing, sweet by nature and no fairness creams for her either and She is beautiful </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>I wonder how many realise that dark skin is beautiful too</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fairness creams for women have been around for quite sometime now. You have some celebrities promoting fairness creams for men. Irresponsible people. Big market, big money there. Specially in India.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We are </b><span style="font-size: large;">people</span><b>, a very strange species, other species are fine, they are what they are. We the people, the strange species, don't want to be what we are.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> We are white people, black people, yellow people and brown people. We have been intolerant of each other through out our history..</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We are Indians, We are Brown people.. No, Gordon Brown is not brown, he is white but he is not Gordon White like Snow white. NO NO NO, Gordon Brown did not become white by using fairness creams, he is originally white, i mean he is Brown, he was born white but became Brown. And he is still Brown.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>There is racism within Indians, within fair skinned and within dark skinned. Racism of the worst kind</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i told you we are a very strange species. And fairness cream is not an answer to racism..</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> Even if you get seven dwarfs as your side kicks you can't become a Snow White using fairness creams. </b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are these fairness creams ?</span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>We have a pigment called melanin which makes our skin dark. Less melanin makes the skin lighter. Secretion of Melanin blocks skin cancer and sunburns. Less cases of skin cancer in black and brown people. Fairness cream bleaches the skin, and blocks the secretion of melanin making the skin lighter. not good for the skin. We in tropical countries are exposed to very harsh sun rays. Using fairness creams we lose the natural protection.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The manufacturers don't disclose the composition of fairness creams. most of them contain steroids, hydroquinone, a bleaching agent, very strong and very harmful for the skin. Some have mercury in them. There is more information on the net. Please check and correct me if i am wrong.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> <br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now here is something which is good and bad.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> These fairness creams have temporary effect. Which is good. If you stop using the fairness cream your skin heals itself of its deficiencies and gets back to default setting. Good news.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bad news is, this temporary effect of fairness creams is good money for the manufacturers. When the skin gets dark again, we buy another tube, and we keep buying tube after tube making the corporates richer and richer at the cost of your skin. That is not good news.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is the worst case of attempted cross race jump. i am not talking about athletics.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have two cases on my hand. three actually. Two cousins and a friend's wife. One of them is a grand mother. They will kill me if i post their pictures. Their skin specially on the face is patchy. some areas light and some dark. looks hideous. This is due to continuous use of fairness creams for years. Patchy skin is permanent. . </b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fairness cream is not an answer to racism. Racism will remain, even if you become fair. Use all the creams on your face, colour your hair, still you are not upgraded to a different race. You remain brown for ever.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Added later : </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is what i am talking about</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>please take a look at this dumb commercial. A sad and dark Indian, her friend gives her the fairness cream. You see a complete transformation. Back to the same place and she shows contempt for her friend who gave her the fairness cream. The guy at the counter says, 'foreign passport that side m'aam'. She replies in rustic Punjabi, meaning she is a local not a foreigner. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This happens to be a spoof as Jyothi pointed out. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">You just can't change or alter the genetic structure. </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please be what you are.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>All my love</b></span></div><br />
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</div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com46tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-83026131733451534892010-11-06T13:18:00.007+05:302010-11-07T05:27:30.419+05:30VIVA PORTUGAL<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GOA/?action=view&current=goa46.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Goa,India" border="0" src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GOA/goa46.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think i am kidnapped. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Viva Portugal ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>where am i ? </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My kidnappers have brought me to Portugal ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't even have a passport, i would be arrested here. No one would pay even ten rupees ransom for me. i would soon get on the nerves of my kidnappers. i keep nagging always and i smoke, i'll tell them boring stories, i would laugh at their dress, their beliefs, and their food habits</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what ? you are my kidnapper and you are a vegetarian ? How funny ? get me a beef steak </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh deeah ! i am in sunny Lisbon, all white people, i am indeed in trouble.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't trust you, i tell my kidnappers</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>why wouldn't you trust me ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>bikkass you are wearing a ghastly tie, look at your shirt, ugh ! is that a shirt or you tore off a curtain from somebody's window ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh deeah ! look at your pot belly, go jog, i really pity the tailor who makes clothes for you, don't walk with me, stay away. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and you are not qualified enough to be my kidnapper, you can't locate Portugal in the map ? go back to school get some fresh education</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>get rid of this idiot they would say</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>So the kidnappers would give me money and send me back home, though i am not expensive to maintain. i am a CHEAP MAN.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh Portugal is beautiful. Thank you for bringing me here My kidnapper friend</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Hey look ! This is not Portugal, this is India, look at the cow running on the road</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>where else you would find cows running on the roads ? </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Muuuwa Muuuwa, can i go now ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i was not kidnapped, i was in Goa. on the western coast of India. Obviously some one made Viva Portugal stickers for football world cup and people bought them.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>they all wanted Portugal to win. Goa was a Portuguese colony until 1961 (please correct me if i am wrong) </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Taking a walk in Panjim is like walking in some sunny small Portuguese town.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Many old buildings here, though not in good condition. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>in the picture below</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Lorenco Afonso the Gents tailor still in business ? i can see some one walking in.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh deeah ! the building is falling apart. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aleluia Menezes ? Must be a Portuguese name. and he is a key maker</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A key maker is a person who makes keys. Looks like a very very old establishment.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>And here is Pedro Fernades, the music shop and Inocencio Fernades. wonder what he sells. Had no time to walk in to find out.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh a beautiful house. walls pillars and grills have stories to tell you. Only the hot stinging sun reminds you that you are in India. Goa is clean, lot cleaner than rest of India and more beautiful than Kerala. Similar landscape. Similar climate.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shot from a speeding train. This is just like Kerala, its on the same coast. Its the names of places roads buildings and the attitude of the people's which makes all the difference, quite opposite of Kerala. Locals are very friendly and eager to help and direct you. They'll drown you with details The only problem is there are more tourists than the locals, you may stop and seek directions from a tourist. They locals have time for you and they guide you properly. This man is walking with a guide book on India and a local stops to guide him.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>the roads are beautiful, in good condition and clean. Very green. Goa is a small state, you can't get lost. Public transport is mostly privatised. Not very good.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Long distance buses are government owned (hardly any long distance as Goa is a small state) But you can hire a scooter or a motorbike for 200 rupees a day which is quite reasonable. Most of the foreign tourists who have an Indian or international drivers license hire scooters to go around. Nobody really stops you to check, the foreign tourists are free to roam around.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>if you don't have a drivers license you can always engage a biker as a taxi, you go as a pillion for half the rates of an auto (three wheeler) Goa is the only place in India where you can get motor bike taxis. Tourists find it very cheap.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Buses are small and always crowded. Though rest of India discarded its colonial past the Goans are still clinging on to it. Women dressed in western outfits like in the picture above is a common sight. Woman in an Indian shalwar khamees looks on</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>By and large Goans are Catholics. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Goans, Goans ?? like Indians, Americans, </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>English Irish Ish Ish Goaish ?? doesn't sound good, </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Englanders Irelanders, Swiss ? Swissish, Switzerlander, Hollandish ?? Londoner, New Yorker i am a Hamburger. i come with fries.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Goans sounds nice, i like it. yes Goans are mostly Catholics. Very religious. lots of Churches in the small state. Mostly Portuguese style of architecture. Some in ruins, in an abandoned state.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The board says do not photograph persons. This is India. You can't take pictures without people in it. If you want to take pictures of the clouds you will find people sitting there, some chaps selling peanuts or tea coffee.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>there are a few Hindu temples as well, not very old and not much history there.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>But the locations are beautiful</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Goans love fish. They eat fish every day. Sea food is offered everywhere. it is difficult to spot a pure vegetarian restaurant.So for the locals fishing is a major occupation.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>its pretty warm actually, looks cold in the pictures. You can see that the children are not wearing any warm clothes. Gets pretty hot in the day. there is no winter here. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Gets pleasant by December. That is when the tourists come flooding into Goa. But Goa is a tourist's paradise all the time all 365 days. June to September is the rainy season. You'll find lots to buy, spices, silk, herbs, herbal soaps shampoos, tea with different flavours.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Haven't tried any of them myself. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you have to bargain a lot. Lots of things to buy. Even a tourist with a tight budget can afford them. Then we come to why tourists come to Goa.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mostly for the beaches, some like me for its Portuguese colonial history.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Goa can boast of some very picturesque and romantic beaches in the world.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>But you will not find crystal clear emerald green waters here in Goa. Gets pretty crowded by evenings. i missed the sunset pictures. In fact i missed a lot of Goa. This was my 4th or the 5th visit, the pictures i took 15 years ago were lot better than these. my first visit with a digital. Have to go there again. Perhaps in February to watch the Goa Carnival. Sorry the pictures are bad. Most of the pictures were taken from a moving car.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Be silly, be stupid and be foolish</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>enjoy your life</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>all my love</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh deeah ! this is suicide.<br />
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In the year 2001 the Historians dropped BC and AD and replaced them with BCE and CE officially.<br />
No change in dates.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>350 BC (Before Christ) remains 350 BCE (Before Common Era)</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> and 2010 AD (Anno Domini, the year of the Lord) remains 2010 CE (Common Era)<br />
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Our calender is called the Gregorian calender. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>In other words a Christian calender as it started with the birth of Jesus Christ. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not exactly true.<br />
The Christian calender we all follow today, actually began in the year 525 AD or CE now, by a priest. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> i think he was a priest called Dennis the Short. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He has a complex sounding name dixys pixys somting, he was short, dwarf like. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i am not sure of him being a priest or a monk. <br />
i don't even know the difference between a priest and a monk.<br />
Well, he started our present calender in 525. AD or CE</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please remember, it did not begin with the birth of Christ, the year Zero, there was no year Zero. <br />
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After 1500 years historians decided to drop BC and AD <br />
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Why ?<br />
it makes no sense at all.<br />
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They say BC and AD are politically incorrect.<br />
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Why ?<br />
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The Gregorian or Christian calender, they say is followed by non Christians as well<br />
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quite true.<br />
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They say, the Christian Calender, BC (Before Christ) and AD, the year of the Lord is offensive to non Christians, so politically incorrect.<br />
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What ? i never heard of that ! <br />
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i am not a Christian and the Calender never offended meeee !<br />
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The Hindus, Muslims, Chinese or Jews and others have their own Lunar Calenders </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>which are completely useless for all practical purposes. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They are used only to determine festivals, auspecious times or dates for weddings </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and no more.<br />
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Why Lunar Calenders ?<br />
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Simply because they did not know. Geography was not their major subject.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>None had a PhD </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
The moon undergoes dramatic changes through the month, as viewed from the Earth. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Actually it is a piece of rock incapable of undergoing any fast and visible changes </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>or emitting light and heat energy. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It just reflects light from the Sun. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>People did not know that. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
There is no full moon, half moon, or a new moon.<br />
If you remove the moon from the picture, nothing is missing<br />
if you remove the sun, we are finished.<br />
The Lunar calenders of different kinds are absurd and absolutely useless.<br />
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i asked a fire spitting Islamic fundamentalist his date of birth.<br />
November 12th 1958 he said<br />
oh !<br />
he didn't tell me his date of birth according to Hijri, the Islamic lunar calender which he should have.<br />
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From past 1500 years we all, the people of all religions</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> were happily, willingly using the Christian Calender, </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>BC and AD, </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>without any objections, without any protests whatsoever. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>And we are still using it.<br />
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Then why should any one be offended by Christian calender and the use of BC and AD ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
why is it politically incorrect to use BC and AD ?<br />
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they are not telling us the real reason.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <br />
Why is it incorrect ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
the real reason is, there is no historical record of Jesus Christ.<br />
In Other words, Jesus simply did not exist. <br />
So we cannot use BC and AD.<br />
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Do i have the audacity to say that a name which shaped and influenced the world from past 2000 years did not exist ?<br />
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Yes<br />
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and this is not my opinion. This is history.<br />
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Jesus Christ can't be a pure fiction<br />
Perhaps some similar sounding nice kind soul existed who was crucified for calling Pontius Pilate a dimwit.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
But the son of God, born to a virgin, who performed miracles, crucified and resurrected, did not exist.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The set of people who created Jesus Christ went a little overboard. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They borrowed ideas from existing pagan stories.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>If you look at the etymology of the names of days like Monday Tuesday </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>or the names of the 12 months </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you'll find that most of them came from Pagan religions.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <br />
There is a big reason why they created Jesus Christ which i'll tell you in the comments.<br />
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This has been going on from past 50 years and i came to know only 30 years ago.<br />
i kept quiet. It hurt me a lot.<br />
it was difficult for me to accept. i refused to accept at first.<br />
This came to me during difficult times when i was very religious </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and i was just beginning to question my faith, my beliefs </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and the reasons for my existence. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It coincided with my giving up the job and wandering aimlessly, which continues till today.<br />
My mom would have killed me had i told her that Jesus did not exist.<br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is not the end of the story. There is more trouble to come.<br />
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Everything about Islam and Prophet Mohammad is recorded by the Historians in detail. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>About all his companions, the revelations, the growth of Islam, the Caliphate </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and all the wars, raids, bloodshed during and after the Prophet's life, everything is recorded in detail. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Any one who claims that Islam is a religion of peace </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>has not read the biography of the Prophet or has not read the History of Islam.<br />
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Now The Prophet and Islam are facts, not a fiction.<br />
Here comes the trouble.<br />
The foundation of Islam rests on the Torah and the Bible and the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.<br />
Nearly half the Qurr'aan is the Bible and some Torah. You'll find all the Biblical stories appear there with some variations.<br />
They all believe in the same G.O.D (God of the Desert) right from Adam Eve, Abraham David Moses Jesus. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They all did not exist.<br />
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There goes the religion, G.O.D, It all turns out to be a myth. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That makes most of the people living on this planet believe in myths. <br />
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The Hindus are strange. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They are well aware that their religion is a myth. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>That makes them more thoughtless than the other myth believers.<br />
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Buddhism is just a philosophy. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Buddha existed five centuries before Jesus. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>History records his life and teachings but not with exact dates of his birth and death.<br />
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Now you have a 6th century BCE Gautam Buddha </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>and a 6th Century C.E Prophet Mohammad and both are recorded in history. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In between falls Jesus Christ who is missing in the Historical records.<br />
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Myth or no myth, best and the worst has come out of religion. <br />
The merits and demerits weigh nearly the same.<br />
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Let us see the impact of a name, Jesus Christ which is a myth.<br />
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From past 2000 years no other name has generated </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>such phenomenal love kindness sacrifice and compassion in the world</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> like the name of Jesus Christ. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The best in art music literature performing arts architecture came out of love of Jesus Christ. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Most of the charity, in cash and kind, care for the suffering,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> immediate aid to the victims of natural disasters comes out of love of Jesus Christ.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>So what is wrong in believing in a harmless myth ?<br />
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The Atheists may ask are we not capable of generating love ?<br />
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No sir<br />
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Faith is a force. All Atheists put together can do nothing. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All people of religion joined together can push the Himalayas to South India. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Such is the power of faith.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> i want Himalayas in my back yard. its so hot here.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
Faith can be equally destructive as History tells us. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nearly all the bloodshed in the world is the result of love of God </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>or the love of religious figures like Moses, Jesus or Mohammad, mythical or real.<br />
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We have a living example in Pakistan which is completely destroyed as a country. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>All believe in same God, all follow the same religion. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what went wrong then ? </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The power went into the hands of religious fundamentalists. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The country destroyed in the name of God. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Now that country is further destroyed by nature's fury.<br />
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i accuse all the religions for condoning slavery. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>None of the religious figures condemned the slave trade.<br />
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Finally it was the love of Jesus Christ which brought an end to slavery.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It is the love of Jesus Christ in William Wilberforce </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>which made him and his Church colleagues, fight for more than 25 years</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> in the British Parliament to outlaw slave trade in England. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This marked the beginning of the end of slavery from the world. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Took another 150 years to end slavery completely.<br />
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Myths have generated unimaginable amounts of money and activities. Used for both positive and negative ends. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i would include 9/11 myth here. It is difficult for any one to accept facts. <br />
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Truth is unpleasant, lies are comfortable. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Myths are nice and pleasant. <br />
The priest tells you what you want to hear. <br />
i am right and you are wrong is a disease we all suffer from.<br />
nothing makes sense.<br />
The big picture is absurd.<br />
It doesn't really matter who is right and who is wrong.<br />
Be silly and be stupid<br />
and be foolish.<br />
it doesn't really matter.<br />
all my love.</b></span></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-15552612694688251032010-09-12T12:55:00.004+05:302010-09-12T15:33:04.760+05:30KERALA WATERWAYS<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/Kerala%20waterways/?action=view&current=kw44.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Kerala Waterways" border="0" src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/Kerala%20waterways/kw44.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is Kerala, blessed with natural beauty. Unfortunately the locals are insensitive to the surroundings and not aware of the lush green natural beauty they see every day. Their dreams lie elsewhere. the grass is greener in the Gulf, Europe or the USA. Is there any grass in the Gulf ? </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Very romantic settings spread all over Kerala. The above two pictures were taken in Engandiyoor near Thrissur.</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There's your house and here is your boat. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not everybody can afford to own a boat. Mostly lower middle class and poor live here. People depend on small boats to cross the backwaters to reach the road. Everybody prefers the road as it is lot faster. But they have no options.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My friend Father Mathew a priest hails from a village called Thiruvarpu on the Alleppy kottayam backwaters. This boat costs over hundred thousand rupees to make. This is not back waters actually. some areas get isolated in the rains and the only mode of transport is the boat. there are canals on both sides of this village.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is an old picture taken near Mahe'. Boats are a vital mode of transportation in most parts of Kerala. Its always a joy ride for me, where ever i am, in Malabar or Cochin Alleppy kottayam or Kollam. These boats take you to the inaccessible areas. </span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a tourist boat in cochin. a similar double decor boat capsized in Thekkadi lake drowning more than 50 tourists last year. There have been accidents due to over crowding.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i had no seat here, i didn't want one actually, i stayed out on a narrow deck taking pictures. This is near Cochin harbour.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is not crowded but gets crowded in the mornings and evenings. There is room for traders carrying things to different islands like Vypin Mattancherry, Fort Cochin.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This was a very sweet ride for me from Aleppy to don't remember where, as i got in to a boat one early morning with school going children. i didn't want to reach anywhere. </span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>they were doing their homework in the boat</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you are supposed to do your home work at home, what were you doing last night ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE we were watching TV</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Run Lola run, you'll miss the boat. She didn't. The boat waited for her until she was safely seated.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The friendly and kindhearted boat conductor is helping the children with their home work. They see him every day. The children carry a subsidised pass issued by the government owned transport department. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Its slow moving boat, there is lot of time to do the home work, play or fight. lot of mischief too. Here on the boat the conductor plays the role of their teacher and a guide.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>End of fun on the boat, here comes their school.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Leaving for Coorg tomorrow, to get some rain drops on my body. i sit at the door steps of the train. This picture was taken on my way to Aleppy in Kerala. I am not going there now, going there by the end of this month. Here comes the controversial picture. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Can any one of my new readers explain what in the heaven's name is happening here on this boat ? Why the stupid husband is sitting comfortably and why his wife holding a baby is standing ?</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">i posted it a couple of years ago in Black and white in Environment series <a href="http://whitesroad.blogspot.com/2006/12/speed-12-environment-manager.html">SPEED</a> and there was a debate on this picture.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Thank you so much for your patience. i know it takes a while for the page to load as i have posted bigger size pictures this time.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">please do your best to be silly and stupid</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">that's the way to live</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">nothing else makes sense.</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">All my love</span></b><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com37tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-36103646369267265942010-08-29T21:35:00.006+05:302010-08-30T11:48:32.216+05:30AND THEN IT COMES<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/TIC/?action=view&current=tic01.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/TIC/tic01.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Nearly nine months of silence. i was not silent actually. sudden hesitation and panic gripped me.</span></b></span><br />
<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Is it any good ? Is this blog useful to any one ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't know. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Friends were urging me to write, what ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what do you want me to write ? i can never be a writer</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you've been writing, write something pleasant, you've been pretty nasty and annoying</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i know</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh! you know ??</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ok, don't write anything then, just post pictures.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Is it useful ? i asked nodder friend</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>not to me, he said, then he called me again to say he doesn't read my blog</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Is it bad to say don't waste water ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No, but the way you say it is quite annoying. said nodder chap.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh !</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>OH ?</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">nutting better than a bagful of smiles before i turn nasty again. </span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>She finds me quite funny. i don't know what she is laughing at. Me perhaps, Anyway she finds sompting amusing in me. i don't remember what i did. This was in Nepal lass month.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> The whole format of posting looks different, some new icons here which i have nebber seen before</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>'Enter' Key doesn't work, erratic, don't know if sompting wrong wid my keyboard, works fine odderwise.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh deeah ! this posting box is not behaving. i think 'publish post' would be quite a struggle.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This curser doesn't go where i want it to go What ?</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Boy with an ear ring. </b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is Ghausia, very sweet. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not much traveling this year, been to some places, have to think. Don't remember where i've been since January. i've been broke moss of the time. i was not active on facebook eeda.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't like facebook,</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i like blogs. </b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">moss of the time peeple show off on facebook. i think you have to, that seems to be the format. But i have seen some good stuff toos posted by friends. Some amazing videos, some very touching. You see them all on one page. All the tings your friends post.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is Rima. collecting wild mushrooms, and minding her goats, up a beautiful valley near Nagarkot in Nepal. Been there twice some 30 years ago. This visit was more pleasant and Nepal is lot greener than what i had seen before. i'll write more about it later. </span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A little girl, collecting food and working, is not a happy story. There is poverty everywhere. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Why there is poverty </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Who started it ?</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not a good subject to discuss, but i will in a couple of weeks.</b></span></div><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>See this happy chapee ? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b> somewhere near Villipuram in Tamil Nadu. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He has many followers. </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>95% of the people of this world are like his followers. </b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is Priyanka and Monish 5 years ago.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Priyanka Monish today </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think i posted Priyanka's picture before </b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They came with their parents, my friend Suresh and Kanchana last month, no, this month.</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have my share of failures. i did my best to make her smile. She kept staring at me. While i was at the height of my clowning, her mother appeared on the window and i fled. </b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>She is about to burst. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i said you are wearing a beautiful ear ring and i want to take a picture. </b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>you can see the reflection of my yeddu there. She should be in school, playing with her friends, unfortunately she is not. She has to help her parents to survive. She made badly needed tea for us. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Black tea. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>She said i don't have milk, is it okkay ? </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i said that's what i want. and it was a life saver in a very remote and beautiful place.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><br />
</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>A friend, beautiful young lady accused me of being an unhappy man for speaking my mind.</b></span> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think you have to be very insensitive to be happy all the time. i learn from people who find happiness in their state of utter poverty. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i don't have such courage.</b></span></div><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i check the Google weather before i put my clothes for wash.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Can't you just open the door and look out and see if its a right day to wash your clothes ? a friend asked.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think we are losing our common sense very fast. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>The TV will tell us what to worry about and what not to worry and soon the TV will become our conscience, i think it already has.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>please stay away from TV as much as you can.</b></span></div><br />
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</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Walked into a big Mall, new, very close to my house, couldn't resist.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>'Buy one and get one free' caught my attention.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i fell for that.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Then i noticed ' buy two and get one free'</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i fell for that too.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>These big Mall people have a knack of making you feel very smart.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>that's how i felt</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i felt very smart walking away with things i did not need.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is a silly post, incoherent, forgot what and how to post after a long gap.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>until next time, i don't know when </b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Be silly</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>be stupid</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Its nice to be a human</b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">All my love.</span></b></span>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com54tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-57370141334520559742010-01-08T13:23:00.005+05:302010-01-23T15:56:45.049+05:30RUSSEL WALLACE<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Bought shoes</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>no no Russel Wallace is not the brand of shoes i boughted.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think i'll have to walk barefoot in a couple of years as i may not get the kind of shoes i want. Had lot of trouble finding the right pair of shoes as all the shoes were looking like battle ships, aircraft carriers. So huge that i cud play Cricket on them. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What are these ?</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What do you call these things ?</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>'Shoes' said the sales man who seemed to know i had very little money in my pocket. He was not interested in selling me anything.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Nice elegant shoes for ladies though, thought of settling for one of dem, high heels an all, but you know peepals would stop me an take my pittures wid their mobiles pones and show it to their friends. Man with a beard wearing ladies high heels and walking around. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Which is da movie where John Cleese wears dem high heels ? and dances around da room ?<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Out of towners, the new one, only Steve Martin would get ideas like dat, it wasn't there in Jack Lemmon movie. the original Out of Towners.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The ones i liked were way too expensive for me, any way after walking up and down many shops found one soft leather pair of shoes. i normally don't wear my forest trek shows in the city, and the other ones which i bought some months ago were breaking my toe nail.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Back to Russel Wallace. Why Russel Wallace ? Bikkaas he was born today, January 8th.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Alfred Russel Wallace. please look up on Wiki for more information.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Everybody knows Charles Darwin. When you discuss Evolution, you always talk about Darwin. Absolutely no mention of Alfred Russel Wallace who did extensive research and study on the origin of species in Amazon forests, and in tropical rain forests of Malaysia and Indonesia and came to the same conclusions as Darwin did at the same time. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>And not many talk about Herbert Spencer eeda.( 'Survival of the fittest' )</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Royal Academy of science pushed Darwin, the way they Pushed Newton, actually he pushed himself. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Royal Society i tink, now National Academy ??</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>They have always been a funny bunch of peepals.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fresh problems for the Vatican. </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>This time they were smart. They din make a fool of themselves the way they tried to put a lid on the earth being round, or the Heliocentric theory. Its a long story. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>not many remember </b><span style="font-size: large;">Jean Baptiste Lamarck</span><b>, who was the first to think of a natural order in the origin of species, which later became the theory of evolution.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The other guys born today January 8th are Stephen Hawkins, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Shirley Bassey.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Traveling again, To Kumbakonam for Roshana's wedding. My childhood friend Babu's daughter. A friendship of 50 years, still green. Then on 16th i am going to Karnataka with Sujith.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Y'know, sitting on the fence is not very comfortable.</b></span><br />
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</div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-70478368374103762182009-12-23T17:04:00.006+05:302009-12-23T21:37:24.432+05:30NUMBER TAG<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i</span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> am very donkeys.</span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i have always hated these beauty pageants. Never showed any interest. </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i see my sisters, cousins, nieces talking endlessly about them and see them glued to the TV watchigng the show, and i feel something is seriously wrong with me. </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Have quite a few fashion magazines lying in my room. Chokrees come and ask questions and these magazines keep them from eating my brain. Besides, making women look and feel beautiful is my profession. i see the pictures, models ads and all.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This post is not about fashion or beauty pageants, its about the number tags.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i can understand in the field of sports where you are judged by your performance</span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> or examinations, you get marks and grades, First second third or fourth.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Competetion berings out the best in you but not always.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some magazines come up with top 100 beauties of the world</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i find that very funny.</span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Heeelo ! How are you ? Do you have fever ?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">No i am the one with fever, others are fine.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i juss don't understand these number tags </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">like number one beauty</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Number 2 is not good enough ?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i really pity the number 100, she must be eating cockroaches.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Poor thing.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These number tags insult womanhood.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">She stands alone.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">A woman has a right to do anything to look more beautiful. Women are programmed by nature to attract males. They are programmed to be in control. But they are not, unlike the other species.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i hate being in control of anything.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i let myself be blown away by the wind.</span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">oh numbers. yes i am drifting from numbers. Murthy accuses me of jumping the subjects. other friends accuse me of the same.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">We'll get back to number tags.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Jimi Hendrix there.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Absolutely no dispute. He is number one. Still.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If Steve Vai, Charlie Burchill, Al di Meola or Joe Satriani is up there at number one i would not dispute that eeda</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span></b></span><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Some years ago The RollingStone magazine came up with top 100 guitarists.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Silly idea</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is not weight lifting. This is not Tour de France or 400 meters hurdles.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i can understand the stupidity of fashion magazines, Jewelry, perfume or Textile Industry, there is money involved, they have something to sell.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">'i feel like i own the stage' says Ritchie Blackmore.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These guys stand alone with their individual style</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is number 55, </span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>changed his style to play Renaissance music with his wife Candice Night.<br />
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"I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly" Says Jeff Beck, where is he ? Number what ? <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is followed by Kirk Hammett at 11 if i remember right. i have only one number on my iPod.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i scratch my yeddu when i see Mark Knopfler sitting at number 27.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Hi Joni, how are you ?<br />
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you are 72<br />
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You are number 72.<br />
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So ? what do i do ? do i feel happy sad or stop singing ?<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i don't remember seeing Hank Marvin in the list, perhaps he is there, nor do i remember Dave Evens (the Edge) or Johnny Buckland., must be there at some number</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">it'll be a tragedy </span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">if you slap a number on Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Keith Jarrett Jan Garbarek or Dizzy Gillespie</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Its going to be very silly if some one comes up with an idea of 100 top artists of the world. Perhaps some one has.. Van Gogh number one and William Bouguereau number 99 or he may not have a number at all.</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">HILO ! Me fine thank you, No i am not sitting at the top of the world, afraid of falling, besides, its pretty cold up there, i would look silly wearing all that heavy winter gear ! i am slipping in and out of clothes without unbuttoning or unzipping them but the weighing scale shows that i have added 2 kilos, i am 56kgs now. improving, i am eating well and thanks for all the emails and greetings.<br />
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</div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1448099651614969682009-10-31T13:35:00.014+05:302009-11-02T05:17:50.199+05:30GREEN DRIVE - KERALA ROADS<a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/?action=view&current=gdr15.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/gdr15.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>its heavy.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Four years have gone by and i am blinking as i blinked at an empty box four years ago.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Claudia also completes four years of blogging this month.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> Ruth completes four years in January, Alicia is my senior, already completed four years in June and the senior most is Barbara of Shamantra's House, who started blogging in 2004, unfortunately not writing much now.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>These are my teachers, my mentors. . i have learnt a lot from them.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>In India, we respect our teachers <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Before i could write this post, i rearranged my first few links according to seniority before it gets down to alphabetical order. It may not mean much to you but means a lot to me. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i hold them in my highest esteem.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Did i learn to write ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>No, i don't write, i can never write like them, i never claimed to be a writer, i talk, i talk to my friends here, in this box.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My teachers inspired me, stood by my crackpot theories, encouraged me to be original and fearless, criticised me, correted me, i learnt to be less rigid on ideas and be flexible.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> i used to treat not knowing with utter contempt.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today, not knowing is my birth right.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have changed.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Today i remember Edith, who is no longer with us, but her link will remain as long as i have the strength to write. Her page is still open.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i thank Google for offering a platform to express our views.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Along with freedom to write comes the responsibility to maintain the integrity of the blog and its space provider. This is not a play ground. When some one offers you space, its your responsibility to keep it clean and not misuse it.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i do not know who offered it first, in my opinion, Google is still the best.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what is this post about ? </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh, these are just pictures of some lovely roads in Kerala, Been getting lot of mails enquiring about places and distances, connections. Not much information here, just pictures</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>It was Chinna who told me about a thing called Blog. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Blog ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what is it ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>There's a google web site where you register and upload your pictures and write about them. Obviously he was thinking of my travel stories, had hundreds of them. i thought it was too complicated for a dimwit like me, but i found it easy. i never thought it would take a different turn, painfully depressing arrogant and annoying.</b></span><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So the journey began.</span></b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Circle of blog friends expanded as i went along.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This was not as simple as i thought. They were not just my readers <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> They occupied a large part of my life They knew me more than my own family and friends did. It was like some invisible strength supporting me. At the end of my life, it was no longer a downhill slide. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Neil, my friend <span style="font-size: large;">FOUR DINNERS</span>, Your wit and humour made me young again. Your posts, mails, your support in Daylight Again was energy booster when ever i was down. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not many blogs then, when you clicked on 'Next Blog' You always found something intersting.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please read FOUR DINNER'S <a href="http://fourdinnersisback.blogspot.com/2009/10/wtf.html">POST </a>about clicking on 'Next Blog'</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>bad road is a blessing actually. You go slow, stop at places, look around enjoy the landscape. Pictures were taken in December 2008. Things could be different now.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>This is India, you don't have to look for subjects to write. Subjects come knocking your door, Some of my friends here in India and some living abroad were pretty annoyed with my posts.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Do't write, just keep posting pictures, your writing is hurtful, depressing and arrogant. its embarassing for us to show your blog to our friends. They were complaining.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Its just an insignifican't blog, don't read. Don't show it to your friends</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>yea we don't read.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Please don't tell my wife that you have a blog, my friend was begging me on his wedding day. i don't want her to know that i have friends like you.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Four years is not very long. i never got obsessed with my blog, passion, yes i was passionate about it., i am rather. i have made mistakes. There are good posts and there are bad posts. it never occurred to me to delete the bad ones. i have just one bad experience. i don't regret that. i literally demolished one blog run by some philosopher. That was not a good thing to do. i could have kept my mouth shut. i am not a good guy and i am not a saint.. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i am smiling, thinking of some bolgmates i have met. We are friends now. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Sweet Neeru, She's in Belgium now very charming always happy cheerful, very enthusiastic, always wants to learn something, naturally asks lots of questions about photography. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Aaarti, oh what fun she is, such a darling oh deah ! she's got brains. i keep my mouth shut and listen to her. She can talk on any topic.<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>None of them talks about the blog, we talk about different things.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Suresh has a blog, wild pic, Nitin has three, Nirmal has one. i am very sorry i have not introduced Padmaja here, she has a blog too, she lives in NYC, i'll add her link after confirming from her. <br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">all my love</span></b></span>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-121945149286570762009-10-13T20:12:00.020+05:302009-10-21T07:25:24.404+05:30PANDURANGAN PILLAI<a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/PANDU/?action=view&current=ppp17.jpg" target="_blank"><img alt="Photobucket" border="0" src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/PANDU/ppp17.jpg" /></a><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">ah aa !</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;"> na, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: small;">naa, he looks innocent</span></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Meet Pandurangan Pillai PhD, makes perfect calculations perfect leaps and jumps, no training, all by himself and now teaching me a thing or two. a motherless kitten, i was his mother, now he is my mother.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i think this is the first picture i took. So tiny he was, here he is biting Soosha's finger, she said he is a female</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>then Fiona confirmed that he is a female</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i said oh !</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i had already named him Pandurangan Pillai its a male name and he was responding when i called. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>what if he is a female ? and females stay, males move on, disappear, like my previous cat Ginger, Sweta had named him Ginger, he was borned in my house, disappeard after a year, prolly he camed back looking for me, but i wasn't there, the house wasn't there. my house was demolished and re constructed, took one and a half years.<br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He is trying to climb on to the CPU<br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Becky and Sathya brought him in a shoe box one night., Becky said he was found abandoned in her colony. Screaming in the rain.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What is it ? i asked her when i saw the shoe box</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>' KITTANN unkill ' said Becky with her chubby smile, i was more shocked to see how tall Becky had grown.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>One look and i knew that he is not going to survive, barely a couple of days old, He needed his mother's milk to survive. <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i said nothing, i couldn't disappoint Becky and Sathya, Now it was up to me to take good care of him and make him survive for a week.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">He is playing with Priyanka here, i call her Kuppuchaami. </span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">PPP was picking up, but still i had to feed him with a dropper, only milk so far, no semi solids. Suresh brought him a Tin of baby food . He wouldn't take it, had to force feed him with a spoon. This gave him some energy,.</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">i think too much energy.</span> </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i lost the case. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">any way, i have some more stuff on him, i can blackmail him later on.</span></b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>When i want to show off</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>He doesn't even look at me, i simply don't exist for him, my friends say i have to be thankful that he is not suing me.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Here he is playing with a kitten toy oofie sent. He loves it.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh, Finally, He is a male</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i am fine, recovering slowly, 90% fine, still no doctors. have gained one kilo, 55 kilos now i am. have to put on three more kilos to get back what i lost. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Not writing what i had to write, have no strength to engage myself in any controversy or debates. Some more pleasant posts to come. i'll update my other blogs in a cuppal of days and pull dem out of cold storage.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">oh No, This is not a result of a fight with the barber, nor did he pay less. He is a high cast Brahmin performing death rites at Banaras. The priests shave their heads in different styles, leaving more hair, many styles there. You would have seen HARE KRISHNA crowd chanting and dancing on the streets with shaven heads and little hair dangling behind.</span></b><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>These guys are performing post death rituals. Buying a ticket to heaven for the departed soul, its quite expensive and these Pundits, priests play with their guilt.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>We treated our dad badly, here's some money can you send him to heaven ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh yea ! twenty thousand rupees</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>what ? i don't have that kind of money</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>ok Done. But your father will go to heaven in economy class, no comforts.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>How much is first class ?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Fifteen.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>aaaah ! sorry dad, money is useful here, vokkay send him in economy, second class. Do you have third class ?<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>no toilet facility in second class</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Yeah i know, its been a while</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What was i doing ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Mostly nutting, some work, a little money camed, i traveled, i am fine, 80% fine, i was not well for some time. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>nuttin serious, juss cold fever cough, avoiding any medicine traveling with fever, not a good idea, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>silly meee....... </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>y' know i am not a sensible guy.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>why shaved heads all of a sudden after a long silence ?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>i know this post is very rude. <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i have been getting lot of mail requesting pictures, shaved heads, roads, distance, temples, places. i'll be writing some information kind of posts and stay away from annoying you</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>for a while.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shaving of heads is mostly connected with post death rituals. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>it has to be post death, there can't be a pre death ritual.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>oh na na na, pre death ritual is called murder <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Many South Indians go to temples like Tirupati to shave their heads after fulfillment of a vow</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>'if i get a green card i'll shave my head at Thirupati temple before i board a flight to the US'</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>hmmm... 'Not a good idea' friends advise. 'Go to US report for work, make some money and you can always come back to Thirupati temple to shave your head.</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>They never forget. They always come back to fulfill their promise to god.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>There are a few adjustments with god <br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shaving of head is a kind of sacrifice.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>buttoo women shaving their heads is a huge sacrifice. <br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Women shave their heads too. The temples collect all the long hair and sell them to wig makers. Tons of dem, in truckloads... i am not joking, Serious. </b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>What ? you dun beleeve me ? .... its bijness, its money, lot of money there. </b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Well, this is cambleet head shave. i mean shaving of the beard den the head. </b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>You see the Sangam of only two rivers, Ganga (Holy Ganges) and Jamuna. It was all water to me.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> i couldn't see two rivers meeting.</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Where is it ?</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i juss believed him.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Ah reddy reddy to perform the ritual, people come here from all over India and abroad and this gorilla, yours truly went there just out of curiosity and to take pittures. i was not disappointed. This is very early in da morning.</b></span><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Cooling off after a head shave, he is happy, this is not Sangam of Ganga and Jamuna, This is anodder holy river Krishna in Andhra Pradesh</b></span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>How you been ?</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i am sorry about my absence</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>no particular reason</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>i'll be around</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>some more traveling to come</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>have to get well soon</b></span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>all my love</b></span><br />
</div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com57tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-72426613582428406752009-07-14T10:53:00.013+05:302009-07-14T22:00:44.461+05:30DA MINKEE CODE<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Oh that is not Da Vinci's brother</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Da Minkee is meee</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >and dis is maa hand<br />code, kode in Tamil is a line<br /></span></span><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=sim.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/sim.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >oh ! looks very old,<br />i AM old.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Some time ago a friend of mine said i have a simian line.<br />where ?<br />here, She said<br />there was no arrow there<br />i putted that arrow in the picture.<br /><br /></span></span><br /><br /><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=sim1-1.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/sim1-1.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Hoye' ...... What is a simian line ?</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >its a headline (not newspaper headline) heart line, liver line, lung line, Kidney line, something she said all fused into one which goes right across the palm, cuts it in to 2 halves.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >is that any good ? </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >or bad ? </span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >what i meant was will it bring any luck or money or i can get away robbing a bank</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >monkeys have them she said, she was not trying to make me happy. plain information.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Well, that was good news, but i forgot about it,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i suddenly remembered in the train on my way back home</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" > i wanted to check</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >what line was it ? i forgot, Tillian line, sillian line, pillian million, killian, Killian is most likely as i have killed lots of mosquitoes.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i googled early morning yesterday, i could have called her to find out.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i tried sillian line + palmistry, bikkaas i am very silly</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >so google asked, do you mean simian line ?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i said yes yes yes clicked on it</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >There were many sites listed</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >there were pictures illustrations and 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bold;font-family:verdana;" >i expected the traffic to stop for me</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >it didn't</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i expected the cops to salute me</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >they didn't</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >idiots</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Got the Tanjavur bus, 250 Kms travel, 40 KMs beyond Cuddalore, to Kurunjipadi.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >I was going to Ben's first birthday party, Ben is one, i mean one year old</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >comfortable reclining seats and i was singing</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >feeling top of the world</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >had my ipaad on.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Vadalure, i said when the bus conductor approached me,<br />Jawahar would pick me up from there</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >80 rupees, said the conductor</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >WHAT ??</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >why is he taking money from me</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >from meeee ???</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i am special</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i am da minkee</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i had to pay</span></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=ben.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/ben.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >thats Ben, Soni, Jawahar, mom dad and Soni's mom dad</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Terrific Biryani, i ate and slept</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >do monkeys eat biryani ?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Do they smoke ?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i do</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i am a special minkee</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >had to write on environment, some misconceptions, but after a long break i din wan to write sumptin annoying depressing and unpleasant</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >What was i doing all these days ?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >nuttin</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i have a right to do nuttin</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >You have to say someting in the face book, what you are doing</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >what you are doing ?<br />oww<br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Nuttin<br />just scratching my yeddu<br />i'll write about nuttin in my next post<br />nice to know i am not alone<br />thanks<br />all my love<br /></span></span>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com44tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-74868828431439647482009-04-08T18:36:00.008+05:302009-04-21T07:58:11.136+05:30WHAT DO THEY WANT ?<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my31.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my31.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >wanted to write something but changed my mind, some pictures instead, i'll come back and write, traveling tonight.</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my03.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my03.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my12.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my15.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my02.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my02.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my20.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my20.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my22.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >she's got it, now she has to work hard for her exams</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my28.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my28.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a 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God Pleeeese<br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my27.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my27.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >i am watching you</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my24.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >God Pleeeeese,</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my23.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my23.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a 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href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my19.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my18.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my17.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >oh here's some money</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my09.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my09.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my10.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >she was sweet, she's kinda blessing me, i smiled and said thank you</span></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my08.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my08.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=my07.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/my07.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><a 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anodder ten minutes, haven't packed yet, just going to stuff my things in my bagpack.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ></span></span><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=OUTSIDE2e.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/OUTSIDE2e.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Asokan's exhibition in Ernakulam from tomorrow. i am going there first. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Don know when i'll be back, yea i'll be back when i run out of money, that would be pretty fast as i am carrying very little money.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >Reckless as ever</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" >All my 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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i was screaming uncontrolably, it was like an earthquake</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">no bother, he didn't even look at me</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">poor thing</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i started hurling obscenities at myself, </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">at myself</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">the camel turned towards me and said</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">mind your language please !</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">ha! a talking camel ?? wow, </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">no sir, no sir, i was cursing myself sir, not you sir i said pleading, barely making it sensible</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i continued screaming, put me down, bring me down</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i was very angry at Rajkumar and Pauli who insisted on my having a camel ride</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i couldn't jump, it was like jumping from a 3 storied building</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i always avoided having elephant rides horse rides.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">now this, i didn't want a ride, i didn't.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Mind your language please, said the camel, i am going to run now</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Na, Naaaaaaaaaa. pleeeese don't run sir pleeeese</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">okkay thats fine, you can come down now, anodder earthquake, my heart jumped out and i caught it put it back in my mouth, as the camel sat down.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">what a relief when i was back on my own feet.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i kept walking along with the camel</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hi Camel sir, thank you so much</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">my pleasure, said the Camel, you are so rude and arrogant </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i had nothing to say</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">from where did you learn to talk ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">we always talk, from where did you learn to speak ? he asked me, we talk among ourselves, i am talking to you because you look like one of us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">me a camel ? do i look like a camel to you ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">na na, i mean us animals, you look like a gorilla</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">oh thank you thank you very very kindly Camel sir. i was very pleased to hear that.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">thats not a camel, that is a woman walking ahead of us.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">for your kind information i am a PhD, says the camel </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">wow i said, i am not surprised, all camels look like philosophers.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">what was your subject ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">theology</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i don't believe this, oh deeah, theology of all the subjects ??</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">other Camels study human behaviour, and we always discuss human behaviour, you humans are so funny, we always have fun discussing you people. Look at yourself, you are funny too, quite funny, look at your shoes, your dress.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">yea i know, i am a sadak chaap, i am a poor man.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">we have no such hangups, there is no rich and poor among us, remember what Einstein said ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Humans are infinitely stupid ? i said</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">yes. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Have you studied Einstein's theory ? i asked</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We don't have to, Said the camel, we know it, we knew it long before Einstein came along. Look what you have done, you humans, with your wisdom and intelligence, you have destroyed the world, this earth, this desert is soaked in human blood, its your funeral, not ours. </span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">What do we do now ? i asked</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you have altered the settings</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">what do we do now, any ideas ? i asked</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">restore defaults, said the Camel</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Excuse me, Sir would you please come again ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">no answer</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Restore defaults ??</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">you heard me, this is your stupidity, you want me to repeat it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Restore defaults ??</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">yes. We will be too happy to see you go extinct. Killing each other, before the earth takes its revenge. And, please mind your language.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i didn't mean to be offensive Camel sir, these words just grab instant attention, adds weight to what you are saying. harmless words actually, wish you could watch MarissaTomei saying it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">i have it on my mobile, let me show you, she bagged best supporting oscar for her role. She was nominated this year toos buttoo Penelope got it. cute man she bees, more than a cute man she bees.<br /><br />watch this Camel Sir, Joe Pesci is going on a deer hunting expedition with his friend.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">oh she's gorgeous !</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">oh yes she is, would like to see Anne Hathaway ?</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">perhaps next time. thank you</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Byee Camel Sir,</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">remember what i said</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Restore defaults ? yes i will., can't do much about it alone but i'll remember</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">tell your friends</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">yes i will.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">byee Camel Sir</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana";"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Had to post it today, caught up with things, Sweety's wedding in a couple of days, Asokan's Exhibition is coming up in Ernakulam first week of April., working on pictures brochure, invitation posters have to be designed, brochure is done, thought i could design the template too, </span></span></span></div>
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raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com61tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-1950627426533022292009-03-02T15:03:00.028+05:302009-04-06T13:55:39.713+05:30THERE IS NO LIGHT HERE<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=Mother.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/Mother.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Its not a good picture, Her face tells a story</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is not a happy story</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i don't bow to anything, or any one. But i bow my head to a mother<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Motherhood</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i would touch their feet and then i would pick up a fight.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Her expression would be lot different had there been a boy child on her lap.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This lady can be happy if she wants, with a slight shift in attitude.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=baby.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/baby.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Motherhood is in their blood, it begins at an early age. Girls play with dolls, playing mother. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Motherhood is sacred, this is something everybody accepts. Do we ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Not quite.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc03.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc03.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc25.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc25.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They take risks and they have the courage and they are emotionally very strong. But they make wrong choices. The attitude of the society is very sick</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are different societies at different levels. The poor class have their own society, the middle class and the upper have their own. They don't mix.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Class, what a tragedy !</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The untouchables have their own, surprisingly higher and lower among themselves.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Higher or lower, any class, rich or poor, Hindu Muslim or Christian, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">they all prefer a boy child.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc28.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc28.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc51.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc51.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There is some kind of a pride in mothers when they flaunt their boy child. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Silly actually, if you ask me. Lavish post delivery celebrations, birthdays and other religious rituals thanking gods for having given a boy child. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The trend in my immediate family goes in reverse. Boys get new clothes and some money and they disappear. Birthdays of girls are a big celebration, they make lot of noise, silly girls. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc24.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc24.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The wife is under enormous pressure until she brings a boy child in to the family. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If the she fails, the husband re marries, there have been many cases of murder, or suicide,</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">alone or they die with their daughters. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc44.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc44.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc32.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc32.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She is happy with her girl. And they are proud of the daughters. Many have the right attitude and treat the girl child as a blessing from gods. But not all.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The demand for a boy child mostly, mostly comes from women themselves.. They are obsessed with having a boy in the house. It comes from mothers whom i respect. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc43.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc43.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">May God bless you with a son</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Excuse me ? ..... Hellow ! WHATT ??</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Somebody's arm touches my shoulder, rauf, lets go and eat, they pull me away</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sometimes i say God bless you with a daughter</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">uncomfortable Silence</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">or they all laugh</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'hahaha rauf unkill, you said God bless you' 'seeee you believe in Gaad'</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">its just an expression you idiot, i tell the bride.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc18.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc18.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc15.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc15.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i know many happy families where all three children are girls, all with very understanding and loving dads who have kept their wives very happy and i know a couple of families where all five are girls, chaotic, throwing things at each other, tearing each other's books, but all happy moms and dads. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">oh i loved the movie 'little women' five sisters, with Susan Sarandon as mom, Gorgeous Trini Alverado the oldest, Next was Winona Ryder, i always wanted to have a daughter like Winona. Then Samantha Mathis, Claire Danes and Kirsten Dunst plays the youngest.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc46.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc46.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc50.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc50.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc47.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc47.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Priorities change when there is a boy in the family. This is Vasini and her younger brother, i wrote about her, how adorable she was, in the Banaras post. Forgot the name of the boy. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i told the mom that you are treating your daughter badly. Your son is being unreasonable and you end up punishing Vasini for no fault of hers.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i didn't fight or shout like i normally do, i told her gently.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">oh he is just a child she said</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Vasini is a child too, why are you treating her like an adult and punishing her, you are being grossly unfair to her. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She was a sweet lady, 2 day journey and i am very clumsy and all my things were scattered and she was managing them putting my things in order besides giving me all the goodies she was carrying. Actually it was little Vasini who was playing my mother.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc49.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc49.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This kind of gender bias is commonly found here in India and little Vasini will grow up with inferority and sadness in her heart</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gender bias and the demand for male child is so much that some take the extreme steps of female infanticide. No mother would like to kill her unborn child. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Mostly they are pushed by women themselves. Mothers in law in such cases. Sometimes by their own mothers as they want their married daughters to lead a peaceful life by bringing only male child to the family, the truth is, they don't want their daughter to come back. A married daughter back home is treated as burden. She ceases to exist, she is a living corpse. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Please read </span></span></span><a href="http://oftheindianwoman.blogspot.com/2009/02/missing-girl-child_21.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ABHI's</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> stunning post on this subject, she gives staggering facts and figures about female infanticide.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://oftheindianwoman.blogspot.com/2009/02/missing-girl-child_21.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">http://oftheindianwoman.blogspot.com/2009/02/missing-girl-child_21.html</span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thank you Abhi, for all the pains you have taken in gathering the information in your passionately written post, which inspired me to write this one.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i hang my head in shame.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc45.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc45.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc55.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc55.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Though gender determination clinics are outlawed by the government, the practice has not stopped. When something is outlawed, its milk and honey for the officials and the cops. Like banning liquor in a state, people continue to drink, they know where to get liquor from and the officials and cops make money. Such clinics function under the blessings of highly placed officials and the cops.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You may not find sign boards like</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">GENDER DETERMINATION CLINIC</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">KILL YOUR DAUGHTERS HERE</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It becomes an expensive affair to kill the unborn female child. Sadly, it the educated who take such shameful steps. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They are not ignorant people. They know where to go.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They do not know what they are missing.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They do not know what they are doing.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">More than being a moral and social issue, this is an environmental disaster.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc31.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc31.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc34.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc34.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc02.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc02.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Imagine all these girls wiped out. What a disaster it would be. There are clinics who are helping such people. We have a hospital market here. Human organ market. You can buy anything. These doctors will not hesitate to do anything for money. They can steal your kidneys and they can steal your heart. i am not talking about dashing George Clooney, or Hugh Grant stealing your heart, i mean the doctors who steal your heart right out of your ribs and declare you dead.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc29.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc29.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc01.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc01.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We have ultra sonic labs nearly in every street, but disclosing the gender is made a punishable offence. There are loop holes everywhere and the subsequent procedure is easy but expensive. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Only middle class or upper class can afford it. </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc05.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc05.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc06.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc06.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc08.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc08.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thankfully, the poor class cannot afford it. They live with the pressure of having a girl child, Which leads to their self inflicted misery, like the woman in the first picture. The idea of a girl child bringing misery is pretty absurd, as they contribute in running of the household and they bring in money as well. It is the other women who make their life miserable, in some cases their husbands.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc23.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc23.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc36.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc36.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">it is difficult to understand why a girl child is considered a burden. These women work themseves to death, there is no relief for them, girls normally share their burden.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Poor or rich, educated or ignorant, Hindus, Muslims or Christians, the very thought of the girl's marriage is a nightmare for them. i don't see any other reason for their misery and obsession for a boy child. They may hope that the boy would soon be an earning member of the family. This is pretty absurd as well. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc57.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc57.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc58.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc58.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc56.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc56.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Wedding of a girl is not always a happy occasion. By tradition girl's parents are the victims. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They can't sleep when the girl grows up, (they don't wait that long) </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fear of the girl falling in love with a boy of different community haunts them or with a boy of a lower caste. Boy is free to paint the town red but these misguided people think that it is always the girl who brings shame or dishonour to the family.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc61.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc61.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc20.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc20.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Huge expenses are involved in a wedding, demand for dowry, depending on the status of the boy, runs to staggering amounts, which the girl's father has to borrow and get in to an eternal debt. This is another social evil crippling the country. And not to mention the obsession for gold which is uniform in all Indian societies. So there is a fear of loss here.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Girl is a loss and boy is profit as he brings in the dowry.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">In other words, they kill the girl for the fear of loss. This fear cannot be erased from their minds.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc12.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc12.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc16.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc16.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc17.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc17.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc27.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc27.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It just takes a little shift in attitude. A girl is a blessing. i am in a great mood the day my niece is at home. All they have to do is ignore what other people say. Never feel the pressure of bringing a boy child. Boy or a girl, they should be thankful for attaining sacred motherhood. And the bias is something they should get rid of. Change in attitude is simple. But they don't understand. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i am against the obsession for a boy child, i am not against boys. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc39.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc39.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc33.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc33.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc52.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc52.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc53.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc53.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc54.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc54.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Remember these little girls from Pochampalli, the cleanest village ? Class room in a temple ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Educating the girl is one big issue. Poor class don't want to waste their money in educating girls. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They prefer to educate only boys. This is investment. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What will she do with a degree ? Let her learn to cook instead.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The tribals don't have such hang ups.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc37.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc37.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc38.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc38.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc40.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc40.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tribal women are quite powerful and authoritative. They understand how to maintain the balance. They treat the girl child with equal importance. Their priests are pretty silly though. Big yerdake they are. Demand animal sacrifices and all. Idiots. Tribals have silly beliefs but they are all environmentally conscious. killing a girl child is an absurd idea for them.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC71.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC71.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC66.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC66.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC67.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC67.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We do not know what we are missing, we are still not aware of our loss.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thankfully, thankfully, the poor people in Indian villages can't afford the procedure. You can imagine the disaster of having less women in the villages. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Except for tilling and other heavy work, 90% of farm work is done by women. They work themselves to death so that we could survive.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC77.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC77.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC75.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC75.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC76.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC76.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC78.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC78.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC70.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC70.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is the beauty of the purest kind. Ruth loves this girl. i am posting her pictures for you Ruth.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You would have seen some of the pictures either in 'thank you farmers' or in 'The poison - Globalisation' posts.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i drag my friends to this village. i forgot her name. Last month i went with Sujith and Ramesh, i frantically went searching for her. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i couldn't find her. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here she is helping her mother and grand mother. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Three generations here in this picture. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Just erase them in your mind and you can visualise the disaster we have on our hands.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC72.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC72.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC68.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC68.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC69.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC69.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=GC74.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/GC74.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ah ! end of the day she is so tired, dust on her face grain in her hair. i have no command over the language, i am not a poet. i would have loved to compose a poem on her. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">It is impossible for me to imagine that these women cease to exist. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When they go, we all go. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We are chopping our own legs, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i think we are asking for our extinction.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=gc19.jpg" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/gc19.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">oh what a joy and what a blessing she is, This is Priyanka, our future, our saviour.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">India has been invaded repeatedly for our fertile lands, abundance of water and 365 days of sunshine. With all the atrocities on women, dowry deaths and female infanticide we still remain in dark ages</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There is no light here.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com68tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-51149716685599827742009-02-16T18:59:00.017+05:302009-06-07T19:34:58.804+05:30WOMEN ARE INFERIOR<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The last one was a killer</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A sizzling forehand cross court, absolutely clueless Adam running in the wrong direction, crashed in to the crowd of Angels. He made a complete fool of himself. . </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All Angels stood up chanting Lilith ....Lilith.... Lilith ....Lilith.... Lilith.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Breaking through the loud cheers came the voice of Lord God the chair umpire </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">' Love Forty' .... as Adam walked back to serve the last point. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith waiting to receive on match point.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The garden of Eden shook with the relentless chanting of the Angels.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Quiet please' said God Almighty. The chanting continued </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith ...Lilith ....Lilith....Lilith</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As she waited for Adam to serve.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">it happened in a fraction of a second, Adam's serve and a blistering backhand return which narrowly missed Adams ear who was rushing to the net.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thunderous applause shattered the clouds, cheering chanting crowd of </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Angels was rushing towards Lilith.</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Came the booming voice of Lord God the chair umpire</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Game, set and Match to Miss Lilith'. No one heard him</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith was surrounded by the Angels signing autographs.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Miss Lilith wins by three sets to love, six love, six love, six love'.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Adam went up to God</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What do you mean she won huh ? i said five sets.... five</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Its over Adam' said Lord God Almighty</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'We have not played five sets'</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'oh deeah !' said Lilith still signing the autographs.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'i want to play five sets' screamed Adam</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why do you want to humiliate yourself Adam ? asked God</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Humli what ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'hu ...mi....liate' said God aloud</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'don't use big words God'</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Humiliate is not a big word daddy' said Lilith smiling</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'She is calling me daddy, tell her to stop calling me daddy she is my wife for </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">godssake !'</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Not any more Brother' said Lilith</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Now she is calling me brother, whats wrong with this woman ??' moaned Adam</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God was puzzled too.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Who are these characters ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">you know who God is, and you know who Adam is, and all the Angels</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">but who is this Lilith ??</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">yea, who is this Lilith ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Well, According to the ORRRIGINAL, the very first account of Genesis, Lilith is Adam's wife. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Adam's first wife ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Surprised ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yes she is, the first wife.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">please google Lilith for more information.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">not now, not now, later....... please read on.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You don't need a super brain to know that Genesis is a cock and bull story </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">written by people with very poor imagination. A six year old girl would come </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">up with a better story. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We are talking about a thousand years before Gilgamesh, which makes it roughly 6000 years. Not more.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is how it went.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God makes heaven and earth. thats fine, its still in the Bible.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then God says 'let there be light' and there is light, which is fine toos, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">still there in the Bible.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Fine ?? na... na, not fine, not fine, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a five year old kid would have switched the lights on before making heaven and earth. We probably would have enjoyed a better world.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here comes the trouble.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God makes man and woman in his own image, male and female, same day </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">same moment and out of same material, dust, earth or clay, same thing.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Adam and Lilith.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So God makes man and woman as equals. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Equality of man and woman was the trouble.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This was not acceptable after a few centuries</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">so what do we do with this woman Lilith ? Do we erase her ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Erasing was not possible after Lilith had become an icon.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What do we do to a strong willed, independant, determined and intelligent </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">woman ?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We brand her as Evil. Such a brilliant woman is considered a threat to the </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">society. Men hate her and do not treat her as an equal </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and even women do not tolerate her. They weave some scandal about her, accuse her of loose morals, fictitious crimes, banish her or burn her. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">History is littered with such stories of brilliant women ending up at the stake. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why are the other women inferior ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Bikkaas they WANT to be inferior</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Their God says so</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Their religion says so.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So the story of Genesis is re written. The original writer is a decent guy who </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">made man and woman equal. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now the revised Genesis is written to make woman inferior to Man. Now you can see how all three mono-theistic religions are founded on a lie. Judaism Christianity and Islam</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith is brilliant, gets top marks in all the subjects, where as Adam fails in </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Maths physics and biology and even history. There was not much history </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">anyway. All he had to do was to study just 2 days of history and he flunks </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">even in that.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith walks out on Adam, makes a regulation call, calls God from a pay phone </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God had de-activated her SIM and cancelled VISA card.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No more shopping, God is angry and Adam devastated.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Calling God</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Its ringing</span></span><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Recorded in Fairy Maire Brennan's beautiful voice Lilith gets God's answering </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">machine instead</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Welcome to G.D.S, God's Devine Services.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 1 for mass murder.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 2 for Kidnapping rape and torture</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 3 for epidemic</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 4 for Floods and Tsunami</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 5 for Hurricane tornado and cyclone</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 6 for earthquakes And GOD LOVES YOU</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith says WOW ! hangs up in disgust.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">According to revised Genesis, God sends three Angels to fetch her. But she </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">refuses to come back.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">So, the first wedding in heaven ends up in a disaster.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">the reason ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lilith refuses to be submissive and refuses to obey Adam.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Adam is a dum gai. How can an independant and a brilliant woman be </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">submissive to a dum dum ?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She is not an inferior.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are many stories of Lilith and what happened to her. One of them is she joins the Devil. They couldn't think of anything good for her. A brilliant woman will always be associated with Evil and the Devil. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Stupid society.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God is surprised when FedEx deliver a thick envelop, God signs on the clip </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">board, Thank you God says the FedEX man.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What is that ? Adam wants to know</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Shut up you fool says God while reading the contents of the envelop</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You have lost your wife you moron, says God, these are the divorce papers </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">your wife wants you to sign, Devil is her lawyer.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God is furious, calls Devil immediately but gets Devil's answering machine.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Welcome to DDS, Devil's Devine services</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 1 for Genocide</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 2 for kidnapping.........</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">dear God ! i don't believe this </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What God why are you calling yourself ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Dear God' is an expression you idiot.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Why are you so pissed ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lissen to this.. God hands him the mobile</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Press 6 for earthquakes</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This stupid Devil is offering the same services as I do, you idiot, that bone </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">head, my favourite Angel, i taught him all the tricks and now he is out to ruin </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">my business. I'll wring his little neck if i can lay my hands on him, I'll tear him </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">to pieces and feed his flesh to the dogs, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Devil comes on line</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hi My sweet little Devilee, How sweet of you ! my dear cute fellow, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EEEEEEEEEEEEEE i miss you so much, you were my favourite Angel, </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">How are you Devilee ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i yam hothey ( i am ok )</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Any new Adventures my dear little sweet Devilee ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Gaath you all velly velly bath (God you are very very bad)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We need to talk my dear sweet Devilee, oh i have some fresh mangos, i'll </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">send them over, why don't we meet for Dinner ? I can slaughter a few Angels and fry them for you. You love Angel fry i know, many of my Angels are missing.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">whaath all you thaying Gaath ?? (what are you saying God ?)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i yam dulooling all-lethy (i am drooling already) says the Devil, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">all you thillying thoo belybe me ? ( are you trying to bribe me ?)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Where is Lilith ? Can i tok to her ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Thees lite heeyal thitthing by my thyth (she is right here, sitting by my side)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i want to talk to her my sweet little fellow .. Said God</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">folget about hull gaath, thees mine ( forget about her God, she's mine)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The revised Genesis says</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God made heaven and earth</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">God said let there be light and there was light</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and God made man out of dust, earth what ever</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Then out of Adam's rib makes a woman</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now she is not an equal, she is an inferior, submissive obedient woman.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All are happy. No mention of his first wife</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i'll tell you how researchers traced the origin of Lilith in the comments, this is </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">getting too long.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They depict Eve as stupid and inferior ( though Adam continues to be a certified moron, maha dimwit)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They made one big mistake, i'll tell you in the comments.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The sin is committed, Eve is blamed for the downfall of mankind and women </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">is cursed by ALL LOVING GOD</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"To the woman He said, 'I will greatly multiply your pain and your </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">conception,'" literally. "'In pain you shall bring forth children; yet your desire </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">but must be in submission, as the Law says. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">If they want to inquire about something, they should ask their own husbands </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">at home; for it is disgraceful for a woman to speak in the church.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(1 Corinthians 14:34 - 35)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Lot more venom about women, i'll tell you later. i'll give you exact quotes.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What about other religions ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">None better</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"By a girl, by a young woman, or even by an aged one, nothing must be done </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">independently, even in her own house. In childhood a female must be subject to her father, in youth to her husband, when her lord is dead to her sons; a woman must never be independent". (Laws of Manu, V, 147-8).</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is Hinduism, says lot worse in fact.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Women suffer the most in all countries under Islamic rule, the treatment of women is pathetic. They follow the same story of Genesis. Though Islam claims equality but never practiced.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">why ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">because women want to be inferior.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">When it comes to division of property, Islamic laws are grossly unfair to women.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Buddhism is very clearly misogynist.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Buddhist monks act as though they sprang from the earth like vegetables</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What is the role of women in Buddhism ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">What women ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">These chaps are not even aware that they have mothers and sisters.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They say nothing. Women are not worthy of any consideration.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Though there are no dumb and stupid statement you find in the Bible.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Am i asking women to abandon their family life and take up guns and fight ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No, i am asking them to let go of this inferiority created by religion they are </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">clinging to and let go of this God. The doors will open for them. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i am asking them to learn from nature. The entire planet is run and managed </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">by the female species. Women are more intelligent, emotionally stronger </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">than men and more creative, though not much creative work comes from </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">them as they are not free and have no time or oppertunity to express themselves. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">And Women are non violent.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Tell me which woman would advise making of nukes, chemical and biological weapons which will wipe out all forms of life from this planet ?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">We are sleeping on thousands of such weapons</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Our world is in a mess now, human race is facing extinction. Its time for a </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">change in management.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As a boy i fought and defended my mom and sisters from the tyranny of my </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">father. i have been fighting for others ever since, there have been threats to my life. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now i am old, weak and defeated. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i am tired, i am very tired.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">After being thrown out of the garden of Eden, there was a significant </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">improvement in Adam, now he could count till ten.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div><br /></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com98tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-57838458446629049412009-02-03T11:35:00.016+05:302009-04-06T14:12:05.698+05:30SO FULL OF LIFE<a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=sugarcanesmile.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/sugarcanesmile.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Sugarcane smile, made me happy, it'll make any one happy</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile18.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile16.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She has seen better days, now poverty written all over her and yet she is so full of life, full of giving. Nirmal Sindu and i landed near her hut after a long and tiring trek. This is Wynad, Kerala, going there next week.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">forgot her name, she made kattan kaapee for us it was a life saver, and said if we can wait for half an hour she'll catch some fish from the river and prepare lunch for us.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No, thank you, said Nirmal earnestly, you have already been so kind and generous. And she refused to accept any money from us. We just sat by the river and relaxed in her company for an hour and left.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile19.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile21.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile21.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile22.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile22.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Their life is not easy, misery and suffering right since the day they are born. Yet they know how to smile. This is poverty by design, this is misery by design, they are condemned by the society. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Racism of the worst kind. Its a very clever system. They accept cast system as their faith. They embrace poverty misery and suffering as religion.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile39.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile39.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile25.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile25.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile27.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile27.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile24.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile24.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile28.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile28.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">India is a cursed land. India will never come out of misery even if we become the next economic super power. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">we will remain miserable for ever. We seem to love our misery. Any country where people flee at any given oppertunity is a cursed land, another example is China, where you see oppression of the worst kind. All the flag waving Indians who shout, 'Mera bharat Mahaan' would flee given a chance, and i don't blame them. The conditions are so miserable.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile36.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile36.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile35.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile35.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile34.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile34.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">She is smiling through her Ghunghat (veil), She invited me to her house, a mud house, this is the exterior</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile07.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile07.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile26.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile26.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Do i feel miserable not living in a penthouse ?? </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Look at this.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">I said WHOA !! when i entered</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile05.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile05.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Ha ! this is joy. Just a mud house and the whole thing would come crumbling down just by leaning on it. Look at her interior design. This is love.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You did this all by yourself ?? i asked her</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yes she said, handing me a small mud pot of some fruit juice, she was beaming.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This should get in to an international Interior design magazine i thought.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is something. This is so full of life.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile12.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Hey ! where is your smile ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Here it comes, these are the farm hands of kutch</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile13.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile11.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile14.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i would not smile with such a load on my head. Poverty becomes a way of life. Nothing stops them from feeling good, Indian movies play a big role in their lives. They want to be like movie stars. And they have thir own fashion. Some traditional and some new.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile38.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile38.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile01.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile01.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile03.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile03.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile04.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile04.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile33.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile33.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anything, a piece of jewelry, new clothes, to make them feel good, to make them less miserable,</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">they flaunt it. i can't measure their joy by my yardstick. </span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=payal.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/payal.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile09.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile09.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile10.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile30.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile30.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i don't remember what i told her in my broken Kannada that made her laugh. It takes very little effort to ease the situation and bring some lighter moments. i am a clown always. i reach out and touch them.</span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile32.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile32.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile31.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile31.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">S</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">ome new pictures in PASSION GREEN, PORTRAITS and BLUNT KNIFE, you can find the links on the side bar right under the clock, i don't like posting just pictures, wanted to delete these blogs, i am obsessed with the page design, so they stay.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Traveling again on herbal medicine trail, just for information that could be useful for my friends, going on a forest trail next week to Coorg and Wynad.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All my love </span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile37.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile37.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/?action=view&current=smile40.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/FEB2009/smile40.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-60710117926791458992009-01-22T17:27:00.011+05:302009-01-22T18:39:27.297+05:30NEW MAN UP THERE<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">yes i heard.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">very impressive and sincere in his words. Barack Obama was clearly affraid to speak out. 2 minutes in to the speech i thought oh deeah ! he is giving champagne, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">words that people want to hear.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My fellow citizens, thank you for making me your president, here is some champagne, now go home and sleep, i'll wake you up after 4 years. He took 18 minutes to say that. He did it in style.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">As an outsider what did i expect ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Transparency, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">not a word. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">offer transparency to the people. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Make democracy work. Not a word about that eeder.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He is not aware that democracy was crushed to death years ago in the US. Closest he came to mentioning the dead democracy was with this statement. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"......</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">petty grievances and false promises, the </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">recriminations and worn-out dogmas that for far too </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">long have strangled our politics."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No, democracy did not bounce back on Nov 4th 2008. People were so frustrated that they would have elected a donkey to power. But we have Obama.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Obama was not possible in 2004 </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and will not be possible in 2012. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Obama happened by chance in 2008.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Any hope to make the democracy work ?</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Yes there is.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Obama can do it.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and he can come back in 2012.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and lead the world by exmple.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You have the best. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Best brains in the world. Science medicine and technology, best in philosophy and journalism, art music literature and entertainment. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">26 nobel prize winners from 2000 - 2004. yes i counted. Highest for any country. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">These best brains allowed the country to be taken for </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">a ride by a few criminals. Were they sleeping ?</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No, democracy was not working. their voices were not loud enough. and they fell on deaf ears. Media was not on their side. Media supported the criminals.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Now Obama can change all that, offer transparency in administration. He can allow the Citizens to participate in running the government. consult the </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">best brains on major issues. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He made good use of the internet for his election campaign. Now he can use the internet to revive the democracy and show the world.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He can have web site for direct opinion polls on major issues. Direct, not through agencies which are not always reliable.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Have discussion forums on various issues. He can have a full fledged establishment processing all the views of the people instead of wasting money on CIA, supporting crimes against humanity.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Stop terrorising, bullying, political and economic arm twisting of the small and poor countries. Not a word about that in his speech.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"....... know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy".</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i think he very badly needs a crash course on American history.</span></span></span></div></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i would have called him an honest man if he had said, </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"we are 5% of world population but our contribution to the environmental damage is 30%". Now lets rectify.. ???</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No ??</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">No</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All he can say is</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic; font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">".......nor can we consume the world's resources </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">without regard to effect. For the world has changed, </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">and we must change with it"</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">To change, He has time till December 2009 for the next Kyoto Protocol.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"......we'll work tirelessly to lessen the nuclear threat and roll back the specter of a warming planet" </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He says lessen. Does not say eradicate. Good start anyway.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He chose to remain silent on Human rights, perhaps he doesn't like jokes.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">"To the people of poor nations, we pledge to work alongside you to make your farms flourish and let clean waters flow; to nourish starved bodies and feed hungry minds"</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">But at what cost ?. He doesn't say a word about globalisation.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He did not waste any time blaming the previous government. That was wise. No point in doing that.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Perhaps there were speech writers behind it, but they cannot bring an honest and sincere tone which Obama brought convincingly. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He means business.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There is no guarentee that he will not invade Iran, Trinidad or Fiji. Hope he does not repeat the blunders.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">He brings hope and dignity back to the White house.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Good luck Mistah ! I wish you well.</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com35tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-74242611386211673972009-01-09T20:22:00.070+05:302009-04-06T14:13:40.758+05:30SOME TIMES I WISH<div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish04.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish04.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is the last i saw of her. She smiled.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That smile was a final blow on my head </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">it came down like a sledge hammer and i sank.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That smile was a slap on the emerging economic super power. </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Will the lady wearing red be her future ? </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i hope not</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a desert.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A thoughtless husband allows his wife to walk miles in the scorching sun of Rajasthan to fetch a pot of water in such an advanced stage of pregnancy</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish02.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish02.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;font-family:verdana;" ><br /></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">i<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> hated money all my life, but i have desires.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is a contradiction. If you hate money, don't have any desires.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">My whole life is a story of contradictions.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i could never accept that money is a necessary evil</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">i hated the system of money which created poverty. i am at my best with no money in my pocket. Completely relaxed. i get rid of what i earn very fast, i travel. never saved. Not a wise thing to do. i am allergic to wisdom any way.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">it is my duty to keep an eye on my friends, notice changes in their behaviour, protect them from any tension. i am a pain, i interfere in their lives. i am nosey.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">not a good thing to do, but i do.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">There are times when i wish i had money to help those in need. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">it hits me on my head and i go weak and depressed.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">There have been a couple of such blows in the recent past</span></span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish06.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish06.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'times new roman';"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is Kiran.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She wants to be a doctor.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">How i wished all her dreams come true. just wished and wished.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'My parents have already started discussing my marriage'. She said</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She is just a child. But this is India, a remote godforsaken village in Rajasthan with no drinking water. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She'll be a mother of three by the time she turns eighteen.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">how i wished i could help her. i don't even remember where this village is.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish17.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></span></div></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish07.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish07.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">She is the first of five children in her family. A girl child is considered a burden. She has to take care of the younger ones, go to school, study, do her home work and help her mother cook and clean up. i was sinking deeper and deeper. That is pretty normal for her. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i kept showing her pictures on the camera screen. She was giggling to glory.<br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish15.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish13.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish11.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Any one would love to help. But helping her is not easy as you think.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There are people out there who take advantage of your kindness.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Kindness is a big source of money. its a big racket.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Your money goes to the wrong people.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You can sponsor a child, but not directly. There are agencies involved, nearly all of them connected to Churches or other religious institutions. And you are convinced that a Church would never cheat you.</span></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish12.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Georgia;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">All you see is a picture of a child and you reach for your check book. Like you there are four or five other people interested. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">A B C D, the agency takes money from all of them. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">D is not aware that he is sponsoring the same child as A.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i have burnt my fingers. No details, here's the story in short.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">my friend in the US sponsored a child in India. the Agency was run by some missionaries. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i wanted to see the sponsored child. They wouldn't give me the address. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'we are protecting you' said the Nun. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">They arrange the meeetings. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i started digging, i don't give up, it was a wild goose chase. i got the child's address from his school teacher after a couple of attempts. Another ordeal followed. The child was not there. Got him finally, living in pathetic conditions above a cow shed. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Met his mother, she was a bigger problem. Big yerdake she was. i wanted to wriggle out of the situation. She said that the Agency makes the boy write three 'thank you' letters to three different sponsors. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">That was shocking. All the dealing go through the Agency. They don't let you deal with the child directly. </span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You give 100 dollars to the agency, only 5 dollars reach the child.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Indeed there are children all over the world getting education with the help of sponsors. But most of your money goes to the wrong people.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:georgia;"><br /></span></div></span></div></span></div><div><br /></div></span></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238); text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish14.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a></span><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">You can take the trouble of reaching a child like Kiran in some remote village of India. You will not be allowed to handle the child's education directly. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">'Give me the money' father would say, we'll take care of the child's education.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The child will not receive the full benefit of your help.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">what else can you do ?</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">i don't know.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">There is no guarantee that your money goes in the right direction. A little of it does.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish10.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="http://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/?action=view&current=wish16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i206.photobucket.com/albums/bb48/lifeline5/WISH/wish16.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">off they go. To fetch drinking water in the desert. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">India claims to be an emerging economic power, a software giant ?? </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">what ever.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">This is life, bitter and sweet.</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial;"><br /></span></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-43172331714995227062009-01-01T07:32:00.009+05:302009-01-01T15:27:43.256+05:30KUTTANGI LOOKS AHEAD<a href="http://s85.photobucket.com/albums/k64/5roblane/?action=view&current=kut.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k64/5roblane/kut.jpg" border="0" alt="Photobucket" /></a><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Took this picture in the train on my way to Trivandrum a couple of weeks ago.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">i'll be 61 next week. i realised that i have always been a very weak person physically mentally and emotionally. This is because i hardly had any bad experiences worth mentioning in my life, and not a joy ride eeder. i never went after it. Took life as it came to me and made no attempt to shape it. My life is a shapeless ugly and weak building.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Its not the moments of joy, which are very few, but it is the bad experiences which give you the strength, and bad experiences make you a strong person. Every time you have a bad experience you add a strong pillar to your building, to your life. Its your desire to shape your building as beautiful as possible, using beautiful building blocks, but it doesn't happen. Very few good looking building blocks, rest are rough and not so good looking. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">That is life. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">The building is kept alive by those who love you trust you. . </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">its easy for me give you a hollow wish for the new year and that is what you want to hear. i can only wish you all the courage and strength to deal with any situation that comes your way and</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">wish you the ability to let go. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">just let go and Look ahead.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">that's a strange wish.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">oh well .... i am a clown</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=";font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Love you all.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><br /></div></div>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-90071096380466189782008-12-10T09:12:00.009+05:302008-12-10T10:43:47.214+05:30SUICIDE<span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>It was getting cold, delayed wearing something warm by 15 minutes and i started sneezing</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>That was a big mistake, led to a bigger trouble, have fever now and i have to travel tonight.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Again</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>We were having tea, me, Sujith, Suresh, Suresh yes two Sureshes, Ramesh and Nishant, wildreness around us in Kothagiri.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i was sneezing like mad. Thats when Sujith dropped a bomb on me</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>'LOLA KUTTY IS GETTING MARRIED' he said</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>WHAT ??</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>what a loss !</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i felt like comitting suicide right there. </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>What a name. Lola Kutty Wow !</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>As usual i was scratching my yeddu sneezing non stop.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i was afraid to ask, but i asked</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Who is this LOLA KUTTY Sujith ?</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>WHAT ? YOU DON'T KNOW WHO LOLA KUTTY IS ??</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>EEEEEEEEEEE i was scratching my yeddu again</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i did not even know if Lola kutty was a man or a woman</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>You can't say, things are so weird these days</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Brad Pitt's younger brother could be LOLA Pitt, no surprises there.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong></strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>No surprises when you hear the names of Celebrity kids like </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:verdana;color:#33ffff;">Sage Moonblood</span> ( daughter of Sylvester Stallone ) </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>or <span style="color:#33ffff;">Moon Unit</span> ( daughter of Frank Zappa ) </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>or <span style="color:#33ffff;">Fire</span> ( son of rock guitarist Steve Vai ) </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>or <span style="color:#33ffff;">Fifi Trixabelle</span> and <span style="color:#33ffff;">Peaches Honeyblossom Michelle Charlotte Angel Vanessa </span>( daughters of Bob Geldof ) </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>how about this name ? <span style="color:#33ffff;">Camera</span> ( daughter of Arthur Ashe )</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i don't believe this, you won't believe it either, </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#33ffff;">I. P. Freely</span> ( son of David Carradine )</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="color:#33ffff;">I.P Freely</span> ?? oh dear ! poor kid ! He'll sue his parents when he grows up.</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>So Lola Kutty is no big surprise</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>But who is Lola Kutty ?</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i was still scratching my yeddu and sneezing feeling sorry for my ignorance.</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>oh ! she is a Channel V presenter said Sujith</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Channel V is like MTV and </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i don't watch TV, what a sin !</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">Channel V ?</span></strong><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>oh ! i said and stopped scratching my yeddu</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i always say oh ! </strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>girls normally say hmmmmm.....</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>So this Lola kutty is getting married and i was sad.</strong></span><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;"></span></strong><br /><strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:130%;">Next evening, after a trek thru the forest</span></strong><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>Hitched a ride on a truck reached Mettupalayam station with Sujith, </strong></span><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>boarded the train with a burning desire to see what this Lola kutty looks like</strong></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>First thing i did on reaching home early in the morning was to google Lola Kutty</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i was not disappointed</strong></span><br /><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>here is Lola kutty for you</strong></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 116px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 258px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278012785548706546" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmX_eIf3bBXI1pDCZurdb6EaJdo5ebA7svjwwk6Lv14xFIjUBtn7eyM-cuHdCsGWODdzjNUJN1mIQgiO9lWz7ygkPBwGQZq2uMDzJzX0Ty1MukBBPv3Fl9ols95JnTxJMuNxNY/s400/lola.jpg" /><br /><br /><br /><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>This is not what i wanted to write i am sorry, writing a post is an ordeal, reading it is an ordeal for you toos, until i write my next post on Rajasthan i thought i post this in between.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>My friend said if there is a mole on your foot you would keep traveling always, she has one.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i immediately removed my shoe to check</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>there it was, a big mole on my left foot.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>i'll be back in a week's time</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>all my love</strong></span></p>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com58tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-83488082316022224632008-10-26T20:21:00.004+05:302009-04-15T16:21:53.291+05:30MACHO MACHO JEWELRY<a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc10.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc10.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>DON'T</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>MESS WITH MEE</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>no no, i won't i won't... promise</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>oh deah ! i can't mess with this guy</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>tough looking</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>big ear rings</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Oooo !</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc09.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc09.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>He is a cowherd</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Hellow !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Thank you sir</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>have a good time with your cows</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>oh nunnoo ! no NOOOO, NOOOOOOOOOOO</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>oh deah ! No sir, no sir, i am sorry i am sorry</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>i mean have a good time with your family</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>hmmmmmmmmm......</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc11.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc11.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>GAAAAD ! you gave me a head and a skull but forgot to put something in there</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>oh this is sweet ! and he is smiling toos !!</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc01.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc01.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>This is Kutch, far end of India to my west in the state of Gujrat where Gandhiji came from</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Remove the turban and give him round spectacles, you have a Gandhiji there.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>He is a shepherd, they all wear Jewelry. Long before it became fashionable for men. i think Gandhiji's ears were pierced too. not sure, have to check.</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc02.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc02.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc03.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc03.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc06.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc06.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>This is his family, its a macho thing, big turban moustache and ear rings, other jewelry</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc04.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc04.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc05.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc05.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>He has problem with his eyes, i didn't notice while taking pictures, i am half blind anyway, i don't notice things. They are poor people, Even very poor are obsessed with gold in India.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc07.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc07.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Does he go to school ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>No</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>i used to feel sad about it, but not anymore, i had a useless education, this boy is learning how to survive in the desert and i can't. Geometry, world war one, world war 2 are so useless. But we repeat our blunders, whats the point in learning our history ?</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc19.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc19.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc13.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc13.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Another shepherd, he is wearing tiny ear rings. </strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>What do we have here ?</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc12.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc12.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>thats me, Never wore any jewelry, wrist watch that i wore 40 years ago was just an instrument</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>i don't wear it any more, i always look up and know the time</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>that's how i missed many trains.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>gorillas don't wear Jewelry, so i tried a turban, </strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>gorillas don't wear turbans ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>What would i do with Jewelry ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>useless, i can't even eat them when i am hungry</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>How about hanging a couple of carrots down my ears, i can always pluck and eat them when i am hungry, a bunch of grapes the next day ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Like always i am sitting by the road side and eating hot jilebees. Sweet they are. </strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc14.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc14.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>What do we have here ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>OOOO</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>He is making PAAN for us.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Well, what IS paan ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Aaarti can tell you, i know what it is but can't explain, she writes beautifully</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Aaartidee yenge' dee Nee ? please explain.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>oh ! look at the stuff he is wearing ! wow !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>smile please </strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>he's a bit shy of his possessions</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>aaah ! aaaaaah !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc15.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc15.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>deah o deeeah ! This is fantastic !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>why are you shy about it ?</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>i have seen those golden teeth in my childhood, none in my family, we never had gold, we just ate all the money, This is fantastic Wow </strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>You look like a movie star sir !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc16.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc16.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc18.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc18.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>You can't afford to smile on the streets of Bombay or my City of Chennai</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>You can get mugged.</strong></span><br /><br /><a href="http://s187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/?action=view&current=mc17.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x129/lifeline8/mc17.jpg" alt="Photobucket" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>Yea yea ! they pulled the wrong tooth in a hurry !</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong>no no that, is my mischief, i painted the tooth in photopaint.</strong></span><br /><span style=";font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;" ><strong></strong></span>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com47tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18166829.post-49963333086492074432008-09-29T04:54:00.012+05:302008-09-29T06:24:03.549+05:30IF THE WORLD COULD VOTE<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrymmEBlNRSH70bS_4aptsZCnlUuiEEKRwCMDWMn2C6H7wIo5uem2ZY8ftW_NQcA4b5pJm9d5DJ2222MYnbr2fNx57LcDgqTp8WOVLT5llJPLaHH3F4LWYKcj1cjRb3tN47w3/s1600-h/US.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5251221623665518946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfrymmEBlNRSH70bS_4aptsZCnlUuiEEKRwCMDWMn2C6H7wIo5uem2ZY8ftW_NQcA4b5pJm9d5DJ2222MYnbr2fNx57LcDgqTp8WOVLT5llJPLaHH3F4LWYKcj1cjRb3tN47w3/s400/US.jpg" border="0" /></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>There is so much of painful interference, arm twisting and bullying from the US government all over the world, i think rest of the world has the right to choose who becomes the next US president. The results so far are amazing. i picked it up from Claudia's blog.</strong></span> <a href="http://www.iftheworldcouldvote.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;">PLEASE VOTE HERE</span></a> <span style="font-family:verdana;font-size:130%;"><strong>And Check the result</strong></span></span>raufhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14069291890495563749noreply@blogger.com33