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Foreign Tourist in Goa- You should have a minimum 36' waistline, and be ready to increase it by 1' or 2' after beer binging. It is OK for you to parade your naked belly while driving your rented activa.- You should not be younger than 40 yrs. And if you are a 50+ women, it is ok for you to go topless, as nobody will give a rat's ass about your rack.- You should know only a smattering of English.-

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Sud's novel - 65 Lakh HeistIt is always good to read well written blogs by people you know. And when they go on to write a novel, albeit a translated one, I'm very happy. Now I start thinking, probably probably, he might include my name in thank you section in his next novel. For what you may ask? Of course for nothing.Sudarshan has stepped into the Indian English literary world with a

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Good to be an EngineerA mathematician and an engineer agreed to take part in a psychological test. They sat on one side of a room and waited not knowing what to expect. A door opened on the other side and a naked woman came in the room and stood on the far side. They were then instructed that every time they heard a beep they could move half the remaining distance to the woman. They heard a beep

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In the name of GaribrathDoes the name of the train Garibrath, means only poor people should travel this train or people who want to save some money? If it is first option, then "financial capacity" checks should be made before anybody purchases a ticket in that. If it is the second, then name Garibrath should be changed to something equivalent to "Low cost AC 3 tier trains". As far as my

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One liner about Movies/Novel India basedWhite Tiger - Easy to read, nothing "white tiger" special, funny at times, a novel for the western audience, India at its darkestSlumdog Millionare - Sometimes edgy, sometimes slow, fantastic soundtracks, not so great acting by the main lead, very little similarities with the book.Darjeeling Limited - quirky, Owen Wilson school of acting, nothing for Adrien

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Q & AThe moment I finished Q & A, I thought to myself that this is a perfect script for Madhur Bhandarkar. What an avial book. Some of the ingredients tasted nicely but most did not. The ingredients being:-1. Gay sex in church and Father hiding that he is a father2. Pedophilia in juvenile home3. Forcing a girl child into prostitution (family involved)4. Drunk father and Incestuous relationship5.

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What is the difference ...Between Basically my name is and Actually my name is?

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Partner II?This probably might inspire David Dhawan.

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Blinded by high beamsNight driving in Indian roads is a nightware. Constant blinding high beams makes the driving not so good experience. Basically we Indian drivers do not know when to use high beams and when to not. And that is basically the problem. Since we do not know when to use, we basically keep it on all the time. Here is a video that illustrates when to use low and high beams.There is

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CommentsJoel writes an interesting article about blog comments. Right here he lists an interesting pointIf the article, for example, mentions anything in anyway related to Microsoft, you get some kind of open source nuclear war.This is precisely what happens in rediff. Any mention about any south Indian movie will become a Amitabh vs Rajni war. If fact research could be done as to, whatever the

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Snakes on a planeThe stupidest English movie I have watched, next to Deep Blue Sea. Both stars Samuel Jackson.

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Born Again Rajni FanI was a fan of his after Baasha, Annamalai and Mannan. But after that came some duds. And chandramukhi just made it all the more frustrating. Then came The Cooooooooool Boss, the gum shooting Boss, the one who can make fun of himself Boss. I am a born-again fan now.The movie was WOW all over. Shankar and his team does not disappoint. The song picturizations were brilliant. Not

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Bourne is back

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Grand Daddies of Indian Cinema

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The Web's Ten Most Irritating WordsTechtree has come with a list of The Web's Ten Most Irritating Words. My pick of the most irritating would be webinar and unconference.

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Rich get Richer, Poor get PoorerHere waatch it!

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Bechara BushSource

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Celebrity KrapCelebrities most of the time dish out Krap in movies. Nowadays they have started dishing out the same in T.V. as well. The one who tops this list is Karan Johar in his Koffee with Karan show. He invities his A-list celebrity buddies cum Bollywood's supposedly talented King Khan, Rani, Kajol, Priyanka C, Hrithik and make them dish out Krap as well. You would expect a show which

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Would you believe it?Kiwis clean sweeps the aussies.

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The reason whyI did not like Guru, I did not like Yuva as well. Coming from the man who made Nayakan, MounaRagam, AgniNatchathiram, KannathilMuthamittal I was wondering what the reasons might be. I was going to write a bit about it. Then I came across this, and I do not think I would have written as clearly as to what he has written. Read it through.

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Always lateSome people are always late. They do not realize it and they do not think that it is a big deal. Recently I had to miss my flight because of some people who thought that it is cool to be late and make others wait for them. It might be cool to be late for certain things, but when it comes to going to Airport it is not. Missing flights means losing money, losing patience and also being

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Landing jittersWhen the spice jet flight from Hyderabad was about to land in Mumbai, two elderly gentlemen who were sitting opposite to me called up the air hostess and asked for some whisky. Instead of laughing it out (I was), the air hostess maintained a cool head and convinced the men that they do not carry any liqour. And it is not possible for her to provide them with some liqour. I'm sure

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Pongalo Pongal

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Rediff readers at their bestCheck out the message board

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Whatever the result may beIndia does not deserve to win this game. Dravid and Sachin field mein hug rahe the.P.S - Hug in hindi loosely means taking a dump

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EuphemismHe was in shower. He was basically in the loo and could not come out to pad up.

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Just a thoughtNothing works, but shit happens.

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Hilarious reply by Sreesanth

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Watch what you are talkingWatching Kramer in Seinfeld will not be the same anymore.

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Minority Report becomes realityThis is way too cool, check it out. Human Computer Interface in a totally different plane.

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GPL - the newest dating game show in MTV landYeah, you heard it right, that is the name of the show. Obviously they have their own expansion for it, but at the end of the show one of the contestants do get a kick on the back, and the other two go on to live life happily ever after (Yeah! sure). If the show has two girls in it, they put on the least clothes, hang out near the pool and drink/eat

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Quotable quotes from Pyaar ka side effectsNanoo and Sid at Nanoo's ex-girl friends Wedding receptionNanoo - My name Narayanan Iyer should have been there (Pointing at the name plaque containing the bride and groom's name, which happens to be a cool Vincent something)Sid - What! Your name is Narayanan Iyer?Nanoo - How about Naryanan Balaguruswamy Iyer?One more time, an odd 'south Indian' named guy

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Film festival theme?When a film festival has a theme like Displaced, what do you expect out of it? Displaced, what is displaced, who is displaced? The recently concluded European film festival had this theme. All the movies that were screened dealt with People displaced from their homes, displaced from their near and dear ones, displaced from the space that they had created for themselves. And

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Have you Stumbled upon?Lots of sites, but don't have much time to go through all, not knowing which ones may be interesting? There is digg, reddit, del.icio.us and Stumble and ofcourse various blogs.One thing i like about Stumble, is its taskbar. Register, singup, install their taskbar and you are ready to Stumble through various interesting sites. My Stumble id is sriharisn.Apologise if you have

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Religious songsThere is a generation growing now thinking that Babuji zara..., Aikha dha jeeba..., Dhoom machaye..., etc., are religious songs.

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Long NamesFinally a south indian name, which are made fun off at innumerable places, has a big fan following.

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Gift question?While i was a bachelor, i used to be invited by my married friends for either breakfast/lunch/dinner. I used to whole heartedly take up those invitations and enjoy the home cooked food. Unless it is a very "official" invitation, i would not buy any gifts for the hosts. Recently as a means of "Paying it forward", i have been inviting my bachelor friends for some home cooked food. One

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Blog from SpaceRead more from the first female private space explorer here

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Appeal II and IIIIndian hockey federation has appealed once again to the International hockey federation not to award penalty corners against them. Even if they do, they should not allow Taeke Takema to take the penalty cornersIndian people have appealed to the Indian hockey federation not to send players who are so fond of playing with their legs and bodies inside their own D. If they are that

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AppealAfter studying the results of last games that India has played, the Indian hockey federation has appealed to International hockey federation to take away the dying minutes from the game.

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After effects of Lage RahoStinking Government Offices. Employees are afraid to go to their offices. They do not want to see anymore scrawny legs, dirty underwears and sweaty shirts & pants. They blame Munnabhai's Gandhigiri for the same.

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Indians do read Dilbert blogI'm not sure why we are cribbing a lot about the way Scott Adams has spelled Gandhi. People from one state in India cannot properly pronounce spell names of people from another state. I get an extra 'h' most of the times in my name, some people miss out an 'h' from others names most of the times. That is fine. But well, we expect Americans to spell out our names

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Matthi ka GanapathyMy Aunt in IIT Powai spearheads a movement that encourages people to make their own Matthi ka Ganapathy. This movement was basically started to encourage people not to contaminate the environment especially water bodies with "Painted" Ganapathies during visarjan. The movement organizes a workshop just before Vinayaka Chaturthi, which gives basic training to participants as to

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A city in sorrow Sorry, but I'm no more resilient than the spirit of any other city. Tell me, had this happened to Delhi or Chennai or Kolkata, what would those spirits have done? Would life have come to a standstill?Of course not! Everything goes on, as usual, everywhere in the world — that is the only response left to acts of terror. Look at Beirut. Why is nobody salaaming that spirit? Look at

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All Hair gone

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Job OppurtunitesEach and every traffic signal/junction in Pune (any city) is a major potential source for jobs during the peak hours. Each signal will require around 4-16 paid-volunteers to guard, stopping unruly/uncivilized drivers from jumping signals/stopping correctly during the peak hours. The actual work they have to do is hold a tight rope when the signal is red. So at a time a section of

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UnderstatementBeing married is entirely different than being single

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`KANK` will not be dubbed!But Dharma Productions the makers of KANK are refusing to dub it in Tamil as they feel it can be only enjoyed in Hindi by the elite audience.Thank you Dharma Productions for not dubbing this one in Tamil. Tamil "non-elite" people would be saved from the torture.

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First take - da VinciBook was crappy, movie is crappier. Absolutely no entertainment factor. After Lady Killers this is Tom Hanks second worst movie that i have seen. Yawn. Not recommended.

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Wats da matter?You see so many oriental women - white man couples. But you do not see that many oriental man white - women couples, why?

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Movie TriviaIdentify the moviesBaat karna tho baat kar, Dhandha karna tho dhandha kar, goli chalana tho goli chalaWhen you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

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Need a cool job?

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RelianceIndiaCall customer/service goof upCalling cards are generally like lottery tickets, sometimes the lines are clear, sometimes they are not, and sometimes you need to use the card in full. But with relianceindiacall, there is generally no problems whatsoever. They have a nice web ui, nice report of the calls you have made, the balance and stuff. They also have a nice customer service where

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Enjoying art

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Tequila tastingOxymoron i thought, how do tequila and tasting, go hand in hand? I have never tasted tequila before, it was always with a lime, salt and boom toro tequila shots. Instant buzz. With this thought i went to the tequila tasting party with some of my project mates. By the end of hour I tasted some amazing tequila. The host of the hour started us off with some tasty appetizers, to get us

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Back in StatesYou know you are in the States, when you see that weird red haired girl with mixed Hispanic, Black, Caucasian, Asian looks, ear phones, whacking her head right left centre, pierced, torn jeans.

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What all can you take from the flight?I have seen people taking sample liqour bottles, salt, sugar, pepper, the steamed towel. What's the maximum that somebody can take, before you can call him ghir gaya saala?Does spoons, forks and knives come in the takeable items list?Folding the newspaper given by the airlines into neat paper bags, wiping the spoons and forks clean and putting them into the

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Banana joke in the flightTwo middle aged dudes with a pronounced Indian accent, one oriental air hostess (AH)with a pronounced Chinese accentThe dudes (TD) - one more butter pleaseAH - the butter is there sirTD - no no, one moreAH - no no sir, no butter, one on the plateTD (angry) - we want one moreAH - no no, one is on the plateME (laughing)AH to ME - Tell them that there is a butter on the

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The nada Junglee

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Three movies, one weekend (not a review)SyriannaA scene here, a scene there style movie about the international oil industry. Gives a peek into the way things are run in the oil industry, mergers, new princes, how inefficiently oil kingdoms are run. How one action at one part of the world, affects somebody else in an other part of the world. An interesting watch.Good night and good luckWhen

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Right to InformationOur society thrives on "Information Hiding" policy. The less the next one knows the better is for me. How do City corporations justify not putting up any boards or display any detour's when a major road is getting dug up? In Pune, two major roads Universiy road and Senapati Road, are getting dug up, one for a fly over and other for widening. And you cannot see one place where

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Tit for tat?Hindu Law Board offers Rs 51 cr for killing M F Hussain

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Prelude ...... to chapter 3 began a week back and ends by June 15th 2006.

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ConsistencyThe only thing that is consistent about me is my inconsistency.

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Booze TalkA drunk guy will invariably start talking in English whatever his mother tongue may be.A drunk girl will invariably start talking in Tamil/Marathi/Hindi/English whatever her mother tongue may be.

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The ultimate testStanding in the middle of the road at around 8 in the morning, waiting for the red signal to turn green, 90 seconds to go, weather is unusually cold, and none of the other driver are stopping for it. Not even the law abiding ladies.

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Do you have time?To read the best blonde joke ever.

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Pudhusu PayasuPayasuOyunga sappidu, illa poochandi vandhudhuvanPudhusuOyunga blog pannu, illa nilu puke blognu brand panniduvan

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Bang oppositeYou get out of Gate I to catch your flight. The flight is stationed right opposite to where you stand. As you are looking at the flight, a small dinghy bus comes over. The airlines attendant asks you and all the people to board the bus. The bus starts, goes all the way to the end of the road, takes an U-turn and comes back right opposite where you were before. Won't it make more

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Need a cupals room ?With a bath tuff attached ?They also arrange bufe for you.

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Mind BlowingYou have a rough sketch/design/pattern in mind. And you want to search for images in flickr, matching that pattern? Then check this out. Go here for more about retrievr .

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I’ll never forget how she looked with her top down.Want to know more about her, go here.

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Long time back ...... when i started with my pre-reqs for masters in CS, i should have read this. Atleast, I would have thought of doing something else rather than trying to find out right now why i'm still in IT.

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Recently overheard this in great comedy showHumorist - Mam, i have a joke about sex in Chennai.Editor - There is no sex in Chennai.Humorist - Mam, this is sex after marriage in Chennai.Editor - There is no sex even after marriage in Chennai.

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Introducing ...... a very dear friend of mine Rajesh aka Raja, who blogs about automotives here and about Tanjore paintings and stuff here. Go check it out.

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Bluffmaster - my takeThoroughly enjoyable movie. Unlike the unintelligent Bunty and Bubli, this movie has a lot of things going in favor of it. The picturesque shots of Mumbai taken around Haji Ali area are wonderful to look at. The remixed abridged songs with the hip hop touch adds lotsa glamor into the movie. Great performances. I have to confess this, this is the first movie where i have liked

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TriviaI'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love herIdentify the movie and the actor.It is like a greyhound bus station with a runway in it.Who said this and about what.

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One such questionHere are the four answers, identify the question and correct answer.A) India batted first.B) India batted second.C) India lost six wickets.D) England batted first.P.S - This question was asked in KBC, the participant in turn asked the help of the audience, 23% of the audience helped him by pressing C.

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Reach of EmailYesterday, i forwarded the following email that i received from Sudarshan, to some of my colleagues.It's a story that deserves to be told and spread around: http://gauravsabnis.blogspot.com/2005/11/bye-machan.html Pls mention on your blogs/mailing lists too...SudarshanMy colleagues in turn forwarded this to some of their friends. One particular friend forwarded this with the link

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sir utha keWhat is there in coke, to drink it sir utah ke ?Does one feel proud about himself/herself when he/she drinks coke or for that matter any corbonated drink ?

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Maharashtrian snack barIn a Maharashtrian city like Pune, you would expect to see a Saravana Bhavan style fast food/snack bar all over the city that serves exclusive Maharatrian snacks. But no, there are none of that kind. Yes there are the ubiquitous tapris which serve you poha, upma, vada pav. misal pav etc etc along with the South Indian snacks. But no exclusive Maharashtrian snack bar chain.

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Asian Film Festival - Pune (Day 2) 15 Park Avenue -Could not see it from the beginning. The movie deals about a Schizophrenic patient's search for a non existent 15 Park Avenue in Calcutta, played aptly by Konkana Sen supported by Shabana as her sister and Rahul Bose as her ex-fiance.Desperado Square - The first Israeli movie that i have watched till date. Reminded me a little bit off Cinema

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Training Day in HindiWith Nana Patekar enacting Denzel, Jimmy Shergill as Ethan Hawke and Sameera Reddy as Eva Mendes. Just thinking how the script writer would translate this "Whatever the f*** ever." and many more off these kinds.

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Matheran -- TravelogueImagine a hill station, with no tar roads, no motor vehicles, no smell of gasolene, only trees and trees all around, clean fresh air and aerial views that are breathtakingly beautiful, then you get Matheran.LOCATION : Convenintly placed between Mumbai and Pune. It is around 131 Kms from Mumbai and 144 Kms from Pune. The closest railway station is Neral, which is 11 kms from

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Inspired by DenzelFirst, Emraan kissing dude Hashmi got inspired by out of time Denzel in Zeher. Now the Big B himself, inspired by man on fire Denzel in Ek Ajnabee

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GaajuI'm becoming a gaaju Ganesan. Not the usual gaaju, but gaaju with respect to cricket. In cricket terminologies, gaaju means batting and only batting. And im getting a lot of gaaju thanks to this. I play knock out tournaments, head to head tournaments, etc etc. I have had nail biting finishes, last ball dismissals, last ball sixes, hatricks, etc etc. But damn the spinners they are the worst

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New DefinitionsIdiotOne who waits at the signal, for it to turn greenLoserOne who reaches the venue on timeFundoo GuyOne who comes late to the venue, and asks the loser why did he come on time and also asks why everybody comes late

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Desi in America (I)It was a typical michigan summer morning. The desi guy gets up early in the morning and goes to his kitchen to prepare his cereal. Only then he realises that there is no milk in the apartment.Before we get on to the incident, here is a little bit introduction to the guy. He is one typical Coimbatore tamil guy, who speaks with a great Coimbatore accent. He is generally the

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Long last names do helpSource:- Badmash

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Gag OrderBollywood Film Actors Council (BFAC) has issued a gag order to all the model turned actors (both actors and actresses) not to open their mouth in any of their forth coming assignments. They should politely say NO to any Directors who ask them to mouth more than one page of dialogues in a whole movie. Directors who do so will be asked to apolize (Thankar Bachan style) and will not get the

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Mini(est) Bloggers MeetDate :- 24th August, 2005Attendees :- Kats and MePurpose :- Timepass (Read Gossip)Topics Discussed :- One friend's divorce and other friend's strange marriageVenues where gossip took place - Landmark, Cafe Coffee Day (Nungambakkam high road), Richie Street, Saravana Bhavan(Peters Road) and Marina BeachBought two Thiruvasagam CD;s in Landmark. Kats had one black coffee and

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Long weekend with movies and booksDeception Point by Dan BrownJust like Da Vinci Code, this one also is a good read till the end. This one deals with the usual CIA, NASA, White House and stuff. Just like Da Vinci code, this one also falls flat at the end. A good read nevertheless.King of Torts by John GrishamLately John's novels are not that breathtaking, like his previous ones. This one is a bit

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Lonovala Chikki Special

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Couples only

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Donkey Love

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Sarkar IIVishnu's son, after finding out that his uncle Shankar Nagre is the killer of his dad, plans a revenge against his uncle. This time with, Shankar as Amitabh and son of Vishnu as Abhishek.

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Driven to distraction by technologyTechnology for the most part help the human kind to keep their life simpler. Email, Voice Mail, Mobile Phones most of the time keeps you connected, but it also does one more thing, it keeps you distracted. This article wonderfully captures the distraction part. Even while reading the article, i was distracted by one email, a phone call and by one instant message

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Yercaud -- Travelogue (Cogito style)Yercaud is a calm-quiet picturesque hill station located on Shervaroys hill ranges, with lots of coffee estates, eucalyptus and silver-oak trees. LOCATION : Yercaud is located in Tamil Nadu at around 4000-5000 feet above sea level. It is around 30 kms from Salem and takes around 90 minutes drive from Salem. There are regular buses to Yercaud from Salem new bus

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Questions againAfter his first day in school, my 3.5 yr old nephew asked these questions to my sisNaan en schoolkku ponom (Why should i go to school)?Schoolkku poi naan enna panna poren (What am i going to do in school)?Naan padichu enna panna poren (What am i going to do by studying)?Naan veetilendhu padicha enna (Why can't i study at home)?

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Personal TagIt’s the personal Tag now. Cogito nee vaa chennaikkuTHREE NAMES YOU GO BYSrihariSriHariMadduHabans And many moreTHREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELFJust like Cogito i look much younger than my ageHmmmm.............THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELFMy absHmmmm.......THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGENanganallur, ChennaiSaharanpurKalamazooTHREE THINGS THAT SCARE

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