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 08:56 | 30/Jun/2008
A Byte of Soul Food ! The Importance of ...
A Byte of Soul Food!-- To give you a boost on Monday 'morning'!  THE IMPORTANCE OFLITTLE THINGS  In a gun factory, an elongated bar of steel, which weighed five hundred pounds, was suspended vertically by a chain. Near it, an average-size cork was suspended by a silk thread. "You will see something shortly which is seemingly impossible," said an at... more...
 07:41 | 23/Jun/2008
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! You are Impo...
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! -- To give you a boost on  Monday Morning. Reflections: You Are ImportantTaken from "Mr. Washington"by Les BrownOne day in 11th grade, I went into a classroom to wait for a friend of mine. When I went into the room, the teacher, Mr. Washington, suddenly appeared and asked me to go to the board to write something, to work... more...
 07:36 | 16/Jun/2008
Enjoy a byte of Soul Food! Jesse's Glove
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! -- To get you out of Monday Morning. Jesse's Glove (Rick Phillips, Heart At Work)I do a lot of management training each year for the Circle K Corporation, a [U.S.] national chain of convenience stores. Among the topics we address in our seminars is the retention of quality employees--a real challenge to managers when you... more...
 12:00 | 2/Jun/2008
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! Perfection
                Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food !                  -To give you a boost on Monday Morning                                 Perfection                                            By Horace Edwards In Brooklyn, New York, Shush is a school that caters to learning-disabled children. Some children remain in Shush for their entire school career, ... more...
 08:20 | 26/May/2008
A Byte of Soul Food ! Failure ? No Such ...
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food !  -To give you a boost on Monday Morning.Failure? No Such Thing --Lessons from the Life of Thomas Edison (1847-1931)When a reporter asked Thomas Edison how it felt to have failed 25,000 times in his effort to create a simple storage battery, his reply was, "I don't know why you are calling it a failure. Today I know 25,00... more...
 06:44 | 19/May/2008
The Cracked Pot
A Byte of Soul Food ! --To give you a boost on monday morning.The Cracked Pot- Author Unknown A water bearer in India had two large pots. Each hung on one end of a pole, which he carried across his shoulders. One of the pots had a crack in it, and while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water at the end of the long wa... more...
 08:04 | 12/May/2008
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! The Oyster
A Byte of Soul Food ! --To give you a boost on Monday morning.The OysterAn oyster on the ocean floor opened wide its shell. As its valves flushed seawater through, the oyster picked out minute particles of food.Suddenly a large fish nearby stirred up a cloud of sand and silt with a flip of its tail. Sand! Oh, how the oyster disliked sand! It was so... more...
 09:04 | 5/May/2008
A Byte of Soul Food ! One Red Rose
A Byte of Soul Food!-- To get 'u' out of Monday 'mourning'! ONE RED ROSE--By Eva Mae Ramsey             In the mid-1960s my husband's sister Muriel became very ill. My husband and six-year-old daughter, Linda, and I travelled to Tulsa to be present while Muriel underwent surgery for a diseased kidney. As we neared Tulsa, a thought flashed into my m... more...
 08:40 | 30/Apr/2008
Robby's Night -True Story Worth Reading!...
Robby's Night  - True Story Worth Reading!!! At the prodding of my friends, I am writing this story. My name is Mildred Hondorf. I am a former elementary school music teacher from Des Moines , Iowa . I've always supplemented my income by teaching piano lessons-something I've done for over 30 years. Over the years I found that children have many lev... more...
 06:33 | 28/Apr/2008
Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food ! What are you...
                       Enjoy a Byte of Soul Food !                                             --To give you a boost on Monday Morning.                                                   What are you made of?                                                                     Retold by Gabe Rucker A young woman went to see her mother and told her abou... more...
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 amrut patil | 14:24 | 27/Jun/2008
Friends: (57)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: singing
Oh, That Other Hindu Riot Of Passage
Oh, That Other Hindu Riot Of PassageBy Khushwant Singh07 November, 2004Outlook MagazineThere are two anniversaries so deeply etched in my mind that every year they come around I recollect with pain what happened on those two days. They occurred 20 years ago. One is October 31, when Mrs Gandhi was gunned down by her two Sikh security guards. The oth...  more...
 Kumar Ahuja | 10:56 | 26/Jun/2008
Friends: (396)  | City: Mumbai(Bombay)  | Interests: I luv Making Frndz..
A Lost Soul
Man created machines for his own useIn turn, machines turned him of no useDiscoveries take place every new morningWho cares for nature's warning?Natural things have come to a standstillEverybody now thinks digitalMan calls himself as independentIn reality, he is now machine dependentIn the forest of machines,On a gifted planet called earth...A sear...  more...
 Raut Vilas | 18:14 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (312)  | City: Pune  | Interests: swimmig,Reading,T...
Without God - No life. Without air - No ...
 Without God - No life. Without air - No life !God is Love - means God is only love - nothing but love - Love is all God ever offers you whatever you do.God love - divine love can but heal.God's divine love can but free you.God is LoveAlso means whatever you have done - God has dissolved it already in his love even BEFORE you do it, because God kne...  more...
 Vincent Abraham | 08:43 | 4/Jun/2008
Friends: (150)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Business, Stamps,...
Blue Chip Expert - Million Ready Minds
Dear IBIBO Friends,I hope and trust this note finds you well.You may be interested in a new site I was introduced to called Blue Chip Expert.  They have a community concept called Million Ready Minds, and the premise of Million Ready Minds is that a great many professionals are frustrated in their inability to find project work that maximizes their...  more...
 RAGHUPAT | 08:02 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (106)  | City: Hyderabad  | Interests: "I dare to dream"...
Love at first sight
Love at first sight I thought that I was going crazy Just having one of those days, yeah I didn't know what to do Then there was you And everything went from wrong to right And the stars came up and filled up the sky The music you were playing really blew my mind It was love at first sight 'Cause baby, when I heard you for the first time I knew we ...  more...
 raj phad | 11:06 | 21/Jun/2008
Friends: (80)  | City: Pune  | Interests: music literature....
Dealing with feelings
Dealing with FeelingWhen we feel high, we have no problems. The problem comes when we feel low. No one wants to feel low. When one feels low, then the more one tries to feel high, the more the low feeling presist. This seems to be the biggest problem. What is important about the feeling? They never stay the same. Feeling are fluid. See,you feel goo...  more...
 leena | 22:14 | 13/Jun/2008
Friends: (75)  | City: Haryana  | Interests: litrature n philo...
THE UP-SIDE -DOWN STORY OF SHIMLA HILLS
Seismologic studies of the earth have uncovered new information about the Shimla hills region .It reveals that Shimla is situated on mantle which is thick, heavy, and solid rocky material layer.whereas in normal formation of earth , the lithosphere is the crust about 5 to 30 miles deep and lighter than mantle and the mantle is about 1800 miles thic...  more...
 Skiyajudeen | 11:48 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (74)  | City: Chennai(Madras)  | Interests: Shopping, music,c...
This is my niece who I love very very much., i was very happy when she just come to my house sometimes.  more...
 datanentrygo | 07:49 | 19/Mar/2008
Friends: (317)  | City: Ranchi  | Interests: computerjobs
Jobs of editorial proofreading.
Jobs of editorial proofreading. Editorial proofreaders they can also recommend changes in word choice or inappropriate punctuation. Jobs of editorial proofreading. http://jobcenter.webs.com/pr.htm  more...
 sohamswami | 09:12 | 24/Jun/2008
Friends: (761)  | City: HIMALAYAS  | Interests: TO OPEN THE EYES ...
BANOMALI AND THE GOD
Banomali can be fearless. He really can be fearless,when he is drunk. As the alcohol flows inside,it washes away all the grief,sadness and fear. Banomali ponda, at his level has nothing to loose but he fears death and he fears humiliation. He can remember vividly how he lost his entire family-his son,daughters and his wife Kamala, in that devastati...  more...
 ramnath rajaram | 16:40 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (1711)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: HEALTH AWARENESS,...
GHAZAL
GHAZALES KADAR SAATH NIBHAEY YE ZAROORI TO TO NAHINAB KE WO LOT KAR AAEY YE ZAROORI TO NAHINWAQAT KE SAATH RIWAYAT BADAL JAATI HEINKHIZER AB PAAR LAGAEY YE ZAROORI TO NAHINHAR KOI AAG LAGAEY YE ZAROORI HEI MAGARHAR KOI AAG BUJAEY YE ZAROORI TO NAHINZINDAGI KO KISSI WADE KI NAZAR MAT KARNAHAR KOI EHAD NIBHAEY YE ZAROORI TO NAHINTUM JISSE MERI NIGAHO...  more...
 BEST FRIEND | 00:46 | 30/Jun/2008
Friends: (469)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: meeting new, inte...
Thoughts for the month
As I sit down to write this blog while watching the Euro 2008 finals, the rains have started lashing the mumbai city after a long lull in the month of June. Sitting near the window and  watching the rains falling down heavily with heavy winds made me wonder whether this will continue for a longer period this time around or an one day affair. Hope a...  more...
 DENSON JOSEPH | 22:39 | 27/May/2008
Friends: (722)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Fitness
AARUSHI MURDER CASE
Assuming Dr Talwar is innocent,I am just forced to think about the trauma which this broken hearted father might be going through.Here is a dead soul,who has just lost his dear daugther, his pain had not even subsided that he was arrested, accused & stigmatised as the "killer father", and to cap it all;is now currently being tormented, tortured & t...  more...
 bobbin chaterji | 08:26 | 14/Jun/2008
Friends: (212)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: friendship,travel...
HAVE A PLEASANT MORNING !
I WOKE UP A FEW HOURS AGO, BUT SOMEHOW I FEEL INCOMPLETE TILL I REMEMBERED I HAVEN'T WISHED YOU YET. HAVE A PLEASANT MORNING !  more...
 DrHarmeet Singh | 13:08 | 29/Jun/2008
Friends: (1371)  | City: Birmingham  | Interests: Having a good laugh
A complaint
 "........................................... I am arrive by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in the next when I am fall over and expose al...  more...
 Ranjan Sengupta | 15:25 | 24/May/2007
Friends: (7)  | City: Kolkata  | Interests: music, reading no...
Physics and Music
Can we define music? Most of us may agree that it is bourn by a time series, jointly or independently, of amplitude, frequency and complexity, three fundamental well-known parameters used in physics. This time series is the objective reality, or the fictional reality of physics. But obviously all such time series pertaining to auditory sensation ar...  more...
 S M | 22:48 | 20/May/2008
Friends: (196)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
लेट्स ...
हे आई जस्ट सॉ दीस हिन्दी लेन्गुवे ;जि ओपशोन्न ओन दीस बोलोगु | ड&...  more...
 Anonymous Hu... | 13:30 | 30/May/2008
Friends: (70)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Life Beauty Techn...
Lateral Thinking - Kids Style
This is a list of comments from test papers, essays, etc., submitted to science and health teachers by elementary, junior high, high school, and college students: It is truly astonishing what weird science our young scholars can create under the pressures of time and grades. The spellings are the original ones. 1. H2O is hot water, and CO2 is cold ...  more...
 nishant shah | 19:10 | 20/Jun/2008
Friends: (524)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Music Rock Meta...
Walking along the runnel "Rhine"
Walking along the runnel "Rhine"Stranded alone near the tranquil runnel "Rhine",bedlam of fear besieged his mind.He saw the scepters of the Wands,And the pirhana embalmed this nightWalking the shores of that runnel,Stumbled on the gnarled creeps of fright.There he found a wilted bodice of the crone,Eyes pale blue and the crooked hands of despair.Th...  more...
 simran kumar | 12:24 | 8/Mar/2007
Friends: (148)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: reading,movies,su...
those nothings.............
                                  Those whispering nothings                            those muted emotions                             those deep sighs....                            somersaulting heart beats                            impregnating innocent heart                            with coveted desires                                 fanta...  more...
 amol prabhud... | 00:36 | 26/May/2007
Friends: (359)  | City: Goa  | Interests: understanding mys...
Success in Life
  The founder of a highly successful company was asked what it took to achieve success in life. He replied: “The same thing it tool to get started; a sense of urgency about getting things done.”     Success in life should be determined by contributions, not accumulations.  more...
 Dinesh Patekar | 10:21 | 2/Jul/2007
Friends: (136)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Cricket,fashion,m...
SOMEONE....
Someone I can talk toSomeone I can trust.Someone who will be thereWhen my relationships rust.Someone who wil save me,When everything goes wrong.Someone who wil comfort meAnd help me to be strong.Someone who listensAt any time of day.Someone who wil brightenAny sky that’s gray.Someone who will alwaysWant to be my friend.Someone who wil fight for me,...  more...
 Sethuraj Nair | 21:35 | 6/Jan/2008
Friends: (94)  | City: Alleppey  | Interests: Reading, Writing,...
Moony Memoir
Friends -Long time! I thank each of you who has been kind enough to notice my absence in iLand and bothered to drop a word or two in my guestbook or inbox. Thought of scribbling something. I am giving Swami a break for the moment as I don’t wish to start the New Year with a heavy post…Here is a quasi-fictional account of one my nostalgic trips on t...  more...
 Hemantkumar B | 20:20 | 17/Mar/2007
Friends: (95)  | City: Pune  | Interests: Travel, Sports & ...
Hi friends...After long period i come back on my favorite rediffiland.I missed all of my friends on my rediffiland.---------------------------- --------------------------------------I just received this message from Monique Banbanson at IRL, who forwarded it from Douglas Nortz at CMU. Thought it might be of interest...----------------------------- --...  more...
 beena john | 12:08 | 24/Jun/2008
Friends: (426)  | City: Nagpur  | Interests: MOVIES, MUSIC, SH...
Power of Positive Talk -Dr. A. P. J. Abd...
  I remember my dad teaching me the power of language at a very young age. Not only did my dad understand that specific words affect our mental pictures, but he understood words are a powerful programming factor in lifelong success. One particularly interesting event occurred when I was eight. As a kid, I was always climbing trees, poles, and liter...  more...
 Binu G | 22:20 | 17/Oct/2007
Friends: (78)  | City: Thiruvananthapuram  | Interests: Friendship, Readi...
Study: Chinese Herbs May Be Best at Reli...
Australia-based a study involving nearly 3,500 women in several countries suggests Chinese herbs may be more effective in relieving menstrual cramps than drugs, acupuncture or heat compression."All available measures of effectiveness confirmed the overall superiority of Chinese herbal medicine to placebo, no treatment, NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-in...  more...
 ShivSundar S... | 15:55 | 20/Feb/2007
Friends: (79)  | City: Cochin  | Interests: Singing, Music, C...
What's that I have??
I have a 'thing', which consists of few letters.If I take one letter out, it remains the same. If I take two letters out, it remains the same!! If I take three letters out, it still remains the same!!! If I take four letters out, I'm telling you, it remains the same!!!! And If I take all letters out, trust me, yet it remains the same!!!!!Can anyone...  more...
 Sandeep Ohri | 04:33 | 12/Mar/2008
Friends: (380)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Reading non-ficti...
REL changes its name to Reliance Infrast...
Don"t know how many of you saw the small news item .. but our good friends at REL have decided on another name change!So now the Mumbai Distribution License which didn"t get formally transfered to BSES Ltd .. and then which didn"t get formally  transfered to REL .. will now (I guess) also NOT get formally transfered to Reliance Infrastructure... th...  more...
 sowmiya sowmiya | 23:08 | 13/Jan/2008
Friends: (137)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: music, reading bo...
Am Back :)
hi ilanders... been a very long time... happy to meet u guys again.... its been 6 months... so belated NEW YEAR wishes and Makara Sankaranthi wishes...  more...
 dilip krishnan | 11:15 | 27/Jun/2008
Friends: (247)  | Interests: Reading, writing,...
FIELD MARSHAL SHFJ MANEKSHAW 1914-2008  more...
 Shailesh Soni | 18:25 | 9/May/2008
Friends: (356)  | City: Surat  | Interests: Friendship, music...
Letter of love
Somehow I always feel better,When I write you another love letter,I let out my cries,Never saying our goodbyes,Then slip it in the pocket of your sweater.I tell you my fears,That bring me salted tears,I wipe the pressure away,In this short essay,As bliss forms and reappears.As the pencil rapidly flows,I try to explain and compose,The way I feel,Is ...  more...
 PRIYABRATA M... | 10:38 | 13/Aug/2007
Friends: (83)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: Surfing Net & Enj...
Aluminium India 2008
The Indian market for Aluminium is booming and is forecasting furthergrowth in coming years. With Indian producers expanding theircapacities, new players entering and the current increasing demand forhigh quality products the Indian industry is gearing up to adopt stateof the art technology & latest equipments to meet qualitychallenges. Alcastek & ...  more...
 yashavantha p | 19:01 | 22/Dec/2007
Friends: (18)  | City: manjarapalke near nitte  | Interests: mental maths , br...
xx
This has got to be one of the most clever E-mails I've received in awhile. Someone out there either has too much spare time or is deadly at Scrabble. (Wait till you see the last one)! DILIP VENGSARKAR When you rearrange the letters: SPARKLING DRIVE BARA THEDA When you rearrange the letters: ARAB DEATH PRINCESS DIANA When you rearrange the letters: ...  more...
 kumar arya | 14:52 | 11/May/2007
Friends: (129)  | Interests: making friends......
Love quotes
Love quotesTo love means to communicate to the other, that you will never fail him or let him down when he needs you, but that you will always be standing by with all the necessary encouragements. It is something one can communicate to another only if one has it.        Ashley Montagu-What is Love?Love, as defined by the dictionary, is strong affec...  more...
 Reshma Thakkar | 16:13 | 28/Jun/2008
Friends: (2270)  | City: Mumbai  | Interests: Enjoying life as ...
EMOTIONS
Emotions cause you pain and they actually dictate behaviour to you.In other words when you are emotional you are no longer in control.For example, when you are excited you might think excitement is good.You cant actually think clearly.The emotion of excitement takes over and leads you to act.Its not always the best action that is born from exciteme...  more...
 Mithu | 08:43 | 29/Jul/2006
Friends: (91)  | City: Kannur  | Interests: Loving, keeping F...
I Love You !
When U Were Only 5 Yrs Old, I Said I Love U...U Asked Me: "What Is It?" When U Were 15 Yrs Old, I Said I Love U....U Blushed.. U Look Down And Smile.. When U Were 20 Yrs Old, I Said I Love U..U Put Ur Head On My Shoulder AndHold My Hand.. Afraid That I Might Dissapear.. When U Were 25 Yrs Old, I Said I Love U..U Prepare Breakfast And Serve It InFro...  more...
 Janaki Rao | 17:11 | 22/Nov/2006
Friends: (29)  | City: Chennai  | Interests: gardening,crafts,...
Tagged
tagged:-)by Janaki RaoYou have been tagged Here is a game to get to know me fun game....be a sport and keep it goinghere what you need to do. cut and paste this entire blog (yep..no copyright) and answer the questions and paste it on your page...at the end name the person you want to tag and leave a message with yr link on his/her guestbook page. t...  more...
 Inky Pinky | 19:06 | 21/Feb/2008
Friends: (536)  | City: Noida  | Interests: Reading, Music, K...
Have you Ever?Have you ever climbed up in a tree and sat there for no apparent reason? I still remember the joy it brought me.I didn’t know at the time why I had the urge to climb the tree, a mature May Flower tree whose heavy lower limbs were a good eight feet off the ground in the near by hill. It had been 19 years or so since I was in a tree for...  more...
 Anup nair | 15:55 | 13/Feb/2007
Friends: (188)  | City: Nasik  | Interests: Sports,netting, s...
What a Shame !!!!!!!!!!
By the time you read this news, the body of Major Manish Pitambare, who was shot dead at Anantnag, would have been cremated with full military honors.On Tuesday, this news swept across all the news channels ‘Sanjay Dutt relieved by court’. ‘Sirf Munna not a bhai’ ‘13 saal ka vanvaas khatam’  ’although found guilty for possession of armory, Sanjay c...  more...
 bhawna deshwal | 10:47 | 31/Mar/2008
Friends: (181)  | City: Delhi  | Interests: reading singing ...
Barish
Pahli pahli barish ki buando ke jaisichamkti khankti si wo ladkijab se meri zindgi me aayizindagi ko surmayi hone ka bahana mil gayaBhigi mitti ki soundhi khooshbo ke jaisisanso me ghulti se wo ladkijab se meri zindgi me aayizindagi ko mehakne ka bahana mil gayaGulab par tehre huye pani ke jaisikhoobsoorat chanchal si wo ladkijab se meri zindgi me ...