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I'm a bit Unique....

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Saw this on Dhanya's blog and was curious, see the result for yourself..... Your Blogging Type is Unique and Avant Garde You're a bit ... unusual. And so is your blog. You're impulsive, and you'll often post the first thing that pops in your head. Completely uncensored, you blog tends to shock... even though that's not your intent. You tend to change your blog often, experimenting with new designs and content. What's Your Blogging Personality? PS: Actually I'm every bit unique, Mother Earth cannot endure another ME! : )

The never ending story

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Disclaimer: No disrespect intended to any elders. This is simply a promotion for a VRS. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born August 13 , 1926 ) has been Cuba 's leader since 1959. He came to power in an armed revolution that overthrew the Presidency of Fulgencio Batista , and was shortly thereafter sworn in as the Prime Minister of Cuba . In 1965 he became First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and led the transformation of Cuba into a one-party socialist republic . In 1976 he became President of the Council of State as well as of the Council of Ministers . He also held the supreme military rank of Comandante en Jefe ("Commander in Chief") of the Cuban armed forces . On July 31 , 2006 , after undergoing intestinal surgery from an undisclosed digestive illness believed to have been diverticulitis , he transferred his responsibilities to the First Vice-President, his younger brother Raúl Castro . On February 19 , 2008 , five days before his mandate expired, he a...

Home sweet home

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Yesterday I was waiting for D at the Chetpet Railway station. I suppose it would win the prize for one of the most uninviting station sitting in the midst of heaps of garbage. If you wonder what is new about Indian stations like this? The answer is the approach that goes through the by-lanes of a higher income slum (if you could call that). Let me stop digressing and come to the post on hand which is not about Railways. I parked my bike on a vacant area abutting an authorized dump yard and waited for the train carrying D when a very unremarkable middle aged lady brushed by me. She went up to a tree and took off a bag from her shoulder and hung it on the tree. Then rummaging into something behind the same tree she pulled out a mat spread it on the ground and promptly went to sleep. I awoke to the fact that I was in the living premises of somebody and I retreated to a safe distance. Looking around I saw several more dwelling places where neither walls nor roofs limited the habi...

To be or not to be a criminal, that is the question.

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crime 1. An act committed or omitted in violation of a law forbidding or commanding it and for which punishment is imposed upon conviction. 2. Unlawful activity 3. A serious offense, especially one in violation of morality. 4. An unjust, senseless, or disgraceful act or condition crim·i·nal 1. Guilty of crime. 2. Shameful; disgraceful - www.thefreedictionary.com Some INDIAN Traffic RULES 1) Keep on your left, allowing the vehicles from the opposite direction to pass. 2) Give way to traffic on your right, especially at road junctions and round abouts. 3) While turning either left or right, give way to vehicles going straight. 4) While turning left, keep to the left side and turn close to the left side of the road to which you enter. 5) Slow down at the junctions, intersections and pedestrian crossings. Also slow down near school zones, temple areas etc., where a lot of pedestrians and vehicle traffic move. Give signals before y...