Post No 101 - Archer - Made of Wood

Being the post number 101, I wanted to put something really special. And yes, there could not be anything more special than my archer. I had made this about 8 years back, when I had a lot of time to involve in other creative activities. Now with the strings of life being pulled from various corners, such work eludes from my voracious but starved mind.

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Misunderstanding the Right Words

[This photo is taken from EscaFlowne's photo stream. Thanks for sharing. To more of her photos click here] When my granny speaks, even she uses some English words which makes me wonder, a person who has not learnt, read or even heard much of the language uses English words more appropriate and with precision in her sentences. The English language has tied up with the local languages in India

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Kal Ho Na Ho - On Keyboard

[please note that there may be mistakes in these notes, however I am hoping that this would be helpful to those who do not have the privilege to go for keyboard learning classes and are hunting for some info, something that I faced when I started learning keyboard][The notes that I have used are from Keyless Online. Thank you VK for sharing the notes]Language : HindiSong : Kal Ho Na HoMovie

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Ferns Growing Upside Down

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Mumbai Terror, It Pains & Pains Even More

How many innocent lives, how many innocent victims, how many more blasts, how many more to cry, how many more to loose a near and dear, how much more to live in fear, how much more of tolerance, how much more of anger, how much more of dirty politics, how many more to witness bloodshed, how much more of agony, how much more of frustration?It Pains. What do you call this? The face of terrorism.

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My Mother And Me

This photo is taken from Dani Tracy's photo stream on flickr. To see more of her photos click hereOld are those days, gone are those times,those fabled moments, gift of prime.Colorful memories down those lanes,a photo in black and white, that only remains.The mittens that she knitted,the taste buds that she kneaded.everything remains afresh, all till this day.Retracting images working my mind,

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Lolita - By Vladimir Nabokov - Book Review

Lolita, the word in which the tongue touches the upper pallet of the mouth, then the lower and then blasts air out of the mouth. Similar is its style of writing which throws out three different perspectives. The book is about Humbert Humbert, a person who is obsessed by a 12 year old girl, whom he calls a nymphet. In the book, he narrates his reason for his obsession, how he befriends a widow (

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My Word, the Right Word, Or Is it?

[This photo is taken from Daniel Horacio Agostini photo stream on flick. To see more of his photos, chick here] When Nostradamus, the seer predicted the end of the world in 2000, it was not unknown to people who witnessed the years of 1990s discussing the same and how the World War III could end it all. However, we are alive today, safe and secure. When the countdown to 2000 took place, the IT

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Lanes beyond Vasco da Gama’s Kozhikode

When ever I have heard of this place ‘Kozhikode’, I never knew or bothered to know where the hell this place is. All what remained in my mind was what I needed to know to get some marks in my history papers, ‘Vasco-de-gama’s set foot in Calicut (in malayalam known as Kozhikode), Kerala in 1494’ or some year like that. With a good old friend and many of those who gave me company I could explore

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Woh Pehli Baar, Jab Ham Mile on Keyboard

[please note that there may be mistakes in these notes, however I am hoping that this would be helpful to those who do not have the privilege to go for keyboard learning classes and are hunting for some info, something that I faced when I started learning keyboard]Woh pehli baar jab hum mileS....n....S.d....S..n.S..n.S...pAm………………….C………….GHaathon mein haath jab hum chalen...d.....n.....p...R

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Massage With A Difference

[This photo is taken from lintmachine's photo stream on flickr. To see more of his photos, click here]When I had my first massage in Japan, it was one of the most sensual experience. After that I did try a couple of times however, nothing was that satisfying.When I went to the barber shop the previous time, he showed me some of the new equipment that he had purchased. Even though I did not show

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The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea Originally uploaded by posting bee sandee I had heard a lot about this book and its controversies. I never knew that it is a short story. Yes, that is true, it is a short story of about 100 pages. But then, it is said to be that book that paved way for the author to win the Nobel prize in literature. With such a high profile associated with this book, I had lot of

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IT Parody

[This photo is taken from Juls Photo Stream on Flickr. To see more of her photos, chick here][This play has been written in a lighter sense and does not intend to associate with any person or organization in particular]Babita : HRGuru : fresherBabu : fresherSuresh : Transport GuyKeerthi : ITgirlManu : ITguyScene 1: First day of Guru & Babu @ an IT companyBabita (BB): Hi, Babu; Guru right!!! How

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Life of Pi - By Yann Martel...

May I ask you a question before you read any further? How much of action can u pack within your bedroom which you need to describe for 227 days, without you leaving the room. You might end up with a diary that is mighty boring. Well, the book does the same. It speaks of the story of a person named 'Pi' [the shorter name for Piscine Patel] who survives a ship wreak by surviving in a lifeboat with

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Space between People Matters

[This photo is taken from cshphotos photo stream on flickr. Thanks for sharing. To see more of his photos click here]I give you a small experiment. Just put a bench on the street which has the space for three to sit together. Now, allow it to be vacant. You would notice that when a person comes and sits on the bench, he/she would sit at the centre [with highest probability]. Now when another

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Twelve Red Herrings - Jeffry Archer - Review

12-herringsOriginally uploaded by posting bee sandeeThis book is perhaps a short story book that I have read in a long long time and I can tell you, I regret it, hey, not the book but he time it took for me to land my hands on this book. I took this book on the railway platform on my return back home from native. And I took it because I could not find a better book which I knew of. This book is

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Doctor’s Diagnosis

[This photo is taken from Davide R's photo stream on flick. To see more of his photos click here][some of the details altered, imagination added]Few days back I had gone for some checkup. After a routine discussion of the problem he took me to one corner of the room bifurcated with a curtain. He did a detailed examination and then he asked me to get dressed as he left to the other side of the

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Sorrow of the Silver-lined Dog

[This photo is taken from Future-PhD's photo stream on flickr. To see more of the photographer's photos, chick here.]There is a posh locality near my house and more or less every day I walk out through that locality. There is something that I notice strange every day. Whenever I pass that way every morning, I see a group so guys, dressed shabbily talking in a gang. I can rest assured that these

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Shah-e-Noor's Odyssey

The above is taken from Harald S photo stream on flickr. To see more of his photos click here.The below photo is taken from Eugenio photo stream on flickr. To see more of his photos click here.[I poem is a conversation between two people, their conversation has been put in two different colors for the reader to understand the end of one person's conversation and the beginning of the other. I

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I Went, I Saw, I Captured - Toastmasters Speech, Project 9

It was the evening of March 5, 1960. A funeral procession of the Cubans who died in a bomb explosion was being carried out. Alberto Korda, a photographer by profession, took some shots of some people who witnessed this procession. Since he had captured some famous personalities of those times on his film, some insignificant people lay hidden. They lay hidden for seven years before one person’s

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