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Humour has been the saving grace. All through out. Over the last few days,laughter has been the casualty as well as the lifeline. Being a ‘funny’ person comes with its own set of limitations. People don’t seem to take you all that seriously at times. Or they expect you to have a pun flying out [...]
Posted on October 30th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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Since morning a certain lull has overtaken my senses. What would really help is watching a movie like Fight Club. Violence, and some shock. And the beginnings of a wave. Let me be honest, I no longer let my visions of a revolution cloud the perspective, and yet how can one not be affected by [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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Did you know about this? There is a website dedicated to preserving the functional and perhaps aesthetic purity of a particular punctuation mark. The Apostrophe Protection Society. (Visit http://www.apostrophe.fsnet.co.uk/) The site is dedicated to the cause of fighting against apostrophe abuse. A sign of new times, when unedited manifestoes are being shouted from all rooftops [...]
Posted on October 29th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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Saturday, Meeta and I leave for Arraku Valley in Vizag. Will be living among the rolling coffee gardens for some five days. Till Vizag by train, and a further journey of four hours. Have heard its bloody beautiful. Arraku is on the Waltair Kirondol line, which was built way back in the 1960s to transport [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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Yesterday was a tough day to take, digest or even get out of. How easily all that confidence disappears. Sometimes. But I guess it is a matter of picking the self up after the fall. How is it that as we grow up we lose our confidence bit by bit. When you are five years [...]
Posted on October 28th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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A major HR upheaval in the organisation today. Yesterday, I commented to a friend my discomfort with the notion of ‘noble’ being attached to this profession. However, I did always somehow think that being in this profession meant that the attitudes would be more sensitive. I am beginning to discover that is far from true. [...]
Posted on October 26th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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Over the weekend, and a little before.. had picked up the Principia Discordia. Head swam back to it. Today there is so much work, that the distraction is sweeter. Ha! Currently, thinking of what the menu for tonight should be like. Ideal would be Rasam Saadam? Tamarind, Tamatar and You. So much to tell about [...]
Posted on October 25th, 2004 by Neha Viswanathan
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