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Life Lessons Learnt in the Year of the Tiger and other animals

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Some the hard way. Mostly the fun way - Witnessing! 1) Thou shalt not thrust your happiness on the miserable. Empathise if you can. Else stay silent. Saying how you successfully dealt with a similar problem is not inspiring. It is annoying. To quote an "annoyed", it is like walking out of a 5 star hotel after a heavy meal and advising the beggar outside to be contented with what ever they have and the worst part: ending with - "look at me!" 2) The worst vice is advice. Seriously! No one wants to listen to your opinion. They want you to reassure them on theirs. Order if you can. Appeal if you must but advice is ineffective. (So what is this post doing? Hopefully entertaining.[;)]) [ Click here to Enlarge it ] Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ 3) Thou shalt not carry two phones. Trust me. Its not cool! Gives a taste of double marriage to Brahmacharis. (There you go. THAT word again. Sorry Namaji [:P] ) 4) Facebook is for recreation. Thou shalt not del...

Indulgence of a Birthday boy

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Courtesy: http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/ One is normally allotted a certain amount of indulgence on his birthday. I thought I will carry it all the way by throwing on all of you, a blog. Every person no matter how mundane his existence feels occasional spurts of grandeur arise forth in him. He takes on a different personality at those times. Becomes a leader of men (Note: Only one gender specified), a philosopher, a saint and maybe even GOD. This normally dies down after a while when reality after giving the person a nice smile, politely shows the mirror. The world then goes on and all was well. Unfortunately with the coming of the world of blogging, these moments of grandeur got translated into words and published into eternity on the internet. Though this usually creates only a nuisance, it has surprisingly, some advantages. It is said that there is nothing more powerful than an IDEA whose TIME has come. (No wonder both terms are registered and copyrighted). Unf...