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90, 89, 88 ... that was traffic signal countdown and I had to wait, I was waiting. Suddenly a thought, a backward walk in the memory lane, occurred. I had no plan to look back upon those old days yet it came. It came when I was standing in the midst of moving vehicles and people, a stop to the present and the vivid picture of the same road ten years back. We used to play all sorts of games in the same road, just like a playground. We used to see only one bus in every 45 minutes and a random lorry or a car. We never needed to bother about those. But today? Orange, Red and Green signal for us to go. Such is the strength of your brain, such is the beauty of life - you never know what it would bring the next. You may be playing and laughing with your friends and it could be just a single word someone utter that would take you many years back. You don't have to plan for this going back, you don't have to be predefined to have that thought at that moment, in fact, you never can - it ...

Nice song from the album Ranam Sugam Kovil Pillai P.

The conversations! I don't think many of you would have seen this as a disturbing feature. Recently I had few conversations that run into a long thread. When I tried to do few things, I found that I had no way of doing anything. The conversation view doesn't give us any control. For my use cases, the traditional viewing works absolutely fine. But I have no way of doing it in Gmail. There is an option to suggest a feature for Gmail (Organization -> Conversation View changes). I wonder how many would suggest a change as this feature is not going to annoy the majority. Here are the two main things I cannot do with this conversation view: 1) I wanted to mark few emails unread, so that I can reply later. 2) I wanted to move/label few mails so that they don't appear in my Inbox. http://getsatisfaction.com/google/topics/why_cant_i_turn_off_conversation_threading_in_gmail_its_fatal_for_my_business http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=144645c24ddb362b&hl=en...

I just can't believe. How could that be alive for one more day? It was thrown out of its cage when it was just two days old. I had no clue why the mother pigeon did that. My dad put it in a different cage. I thought it was ridiculous. I mean, how you take care of a squab of two days old. At least, you can feed animals like dog and cat. But for a bird? I really felt that that bird would die in a day or two. He used ink-filler (I remember using these sort of plastic ink-fillers when I was in school) to give water, drop by drop on its beak and fried gram flour as its daily food. When I saw him few days back, he was scolding the little bird which was standing on his pillow - "Don't you know that I sleep till 5 PM. Why are you disturbing me in between"? He gave some food and went again to sleep. Now it can run. Now it can fly. Thank God, no one needs to teach this little bird how to fly. Now it can fly as good as its mother. Wings are born out of true love. Only a mother ...

April 23: World Book and Copyright Day Dollar Desam Pa. Raghavan Quote: America is a country that has made wars an opportunity for making income. This has been so with it for a long time. The garbage behind its glamour, the despotism behind its democracy, the burden of debt behind its prosperity are important issues to be understood. By describing the complete political history of the country, this book brings to view the real face of America. This appeared as a series in Kumdam Reporter. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown Quote: The Bible is neither a book dropped out of heaven nor a creation of man. Rather, it is one that, while coming from God, is written by real people. Pour Your Heart Into It Howard Schultz Quote: tells the story of how small-company values, passion, and integrity turned six local coffee stories into the Starbucks chain. A brief History of Time Stephen W. Hawking Quote: ... if we do discover a complete theory, it should in time be unde...

Have you watched the movie Cast Away ? Good one. Part of the movie that shows the companionship between Chuck (hero) and Wilson (volleyball) in a deserted island is very much touching. The point, you don't need a human being to share something, to attach your emotions. It could be a photo of your loved one. It could be a beer bottle. It could be an old book that you don't even open anymore. More than a listener, it is your belief that the other thing is listening to you that matters. May be, half of life's happiness can be achieved by getting a good listener, mere listener, nothing more. Perhaps that is why the pets, the kids all are able to bring those lighter moments. Gardens, surely belongs to those listener category. We had a small garden with lots of flower plants. My favourite is the Rose. I had spent at least half an hour before I touch the coffee cup in the morning. I had spent at least a minute before I went to playground after the school hours. At times, I pressed...

Is it really easy to define goals for your life? When can you decide it, school days, college days, in your thirties, fifties? Not everyone can think of long term goals. Not everyone can achieve their goals either. Because Science is allowed to redefine things. Life is full of surprises. Every magic moment is loveable. It is alright to listen to it and follow it. Had Hitler had goals? How about king Ashoka? There were magic of life that directed the goals. It is hard to believe, Hitler, man of his caliber, miscalculated the Russian weather. Take it as a life's magic on its negative role. The other side is for Ashoka. Kalinga war was the magic in his life. There is one simple thing you can do. Take life phase by phase as it comes. Hold the responsibility for the moments when it is given to you (!). Do things whole heartedly. The more you submit yourself to the things you do, the more magic moments will come into your life and sweeter the so called achievements. Blessed are those who...