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| Making Space for SABBATH in our lives | |
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| Extracted the article from this week Catholic News, thought it would good to share with my iLand friends. A RECENT ARTICLE in Maclean's magazine reported on a study on Longevity. What is the secret for a long life? The article summarizes the results of years of scientific research on this question and ends with nine hints for a longer, healthier li...
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| 21:11 | 25/Jul/2008 |
| ARE YOU A CRACKED POT? | |
| Last week I was feeling down because I was belittled by my boss. Felt so useless sometimes due to comments from other people. Perhaps because I am an easy target. Worst I always affected by unfriendly comments and would take a few days to get back to my normal self. Often these comments would come from people who they think they are smarter and i...
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| 07:38 | 15/Jul/2008 |
| NOT HOME YET | |
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| An old missionary couple had been working in Africa for years and were returning to New York to retire. They had no pension; their health was broken; they were defeated, discouraged, and afraid. They discovered they were booked on the same ship as President Teddy Roosevelt, who was returning from one of his big-game hunting expeditions.No one paid ...
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| 09:55 | 14/Jul/2008 |
| A Discount Rate - Solution | |
| SOLUTION: Total Hotel Rate is S$25.00, divided by 3 persons should be S$8.3333333 Each person was return S$1.00, that made S$9.333333 instead of S$9.00 S$0.33333 x 3 = S$1.00The answer: The dollar was returned to these three men. When this problem sum was dropped in my mail box one evening, I spent hours thinking about the solution. ...
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| 10:32 | 8/Jul/2008 |
| A Discount Rate | |
| Bunny, Flower and Duka decided to have a stay at Dynasty Hotel. The hotel rate was S$30 per night. Each of them came out S$10 and paid at the counter upon check in. Later the hotel staff realised that there was an error in the system. The hotel rate for the night is S$25. He gave S$5 to the A-bo, the bell boy. He told him A-bo to return the...
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| 18:12 | 5/Jul/2008 |
| An Excursion During Lunch | |
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| Yesterday lunchtime after having the Soya-bean cuisine at Geylang, my superior, Alpha, suggested driving and showing my Philippine colleague the Red Light District in Singapore at Geylang. Since we were in his car we had to tag along with his agenda. It was 1 pm in the afternoon while we drove along the Red Light District. While driving he descr...
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| 22:33 | 2/Jul/2008 |
| Move with the times | |
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| Due to some restructurings in my company, I felt demotivated at work somehow. Saying 'no time' to blog is an excuse, I am drained by so many uncertainties in my daily life for the moment. There are many things happening around, I ask God "why"? Somehow, I receive answers to my questions and doubts through many ways. One of them is the below ar...
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| 22:31 | 2/Jul/2008 |
| Sense of Belonging | |
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| Thanks for the encouragement from some of the iLand friends. Finally I could take some time to write again... What is the meaning of “sense of belonging”? Is it a sense that we give ourselves or someone else gives to us? Remembered hearing this statement "a community gives us the sense of belonging". We live together, we share everything we o...
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| 10:28 | 23/Jan/2008 |
| Prayer Wanted | |
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| Here is a joke about "Prayer Wanted"... As the storm raged, the captain realized his ship was sinking fast. He called out, "Anyone here know how to pray?" One man stepped forward. "Aye, Captain, I know how to pray." "Good," said the captain, "you pray while the rest of us put on our life jackets - we're one short." After reading this joke, reminded...
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| 20:45 | 21/Jan/2008 |
| Wet Paint | |
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| Come with me to a third grade classroom..... There is a nine-year-old kid sitting at his desk and all of a sudden, there is a puddle between his feet and the front of his pants are wet. He thinks his heart is going to stop because he cannot possibly imagine how this has happened. It's never happened before, and he knows that when the boys find out...
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| Sandeep Ohri | 08:02 | 27/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (448)
| City: Mumbai
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| Electricity from Nuclear Power – A layma... |
| Ok .. so the government won the Trust Vote (amidst accusations, mayhem and a general mockery of the Indian democratic system) - but what does that mean to you and me and the rest of the (unsuspecting) masses?According to me there are 3 main issues .. 1. Is the cost of electricity from a Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) really cheaper? 2. Is Nuclear Power ...
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| Harsha | 22:53 | 14/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (318)
| City: Hyderabad
| Interests: buks,archeology
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| THE OTHER SIDE OF FREEDOM |
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| I know..no one would bother reading this blog..and damn!!!..no would so much as bother to give it a glance...why should you???..people have other interesting topics...sexy actors and their personal lives..how many dogs that hero has got..how that particular heroine maintains such a well toned body..you MUST know..shouldn't you?People adore..no..no....
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| SUMEER SHARMA | 22:01 | 13/Jun/2008 |
| Friends: (5)
| City: Mumbai
| Interests: Reading, Travelling
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| Work..Work |
| Not sure why the Organisations are hell bent in proving there employee is incomptent / inefficient fool. It is so frustrating to be working for so many years and seeing the decay of the organisation.Vini's team made a blunder ...and all the knives were out at him. No one bothers to know why such things happen and what is the remedy.We are still wo...
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| vijayaram reddy | 14:49 | 30/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (680)
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| BE INDIAN - BUY INDIAN |
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| Hello Friends,YOU CAN MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE TO THE INDIAN ECONOMY BY FOLLOWING FEW SIMPLE STEPS:Please spare a couple of minutes here........for the sake of India ... our country.I got this article from one of my friend, but it's true, I can see this from day to day life,Small exampleBefore 5 months 1 CAN $ = IND Rs 32...
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| J W | 18:19 | 15/Jul/2008 |
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| "Can I see my baby?" the happy new mother asked. When the bundle was nestled in her arms and she moved the fold of cloth to look upon his tiny face, she gasped. The doctor turned quickly and looked out the tall hospital window. The baby had been born without ears. Time proved that the baby's hearing was perfect. It was only his appearance that wa...
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| Arvind Parashar | 01:06 | 1/Aug/2008 |
| Friends: (194)
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| That is UP |
| You lovers of the English language might enjoy this. There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meanings than any other two-letter word, and that is 'UP.' It's easy to understand UP , meaning toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we awaken in the morning, why do we wake UP At a meeting, why does a topic come UP Why do we speak ...
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| DIBYA | 21:48 | 28/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (383)
| City: Kolkata
| Interests: MAKING NEW FRIENDS
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| I AM ALIVE |
| SUDDEN,WITH A SLICE OF STORM,AND THE CLOUD BLACK! A SPRINKLE OF RAIN!DIPPED THE WORLD IN BLACK,AND POWER-CUT,MADE THE SURROUND CALM AND FLAT! ONLY THE JINGLE OF RAIN,WINDOW IS OPEN! I AM AT TABLE,WITH THOUGHTS-MUMBLE,HAND ON CHEEK,SPLASH OF COOL BREEZE,MAKING ME SHIVER AND FREEZE,FRONT OF CANDLE LIGHT,SEEING THE SHUDDER OF FLAME,DENSE BLACK OUT SID...
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| Dr.Anil Verma | 14:37 | 26/Jul/2008 |
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| GIFT FOR ALL |
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| Dearest, All friends at my blogs this is an exclusive Full Photo of Sai Samadhi with Sai charan. You can download it and if anybody want then I can send by mail. Note - My few friend ask me about link/website of my few pic but friends these all pics is myself so if anybody want then I can sent by mail. Thanks & Regard Anil Verma 91+9868153862
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| SmartMind Fr... | 19:17 | 9/Jul/2008 |
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| Those Wrong times in Life... |
| Whenever I feel my life is taking the right turn.......Things turn wrong!Wherever I feel my life is gonna blossom........All the flowers wilt!Whenever I feel that I am gonna smile..........The curve turns upside down! Whenever I feel that god is with me....... .......I can only see my shadow! Whenever I decide that ‘I will’… ......It turns into ‘I ...
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| praveen sharma | 11:17 | 2/Aug/2008 |
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| A friend is like a flower,a rose to be exact,Or maybe like a brand new gatethat never comes unlatched.A friend is like an owl,both beautiful and wise.Or perhaps a friend is like a ghost,whose spirit never dies.A friend is like a heart that goesstrong until the end.Where would we be in this world if we didn"t have a friend.Make new friendsBut keep t...
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| fozia aziz | 14:29 | 10/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (147)
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| Rapunzel(part 2) The enchantress allowed her anger to be softened, and said to him: 'If the case be as you say, I will allow you to take away with you as much rampion as you will, only I make one condition, you must give me the child which your wife will bring into the world; it shall be well treated, a...
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| tanu sahney | 19:16 | 6/Jul/2008 |
| Friends: (150)
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| May the road rise up to meet you; May the wind always be at your back; May the sun shine warm upon your face; May the rain fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again may God hold you in the palm of his hand. You’ve failed many times. Although you may not remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almo...
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| Lucifer | 11:26 | 30/Jul/2008 |
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| Coffee and Vodka |
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| To have 24 hours with youvisiting harboursin rafts, houseboats and canoes for once symmetry would ruleas your night becomes mine as wellnot a topsy turvy 10 and a half hourof separation we find our rhythmour surges teach usto make a hotel rooma home the avenuesare cobblestonedamber-rose streetlightsaccompany us at dusk pitched feversthat won't be l...
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| kbdgr8est | 06:58 | 2/Aug/2008 |
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| A Passing Cloud |
| To The Flower Don’t ask why the rainbow liesAnd clouds drift in moments of need,Don’t seek love, the random rain willEntice and like ether waft overIn transience, with disloyal feelingsIn dreams that lie tooOr like reality that brings deathLove kills small things,Uproots and movesOnce tranquil, now turbulentUnspent in relentless streamsInto the nig...
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| Suvas Dutt | 00:35 | 16/May/2008 |
| Friends: (573)
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| "Bias" |
| Harabhajan Sing got punishment again by the BCCI being debarred from five ODI. At the first instance, he has already been punished by the IPL Committee on the basis of video graphic evidence adduced by the match referee. Enquiry Commission was held, but unfortunately, the said Committee merely enquired about his fault. He was sl...
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| lonely | 10:47 | 20/Jul/2008 |
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| Far away from reality..!!! |
| Yester day while watching TV there was an advertisement that caught my attention.. I think most of u people have seen that. It is an advertisement of some **** water purifier, where there was a guy in a desert collapsed on his knee becoz of dehydration. Some people near to him observe and rush towards that guy and offering some water. If suppose u...
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| Joseph Antony | 23:42 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| " Bananas " |
| This is interesting. After Reading this, you'll never look at a banana in the same way again.Bananas . Containing three natural sugars - sucrose, fructose and glucose combined with fiber, a banana gives an instant, sustained and substantial boost of energy. Research has proven that just two bananas provide enough energy for a strenuous 90-minute w...
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| Sami Ahmed | 09:04 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| When They Got Married |
| When they got married, both of them brought in their dreams into their marriage.After the engagement and before the marriage, which is naughtily called as probation period by some people, Sujit, during one of those meetings at restaurents, had asked his fiancee, “How do you want me to be after our marriage? Do I have to change myself in any manner?...
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| Tumble Weed | 08:39 | 31/Jul/2008 |
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| City: Bangalore
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| On Golden Pond! |
| Don't Worry Be Happy - Bob MarleyWhen I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our neighborhood. I remember the polished, old case fastened to the wall. The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to it. Then I discovered t...
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| sohamswami | 08:29 | 2/Aug/2008 |
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| MY FRIENDS ,MY LIFE-PART 2 |
| One of my friends thought that this tribute to my friends are because I may be leaving I land.Well, I am not planning to leave all of you so soon.Once earlier I had to leave temporarily but it was painfull. I then had to change my identity and come back again. My old friends here know that. I simply cannot live without I land now. It is very person...
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| Janam Tapit... | 19:27 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| This BSNL!!!! |
| I was off the air for 5 days curtesy BSNL. They did not send me a bill for my tele for two months. When I started wondering why the bills are not coming and sent someone to get a duplicate bill and paid it off, they promptly disconnected my tele two days after paying the bill. When I went and enquired they said I had not paid the bill for two mont...
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| A S | 21:53 | 23/Jun/2008 |
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| Am off to Bangalore |
| Well folks, i am off to Bangalore tomorrow. I take off at the unearthly hour of 7.50 a.m. which means that i have to leave my house at 6.30, while all of you'll are busy snoozing!! :(I will be in Bangalore all of this week. (Come back on sat morning) and though i already have way too many outstation friends a few more can not hurt. :) so anyone w...
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| greengrass | 00:25 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| Kuselan - Movie Review… |
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| From www.manakkudiyan.com : Director or story writer gets the knot for the movie first, and then develop the story around it. It is the case with almost all the directors and with all the movies (Except Bala movies). A daughter was in search of her mother, who was a warrior and left her daughter just after the delivery. When she meets her mother,...
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| ramnath rajaram | 01:24 | 2/Aug/2008 |
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| Nice ThoughtKeep your thoughts positive Because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positiveBecause your words become your actions. Keep your actions positiveBecause your actions become your habits. Keep your habits positive, because your habits become your lifestyle. Keep your lifestyle positive, because your lifestyle becomes your de...
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| mi ni | 11:30 | 17/Apr/2008 |
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| A STORY OF TWO FRIENDSA story tells that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face. The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.They kept on walking until they f...
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| shyam bajaj | 23:03 | 3/May/2008 |
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| WOMAN |
| If you kiss her, you are not a gentlemanIf you don't, you are not a manIf you praise her, she thinks you are lyingIf you don't, you are good for nothingIf you agree to all her likes, you are a wimpIf you don't, you are not understandingIf you visit her often, she thinks it is boringIf you don't, she accuses you of double-crossingIf you are well dre...
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| INDER VIG | 12:21 | 1/Aug/2008 |
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| To kill or to get killed |
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| Some years ago, when jeans were high fashion, Taruna would slip into her tapered temptation almost every day. The jeans were her second skin until one day an excruciating pain gripped her waist, fallowed by a major discomfort in the tummy. And not the indigestion kind; clueless about what was causing the pain, she gingerly changed her offic...
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| siddhartha m... | 16:38 | 13/Dec/2007 |
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| A JOURNEY COMES TO AN END IN LIFE |
| Dear friends,Time has now come to say goodbye to you all. My spaceship from my planet has arrived.Like every good thing in life,this stint was also temporary in nature.I knew all along that I will have to go one day but it was difficult to reconcile in mind.But what to do?Our life is like that.When I first joined this I land ,I was not knowing much...
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| azaadpanchi | 15:08 | 16/Oct/2007 |
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| A bit of friendship |
| A bit of friendshipSince our childhood, we have heard or read several stories about friendship. Friendship is considered one of the most beautiful relationships, as there is no place for SORRY and THANKS.A true friend is irreplaceable! Friendship makes you feel relaxed and comfortable, as you can share your feelings or problems with your friend. Bu...
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| salim azam | 03:12 | 30/Sep/2006 |
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| MYself |
| Hello Friends I'm salim azam this is the first time I write my blog so first of all I would like to give my introduction.I'm salim azam. Student of B-tech from allahabad. Every person in the world itself a story & we can take inspiration fr...
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| Virender Aga... | 09:21 | 7/Nov/2007 |
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| HAPPY DIWALI |
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| The Festival of Lights is upon us again, and I wish my all friends a joyous Happy Deepavali. May the light shines brightly over you and may you be blessed with all that is good and wonderful throughout the new year.According to the History, Deepavali or Diwali is a major Indian festival/celebration. Known as the Festival of Lights, it symbolises th...
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| Somnath Das | 18:27 | 28/Jun/2008 |
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| City: Ranaghat
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| Online Form Filling Job |
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| "Online Form Filling Job" Earn Rs.10- Rs.30/Form Filling! Would you like to be your own boss and work directly from home? What if I told you that I have a system that runs virtually on autopilot where you could Make RS.250-RS.500+ per day working only 60 minutes?. Sound to good to be true? No experience or special skills are required! All you wil...
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| sanzeev Yadav | 18:17 | 22/Jul/2008 |
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| How long how long will I slideSeparate my side I dontI dont believe its badSlit my throatIts all I everI heard your voice through a photographI thought it up it brought up the pastOnce you know you can never go backIve got to take it on the othersideCenturies are what it meant to meA cemetery where I marry the seaStranger things could never change ...
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| sheikh rahman | 15:31 | 30/Mar/2008 |
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| V For Valentines (and l for a loser) |
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| This story is writen by me I ve got an award for my college magazine for Best Story so get ready to read an award winning story... V for Valentine (and L for a loser) A romantic comedy…. (All the characters in this story are real and ...
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| A Meet | 12:52 | 7/Jul/2008 |
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