Posts Tagged ‘ interesting ’

A test of will power

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Have you ever tested your will power without someone asking, or challenging, you to? Well, I’m trying it this month.
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Mansi asks: Do you believe what goes around comes around?

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Is karma or the notion of reaping what you sow in this lifetime just a fallacy?
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In step or not?

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early man woman walking

I see a lot of couples walking in the mornings and evenings in my neighborhood. Mostly older folks — visiting parents I assume — from India. Women wearing saris with cardigans or shawls and sporting sneakers, men dressed in kurta-pajamas with a woolen vest and, sometimes, monkey caps. A small fraction of the women…
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Are you an adult, yet?

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Introspection

I read Robin Marantz Henig’s “What Is It About 20 somethings?” in the August 18 online edition of the New York Times Magazine with much interest. Henig reports on various studies and hypotheses, most prominently Jeffrey Jensen Arnett‘s, who calls the 20s the “stage of emerging adulthood.” Henig observes that: One-third of people in…
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What’s in a name?

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Mansi

Ok people. I am going to clarify this once and for all. It is Maan-see. Yes, open your mouth wide and say the “s” like you would say it in in miss. Not a “z” sound … a “see” sound. And no, it is not pronounced any other way. When I spell out M-A-N-S-I…
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Oh-so-pleasantly disturbed

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Just when I had thought I wouldn’t do anything “structured” on my blog, pop comes Duane Scott’s Pleasantly Disturbed series. He’s been doing it for five weeks now and I have been watching from the sidelines, marveling at his ability to write about everything and nothing. It’s a rant unlike rants. He makes it…
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Silence is golden

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Enjoy the Silence

Why is silence so uncomfortable? Whether it be a shared commute or a lunch conversation, a pregnant pause always seems to make things awkward. People avoid eye contact, or shoot each other faint smiles trying hard to think of something to say. In elevator rides they resort to talking about the weather. In cabs,…
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Hooked to the iPad

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iPad

It is beautiful. It is fast. It is spiffy. And, oh so cool. The way you can expand and contract photos with your thumb and index finger — simply magical. Yes, it looks like a big iPhone, but it’s really so much more. The iPad is a lifestyle gadget that has made working (and…
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Bye bye, Facebook

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Bye bye Facebook

For two and half years I have lived and breathed on Facebook. From uploading photos and following Obama’s inauguration to harvesting crops on Farm Town and “liking” Chocolate Brownies, I have done it all. I used to be the most vocal advocate for Facebook — getting a number of colleagues and friends to sign…
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An inquiring mind

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Thinking

A couple of my posts in the recent past have triggered some “interesting” in-person/offline reactions — people have said that I am “too philosophical” or that I “want to live in an ideal world.” I’ve been told some of these issues don’t concern them (or me, for that matter) and never will … so…
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