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									<description>Reading my mind is so easy and accessible!</description>
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									<pubDate>Mon,  4 Aug 2008 12:59:40 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>Apunka Fropper dost who I like the most!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/19252</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Don' write an ezBlog post about my best Fropper friend, let me already tell you that my most awwww-some friend on Fropper is King Bull's Ring. He has always been there with a patient ear (eyes in this case), sound advice and at the same time all things fun! Here goes the Raja Chalisa...&nbsp; 
 
King is king, King is king, King is king! My first ever interaction with KBR was when he commented on my first ever ezBlog post.&nbsp;Since&nbsp;then King has been&nbsp;my yardstick for good writing. He knows the importance of words - even if they seem very humble.&nbsp;King once&nbsp;actually pointed out that I correctly used the word 'seemingly' in a post. I was totally blown!&nbsp;  
 
I so love King as a friend because he respects opinions, even if he disagrees with them. He is so totally level headed. Full on intellectual stimulation happens when you talk to him about anything - politics, human interest,&nbsp; sports, technology. And most interesting are his ramblings on cricket and Indian media. Khee khee khee.&nbsp;King is so&nbsp;adorable when he is annoyed. He is super witty and&nbsp;humourous.&nbsp;And his advices are most sound. He knows about my heartaches, heartbreaks, flings and stuff  What's best is that he doesn't get moralistic and preachy. I've left him messages after getting full-on smashed. Hehehe 
 
King, the interpretor of dreams -&nbsp; As far as my memory goes, it all started with a blog post I wrote about some dream I had. In response, King interpreted it! Since then, whenever I have a weird dream (which, trust me, happens quite often), the first person I think of is KBR. And every time the interpretation has been correct! I'm sure by now King must feel like Sidney Sheldon's book title, 'Tell me your Dreams' or Freud's 'Interpretation of Dreams'. Yo King, I had a weird dream again yesterday.&nbsp; 
 
Incidents: Abhi tak toh I haven't met King in real life, so no incidents I can really talk about. They have all been on Fropper. Umm... like I wrote&nbsp;a post 'The Big Black Berry Tree'&nbsp;that made him cry. Dude, I'd never admit to crying on a public platform and for King to admit it was very noble and brave. There really is lots I can write about KBR. Oh, one more factor that binds us is our common dislike for Shah Rukh Khan I think. Hehehehe 
 
Message: King,&nbsp; 
 
If what they say is true -&nbsp; 
That our life is a book,&nbsp; 
Then I'd like to bookmark the page&nbsp; 
When I first met you. 
 
You stood out and you still do,&nbsp; 
Like the moon amongst a million stars 
 
You're as important to me&nbsp; 
As the lighthouse to the navigator 
Sailing the rough sea 
 
When one gets heady&nbsp; 
With smelling expensive perfumes,&nbsp; 
One needs coffee beans to smell right again.&nbsp; 
Thanks&nbsp;for being my coffee bean 
 
Basically, I don't know what this verse is supposed to mean 
It doesn't make any sense to me  
In short, I love you as a friend, King! 
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						<title>World's 10 oldest jokes!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/19126</link>
						<description><![CDATA[The ancient ones were as much into toilet and bawdy humour as we are, it turns out. The world's oldest joke has been traced to 1900 BC, to the Sumerians (now southern Iraq). The oldest British joke was cracked in the 10th century. Brits used to be quite bawdy themselves, if you'll believe it. Anyway, the difference is that even the bawdy humour had wit and it was sarcastic and how!  Here are the 10 oldest jokes in the world ever, with the dates when they were cracked.  1. Something which has never occurred since time immemorial: a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap (1900 BC &ndash; 1600 BC Sumerian Proverb Collection 1.12-1.13)  2. How do you entertain a bored pharaoh? You sail a boatload of young women dressed only in fishing nets down the Nile and urge the pharaoh to go catch a fish (An abridged version first found in 1600 BC on the Westcar Papryus)  3. Three ox drivers from Adab were thirsty: one owned the ox, the other owned the cow and the other owned the wagon's load. The owner of the ox refused to get water because he feared his ox would be eaten by a lion; the owner of the cow refused because he thought his cow might wander off into the desert; the owner of the wagon refused because he feared his load would be stolen. So they all went. In their absence the ox made love to the cow which gave birth to a calf which ate the wagon's load. Problem: Who owns the calf?! (1200 BC)  4. A woman who was blind in one eye has been married to a man for 20 years. When he found another woman he said to her, &quot;I shall divorce you because you are said to be blind in one eye.&quot; And she answered him: &quot;Have you just discovered that after 20 years of marriage!?&quot; (Egyptian circa 1100 BC)  5. Odysseus tells the Cyclops that his real name is nobody. When Odysseus instructs his men to attack the Cyclops, the Cyclops shouts: &quot;Help, nobody is attacking me!&quot; No one comes to help. (Homer. The Odyssey 800 BC)  6. Question: What animal walks on four feet in the morning, two at noon and three at evening? Answer: Man. He goes on all fours as a baby, on two feet as a man and uses a cane in old age (Appears in Oedipus Tyrannus and first performed in 429 BC)  7. Man is even more eager to copulate than a donkey - his purse is what restrains him (Egyptian, Ptolemaic Period 304 BC &ndash; 30 BC)  8. Augustus was touring his Empire and noticed a man in the crowd who bore a striking resemblance to himself. Intrigued he asked: &quot;Was your mother at one time in service at the Palace?&quot; &quot;No your Highness,&quot; he replied, &quot;but my father was.&quot; (Credited to the Emporer Augustus 63 BC &ndash; 29 AD)  9. Wishing to teach his donkey not to eat, a pedant did not offer him any food. When the donkey died of hunger, he said &quot;I've had a great loss. Just when he had learned not to eat, he died.&quot; (Dated to the Philogelos 4th /5th Century AD)  10. Asked by the court barber how he wanted his hair cut, the king replied: &quot;In silence.&quot; (Collected in the Philogelos or &quot;Laughter-Lover&quot; the oldest extant jest book and compiled in the 4th/5th Century AD).]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Fri,  1 Aug 2008 14:49:12 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>UN wants INDIA to donate helicopters for Darfur!!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/19095</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post  Really now! India... I mean our I-N-D-I-A that is so well known for thousands of deaths and property damages worth crores because of regional and communal conflicts like Hindu-Muslim, Hindu-Christians, Gurjars, Marathi manoos-North Indians is going to help west Sudan in the Darfur conflict, that's primarily an ethnic conflict between Arabs and Africans.   Hmm... that's quite interesting. So choppers worth crores might be donated, while in our own country hardly anything is done for victims of communal violence. Anyway, I think world over when it comes to regional or ethnic conflict, the whole world and its granduncle could come to the rescue, but unrest will always remain. Though Darfur is one of the most saddening affairs; it's been going on for five years now!]]></description>
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						<title>Another kid found dead in Asaram Bapu's ashram</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/19050</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&gt;&gt; Click here to view original post  It's hardly been a month to the mysterious murder of two kids in Asaram's school in Ahmedabad, and another four and a half year student was found dead in Chhindwada. It's a bit much that kids should get murder in the ashram premises and now it's certainly not a stray case.  What's worse is that there are no evidences in the Abhishek and Dipesh case. And, as usual, again passing the buck game has started. A missing complaint about Abhishek and Dipesh was registered at Adalaj police station, but the cops didn't carry out an inquest when when the bodies were located. Now the Sabarmati police officials are blaming Adalaj police of moving the bodies to put them in Sabarmati police's jurisdiction. Inquest was never done at the right spot. Crucial evidence was obliterated in this fashion.  How do they propose to solve the case in such an irresponsible manner? Anyway think they are going to be lax about the investigation because it's a 'sant' that is in question here!  ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>You know you are watching an Indian soap opera when...</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18984</link>
						<description><![CDATA[1) The name of the show is longer than Hum Aapke Hain Kaun + Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain + Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam + Kyunki Main Jhooth Nahin Bolta.  2) When there are more vamps and villains in the show than all the actors, directors, technicians, spot boys, make up artistes, drivers, dogs on the sets put together.  3) When girls and guys are single in the show for not more than 10 episodes. They need an excuse to showcase lavish sets and have some naach gaana, hence the wedding .  4) When all the characters live with their respective chacha-chachi, mama-mami, masa-maasi, foofa-foofi and also maasi ke devar ki saali ki bua ke jethh ke beta and beti... all in the same house.  5) When women look like a walking catalog of Parag sari and wear more jewelry than Bappi Lahiri.  6) When episodes alternate between aarti-puja and jagraata, wedding and murder every day.  7) The average life span of the character is 106 years, 4 months, 20 days, 18 hours, 9 minutes 39 seconds and 55 nano seconds. Then they are reborn at times.   8) Plastic surgeries in each show outnumber those of Bollywood actresses ever.  9) If you got ALL the characters of the show under one roof, you could fill up a tabelaa.   10) If you got all the women characters under one roof, you'd feel like trying to get in a second class compartment of 9 am Virar fast local... at Borivali.  11) The most often repeated words are parivaar, khandaan, maan maryada, sanskar, thakurji / rab/ mataji / mata maharaj / muraari, mummyji, baauji, 'main tumhe barbaad kar dungi', 'mera ek hi maqsad hai - iss parivaar se badla'.  12) Every character has been married 10 times. To 5 different characters and 5 times to the original spouse.   13) The only sensible character in the show is the old dude who hangs on the wall inside a photo frame... sensible because he doesn't talk at all.  14) The only way you can bear them is when you are too drunk to realize what's happening... And you become an alcoholic as an outcome.   15) The jerky camera work makes you feel like you have a severe case of vertigo.  16) There are more slaps in the show than karate chops in a Jackie Chan movie.   I'm sure there can be lots more to the list... Please write them down in the comments. ]]></description>
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						<title>Black Friday in Bangalore</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18886</link>
						<description><![CDATA[It's hardly been a couple of months to the Jaipur blasts and seven blasts tear across Bangalore! The (artificial) intelligence is still busy playing Rip Van Winkle. The centre warns the Karnataka government just a day before the attack and then they say security is a state issue! And now they will first amend the law to provide paramilitary security to private sectors. Seven blasts in each of three cities Bombay, Jaipur and now Bangalore. They know the six states that are the sensitive areas for terrorists, what's being done for the security of those states? Oh, sorry, they've had more important issues like calling names, trying to topple the ruling party, indulging in communalism because elections are just round the corner, after all!  What will the government do now? Give statements like it's shocking. We need to stop terrorists. Then they'll get into meaningless statistics - how many bombs, how many people died and injured, Lashkar-e-toiba, SIMI will be named, then they will announce compensation to the families, the blame game will begin. By then time a lot of time will have passed and all will be forgotten. Then another bomb blast and the same pattern!  There is an N Deal happening with the US. Why can't they learn about safety from them? Post 9/11 there hasn't been a single attack. But in India, every few months a city is bombed!   What can we do to stop terrorism?  ]]></description>
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						<title>Morrison in a wrestling match... yeah yeah yeah yeah!</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18874</link>
						<description><![CDATA[&nbsp;  There are people known and there are people unknown and in between are the wrestling champs!   My jaws dropped when I saw Morrison in a wrestling ring! Only it wasn't Jim Morrison but John Morrison. The resemblance was uncanny. But I wasn't impressed by this muscular dude because it's about the poetry and the voice that has had me fall so hard for Jimbo.  And it totally broke my heart to see Morrison getting beaten up by a wrestling moron outside of the ring. Purely because of the resemblance, else I wouldn't even have given it a second glance or thought. Wish this dude, John Henigan, would stop using Jimbo's name and appearance to gain popularity. For one, Jim wouldn't have appreciated being sold out!]]></description>
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						<title>Dancing with tears in my eyes....</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18872</link>
						<description><![CDATA[I can very confidently say that I have two left feet. To get me to dance is like... getting a politician to be noble. In short, impossible! But don't know what it was about tonight. It cannot be alcohol, because I have consumed the loverly beverage, rum (old monk),&nbsp; many a times but it's never helped me dance. Tonight I danced. For the first time without any goading. And I enjoyed! I danced like no one was watching. One thing I realize, it's not about how well you dance but how much fun you have doing it that matters. ]]></description>
						 <pubDate>Sat, 26 Jul 2008 03:21:57 +0000</pubDate>
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						<title>What if INR Re 1 = US $1?</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18809</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Got this forward. It's damn funny! It's a bit long, but do read it till the end! Really hope this comes true some time! I'll have a fleet of BMWs then. hehehehe  Year : 2050  Place : IBM , USA (Two Americans Talking)  Currency Conversion Rate : INR 1 Rs = USD $ 100  Alex: Hi John, you didn't come yesterday to office?  John: Yeah, I was in Indian Embassy for stamping.  Alex: Oh really, what happened, I heard that nowadays it has become very strict.  John: Yeah, but I managed to get it.  Alex: How long it took to get it stamped?  John: Oh, it was nasty man, long queue. Bill Gates was standing in front of me and they played with him like anything. That's why it got delayed. I went there at 2 AM itself and waited and returned by 4 PM .  Alex: Really? In India , it is a matter of an hour to get stamped for USA  John: Yeah, but that is because who in India will be interested in coming to USA man, their economy has been booming.  Alex: So, when are you leaving?  John: Anytime, after receiving my tickets from the client in India and you know, I will be getting a chance to fly Air-India. Sort of dream come true.  Alex: How long are you going to stay in India .  John: What do you mean by how long? I will be settled in India , my company has promised me that they will process my Hara Patta .. (green card)  Alex: Really, lucky person man, it is very difficult to get a Hara Patta in India .  John: Yeah, that's why, I am planning to marry an Indian girl there.  Alex: But you can find lots of US girls in Hyderabad , Bangalore and Mumbai.  John: But, I prefer Indian girls because they are beautiful and cultured.  Alex: Where did you get the offer, Hyderabad?  John: Yeah, salary is good there, but cost of living is quite high, it is Rs. 2000/- for a single room accommodation.  Alex: I see, that's too much for US people, Rs.1/- =$100/-. Oh God! What about in Bangalore, Mumbai?  John: No idea, but it is less than what we have in Hyderabad. It is like the world headquarters of software  Alex: I heard, almost all the Indians are having one personal Robot for help.  John: You can get a BMW car for Rs. 5000/-, and a personal Robot for less than Rs.7500/-. But my dream is to purchase Ambassador, which costs Rs.2 ,00,000/- but has got a lovely design.  Alex: By the way, who is your client?  John: Subbarao and Apparao Associates, a pure Indian company, specialising in Embedded Software.  Alex: Oh, really, lucky to work in a pure Indian company. They are really intelligent and unlike American Bodyshoppers who have opened their Fly-by-night outfits in India . Indian companies pay you in full even when you are on bench.  My friend Paul Allen, it seems, used his bench time to visit Bihar, the most liveable place in India , probably world. There you have full freedom and no restrictions. You can do whatever you want! I wonder how that state has perfected that system.  John: Yeah man!, you are right. I hope our America also follows their footsteps.  Alex: How are you going to cope with their language?  John: Why not? From my school days I have been learning Hindi as my first language here at New York . At the Consulate they tested my proficiency in Hindi and were quite impressed by my cent per cent score in TOHIL I.e. Test of Hindi as International Language.  Alex: So, you are going to have fun there.  John: Yeah, I will be travelling in the world's fastest train, world's largest theme park, and the famous Bollywood where you can see actors like, Hrithik, Shah Rukh Khan and all. Esselworld is also near Bollywood.  Alex: You know, the PM is scheduled to visit US next year, he may then relax the number of visas.  John: That's true. Last month, Narayana Murthy visited White House and donated Rs. 2000/- for infrastructure development at a Silicon Valley and has promised more if we follow the model of High-Tech City of Bangalore . Bill Gates also got a chance of meeting him. Very lucky person.  Alex: But, Indian government is planning to split Narayanamurthy's Infosys.  John: He is a hard worker man, he can build any number of Infosys like this. Every minute he is getting Rs. 1000/-. It seems, if you keep all his money converted as Rs. 100/- notes you can reach Pluto.  Alex: OK, Good Luck John.  John: Same to you Alex. And don't go to Consulate in a &quot;Kurta Pyjama&quot; because they will think you are too Indianised and may doubt you will never come back and hence your Non-Immigrant Visa may get rejected. But don't forget to say &quot; Namaste, aap kaise hai &quot; to the Visa officer at Window 5. It seems he likes that and will not give you a visa if you don't greet him that way. ]]></description>
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						<title>Dus ka dum (10 favourite literary figures)</title>
						<link>http://www.fropper.com/post/18738</link>
						<description><![CDATA[Khee khee khee. Trust me to give such a terrible title to an interesting game. *Chuckles*. *Maha pleased with self for being cheesy*. Oh, I haven't yet found out if I have been tagged or what! Anyway, here goes my list. It's not in the order of preference.  Jeeves - A man who can give hangover cure the first day he arrives would be someone after my own heart! His stiff upper lip demeanor and very Brit language are so adorable and he is a wizard! He has a solution for almost everything. He seems more of a master than Bertie Wooster himself. Even if Wooster and Jeeves have a disagreement, Jeeves wins in the end. Full power dude!!  Miss Marple - Detective naani. Khee khee khee. She is a village auntie and a razor sharp detective rolled into one! And she is not aggressive at all. Absolute ownage! \m/  Shug Avery (The Color Purple) -&nbsp; Shug Avery is sensuality, femininity and liberation! The one who makes Celie realize her true worth and that she is worthy of love and respect. Also introduces Celie to her sexuality and connects her to her sister Nettie and in turn her children Olivia and Adam.   Sofia (The Colour Purple): Sofia full on fights back with her husband Harpo like solid maara mari! And she knocks off the Mayor no less. Totally loved her.  Billy Hayes (Midnight Express): Read the book when I was in ninth standard! Fell in love with Billy Hayes. And no his hash smuggling has nothing to do with it. It was just his struggle and escape that fascinated me. And also the copy I had had Brad Davis' pic on the cover and I thought he was soooooo good looking. Didi and I were reading the book at the same time. We'd alternate it with our studies. And we both went crazy for him.  Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird):&nbsp; Atticus Finch is integrity, courage, compassion, conscience and truth all rolled into one! He is the perfect father figure one can have. And he's a brilliant lawyer.   Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye): The voice of teenage angst. Loved his cynicism. I mean he was so difficult to judge. He had childlike simplicity and yet he was sooooo complex. He finds everything phoney and his language was so hardcore! And he had such jaded and dry sense of humour. Like when the 'secret slob' Ackley barges into Holden's room while the latter is trying to read and keeps yapping,&nbsp; Holden says something like&nbsp; 'I like these three sentences so much that I'm reading them over and over again' or when he meets those three chiquitas and asks if two of them are sisters and says, &quot;I don't know who was more offended&quot;.  Esther Greenwood (The Bell Jar): Sylvia Plath is one of my favourite poetesses. Esther Greenwood was a semi-autobiographical character. Swimming far into the sea, OD-ing on sleeping pills and still surviving. What fascinated me even more was that she needs her friend's suicide to understand death and get her sanity back.  Clover (Animal Farm): (Hope it's cool to include an animal in the list!) The mare seems so vain in the beginning! But the way she cares for Boxer is so sweet. She is compassionate and conscientious. Anyway I really like horses and this one was so awesome!   Anna (Mr God, This is Anna): Probably the only character that made me cry! Fynn has done such a wonderful job of describing her. All of barely 5 years, Anna's idea of not only Mister God and life but something as practical as Science and Maths is soooooo refreshing! What I loved most about her is unlike most people who treat God more as a strict warden who you need to obey and be scared of, for Anna he is like a friend and someone to be loved. God is part of everybody, everybody is part of God. &quot;I bet Mister God lets me into heaven for this&quot;, she says about grinning when she is dying at 7 yrs of age! ]]></description>
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