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Books I read in February ....... 1. See Jane Die by Erica Splinder --- Kind of Murder Mystery .. nice read. i likes it.  nice twist in the tail of the tale. Nice interplay of relationships and twists and turns in the story. 2. "Love, Rosie" aka "Where Rainbows End" by Cecelia Ahern --- An absolute emotional roller coaster. For me it was reading with tears in my eyes for the first time in life. i even blogged about it while I was reading it   3. Murder in the Mews by Agatha Christie (Hercule Poirot Series) --- collection of 4 Hercules Poirot stories ... Murder in the Mews, The Incredible Theft, Dead Man's Mirror, Triangle at Rhodes ... Frankly I am not sure if I am going to pick up another one from this series. Did not really like it. --- I would rather not write anything about it except maybe 'I did not like them much' ... My fav are Sherlock Holmes, 3 Investigators and Feluda 4. Ice Station by Mathew Reilley --- Like the other Mathew Reilley ...

This is how Sachin's Manager would 'grade' him during his annual appraisal ... Hmmm .... So you have put the 200 scorer as your Biggest achivement during past year .. lets analyse this 200 Runs / 147 Balls / 25 X4 / 3 X6 Agree you have done GREAT BUT BUT BUT BUT ... (there is always a BUT) 25 x 4s = 100  and  3 x 6s    =  18 This implies that you have done 118 Runs in 28 Balls. .... Nice. Very Nice. Excellent. Also you managed ...  12 x 2s = 24  and  58 x 1s = 58 NOW ... all this means you have done all 200 Runs in only 98 balls ...... FANTASTIC !! WELL DONE >>> BUT ... (Now comes the BIG BUT)   This also menas that you have wasted 147-98 = 49 balls     Considering only 1 run scored on each of these balls you could have earned 49 valuable RUNS FOR OUR TEAM   MANAGER'S COMMENT:  Sachin 'only' met the expectations and NOT EXCEEDING (though anyone of our team could not do it) and  his Grade is    MEDIUM   Tra...

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions." ~ Albert Einstein   Now whether you make the efforts to go ahead and buy the tickets and then enjoy the movie or just act lazy and skip it … is entirely your own sweet choice. And THAT my dear is what i also call "That's Life"  ~ HK :)

My Name is Gossip --Author Unknown   I have no respect for justice. I aim without killing. I break hearts and ruin lives. I am cunning and malicious, and gather strength with age. The more I am quoted, the more I am believed. I flourish at every level of society. My victims are helpless. They cannot protect themselves against me, Because I have no face. To track me down is impossible. The harder you try, the more elusive I become. I am nobody's friend. Once I tarnish a reputation, it is never the same. I topple governments, wreck marriages and ruin careers. . . Cause sleepless nights, heartaches and indigestion. I spawn suspicion and generate grief. I make innocent people cry in their pillows. Even my name hisses. I make headlines and headaches. Before you repeat a story, ask yourself . . . 'Is it true? Is it fair? Is it necessary?'   ----------------------------------------------------------------------   Gossip and Rumours are born out of human inquisitiven...

I don't like Agatha Christies 'Poirot" !   I was, I am and I guess, I forever will be a Sherlock Holmes, 3 Investigators and Feluda Fan !!   I have been a Sherlock Holmes and 3 Investigators Fan ever since my school days. I voraciously read every available book on both from my school library. I read maybe one or two Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot stories then and did not like it. I did not even like the TV series on Agatha Christie stories ,,, although on the other hand I loved the carrot-munching Karamchand (played by Pankaj Kapoor) immensely.   Feluda is a more recent discovery (Thanks to my best friend Shraddha) and I love the writing style. As Satyajit ray himself put it, the stories were written for a Teenage audience and hence the writing was deliberately kept simple and crimes of passion etc were kept out of the story line.   So I am sorry Agatha Christie, but I don't like Hercules Poirot !!

Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.   AND   True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable     Having good friends is a gift ... Having a Best Friend is a blessing !   Your best friend is one who shows you the mirror; shows you what you are, makes you realise your hidden potential and helps you discover the real You.   Your best friend will not agree with all that you do and say and think. Your best will tell you what is right, where you are right and also where you are wrong or mistaken.   Your best friend is your hope, your motivation, your strength, your sounding board, your moral support, your SOS call, your partner-in-crime (i mean the innocent kind), your companion all through life.   And while you revel in the blessing and be happy about having a Best Friend ... Dont forget to be an equally good Best Friend to your Friend !!   What your Best Friend has done for you ... You gotta do for your Best friend...

If you want it to happen, you must make it happen. If you let it happen, you won't like what happened !!!  ~ Dale Adams   And Thats Life ...   ~ HK ( Thats Me :)

What happens when you paste a marketing gimmick without applying thought? A near Disaster !!   Valentine Day is round the corner and everyone (literally everyone is trying to push sales of their wares / products / services using 'special Valentine offers' … Times Shopping regularly features a set of products in the newspapers for people to buy at discounted prices. Today morning I found the "same" ad with the same old regular products with a small change. Two RED hearts were added to the ad with the words 'Valentine Special'. Ignore the fact that the products had little to do with Valentine or love. The most shocking and actually hilarious thing was that the ad contained an offer on the product "16 GB Pen style Spy Cam" !! WOAH !!! What a thing to sell as V-Day special   !! (Come to think of it; some would actually buy it. Either to spy or even to mis-use taking clips of unsuspecting partners to create dirty MMS or simply blackmail materi...

There's something completely unnerving about seeing your parents upset. I suppose it's because they're supposed to be the strong ones, but that's not just it.   Ever since people are kids they use their parents as some sort of measurement for how bad a situation is.   When you fall on the ground really hard and you can't figure out whether it hurts or not you look to your parents. If they look worried and rush toward you, you cry. If they laugh and smack the ground saying "Bold ground," then you pick yourself up and get on with it.    Parents are the barometers of emotions for children and it has a domino effect on them.   -----------   from the book "Love, Rosie" by Cecelia Ahern

Winners never Quit !! Quitters never Win !!   Right ???   Well .. recently i realised that even "Quitters Do Win"   special case scenario actually ...   Quit your Job and become an entrepreuner :)   Quitters Do Win !!!

I have never cried or had tears in my eyes while reading fiction.   Primarily bcos i kept myself away from emotional stuff. I kept myself confined to the world of fantasy, mystery, thrillers etc. Stories and Writings of excitment, suspense, action ... Recently my best friend Shraddha gave me this book "Love, Rosie" by Cecelia Ahern and said " You will like it" ... and the claim i made above was shattered a few days later when i started reading this book Well ... it started like this ... i randomly started reading the book at almost mid-night thinking i would just read a few pages before i doze up. I was already sleepy and thought some emotional read might just put me to sleep quicker. Boy I was wrong. By the time i reached page 10 ... i was like hooked and booked. I just went on reading ... stopped at about page 100 when the wall clock said it was 2 AM and i just couldnt keep my eyes open. More so bcos they were pretty much soked in tears. The book do...

Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you enough chance to love you enough ~ DINAH SHORE     

After looking at my Movies post and the post about my first love (Books) ... i thought why not record my reading this year on my blog. That way I will also know what i have been reading   So heres what i read last month .. i suspoect i have forgotten what else i read (i do have a poor memory u see)     1. One More Day - Mitch Albom        Very emotional stuff. 2. Seven Ancient Wonders - Matthew Reilley        Thriller. Action Packed. Adventure and History. It was like reading the script of Indiana Jones !! Really wonderful to read this. I am now hooked onto Matthew Reilley.   3. Mystery Stories - collection of short stories by various authors selected by Helen Cresswell        Not so great read. Collection of several short stories. Some good. Some not so good.

Friendship isn't about whom you have known the longest, who came first , or who cares the best...   It's all about who came and never left.   .... This is for all those friends of mine ... who never left.

So how does it feel to have a Secret Admirer ?   Well … it depends. If the secret admirer begins to stalk you it can get scary.   If the secret admirer begins to stalk your words … written word .. then what … ?? well .. its simply gets intriguing !!!   So … coming to the point … I have a secret admirer !! Well … not exactly !   Its actually my blog (and yes my written word) who have managed to have a secret admirer. Am I jealous … well "No". Am I interested … well "Very".   A friend of mine recently told me that her friend loves my blog. I asked my friend to introduce me to this friend of hers but she made it clear that 'that' was not going to happen. Reason – she did not tell.   This secret admirer is also a Silent admirer. She can very well comment on my blog or talk to me or chat with me via gtalk or write to me through email… but she also chooses to hide behind the veil of secrecy !!   After a long interval, I made a couple of blog ...