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My Quikr Experience and iPad buy

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It all began with BlogAdda … like so many other things in my life this year. J I read about the Quikr initiative on BlogAdda's blog and after some 'quick' consideration, decided to participate. Not that I was planning to buy something from Quikr, but the activity gave me the idea of picking up a second hand tablet for home use – wife, mom, dad – etc could use it for viewing photos or video chat while I am away from home for work etc. So, I filled the form and nominated myself for the Quikr experience. Once I received the confirmation email, I put down my search parameters in place; even before opening Quikr. 1. Want to buy a second hand 'working' tablet 2. Budget – 5000 to 8000 – since the utility of this tablet will be very limited, did not want to spend too much on it 3. Explore Kindle Fire – dunno why but Kindle Fire has fascinated me. I already had the plain vanilla earliest version kindle for reading and wanted to

Book Review: www.MarryAGhost.com by Abhimanyu Jha

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    Book: www.MarryAGhost.com Author: Abhimanyu Jha No. of Pages: 250 Genre: Fiction Publisher:   Shrishti Publications   || spoiler alert || Not really a spoiler spoiler but but I might reveal things in the review that might act as a spoiler. In fact, it may postively discourage you from reading this book.   Let me tell you one thing … the last 3 words of the book spoilt my reading experience of the book; so much so – I deducted a star just because of that. The book was indeed a nice read and I almost gave it 3 stars while reading it … but the 3 words at the end of the book literally pissed me off and the result is one star off the review. It was a well written book and i wish the author did not climax the book the way he did. It is never a good feeling to leave a book unfinished ... and the author managed to give me that feeling in spite of reading till the last page. On the brighter side, I actually enjoyed reading the book. It

Entangled Lives – Chapter 23 - #GameOfBlogs to #CelebrateBlogging

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We are Team #PotliwaleBaba who are playing the #GameOfBlogs initiated by BlogAdda.com to #CelebrateBlogging. An exciting murder-mystery-thriller is in the making …   Let me first share the links to all previous chapters (read them if you haven't read them already) Chapters  - #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | #9 | #10 | #11 | #12 | #13 | #14 | #15 | #16 | #17 | #18 | #19 | #20 | #21 | #22      Now you can move on to Chapter 23 in this blog-post … you will find the link to the next Chapter (#24) at the end of the chapter below. ----------------------------------------------------- To say Java was irritated would be an understatement. The light at the end of the tunnel had uncharacteristically turned out to be a dud. Ahuja, who came to him saying he had seen a murder, had given him hope. An eyewitness is always a breakthrough for a case, and this seemingly complicated case was in dire need of one.