I couldn't wait for even one whole day to reply to Rahul Bose and Santhosh.N, on quality blogging.Actually, it was  a pleasure for me to go through the blogs of Santhosh.N. and Rahul Bose because they had thought deeply and sincerely  on quality and had come forth with their own enriching views on “What is Quality Blogging”.

   I have to mention that I was impressed by the long post of Rahul Bose demanding that every quality blog be one that helps find solutions for social or scientific issues. He touched the crux of quality there and he sets high standards for a blogger while doing that. He says it should be our own humble contribution to the world. That was great. But then , I think most of the bloggers would be out and the only person who would  fit the bill as a Quality Blogger would be, Rahul Bose himself…..haa..ha..hilarious....jokes apart, what I meant was that his concept of quality blogging sets  unreachable standards for an ordinary blogger.Nevertheless, I would like to appropriate his interesting  ideas and add it to my pet concept of “quality blogging” , there by enlarging my scope.

  Now to Santhosh.N’s views , which says that quality should be commensurate with good content. I always thought content was naturally the object of any blog and there was no need for any specification. If we like the content we naturally read the blogs of the concerned person. So I accept whole heartedly that content should be important when we set forth to define a  quality blog.
     However, we must not forget that many don’t have any content. They pick up some inane stuff and still write something interesting, for us to laugh and sometimes reflect on life’s deep meanings. It may be some personal stuff, a poem,pictures, videos  or a story that has nothing much but still conveys some pleasurable emotions. So if we are on the look out for content, a good deal of quality bloggers will be out,again.It constricts the Blogger's freedom in certain ways. That notwithstanding,  I include it within my scope and I respect a blogger who feeds my intellect.

    Now  I get  back to address  these two definitions of  quality blogging with respect to mine. My definition stands too simple in comparison   and only wants a  grammatically well written blog, with good arrangement of ideas closing to a fine finish and an avoidance of  e-language such as “u r 2 gud”(for you are too good) plus an avoidance of  Hinglish or Tamilish collocations.. I have scant regard for linguistic code mixing  within the defines of  quality blogging. While I wouldn't mind it once in a  way, regular amoral usage is to extend the freedom too far. Despite the few conditions that any body can follow, I am happy that my definition accommodates more bloggers , even while  being   inclusive of  these other ideas.The bottomline being,reading  a blog in some ways should be a fulfilling experience is some way.

    Another matter of special mention is about the concept of some people that a blog is only a means of communication. I have a problem with that, if  such people claim pretensions to quality  blogging. I expect  a blog to enjoy greater respectability than a  mobile phone message, a blurb or a message at comment section/sawaal section. For all the others, mistakes may be permissible. A blog is almost like a  nice book. It should remain for  children to read and enjoy them,  adults to savour the intellectual or literary experience for days.

   If we can cry hoarse on copyrights and fight for the primacy of the progenitor, how can it be any inferior to a book? When we treat it with the sanctity of a work of art or creation, the average blogger would take care to write well and stick to some minimum  yards of perfection, after all these are not difficult things to learn. So a blogger learns the importance of writing carefully and editing  his posts again and again.He imbibes  the style of writing technique and does a good job.After all one day you do want to get paid for your  blogging efforts.On a lighter note, IBIBO has promised a blog bonus of 1500 for a minimum of five quality posts and we don't want that to go to common place blogs, when so many are capable of raising their blog standards, with  a  little effort.

  That way I  confess that I do look down upon those who think that a blog is only a  medium of communication. What is communicaition? It need not necessarily be through language.A grunt or moan suggests sexual urge and the partner who is used to the sexual habits of one responds immediately and communication is achieved. So would you equate that with any  quality of expression?

     There fore, it is my humble appeal that we ought to be selective in talking of quality. Maybe not as strict in demanding content quality like Santhosh or Rahul. Yet, one that accommodates more bloggers and perceives any beautiful expression that elevates our mind as quality blogging.

     While doing this, my mind runs to those bloggers who are not in HOF and probably would never be. To be ruthlessly frank, the easy way to be in HOF is to visit a handful of  HOF members and leave a pertinent comment discussing their blogs and inviting them to your blogs. When they do, they get to like your work and nominate you. Soon  you join the bandwagon and imagine HOF is synonymous to quality blogging.What about countless number of  faceless avatars who don’t have time to read other blogs? They blog for their own pleasure. Even if you visit them, they don’t visit you because of their lack of time. They churn out quality stuff day in and day out without expecting any comment. The reader who visits those blogs would come back feeling happy and fulfilled.I would still call them quality bloggers and faithfully read their blogs and leave my   humble comments there. They don’t desire the HOF and would prefer to keep out of it, which is why they never ever will get into the HOF any day. But I need to direct the new bloggers to their posts to pick up their blogging skills,don’t I?I do need to acknowledge them even if they are not aware of it,don't I?The list of quality bloggers may look small in the beginning, but with more people conforming to quality, it will expand. It is doubtless that standardization always improves quality and our blogging life is bound to be a more interesting  experience with days to come. Happy blogging, dear friends!

 PS

Some of the eminent bloggers at IBIBO who have discussed their views on good blogging 

MAKING BLOGGING A PLEASURE

By Santhosh N

My Idea of Quality Blogs

By Second Coming

 BLOGGING TIPS

By Ink Tank

Random thoughts on writing

 Random thoughts on writing

By Vijayaraghav 

Dr. Dipankar Das Gupta also had one blog in which  he had discussed about Good English and Indian English. Unfortunately the Blog  got deleted. But it is not exactly on blogs. My views have been majorly influenced by him. Before he came into IBIBO, I never used to edit my posts nor would I bother about grammar or style. I would simply respond to a blog as a carrier of thought. I admit that I owe him this new persona that I have acquired since his arrival. Here I would like to mention that I could go down my knees to salute this valuable gem of a person. I attach his URL as my allegience to him.

Desperately hanging on

It is anybody's experience that the electricity  problem at home is little likely to get solved if one doesn't "spend" money on the electricity board  employees.They simply will not come. We do want to get  things done fast,don't we? We justify ourselves and prefer a suave "understanding" to a militant oppostion. We begin to  feel that by staying  a non conformist, we lose a  lot. Resisting the temptation for giving bribes is at the cost of something else.But what if we don't mind the "cost"?The "cost" is bigger than the "deal" ,argue the  big business magnets like  Ambanis,  in whose dictionary, bribery is not corruption  but a mere  "management of situations". Well, for a few others,who can  see the long term erosion of a healthy social fabric due to corruption, some dilly dallying doesn't mean much.

   I reckon,things are really not as bad as we imagine it to be. How many of us ever think of rooting out corruption by being a non conformist on a collective basis. We grumble, complain and attack what is actually within our means to achieve;if  only we allowed ourselves some discomfort in the bargain. As part of the public, we could either individually or as a  group/club  resist corruption, making it a foolproof method, with time.What if  those  who have acute personal grievances at the corporation office or electricity board, join together as  a  team?

     When the Electricity card has to be transferred to your name after the death or  expiry of the owner and you being the successor, you naturally try to proceed with it, by following every rule.You apply at the Electricity board, with a requisition that it should be transferred to your name. At the time of receiving the card, the employee demands Rs. 100. Rest assured, even if you do not give him the money, he still has to change your name based on the requisiton letter, for it is his duty. But he asks for a bribe anyway and pretends he has something which will not give unless you pay the money.He would send you back and forth a dozen times. Do it cheerfully and of course, you will have to do some running around if you want to stick to your principles. If and only if you  believe firmly  on the  principle that you will not pay money to the undeserving, you will discover that you can stay clear of greasing palms. After a few days of dithering you can  get it,  and without paying. So why pay?The employees only make use of the waiting period.They cannot stop from giving you what is rightfully yours for too long. He/she  cannot tell you officially that you are to pay bribes  and hold you at a ransom. As a citizen, you can recommend  that his   departmen may  take action on the  said unscrupulous employee.

   Radhika(name changed) wanted to transfer her house documents to her name after her flat was bequeathed  to her by her mom. The lady at the counter wanted 200 bucks  for giving the receipt, for which  Radhika was not willing.  Radhika had already  spent more than Rs.500 on the Attorney's attestation and the innumerable xerox of various house documents.So she went  away  without the receipt. After  a month when she came back for it, she found that the name wasn't changed, the employee had got transferred as there was another woman in her place.The new employee insisted that a fresh requisition be made. Radhika flew into  a temper; protested, refused,raved and ranted. But the employee repeated that she was helpless as she wanted the receipt to trace the files and could  Radhika  alteast give the receipt number, for further proceedings. Realizing the futility of arguments, Radhika, took another draft, met the notary public for attestation and finally submitted it ,not without the warning  that she would not tolerate any more shoddiness. She would fight against corruption tooth and nail.When she returned for it, she was pleasantly surprised  to learn that, the orders to change the  name had already been  issued  within a fortnight, and  now an enquiry was to be instituted  demanding reasons for the delay. The employee was so panicky that she profusely  apologized to Radhika,asking her to wait for a  few days, till matters got straightned out; maybe two weeks? Radhika finally got the necessary document and without paying the bribe.

   ThereforeI have strong faith in what Thiruvaklluvar says about Dharma

Dharumatthin vaiayi soothu kavvum

Aanaal iruthiyik dharumame vellum

 (Justice may have a temporary respite when falshood  tries to hold it by the mouth, but ultimately Justice alone wins.)

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I am a farmer with a large large  farmland  stretching  across those green hills. One day, due to the insistence of an old owl that had flown to my farm  last month, and made quick friends with me, I decided to go to  town.

    There in a corner, beside the solar  lamppost, I saw an old man with a  large cage. Curious,I went to him and asked permission to have a peep. Many pairs of friendly eyes, gazed at me from within that cage. There were beautiful horses  called sonia, umbrella,sarada,  priya, tingy, cindy, Avipsha Das..…green chirpy  parrots like savita, nabanita, sneha, sugar, santa claus, lalli, a friendly  wild ox called Radhakrishnaaaaaa,  a giraffe called SecondComing ,  stags called Santosh N, Sunil xyz, i2i, a reindeer called Idlemind ,a strong hunting dog called loveramesh ,  two  white stallions; Arnie ,  Nikhil Modi…..and  a Tiger called Sunil T. Bless my soul, it was  a dear  little baby Tiger. Although I liked all the animals, I hadn’t the money to buy the entire group of  animals. I have my limitations ,you see. So with the little money I had ,I  thought I would buy just a  few of them. But the  seller was a broken circus man wanting  to sell all the animals immediately. He  shook his head and said, the entire group was very fond of each other. Choosing just a few,  could be dangerous, as the others would fly into a  rage.    How much could I spend? I am not so rich…Anyway, the circus man  allowed me credit, if only I would take those animals off his hands!!!!  As I expected a bumper  this year, I agreed.  I gave him my address, phone numbers, both landline and mobile.Towing the cage(which was on wheels) to my wagon, off I drove home, humming  a  tune. 

     The next  morning, I went to inspect this cage, which I had placed by my mulberry grove. Egad, was I very pleased to find that the animals were actually  shaking hands with meeeee. They seemed to love me a lot because I looked friendlier than the circus man, who would beat them to dance to his tunes for every show. Many happy days passed in the company of these  dear  animals.

     One day, the wise owl advised me to stitch quality jackets for all of them and I thought it was such a  pretty idea. So I  proceeded to stitch jackets for all of them. For some the dress suited like a dream  while the others needed to grow a bit to fit in. But since they were  all one family, they  responded with mixed  sentiments to the  jacketing which they felt was  straitjacketing and how could I do this! Now, the angriest was Tiger baby. He was  my biggest pet and had  a crush on me. He wanted me to have  a crush on him too. I would have loved to have a  crush on him . But I noticed that he already had a crush on a  bevy of other bloggers….tch…tch… animals and had added me as a  tail piece,fearing to offend me.. Since I did not relish being part of a crowd, I told him kindly that we can just be friends.I would take him for walks every night and we would prattle along about animal life and blogging life.Tiger’s  nightly walks with a human made him very pleased with himself. He believed himself to be perfect and unconquerable. So when I tried the jacket on him and it did not fit,so well, he claimed it was so because he was  a  genius. No jackets could fit any genius,  he scowled. To tell the truth,  he was beside himself with righteous indignation. He lifted the jacket , swirled it overhead and threw it nearly a hundred kms away on the southwest direction.

“You are selfish, cruel and you think only of yourself You don’t understand how we animals value our freedom. I hate you. For long I knew, you were dominating and I being genetically superior, wanted to reform you. I am a tiger… nothing can change me.But  you better change, sooner or later… Grrrrr”

He walked to and forth,  tapping his tail to show his importance  and  came back to say, “….When you don’t want to change, what can I do?”, so saying, he stomped out in the south west direction, where he had flung the jacket, vowing for  life that the devil take him if he were  to return to me.Upon his soul, it could only happen if he should turn a donkey….. I got so worried about him that I  jumped into my wagon and began to search for him. For two days I looked for him in every nook and corner. Then , so tired and parched, I came to a pool to drink water. I had a quick  swill and  turned around. There under a  maple tree…what did I see!!!!! A  pleasant surprise. Little tiger was  licking a lollipop, snug on the rear side grassy patch  of land by the stretch of maples, where   a   rhino was relaxing. Her name was violethue and she was wearing the jacket, although, it did not fit her so well.. As soon as she saw me, she ran to me and said how much she liked the jacket which had fallen on her like  a   cap three days ago when tiger had thrown it off  in a  great huff. She patted little  tiger affectionately on his furry head  and said he  had mellowed down and I could take him back home. Sure enough, tiger was meowing like a  kitten.

  Ohhh dear,…. Why is my tiger mewing….. everyone please go to Aditi’s  latest blog

 (Scared about the quality test )  and check.  You will find my tiger mewing merrily……Anyway, I was contented that I  got back my tiger, in the same old cheerful disposition, with the same old love…. Except that I will have to take him to a vet to check his gullet.haa..haaa… haa….oooohhhh Tiger dear and others, you needn’t wear any jacket if you don’t like itttt…..just  let’s stay friends, pleeeeeeeeezzzz!!!

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The minute stood enthralled

In the hour

While  the second stood enamoured 

In the minute......

In that one split second

When your gaze held my face,

My life stood charmed,

Immortalized in eternity.

To invoke  

The endlessness of Time,

My mind rushes back

To that one moment

 That day,

When I forgot 

That time ever existed

Save in the length of your adoration. 

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I was  rather taken aback  at this news  bit on yahoo pages about George Bush's comment on Indian Midddle class. I didn't feel like getting the link but the content is all the same as given below. I think those of you who had  read it will be able to add on  to what I missed.

   Bush seems to have noted the correlation between the rising food prices and Indian living standards and complained that because the Indian Middle class was getting richer and richer, there was an    increased consumption  of food. He says this  has  caused a  cyclically increased demand  that led to a global  rise in food prices. How sad....Can you beat it? At a news conference on May 2nd in Mussouri, Bush mentioned India's growing middle class and said,  "when you start getting wealth, you start demanding better nutrition and better food, and so demand is high, and that causes the price to go up." (unquote)

A similar statement was also made by the  Secretary of State Condoleezza  Rice. Our people seem to have reacted with great annoyance hitting back saying "Why do the Americans think that they deserve to eat more?"

    If we were to discuss this, where in the world can any country be compared to America's consumption of food, locomotives,  fuel and anything available for consumption, edible or non edible?

     What I enjoyed most was the rejoinder by Pradeep Mehta, General Secretary of CUTS(Centre for International Trade)-

If only the third world countries get access to one third of the food that the Americans want to burn out of their bodies through liposuction, we would all be nutritionally well balanced. After all America consumed twice as much as food as India ever did, in spite of our larger density of population.

 Moreover, Jairam Ramesh, the minister of state for commerce, seems to have told The Press Trust of India after Bush's remarks, that  it only  proved again how "comprehensively wrong" Bush is,"George Bush has never been known for his knowledge of economics..." 

   Considering the fact that China and India've been consistently  blamed for everything right from rising prices to global warming and told to correct themselves, it could be the first time that Indians retaliated with equal fervor in self-defence. This, irrespective of the uneasy feeling that sanctions may be imposed  against us for raising voices. LOLL..Surprises of surprises, it was the first time now, that  this  got us  a mellowed  apologetic response from the Bush Administration.

  The White House Spokesman,Scott Stanzel and the US Ambassador, David Mulford had to fall on top of their noses to tell the world that the President is a  great admirer of  India and it is a good thing that people are getting richer and more affordable. After all, this is the time for global co-operation,  unhealthy fights and verbal exchanges are wholly unproductive for general welfare.  Cool.

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NEW INSIGHTS INTO QUALITY BLOGGING

     It is more than a week since Cindy’s Fenku fever is past but the sweetness lingers on.   Long before that I had posted my views on quality blogging, and enriched it with the insights of  Secondcoming(Rahul Bose) and Santosh. N. 

  My view held that good language skills (whatever language it may be) gives pleasure to the readers. Although they may not be so popularly read, they ought to be viewed as "quality blogging" and  as  blogs to be emulated.(ref:BLOGS OF GOOD QUALITY )

  The  Rahulian angle was to achieve self actualization through self expression and the Santoshian angle was the primacy of content vis a vis good language. Following these views, I modified my view on quality blogging and confined good literary style to “Quality English” ; a small aspect of “Quality Blogging” and made “Quality blogging” an umbrella term to incorporate the views of  more styles and genres. (INTEGRATING THE DIALOGICS OF QUALITY BLOGGING)

Now is the time for me to introduce the  Cindiian view as one classic example of Quality Blogging. It cannot be denied that to organize a contest and reveal the multifarious talent of  a whole group of interested bloggers and counting the ratings is a major task. What interests me more  is that, Cindy girl has risen to the levels of Santhosh and Rahul Bose in presenting a  strong perspective without realizing it. What she must have wanted was to derive some fun with friends. But that has given birth to a new aspect towards   blogging theories that I am trying to evolve, without mincing words- Blogging is not all about writing.

 I feel glad  to add it to my theory of  quality blogging as the Cindiian angle( the  mutual  bonding of bloggers).

  That at rest, the Fenku contest was to the abilty to bluff, to say any crazy thing but all that mattered was never to let go of  humour. The animated participation in the contest  unleashed the techie talent of Satyakam, the  crispy banter of Mridul Bora, the vibrant humour  of Umbrella 22 , the brilliance of Tiger and the robust frolic of sugarr. May I be pardoned for human omissions  of  other names...lol...

   The point is, sometimes high fie language is a deterrent to humour (although Tiger and sarada were two people who were able to achieve both).. Often, to achieve a certain effect, one needs to go beyond the scope of language to  dig out  maximum  pleasure. Therefore, I had a nagging feeling that if  a poll was set instead of rating, Umbrella 22 would have won hands down Well,  this is just my stray thought because I was amazed at the  number of 5* rating her post got, and it was richly deserved.

    Having said this, we cannot underplay the value of  visual impact which the computer can provide, as against a  text book. Many of the blogging sites with increased Eurpoean participation have high multimedia effects, pictures and animations. People blog music albums with their own voice, films that they themselves make,  besides the blogs on  interesting self created animations. The entire page glitters.It is just that, we Indians are still fixated with writing. With the kind of techie influence on blogging pages, it is only a matter of time when writing styles would become too outdated,even as a matter for discussion.

    Apart from this are the photoshop delights that mycreations and Ting Tong are experts in. It is just that this facet of their personality needs an opportunity to be focused and  reach the limelight , under a possible genre called  non verbal blogging.The  eye catching sketches of TribhuMRatta  and  Sujatha are long known to us. They never fail to add spice to the blogs with memorable lines. I would love to bracket them all as gems of  heavenly blogging(of the non verbal). There may be more such people in and out of IBIBO. In fact each and every blogger is special and brings a  special facet to the blogging world. Each stands representing a new theory himself/herself.May I invite  Cindy to bring to the fore different talents, so that  many more bloggers get noticed and showcased to  delight us again??

   PS-I have added TribhuMDatta thinking that the sketches are his own. My blurbs to him  asking whether the sketches were original hav not been answered. But the sketches of  beautiful humans depicted in his blogs can never go unnoticed and may the credit go to whoever had drawn it!!!

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The President of India, Vice President of India, Prime Minister of India, Leader of the Opposition, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Chief Justice of India & Chief Election Commissioner. 

   These were the persons who received a  letter jointly signed by me and Oscar F on how to streamline our administrative systems and control corruption. As you know for quite some time,t he corruption in our country had been troubling me like a bedbug, there was another one here,mon ami called Oscar F, who decided that we would break our baltihood and shoot letters at them. We don't assure you that things will get rectified immediately and you know very well that it is impossible. Even then, we had to make a beginning some where and so we referred to ourseleves as  friends at  IBIBO.com troubled by the malaise of corruption. Here are the solutions. I am just giving you a short appraisal of what we sent while this is not the form or replica of the letter. 

Firstly, we identified corruption at three levels

The lower strata of peons / clerks/go betweens

The second strata of higher class one officerss working for the Govt

The third strata  of politicians themselves.

For the lower clerical levels, we suggested e-governance. If  all the Govt offices are accessible through cyber space,the common man can get his requirements heard or atleast partially fulfilled through direct streams.

For the second strata, corruption is more a matter of  life style. When  you see guys who were less intelligent than you at school earning 1 lac per month in IT, while you slog like a bull the whole day for a  few thousands, what will your psychology be like? Even today, any secondary source of income is taboo for govt officals. Yet we mentioned that some of them still do it in clandestine ways; some adjust with their lot ;while the rest of them "make"  easy money, through corruption. So we suggested that their secondary source of income may be made legitimate. Only that if there is a  call for duty, their allegience towards the Govt Duty be stipulated as  being of  foremost importance.

For the third strata of politicians themselves, we suggested that only educated people be elected to power(as they would have been exposed to school life, its discipline, and some kind of moralisitc background as opposed to the  uneducated scum; people with a  shady past of goondaism/ dacoitry/ smugglery/ history of prison life (not for any "cause" but due to reasons of criminal past),may be disqualified from  contesting  the elections.

Of course, we know very well that you would be pleased to welcome a clean society and if something favorable takes place you would be delighted. Let us wait and see!

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nta Fein(where are youuuuu?)

Are there  memories

That tomorrows can wash away?

Are there loves

That human hearts can forget?

Are there are beauties

That compassion cannot overcome?

How much can I covet

That which is not mine?

Tell me, 

What is not mine?

In a God's universe where

The bird  on the bough

And the squirrel at acorn

Belongs to none but Him? 

Why cannot the heart 

That cannot be mine,

Be mine some day? 

 Enta feinnnnnnnnnn

nta Fein(where are youuuuu?)

Are there  memories

That tomorrows can wash away?

Are there loves

That human hearts can forget?

Are there are beauties

That compassion cannot overcome?

How much can I covet

That which is not mine?

Tell me, 

What is not mine?

In a God's universe where

The bird  on the bough

And the squirrel at acorn

Belongs to none but Him? 

Why cannot the heart 

That cannot be mine,

Be mine some day? 

 Enta feinnnnnnnnnn

had posted it earlier too and this was when me and tingy became friends and almost family. She has been asking me to put it again… so here you go tingy… I hope those who didn’t read it earlier will enjoy and those who have, will laugh once again….Ibibo was infected with this virus for quite sometime after I posted it last time.. this incident took place in Kolkata.

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Every group has some code words, some fun words.. We also had our own… one of the most frequently used was – “Poongi” hhhehhe. I m laughing as I m typing it. We used to refer to the “behind” with this word. like if someone had a bad day at college or work, we used to say –

“Poongi baj gayi yaar”…..  

Sudeshna di (she had already done her M.Sc errrrrrr), a member of our “age/cast/region/religion/gender/orientation/whatever no bar”  group invited us for grihpravesh puja at her new home. .

Panditji was sitting, chanting Mantras…and then he said –   

 “Ommmm” something something –“ Poongiphalam smarypyami!!!!” 

O MY GOD! 

 the whole group – 2 guys(including chintamani – u guys remember him??) and three girls, burst out laughing --- even Sudeshna Di was laughing!!!!

Pandit ji and  Sudeshna di’s mom were livid.. and we just cud not stop laughing!!!!  We were literally rolling on the floor, holding our tummies – just laughing till tears came in our eyes.

in fact now I find that it’s is a bit more commonly used for “the behind”… maybe our group was pioneer! 

 So next time u sit in a puja..

Beware!!!

U may just loose control and end up laughing when pandit ji says – “Poongiphalam smaryapyami” 

Love Always

Cindy

POLLS for ibibo ke sholay are closed. i wont be counting any new votes. the result will be out with SHolay style spoofs tomorrow - so wait for that.

i am removing all the non-blogger's votes, so dont trust what u see on polls 

SOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRY for being so late in publishing the result. caugh up in something... it will be posted around 3:30... wait for it!! Love u all :) 

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