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A letter to my first boyfriend....

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It was nice to meet up with you yesterday, 'Nice' is the kind of word used when you don't really know whether it was nice or not. And that's a bit how its left me feeling.. It was interesting to find out how your life is about now and to catch up with old friends from the past and to hear about your relatives who were so much part of my teenage life. But i felt strangely uneasy in your company. I felt as though you were trying to tell me that there was still something between us, that the relation we had once was still there just waiting to be unfolded again. I do not feel like that. Although you were my first boyfriend and although at that time i thought we were together forever. I can now only see that relationship as the beginning of a long path. This is not that i m trying to say that i did not value our relationship, just to say that it has its place in the history and that is were i want to leave it... You were boastful when you told me about all the girls u da

"Saab, Chai-Pani???"

Contrary to the popular perception that corruption is on the rise, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index showed a decrease in corruption over the last one year....?????? Coming back from Canada to Mumbai after 5 long years, i realised things haven't changed much the moment I landed at Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport. After clearing the customs, as I was getting out, a few constables asked for my gate pass. When i was done showing them, one said, " And what about us??" Looking at my confused expression one responded , " Kya saab , kuch chai - pani ??" It hit me then, where i was... It took one week for my cargo to reach Mumbai , i was happy that it reached Mumbai and not Mexico. Here more than the air travel people are worried about their bags getting lost. I get a call from the agent saying that there is a strike, so my baggage couldn't be delivered. If i needed it urgently, i had to give them some ' Chai -

Art of receiving....

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There was a time when birthdays made me excited......nah...it made me nervous...not coz i was worried of getting a year older...it was coz i was scared of getting upset....actually horrified by what i find inside those gift wraps...I have been through my share of dejection on seeing various not so me kinda gifts...Its really sad when i have to open gifts like disgusting pair of earrings, books which i will neva read, muzic which i will neva lissen to, stupid key chains, clothes i would neva wear, photo frames, every grandma like purses..........ewwww!! Its not like all of them got it wrong...i m lucky to have a few ones who would ask me what i would like or just by their instinct..or my luck...get me what i actually want...! Wouldn't it b good for us n easier for them..if dey just asked u what u want?..or took u to buy stuff?? Or just gave u some money in hand??? Well...on second thought it might be a bad idea....as u might just know..how much they gonna spend on u!!!...or s