26 Letters and A Talkative Hand

When I was walking, I wished to have a bicycle. When I got a bicycle, I wished to have a bike. When I got the bike, I wished to get a car. When I got a car, I wished to get back my cycle again. When I was a kindergarden, I wished to be in high school. When I got into the school, I wished to be in the college. When I got into the college, I wished to get a job. When I got a job, I wished to go back to the school again. When I was crawling, I wished to walk. When I learnt to walk, I wished to run. When I learnt to run, I wished to fly. When I learnt to fly, I wished to crawl again. When I was a dumb, I wished to learn words. When I learnt words, I wished to speak. When I spoke, I wished to be a dumb again. When I was into isolation, I wished to be in the crowd. When I was a part of the crowd, I wished to be in my isolation again. When I was imperfect, I wished to be a perfectionist. When I was a perfectionist, I wished to be an imperfectionsit again. When I was nothing, I wished to be ev...

You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When… 1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart 2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly 3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics 4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can immediately recognize the character when you see him. 5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives. 6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone chocolates your NRI relatives brought you 7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came after Cartoon Network ended. 8) You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream of Jeanie 9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight kilometers away) 10) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat 11) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at lea...

I believe in a time-tested maxim: if you have nothing good to say about someone, it's best not to say anything at all. In short, what we call "bitching" is quite an unhealthy practice. Some compulsively speak ill of people, others do it for fun or for personal vendetta; to score one over another or to rocket one's ego; the sense of "I am Right, you're Wrong." Before you know it, it becomes a habit & the habit transmogrifies into a negative character trait, hence opening up a Pandora's box .We often mistake "venting" for "bitching". Venting may be good, the latter is not. One need NOT translate into the other. It's a personal choice, and I'm sure we're mature enough to make the right one. Spread the good word!

Statistics are interesting things. If we accept 99.9% accuracy as being ok then:- * 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily. * 114,500 mismatched pairs of shoes will be shipped/year. * 18,322 pieces of mail will be mishandled/hour. * 2,000,000 documents will be lost by the IRS this year. * 2.5 million books will be shipped with the wrong covers. * Two planes landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport will be unsafe every day. * 315 entries in Webster's Dictionary will be misspelled. * 20,000 incorrect drug prescriptions will be written this year. * 880,000 credit cards in circulation will turn out to have incorrect cardholder information on their magnetic strips. * 103,260 income tax returns will be processed incorrectly during the year. * 5.5 million cases of soft drinks produced will be flat. * 291 pacemaker operations will be performed incorrectly. * 3056 copies of tomorrow's The Times of India will be missing one of the sections

Interesting words and languages 1. The first word spoken on the moon was "okay". 2. Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language. 3. The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 4. There are only four common words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous. There's also annelidous, which you probably won't need - ever (unless you're a biologist (see comments). 5. The "you are here" arrow on maps is called an ideo locator. 6. The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle. 7. The symbol on the "pound" key (#) is called an octothorpe. 8. The symbol used in many URLs (Web addresses) is called a tilde. (~) 9. The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. 10. In English, "four" is the only digit that has the same number of letters as its...

Don't abbrev. Check to see if you have missed any words out. Be carefully to use adjectives and adverbs correct. About sentence fragments. When dangling, don't use participles. Don't use no double negatives. Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. Just between you and I, case is important. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary. Its important to use apostrophe's right. It's better not to unnecessarily split an infinitive. Never leave a transitive verb just lay there without an object. Only Proper Nouns should be capitalized. also a sentence should begin with a capital letter and end with a full stop Use hyphens in compound-words, not just in any two-word phrase. In letters compositions reports and things like that we use commas to keep a string of items apart. Watch out for irregular verbs that have creeped into our language. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Avoid unnecessary redundancy. A writer mustn...

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