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Shit Girls Say & Dating Rules

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 8, 2012, 4:56 pm
No this is not another one of my crazy PsychoBabble posts or unsolicited relationship advice. I've been crazily following these two webisodes and have fallen in love with them so I thought I'd share them with everyone. They are so hilarious coz that's exactly something a girl would say or do most of...
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Creative Gesture for V-day

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 7, 2012, 3:05 pm
So its a week before Valentine's and I was thinking how about going creative, using a more imaginative and hands-on gesture for your loved one this v-day? Forget the expensive gifts, dining out and all the other routine stuff that you have been doing every year. Show that you care for the real thin...
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Kodak Zi8 Mini Camcorder

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 6, 2012, 10:09 am
Point and Shoot cameras do come with a movie mode but its in the not-so-good looking VGA format and they often don't capture the details well; it might as well be a bunch of blurry shots put together to form a video. So, I got a dedicated video shooter last year to capture moving things that are a n...
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One for the Maestro

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 30, 2012, 8:52 pm
Just feeling like Ilaiyaraaja today. Actually, I always feel like listening to Ilaiyaraaja, he's such kind of an artist and his music is melodiously timeless. His music is so soothing to the senses and can lift up your dull mood any day. I love all his songs, sad that he couldn't compose for more Te...
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Weekend Treats

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 29, 2012, 11:34 am
There's nothing like retail therapy, and comfort food during the weekends. I started off the day with a photowalk, and then went on to do some much needed shopping coz I needed some stuff, and what d'ya know there was a sale going on luckily, so here's what I got: A croc-embossed green handbag, want...
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Snow Days in Chicago

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2012, 11:41 am
Though I hate going out on a snow day and freezing to death, I think snow's magical and being in a winter wonderland should be experienced at least once in a lifetime. I'm glad that I have had this chance for four years in a row now. This winter however wasn't really brutal as the previous ones and ...
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Avoid them without Regret

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 26, 2012, 3:50 pm
People who put words in your mouth and talk for you: When someone asks you something, you are the person who has the right to speak, not your friend or your uncle who think that you do not have a voice. Stay long enough with such people and you may lose your voice forever. People who force their lik...
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Running a Blogathon

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 25, 2012, 2:39 pm
Have been meaning to write this for a long time and found it in my drafts, and thought now would be a great time to post it. Not becoz I'm planning on doing one, but come to think of it, it may not be a bad idea, coz it might for once help me to be more regular on my blog. Running a marathon of blog...
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Indo Western Dressing Styles

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 24, 2012, 5:39 pm
I think I'm blessed coz I'm an Indian who embraces both the Indian and Western dressing styles and becoz of which I get to combine them both sometimes without having to shop for new dresses especially when I'm bored with the usual outfits. Mixing and Matching is my way to go, so I thought why not mi...
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Hate & Situations

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 20, 2012, 6:12 pm
Hate can happen anytime depending on the situation and a person's comfort levels. It is circumstantial and if we observe closely we will find out that we hate someone or something more only when we're having bad days. When we hate a person there's always a reason that is more to do with us than to d...
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Beating these Winter Blues

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 17, 2012, 12:11 pm
Admitting it, winter's the most horrible and brutal season. Getting out of bed early in the morning, taking a shower, and going out seem to be the worst things ever. Everything seems so dull, drab, and gloomy. Makes one wanna hibernate until the sun comes out. There's no way you can even think about...
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I'm the Best, and so are YOU

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 12, 2012, 3:12 pm
'I'm the best and I deserve the best', this is going to be the mantra for me from now on and I think it should be yours too if it isn't already. I have always been a second-guessing and behind-the-scenes kind of gal who always feared rejection, and though I've changed over the years, some times they...
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12 wants for 2012

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 8, 2012, 1:49 pm
Ok, so I've been seeing a lot of holiday wishlists, and desires for 2012 going on around in the blogosphere, so I thought its a nice idea for my blog too, and here I am. My wishlist for 2012 is: Before I begin I want you to know that this is just a generalised version of what I want, the things sho...
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Asian Cuisine Ramblings

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 5, 2012, 11:34 am
I'm kind of a vegetarian who likes limited non-veg (chicken/cooked shrimp/fish) and prefers it only when there's not much veg around so after coming to the US where there aren't very many vegetarian options, and the non-veg options are mostly uncooked or half-cooked, I became a little miserable and ...
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Accessorizing for Winters in Style

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 3, 2012, 2:57 pm
Its so very cold outside and there's no way one could step out without their sweaters, coats, hats, scarves, boots, and gloves. Since we have to cover ourselves and spend so much time wearing all this stuff, why not do it in style? So I browsed and came up with a list of some stylish winter accessor...
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Dinner and Fireworks!

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 1, 2012, 1:41 pm
The poor husband was down with flu but I did not let that deter us from enjoying the New Year's Eve (NYE), especially coz its going to be the most hyped 2012, and we all might die soon :D. Nah! I don't believe in all that nonsense but I just didn't want to sit at home and sulk during NYE. So we deci...
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Coveting Turquoise under Budget

rads b. posted an article on - Dec 30, 2011, 2:21 pm
I've decided to wear white this New Year's and thought that flashy jewelry is the best way to make it work to get that festive/party/celebration kind of feel and look. After a lot of thought and several inspections of my jewelry collection I decided that I'd go with turquoise coz I do not own any tu...
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Online Therapy

rads b. posted an article on - Nov 25, 2011, 12:28 pm
"Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man." Louis Nizer Couldn't agree more. Online therapy or e-therapy is nothing but therapy via the internet where the counselor and the patient meet online. Don't go on googling about it coz what I'm gonna say is not somethin...
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Create Animation Online

rads b. posted an article on - Oct 13, 2011, 8:57 pm
Early readers of my blog know that I have fetish for animated and especially flash video games. I think they're cool and very creative. So if there are any animation lovers and creative geniuses out there interested in creating animation for free then here's a list of websites for you. All of them a...
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For Sanity's Sake

rads b. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2011, 5:04 pm
Blogging, Photography, and Digital Art are kind of like a therapy for me. Even before I developed these hobbies I always had this habit of browsing and looking at beautiful sceneries, creative captures, and abstract art online, I could sometimes do this for hours and I feel refreshed afterwards. It ...
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Free Painting Software

rads b. posted an article on - May 13, 2011, 4:09 pm
Digital Painting has always been amazing and full of surprises to me no matter how much everybody else around me seem to think its fake and a cheat. If you think so too, let me tell you that digital painting is equally creative and requires as much effort as the traditional manual painting. If you l...
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Happily Ever Afters

rads b. posted an article on - Apr 25, 2011, 12:29 pm
I was never a big fan of anything that ends with "happily ever after" and always wondered why authors end their stories when they do and why don't they continue the story by telling us what happens after, until recently I read this book (which I'm not going to name coz this is not a review) where "h...
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Ranking Friends

rads b. posted an article on - Apr 5, 2011, 12:31 pm
"Can we be more than friends?" "Oh you mean like best friends...?" This was one of the top tweets yesterday. I was like, seriously? I don't understand what is this necessity to rank friends as best, better, or good. Friends are just that "friends", why to add an adjective/adverb to them and make it ...
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A 5pointer's story by an IITian

rads b. posted an article on - Mar 29, 2011, 1:18 pm
Yes, that's what I'd call Chetan Bhagat's "five point someone - what not to do at IIT" and I loved it. It was hilarious and I didn't really mind the fact that the language and editing were not very good at places coz the way he told the story made up for everything else. Though it is a story about I...
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Back it up with Transcend StoreJet

rads b. posted an article on - Mar 23, 2011, 1:48 pm
I'm a great fan of Transcend products and this is my 3rd device from them. I have already written about a Western Digital storage device which is very famous when it comes to external storage devices but had some complaints and decided not to go for it again. The WD device that I used was a bulky bo...
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Best Free Image Editing Software

rads b. posted an article on - Mar 8, 2011, 7:20 pm
In one of my earlier posts, I've blogged about some good online image editing tools. These are really good and you can always use them just to have fun, edit your pictures, add effects to them, or to create a drawing using some pre-defined features. But the problem is that, some people are skeptical...
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Loves Me; Loves Me Not

rads b. posted an article on - Mar 1, 2011, 4:06 pm
Every girl should have a boy that tells her how "Beautiful" she is no matter how much "flaws" she has - Anonymous So true isn't it? I read a book recently which is somewhat in the same lines of how a girl should be treated by a guy. The book "He's Not Just That Into You - The No Excuses Truth To Und...
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Registry Cleaning and Repair Tools

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 24, 2011, 6:41 pm
Having an anti-virus/anti-spyware software installed in your computer does not always give it enough protection from being infected by bugs. Also, virus and spyware is not the only reason your pc's performance is sluggish or why it crashes. If you are a regular surfer of the internet like me, it is ...
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A Chic-flick philosophy

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 20, 2011, 11:24 pm
I thought I was getting too old for silly and girly romantic comedies but an accidental one I saw recently was way too good to be ignored as yet another one of those dumb chic-flicks. Beauty and the Briefcase is about a young wannabe fashion writer who actually has a check list for the perfect guy (...
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On being a Blogger

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 13, 2011, 11:14 am
You know you're an obsessive blogger when: -The first thing you do in the morning is login to your blog. -You stare at the computer, and keep on staring thinking "I have to write something for my blog". -You blog about an online test you just took. -You go about pestering everybody around you to rea...
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A 20-something's crysis

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 10, 2011, 10:46 pm
This post has been selected as one of the Tangy Tuesday Picks on Blogadda I came across a status message on Facebook which says: why do ALL the women in mid-thirties sound the same?.... I began commenting on that and went on to say that since the person is already in his/her mid-thirties maybe he/sh...
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E-book Mania

rads b. posted an article on - Feb 1, 2011, 3:57 pm
This news has got me to thinking that its been ages since I read/owned a paperback. Guess Google has swept me off to an e-earth where books are just a click away. Do I have regrets? Not so far but maybe in the future, which I'm not concentrating on right now. The obsession with converting paperbacks...
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Food Photography

rads b. posted an article on - Jan 28, 2011, 11:03 pm
Ever since I got my first point n shoot camera, I've become a shutterbug. The most amazing part about digital pictures is that you can play around and make a lot of changes to get the desired effect and this possibility alone has me hooked to photography. Like everybody else I started off with captu...
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Canon A1100 IS - Loving It!

rads b. posted an article on - Sep 20, 2010, 6:34 pm
I have this camera for almost a year now and I think its the best time to blog about it. My previous point and shoot was a simple 5MP Samsung Digimax and mostly what I shot with it was nature crap. I do like that camera a lot and have used it for 2 years, but I wanted to upgrade to something better,...
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Beautiful Blogger Award

rads b. posted an article on - Apr 12, 2010, 1:21 pm
A while ago LEB has presented me with the "Beautiful Blogger" award, though I wonder what it means; am I beautiful? or do I blog beautifully (that's silly), maybe it means that my blog looks beautiful...either ways thank you, I'm honored, and more than that I'm glad my blog-pals still remember me co...
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Precious - Based on the novel Push by Sapphire

rads b. posted an article on - Apr 3, 2010, 3:25 pm
After a lot of thought I finally decided to watch this movie and couldn't get over it for days after. The movie kept on playing in my mind and so I had to write about it if I wanted some peace of mind. Precious is an over-sized Afro-American teenager who's abused physically and emotionally by her pa...
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Awarded and Tagged

rads b. posted an article on - Aug 19, 2009, 11:26 am
Preethi and Mythri gave me 2 awards and tagged me to answer some questions. Thanks a lot for the awards both of you, I appreciate it. Here goes the tag... 1. What is your current obsession? photography, reading, cooking 2. What are you wearing today? three-fourth's and a tee 3. What’s for dinner? ...
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Tag Alphabetically

rads b. posted an article on - Aug 13, 2009, 11:15 am
I've been tagged by Preposterous Girl a.k.a Shweta long back, and its high time I did it, atleast to keep my blog updated. The Rules: 1. Link the person who tagged you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Share the ABCs of you. 4. Tag 3 people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs. 5. Let...
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Departures

rads b. posted an article on - Jul 23, 2009, 1:38 pm
I guess many of you know that this Japanese movie has won an Oscar this year under the category "best film in foreign language". It made me curious, especially coz of the title, which I feel has a mystic sound to it, though the movie was no mystery and in fact was more on the philosophical lines but...
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Tag4

rads b. posted an article on - Jul 17, 2009, 3:42 pm
Le Embrouille Blogueur has tagged me a long time back with some interesting questions. Sorry about the delay but here are my answers finally. Four places I have lived: -Visakhapatnam: Also known as Vizag, and "The City of Destiny". -Vizianagaram: A small town near Vizag where I spent the most import...
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International Bloggers' Community Award

rads b. posted an article on - Jul 8, 2009, 11:49 am
Le Embrouille Blogueur has awarded me with the International Bloggers' Community Award for all the crap I write. Thanks a lot for the award, I'm honored. Now comes the difficult part of awarding it to other dedicated bloggers. Before that there are certain rules to be followed, so let me pen them do...
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I wanted to be...

rads b. posted an article on - Jul 1, 2009, 2:37 pm
Kokonad has tagged all his readers with quite an interesting and unusual tag. According to his post, we have to come up with a list of persons that we've wanted to become or professions we wanted to take up at one or another point of time, as we grew up. So here goes my list... I wanted to be: 1) My...
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Rads gets mad when...

rads b. posted an article on - Jun 24, 2009, 11:51 am
Le Embrouille Blogueur tagged me, God knows what made him think I'm techno-savvy; which I'm so not FYI. I never thought I could actually list out 10 things that make me mad but when I started writing, there were actually more than 10 things. So I concluded that I'm short tempered and here goes the t...
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