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Toastmaster Project 2 : Pet and Me

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Imagine your selves as a real naughty kids for sometime. It is a typical Sunday morning and you don't have any friends around to play. Suddenly you hear a puppy's cry. You look for the puppy & see that it is one of those cutest little one. What will you all do? Will not the thought of taking it to home cross your mind for a moment? My dear readers, I infact did it. And do you know what response I got from my Mom? “ If you continue demanding a dog, either I will stay or the canine will stay in house; both cannot.”  That dream of having a dog as pet got a premature death. I am always fond of pet. I wanted my parents to give me one on my birthday, but that still remains an alluring dream. For me a pet is always more than a friend. A true companion who can take away your boredom & showers you with love and expect nothing but affection from you in return. As I grew up, like most of us, we get surrounded by so many whom we also have to call friends. My friend list...

Tamosa ma jyotir gamaya - From Darkness to Light

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Dear friends Happy Diwali to one and all!!! As the morning unfolds you may be finding your facebook pages filled with Diwali wishes and lovely smses in your phones.  Before you respond to all those, you may like to have a small glimpses of a not so beautiful incident that had happened in front of my block in the apartment I stay. It was way past 10pm on the night of Diwali, beyond permissible hours of burning banned crackers. Lighting of noise cracker was rampant nearby the badminton court which is adjacent to my block. A neighbor of mine went down requesting to restrain from using the banned crackers. Forget about restraining, acting naive, they were in denial and don't even know who were burning those. The noise decibel reached further height and it was around 11:00 pm. Police had to come, seized some crackers, warned few and left. I saw children running upstairs in fear, holding bunch of bombs and noise crackers, terrified that the police had come. It made ...