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Genealogy (Apr 2013)
First, I ought to apologize for these photos. I snapped them in the morning when the sun was very bright and at an angle that made it extremely difficult for me to exactly what and where I was...
View ArticleO&E of India (Apr 2013): Language
Yes, I have already written a similar post and yes, I am again writing not about Hindi or the other languages of India but about English so yes, I could simply edit that previous post. However, I think...
View ArticleFilm Review of Jurassic Park (3D)
Yes, I am late in reviewing this film, but no, I am not late in reviewing this film.Oh, wait; I wrote that regarding Django Unchained which was released in India three months after it premiered  in the...
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O&E of Kolkata (Apr 2013): The Aroma of Kolkata
When I was a child, our family drove to Vancouver, British Columbia. To get there, we drove through Tacoma, Washington and noticed a peculiar smell. Many years later, I learned that it had a name: the...
View ArticleTo Blogger Help Group, Part 3
When I began my blog, I was a blogging beginner. (Oh wait, that is a tautology.) Regardless, because I had many questions about the nuances of blogging, I wrote to the Blogger Help Group, and because I...
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O&E of the Trains (Apr 2013): The New
(and perhaps not-so-new).As with our stay in Chennai (to be described in future posts), there were things that we did see, and did not see on our journey.As always, we saw beggars, many of whom had...
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O&E of the Trains (Apr 2013): The Not-So-Good
Perhaps the worst (or, at least, the most frequent bad thing) that we encountered was the jerking of the train. At first, I thought that it was the coupling of the railway carriages/wagons but then I...
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O&E of the Trains (Apr 2013): The Good
In my recent Travels posts, I have written that a few good things often occur before or during my travels. Through timeanddate.com, I learned that the temperature would be about four degrees cooler in...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): The Good(?)
In my recent Good post, I alluded to the fact that I encounter good things before and/or during my trip. Now, I shall elaborate upon that.I wrote that I had found out that the temperature would be four...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): The New
Actually, everything was new as we had never been there. (I say "we" as in both of us; Caroline was there as a child, and more recently in 2007.) There were things that we did see, and things that we...
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Genealogy (Apr 2013): Chennai
Perhaps I should incorporate these relatively few photographs in my future (Kolkata) Genealogy post. However, I already have enough photos for two such posts. Moreover, it seems to be more thematic to...
View ArticleMy 200th Post
As this is my 200th post, and as it seems to be an appropriate time to do so, I thought that I would make an offer to you.I may be "beating a dead horse" but I do want to reiterate that I joined Google...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): Marina Beach Day 2
The day after we went to Marina Beach, Caroline wanted to go to the Zoo. Through Google Maps, I found out that it was 37 kilometres away and while having breakfast, Caroline asked the waiter who...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): Marina Beach Day 1
At the entrance to the beachA sugarcane juice maker. Unlike the ones in Kolkata, the machines in Chennai are motorized.Rajnikanth, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Shahrukh Khan and others were there to greet...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): Guindy National Park
As I mentioned in my Marina Beach Day 2Â post, we missed seeing the "zoo" but Caroline still wanted to go, so we went on another day. Fortunately, the rickshaw driver charged us "only" 170 rupees (not...
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O&E of Chennai (Apr 2013): Photos
For some unknown reason, I never saw Barack Obama here.Caroline eating from a banana leafKing George(?) V(?). Unfortunately, I could not get closer to see the inscription, if any.An example of a...
View ArticleGovernment as Criminals (Apr 2013)
I shall iterate and re-iterate some abbreviations: RCW=Rape Capital of the World (formerly known as India); G.A.=Gulag Archipelago (formerly known as the U.S.); FCM=Fee-Collecting Murderers (formerly...
View ArticleGovernment as Murderers (Apr 2013)
I want to emphasize and define some abbreviations that I use: JJE=Judge, Jury & Executioner (aka police); FCM=Fee-Collecting Murderers (aka police); DBHF/HS=Death by Human Feces/Human Scum (a...
View ArticleNews: Other (Apr 2013)
This is the first of my monthly(?) posts to be named as News: Other (the other ones, I have changed from other titles). Previously, I incorporated news articles (primarily about Kolkata and India) into...
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O&E of Kolkata (Apr 2013): Photos
WARNING: Distubing photo and description at the bottom of this post.My friend, the ice-cream sellerThe "calm before the storm" on HoliSome of the victims of HoliMota Billi, in his favourite pose--with...
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