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The Morning Rush Hour

February 11, 2012
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This is life in short. Anytime you face any turbulence in life, keep hold of that. As not too far from this hard time, is a peaceful life coming up. Have a great day! Any time you wake up in the morning, you always feel that you are late. Cursing the sleep and last night’s world cup match or movie, you leave the bed and head to washroom. Each thing that happens to your dislike in this morning rush, adds to the frustration. Whether...

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When to Quit

October 12, 2011
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Time to move forward

Don’t quit till you succeed is the adage to be used carefully. Especially in today’s context when life is short and full of options. You want to do many things in a short span of time and if you stay stuck with one thing for longer for you couldn’t succeed hitherto, consider shifting to another idea or concept rather than staying stuck to one and ruin your entire life. I know a couple who after 6 years of struggle could merry each other. Meanwhile...

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At spur of the moment

September 22, 2011
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At spur of the moment

So that day I was so furious that I had decided to call it a day. A plan for alternate job had already been sketched in my mind. Co incidentally it was the day of my performance review meeting. I decided to spill all the beans as I was all set to wind up myself to other location. There are people in every company whose job is to spoil mood of others with their disgusting and silly behavior. I too have many. One such...

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Bike OveR Car?

August 31, 2011
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What do you like more - Bike or Car?

by Prashant Shrivastava It was much fun to face the fresh air against the direction. And that was only possible today for I commuted to office on motor Bike rather than car. I always have liked my Bike over car for many reasons including the one I just mentioned. Besides being an fuel efficient option, it also saves lot of time as it you need less space to cut the traffic and most of the times where Cars are stuck, a bike can be...

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Real Dreams or Dreams’ reality!

August 11, 2011
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Real dreams or dreams' reality written by Prashant Shrivastava

  by Prashant Shrivastava One of my new friends on Twitter tweeted that “the problem with women is that they fall for men who gives the sweetest words that they never really mean”. Now this would be a perception true for many women out there especially in the urban world. Men who make suffer their partner or spouse are guilty for sure but a pause, aren’t women responsible for this at all? Things that went wrong were actually the way of life that the...

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The Morning Rush Hour

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