Bala

@balasri (26537)

India • Age 65

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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India - cell phone service charges are increasing for good

ravisivan @ravisivan (14079) • India 22 Sep 12

Reliance communications - second largest cell phone service provider in India has increased call charges from 1.2 paise per minute to 1.5 paise per minute. This is 25% increase. Other competitors are also expected rise the cell...

cell phone service charges increased

reliance

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Bala Well I got to pay a few more rupees for the phone bills of my daughter and wife. I do not think that it will cut down their usage considerably like the price hike of petrol has not curtailed the use of my car.Prices tend to increase regardless of our laments...

22 Sep 12

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Emotional attachment to a particular place/town/city-do you have it?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 13 Sep 11

. Are you particularly attached to any one place? We spend a considerable number of years in our birthplace and all of us would have fond memories of our parents’ place. Later, many go to where life takes them , keep shifting from...

birthplace

emotional attachment to a place

fond memories

native place

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Bala The town Hatton in SriLanka is always in my mind and dreams. It is where I was taken to when I was a two months old baby. I grew up there spent my childhood and sent to the school Highlands. No place in this world is having an impact like Hatton in my life. It...

18 Apr 12

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Can you say ‘sorry’ easily?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 18 Apr 12

Some people find it difficult to admit they have made a mistake or to apologize .I was analyzing what causes this and why a person would behave that way. I have found this trait in a very close relative of mine too .I have known...

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Bala Hi Kala. Nice to see you after a long time and that that too relating to a subject which is very close to my heart .I always am proud of myself for admitting my mistakes and readily saying sorry. My wife always complains that she is never able to have a...

18 Apr 12

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People do not have enough patience.

dpk262006 @dpk262006 (58676) • Delhi, India 11 Mar 12

Hi all! I have observed time and again that people do not enough patience to listen to others. I've seen this happening at our work place and at public places. If you are giving your suggestions or an opinion on a certain...

interrupt

speaker

without completion of talk

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Bala Hi Deepak."Yata Raja Data Praja".Haven't you seen the love shows in the News channels where our Netaji's participate.Dof fights are better than these shows.People follow the leaders.That's all.So sad that we lack the role models to emulate from our...

27 Mar 12

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Do you wake up exactly at a particular time every day ?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 13 Jun 11

Some people have an auto clock in them and they wake up exactly at the same time everyday even without an alarm clock. Do you belong to such a category? Of late I seem to be doing this quite regularly though it was not so...

auto clock

morning sleep

wake up

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Bala I set my alarm at 5.45 am everyday so that I can get up reluctantly and lazily by 6 pm to go for my regular walk around our colony for 30 to 40 minutes .If I oversleep shutting up the alarm for even on one day I miss my pleasant morning walk very...

27 Mar 12

What do you think of the Tiananmen square incident ?

pacobid @pacobid (71) • China 27 Mar 12

Today,I watched a video about the Tiananmen square incident which took place on June 4th,1989.I can not believe my eyes.The soldiers lower their rifle and shoot.So what do you think of this event?

massacre

youtube

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Bala You cannot suppres the will and power of the people anywhere in the world.The people always win against the juntas and autocrats.Tiananmen square is the tornig point in the history of modern China.China's involvemwnt with the globlaisation and market econmy...

27 Mar 12

Do you still believe that the best things in life are free?

dazzledlady @dazzledlady (1618) • Philippines 24 Mar 12

I was just wondering if you still believe that the best things in life are still free? Money nowadays has become a need and not a want. Food and water needs to be brought,even love and happiness can sometimes be brought and so are...

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Bala I have bought so many good things in my life. But the best things in my life are my beutiful wife,wonderful daughter and my intelligence.I haven not paid for any of these things Dazzle.Yes I still believe that the best things in life are free provided how a...

27 Mar 12

how do you make your family happy?

shwetat195 @shwetat195 (628) • India 23 Feb 12

i always try to ensure my family is happy. sometimes i make good favorite food, buy favorite gift, order their pizza from restaurant, stay quite to make them happy on certain discussion. was wonder how do other keep their family...

happiness

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Bala Happiness is an infection.It catches with the people nearby to you very easily.I always try to be happy to make my family happy.A sullen face will shoo away the family members from you with a long face.So I make it a point to hide my depressins...

27 Mar 12

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Mayan calendar says 2012 will be the end of the world!

eljayo @eljayo (1105) • Philippines 30 Dec 11

Hi guys! Its almost 2012 and I hope everyone is positive in facing it. A lot of news in the television says that according to the Mayan calendar 2012 will be the end of the world. I am sure we all freaked out on this but the...

armageddon

jesus

mayan calendar

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Bala All I lknow is that today is the end of my calender.And I am quite sure that the same is going to happen at the end of the next year too without any damage to any of us. Happy New year!

31 Dec 11

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Taking Vitamins is harmful?

zandi458 @zandi458 (28102) • Malaysia 16 Oct 11

Taking supplements is not good after all and contrary to what we were told before by those experts in health, taking supplements can boost our health and might add years to our age. But the recent find by researchers pointing to...

vitamins

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Bala http://veehd.com/video/2258299_Horizon-The-Truth-About-Vitamins-2004 The above link will tell us all about the myths about vitamins.

21 Oct 11

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If every adult disappeared....

mommyboo @mommyboo (13174) • United States 5 Sep 11

...do you think your children would be able to survive? I read a book once called 'The Girl Who Built A City', and it was a fictional account of some sort of contagious illness that wiped out anybody over age 12 or so. Just...

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Bala We will have a new generation of human beings who will grow into a pristine population if the current corrupted adults are wiped away from the face of the earth at a single go.Yes I am very sure of that.The babies won't be influenced by the corrupted...

21 Oct 11

Death is the solution to all...

chiyochan @chiyosan (30184) • Philippines 4 Oct 11

Okay, so i was watching this tv series and there is this lunatic character and his favorite line was, or quotation is the quote from Joseph Stalin. "Death is the solution, No Man, No Problem." Well, actually i think There...

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Bala It cannot be that easy.Problems are part of life.Snuffing away the life cannot be the answer for solving the problem.It isunderstood that these words were utered by Stalin the mass murderer who silenced millions of problems.He Approximately killed 20 million,...

8 Oct 11

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Missed call!

dpk262006 @dpk262006 (58676) • Delhi, India 27 Sep 11

Hi All! In the era of mobile phones when someone calls us we can get to know who the caller is. If we happened to miss the call, we can see his/her number and name, if the number is already saved in our mobile...

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Bala Hi Deepak !How are you? Well it is an etiquette not to let the ring go for a long time as the person you are calling may be busy.It is customary to cut the calling after a brief time so that he will see the number and call back.The same applies to me also.I...

8 Oct 11

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If someone is staring at you, will you stare back? What does it make you feel?

bingskee @bingskee (5234) • Philippines 7 Oct 11

It feels uncomfortable when one person stares at me, or gawks at me. I have never been comfortable seeing people stare at me. It feels like they are stripping me from head to toe, from toe to head. It feels like they wanted to...

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Bala I really hate someone staring at me.I stare at them back till they look away and at times I get tired of this practice and walk away without wasting my time on them.There were occasions when I used to advice my daughter aloud as if training her that staring is...

8 Oct 11

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Perfection

lampar @lampar (7584) • United States 5 Oct 11

Are you obsess with perfection in your life? Do you always expect other and yourself to do and finish a job in a perfect way or you always want to seek out for the perfect lover/girl or boy friend /wife or husband before you can...

life

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Bala I am so finicky about perfection.Anything awry and out of place makes me jumpy.I don't know I am made this way.I believe that as human beings we need an order and perfection in whatever we do.I know that if I judge all wrong there is definitely something wrong...

7 Oct 11

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Do you bother yourself about getting the latest cellular phone model?

bingskee @bingskee (5234) • Philippines 6 Oct 11

I don't. Aside from not having lots of money, I am not bothered at all about the need to change my current cellular phone unit to the latest Android phone, for example. I am not the type who gets...

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Bala I don't know I am so obsessed with getting me the I phone 4.I fell so out dated and left out without laying my hands on it.No amount of reasoning is suffice to quench my thirst for it like a baby for a new doll.That is the fact.Soon I am going to get...

7 Oct 11

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Do you think being angry is the solution of problem ???

naruto @akp100 (13640) • India 7 Aug 11

Hello Friends Personally my nature is quite clam. I mean I rarely become angry on anything. But I have seen many people who becomes very angry in any kind of problem. I mean in small problems too....

peoples nature

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Bala Anger itself is a great problem friend.Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

8 Aug 11

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do you hug or say ‘i love you’ to your parents

rebel_woman06 @SIMPLYD (90722) • Philippines 7 Feb 11

We weren’t brought up to be a hugging , kissing and vocal with our feelings type of family. We only kiss our parents hands to pay our respect but we don’t kiss them on the cheeks. We also never get to say “I love you” to our...

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Bala I very much wish to do that.But the both are no more.

1 Jul 11

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Why Is It That Dollars is often Called as "bucks" ? ?

asiacevillar @asiacevillar (643) • Philippines 30 Jun 11

Dollar is a monetary unit or a currency used in countries like the United States and Canada, as well as in Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Ecuador among others. But in the U.S., the Dollar is often associated with the word...

bucks

dollar

ecuador

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Bala Well buck means the following things. 1. To leap upward arching the back: The horse bucked in fright. 2. To charge with the head lowered; butt. 3. To make sudden jerky movements; jolt: The motor bucked and lurched before it finally ran smoothly. 4. To...

30 Jun 11

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what angers you so much?

rebel_woman06 @SIMPLYD (90722) • Philippines 3 Feb 11

I guess, everyone is familiar with anger . Its cause, its effect and how it consumes us. But what really angers me, is hearing some gossips about me, that I am this and that. I know, I shouldn’t stoop down to the level of the...

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Bala Stupidity. As the Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

29 Jun 11

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