kalav56

@kalav56 (11464)

India • Age 68

Joined myLot 18 years ago

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Discussions (329)

kalav56's Discussions

How do we protect ourselves against hot weather?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 4 Apr 22

I have shifted to Ahmedabad and am here for the past one year. Summer is dreadful here and even being indoors is an ordeal that one has to get used to. Suggest some means by which we can combat the hot dry summer.Temperatures soar...

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Cupboard open!!!!!!! Children find it fascinating!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 29 Mar 16

Just open a cupboard and you will see the little one crawling vigorously to sit and peep into it. You have opened the door to a million treasures! I have always observed this with my son, and grandson. Now there is my second...

open cupboard

children

fascinating

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Boredom

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 23 Mar 16

Do you feel bored? When does this happen? Is it when you have too much work or when you do not have any work at all? Do you get bored if you sit at home throughout the day and do you long for a change? Personally I do not like...

boredom

frustration

make the best of a situation

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Shifting residence

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 23 Mar 16

There is a long story now. We were given notice by our former landlord and had to look for another apartment. Since we like our present gated Community a lot, our first option was to look for some place here itself. We also found...

shifting residence

gated community

hassle or pleasure

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Why is Jeans pant such a favourite with many?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 18 Aug 15

Why is this Jeans so preferred among many? Is it because it can be worn without wash for a prolonged period? How many of you wear Jeans during monsoon? Wearing jeans and getting them wet is so terrible. Incidentally, I have...

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“Do you find a change in your tastes and appreciations as you grow old?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 11 Aug 15

I am getting old; but my mind refuses to feel old. Moreover, I find I have the same appreciation of certain things, which I had had in my childhood and college days. I sing the same songs with the same gusto I showed forty years...

feeling old

appreciations

change in attitude

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Sarcasm in people—how vulnerable are you?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 10 Aug 15

Sharp-witted and sharp-tongued are totally different. I wish to be the former but never the latter because this has negative implications. Some people have such sharp tongues that they cannot even give a compliment properly. It...

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Writer's block-How do you handle it?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 9 Aug 15

Wanted to start a new discussion; Ok! Now what can it be ? 'Shall I express my love for mylot with its usual paying program which has been a great incentive in retaining users? Or can I go in search of a real thought provoking...

writers block

blankmind

inspiration

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Giving credit card number in Paypal--

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 6 May 13

Is it safe to give our credit card number in Paypal; they are asking this for verification of my Paypal account.How many of you have given your credit card number there?

paypal

credit card for verification

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“Sorry! I can’t give you” I had no regrets saying so!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 20 Apr 13

We had guests this week and I was the one who took extra trouble to get their phone number, invite them over for lunch and had asked them to spend the day with us. This is a cousin of my husband’s. There were three of them, one...

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Request to my lot admin!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 18 Apr 13

If there are stars added to each response, we can give the responses one, two, three four or five stars as per the merit of the response. We can still give the BR to the response we choose. There it stops; I am not asking for any...

adding stars or symbols

request to mylot admin

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Can someone help me please?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 6 Apr 13

This is very urgent and therefore I request one of my friends to help me. My antivirus protection is to expire in four days and I desperately need to renew it. I would like to buy Norton India antivirus. Can someone advise me...

antivirus

efficient download

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Trying to square off obligations by way of monetary gifts

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 28 Mar 13

My personal conviction is that giving unfeeling monetary gifts in return for timely help rendered is a very undesirable thing. Many people have a need based relationship and keep in touch with other friends or relatives when they...

give monetary gifts as a fulfilment of obligation

sqauring off a transaction

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Projection---‘how important is this?’

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 21 Mar 13

Does projection make a lot of difference? While watching a well taken photograph where the same picture looked different on two pages on account of projection, my mind drew an analogy. We have come across so many people in life....

is projection important

projection versus performance

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Who complains more /man or woman?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 20 Mar 13

A discussion today got me thinking. Be it in relationships or anything else, we hear a lot of nit-picking among women when compared to men. One discussion about mother-in-law and the question that people do not talk so much about...

relationship troubles

women attaching importance to trivia

women tend to omplain more

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Using mattresses –foam, cotton, choir—what are your choices?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 5 Mar 13

In the good old days we used to have mattresses using superior cotton which was extremely soft. Cotton mattresses would get worn out and then be converted into pillows. After a while, Dunlop pillows replaced this in many...

choir

cotton mattress

foam

sleeping on hard surface is good for backbone

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Film shooting- Have you seen the shoot of any film?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 27 Feb 13

When I was young I had three opportunities to see film shoots. Once was during an excursion to Mysore. The other two were in two hill stations, Ooty and Kodaikanal.I was so excited; it was during our summer vacation in school and...

film shooting

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A successful person-a total package-talent alone is not enough!!!!!!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 27 Feb 13

When I was watching a talk show today it set my mind thinking. This was an actress of yester years who shared her experiences with the viewers. I have seen her as a little girl of fourteen and she was the neighbor of a relative of...

success

talent and interpersonal skills contribute to succ

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Romance in college!

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 13 Feb 13

‘Valentine’s day’ is predominantly a Christian feast and has been associated with love and romance even before the fifteenth century .While this has been very popular abroad, in India my knowledge about this was purely from...

romance in college life

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Watching movies in a theatre-Are you still doing it?

kalav56 @kalav56 (11464) • India 11 Feb 13

In my young days this was an event, a grand occasion and we would all look forward to our cousins coming home for vacation. Then the planning would start. “What movies can we watch?” My aunt will tell us stories of films which...

movies in a theatre

multiplexes

television

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