mivarg

@mivarg (277)

India • Age 55

Joined myLot 17 years ago

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Do you like Travel by Train?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 26 Feb 09

Why or why not? I am just curious to see your responses. Tell me about the good and bad experiences you have in train journeys.

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Movies: Good/Bad Popular/Classic Art/Commercial-Are there really such divisions?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 25 Feb 09

I have recently watched a movie which makes fun of the commercial aspects of popular movies. But I found out that the movie in question did nothing other than making fun of the work for which many people have put serious effort. I...

movies

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Shoes - How much do they matter in our life?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 4 Jan 08

I am pretty tall and had never experimented with high heals. But most of my friends were fashionable young ladies who went after what was the new and hot-selling in the market. Many of them complain of sprained ankles now.This...

shoes

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1 person

Do you have friends from other nations?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 10 Jul 07

I have some friends from Latin America, Germany, Belgium, England, Canada, Australia and Sreelanka. All htis happened after I started to use the internet. What about you? Has the internet widened the horizons for you and made your...

friends

international

latin america

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2 people

You like to read books in a train?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 27 Jun 07

I do that when there are no interesting people to look at. What about you? I liketo read in train as what you read sinks in your mind well in connection with your experience of the journey.

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3 people

Water Lily in Bloom. Like This Picture?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 23 May 07

I took this Picture from a pond that we made in our garden. It is filled with some water plants and a few small fishes, who are happy living in it I guess. Th water lily blooming was so tempting that I took a picture of it. Please...

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2 people

Ten More to Hundred! Look At The Rose I Offered to Myself!

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 19 May 07

I just need ten more postings to reach 100 points. And I offered myself a red red rose on this occassion! Any idea what the benfits of that will be? I haven't started to get any star ratings yet. Is it related to the 100 point,...

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2 people

Long Distance Journeys?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 19 May 07

I used to like long distance journeys. But my previous job demanded long-distance travel every day, and I got a bit tired of it. Now I stay at home and work from there, which leaves me with all my precious time for observing all...

hobbies

life

long distance journeys

travel

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2 people

Photographing Nature - Do you Like this Picture?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 19 May 07

I love to observe nature and capture some still moments in my camera. I loved to watch the way these bananas grew. I have teaken a series of pictures over a period of time, showing its steady and wonderful growth. This is one...

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4 people

Summer Visitor - Yellow Bird!

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 18 May 07

This one is called 'black-necked oriole'. It sings beautifully. Favourite food - fruits, especially jackfruit, and worms:)It is getting close to me and used to my camera. It is seen sitting on a gooseberry tree. Have you seen this...

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3 people

Can We Delete A Discussion We Have Started?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 17 May 07

I have just made a mistake. I wanted to start a discussion with an image, and after typing the discussion, I clisked the start discussion tab. I treid to go back and type it again in a slightly different manner and added the image...

mylot

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3 people

Your Views on Birds. This is 'Greater Rattle-Tailed Drongo', Close.

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 17 May 07

As per the requests from my valuable friends here, I am putting a good picture of the 'funny bird' whose name I have mentioned many times in mylot and is repeated in the title here. This is a bird that loves a lot of attention,...

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4 people

Greater Rattle-Tailed Drongo, Close.

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 17 May 07

As per requests from my valuable friends here, I am putting a reasonably good picture of the funny bird, whose name I have mentioned many times and have mentioned in the title here. This bird likes a lot of attention and it looks...

birds

Funny Bird's New Pose

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 17 May 07

The interesting bird "Greater Rattle-Tailed Drongo" gave me an opportunity to photograph her in a new pose. This happened as she was approached by her mate. She wanted to show her indifference, as she was busy singing and teasing...

birds

pets

photograpgy

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6 people

Funny Bird

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 16 May 07

This is a funny bird I came across in my garden. There are two pairs of them. They can sing in many tones and tunes. They are the greatest mimics I have ever seen. They imitate the sounds of all other birds and even squirrels and...

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4 people

Do You Print Your Digital photos?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 15 May 07

I think the old kind of photography was better, where you took prints of all the pictures you took. Now I can take arounf 100 pictures at a time in my digicam, and I see them on my computer screen, but don't bother to take prints....

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6 people

My Changed Avatar - This is My Pet Friend

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 14 May 07

I just changed my old cloud avatar, though I liked it very much. I wanted to put in something more personal. This is the picture of my pet friend, 'oriental magpie robin' who has nested on his own will in a big garden plant near...

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3 people

Any Problem if Women Talk Politics?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 12 May 07

My colleagues think that I am too interested in politics than a woman should be. I wonder what they mean. perhaps they need me to focus more on chatting withbthem about the latest sitcoms and reality shows, or the latest cosmetics...

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5 people

The Best Thing About Your School Library

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 11 May 07

I have very fond memories of my school library. We did not have many restrictions regardingthe books we took from there. I loved reading Perry Mason, Earnest hemingway and Somerset Maugham. these wre the kind of books we had...

books

school library

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3 people

Gordon Brown Fans Here?

mivarg @mivarg (277) • India 10 May 07

How many Gordon Brown fans are here? Do you think that he will replace Tony Blair and prove his mettle? I am not a Britisher, so I would like to know how Britishers and people all over the world look at Brown as a capable leader....

britain

gordon brown

politics

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3 people