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Taaaaaada … The Blog has a new look :)
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: August 27, 2009
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Every few months I get this I-R-R-E-S-I-S-T-I-B-L-E urge to change the way my blog looks.
Something new always makes me want to come back and relook at it…… admire the colours.
For the last couple of months, the posts on my blog have been pretty scarce…… yes, time has been an issue, but I’m wondering…… is it [...]
Could You Survive Without Money? Meet The Guy Who Does
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: July 26, 2009
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In Utah, a modern-day caveman has lived for the better part of a decade on zero dollars a day. People used to think he was crazy
DANIEL SUELO LIVES IN A CAVE. UNLIKE THE average American—wallowing in credit-card debt, clinging to a mortgage, terrified of the next downsizing at the office—he isn’t worried about [...]
Voting in India must go Online
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 3, 2009
For all of March 09 the country has been gearing up for the General Election 2009 and the process will continue through April and into May. Held at a whooping 2 billion rupees it is a spectacle to behold from both an administrative and logistical point of view. And I sometimes wonder, if this country [...]
International Labour Day 2009
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: May 1, 2009
I see only hope
Today is May 1, 2009, International Labour Day and with the ongoing recession a deeply poignant one for all of us who labour. Today, business houses large and small, multi-national and national all around the world are in disarray, shutting down or struggling to survive. One vital component of production, labour has [...]
Power to the People!
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: April 16, 2009
Power to the People!
From today and for the next 5 weeks the electorate of the worlds largest democracy will be casting their votes.
India has the privilege of holding the largest and fairest elections in the world. Something I’m really proud of J. So, all power to us, its people!!!!!
For those wanting to stay abreast of [...]
Saying it with Colour
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 12, 2009
Saying it with Colour
Holi is the festival of colour and here are some of us at my office, having a rocking time
Goa is baking
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: March 4, 2009
Goa is baking
For those who need more evidence that Global Warming is for real, read this about Goa.
Mercury rising, humidity levels above normal: February 20, 2009, was the hottest day in the last 38 years with the maximum temperature of the day recorded at 39.2 degree Celsius by the Indian Meteorological Observatory at [...]
Join me on Twitter
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: February 24, 2009
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TWEET TWEET ………. TWEET
I’ve just discovered some new fun, Twitter.
If you need to locate me its lilliangoa
Memorable weekends
Posted by: lilliandcosta on: February 10, 2009
Memorable weekends at home!
The recession can be a tough time. Job loss, salary cuts, longer work hours, less sleep, more work, less rest and the stress can pile up even while the conventional methods of de-stressing become unaffordable. Not that I am used to pubing, dancing and eating out, but when most people try and [...]
Lillian @ Poetry
- Advertising Cloud 9The horizon in shades of green,Water tanks, blue and black,Clothes of all hues waving in the breeze.Cloud 9 advertising its services,Who would think, it would need to?But it does,Its the recession.
- Untitledoh why does my soul refuse to rest.it bounds up,against gravity,like there were thorns that pricked its underside.refusing it rest.oh my soul has a bloody breasta weary heartthat longs to rest,but somehow each night is dayin its unending search to run away.
- UntitledI stare out,As the orange-pink of sunsetFades away into silhouettes,Large dark trees, rise upAnd the cold road leads away.The breeze whips at my face,The curtains buffeted in the strong wind,Fly around uncontrollably like shreds,My heart feels the same,As it leaves sweet memories behind.Parting can never be harder.15th April 2009
- Happy Women’s Day?.......... I beg your pardonIts 8th March, International Women’s DayBut she doesn’t know it.She wakes up at 6.00 a.m,like she has for the last 12 years,her mental clock and love for her family helps her up.she fills the rice into the cooker, chops up the vegetables in the yellow light of the bulb.The chickens in their coop stir, at the first break of light.the brass pot rolls down on t […]
- Un-namedI want to writeBut wordsTremble within meThen die.I dig through my memoryFor experiencesFor verseBut all I find is gooey morass.I yearn to riseBe the bestBut the forceEludes meA phantom. There they areThe first buds of springOr is it a mirageThe sightings of a deluded soul8th February 2008
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