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YO YO YO … GIMME A BEAT *Press Play Now … ( 22 second mark) YO I’M MARVELOUS LIKE CALCIUM AND PHOSPHOROUS KEEP YA BONES FROM GETTIN POROUS SO HIT EM WITH THE CHORUS GOOD FOR YA LIKE VITAMIN C AND VITAMIN D AND DON’T FORGET ‘B’ CUZ I’M MULTITASKIN LIKE A MULTIVITAMIN SO CALL…
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It was the late 80s/early to mid 90s in Bangalore and it seemed like the cinema halls played whatever movie they liked. There was no studio system, star system, or even a language.system. They would play a new movie or one from forty years ago. Anything went. From Jackie Chan Hong Kong fare to 70s…
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How did I become the working class hero I am today? Glad you asked! It all started when I was 18 years old and had moved from India to Jersey a little less than a year earlier. Due to my stellar school attendance throughout 11th and 12th grade , I had been “grounded” for about…
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Fifteen days ago, I had never been west of Austin, Texas. Still, I had my preconceived notions of this California. Doesn’t everyone? It’s impossible to listen to music or watch movies/TV without forming some sort of impression. I think the music is what really does it. People are less trusting of the film business but…
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Dear Korea, I miss Cass. I miss Hite, I even miss O.B. I never thought I would, but I do. I hated O.B but damnit, I miss it now. I guess that’s a “don’t know what you got till it’s gone” situation. I miss walking everywhere and getting stared at. You really made me feel like…
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By now, I am sure you have seen Kobe Bryant’s miraculous game winning shot against the Miami Heat. On Saturday, in front of a raucous crowd (Yes, Laker fans are capable of becoming raucous in the last ten seconds of epic games), Kobe “Black Mamba” Bryant was locked in an epic duel with Dwayne “Flash”…
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He was born in 1951 in a house in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Soon after his arrival, his father had boarded a ship to North America. He went to Chicago where he would work in classrooms at the University of Illinois- Champagne/Urbana by day and at their gas stations on their cold,…
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Without any humour or irony , I say to myself quite often “When I grow up, I’m going to ________”. I said it when I met a gentleman on a plane and I wished one day I could be like him, the kind of man who can take over a ten hour flight and make…
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A Topsy Turvy month by any standards, this last one was a doozy. When last I wrote, I had decided to not continue at my school. After that, I changed my mind and decided to continue at my school having spoken to my co-teachers and being assured that the future would not suck. But it…
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Fourteen days ago, I extended my contract to stay in Korea. Eight days later, I changed my mind and voided that contract. By doing so, I won’t have a job as of September 1st. I usually would think nothing of not having prospective options but for some reason, I am annoyed about this. I am not…