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Apr 18 2009

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Pre Midlife Crisis

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Its again that time of the year which many despise-exams. It’s during these months that most colleges hold their exams and all the canteens and movie halls go deserted as students prepare for exams. But the scene is always different for the ones in their last year. They suffer the biggest dilemma that is what to do next.  Sometimes the confusion is so much so that students suffer from a sort of pre midlife crisis.

Lifestyle change: the biggest thing which the students have to deal with is the sudden lifestyle change. In college a student just has to study and enjoy life with his friends. When in college a student is used to hanging out with friends and enjoying life. But as soon as the college comes to an end, the thought of getting out and making a life on their own can be very challenging. It can obviously be quite disturbing for a person to work 9-10 hours a day when all he is used to is meeting his friend’s everyday or sleeping in the lectures!

What to do next syndrome: after the college ends, most of the students have no clue what to do next. This is mainly because most of the students enter college into a rush, if the college is good they get admission without thinking much that if they really want to pursue the course or not. So when the college ends, most students are in dilemma as to what to do next. Well there is a little relief as they have lots of options to choose from. The most preferred choice is to opt for a PG course. Its only after the undergraduate course ends that most students realize that this is not what they want to do. So opt for a PG course with specialization which you want to pursue.

Follow your heart: there are many students who want to pursue their dreams but due to parental pressure have to abide by whatever their parents want for them. If you really believe that you would be able to do good in a field then start your career in that field, irrespective of the course you have done because few years down the line weightage is given to your work experience rather than the degrees you hold.

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Apr 18 2009

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5 Causes of weight gain!

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Weight gain is probably one problem which is giving many people sleepless nights these days. With increased awareness about weight problems, people have come to know that how dangerous their excess can be for them. So rather than gaining weight and later repenting it, here are 5 causes of weight gain, so read on and try to avoid them.

  1. Crash dieting: a few years back women swore by it. Whenever any function or event is nearing, just don’t eat and lose weight to look slim at the event-this is a big myth. Doing crash dieting and starving yourself would initially make you lose a few kilos, but after that you will not be able to reduce any weight because it would slow down our metabolism and a result you will not be able to lose any more weight.
  2. Stressful life: living under constant stressful conditions is another major factor which contributes to weight gain. When you are stressed out your body starts storing fats. Also most people, especially women tend to binge on food when they are under stress, which again increases weight.
  3. Erratic sleeping pattern: sleeping for 6-8 hours a day is not only essential for your beauty, but also for maintaining your weight. If you suffer from lack of sleep then better seek medical help as it could lead to weight gain. Also, if you work late at night, try to get the adequate sleep at least in the day.
  4. Living on restaurant food: no matter how bad it tastes or much you are bored of it, a home cooked meal is any day better than food bought from outside. If you like certain dishes at the restaurant, try to make them at home yourself. When you do that, you will use fresh oil, vegetable and other ingredients which would account for a healthy meal. You never know what type of oil or vegetables are being used in your neighborhood restaurant.
  5. Sweet tooth: ok so you like sweets, but try to control your urge and have them only once in a while. Sugar contains glucose which gives you instant energy. So when you consume sweets, you are taking in a lot of calories and the more you take the more time it’ll take you to burn them off.

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Apr 16 2009

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Five Tips which will Help You to Tackle Stress!

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I think writing on this theme would be the most appropriate as these days people have all the reasons to be stressed about- recession, pay cuts, job lay off, less income and what not! One is bound to get stressed in such situations. It is very important to tackle stress as it could prove very dangerous for your health. Here are a few ways in which you can handle stress.

Identify the causes of stress and avoid them: the best way to tackle stress is to identify what is causing stress. Be it meeting the deadlines at office or buying the diamond necklace for your sweetheart, anything can cause stress. So try to keep such situations at bay, like devote extra time to your work or first arrange for all the funds and only then promise a gift to your beloved.

Exercise and yoga: exercising your body relieves stress and produces ‘feel good’ hormones within your body. Also doing yoga helps to keep your body and mind balanced and reduce stress by giving peace to your body and mind. So either go for long walks, jogging, and swimming or join a yoga center to relieve stress.

Pursue your hobbies: when under stress, try to do such things which give you pleasure and happiness like pursuing your hobbies. Paint, dance, read, sing, cook, do whatever pleases you. Also, you can go out and catch up with your friends if you are under stress, it will help you become normal.

Meditate: meditation is another relaxing way to keep stress at bay. Meditation makes the brain more focused and gives positive energy to the mind. A person who meditates regularly is in a better position to tackle stress and handle stressful situations with ease.

Seek medical help: if despite trying all the options your stress refuses to go away then seek medical help. There are many drugs available in the market but it’s always better to avoid self medication and seek a doctor’s opinion.

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Mar 23 2009

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11 Guides through which we can enjoy our first date

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Ok, so it’s your first date ever and you are super excited about that. Obviously you are nervous as well and want to put in every effort to impress and enjoy your date. If you are also in a situation like that, then you better continue reading!

The following tips, I hope would help you in some way or the other to emerge out victorious on your very first date!

  • Control the excitement: It’s nothing but natural to be excited on your first date. But don’t let it overflow or you might just end up making a fool of yourself in front of your date.
  • Be realistic: So you are hoping for your date to be that handsome hunk or hot chick. But it doesn’t always turn out to be as that. So have realistic hopes so that if your date is nice it’s good, but if it’s not that nice then even then you are not too disappointed.
  • Dress appropriately: so it’s your first date and you want to look your best which is absolutely fine. But remember not to get carried away and make yourself look like a fool. It’s very important to dress up comfortably. You sure don’t want to think about your dress appearing too tight in front of your date!
  • Keep a dental kit handy: bad breath and lack of dental cleanliness is probably one of the biggest turn offs. If you wish not to be caught with a piece of chicken hung up between your teeth on your first date, then keep a dental kit in your bag. It should ideally have a mouthwash spray, floss, toothpick and mint gums.
  • Try new venues: move away from standard movie or lunch. It’s been overdone I guess. You can go to a music concert, amusement park or museum to bring out a fun element. You tend to enjoy more in a music concert than a movie theatre where you can’t even talk to each other properly.
  • Avoid places with too much eyecandy: ok, so you want to visit the hottest hang out zone of youngsters for your first date, but that could be really dangerous for you. You can end up longing for a hunk or chick other than your date, needless to say which would certainly ruin your date. Oh yes, even worse can happen. Who knows your date might just start hitting on someone else!
  • Don’t tell stories about your crushes: it is an obvious question to ask a person on his/her first date-you must have had crushes? Fine if you had some, it’s ok to give a brief mention. But don’t go overboard and start telling stories of how badly you liked that guy/girl but could never express.
  • Talk about common interests: one of my friends once kept on talking about legendary poets and their works on a date, only to know that her date had never even heard their names before! So it’s better to talk about something which interests both of you. Try not to get too personal, you never know which thing might pinch him/her.
  • Try another place if you don’t like the current one: your date has invited you to a movie which you absolutely hate and can’t bear to watch even a second of it-there is no point sulking. Clearly and politely put your point forward that you are really not enjoying and would like to go to some other place, if fact suggest a place which you think you both would be able to enjoy.
  • Have a positive attitude: even if your date is not quite turning out to be as you expected, don’t be shattered. Keep a positive attitude. Your date might just have a surprise planned for you. Look forward and keep your cool.
  • Don’t sulk if you don’t like your date: so the guy/girl isn’t really your type and you have discovered it soon enough on your date. What do you do? Relax, don’t hit the panic button. Just go with the flow and if you really don’t like him/her just let that be your first and last date with that person.

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Mar 22 2009

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Will we ever cheat the person whom we love?

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A few day’s back one of our reader sent us the article on Why do we leave the ones we love, and then one of our author Shobhita Dutta came up with this article:

This is one question which I think has no definite answer-can we cheat a person we love? Well, may be yes, may be no! Read on to find out.

Actually it depends from person to person and the situation in which we are. I have seen many youngsters dumping their true loves for a hotter hunk or chick, only to be ditched by them and return back to their true love. Actually you can never really “cheat” on whom you love, though you may get distracted for a while.

When you are with a partner for a long time, you tend to get a bit bored or miss the spark. Though the spark may be gone, but not love. You may be tempted to cheat on him/her but you’ll always be laden with guilt if you do so. And sooner or later you will find out that what you did was wrong. The kind of support and strength you get from your love, you can never get from any other person.

And when you truly love a person, you can never like anybody else to that extent. You will always find the same qualities and same mannerisms in the new guy or girl. But sadly, not two humans are alike.

So you can never cheat a person whom you love because you’ll know when the perfect guy/girl comes around and at that time you’ll have absolutely no reason to cheat on him/her.

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Feb 16 2009

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Virtual Dating!

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You don’t go for a date on this Valentine Day? Don’t worry, with the growing technology you can now enjoy the company of sweat girls on a virtual date, in which you can easily represent yourself virtually and can even enjoy the lovely kiss, favorite music and many more.

During last week I found lots of articles on dating tips. After all it was Valentine Week, but I know there are so many people who don’t have the girl friend with whom they can go for a date. One of my friends, Florence, who resides in LA, did not go for date just because she doesn’t have any one with whom she can go out.

This is not the problem of Florence only, not every one is as lucky as I am. I went out for a date with my Valentine on Valentine day and enjoyed the whole day with her. Don’t worry mate, there are so many websites which provides the virtual date facility to its users and these days they are getting more and more visitors.

With the growing affect of technology, lots of new websites are coming ahead, in which you can easily create your profile, set up your image, or virtual avatar, and then choose your partner from the long lasting list and then you can go for a virtual date along with your lovely partner. On the date you can also play your favorite music, and even you can virtually kiss her.

It is a fact that if you don’t know much about any one, then you will become more interested to know about him or her. This is the main reason behind the success of all these online dating websites. They provide the satisfaction to the visitors and this is what they are actually looking for.

So the growing technology is making life more enjoyable and romantic. You don’t need to feel lonely, just because you don’t have some one with whom you can spent the evening. You can choose from different profiles and go for a date every day. Best thing is that if you are going for a date then no one is going to able to know about your date. No one has the right to access your personal data.

So I think online dating is the best way to go out and enjoy your date. These days tendency of living a virtual life is increasing, a few days back I read one report about the same in a daily newspaper.

The only problem which I consider with virtual dating is you will never became sure about the real gender of the person with whom you are going on a date. I have seen many guys who create the profiles of girls in different sites and they enjoy making fun of other guys. I personally don’t like this attitude and probably this is the only reason why I avoid using any online dating service.

We know that there are pros and cons of everything; similarly virtual dating too has the same, now it is on you to choose the good part or the bad part. Happy Dating to you all.

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Jan 25 2009

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Beautiful Wine Racks!

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This time I am coming up with some thing unusual from my personal point of view, this is about the wine racks. In my life I have never touched the wines but have some closed friend who likes the wine so for them I usually store a few bottles of wine in my room. Keeping them is quite easy but maintenance becomes a bit difficult for a bachelor guy like me.

Hence, I was looking for a few options through which I can easily keep my wine bottles, and suddenly I reached to the website www.thevinestore.com and found that they are offering some great looking portable Wine Racks which can be beneficial for us.

A few of the best sellers of the vine store are Wrought Iron - Bottle Bunch, Bentwood Wine Rack, Bordeaux Collection - Chateau (23 Bottle) Wine Rack, 18 Bottle Wood Wine Rack and a few more which are quite simple and easy to keep. Almost all the products are portable which can be managed by any single person too.

The vine store provides a few wine racks which typically made up of wood, along with metals too. They are also providing the hanging wine racks along with the furniture’s too which contains the wine racks. I think these types of racks are even useful to those guy’s who don’t use the wine, but they too can keep different bottles like Sauce, Oils etc. in them.

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Jan 25 2009

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Top 7 ways to recover from the Break Ups!

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Are you looking for a way to get your partner back! Then there is a chance that you are one step closer to it than you could possibly imagine. Break- ups, why do they happen in the first place! We must have futilely allowed our minds to wander many times in that dark alley without a proper alternative. When there are so many sites, books and what not preaching ways on how to get him back and when that fails to work we just get frustrated and lost again. However, this article shouldn’t be so cruel but one which should help you feel one step closer to that long awaited peace.

  1. Throw yourself into work- Do not let your mind to wallow away in the past. Throw yourself into some work of any kind, do that which you always wanted to do. In doing so, your self esteem will be back on track and you will begin to feel the presence of those positive vibes.
  2. Pamper yourself- it’s high time you considered that long awaited trip to that hairdresser or that gym that always beckoned you on the way but you said maybe tomorrow. Go find that hobby which you had always wanted and make it happen.
  3. Meet new folks- Chances are that your past relationship could have led to the deterioration of your contacts with old friends or family, then this is your opportunity to set things right again. Also, one should consider building new contacts with people who share similar tastes. At the same time, giving yourself time to heal, but you never know what can develop.
  4. Take care of yourself- Maybe it’s time you had that thorough check up and a discussion with your doctor. Getting back in shape mentally and physically is equally important.
  5. Get a pet- Having a pet has always worked wonders even on the toughest people out there and getting a pet can be precisely one of the best ways of diverting your mind and your road to speedy recovery. The best part like people they have no double standards, a totally harmless but god deal!
  6. Join a meditation or yoga club- For that overall result, joining a good meditation or yoga centre should really help smooth those ruffled feathers.
  7. Surround yourself with positivity- Last but not least, no matter what you really do, one must see to it that they are surrounded by that which will help calm them and be more focused, than to get more aggravated with time. This can mean getting that good supportive group to  keeping yourself away from all those physical bad memories like photos, letters.

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Jan 19 2009

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Curtains the basic requirement of your dream home!

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Yes it is a fact that curtains are among one of the basic requirements without which a house will never become the dream home. I faced the tensed situation with my girl friend, while I was a bit lazy to choose and install curtains in my house, while she was keen to have curtains on all the windows and doors of my house.

Finally, on a wonderful Sunday when I was thinking to take rest under my new blanket, she took me out and forced me to purchase Curtains for the house and now my house is really looking nice.

So, after this I realized that proper color shades and curtains are very much important in the dream house. Today I thought to search if there is some sort of site which can provide the facility of shades, windows treatment and curtains in a professional manner. But I did not found any thing of that sort in my area, but I reached to the website www.smithandnoble.com/sn/home.jsp which I found very good and thought to share them with my visitors.

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Dec 25 2008

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Four Surprising Uses of Mobile Phones!

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Mobile Phones are slowly-slowly becoming the most important part of our life. Lots of people are not aware that mobile phone can actually become a life saver or an emergency tool for survival in case of some accidental situation. There are a few things that can be done in times of severe need from mobile phone which can be helpful to us.

Here are those four things which you can do from your mobile phone in case of an emergency:

1> Have you locked your keys in side the Car:

In that case you must be thinking what to do? You have an extra pair of key, but that is in your house which is around 45 kilometers away from the place where you are right now. What will you do?

Your mobile phone can become useful at this stage, unless your keys have remote keyless entry; I mean the center lock facility. You can call any one at your home from your cell phone and hold your mobile phone about a foot from your car door. Now tell the person at your home to press the unlock button at their end, but he or she should press the unlock button holding it near the mobile phone on their end.

The magic will happen and your car will unlock. So the motive is that it will save the time and saves some one to reach to you with the keys. Distance is not an object any more.

2> Emergency Number 112:

Are you aware from the emergency number 112? This is a global emergency number which can be useful in case of any urgency. Even if your mobile phone is out of the coverage area then too you can use 112 and guess what, the cell phone will search any available network and connect to the emergency number. Even if your keys are lock, then too pressing 112 will unlock the keys.

3> How to increase the Battery Power without recharging the batteries:

Are you aware from the fact that in case of emergency you can increase the battery strength of your mobile phone without recharging it? It might happen that during any traveling your battery will decrease and you don’t have the charging facility. In that case, you can dial *3370# and your mobile phone will restart. After the restart the mobile phone will have a 50% increase in the battery.

The best thing is that this reserve battery will get charged when you next time recharge your mobile phone.

4> Disable the stolen mobile phone:

Do you know how can you disable any mobile phone in case it got stolen? A 15 digit code which will be in fact the serial number of the mobile phone can disable it from future use after it fell into wrong hands. *#06# is the number through which we can get the serial number of the mobile phone. When your phone gets stolen, you can call your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset so even if the thief changes the SIM card, your phone will be totally useless.

Well if every body will do this then of course people will never think to steal any mobile phone, because they will never be able to use it.

So these are the four surprising uses of your mobile phones. I hope you will like them, please do provide us your valuable feedback in the form of comments.

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