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Re: SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES IN INDIA DON’T QUITE DIGG IT

Gaurav Mishra — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 01:56:33 -0000

Gyani Baba: Thanks for the link. Looks a little tech-oriented, but will spend more time there before making up my mind. Will also be looking forward to more posts on your blog.

Ravages: I'm becoming little addicted, putting too many votes, almost. Even writing like PutVote. Must stop visting PutVote, before writing similar in offcial mail. Big people, big names, what to do? Making spelling correction. Apologies accepted, na? :-)

Re: SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES IN INDIA DON’T QUITE DIGG IT

Gaurav Mishra — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:23:21 -0000

EB: It is vibrant and I'm quite sure it's here to stay. BTW, nice site (yours); you are on my Google Reader now.

Re: SOCIAL BOOKMARKING SITES IN INDIA DON’T QUITE DIGG IT

Gaurav Mishra — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 02:51:17 -0000

@ Ravages & EB: Me liking your commenting and writing 55-fiction on PutVote. You seeing it above?

Re: World Happiness

Gaurav Mishra — Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:05:20 -0000

It seems to me that there is a correlation between happiness and richness. There may be some exceptions, like Bhutan, but this seems to hold true in most cases.

Re: World Happiness

Gaurav Mishra — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 19:01:56 -0000

@ Patrix, Kingsley :-)

I mean that the least happy countires are also the poorest, countries in the Saharan Africa, in the Indian Sub-continent, in Eastern Eurpoe. It will be interesting to overlay a map of per capita GDP over this map and see if they match.

Re: Work Friendly to the rescue

Gaurav Mishra — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 20:07:35 -0000

This is brilliant!!! Now I know how to read blogs duting my never-ending meetings!

Re: THE WORLD’S WEIRDEST START-UP IDEAS (AND YES, THEY WORK)

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:19:22 -0000

@ Chaitali: My outsourcing days were over a long time back. These days, I work as a used car salesman! ;-)

@ Perspective Inc: Will you be a resident taster? Please? ;-)

Re: HOW MUCH IS YOUR BLOG WORTH?

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:41:31 -0000

@ IdeaSmith: It still sounds romactic, though, the possibility of knowing how much your blog is worth, with a click of your mouse. You know what will be even more interesting? An instant camera that takes your picture, calculates the sum of your good and bad deeds, in this life or another, and tell you:

As a human being, you are worth $ 16,936.20!

@ Jacob: I came across your blog yesterday while browsing through technorati tags and really liked it. Carry on with the mutiny!.

Re: HOW MUCH IS YOUR BLOG WORTH?

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 05:52:59 -0000

You are apparantly worth $7,339.02 yourself!

Re: Allergies

Gaurav Mishra — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:10:54 -0000

Why the shift to wordpress?

Re: Allergies

Gaurav Mishra — Sat, 02 Sep 2006 03:59:54 -0000

One nice thing about Wordpress, which you probably don't know yet, is that you can keep track of your comments on others' blogs! More power to the comment-conversation!

Re: Allergies

Gaurav Mishra — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 14:07:09 -0000

Have you figured it out now, or you need a tutorial tomorrow?

Re: Allergies

Gaurav Mishra — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:11:57 -0000

With pleasure!

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 02:07:19 -0000

@ Maya: You ask too many questions!!! :-)

- So which of the situtations pleases you more?

Both, in their own ways, and neither, really. The ideal situation is to love one person who loves you back, isn't it?

- And am I being added to the problem of plenty?

What do you think?

- Why does she still have a hold over you? Does it mean you can never be with another?

I have been with others, even loved them, but not in the "I love you so much, I want to kill both of us" way.

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:26:34 -0000

@ Maya: As I said before:

Passion or contentment? I alternate between wanting one and wanting the other. anyway, you can’t really choose either, have control over either. You can only be open and let either choose you.

And, to add to what I said before, it was also the type of love that brings out the best and the worst in you. The bad parts

I love you so much, I want to kill both of us

are long gone, but the good parts have become a part of me.

And to answer the question that I evaded earlier: she still has a hold on me because she made me want to be a better man.

And I'm happy for you that you have found what you wanted. :-)

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:54:41 -0000

@ Maya: But, if you have found what you wanted, why this?

I don’t cry as much as I used to and want to.

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:25:50 -0000

@ Maya: I'll be waiting. And so will be others. This comment-conversation seems to be quite a hit with people who read my blog! :-)

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:46:23 -0000

@ Maya: Which means you are free now? :-)

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:14:57 -0000

@ Maya: You have already broken my heart :-) by saying:

For a long time, I believed that the love I feel for someone is proportional to pain it causes me. I have now experienced healthier love.

So, I must assume you are not free in life? No?

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 07:58:16 -0000

@ Duhita: I said she will be back, didn't I? :-)

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:03:56 -0000

@ Maya: Yes, I agree:

Free then is a state of mind. No relationship should ever make you say or feel that you aren’t free.

But what if you aren't even in a relationship, not really anyway, but feel that you aren't free to have another? Has that ever happened to you?

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 17:12:32 -0000

@ Maya: So, what do you recommend Maya? I have been in love with her for five years now. I think she was in love with me for six months but not beyond that. I can see that she doesn't want to let go anymore than I want to. Given that, do I wait for her to realize that she has been in love with me all along? Or do I move on and hope that I will fall in love, find love, elsewhere, eventually?

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:12:40 -0000

That last comment (#18), BTW, was written late at night, after a boring dinner meeting and half a bottle of scotch. In other circumstances, I would have preferred a witticism on

Such confidence! - “I said she will be back, didn’t I?”

but what's written is now written.

@ Maya: You are allowed to ignore so-serious-that-they-are-silly questions like that. Flirting with you is far too much fun to scare you away with them. ;-)

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 23:18:52 -0000

@ qsg/ Duhita/ Others: Much thanks for being such a wonderful audience. To show my appreciation, and to add a further twist to this comment-conversation, let me ask you this:

What do you think is happening here?

Re: Too Good to be True

Gaurav Mishra — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:43:35 -0000

@ Maya: Ignore comment #18 (see #20).

I know she doesn't love me and I know I need to move on. I have known it for years now. I have moved on, too, in my own way. (Didn't you say that I had an exciting life? :-)) But, I'll always love her and think of her often and fondly, and she'll always make me want to be a better man than I am, and she will always have a hold on me because of that.

BTW, I think I am beginning to like your questions. In fact, I think we should copyright the comment-shrink concept and retire to the Bahamas and live happily ever after on the royalties. :-)