Garden Path Sentence – A very interesting article on linguistic formulations, that I happened to come across. No wonder you thought you were right and the teacher was wrong in your fifth grade !
Entries from August 2008
August 19, 2008
The Katrabai Pass Trek
If you’ve hit this page looking for directions on the Ratangad – Harishchandragad trek; I’m afraid, the bots have routed you to the wrong page. This is a travel tale of 30 wise morons from various places in India, on a mission to accomplish the R-H trek in three days as India rose to it’s [...]
August 13, 2008
The Raireshwar trek
The Bombayz had come down to Pune a few hours before I reached home after rappelling at Kondividi. 10:30 pm at night,Tiwari and Pranesh join us for dinner at Rasoi Ghar. It’s been close to a year that I’ve had dinner with any of my Engg. mates. This time during dinner, there are no tickets [...]
August 12, 2008
Waterfall Rappelling at Kondividi
The blue tarpaulin sheet suddenly gives way and my feet impulsively tries to gain hold on the rocks. I lose grip and one of my slippers hits the rocks about hundred and fifty feet below. Even before I have time to think on what’s apparently gone wrong I foolishly tag the rope in my left [...]
August 6, 2008
The Visapur-Lohagad trek
There are three reasons why I’d not forget this trek! The first being, I wasn’t the youngest member in the team; the second being we had a 10 year senior,quite oblivious to us, sitting silently listening to all the *facts* about organisations and policies that we were putting forward; the third would get pretty evident [...]
August 1, 2008
The Duck and the Eagle
An interesting read!
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No one can make you serve customers well. That`s because great service is a choice.
Years ago, Harvey Mackay, (Business Motivational Speaker & Inspirational Quotes – Harvey Mackay) told a wonderful story about a cab driver that proved this point. He was waiting in line for a ride at the [...]
