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This crazy world..

Time flies by so fast that you really need to pinch youself to realise how much time has gone past since you haven't done anything productive! Its now two and a half months here in Glasgow and the thank you's have changed to cheers and yes'es have become aye! and the world is still moving on. The financial crisis is getting the best of everyone, but strangely not me! I will very proudly narrate to my grandkids about the time when the world was sinking in debt and I was making merry with my new found first job! Working part time at the local football clubs I was making enough to sustain my daily expenses while Jaguar was filing for loans, plane companies were bidding to buy out each other, banking companies were axeing like well built loggers and Woolsworth was being put out into the market for vultures to pick on! Well, with the winter coming up, and after experiencing my first snowfall here, I am really looking forward to working full-time in the vacations so as to save enough to have a few days travelling around the UK before the classes begin in January. With exams around the corner, yet again, it is now time to step up the study sessions!
Yesterdays blasts in Mumbai have us Indians here really pissed and all are acting patriotic, I don't really know if they mean it, but I for once am appaled at the situation. We keep saying it, but it is really an up-hill task for the Indian government to take steps and measures to control the situation and see to it that the same is not repeated again. There is no use blaming the government, as what could be done was done, how was anyone to forsee an event like this where it is said that the buggers captured a boat and arrived on Mumbai shores using it and launching horrendous attacks that they have. Heart and soul out to Mumbai. Like New York, the city that never sleeps, Mumbai too has become used to these staged dramas and will be back to normal, up-and running in no time. May those who lost their lives rest in peace.

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