Gary was in a bad mood. He didn’t wish me in the morning. All through the day he remained holed up in his cubicle. I was worried and confronted him during our afternoon tea break. He confessed that he had a fight with his girlfriend and she is not picking up his calls. My natural reaction was, “why don’t you […]
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No road is long with good company. Life is tough for each one of us. Sorrow, insecurities, separation, the inner battles and the big bad world make it miserable for us. Life throws stones at us when we least expect them and make it tough to continue. Yet, we prod along. We fall in love, we find someone to share
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We are lucky to have been born in this age. This is the age of cultural globalization. The world is witnessing changes that blur the cultural and social divide that separates us. We live in an age when the world has literally become a global village and we are able to mingle, fall in love and get into relationships with
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When she left, it was like someone had ripped my heart out, crumbled it up like a flimsy piece of loose leaf paper and crammed it back into my chest. It somehow managed to work, but it would never, ever feel the same. Blank. Dark. Numb. The excruciating pain seems to engulf all your senses. Not only your senses, your
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Chapter 0: Thai crash course – a light introduction to Thai Chapter 1: Learn the basics of sentence structure, using adjectives, personal pronouns and verbs. Chapter 2: Thai greetings, introducing yourself and applying common verbs and phrases. Chapter 3: Asking and answering questions (Who, What, When, Where, Why). Chapter 4: Counting and bargaining. Chapter 5: Useful phrases to use while
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