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Go Frshly!

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This Saturday I had the pleasure of going for a blogger event.  Off late various reasons made me miss a few events and I was happy to sign up as the topic was on food. Food tends to make people emotional.  If you have seen me you will know that I get very emotional about food and though I still believe that the best food is always home cooked I am always ready to try out a new restaurant any day. The invite intrigued me because it wanted 5 food bloggers and 5 tech bloggers & the event was in an IT park so my curiosity levels went up. The venue was the office of M/s Owl Tech blew me away. The exposed brickwork, furniture made from stacking pallets among others made it a good place to be in. I met up with a few familiar faces and some new faces and we settled down to learn about the place and the event. The Ice breaker! Note the table made of pallets. Our hosts for the day Divya Gandhi and Abhiskek N gave us a brief of the machine, a food box that we would see after some

Dear kids who are taking the board exams this year...

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It’s that time of the year when we see harassed school kids and even more harassed parents awaiting a landmark event in their lives the board exams.  This is a short post to these kids. Dear Kids, please pause for a moment and remember: -           The marks that you get in your exam are just  numbers and do not define you -           The marks do not give any indication of how good you are, maybe it tells who has got the better memory -          The marks are not the best guide for your study or your career choices, meaning just because you scored higher is no reason for you to take pure science not matter what schools may think. If you are still not convinced remember the cut off for B Com in some of the top colleges in the city are a dizzying 98/99%. So if you think that Commerce is the easier option for those outside the 90's bracket think again!!!! -          In the end the class X report card does not serve any other useful purpose than being the first