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What's my ambition?
I enter the dentist's clinic with my brother. He has an appointment there. I see the dentist working. She's smart and good-looking. Can I be like her? Sure! I can, but then,... I have to study hard! Not very attractive! Everyone has an ...
Servants are ill-treated
Question yourself about the fact that servants are ill-treated. We have servants because we can't do half of our work. They do almost everything. The success of most career women is because of their maids. They are definitely their partners in ...
Enchanted evening
It was a pleasant evening. All the members of the Hornbill nature club, our teachers and our principal were eagerly waiting to visit the Kasu Bhramanda Reddy National Park. We had gone for a nature trail to know more about the natural habitat of ...
Hair raising tale
Although I knew my hair has grown I did not want it to be snipped. My dad told me it was too long and convinced me I look like a Pekinese. I flipped through the film magazines and choose the latest style and imagined myself as a handsome ...
Teacher's pet?
Every time I walked past her in the school, I wondered whether I should wish her "good morning" or "hi mom!" The first day I joined school I wondered why all my friends kept on telling me that the teachers are partial towards me because my mother ...
Teenage woes
"No, you can't have everything the way you want to." This is the everyday tussle between my mom and I. She doesn't understand that things are not the same as they were during her time. Everything has changed. The trends, fashions, styles, ...
Journey to the centre of a burger
I'm sure most of you are crazy about junk food. My favourite junk food is the burger. I usually have about one a month. It's worth the wait as once you sink your teeth into one, you are sure to be thrilled! When you start eating a burger you ...
Sandwiched in between
I have an elder sister and a younger brother and I am the middle one. One of the reasons why I like being the middle one is that I rarely get scolded. Even if I hit my brother I don't get shouted at as my elder sister is asked what she was ...
Glasses — a fantasy?
Glasses are the fantasy of every child. I remember when I was about six I would have done anything to get glasses. I looked up to people with glasses. They looked smart and organised. But once you get glasses, they become a burden. Some try to ...
Disconnect at once!
Tring! Tring! Tring! I leaped forward to grab the telephone before my mother could! It was my friend. We started talking about the latest movies and what's hot in fashion. After a while, I hung up and sat down to do my homework. Within minutes, ...
Water
Conserving water is something preached by many but practised by few. Here are some tips to conserve water: Turn off taps, practise rainwater harvesting and fix leaking taps. So save water, and it will eventually save you one ...
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