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		<title>Friendship</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was going through some of my old correspondence yesterday, when I stumbled upon this gem:
“Too many people have taken advantage of you and screwed you over that now you look at everyone through that lens. You fail to see the goodness in people and you have no patience for friendships anymore.”
This is what one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycles and Bikes – Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/05/30/bicycles-n-bikes-ii.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 18:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After my postgraduation, I joined Pond’s India Ltd., in Pondicherry. I bought a Kawasaki KB100. It was a good bike and served its purpose. I used it for about 2 years and when I moved to Madras to join TCS I sold it. The only incident worth mentioning is how I fell into a cesspool. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bicycles and Bikes – Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/05/22/bicycles-n-bikes-i.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 07:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I learned to ride the bicycle during the summer vacation of my fourth standard. Since we didn’t have a cycle at home, my dad rented a cycle and I learned cycling on that. By the time the vacation was over, I had learned the art of cycling, but had no cycle to ride as the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cars and me…</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/05/13/cars-n-me.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 May 2006 07:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started my driving lessons when I was about 6 years, on our Premier President (Fiat 1100D). Initially I used to sit on my dad’s lap and try steering the car while he was really steering it. But slowly, as I got used to the steering, my dad started giving me more control. He still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wisdom of Drunken Crowds</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/04/18/wisdom-of-drunken-crowds.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Apr 2006 18:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the very few occasions during the year when almost all the inmates of the CET men’s hostel will be totally drunk is the day when the final year students treat their juniors. All inmates irrespective of the batch and branch will attend the party and will drink to their hearts content. There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thanks, Thank you, and a Smile…</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/03/15/thanks-smile.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Mar 2006 19:08:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, we go out-of-the-way to help total strangers. Even though all you get is a thank you, it makes your day and makes you feel good about yourself.  Let me tell you three such incidents. The first one happened when I was doing by B.Tech, second one when I was working in TCS and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fast and Foolish…</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/01/23/fast-and-foolish.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2006 17:51:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever there was a celebration in the college, there used to be at least one accident. I had seen it happen several times. The only questions that remain to be answered on any such day were who, when, how and how severe. 
So, we always used to keep a couple of cars and a few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roger, Roger, Chicken Roger…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2006 19:03:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a fight in our hostel when we were in the final year. The fight was between the youth wings of the Lotus and sickle-hammer-star parties. I don’t know exactly how the fight started. But a group of the ‘Red Indian’ youths manhandled a member of the Saffron youth wing. They roughened him up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Room Improvements…</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2006/01/14/room-improvements.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:53:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The CET Men’s Hostel (or CET MH) was designed to accommodate 240 inmates. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, the hostel has 240 rooms (single occupancy) in addition to the TV room, library, store, office, warden’s room, gym, etc. During those early days, each room had a wooden cot, a wooden table, chair, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ganja Tales…</title>
		<link>http://www.alexisleon.com/ros/2005/12/24/ganja-tales.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2005 07:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexis Leon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was during my uncle’s (my mother’s younger brother) wedding that I had my first smoke. I must have been in the 3rd or 4th standard then. After the wedding reception, which was held in my uncle’s house, my cousins who were in the high school were smuggling cigarettes to the back of the house [...]]]></description>
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