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		<title>Night Of Champions 2010 – Match Card</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:17:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roshan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t watch much wrestling these last few years and as the months pass I watch lesser &#38; lesser. But I always am interested in the story lines, match ups and characters but even more interesting are the pay-per-view events. September sees the Night Of Champions on the 19th and it promises to be very [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img style="margin: 0px 8px 0px 0px; float: left;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Night_of_Champions_(2010).jpg" alt="" />I don&#8217;t watch much wrestling these last few years and as the months pass I watch lesser &amp; lesser. But I always am interested in the story lines, match ups and characters but even more interesting are the pay-per-view events. September sees the <span style="color: #ff0000;">Night Of Champions</span> on the 19th and it promises to be very exciting indeed.</p>
<p>The main or headlining match heading into <span style="color: #ff0000;">Night of Champions</span> from the <em>Raw</em> brand features the defending champion Sheamus trying to fend off Randy Orton, John Cena, Edge, Wade Barrett and a to be decided 6th wrestler feuding over the WWE Championship. Chris Jericho was supposed to be the fifth announced by the new anonymous RAW general manager but last week, he participated in a match with John Morrison under the stipulation that he would be taken out of the <span style="color: #ff0000;">Night of Champions</span> match if he did not win. Jericho lost the match and was removed from the Six-Pack Challenge.</p>
<p>From Smackdown, champion Kane will defend his World Heavyweight Championship against his kayfabe brother the Undertaker. About three months ago, The Undertaker had been mysteriously put in a vegetative state. Upon finding out about this, Kane had attempted to seek vengeance against the culprit. Although Kane had initially accused Rey Mysterio to be the guilty party, it turned out to be Kane himself who put Taker out of commission for those 3 months. So now the Phenom is back and out for revenge against his half-sibling.</p>
<p>Other matches involves an interbrand affair with the Divas Champion Melina and the Women&#8217;s Champion Layla and Michelle McCool, collectively known as Team Lay-Cool, in a Title Unification Match. Also The Miz will defend his US Championship against his former rookie Daniel Bryan.</p>
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		<title>Three Things I Would Toss Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roshan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Other than old books, magazines, tapes &#38; old clothes, here are a few things that are just collection dust. Steel cupboard in my bedroom It&#8217;s huge and bulky and in the way. My mom pushed it onto me as there was less space in my parents room. I use the bottom two shelves for storing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Other than old books, magazines, tapes &amp; old clothes, here are a few things that are just collection dust.</p>
<p><strong>Steel cupboard in my bedroom</strong><br />
It&#8217;s huge and bulky and in the way. My mom pushed it onto me as there was less space in my parents room. I use the bottom two shelves for storing old tapes and my cd collection and some books that I never read and may never read again. I usually keep it locked up as I rip all my cds and store them as m3s on my laptop and on a separate external hard disk. The top most and biggest shelf in the cupboard is filled with sheets &amp; shawls &amp; cloth  material that was bought a long time back and will probably never be used at all. Not in my lifetime anyway. It&#8217;s an absolute waste of space as I also have a built in wall closet that I can store my books and cds in.</p>
<p><strong>Old coffee table</strong><br />
My dad broke the glass table top while carelessly trying to move it. Now the coffee table is placed under our dining table so as to not attract undue attention &amp; embarrassment. So we bang our knees against it while we eat dinner. My dad breaks things.</p>
<p><strong>Old tvs</strong><br />
The two old tvs will probably be tossed out soon when I buy a new tv set. The decade old BPL tv is broken and can&#8217;t be fixed and the older than old Sony is an embarrassment of biblical proportions. Come to think of it this old tv was probably manufactured around the same time as the bible was first written.</p>
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		<title>Can You See Them Out On The Porch?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roshan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an example of why Pearl Jam is the world&#8217;s best band ever. Yellow Ledbetter was a Ten outtake and one of the first songs Pearl Jam wrote as a group. It&#8217;s a huge fan favourite and a staple of their live shows and this song had such humble beginnings! Yellow Ledbetter was selected by [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here&#8217;s an example of why Pearl Jam is the world&#8217;s best band ever. <span style="color: #ff9900;">Yellow Ledbetter</span> was a <span style="color: #ff9900;">Ten<em></em></span> outtake and one of the first songs Pearl Jam wrote as a group. It&#8217;s a huge fan favourite and a staple of their live shows and this song had such humble beginnings! <span style="color: #ff9900;">Yellow Ledbetter</span> was selected by the band to be the second B-side to the 1992 single for the song <span style="color: #ff9900;">Jeremy</span>, which was where it first appeared. The song eventually found its way onto radio, peaking at number 21 on the <em>Billboard</em> Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was included on the 2003 B-sides and rarities album, <span style="color: #ff9900;"><em>Lost Dogs</em></span>, and on Pearl Jam&#8217;s 2004 greatest hits album, <span style="color: #ff9900;"><em>rearviewmirror (Greatest Hits 1991–2003)</em></span>.</p>
<p>McCready&#8217;s guitar playing on <span style="color: #ff9900;">Yellow Ledbetter</span> bears strong similarities to the guitar style of Jimi Hendrix with the mimicking of Hendrix&#8217;s &#8220;<span style="color: #ff9900;">May This Be Love</span>&#8221; from the 1967 album, <span style="color: #ff9900;"><em>Are You Experienced</em></span>, and <span style="color: #ff9900;">Little Wing</span> from the 1967 album, <span style="color: #ff9900;"><em>Axis: Bold as Love</em></span>. The version of <span style="color: #ff9900;">Yellow Ledbetter</span> that was eventually released was the second take of the song. Without being released as a single, <span style="color: #ff9900;">Yellow Ledbetter</span> peaked at number 21 on the <em>Billboard</em> Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 26 on the <em>Billboard</em> Modern Rock Tracks chart in 1994. The song has managed to become a staple among fans of the band. Although the song has never been released on one of the band&#8217;s studio albums, it remains to this day one of the band&#8217;s most popular songs.</p>
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		<title>‘Tis Better To Have Loved And Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roshan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever had your heart broken? Ever felt like it was not only, broken but it had been shot, sliced &#38; ripped apart from your chest? Yeah you have? Well join the fucking club! I&#8217;ve been heart broken a few times, had a long term relationship slowly deteriorate and die about as painfully as possible. I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ever had your heart broken? Ever felt like it was not only, broken but it had been shot, sliced &amp; ripped apart from your chest? Yeah you have? Well join the fucking club!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been heart broken a few times, had a long term relationship slowly deteriorate and die about as painfully as possible. I still have the scars and bruises (metaphorically speaking). I have had a situation where someone liked me and I liked her back but because of multiple issues we both left it unspoken and I kinda found out about her side a month after she left the country. Good call.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve also recently harboured strong feelings for a colleague for over a year and kept it well hidden (or so I thought) only for her to call my bluff two nights before she was to leave the company and head back to her family. The morning she was leaving, she called me from the airport she cried and actually said that she shared the same feelings but then she went cold once she reached back home and we fought and haven&#8217;t spoken since. I was devastated for a while and couldn&#8217;t think of anything else for months.</p>
<p>I also fear that I will end up alone and not know the comfort of a loving relationship with a woman and will likely never get married or have a partner.</p>
<p>Inspite of this I still think that it&#8217;s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. It makes you stronger, it&#8217;s part of what being a human is and what life is about and even though it hurts, I guess if I do finally get married it will make me be that much more sincere &amp; genuine with my woman and never ever think of taking her for granted.</p>
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		<title>My Preferred Writing Medium</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Roshan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For quite a few years now, I barely use pen &#38; paper unless it is for attending a training of some kind. As a rule, I always carry a pen with me at all time when I go out. For work, I carry two pens, one black &#38; one blue, and a diary. You will [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For quite a few years now, I barely use pen &amp; paper unless it is for attending a training of some kind. As a rule, I always carry a pen with me at all time when I go out. For work, I carry two pens, one black &amp; one blue, and a diary. You will find an assortment of pens and atleast 3 notepads and 2 diaries in various stages of being used inside the drawers of my desk at work. Every Jan 1st I get a brand new diary for that calendar year for taking down notes and stuff. I scribble ideas, points for later reference, important information and sometimes even hastily read out numbers and phone numbers too.</p>
<p>As a rule, pens are the most unsafest things in our office and I suppose in the last offices that I have worked at as well. I must have lost atleast 50 to 70 each year that I have been in this office &#8211; 2007 till date. For a while I only bought he cheapest brands of ball pens in order to keep the cost to a minimum but someone still ends up stealing them. Or borrowing them and not returning/forgetting to return them. Most of the time even I forget who borrowed my pen and thus end up at the end of the day pen-less.</p>
<p>But I use pens &amp; paper quite less and less as each year passes by. Atleast I and my team take a lot of printouts at work and hence use up a few bundles of A4 paper every month. But the art of writing in a book or paper is dwindling for me as I prefer using the computer. From the age of 15 till 23 I used to maintain a journal and write a few sentences each day (the original form of this blog). I find that my hand starts to tire or cramp up after writing for a bit. And I usually end up losing the paper/book and then have to start all over again. This is not so when using the lappy and hence the preference.</p>
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