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Meeting Mithun

Mithun Raju,classmate, guitar enthusiast as a student, celebrity guitarist now. A passion turning to success story. There are many such stories, many youtube videos, many TV interviews about celebrities who turned their passion into glory. Honest, inspiring stories.     What makes Mithun different?Access. I spoke to him in his home, in his soundproof studio.What did I speak to him about? Mostly about my own recent inclination for singing and essentially to do a reality check on where I stand visavis my singing.     What I did not do and probably should have done was to hear him guitar live. I am sure  that would have been a flabbergasting experience. What you hear is what you get.    We started off with personal stories, mostly from his side. My story ends with I am a  software engineer working in the US on H1B. My story is in the papers everyday, a run of the   mill software engineer.     His story on the other hand was ab...

Niyas fossil story

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   One day a big fossil appeared on my backyard. It was a bug fossil. It was starting to crawl around. Just kidding - it was a kids' museum. I love kids' museum. But that is where the story is made. We are making it. One day a little girl was going to school. She thought what her school is like.. she thought her teacher was a zombie... it would turn the class books into cockroaches and take pencils and eat them! but when she entered the classroom she found out there were .. 12 students, 1 human teacher, 13 class books and 38 pencils. When she asked her teacher whether zombies were real and the teacher said yes and she said they extinct 100000,00000 years ago. The end. P.S. She saw 1 zombie.. herself at halloween.