IT WAS INCREDIBLE! Lots and lots of collections on display, going back over 250 years. Exclusively Arab, Middle East, and India stamps. (Sorry, premkudva , my camera battery died before I could get any pictures of India stamps, but I'm thinking of going back tomorrow.) I got a souvenir! Issued February 7, 1972. The UAE united in 1971, but Dubai issued stamps through 1972.

One should be able to be more of a " colon close bracket" person (CCBP) rather than an " colon open bracket" person (COBP). ...that is, when typing, one should be typing :) more often than :(....!!! I am lucky that my life enables me to be a CCBP.... I am now waiting for premkudva to do one of his signature giant smileys! But here's a heaven-sent one...

From this post from premkudva : "Then there is an uncle who tells us that in Cochin they enforce the seat belt rule. And how he was once stopped. And how he said that buses should also have seat belts, and that Cochin with its clogged roads [and max speed of 20 kmph as per him] doesn't require seat belts. All this he delivers to the local constable who has stopped him, in the hope that...

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I almost NEVER remember people's birthdays in time on LJ...but today I did!!!! It's already the 17th here, though it won't be, in Western Massachusetts for a while...here's wishing a VERY dear friend (imagine, I have never seen her face-to-face!), a wonderful human being... asakiyume I don't know how to do all those LARGE fonts like premkudva does, but I would LIKE to use them...

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No, that doesn't mean 50 medals, it means India's position in the medal tally in the Olympics is 50! I just read Prem's entry about this.... That reminds me of one more anecdote about my brother. The unfailingly happy boy brought home a very bad report card. One being asked why he had such low marks, he said, "But see here! I have a very high rank!" (He was 25th out of 27 children!) It was late...

I am not kidding, people are taking a comprehensive exam on this topic: 29th July 2008: Comprehensive Exam: Molecular Ecology of thePrimitively Eusocial Wasp Ropalidia marginata: Metapopulation Structure,Genetic Relatedness and Queen Succession And here I am, leading a blithe life...does eusocial mean being friendly in all the European countries? This post is for you, premkudva . I don't...