Xavier Bage

@franxav (13622)

India

Joined myLot 9 years ago

Social worker, physician, part-time teacher

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Xavier Bage's Discussions

Have you found decluttering challenging?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 11h

Our storeroom was packed to the door with clutter. It had filled not only the storeroom but the spare room as well. And there were some under the staircase. It took hours to get the whole junk out of the house. There is iron,...

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To Act On Short Notice

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 3 May

One of the girls in our foster home has passed her secondary school exams. Yesterday, the results were announced. She got it downloaded and printed. I was guessing the certificate and the marksheet will take two days to come to...

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How much and how many years do you need to study to become a doctor?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 2 May

Our medical college student daughter has come home after her third year annual exam ( known as proff here). We can now consider her to be in the final year. One more year and she should appear in her fourth year proff exams and...

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Why is it so hot?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 28 Apr

Many have asked me this question in recent days. I haven't been able to answer them satisfactorily. The usual reasons written in the environment studies books/ geography books , though I believe are true but the weather we are...

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Early Summer Holidays in Our Schools

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 19 Apr

The Education Ministry of West Bengal has declared that schools will remain closed till the end of this month. It is a wise decision as there is a heat wave blowing over West Bengal State. Today, the mercury is indicating the...

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What else can I do except hug?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 15 Apr

Barsha, Bristi and Aakash were brought into our foster family after their parents had died. They were 7, 5 and 3 when they were admitted in our foster family three years ago. Their mother had terminated her own life and their...

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The Old Man and His Dwarfish Son are clever businessmen

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 7 Apr

We bought this flower plant from a nursery keeper when there was no flower on it. Now, there is a flower on it. We never had one like this. The son said the plant was an imported species from south east Asia, Indonesia or...

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A Piece of My Liver

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 4 Apr

I was coming back home after completing some errands outside . Suddenly my eyes fell on a girl riding a cycle and coming towards me. She acted as if she had not seen me. She appeared to be watching something far. I would have...

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Those Little Mishaps - Are they premonitions?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 21 Mar

Don't we have little mishaps now and then? Are they forerunners of bigger or more serious mishaps following? This morning after I rose up I went to the wash basin. Took my tooth brush and opened the cap of the toothpaste. "Pop!"...

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I'm late but good experience has to be shared

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 19 Mar

Last Saturday, I accompanied the 50 odd children of our foster care institute to Mayapur ISKCON temple. We made the trip in our school bus. Thus, it was a journey comfortable enough. I had been there about 25 years ago. Since...

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I made a mistake and still regretting

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 15 Mar

I made a mistake and still suffering for it after five days. Have you heard of Bengali sweets. They are very very popular among the people here. No social celebration can be complete without them. Be it a birthday or a marriage,...

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When I wrote a letter to cheat the Australian Government

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 13 Mar

As I read some pages of of a novel on illegal migrants I recall what I did to help a Nepali migrant in Australia. In those days I was a teacher in a High School in Nepal. The owner of the school had a son in Australia either...

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Blackie and Brownie have a large family

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 19 Feb

Blackie( Kalu) and Brownie(Bhuri) grew up in the campus of our children's home. Our authorities tried to send them out but they refused to move out. Ultimately they were allowed to stay and in the long run they became " husband...

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Yayy! It feels like spring!

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 12 Feb

The weather has turned luxuriously pleasant. The bone shrinking days of the winter are gone. Actually, the spring is already here. And the cuckoos singing in the mango gardens are heralding the happy arrival of the season. The...

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Isn't Reusing a Good Idea?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 6 Feb

Two weeks ago I got my cotton mattresses repaired. The workmen come from Bihar, mostly Muslim men, go around doing this work . They make quilts and mattresses. They return to their villages with the departure of winter. I saved...

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The Rarest Visitor

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 29 Jan

Sometimes we are offered little moments of joy suddenly.It was one of such moments. As I went to open our backyard door I was presented with a beautiful scene. A bird was picking its food from the ground and moving around all the...

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Getting Rid of Clutter is a Big Deal

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 19 Jan

May be it is my minimalistic habit or is it hopeful habit that I don't throw away old dress, old plates, cups , saucers. Old bags, broken chairs, discarded mobile phones, tape music players and two- in- one with transistor...

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Fast Changing Landscape before Our Eyes

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 16 Jan

21 years have passed after I came to serve in this charitable institution FAMILIA. Oh what changes have come about during this period of time! Many colleagues have gone away from here. Some have also died. The founder director...

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Cold Hard Monday in Southern Bengal

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 15 Jan

I have been hearing people grumble all day today. The morning was foggy and the sun was not visible until midday. A piercing cold wind was blowing as well since morning. I guess the temperature must have been around 9 to 11...

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What do you name this peculiar feeling after Christmas ?

Xavier Bage @franxav (13622) • India 30 Dec

Perhaps English is the only language which incorporates many new words from non- English languages into its dictionary every year. Now, while we are still in the Christmas week I wonder what this peculiar feeling that most of...

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