Xavier Bage

@franxav (14154)

India

Joined myLot 10 years ago

Social worker, physician, part-time teacher

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Busy Days have Begun Buddy!

Xavier Bage @franxav (14154) • India 6 Jun

Tighten your belt Buddy, I'm telling myself. The schools were closed for summer vacation for about a month.The children of the foster home were allowed to stay with their relatives. They have all returned. The government schools...

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Week Four of Tuneless Choir.

Sharon Elton @sharonelton (30647) • Lichfield, England 6 Jun

I went to Tuneless Choir again on Wednesday night. This was my fourth week. Sara, the choir leader, gave us more details about upcoming events. She also said that if we wanted Tuneless Choir T-shirts we needed to buy them from...

tuneless choir

track list

tee shirt

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Xavier Bage With so many beautiful and soulful songs sung, I wonder why the group is called Tuneless Choir!

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Believe it or not, these hold the same amount

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355901) • Rockingham, Australia 5 Jun

You can see a small jar and an empty packet in the photo. I should have stood the packet up so you could see it better. Both the packet and the jar contain the same amount, which surprised me as the packet looked much smaller....

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Xavier Bage The jar appears to have more ginger than the packet. Perhaps it's an optical illusion. Yet somehow I had developed a mistrust for the business runners. They print the quantity on the pack but when you weigh it the quantity comes to be less though minimal....

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Decoding Your Pet's Animal Language ~ Sounds Remarkable?

Deep-Or-Whimsical @DeepOrWhimsical (36) • United States 26 May

Are you familiar with cat or dog translator apps? And have you ever used one? If so, what are your thoughts about them? If not.. doesn't it seem fascinating? How cool could it be, to translate what your pet is actually, or.....

dog translator

cat translator

ai pet translator apps

decoding animal language

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Xavier Bage They do have a language. It's we who have not cared enough to learn it.

5 Jun

Come Rains and Wild Plants grow Wildly

Xavier Bage @franxav (14154) • India 1 Jun

Every living creature needs water. However, we humans can drink water from a bottle or fill a tumbler and gulp the liquid down our throat. Trees and plants also feel thirsty but cannot drink water from a bottle or a tumbler. They...

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A prop has grown out of proportion

Always smiling @allknowing (147341) • India 1 Jun

We had propped a plant with the help of this white bougainvilae cutting and today that prop has grown out of proportion. The cascade of white bougainvillae is a spectacle for passersby on the road. We hardly see it from inside...

bougainvillae in all its splendour

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Xavier Bage That looks gorgeous. Bougainvillea come in different colours. We have two in our garden but unfortunately we don't have white .

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Vince's favourite niece

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355901) • Rockingham, Australia 1 Jun

Of Vince’s siblings, we are closest to his younger brother. The fact that he lives quite close by probably has something to do with it. He has three daughters, and we see quite a bit of two of them. The youngest lives in...

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Xavier Bage Vince is a loveable uncle. I'm sure the nieces love him. It looks like they are playing some game. What is the game?

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Everyone has his/her battles to fight, don't they?

Xavier Bage @franxav (14154) • India 31 May

In the evening at 7 I saw boys and girls returning from their private tuition class. Perhaps some other group passed this way. The children look happy and they appear to have no worries. But are they truly free from worries? They...

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Off to Guitar Center soon. How are you spending your Saturday?

The Horse @TheHorse (227594) • Walnut Creek, California 31 May

Today (Saturday) is the only day I teach at Guitar Center in the morning. I'll be done at 1:30 PM or so, and I think it's supposed to be in the 90s F again. You know what that means: I'll be at the pool with a book this...

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Xavier Bage I wish I lived near you , I'd have improved my guitar playing skill. I started learning guitar in my college days. Since then it has remained at kindergarten level.

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I travelled by Amtrak

Always smiling @allknowing (147341) • India 29 May

I have talked about my trip from San Jose to Oxnard by train. This post is about my friends who joined me This was the last leg of my US package tour When I reached San Francisco there was a message in my hotel room from one...

amtrak

travelling with friends

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Xavier Bage I can guess how wonderful the trip must have been.

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If you're a local, it's Wagga

Judy Evans @JudyEv (355901) • Rockingham, Australia 25 May

The photo is of the vegetation near the salt lake where we camped one night. It has nothing to do with the discussion. Vince came across this on a Facebook page entitled Dull Men or something like that. There is a town in New...

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Xavier Bage I was born in a tea estate called Dumchipara . For all colloquial purposes "para" was omitted and first two syllables were pronounced in more than four different ways confusing the hearer. The "D" was pronounced like the Latin D by tribal workers and ch as s....

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The Daughter Has a Mind of Her Own

Xavier Bage @franxav (14154) • India 30 May

The earlier we know and accept it the better for her and for us. Cultures in different parts of the earth are different. Family values in the east are different from those in the west. Times are changing fast too. Children of...

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I am missing my gardener

Always smiling @allknowing (147341) • India 25 May

He worked for two years and I could call him Jack of all trades He did everything around here - swabbing the floor, washing dishes, grinding masala, scraping coconut, watering the garden, trimming branches, shopping, doing the...

gardener

jack of all trades

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Xavier Bage A person like your gardener may be found one among a billion. People of such excellent qualities are rare.

30 May

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I had a very nice day today and was told something very unexpected

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74243) • United States 29 May

Today I had to run a lot of errands. Our first stop was to the house of a friend. I had some things to drop off and she was injured at work yesterday and asked if I could grab her a coffee on my way. She didn’t feel up to coming...

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Xavier Bage Quite a lot of errands you ran. I'm sure you were happy at the end of the day.

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Traditional games that have existed since I was little until I was an adult. Namely: "Congklak".

Ustani A @Charlesbronson (977) • Indonesia 30 May

There is a game that has been around since I was little, even since my eldest brother was little, maybe it has been around since 60 - 70 years ago, it's called "Congklak". Congklak is a traditional Indonesian game that involves...

game

for children and adult

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Xavier Bage A roughly similar game we used to play in our childhood. We used to dig pits on bare ground and used pebbles as counters. I spent my childhood with tea estate workers' children on Himalayan plains.

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Accents

celticeagle @celticeagle (175748) • Boise, Idaho 30 May

I don't have a accent. I remember working at the telephone company and placing a call for a person who told me I had an accent. I was shocked. Me? No. Now my BFF 's mom had an accent big time. When I'd travel to visit her I was so...

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bff

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Xavier Bage You may say so but some time you might unknowingly give out your accent.

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Retirement Rumblings

Xavier Bage @franxav (14154) • India 29 May

It was not so from the beginning of our charitable society.The honorable founder ( though incapable due to old age he is still with us) never spoke of retirement. He was of the opinion that we would build a team and...

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This is meaningless

Always smiling @allknowing (147341) • India 29 May

This Chinese bride has her wedding dress with a train that runs into 3 miles long creating Guiness Book of World Records I frind it meaningless. What was its purpose and what will they do with that train once the wedding is...

bridal train

longest train guinness book of world record

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Xavier Bage Perhaps the aim was to get a place in the Guinness Book.

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Rainy Thursday Morning

Jordan Lader @JordanLader (6031) • Sparta, Tennessee 29 May

It is a dreary Thursday morning. It's been raining off and on and very cool. Not quite cold but it's not really warm either. I succeeded in getting a fair amount of work done yesterday. I think I'll be cashing out tomorrow. I...

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Xavier Bage In Kolkata it's a low pressure rain. Low pressure doesn't mean light rain . It means the rain is caused by an atmospheric low pressure over the Bay of Bengal. The rain will continue for at least three days.

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Plot twist in this movie seems pretty obvious

snowy @snowy22315 (191040) • United States 29 May

Now, it is possible that I am totally wrong, but I don't think so. I have been watching the movie Memento..never saw it but won an Oscar in 2001. If you know the movie don't tell what happens please. I think the hubby with no...

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Xavier Bage Quite a killer suspence! I am dying to see the end .

29 May

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