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Zynga chief's spectacular home for $1.97 mn!

http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-zynga-chiefs-spectacular-home/20120224.htm

 

Gaudy! Looks like Woody Allen's house from Small Time Crooks, all the money in the world and guy couldn't find a decent interior decorator. doh.

And look at the Sofas in the living, look like picked from garage sale.

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DIdnt know where to post . here

 

Time to stand up If u have the time please watch the documentary movie which is just 30 minutes in the description video and pledge it , well it wont cause a huge loss just 30 mins :). log on to kony2012.com to pledge :)

 

if u dont want to watch the 30 min documentary watch this but i hope u watch the documentary too :)

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPDJ6WlXzxU

 

It is time to be one :)

 

 

 

 

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If needed Any mod can move this post to its associated place :P

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Zynga chief's spectacular home for $1.97 mn!

http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-zynga-chiefs-spectacular-home/20120224.htm

 

Gaudy! Looks like Woody Allen's house from Small Time Crooks, all the money in the world and guy couldn't find a decent interior decorator. doh.

And look at the Sofas in the living, look like picked from garage sale.

 

wow all that for just $2 mil ? I think Indian Real estate is far more costlier than US now, a house like that would easily fetch much more in India !

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MUST WATCH! Spare 30 minutes and watch it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4MnpzG5Sqc

 

 

DIdnt know where to post . here

 

Time to stand up If u have the time please watch the documentary movie which is just 30 minutes in the description video and pledge it , well it wont cause a huge loss just 30 mins :). log on to kony2012.com to pledge :)

 

if u dont want to watch the 30 min documentary watch this but i hope u watch the documentary too :)

 

It is time to be one :)

 

 

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If needed Any mod can move this post to its associated place :P

yes yes.. must watch..

more about kony movement.. WE MUST STAND UP AND DO....SOMETHING...

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Saw this story.. couldnt stop from sharing..

 

Its when you see people like Shila Ghosh.. you realize that the problems.. the worries you have in your life are so pity.. I mean here we are thinking which branded shirt to buy and crib about how we can't afford the new iphone and here are some people who are fighting .. and fighting with dignity .. not to live, but to survive, that too on daily basis and at this age..

 

If we want this world to be a better place for our children, we really need to start looking beyond our petty issues and help people around us... and need to put a break on our greed and need to be a bit more thankful for what we have!!

 

 

 

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Hearts meet and melt on a city pavement

 

- Strangers united by girl’s Facebook post help 83-year-old woman selling chips on roadside

 

 

 

Here's to the spirit of Calcutta, alive and kicking in the grit of an 83-year-old selling savouries on a pavement, the compassion of a college girl passing by and the response of strangers to a Facebook post for support.

Octogenarian Shila Ghosh changes two buses to reach the Exide crossing on Chowringhee Road from Bally, in Howrah, every afternoon to sell chips on the pavement outside Haldiram till the flow of the homebound-crowd ebbs.

Her breadwinner son died of a heart ailment around six months ago and she needs the money — around Rs 150 on an average for an evening's toil — to supplement her grandson's meagre earnings from odd jobs.

College girl Sufia Khatoon didn't know Shila's story, but would often pause to watch her from a distance and wonder what circumstances might have forced a woman older than her grandmother to spend evenings working.

Sufia felt she needed to do something about it. A Facebook post later, 22 other Samaritans converged on the busy junction around 5.30pm last Friday to surprise Shila with "a small donation".

Shila, stooping of body but upright of mind, had a bigger surprise for them.

"She accepted the Rs 1,600 we had mobilised for her but declined further monetary help. She told us she wanted to earn a living rather than live off donations," Sufia recalled.

If the group was still willing to help her, Shila said she would rather they set up a kiosk for her. "Aami paari….Bus dhore chole aashi eikhane. Bus-ta barir samne nabiye dyay.Bikri kore chole jaye (I am capable of earning my bread. I come here and return by bus, it drops me in front of my house)," she told Metro.

Last heard, the list of Shila admirers had swelled, each member eager to ease her strain without making her feel she was dependent on anyone.

"We are dealing with someone very strong in the mind. I believe the initiative should not end with donating some money. We need to find a long-term solution to problems faced by people like Shila," said Sanjay Dutta, a 42-year-old Park Circus businessman.

Amitava Sinha Chaudhury, a 20-year-old college student who had responded to Sufia's post and turned up at the Exide crossing on Friday, said it would be an insult to Shila if people offered her "alms".

"Mashi (aunt)'s never-say-die spirit should be respected. We bought almost half her stock of chips that day to help her without making her feel we were doing her a favour," Amitava said.

Kalyani Bhowmick, 25, had stopped to see why there was a commotion around the elderly woman and ended up joining the group.

"I wasn't aware of this group. I salute them for what they have volunteered to do and will be glad to do my bit to help Mashi in whatever way I can," Kalyani said.

Sufia sees the spontaneous response to her plea for support on Facebook as an opportunity to carry her desire to help people like Shila forward.

"It all started with my first glimpse of Mashi. She reminded me of my grandmother and I thought hers wasn't the age to work, but to rest at home," she recounted.

So what made her post Shila's story on Facebook? "I just felt I should do it and I tagged my friends. Their contacts saw the post and soon a few of us started interacting to find out how we could help. We decided to meet and the rest fell into place," Sufia said.

On Friday, a couple of members of the group even escorted Shila home in a taxi, sparing her the usual bus ride to Bally. "Many people saw us giving her money. So we thought it wouldn't be safe to let her go on her own," said Amitava.

Sufia, who has just started the Facebook page OurWorldOurInitiative to further the cause, hopes her small step for Mashi would inspire a giant leap in the service of the city's downtrodden.

 

 

 

Source: http://www.telegraph...sp#.T3smMmHxpKh

 

 

 

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