<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' standalone='yes'?><rss version='2.0'><channel><title>My Blog Feed</title><link>http://www.tblog.com/</link><description>A tBlog Blog!</description><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:46:13 -0800</lastBuildDate><language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[Whither has gone the propensity to rebelllll?]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969971775</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969971775</guid><pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:46:07 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Currently into my favourite book of all time, for, i guess, the third time in a row now,&quot;BORN TO REBEL&quot; by Sulloway, I wanted to share wi... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969971775'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Civil Servants turn Corporate Big Shots..! ]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963463</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963463</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Oct 2007 02:56:48 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today, being a Sunday of ceaseless, unending monsoon showers, pouring cats and dogs across the length and breath of singara chennai, making the already bat... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963463'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[On Keeping aStealth Bomber at Bay...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963370</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963370</guid><pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:19:31 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It's been two weeks now, since the red letter day when I decided to do away with my mobile phone once and for all... a gadget which is ummistakenly the latest gift of science besto... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969963370'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paper Tigers...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969956751</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969956751</guid><pubDate>Sun, 02 Sep 2007 05:04:41 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DISCLAIMER: Weak hearted men, please don't read this blogpost. If you still want to, and feel the shock of your life, MAN, I'm not responsible..! This is in no way a tirade against femini... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969956751'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a Shock IT gives you...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969954094</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969954094</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 04:45:19 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, during a training session on IELTS/TEOFL, I happened to have an interesting chat with a software professional of a famous IT Company. He had a lot of tho... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969954094'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Cop and his Collection...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969952213</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969952213</guid><pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 11:17:22 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This happened just over a week ago. I was driving my car in one of the not so busy streets of Chennai one fateful day, when I got a call from Wesley, my close friend of many years,... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969952213'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bankers' Manners...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969948092</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969948092</guid><pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 23:30:05 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[We were happily talking over a cup of coffee, in the evening, just over three days ago, little realising that our happiness of the moment was just short lived by an interruption in... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969948092'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Soldier or Sportsman?]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944820</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944820</guid><pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 12:39:19 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Ever since India's fiasco at the hustings this World Cup, many heads have rolled, and much water has flown under the bridge. But the question remains... Do our sportsmen rea... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944820'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration...nay...Introspection...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944247</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944247</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 12:18:36 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[With the LAST WORKING DAY of the current Academic Year drawing to a close here at MCC, I look back, and ask myself, have I done my job to my utmost satisfaction? (forget the Head!)Have I add... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969944247'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Impose a Ban before it's too late...]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969943366</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969943366</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:02:04 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[To all those avid admirers and ardent supporters and fervent patrons cum connoisseurs of cricket, the game where bookmakers make their mark, and bookies rule the roost, it is high time all ye peopl... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969943366'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRST PERSON gets his due...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969941105</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969941105</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 08:30:00 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week, even as MCC was celebrating its convocation with no less than the FIRST PERSON of the NATION to grace the occasion, the occasion was witness to a lovli decorum... that mobile phones were... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969941105'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[CHOOSING A GIRL... Seven tips for Heaven on Earth...!!!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969940175</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969940175</guid><pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:49:12 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This is not Homer's ultimate dictum on choosing the girl of your dreams... Yet i bet this proves true to millions of young men across the globe... For those guys who would like to go for a g... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969940175'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Case against Cruelty to Animals...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969939854</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969939854</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2007 19:13:24 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Just the day before, Prof.Dany and myself were having a cuppa tea at the Air Force road shop, when we saw a lovli little pup playing with us, and going around here and there merrily. All of ... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969939854'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Newspapers in Language Testing...! Is it Bound to Succeed?]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969934027</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969934027</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:40:07 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Going by any indication, it seems that students are really receptive to any dynamic measure initiated by you as a lecturer. I used the day's newspaper as a tool for the first C.As and had pr... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969934027'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Too bad......It's only Guys without guts who use mediators...]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969931407</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969931407</guid><pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:43:15 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This blog is a sequel to the one i wrote the other day on evicting three guys from class for breach of decorum. These guys tried their luck to get in through dubious means... guess what... they tip... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969931407'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[When to show the door to a student...]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969930478</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969930478</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2006 02:57:20 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It happens quite rarely.. once in a bluemoon... should i say... but when it happens it becomes epical in scale and historical in perspective. Today was one such day for three of my students who had to... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969930478'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the name of LANGUAGE WORKSHOPS... Just a RUN FOR hard earned money... Nothing less, nothing more...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924698</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924698</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:04:04 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Yesterday i was asked to attend a ELT workshop at a famous COUNCIL, which promotes it. Participants, mostly drawn... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924698'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Are we testing them or are we wasting them?]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924215</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924215</guid><pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 05:53:29 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today, as i was invigilating for the III Physics students(Denver's batch) among others in the Exams Hall, I was witness to students simply pondering or were they wondering over their question paper... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924215'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Demise of A LOVLI LOVLI LOVLI ART...! The beautiful art of letter writing...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924087</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924087</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 09:29:29 -0800</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The story of mankind is, in part, the story of (in simpler words) the humanisation of communication. I hope u are with me when I say this&hellip;As F.T. Wood rightly puts it in his Orig... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969924087'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[To my Dearest Grandma... on her 82nd BIRTHDAY...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969923157</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969923157</guid><pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:33:12 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[My Ammamma who's specialWho's caring and sincere.Who's always taken good care of meAnd always brought good cheer. ... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969923157'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[ Tribute to Blogging...! and All Bloggies...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969922250</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969922250</guid><pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2006 19:37:24 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[This blog of mine is a tribute to the blog maniacs across frontiers. Ever since i started blogging over the web, a year ago, across three different blogs, (and this one being used the least, cos of it... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969922250'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Karan Thapar and Farooq - A Spirited Battle...!]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969921882</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969921882</guid><pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 10:11:17 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Today just an hour ago, i happened to see a spirited altercation or should i call it an interview, (a la Devil's ADVOCATE, CNN-IBN) between Karan Thapar, and the ex-CM of J&K Dr.Farooq Abdullah, the l... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969921882'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Sunset of Love]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969910806</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969910806</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:13:27 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Love has a lot of meanings attached to it. One kind of Love  we call it by the name Mania, the second one we call it Pragma(utilitarian) and the third we call it agape... Yet in today's context, Love ... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969910806'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Thumb Generation's Ode to the Mobile Phone...]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888293</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888293</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:33:05 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[herein, I have penned a&nbsp;poem after seeing&nbsp;two students in my class glued to this latest technological marvel of our times...&nbsp;The Mobile Phone...... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888293'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wedding Parades in India - The Myth Behind the whole Show]]></title><link>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888291</link><guid>http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888291</guid><pubDate>Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:25:07 -0700</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Last week i happened to participate in a Wedding Reception of a Colleague. The Bridegroom was being paraded in a palatial car, on the busy streets of the City, in the peak hours of the day, with dr... <a href='http://rufusmcc.tblog.com/post/1969888291'>more from rufusmcc...</a>]]></description></item></channel></rss>