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5 Ways To Make A Great Impression Among Your Workmates On Your First Day
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5 Ways To Make A Great Impression Among Your Workmates On Your First Day

First days of your new job can be equally exhilarating and nerve wrecking. As much driven and dedicated we try to be on the first day, we also simultaneously try to get along with colleagues. Creating a great impression is quite vital to have an easy-going and friendly working environment in the long run. So, without beating around the bush, let’s get straight to the point.   Make an Effort to Get to Know Everyone Make an effort to personally introduce yourself to everyone and get to know them a tad. If it’s a big office, may be just workmates in your department. Yes, you will have to break free off your taciturn nature and get out there to talk to everyone.   Try to Remember Names Most people on their first day of work hardly remember names especially becau...
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6 Questions That Are Impolite to Ask Anyone!
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6 Questions That Are Impolite to Ask Anyone!

In today’s day and age where people are offended by almost every hair follicle that comes their way, it is hard to draw a line on what to say and what not to say. Interestingly, in this whirlpool of irrelevant matters swirling around, there are many aspects that a lot of people freely and nonchalantly comment on without realizing that it is actually plain impolite. Dealing with so many of these rather awkward questions and comments hurled at me, I can totally point out some of the most common ones that are not cool to say or ask to anyone.   Body Shaming Questions/Comments Although it is a fact that being overweight or underweight should not be promoted because there are direct health concerns attached to them, body shaming somebody is always wrong. Someone you barely kn...
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5 Quickly Made Side Dishes To Go With Any Dinner!
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5 Quickly Made Side Dishes To Go With Any Dinner!

With a dinner party for a few friends or just suddenly planned surprise dinner for your partner, here are 5 delicious side dishes that goes with almost every main course and are super easy and quick to make.   1. Potato Bake Embed from Getty Images This starch dish of creamy potato goes great with roast chicken, lamb, steak or even fried rice. Ingredients: • Potato • Cream • Cheese slices • Salt • Pepper • Garlic paste (optional) • Onions (optional) Procedure: Cut your potatoes thinly in round shapes. Grease a baking pan with oil and line up your potatoes (half of the total quantity). On a separate pan or wok, with little oil, melt the cheese slices, stirring it. Add half of the cream here and 1 tsp of garlic paste. Stir it for around 3 to 4 minutes to make a sauce...
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5 Ways to Appear Confident when Going Out (For Ladies)
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5 Ways to Appear Confident when Going Out (For Ladies)

We all have blue days of self-doubt when we aren’t feeling the best of ourselves. And honestly, some of us are born with a low self-esteem bone and one way or other, it transpires into our appearance. Being someone who feels lazy and sombre most of the days, I follow some easy steps to appear confident when I am going out and trust me there is a build up of confidence inside me when I do these.   Embed from Getty Images Bold Lip Color This might be too loud and flashy for a lot of people but without makeup going overboard; just a bold berry or red lip color really looks stylish and appears very confident. Many times I will just put on my face powder and with no makeup on my eyes I just put on a red lip color. I have felt the difference in me immediately.   ...
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4-Minute Microwave Banana Chocolate Cake
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4-Minute Microwave Banana Chocolate Cake

This recipe is super quick with less hassle but the outcome is nothing less than a super soft sumptuous banana chocolate cake. And yes, it is baked on a microwave, which takes 4 minutes only! It is perfect as an evening teacake or a dinner party dessert. Serves: 5 people   Ingredients: ¾ Cup Flour ¾ Cup Sugar 1 tsp Baking Powder 1 tbsp Cocoa Powder (depending on how much chocolatey you want the cake to be) A pinch of Salt 2 Eggs at r.t.p 6 tbsp of melted unsalted Butter 5 tbsp of warm Milk 2 ripe Bananas   Procedure: Take a big mixing bowl and strain all the dry ingredients into it (flour, sugar, baking powder, salt and cocoa powder). It’s important to strain them so that there are no lumps in the mixture. Remove the strainer and pou...
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Rare Short Stories by Roald Dahl
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Rare Short Stories by Roald Dahl

Being an immense Roald Dahl fan, I always love re-visiting my childhood by reading his children’s books. However, not many readers know that Roald Dahl had also written a bunch of dark short stories. This article consists of some of my most favorite short stories by Roald Dahl. Most of them can be found in books that include a number of his short stories piled up.   Lamb To The Slaughter – First published in Harper’s in September 1953 Can be found in the following book: Deception- Tales of Intrigue and Lies by Roald Dahl ‘Lamb To The Slaughter’ is a brilliant piece by Roald Dahl that is so underrated. It is a story about a devoted and loving wife who behaves appallingly after her husband informs her that he wants to leave her. This short story includes thrill, myste...
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5 Budget-Friendly Ways To Propose To Your Partner this Valentine’s Day
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5 Budget-Friendly Ways To Propose To Your Partner this Valentine’s Day

With Valentine’s Day approaching near, many of you must be planning to propose to your beloved partners with “Will You Marry Me?” or “Will You Be Mine?” etc. So, without beating around the bush, I have listed down five interesting and budget-friendly ways to do it.   Candlelit Proposal Relax! It is not a candle light dinner for two with the ring hidden in the dessert. As traditionally romantic that is, it is also very clichéd. What my idea is, a room or balcony, basically any closed space where wind can be controlled with small candles spread out, spelling “Will You Marry Me?” on the floor. It is as simple as it sounds. All you will need is a lot of candles. It is not necessary to get one similar kind of candles only. Trust me, when lit up, they all will look gorgeous a...
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5 Types of Food Items for a Healthier Diet
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5 Types of Food Items for a Healthier Diet

Yogurt Plain, non-flavored yogurt is a lifesaver when it comes to a healthy diet meal. It is a go-to for salad dressing or simply as a sauce for your main meal whether chicken or any other meat. Yogurt is high on vitamin and super healthy. You can cook your stir-fry with yogurt or marinate your meat with it and then cook. It tastes great and oozes health benefits.   2. Green Chili Not for everyone if you are one of those who cannot tolerate a chili. However, I am not saying you need to chew a whole green chili to be healthy. You can put it in a cooked meal with other spices or use it in salads as well. Green chili is extremely healthy with Vitamin C that is beneficial not only for cutting down the fat but also in many other health-related ways.   3. Ginger This mig...
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When You Wear Blue
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When You Wear Blue

The noises become numb, Surrounding visuals succumb. My gaze halts at you, When you wear blue.   The emerald veins, more prominently stand How the blue sleeves compliment your hand. Magic in your eyes, And melancholy in your chest, How the color puts you in an aura of zest. I stare at you, puzzled with your beauty. My mind has no clue, When you wear blue.   A fragrance, so intoxicating, Stops my heart from beating! A shiver transpires through my body, alarming, When your fingers do the talking. Amazed with the impact of this hue, When you wear blue.
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How Tunefully Tender
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How Tunefully Tender

The touch gave me a tremor How tunefully tender! Fingers fidgeting farther A silk surface of shine and shimmer. Emerald eyes eyeing me earnestly How I’m skimming her skin slickly. From sitting stiff to her sudden shake How I could smoothly suffer for her sake. Peace pouring out persistently She was a trench coat of tranquility. Resting her feet on the red rug Her body, a blanket bug. How stunningly she sat She was my coy cuddlesome cat.
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Alone And Aloof
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Alone And Aloof

It stood stiff and straight. Failing to safeguard its body and soul, Which were not of much weight.   Seeking for silence Amongst a crowd of commotion. Trying to sear its skin, Desiring self-destruction.   Is it the growing inhumanity in human beings? Or the high hopes of these green living things?   Alone and aloof, Withered and wilted. Breathing free Was the only dream of this desolate tree.   It stood stiff and straight. Failing to safeguard its body and soul, Realizing they are indeed too much of weight.
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