ConvertFiles.com

Since its Diwali time, I thought this website could be useful to folks who are in charge of editing, converting, trimming songs. http://convertfiles.com/ Converts files from one format to another. Supports many formats.

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3 Person Musical Chairs


This is an interesting variation on the traditional Musical Chairs game. We played this game with the Pune Kutchi Yuva Mandal on their Goa trip. It was fun. Form teams containing 3 people each – one adult male, one adult female, and one child. Arrange chairs in a circle. Before each round, the moderator will announce a specific pattern

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Volleyball without a ball

This is a nice ice breaker game. If you have some newcomers in your group and want them to learn the names of other people in the group quickly and vice versa this is a nice way to do it. Credit again goes to Samir/Amisha. You split the group into …

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Group Dumbcharades

Samir/Amisha – the king/queen of games recently made us play some interesting games when KV-India went to their semi camping trip to Nilshi. This game is a variation of the game Dumbcharades. It goes like this. People are divided up into teams each consisting of about 4-6 people. A captain …

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Metha Re Paan Kutch Jaa Madu

In Summer of 2013, we got an opportunity to visit Kutch. Dimple’s village Nani Khakhar was celebrating the 125th anniversary of the temple. The celebration was 5 days long and filled with programs. Our last trip was in 2003 – before Kairavi was born. So both Kairavi and Suravi had not visited the land of their ancestors before this. I myself have not visited Kutch that often. Maybe 2-3 times before this in my lifetime.

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The Rise, Fall, Rise of the Joke

Penning down some random thoughts. I remember the mid 1990s when the internet was NEW, email was new. Everyone was excited at the possibilities of free communication. There started a trend where we forwarded jokes to each other via email. We sent online greeting cards to each other. It lasted …

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The Two Year Report Card

Its been 2 years now since we moved back to India from the USA. I had written a one year report card on completion of our one year in India. And now is the time to write the two year report card. Time really flies.

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