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mutant newspaper paragraphs

I was in a real bad mood yesterday when I saw my paragraph in the Hindustant Times yesterday. Almost all the sentences have been restructured and rephrased. I'm sure they did it to make it more concise, but for God's sake, what about the hard work that I put in to compose it?

Maybe it's because I've haven't had too much experience of being edited upon before, but it really hurt to see the words I framed after putting in so much thought being thrown all over the paragraph for the sake of conciseness.

Also, they didn't include it in the web version. I don'

happenin!

I just realized I've become such a happening person! Here's some of the things I haven't told the world about, so here goes:

idya rocks IP Univ.: We took our software to InfoeXpression 2003 at Indraprastha University, and won 1st prize! IP Univ labs have 100kbps internet... wow.

5th Sem results out:I'm second in class, 7th in the whole university! Thank you God!

Writer, Hindustan Times: Make sure you read the GenNow page on Saturdays in HT - the Weekly Web Wonder column is where I get to scrawl my sentences.