Thursday, August 03, 2006
Monday, July 17, 2006
The Song Tapper
Came across this fascinating site that lets you search for songs by tapping the rhythm of its lyrics. Though I got just one song right out of the 10 i tapped, I still loved this site. Here! Why don't you try your luck? The Song Tapper
Arrrrrrrrrrgh!! For some reason I haven't been able to surf blogsites! No! Not even my own: ( I tried opening it in Firefox and IE, but it just won't OPEN:((
Arrrrrrrrrrgh!! For some reason I haven't been able to surf blogsites! No! Not even my own: ( I tried opening it in Firefox and IE, but it just won't OPEN:((
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Comfortably numb...
Once again, Mumbai will don the garb of the Mumbai spirit and oft-romanticized resilience and bounce back to life. Once more it will wipe its tears (only to flow freely when Mihir Virani battles for his life) Once again Mumbai will combats its fears with the help of its daily diet of saas-bahu serials and the serial blasts will soon be a distant memory. Once again its anger will dissipate and apathy will take its place. Once again...
(Thanks for all your messages, emails and phone calls enquiring about my safety..am deeply touched)
(Thanks for all your messages, emails and phone calls enquiring about my safety..am deeply touched)
Sunday, July 09, 2006
A Very Inspiring FWD,.
A candidate for a news broadcasters post was rejected by officials since his voice was not fit for a news broadcaster.
He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bacchan.
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A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living.
He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule.
He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
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In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
The group was called The Beatles.
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In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married."
She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
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In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
He we nt on to become Elvis Presley.
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When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.
After making a demonstration call,President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
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When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
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In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
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A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last.
For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl - Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
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A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life.
The boy was Albert Einstein.
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He was also told that with his obnoxiously long name, he would never be famous.
He is Amitabh Bacchan.
-------------------------------------------
A small boy - the fifth amongst seven siblings of a poor father, was selling newspapers in a small village to earn his living.
He was not exceptionally smart at school but was fascinated by religion and rockets. The first rocket he built crashed. A missile that he built crashed multiple times and he was made a butt of ridicule.
He is the person to have scripted the Space Odyssey of India single-handedly - Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam.
--------------------------------------------
In 1962, four nervous young musicians played their first record audition for the executives of the Decca recording Company. The executives were not impressed. While turning down this group of musicians, one executive said, "We don't like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out."
The group was called The Beatles.
--------------------------------------------
In 1944, Emmeline Snively, director of the Blue Book Modelling Agency told modelling hopeful Norma Jean Baker, "You'd better learn secretarial work or else get married."
She went on and became Marilyn Monroe.
--------------------------------------------
In 1954, Jimmy Denny, manager of the Grand Ole Opry, Fired a singer after one performance. He told him, "You ain't goin' nowhere....son. You ought to go back to drivin' a truck."
He we nt on to become Elvis Presley.
-------------------------------------------
When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.
After making a demonstration call,President Rutherford Hayes said, "That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to see one of them?"
-------------------------------------------
When Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, he tried over 2000 experiments before he got it to work. A young reporter asked him how it felt to fail so many times. He said, "I never failed once. I invented the light bulb. It just happened to be a 2000-step process."
-------------------------------------------
In the 1940s, another young inventor named Chester Carlson took his idea to 20 corporations, including some of the biggest in the country. They all turned him down. In 1947, after 7 long years of rejections, he finally got a tiny company in Rochester, NY, the Haloid company, to purchase the rights to his invention -- an electrostatic paper-copying process. Haloid became Xerox Corporation.
------------------------------------------
A little girl - the 20th of 22 children, was born prematurely and her survival was doubtful. When she was 4 years old, she contracted double pneumonia and scarlet fever, which left her with a paralysed left leg. At age 9, she removed the metal leg brace she had been dependent on and began to walk without it. By 13 she had developed a rhythmic walk, which doctors said was a miracle. That same year she decided to become a runner. She entered a race and came in last.
For the next few years every race she entered, she came in last. Everyone told her to quit, but she kept on running. One day she actually won a race. And then another. From then on she won every race she entered. Eventually this little girl - Wilma Rudolph, went on to win three Olympic gold medals.
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A school teacher scolded a boy for not paying attention to his mathematics and for not being able to solve simple problems. She told him that you would not become anybody in life.
The boy was Albert Einstein.
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I'm looking for the PowerPoint version of the above. If you happen to have it please mail it to saumya.kini@gmail.com
Thursday, July 06, 2006
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Fanaa
Movie: Fanaa
A friend lured me away from the whodunit that I was glued onto, to catch Fanaa on Friday. Being the big Kajol fan that I am, I didn’t wanna miss watching her comeback flick and I gave in after half-hearted protests. To my surprise, we managed to get tickets for the show. Unfortunately, it turned out to be the biggest disappointment after my 10th Standard Board Results. The movie moved way too slow in the first half, and it really dragged in parts. But for the kid sitting next to me who pestered her father with her incessant questions (and he really deserves a place on the cover page of Parenting magazine ), I would have drifted off to sleep...Sigh!
I must admit though, the second half did make me sit up on the edge of my seat, (much to the dismay of the short lady sitting behind me) only to settle back when I saw glimpses of the stiletto murderer from ‘ The Eye of the Needle’ – Ken Follet. The story was too predictable as the end was a rip -off from the same book. Kajol and Aamir Khan acted well, but their mediocre performances did nothing to add value to the movie. The songs were just about OKAY. All in all, the movie was nothing out of the ordinary despite having a great star cast and the hype surrounding it.
The only saving grace? The Shayaris! (though I still don't know what Fanaa means:D)
I only hope the Da Vinci Code doesn't disappoint me as well.
Friday, May 26, 2006
Sunday, May 07, 2006
Subject: Fw: Fwd: Marriage proposal
>
> Marriage proposal
>
> Madam:
> I am an olden young uncle living only with myself in Bangaloru. Having
> seen your advertisement for marriage purposes, I decided to press myself
> on you and hope you will take me nicely.
> I am a soiled son from inside Karnataka. I am nice and big, six foot
> tall and six inches long. My body is filled with hardness, as because I am
> working hardly. I am playing hardly also. Especially I like cricket and I
> am a good batter and I am fast baller. Whenever I come running in for
> balling, other batters start running. Everybody is scared of my rapid
> balls that bounce a lot.
> I am very nice man. I am always laughing loudly at everyone. I am jolly.
> I am gay. Especially ladies, they are saying I am nice and soft. I am always
> giving respect to the ladies. I am always allowing ladies to get on top.
> That is how nice I am.
> I am not having any bad habits. I am not drinking and I am not sucking
> tobacco or anything else. Every morning I am going to the gym and I am
> pumping like anything. Daily I am pumping and pumping. If you want, you
> can come and see how much I am pumping the dumb belles in the gym. I am
> having a lot of money in my pants and my pants is always open for you. I
> am such a nice man, but still I am living with myself only. What to do? So
> I am taking things into my own hands everyday. That is why I am pressing
> myself on you, so that you will come in my house and take my things into
> your hand.
> If you are marrying me madam, I am telling you, I will be loving you
> very hard every day. In fact, I will stop pumping dumb belles in the gym.
> If you are not marrying me madam and not coming to me, I will press you
> and press you until you come. So I am placing my head between your nicely
> smelling feet and looking up with lots of hope. I am waiting very badly
> for your reply and I am stiff with anticipation.
> Expecting soon,
> Yours and only yours
> Ajit Gupchup
> Marriage proposal
>
> Madam:
> I am an olden young uncle living only with myself in Bangaloru. Having
> seen your advertisement for marriage purposes, I decided to press myself
> on you and hope you will take me nicely.
> I am a soiled son from inside Karnataka. I am nice and big, six foot
> tall and six inches long. My body is filled with hardness, as because I am
> working hardly. I am playing hardly also. Especially I like cricket and I
> am a good batter and I am fast baller. Whenever I come running in for
> balling, other batters start running. Everybody is scared of my rapid
> balls that bounce a lot.
> I am very nice man. I am always laughing loudly at everyone. I am jolly.
> I am gay. Especially ladies, they are saying I am nice and soft. I am always
> giving respect to the ladies. I am always allowing ladies to get on top.
> That is how nice I am.
> I am not having any bad habits. I am not drinking and I am not sucking
> tobacco or anything else. Every morning I am going to the gym and I am
> pumping like anything. Daily I am pumping and pumping. If you want, you
> can come and see how much I am pumping the dumb belles in the gym. I am
> having a lot of money in my pants and my pants is always open for you. I
> am such a nice man, but still I am living with myself only. What to do? So
> I am taking things into my own hands everyday. That is why I am pressing
> myself on you, so that you will come in my house and take my things into
> your hand.
> If you are marrying me madam, I am telling you, I will be loving you
> very hard every day. In fact, I will stop pumping dumb belles in the gym.
> If you are not marrying me madam and not coming to me, I will press you
> and press you until you come. So I am placing my head between your nicely
> smelling feet and looking up with lots of hope. I am waiting very badly
> for your reply and I am stiff with anticipation.
> Expecting soon,
> Yours and only yours
> Ajit Gupchup
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