Posts from ‘August, 2009’

I received this as a forwarded mail but what if stuff like this happened in real life??
LAST WEEK WAS MY BIRTHDAY AND I DIDN’T FEEL VERY WELL WAKING UP THAT MORNING. I WENT DOWNSTAIRS FOR BREAKFAST HOPING MY WIFE WOULD BE PLEASANT AND SAY, “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”, AND POSSIBLY HAVE A PRESENT FOR ME.
AS IT [...]

Teenage fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series have sent Wuthering Heights – the favourite novel of the books’ hero and heroine – soaring to the top of the classics bestseller charts.
A new edition of the novel, repackaged in a similar style to Meyer’s Twilight books – black cover, white flower, tagline “love never dies” – [...]

India will occupy the centrestage at the XXII Moscow International Book Fair starting early next month.  The inauguration of the book fair on September 2 will coincide with the five-day state visit of President Pratibha Patil at the invitation of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
As a part of the Year of India in Russia celebrations India [...]

Jaswant Singh’s book “Jinnah: India, Partition, Independence” – that exposed major rifts within the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and abruptly ended the senior Indian politician’s 30-year association with the party – has now reached Lahore. The BJP was facing a crisis-like situation as the book hit the shelves in India and the party sacked Jaswant [...]

After a string of long funny stories/jokes, heres something short and witty…
A beggar meets another beggar. A software engineer meets another software engineer. Both of them ask the same question to each other:
” So, which platform are you working on?”

Cast: Amir Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Saif Ali Khan, Priety Zinta, Dimple Kapadia, Sonali Kulkarni
Directed By: Farhan Akhtar
Music By: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
So.. okay… well.. um….. oh forget it……
Everytime something like that happens during any of my conversations, the first image that pops up into my mind is Saif Ali Khan on the phone with his girlfriend on the [...]

I read an article the other day about Jaswant Singh’s expulsion from BJP on ground of his releasing a book which contained his views on the political scenarion during the time of the India-Pakistan partition. Apparently, in his “controversial” book, Singh has been appreciative of Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s pre-partition efforts to bring Hindu and Muslim [...]

Apple Inc.’s latest operating system software, Snow Leopard, will go on sale this Friday. The Mac OS X version 10.6 software will debut at Apple’s retail stores and authorized resellers nationwide. Apple’s online store is now taking pre-orders.
Snow Leopard’s release comes days before its promised September launch. It precedes by two months the launch of [...]

Nokia Corp., the world’s largest maker of cell phones has said that it will start making a small, light laptop, similar to ones PC manufacturers are already selling through wireless carriers around the world.
The Finnish company says the Nokia Booklet 3G will run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows software, have a 10-inch screen and weigh 2.8 pounds. That [...]

The Pirate Bay, one of the world’s most popular filesharing websites, is off the Internet after a Swedish court threatened its bandwith supplier with a hefty fine, news reports said Tuesday. Stockholm’s district court on Monday ordered Black Internet to stop providing bandwidth to The Pirate Bay or face a fine of 500,000 kronor (70,000 [...]