Source : Dawn  

Here is the link to the index site of all my posts since July 2006. I have categorized the posts in various categories. You can select and click to read and comment which ever you like. The links are named according to the posts blogged.

My Index

Thanx to NewStoneSoup and Inkspector for the Idea

Hi,

Many thanks for sending the beautiful bouquet of flowers to Andrea. I don't know who sent it- it was just signed "your t-blog friends".  She was very happy to hear from you all.  She really likes you guys, and I'm sure she's looking forward to corresponding with you again as soon as possible.

-John

(Please Say Thanx To Surrogate for sending a beautiful bouquet to Andrea )

Name : Kate Middleton
Age : 25
Nationality : British
Claim to Fame : Another Princess in Waiting Hounded by the Media

Source : Dawn  

1. Every second, two Barbie dolls are sold somewhere in the world.
2. France is known as the perfume capital of the world.
3. Frisbee got its name from William Russell Frisbee, who was a pie baker.
4. High priests in Egypt were the only ones who were allowed to wear clothes made from cotton.
5. An average person consumes the equivalent 26 gallons of milk a year, including almost 28 pounds of cheese.
6. An egg that is fresh will sink in water but a stale one will float.
7. A blink lasts for approximately for 0.3 seconds.
8. A man named Charles Osborne had hiccups for almost 96 years.
9. Russian men who wore beards during the time of Peter The Great had to pay a special tax.
10. The best time for a person to buy shoes is in the afternoon. That is because the foot tends to sewll at this time.
11. The board-game Scrabble was originally called "Criss Cross Words".
12. Approximately 46 million soft drinks, five million pounds of French fries and seven million hamburgers are consumed at Walt Disney World Resort annually.
13. The ball point pen was first introduced to the United States in October of 1945 in New York's Gimble's Department Store - the whole stock of 10,000 pens were sold out the first day.
14. Tiger cubs are born blined and just weigh about one kilogramme.
15. Dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
16. Most insects can taste with their feet.

1. If you think you have trouble supporting your wife, just try not supporting her!
2. A family budget makes you worry about money before you spend it.
3. Age stiffens the bones and thickens some brains.
4. No two people of a family in a car can agree on which window should be open, and how much.
5. The average youth doesn't believe he is having a good time unless he is doing something he can't afford.
6. The best children are thos too old to need baby sitters and too young to borrow the family car.
7. Parents of university students get poorer by degrees.
8. If older children ask how Santa Claus gets into the house, tell them he comes in through a hole in daddy's wallet.
9. Kids grow up, fall in love, get married and have children, but now a days many don't do it in that order.
10. A child misbehaves to get attention, and gets it.
11. There would be fewer divorces if husbands tried as hard to keep their wives, as they did to get them.
12. These days husbands have a hard time teaching their wives that even the bargains cost money,
13. 13. Permanent waves are increasing, but permanent wives are decreasing.

64th Annual Golden Globe Awards

Movies

Flim, Drama: Babel

Actor, Drama: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Actress, Drama: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Musical or Comedy: Dreamgirls

Actor, Musical or Comedy: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Actress, Musical or Comedy: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Ladies ! I hope you all know there's a Semi Annual Sale on Victoria's Secret ? and that too upto 50 % ??

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By this year, the United States Government hopes to release unmanned robotic cars to patrol the streets. Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the US governments's central research and development agency, has offered a two-million-dollar prize for the first robotic vehicle that can travel a 60-mile urban course in less than six hours. By holding events such as the Grand Challenge 2005, in which the cars have to avoid ditches, barbed wire and boulders, DARPA encourages the development of robotic car technology. The United States government has laid out plans to have city streets in the USA patrolled by robotic cars after being encouraged by the development made in the last Grand Challenge.

Source : Spider  

The basic thing that holds most of us from achieving success is that we lack selfesteem at the very deepest subconscious level. We place a ceiling on what we are capable of achieving, because it makes us feel better about ourselves and our own mediocre achievements. Somehow, it's easier to shield ourselves with dozens of excuses than to admit to ourselves that we could have done better, if only we had the nerve and the self-belief.
As Michelangelo said, "The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it".
The argument presented most often is that it's easy to say that one's attitude dictates the altitude that one may achieve in life. However, in reality a lot of other forces are in play. You may think that you cannot succeed because you do not have enough experience, or because you have financial problems and money begets money, or because you are disadvantaged in some other way.
If so, you need to consider the examples of people like Henry Ford and Thomas Edison. Both of these men had nothing more than basic schooling. Stevie Wonder is blind. the world's leading cosmologist, Stephen Hawking, is in a wheelchair and cannot even speak without a voice machine. Oprah Winfrey was born black and dirt-poor.
Inerestingly, the prerequisite is NOT that you need any prior experience of talent in that which you seek. Rather, it is the purpose, backed with the perseverance to never give up in accomplishing it that brings about lasting success.

Source : Dawn  

• The Boston Society of Film Critics:

• Awarded the best picture to 'The Departed'
• Best director, Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
• Best actor, Forest Whitaker (The last King of Scotland)
• Best actress, Helen Mirren (The Queen)

• Chicago Film Critics Association:

• The best picture was 'The Departed'
• Best director, Martin Scorsese (the Departed)
• Best actor, Forest Whitaker (The Last Kint of Scothand)
• Best Actress, Helen Mirren (The Queen)

• The Los Angeles Film Critics Association differed somewhat by:

• Awarding best picture to 'Letters from Iwo Jima'
• Best director, Paul Greengrass (United 93)
• Best actor, Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat) and Forest Whitaker (The last King of Scotland)
• Best actress, Helen Mirren (The Queen)

• New York Film Critics Circle was almost neutral with:

• Best picture going to 'United 93'
• Best director, Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
• Best actor, Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
• Actress, Helen Mirren (The Queen)

• Washington DC Film Critics Circle sided with New York Film Critics Circle by giving exactly the same awards - not that anyone else had very diversified opinions.

• Words your partner would like to hear more often:
• I have faith in you.
• I love you.
• You did a fine job.
• Thank you.
• Appreciate what you have.
• Make time to be alone with each other.
• Cuddle early in the evening, before you're too tired.
• If what you're doing isn't working, try something else.
• Look for win/win solutions.
• You can always make more money, but you can never make more time. Take time now for your family.
• When you need help, speak up!
• It's not enough just to say 'I love you,' Live your love by being considerate and kind.
• Leave your job - and its problems --- at the office.
• Love has good manners.
• At parties, pay more attention to your partner than to anyone else.
• If you are having problems, figure out first the role you are playing.
• Always make your partner feel special.
• Give more love and yo'll get more love.
• If you're not sure whether to say something, don't.
• Kindness is love in action.    

Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) and her friends journey through singlehood in modern day New York in Sex and the City, a truly girly show based on a book by Candace Bushnell of the same name.
Though there is no coherent plot, the show is narrative driven with Carrie's colourful comments on the lives of the four stars within. We have Carrie herself, who is a columnist, often interacting with fictional and non-fictional celebrities. The character is brilliantly portrayed by Sarah Jessica Parker, who up until now was not finding much success on the big screen.
Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) is a young, almost aristocratic, art dealer who sternly believes in traditions. Cynthia Nixon plays Miranda Hobbes, the career minded lawyer who has a pessimistic view of the world and yet is the voice of reason for the entire group. We finally come to Samantha (Kim Cattrall), the eldest of the group, but the youngest at heart and the secret star of the show.
The first season introduces us to each character and also the premise of the show - New Youk City, which is a star of the show itself, not to mention a supporting cast of shoes, dresses and jewelry.
The DVD box set is loaded with special features such as commentaries and behind-the-scene footage. Also inculded are cast interviews. This is a must-watch and must-have, especially for slumber parties.

By : Khaver Siddiqi

Source : Dawn  

A few months ago, there was an opening with the CIA for an assassin. These highly classified positions are hard to fill, and there's a lot of testing and background checks involved before you can even be considered for the position. After sending some applicants through the background checks, training and testing, they narrowed the possible choices down to two men and a woman, but only one position was available.
The day came for the final test to see which peson would get the extremely secretive job. The CIA men administering the test took one of the men to a large metal door and handed him a gun.
"We must know that you will follow our instructions whatever the circumstances," they explained. "Inside this room, you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her."
The man looked horrified and said, "You can't be serious! I could never shoot my wife!"
"Well," said the CIA man, "you're definitely not the right man for this job then."
So they brought the second man to the same door and handed him a gun. "We must know that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances,"they explained to the second man. "Inside you will find your wife sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill her."
The second man looked a bit shocked, but nevertheless took the gun and went in the room. All was quiet for about 5 minutes; then the door opened. The man came out of the room with tears in his eyes.
"I tried to shoot her; I just couldn't pull the trigger and shoot my wife. I guess I'm not the right man for the job."
"No," the CIA man replied, "You don't have what it takes. Take your wife and go home."
Now they only had the woman left to test. They led her to the same door to the same room and handed her the same gun. "We must be sure that you will follow instructions no matter what the circumstances; this is your final test. Inside you will find your husband sitting in a chair. Take this gun and kill him."
The woman took the gun and opened the door. Before the door even closed all the way, the CIA men heard the gun start firing, one shot after another for 13 shots. Then all hell broke loose in the room. They heard screaming, rashing, and banging on the walls. This went on for several minutes; then all went quiet.
The door opened slowly, and there stood the woman.
She wiped the sweat from her brow and said, "You guys didn't tell me the gun was loaded with blanks. I had to beat the son of a bitch to death with the chair!"

Source : Comedy Central.Com
 

Scientists have discovered a gene that sparks off an enzyme considered responsible for a person's ability to control his or her emotions: the monoamine oxydase A (MAOA) enzyme. Scientists also found that those genes which had a lesser content of MAOA were more consistently found in people who were unable to control their emotions when exposed to facial expressions depicting emotions or while recalling emotional experiences. The individuals who otherwise displayed very little brain activity in areas related to impulse-control, displayed intense brain activity in emotion-related brain structures. Those individuals reacted less emotionally and with more control over their impulses when exposed to the same stimuli who had a strong MAOA gene. This led to the conclusion that a weak MAOA gene is what contributes to uncontrollable violent behaviour.

Source : Spider  

Today is the Birthday of SayCheese. It will take few seconds time to wish fellow tblogger.

Many Happy Returns of the Day

Date of Birth: January, 11

Place of Birth: Bangkok/Thailand

British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday that the way Saddam Hussein was executed was completely wrong', in his first reaction to the hanging of the former Iraqi leader.
"The manner of the execution of Saddam Hussein was completely wrong, but that should not blind us to the crimes he committed against his people," he said at a joint press conference with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
Mr Blair had declined until now to answer questions about Saddam's hanging.
Widespread criticism was fuelled by a grainy mobile phone video of the execution, which showed Saddam being taunted by officials seconds before the noose was put around his head.
"The manner of the execution is unacceptable and it's wrong. But we should ... not ... lurch into a position of forgetting the victims of Saddam," said Mr Blair.

It has been discovered that Titan, the largest moon orbiting the planet Saturn, has sand dunes.  Radar images display 100-kilometre-long dark strips similar to those found in Africa and Saudi Arabia.  The Titan also has winds, not formed by the Sun, but by the strong gravitational pull of Saturn. These winds blow the sand into piles and causes erosion to break rocks into sand. Studies have shown that the size of the average sand grain is roughly three times bigger than that found on Earth and scientists are still not clear as to what constitutes the sand on Titan. They do know that it is not made of silica since there are no rock particles exposed on the moon. Similar to how rock is eroded by water on Earth there have been glimpses of channels carved into the ice surface, presumably by liquid methane.

Source: Spider  

Scientists have discovered that there is a certain kind of human body odour that repels mosquitoes from attacking certain people. Chemicals in the person's body odour are currently being picked out by scientists with the hope of creating a repellent that could be used to prevent the spread of mosquitobite related diseases such as Malaria and Yellow Fever. The repellent would be so potent that it could be applied on a person's clothes instead of directly on the skin. Scientists are currently working on increasing the longevity of the effect of the repellent.

Source: Spider

Today is the Birthday of LaydeePulse. It will take few seconds time to wish fellow tblogger.

Many Happy Returns of the Day

Date of Birth: January, 8

Place of Birth: Danbury/Connecticut/USA

1. What's good for your bank is not good for you.
2. Your local branch will be the first one closed.
3. In matters of dispute, the bank's balance is always smaller than yours.
4. Nothing in the known universe travels faster then a bad check.
5. There are always three kinds of people: Those who can count and those who can't.
6. Where there's a will, there's a won't.
7. Where there's a will, there's a lawsuit.
8. Each unacceptable offer has an equal and opposite unreasonable demand.
9. Any concession won is offset by a concession granted.
10. A negotiation shall be considered successful if all parties walk away feeling screwed.

Sick and tired of your boss and want to resign? There's no better website than this one since it provides all sort of useful career related information. The name is a tad misleading since not only does it provide tips on resigning but it also has a lot of useful information pertaining to writing CVs, cover letters and also has a job search engine. All of which results in a website which also has useful career tips.

www.i-resign.com

Source : Spider

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large work room filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received."
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on
voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.
Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them."
I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.
Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Aknowledgment Section," my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed "How is it that? There's no work going on here?"I asked.
"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments.
"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked.
"Simple," the angel answered. "Just say, "Thank you, Lord."
"What blessings should they acknowledge? " I asked.
"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. "If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy. "And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity. "
Also .....
"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ....you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day. "If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation .. you are ahead of 700 million people in the world.
"If you go for prayers without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world. "If your parents are still alive and still married .. you are
very rare. If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in  doubt and despair."
Ok, what now? How can I start?
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.
Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to remind everyone else how
blessed we all are.

Attn: Acknowledgement Deptartment: Thank You Lord! "Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for giving me so many wonderful people to share it with".

Source: A Forwarded Mail

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I happened to attend a wedding of a special person the other day. He is special because he is deaf and dumb. It was an impressive function. Most of the guests were mute (special). As the bride was special too therefore most of their friends were mute. The way they were expressing each other's thought and feelings to each other was indeed worth witnessing. Few salients to mention here :-

1. I could hear the silence.

2. They did not need any music to dance and they danced to the tunes in their minds.

3. Synchro-dancing of two of groom's friends was worth watching.

4. Their eyes reflected more love than ours.

5. It was a lifetime experience. 

Tagged By RosieTulips

1. I started smoking when I was 13.

2. I was over drunk for the first and the last time at the age of 14.

3. I peed on a virgin airstrip (where no plane had landed till then).

4. I toppled my father's car overspeeding at 160 and it rolled over and over thrice (I was miraculously un-hurt).

5. I have moustaches.

Tagging To : AppleTree, SayCheese, Akelso, SudeshPoojari, Seochris