Thursday, June 9, 2011

Book list for 2011

  1. The lake of dreams - Kim Edward
  2. The memory keepers daughter - Kim Edward
  3. Sultry days - Shobha De
  4. The art of forgetting - Camille Noe Pagan
  5. The book of tomorrow - Cecelia Ahern
  6. Thank you for the memories - Cecelia Ahern
  7. Catch 22- Joseph Jeller
  8. Inheritance of loss - Kiran Desai
  9. Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakam 
  10. Sea of poppies- Amitav Ghosh
  11. Fools - Christopher Moore
  12. The Gift - Cecelia Ahern
  13. The Reader - Burnhard Schlink
  14. The last song- Nicholas Spark
  15. Dave Barry is from Mars and Venus - Dave Berry
  16. Animal farm - George Orwell


Thursday, September 3, 2009

Hyundai motor set up for newer models

For those of you who miss the 800 cc Mauruti, here is news. Hyundai is gearing up to launch an 800 cc model in a few years time. Also, in three years, Hyundai premium hatchback, Getz wil be phased out of markets making way for the all new Santro. Come September and the Indian roads will be filling up with the new model of santro. The car comes with luxurious interiors and improved exterior features to further enhance its appeal to the customers. Right from the time of its launch, Santro has been a phenomenol success in India. The original 'Tall Boy' has continously been imporved to meet the changing needs of the customers, keeping abreast with the latest technology and design. The new version of santro aims at delighting the customers with luxurious interiors, advance styling and enhanced comfort. It continues to be powered by the 1.1 eRLX Epsilon engine but has many added features. The exterior will be distinguished by a body colored Radiator Grill and Full Wheel cover. The rear gets more sporty with rear spoilers highlighing the new look. For the interiors, the car portrays sophisticated new fabric in dual tone beige & brown with premium silver touches at multiple locations. There will be a rear parcel tray for convenient storing of utility items. Adding to the excitement is the vibrant colors to choose from: crystal white, black diamond, sleek silver, electic red, dark grey, silky beige, berry red and spakle blue. Hit to the nearest Hyundai to take a look at the 'Tall Boy' with new features.

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Sambar meets salsa with Quick Gun Murugan

Meet the Austin power of India, Quick Gun Murgun. One bullet, one sound and three bodies on the ground, bet it on our Quick Gun. Imitated by Shah Rukh Khan in his movie, Om Shanti Om and then played by M S Dhoni during T20 promoting Pepsi, Quick Gun Murgan is back as a full length film. Playing the lead role is Rajendra Prasad, dressed in a green silk shirt, orange pant, and leopard-print waist coat, topped with a cowboy hat and boots and iced with twin gun. Yenna rasccala! Mind it! What’s special with this character? Well he can kill three with one bullet and no bullet can kill him ‘cause he can eat the bullet shot at him and digest it. Wow! The movie is all about vegetarianism versus non-vegetarianism. The villain obviously is a meat eater and our Quick Gun is the idli-sambar promoter. Delivering mind blowing dialogues with that typical South India intonation is sure to make us laugh our lungs out. The dialogues include lines like; “I will teach you to behave”; “If you are lightening, I am 25 volts current”. Quick Gun with villains like Rowdy MBA, Rice Plate Reddy and Gun Powder leaves Mogambo, Dr. Dang and even the Joker far behind. How far do you think will you go to promote your movie? Well Quick Gun is going West (Ahmadabad) to cook a record breaking 40 feet dosa in 40 minutes to promote his film.
With this full length movie, Rajendra Prasad is sure to leave the acts of Shah Rukh Khan and M S Dhoni as mere promos.

Rose-the Indian face of transgender

4,000 years of recorded Indian history of the transgender bestowing special powers to bring luck and fertility. The same transgender later faced harassment and discrimination from the society. But has the outlook changed after the Delhi High Court decriminalized homosexuality? Of course, it has. India can now boast of a transgender fashion model and a TV host. For the first time in television history, Indian viewers will get a chance to view a transgender anchor. Born as Venkatesan, 28 year old Rose, will be seen hosting Ippadikku Rose, making her the first transgender to be a TV show presenter. Rose will be seen on screen early in September launching a regional talk show launched by the Tamil channel, Star Vijay. ‘I am very excited. It is like a dream come true. It has been a dream project in my mind since so many months”, states Rose. By this show, Rose aims to make a strong presence and eliminate the discrimination that a transgender faces in the day to day life. At the age of 20, Rose took a firm decision when she realized that she is has the body of a male but the soul of a woman. Ever since she has been keen to do something for the upliftment of the people like her and with this TV show, that is what she aims. Already stacked with 26 shows in line, Star Vijay will broadcast the shows on weekends and will show Rose discussing sensitive issues cocktailed with light humor.

Matrimony site for the Transgender

Several matrimony sites have helped the common India into the sacramental matrimony. What is in now is the matrimony site for those who do not fall under the male or female orientation. After homosexuality being decriminalized in India, matrimony sites are opening up for the transgender as well. There are various dating site in different parts of the world which allows a transgender the option to date or choose another transgender. ‘Thirnangai’ which in Tamil translates to respectable woman however, allows a transgender woman to find a man who is okay with having a transgender wife. The matrimony site, www.thirunangai.net will be launched by the founder-director of Sahodari foundation, an organization that provides support to the transgender. Even after the decriminalization of homosexuality and diminishing sexual intolerance, the transgender community faces harassment and discrimination from the society. This website aims at empowering the transsexual women to choose a man according to her wish and choice. The site which is all set to launch today, do you think will stir a debate on issues related to matrimony and transgender adoption? We sure will have to wait a bit more to know more.

Talk non-stop for Re 1 with Tata’s new plan

If high mobile tariff plans have been keeping you away from your loved ones, then Tata is here to provide a solution. With its new “Pay-Per-Call” plan, Tata tele-service will allow users unlimited hours on local calls for just Rs. 1.
Following this plan, the company has moved away from the usual practice if charging on 60 second-pulse rate. There is going to be no pulse rate for Tata Teleservices’ CDMA subscribers. Subscribers can avail this plan by paying a daily fee of Re 1 or Rs 30 monthly. What more? These rates would apply to mobile to landline and to calls made to other networks as well.
The plan also offers subsidized rates for local and national SMS at 50 paise. “Endless talks does not mean the caller will misuse the facility as there will be monitoring of the calling pattern of the subscriber once any abuse of the scheme is noticed”, said Anil Sardana, Managing Director of Tata Teleservices.

Beer for Dogs!

Lazy afternoon, sitting on your couch, remote in hand and your lips sucking the rim of a beer bottle with of course, your dog by your side. Sounds like you? Does not sound like me for sure, but I indeed have friends who want to do just this. I have always tried experimenting alcohol with my dogs. I love to see their reaction. Whisky is a saint. He hates the smell of alcohol and cigrets. Brandy on the other hand, is at times curious to know what's in the person's glass. I at times dip a piece of chicken in wine and give it to my doggies. Whisky gives me a bad look and say, "I don't want anything to do with alcohol", but Brandy takes a good bite into it. Anyway that is about my dogs.
If you want to sit and enjoy beer with you dog, then there is "Bowser Beer" that is made specially for dogs. The drink consists of malt barley, beef/chicken broth, glucosamine, citric acid and sodium benzonate and the drink comes with a warning: May cause "doggy-beer-googles". Hmm dogs are sure to love it. The beer is the invention of a small family owned company called the 3 busy dogs.
Read more of it on my dog blog
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Vanishing Bikini


All you men out there, want to get back your own back after a break-up? Try the vanishing Get Naked costume. Sold on at www.racheshop.de is a saucy thong swim suit that promises to disappear in water in 3 minutes. The bikini available online in the color black is sure sending the men in Germany wild. Let's imagine this. Hey honey! I'm going in for a dip... Hey honey! I'm out and so is my bikini! Ahem! Just out of curiosity... how does this bikini help the dumped guys get back with their girl?
Source: TIO

A dog that roars

Meet 'Tiger' a canine who awoke curiosity by not barking, but roaring. Wow! Tiger belongs to a farmer in Karwar called Pundalik and is reported to look like a tiger with yellow and black stripes. What is more? It roars when provoked.
Lets do the guess game now. Was the mother a tiger or was it the father. If the mother was the dog, must I say that we have a real desperate tiger on the move. Watch out. And if the father was a dog...just imaging what guts the dog had to bang a tigress. Now that is what I call brave heart.

Baby at 41 from a 8 year old frozen embryo for Celion Dion


Apart from having a terrific figure and the stamina of a sprinter at 41, Celion Dion is now creating waves with the news of her pregnancy. Lucky enough to have a baby at 41 isn't it? But it isn’t luck alone here; I would call it "planning". The music star froze her embryo so that she could conceive anytime she wanted to. After eight years of being frozen, the music star feels it is the right time to make her embryo useful.
Dion's doctor, Dr. Zev Rosenwaks, told the PEOPLE magazine that he performed the in-vitro fertilization for Celine's pregnancy, and that when he informed her that the pregnancy had taken, he "could hear her chuckling" with joy. "She was very happy. So was René (her husband).
Her doctor reports that there have been embryos that have been frozen for even more than 15 years that have thawed and resulted in a pregnancy.