Saturday, September 6, 2008
What?
Someone said I could knit using needles
Fatherly Advice - A funny story
Well we look to our parents for advice, but we all know sometimes an unwanted advice becomes too much. After her divorce, this friend of mine (lets call her Lisa) was on a never ending quest to find a "ready made father" for her 3 kids - so she was hopping from one guy to another like a wine tester, looking for that unique and rare blend that, she can keep and drink too.
So she met this doctor, and they were going pretty steady - so we all cheered and toasted to see a silver lining in her dark dating clouds. She decided to introduce the doctor to her parents and she took her prized trophy to her house for dinner - "Dad he is Doctor Joe and this is my father" smiled Lisa.
"Wow you are doctor! you look good, please tie her so that she can't jump from one horse to another" said her father.
What happened next, well she went back to her wine testing mode and we all are holding our glasses for our next Cheers.
Celebrity Spotlight - Tom Hanks
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks popularly known as Tom Hanks was born on July 9, 1956, to Amos Mefford Hanks a chef and a distant relation of President Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks. Hanks worked in television and family-friendly comedies before achieving success as a dramatic actor portraying several notable roles, including Andrew Beckett in Philadelphia, the title role in Forrest Gump, Commander James A. Lovell in Apollo 13, Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, Michael Sullivan in Road to Perdition, and Sheriff Woody in Disney/Pixar's Toy Story. Hanks is the third most successful actor in terms of box office totals which exceed USD $3.3 billion.
In school, Hanks was unpopular with students and teachers and described himself as horribly, painfully, terribly shy. Tom acted in school plays, including South Pacific, while attending Skyline High School in Oakland, California. Tom spent a lot of time going to plays. He would just drive to a theater, buy a ticket, read the program, and then get into the play completely. After three consecutive flops, Hanks succeeded with the fantasy Big (1988), both at the box office and within the industry, establishing Hanks as a major Hollywood talent.
Hanks won his first Academy award for best actor in 1993 for playing a gay lawyer with AIDS in Philadelphia (he lost thirty-five pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role). In 1994 he won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning back-to-back Best Actor Oscars. He played Captain John H. Miller in Saving Private Ryan, one of the finest war movies ever made under the direction of Steven Spielberg and got his third best actor nomination. A fan of NASA's manned space program, Hanks said that he originally wanted to be an astronaut but "didn't have the math".
The following is Hank's dating tree -
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Pitfalls Of Online Dating
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Lets admit it we are on fast track, everything we want has to be fast - so dating is no exception. Every now and then we come across something related to speed dating, gone are the days when we took time in the pleasure of approaching someone, introducing ourselves and asking them out for a date. Forget about the human touch, we are loosing our language - does this look familiar
Hi m Joe 32m frm US.. whats ur a/s/l?
If you would have shown this line to someone 10 years back - they would have asked, is it Morse's Code? Today a typical chat transcript looks like this. Eight years back when I came to US I realized the power of online chats - my work comprised of one window (work related) and 10 windows (chat related)... its amazing how I multi-tasked in those days, today I could hardly understand what my wife is saying while I am working.
Just when I was thinking I opened a Pandora's box of online dating I had my first encounter with the "cons of online dating". 24 female, hazel eyes, some extra baggage (she meant by weight) - wrote the profile. When I met her the first thought that came to my mind was, which word in English did I missed, for me 'extra' means 5 pounds, well for some it might be 150 pounds. Then I met this girl, beautiful, petite - just as she wrote in her profile. Then at the dinner table she went on a drinking binge that rose my tab to $160.00. Well not her fault, her profile wrote - Smoking & Drinking - Moderate.
It is found that 97.5 percent of the online daters were dishonest about at least one aspect of their profile, with women most likely to fib about age and weight while men often fudged their age and marital status. 60 percent of the men who stated they were single, separated or divorced still were married. This guy showed up to a date with a bandage wrapped around his ring finger. It turned out he was not hurt, he was married.
The next time you read a profile - 5 feet 8, blue eyes, slightly overweight, occasional smoker - remember, the meaning of the words 'slight' and 'occasional' might be slightly different than what you think.
Picture Story Of 3rd
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
What a shame...
Can't believe that's my dad hanging from the branch
Celebrity Spotlight - Beyonce Knowles
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles popularly known as Beyoncé, was born on September 4, 1981, to Mathew Knowles, a successful record manager, and Tina Beyoncé, a costume designer and hair stylist.
Knowles was schooled at St. Mary's Elementary School in Texas, where she enrolled in dance classes, including ballet and jazz. Her talent was discovered when her dance instructor began humming a song and she finished it, hitting the high-pitched notes. Although Knowles was a shy girl, her interest in music and performing began unexpectedly after joining in a school talent show. By age seven, Knowles had entered her first talent show, singing John Lennon's "Imagine". She won the contest and was honored with standing ovation.
In June 2003, after a series of commercial successes with the group, Beyoncé released her debut solo album, Dangerously In Love. The success of her solo albums has established her as one of the most marketable artists in the industry. However, she has also added acting and endorsement deals to her repertoire. In 2006, she starred alongside Steve Martin and Kevin Kline in the comedy The Pink Panther, and that same year, scored the main role in the film adaptation of the 1981 Broadway musical Dreamgirls, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
The following is Beyonce's dating tree -
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