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R.I.P. Michael

A tribute from my end.

May your soul rest in peace Michael.

Love U forever.

Michael & Me

It was 26th June 2009, morning 7.47 AM IST.

ohh my god......

is it true????

after this two drops of tear rolled down from my eyes.....

i don't know whether i was crying or not, but my heart was pounding heavily....

i was running out of breath though i was breathing.

MJ is no more. i still can't believe....

i ran upto my father and told him Michael is no more and the first thing he uttered was " a good man is gone again " i could easily feel the heaviness in his voice.

For past Seventeen years i have been listening to him (since class 2). It wont be wrong enough to say that Michael has been part of mine. The very first ever cassete bought by me was of His[The Best of MJ]. i remember, Me and my Sis used to dance playing that.

But now it seems very hard for me to accept the truth. "MJ" are you really gone???

The last 24 hour has given me a lot of pain.

Firstly,

25th june...my b'day.....i ended up in a car accident.

got number of severe bruises + bleeding + my spec broken

but in my case, i luckily escaped death...

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the Second is Michael who couldn't make it any longer!!!!

I love you MJ.I will always love you. You definitely not going to fade away.I am never going to forget my 25th "B'day". A bad-day for me....a worst-day for all like me.

©Surya.

Michael Jackson, `King of Pop,' dead at 50

LOS ANGELES: Pop icon Michael Jackson has died, a Los Angeles County Coroner's office spokesman confirmed on Thursday. Lieutenant Fred Corral said Jackson, 50, was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm (2126 GMT) local time after reportedly suffering a cardiac arrest. "I can tell you at this time that we were notified by West Los Angeles Police Department detectives that Mr Jackson was transported ... to the hospital, and upon admitting, he was unresponsive and was pronounced dead at approximately 2:26 this afternoon," Corral said.

Corral said an autopsy would "most likely" be carried out on Friday but would not speculate on the exact cause of death.

"Everything is still ongoing. We will be responding to the hospital to move Mr Jackson to our facility where he will be examined to determine the cause of death," Corral said.

"As far as I'm aware, we were notified by LAPD detectives that Mr Jackson was brought in by paramedics to the hospital in full cardiac arrest and then he was later pronounced dead."

"At that point, as I said, there's no further medical history until we get and review the medical records."

Jackson was preparing to make a keenly anticipated concert comeback in London, his first series of shows in more than a decade and the first since his 2005 acquittal on child molestation charges.

However those concerts -- billed as the "final curtain" -- had been thrown into doubt after Jackson pushed back the opening dates last month.

Organizers of the concerts at the time stressed the delay was not linked to Jackson's health.

In a press conference from the United States broadcast over the Internet, AEG Live president Randy Phillips was asked about Jackson's health and said: "I would trade my body for his tomorrow. He's in fantastic shape."

While Jackson reigned as the "King of Pop" in the 1980s, his once-stellar career had been overshadowed by his colorful public behavior, his startling physical transformation and multiple allegations of child abuse.

Jackson lived as a virtual recluse following his 2005 acquittal on charges including child molestation and plotting to kidnap his young accuser.

Despite his acquittal, the trial was a body blow from which the pop music superstar struggled to recover.

Four years later, Jackson is still worshipped by fans for revolutionizing music, dance and music videos at the peak of his success.

The attention however paid to him in recent years has been less flattering, focusing on apparent cosmetic surgery -- which he denies -- his baby dangling antics and a decade of swirling child abuse allegations.

Born on August 29, 1958, Jackson made his show business debut with four of his older brothers in the Jackson Five pop group, and went on to lead the stage clan with a piping soprano and dazzling dance moves.

By 1969, the group had signed a contract with Motown Records, becoming one of the last great acts to emerge from the legendary label.

The Jacksons produced seven platinum singles for Motown, selling over a million, and three multi-platinum albums, selling more than two million. They moved to CBS's Epic Records in 1976.

Despite the early success, Jackson was to recall those years as unhappy and lonely ones. Eventually the family act broke up, as Jackson went solo.

In 1979, Quincy Jones produced Jackson's first solo album for Epic, "Off the Wall," a huge disco-oriented success that sold 10 million copies.
They teamed up again in 1982 for what would be Jackson's breakthrough album as a composer and co-producer, "Thriller," which became the top-selling album of all time, with sales exceeding 41 million

ea*ag`ZS;mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'>Despite the early success, Jackson was to recall those years as unhappy and lonely ones. Eventually the family act broke up, as Jackson went solo.

In 1979, Quincy Jones produced Jackson's first solo album for Epic, "Off the Wall," a huge disco-oriented success that sold 10 million copies.

They teamed up again in 1982 for what would be Jackson's breakthrough album as a composer and co-producer, "Thriller," which became the top-selling album of all time, with sales exceeding 41 million.

©TOI.

And Finally.....It Rained.

It has been 2 days and 18 hours & the extreme heat wave is creating all the undesired effect in the city. As far as I know this is the very first time for me to withstand 46.6⁰C. Really painful. And this was accompanied by "bonanza power cuts". For the last 2 nights I am insomniac. It’s fu**ing insane. The weather is not changing and the power cuts are just adding more torture to it. Yeah man…..I have taken 10-12 baths since the last 48 hours. When the monsoon would come???

See what the last generation has done with us. I hate the previous generation people.

Bloody, they have left global warming for us. My brain might have expanded and so the hypothalamus is getting high emotional jerks.

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It’s 24^th June’09 6.05 PM IST, now I can see black clouds.

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Yipeeeeeeeee……….I got the first droplet of rain water on my face.

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And Finally.....It Rained :)

©Surya.

Katrina Kaif has never been to college

If one looks at the extended promos of Yash Raj banner’s Kabir Khan directed next, New York, one can make out Katrina Kaif, Neil Nitin Mukesh and John Abraham play college mates. At the press meet of New York at Yash Raj Studios recently, we asked Katrina about her New York experience and her playing a college girl.

Here is what Katrina told us, “When I landed on the sets of the film on the first day I felt that I was a misfit here. The success of Singh Is King was still hovering over my head. I had done hardcore commercial ventures and here I was on a film that was entirely different from what I had done before. Gradually working with Kabir, John, Neil and Irrfan became so comfortable that I did not want to leave the sets and go back home.

Here she says about her education:

“I have never been to college in my life since I started working at the age of 17 I had to pay my rent and take my financial responsibilities. Here I had all the fun that University kids have while studying. I was there on the sets with not much make up and simple clothes. The film really took me by surprise.”

'If you can find my sex clip, publish it' Says Tamanna's fellow Roadies contestant Palak

Why is Tamanna blaming you for the sex clip?
I don't know. You should ask her. Somebody is trying to gain a moral high ground by showing me down. I have no doubt that Tamanna can feature in a sex clip.

She is blaming me because she wants to defend herself. You will find me in Punjabi music videos and the role I played in Singh is Kingg, not in sex clips.

Tell us something about Tamanna. When we spoke to her, she alleged that a sex clip showing you is in every mobile in Chandigarh.
Oh really! Then you should go to Chandigarh and see for yourself. And if you do find it, publish the news. You can even put my picture and caption it scandalous.

I don't know why she kept targeting me on the show. She has given women a bad name. Even during the show, she allowed Nauman to enter her bedroom at midnight and kiss her. I was targeted because I am a straightforward person. Had I been diplomatic, I would have also been able to keep my image clean.

Do you feel Tamanna can feature in a sex clip?
If she can make such an allegation about me, she can do that too.

She has claimed on record that there is a sex clip that features you and Bobby.
Do you feel that if Bobby or me were s**ts, Anees Bazmi and Akshay Kumar would have worked with me or Sohail Khan would have signed me in Kisan?

At the end of the road

Ripped from the US-based reality show Survivor, MTV Roadies is about "travel, adventure, drama and a touch
of voyeurism" in the words of Raghu Ram, the creator of the series.

The show, which has completed six seasons, has changed the fortune of many of its contestants. Ranvijay Singh and Ayushman Khurana, winners of Roadies season 1 and 2, went on to become popular VJs on MTV.

Another winner, Ashutosh Kaushik, emerged the winner in the second season of Bigg Boss.

Even the finalists of the show have become popular. While Shambhavi Sharma was offered a role in The Little Godfather produced by Ekta Kapoor, contestant Anmol Singh bagged a role in Ekta Kapoor's Kuchh Is Tara.

Now, both of them host the talk show G talk on MTV.

Wikipedia as a Printed Book - Seriously!

The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Not sure if anyone is willing to go that far but a student in UK has actually converted 0.01% of the Wikipedia encyclopedia into a printed book. See some pictures below:

This Wikipedia book has some 5,000 pages and it’s a compilation of 400+ featured articles all picked from Wikipedia. And, as you can easily make out from the photographs, the book is huge - it’s about 1ft 7in. high or just as tall as a 30" widescreen monitor.

The more interesting part is that, Rob Matthews, who came up with this idea of printing Wikipedia, also has plans to sell this book according to Telegraph.

MTV Roadie Tamanna fumes over alleged MMS Clip

An explosive Tamanna tells MiD DAY there is no sex-clip on her and says the paper should have published the 'real' sextapes of her fellow Roadies Palak and Bobby instead

Tamanna, actually we need to clarify a few things. I have been trying to contact you since yesterday.I don't want to talk to people like you. How dare you publish that story! How can you do this to a person when you don't have any proof? You are ruining someone's image. (Shouts) Aaap logon ko ek per cent sharam nahin aayi yeh sab karte hue? Actually, we tried to speak to you, we were trying to contact you since yesterday.You don't know which family I belong to, you don't know the power I have. You did this just to earn some cheap publicity. Tamanna, let me make it very clear that it was not for publicity. The story clearly says that the girl on the sex- tape is someone resembling you.Apka matlab kya tha! The idea was such that someone might have committed suicide. We even tried to contact MTV!Nahin! How dare you people do this to me. If I will give out your number to the police you will come to know of the consequences. But I don't want to do such things. Faltu ki cheezen ho. Tamanna, please listen to me!I don't give a damn about you people. Kisi aur ladki ki photo laga ke aap ne meri reputation kharab ki. What the f*** is this. See Tamanna the clip is floating in your name. This is what people do. We were just trying to show that.But I don't think you have showed it anywhere. You used quotes from Palak, Nauman, but nowhere did you say prominently that it is misuse of technology. But we have taken quotes from top models, including Gauhar Khan, Anupama Verma clearly saying how celebrities are targeted.You know mera naam aaya hai us mein! I want to stay away from such things. Pesh karne ka ek tarika hota hai. Apka pesh karne ka tarika galat tha. Look Tamanna, the thing is that you're already a celebrity now. And we only tried to tell the people how the cyber criminals target celebrities.You have not mentioned the word technology even once. What you said is MMS, shocking news, etc etc. Even if you wanted to tell the people that this is how technology is misused, the message that has reached the people is that a sex MMS on Tamanna is out. We did not just say that celebrities are targeted in this manner, but talked to a number of them to drive home the point.See, I don't care about anybody else. I am concerned about myself. We are doing a follow-up of the story, that's why I am talking to you. You can say whatever you have to say.I haven't seen your paper and I will be able to speak only after I read the news item. It is available on the Internet. If you have anything to say to your fans you tell us. We are a medium through which you can reach them.I am not ready to speak as of now. Why me? That's what we said. People are targeted in this manner and it is just that it was you this time.Sir, if you surf the web you will find a sex clip of Bobby too. And why not Palak? She is such a famous s**t. Her sex-clip is famous in Chandigarh. I always wanted to speak to you before the story. I wanted the people to know what you have to say about it. I stand by what I did and I want you to tell your fans that you were wronged.Tamanna hangs up the phone.

Source-Mid-day.com

PS: I think it's a fake mms.

Shiney saga: Rape as national entertainment

Mumbai should slap an entertainment tax surcharge on the rest of India. Whether from box office or botox office, its celebrities have been working overtime to serve an important social agenda. They have diverted attention from such potentially disruptive issues as racist pigs, swine flu, and BJP rats deserting the sinking lotus. Thank heaven for big girls with big rocks, and big boys with big uhmm.

And, btw, don’t miss the irony of a Shiney getting tarnished at the same time as the demolition of the party which gave us ‘India Shining’. In both cases, it was an in-house operation.

Sheetal’s bling became just a blip on our attention as soon as her bail took the interest out of her story. After all, what use a high-life crime without the low-life grime? But not to worry. Mumbai entertainers are regular troupers. As soon as one rises out of the mess, another falls with twice the thud.

So, Sheetal’s saga may have become as flat as last night’s Bubbly, but a Bunty in Shiney armour has galloped into the breach. Like ‘Radio Mirchi sunney waley’, our mirch-masala merchants ensure that the greedy janata is kept ‘always khush’. And, you can count on them to have their make up on even when they lose face.

Perhaps the next blockbuster will be ‘Sheetal & Shiney’. It would have all the elements of a super-hit formula. Only one has sex and violence, but both are riddled with the tantalising ‘Did She or Didn’t He?’ Both stories are rife with family drama. And the courtroom variety won’t be lacking either because, while one party for sure got cheap thrills, both need expensive lawyers.

For all the love-to-hate stigma attached to Page Three, it certainly pollinates the imagination. In fact, its butterflies don’t leave much to that entity. They let it all hang out so that our tongues can salivatingly do likewise. Don’t scoff at them. Thank them instead for a twofold favour. They allow us to get away from the humdrum reality of beds unmade and bills unpaid, and to escape into a sanctimonious smugness.

In fact, the undeodorised janata is spoilt for choice every time there is a celebrity outbreak. Take the Shiney scandal. This pop-porn has come in a trio of flavours: caramel, butter, and hot ’n’ sour. There’s the three-handkerchief heartstring-puller of his stand-by-my-man wife, the makhkhan-won’t-melt-in-our-mouths injured innocence of the industry, and the searing atrocity itself. Befitting our multiplex culture you can even have a combo of all three.

Secondly, it has provided the public with n number of choices on what to get enraged about. You can pick from a) violence against any woman; b) exploiting a vulnerable woman; c) violating the sanctity of a marriage; d) turning the casting couch into one’s own living-room sofa. You can hook your outrage on gender or class or both.

And, finally, if you choose to be snooty rather than sensitive, you won’t ask “How could he do this to a maid” but “How could he do this with a maid?” Such snobbery would apply whether it was rape or consensual sex. Yes, there are as many different ways of letting down your class as there are of revealing that you have none at all.

©TOI.

Think A While

When the Sensex is booming, one may be tempted to invest recklessly. Stock markets are an easy way to make money. Everywhere else you add money; this where you multiply it. What the market speculator often forgets is that what goes up must come down. So when the Sensex tumbles, the reckless speculator is left crying as if on spilt milk.

Being reckless with money is bad but not that bad. If one has lost money today, one may recover it tomorrow. But one just can’t be reckless with one’s health. Once it is wrecked it is quite often irretrievably lost. Even if one recovers, in most cases one doesn’t get back to being as fit as one was earlier.

Hence the old adage: Prevention is better than cure. Let’s take a resolve to say no to tobacco. It is curious how we start toying with tobacco. Initially one takes a pinch of it from someone as a token of cordiality. Or, one smokes in one’s youthful days to make a statement of attitude. Soon, however, this conscious flirting turns into addictive love for this nicotine-containing substance (I also committed the same mistake in my graduating Days).

The Government, sliding with the anti-tobacco lobby, is doing its best to stop the hazard without being dictatorially repressive. From now on, every time you buy a tobacco product, pictorial warnings in the form of a scorpion or lungs will stare at you, covering at least 40% of the principal area of the product pack. Though the skull-and-crossbones image initially proposed would have been more scaring, even a scorpion will remind you of staying away from the poison.

If the anti-tobacco lobby is to be believed, a cigarette stick is an explosive cocktail of more than 4,000 chemicals. Apart form the addictive nicotine; it contains hazardous substances like rat poison (Arsenic), insecticide (DDT), preservation fluid (formaldehyde), fuels (butane and methanol), radio active material (Polonium 210) and toilet cleaning acids.

Tobacco then is too bad to be consumed. But the habit of consuming it is too widely prevalent to be given up. Should we still hope for a tobacco-less world? Perhaps yes. If Left can lose so badly in Bengal, anything can happen.

©Surya.