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Friday 1 July 2011

Check this out ya crazy FB lovers!

"From Yoshita Singh Boston, Jul 1 (PTI) Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has a surprise up his sleeve for the over 500 million users of his social networking site with the billionaire CEO today saying his company is planning to "launch something awesome" next week. Zuckerberg, speaking at his company''s office in Seattle, did not divulge any further details apart from saying that the company planned to "launch something awesome" next week. However, it is being speculated that the new feature to be launched could be in the mobile or tablet space. A report in the Los Angeles Times said there are various mobile products in development at Facebook, including the release of a long-awaited Facebook app for Apple''s iPad and a specialised app for photo-sharing on the iPhone. "We are working on a number of exciting things that we have not yet announced, but stay tuned for next week," the report quoted Facebook director of engineering Andrew Bosworth as saying. The project has been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, which is Facebook''s only major engineering hub outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters. In the past, the Seattle office has played a key role in Facebook''s mobile efforts, the report said. Facebook''s Seattle office has made a mark on the company''s mobile efforts, playing a central role in the development of Facebook''s unified mobile site, unveiled in March, it added."- this is an excerpt from the internet. OOOOOOOOOh! I am waiting, lets see what Mark has to offer! :)

Saturday 18 June 2011

what they said......

1."How did I get to Hollywood? By train."- John Ford.
2. "An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius." - Billy Wilder.
3. "I'm going to be 60, and I'm almost used to myself."- Martin Scorsese.
4. "I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?' "- George Clooney. 
5. "A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."- Oscar Wilde.
6. "That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove."- Dan Brown.
7. "I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well."- Jennifer Aniston.
8. "Every blessing ignored becomes a curse." - Paulo Coelho.
9. "When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script.' If he says, 'But what's my motivation?, ' I say, 'Your salary'." - Alfred Hitchcock
10. "I pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face."- Johnny Depp


 

Monday 13 June 2011

Amitava Ghosh, Release of River Of Smoke

Amitava Ghosh will be visiting Kolkata on the 20th of June,2011, Monday and it seems that he is on a signing spree! Well all his fans can catch him at Oxford, Park Street from 5:00 PM - 5:40PM or at Crossword from 6:00 PM - 6:40PM or at Starmark from 7:00PM - 7:40PM. As for me, I hope to be there at Oxford, just by chance! ;)

Friday 10 June 2011

Metro

I traveled from Chandni Chowk to Kalighat at around 20:00 hours today. Office to Home Rush! I was sandwiched between a couple of men,as I could not make my way in to the Ladies Section. My nostrils are still burning with the smell of sweat, Deos and colognes! Kolkata Metro- The most "convenient" way to travel.......if only it were true!

Thursday 9 June 2011

Maqbool Fida Husain

First and foremost my sincere condolensces to the departed soul of one of the most vibrant painters of your times. however it is not possible for me to overlook the reactions that have come in as the news of his demise spread. Though India's Prime Minister has stated that Husain's death is a "national loss"( how is that even possible since the biased criticism of his "character", had forced him to go in a self-exile from 2006), many are of a different opinion. as soon as i got the news of his death i checked the interent for reactions. the comment board of most of the popular sites were already full. some expressed their condolences while others were a bit too harsh. some or rather the majority of the comments express happines if not relief over his demise. some say that they are anything but sorry that he passed away while one man even goes to the extent of saying that he is not a hindu but this is good news!!!!! what i want to draw attention to here is the nature of people. it's good that people can speak their heart out (Democracy...ha ha), but isnt it a bit too insensitive? i mean a bunch of hindu fanatics at one point of time pinpointed one of Husain's work, which led to the judgement of his character and eventually the man had to leave the nation which he loved till his last breath. the stupidity of people and that the opinion of a particular section can govern the thought process of the majority of the people are amazing! i am sure those who expressed pleasure when M.F.Husain passed away did not know him personally. neither did I! so i keep an unbiased point of view and express my sympathy at the decease of an artist and an enthusiast. what do you think? what is your opinion regarding this?

anyone?

please people come up with topics of discussion that will interest all! i am clueless as to how to start so I am leaving it up to you guys. go ahead and color my blog with your ideas!