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Hardly a couple of months back I learned a new word Pinoy. Wiki define Pinoy as;
Pinoy is a demonym used by Filipinos for their compatriots in the Philippines and around the world. Filipinos usually refer to themselves informally as Pinoy or some times feminine: Pinay, which is formed by taking the last four letters of [...]

A picture speaks a thousand words, and how many words a cartoon speaks. I love this art; in fact this was my first love and i used to do this ˜cartooning stuff” after finishing my college. I will definitely put some of my work here but this time I was looking for bloggers who are [...]

For me country music is a music genre in which singer Bobby Cash sings. I don’t recognize any country music singer other then this incredible Indian Cow Boy, people love to call him by this name.
Born in Dehradun, India but there is no one I guess in Australia who don’t know about bobby and his [...]

When A Child Is Born
A ray of hope flickers in the sky
A tiny star lights up way up high
All across the land dawns a brand new morn
This comes to pass when a child is born
A silent wish sails the seven seas
The winds of change whisper in the trees
And the walls of doubt crumble tossed and [...]

Aamir Ali and Sanjeeda Sheikh beat Rakhi Sawant and Abhishek Awasthi in the third season of Nach Baliye held in Mumbai , well this is the news I want to hear as I was personally wishing for Aamir and Sanjeeda to win this contest , but why? I don’t know why, I like the innocence [...]

This news by ABC make some people dazed. It’s a story about David Smith who was 680 pounds stuff nearly four years back, this man who loose 400 pounds is now turned up to be HUNK or what we like to call DUDE in India with the help of his trainer Chris Powell and that [...]

when I come to know about his pavement art work I was so impressed that I can’t wait writing this post about him. He is really a genius artist. His 3D painting on street of various cities are marvelous, His art is extremely unique and very amazing. When you look at them from a certain [...]

Today is Govinda’s birthday. He has worked in 120 movies. In 2004, Govinda joined the Congress party, and was elected to the Lok Sabha, the lower House of Parliament from Mumbai with a thumping majority. Happy Birthday Govinda.
These days he is concentrating more on his bollywood career working hard to build his body trying to [...]

Google says my most of the readers are from my Home country I N D I A. So it’s a responsibility on me to give some indigenous touch to my blog. So I search for this Hindi writing Plugin for my Wordpress WYSIWYG editor. I found it Here.
It’s very easy to install.
Download plugin zip file, [...]

For those who are struggling with default ugly permalink of Wordpress 2.3.1 here is a quick solution. If you want your permalink to be appear like:
/index.php/archive/%postname%/
OR
/index.php/category/%postname%
OR
/index.php/%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/
Then simply create a php file, name it ini.php and copy the following syntax into it
cgi.fix_pathinfo = 1
cgi.force_redirect = 0
Put this file into your blog root directory. Go to [...]

The only movie which I had seen bunking my college classes was YASHWANT. I used to be a die hard fan of Nana Patekar. Used to be? am I not a nana Patekar fan now? Well frankly speaking not much. Actually after giving some breath taking fabulous performance in Ankush (1986), Parinda (1989), Thoda Sa [...]

Its time now for Gauri Khan to hit the news stand after Hubby Shah Rukh Khan. Vogue India January 2008 issue will feature Gauri Khan on its cover.
After a cameo in Om Shanti Om this is Gauri’s second eye contact with the public. I personally like Shah Rukh Kahn a lot; in fact he is [...]

Those who love music and those who can create music this is a wonderful tool to distribute their creativity places. Yes the best Podcasting plugin which I found on the net is at www.1pixelout.net
Get set download it and start Podcasting your favorite audio file, share them with your friends and share out it to the [...]

A few months back there was laughter all around the corner of Indian television. Giant success of The Great Indian Laughter Champions (TGILC) on star one encourages other television channel to come up with the same blend of laughter to survive. I personally feel that except Sony television’s Comedy circus none of this comedy shows [...]