Happy Birthday: Dimple Kapadia & Shilpa Shetty

Dimple Kapadia and Shilpa Shetty celebrate their birthday today i.e 8th June (2009). Dimple turns 52 today and Shilpa, 34.

Dimple Kapadia

Dimple Chunnibhai Kapadia is the eldest daughter of Sh.Chunnibhai Kapadia and Mrs.Betty.

She was first launched by Sh.Raj Kapoor, who introduced her in the 1973 movie Bobby. She was only sixteen when she married actor Rajesh Khanna and left the film industry to raise her children.

After the divorce, she returned to the film industry in 1985, in the film Saagar, where she once again appeared opposite Rishi Kapoor. Though she appeared in many movies throughout the 1980s and 1990s but she won the National Film Award for Best Actress portrayal of her role in Rudaali in 1993. She was paired for the third time with Rishi Kapoor in the movie Pyaar Mein Twist.

Shilpa Shetty

Shilpa Shetty made her debut in the movie Baazigar in 1993. She is the eldest daughter of Surendra and Sunanda Shetty and her native language is Tulu although it is said that she can speak several languages which include English, Kannada, Marathi, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, Telugu, Urdu and basic French. She is a trained Bharatnatyam dancer and is also a Black Belt in Karate. At 5 ft 10 inches (178 cm), Shilpa Shetty is among the tallest actresses in Bollywood.

She has received lot of acclaim for her performance in the movie “Phir Milenge” in which she made a sensitive portrayal of a successful and an ambitious person who contacts HIV and becomes a Social Outcast . Though she has many successful films to her credit my favourite is DUS in which she has done an action packed role.

It is rumored that Shilpa was paid Rs.3.15 Crores for her participation in the BIG BROTHER . in UK. Following a worldwide controversy that publicized her as a target of racist bullying within the house Shilpa won the contest after gaining 63% of the public vote. She was later also invited to meet with Queen Elizabeth II in London in March 2007.

Shilpa Shetty is a long-time PETA supporter and has assisted the campaign of PETA by posing for photographs in a tiger costume. She has also promoted a Yoga DVD that has found more takers in the west than at home.

Shilpa’s Peta Campaign>>

To know more about PETA visit their site >>

www.petaindia.com

So that’s wishing a very happy birthday to the two best Bollywood actresses….from all of you out there.. :-))

Technorati

Did you know that Technorati is the search engine which is specialized in blog search.

 

You can visit the site at >>

www.tecnorati.com

 

Technorati is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo!. As of June 2008, Technorati indexed 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals.

Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA. Tantek Çelik was the site's Chief Technologist.

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Quite an interesting site…a must visit for all Bloggers !!

The Luxilon Shot

This revolution is taking place in the world of racket strings. Earlier the professional tennis players used “ gut “ which were highly resilient strings . And then came the string called Luxilon. Unlike the lively strings of days past, Luxilon a company that makes fibers and strings for industrial applications has manufactured Luxilon String which is actually a dead string. Because the string is so dead, the player can swing loose and hard.

Years ago skill was needed to hit such a shot, Luxilon has allowed players even with not so good technique at all levels to hit the ball with an extraordinary spin/mph ratio.

Luxilon string manufactured by LUXILON is nothing but a high-tech and high-quality monofilament from which the tennis, squash, badminton racquet strings are made.

The company Luxilon also manufactures monofilaments which are being used in the medical field.

According to the experts, “The rotation you get with “Luxilon” is drastically different than with “gut” strings. The ball jumps and moves unbelievably. A ball that looks like it’s going way out and then drops like a stone-that’s what everyone calls ‘a Luxilon shot.’”

BODY MASAZ

Picture Courtesy: Vishal Bhatia

Ofcourse we all would say “”English is a funny language””. The Indian version of the Englis without “”H”” is getting funnier day by day.

For those of you who could not understand what the sig boars states, here is the translation:-

Lovely

Hair Cutting Saloon

Body massage

Manicure

Pedicure

The last two words really made me laugh as it took me a good five minutes to understand..

Enjoy..

BLOGGER TIP : How to Delete or Replace Picture.

Blogger does not have a delete command in the Post Editor. This is very confusing for amature bloggers. To delete or replace the picture with a new one, follow these steps:-

To delete a picture : -

1. Login at Blogger.com.
2. Click Edit Posts link for your blog on Dashboard.
3. List of Posts will open with Edit link for each post.
4. Click Edit link for the post which has the picture.
5. Post will open in Post Editor.
6. Click Compose tab in upper right corner of Post Editor.
7. If there is no Compose tab go to Settings----->Basic----->Show Compose Mode---->Select Yes----->Save.
8. In Compose tab of post editor click once on picture to select it.
9. Hit Delete key on Keyboard.
10. Click Publish button below Post Editor.

To upload another picture :

1. Click Add Image icon on Toolbar of Post Editor.
2. In Upload popup window click Browse to select image file from PC.
3. Choose size and position options.
4. Click Upload.The picture will land up at top of the post. Cut and paste the code for the picture to put it where you want in the post.


This was really useful to learn while I was making this blog. Hope it helps all of you.