To tell you the truth I adore Gmail more when it is compared to Hotmail or Yahoo, no offense to anyone but this is my choice and for the past few months I like Gmail even more with its new features. I find these features quite handy, hope you will also use them.
So let me tell you some of these features which I like most. First of all enable the features you like so they can be handy while mailing. Go to Settings > Labs and whalaah we have bundle of handy features out here.
Like you can undo a mail after sending it by mistake if you enable this feature, using a calculator can be handy. You can insert can image directly in the body of your mail by simply enabling this feature. Send mails by adding some cool new emotions by enabling this feature. Add YouTube videos directly into your mail. Well I use these features a lot; you can browse through the list and enable your features. Gmail is really improving day by day and I am loving it more day by day.
It is rightly said by someone that there are stars, there are super-stars, mega-stars and then came Michael Jackson who was above all these. Well to start with as i was browsing through the net I came across this poem written by a Pakistani die hard fan of MJ, I can’t give a better start than this
On 25th of June (this date will surely be marked in the history) King of Pop,a shinning super-star went off, another chapter is closed. Now in Pakistan even in a chai-wala hotel and there are 4 people, if you ask them about MJ, I am sure at least 3 of them will say “Haan meinne suna hai”, now this is called a super-star, even the chai-wala know about MJ. Now let me give you some review on MJ’s music sensation.
Released in 1979, it was the first album to generate four US top 10 hits, including the chart-topping singles “Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough” and “Rock with You”.Off the Wall reached number three on the Billboard 200 and has since been certified for 7 million shipments in the US and eventually sold over 20 million copies worldwide. In 1980, Jackson won three awards at the American Music Awards for his solo efforts: Favorite Soul/R&B Album, Favorite Male Soul/R&B Artist and Favorite Soul/R&B Single for “Don’t Stop ‘Till You Get Enough”.
Don’t Stop Till You Get Enough
Then in the end of November 1982 came an album which broke all the records when it is compared to any other solo albums ever produced, can you believe 109million copies sold worldwide. Seven singles from Thriller concurrently hit the Billboard Hot 100 top 10, including “Billie Jean”,“Beat It” and “Wanna Be Startin’ Something”. As a tribute to MJ’s Thriller, a documentary The Making of Michael Jackson’s Thriller was release and 350,000 copies were sold. In Billie Jeans he also gave his signature dance move Moon walk
Thriller
Billie jeans
Beat it
With the industry expecting another major hit, Jackson’s first album in five years, Bad (1987), was highly anticipated. Bad had lower sales than Thriller, but was still a substantial commercial success. In the US, it spawned seven hit singles, five of which (”I Just Can’t Stop Loving You”, “Bad”, “The Way You Make Me Feel”, “Man in the Mirror” and “Dirty Diana”) reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 charts, more than any other album.As of 2008, the album sold 30 million copies worldwide, including eight million shipments in the US.
Bad
Man in the Mirror
Jackson released his eighth album Dangerous in 1991. With the reports in 2008 Dangerous has shipped 7 million copies in the US and has sold 32 million copies worldwide. In the US, the album’s first single “Black or White” was the album’s biggest hit, reaching number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and remaining there for seven weeks, with similar chart performances worldwide. The album’s second single “Remember the Time” spent eight weeks in the top five in the US, peaking at number three on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart. In 1993, Jackson performed the song at the Soul Train Awards in a wheelchair, saying he had suffered an injury in rehearsals. In the UK and other parts of Europe, “Heal the World” was the biggest hit from the album; it sold 450,000 copies in the UK and spent five weeks at number two in 1992.
Dangerous
Black or White
Heal the world
Well words are few but hits are many in the end only want to say that Michael Jackson is no more but his songs; performances will always remain in our hearts. I am sure that there is no comparison with Michael Jackson when it comes to performance.
The King of Pop, Michael Jackson, a musician idolized by a generation of fans worldwide, is dead, at the age of 50.
He passed away at around 7 pm in the evening at the UCLA Medical Centre at Los Angles. The reason being that he was injected with a powerful pain-killer, called Demerol.
With his passing, a glorious chapter of pop music, and break-dancing that he so beautifully created and ‘franchised’ all over the world, came to an end. But he will be remembered for years to come for creating such mega-hits as “Thriller’ and ‘Bad’.
But it was the video of the song Thriller that truly cultivated his status as the ‘King of Pop’ and there was no looking back from then on.
Michael Jackson may be dead, but his music and image that of the thriller video will live on for generations to come.
Jubilation across Pakistan and on the field on Pakistani Cricket Team win of the T20 tournament.
Though, not a fan of cricket (yes, I do get my share of how-come’s and raised eyebrows but that’s a fact), but couldn’t stopped myself from being a tad bit happy for my fellow Pakistanis that at least for a time being they got a relieve, in fact, a time to laugh and be merry - as Osman Samiuddin so eloquently summarizes on Cricinfo – inspite of the constant bombing news emitting from our country’s north, not to mention the daily grind of our lives, which, on top of the regular KESC and KWSB woes.
All in all, it was a relief to know that our boys still posses the spirit of the game and passion to win, irrespective of the odds, and the number of overs that they had to play. Inshallah, we will be seeing them win the T10 in a few years’ time. Till then, God bless our Boys in Green.
Seen in picture, residents of apartment buildings in a low-scale locality sleeping on pavement outside their residences, when a massive power outage plunged most of the Pakistani city of Karachi - the biggest and main commercial hub - into darkness when a fault developed on the main lines supplying electricity to the city from upcountry.
The black-out began on Wednesday evening, and affected almost the entire city, Pakistan’s biggest with more than 16 million people, and even after 24 hours, many areas were without electricity, and those where it was resumed, were facing intermittent outages.
Neera Chopra, mother of Pooja Chopra, lived through abuse, poverty and some tough choices to make her once-unwanted girl child, Pooja Chopra, the Pantaloons Femina Miss Pooja Chopra.
‘I don’t know where to begin… they were terrible times. My husband was well-placed, but the marriage had begun to sink almost as soon as it began. Like most women do, I tried to work against all the odds.’
‘My in-laws insisted everything would be alright if I had a son. My first child was a daughter, and that didn’t do me any good… but I couldn’t walk out. I had lost my father, my brother was in a not-so-senior position in Bata. I didn’t want to be a burden on my family and continued to live in my marital home in Kolkata.’
‘I looked after my mother-inlaw, who was suffering from cancer, and while bathing her, I would tell myself she would bless me and put things right.’
‘I don’t know how I tolerated it all. The least a man can do, if he must philander, is to not flaunt his women in his wife’s face. Then began the manhandling. I still wanted my marriage to survive. I was a pure vegetarian and learnt to cook non-vegetarian delicacies thinking it would please him.’ ‘Then, I was pregnant again. When Pooja was eight months in my womb, my husband
brought a girl to the house and announced he would marry her. I thought of killing myself. I hung on the slight hope that if the baby was a boy, my marriage could be saved.’
‘When Pooja was born a girl, for three days, nobody came to the hospital. There was a squadron leader’s wife on the opposite bed, who was kind enough to give me baby clothes for Pooja to wear. When she was 20 days old, I had to make a choice. I left the house with my girls ‘ Pooja and Shubra, who was seven then. I haven’t seen my husband since. I promised myself, even if we had just one roti, we would share it, but together.’
An understatement: the Hindu Gymkhana is a special building. But what is it that makes it special? Answer: its timeless charm. No matter what stratum of society you come from or what school of thought you’re a proponent of, once you walk into the Hindu Gymkhana, you can’t help but imbibe the ambience that juxtaposes two worlds – the first quarter of the 20th century with its astounding architecture and modern-day Karachi – and makes you stay at the place for a while. The former dazzles you with cupolas and domed kiosks and the latter with the hustle and bustle that typifies Karachi life.
This amazing piece of construction has had its share of uncalled-for problems. In the mid 1980s the then regime wanted to demolish it to make room for a multi-storey structure to fit into it its (government) offices. But our profuse thanks should go to Heritage Foundation which came forward and stopped the disaster, nay catastrophe, from taking place.
At present, the Hindu Gymkhana is the workplace of the National Academy of Performing Arts (Napa).
You step into its rather airy compound and see young girls and boys (some not so young), with bags slung over their shoulders or hefty notepads tightly pressed against their chests, chattering about what they’ve recently learned or what they’re about to study, inexplicably reminding this writer of an oft-quoted line from T.S. Eliot’s Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock … “women come and go, talking of Michelangelo…” But let’s avoid desultory thoughts, and get back to the Hindu Gymkhana.
If you are a park lover with a slight fascination for historical monuments, and do not mind the salty balmy breeze hitting you on the face then Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim, facing the Arabian Sea is definitely for you.
One of the recent constructions and the largest one of that, Bagh-e-Ibne Qasim (Bin Qasim Park) is a truly a sight to behold. Spread over an area of 130 acres, it was created over a huge area facing the Arabian Sea so that anyone who wishes to enjoy a calm and quite evening with loved ones and at the same time, enjoy the sound and smell of sea can do by casually strolling on the extensive pathways in this park.
While visiting the beautiful and well-maintained park provides one with a sense of ease and tranquility; it is the historical monuments in foreground that gives it a greater degree of significance. After all, what would Clifton be like, without the Jehangir Kothari Parade?
As every town and or area is defined by a unique monument, which in time becomes its main identity or even in certain cases a central point of assembly – like a town square- so too, Jehangir Kothari Parade serves the same purpose.
It was, from its time of construction and to the present time, remains a unique symbol and identity of the Clifton Coastal Sea-front.
Maryam Kizilbash might not be the most versatile of vocalists, and that is ironically what works perfectly for her as a musician. She manages to attain what few acts in Pakistan are able to achieve: coherence. The album flows from the first song to last, and never sound jarring.
The world may be in a recession and we in Pakistan might be facing an existential threat vis-à-vis the Taliban, but it doesn’t seem like it’s going to affect our music much. Another new face on the scene, Maryam Kizilbash seems set to make quite a splendid splash amongst Pakistani music aficionados with Zara Palat Kay.
Already a published poet if nothing else, Maryam Kizilbash has managed to recruit both Gumby and Omran Shafique to help her with the album. It goes without saying then that these two heavyweights have their hands all over it.
Omran Shafique’s touch is distinctly prevalent throughout Zara Palat Kay, from the Mauj-esque jaunt of Sukoon to the breezy, worry-less brilliance of Tum Nahin Aaye, which seems perfect for the post-summer days of August. Throughout the album we’re treated to Gumby’s percussive brilliance as it shimmers and lights up songs with consummate ease. The production (handled by Faisal Rafi) too is aptly non-descript, leaving the focus itself solely on the songwriting abilities of this stellar cast of musicians.
NEW YORK: Scientists in New York unveiled on Tuesday the skeleton of what they said could be the common ancestor to humans, apes and other primates.
The tiny creature, officially known as Darwinius masillae, but dubbed Ida, lived 47 million years ago and is unusually well preserved, missing only five per cent of the skeleton.
The finding was displayed at a press conference at New York’s Natural History Museum and is due to be the subject of a documentary showing on the History Channel, BBC and other broadcasters.
Organisers said that scientists led by Norway’s fossil expert, Professor Jorn Hurum, worked for two years on Ida, first discovered in 1983 by private collectors who failed to understand her importance.
The monkey-like creature was preserved through the ages in Germany’s Messel Pit, a crater rich in Eocene Epoch fossils.
