The Grammy 2007

oh it breaks my heart that James Blunt did not get the "Song of the Year" for the soul - touching song "You are beutiful". i remember the first time that i heard it... i stopped dead in my track.... what a voice, what lyrics and what music. it was a complete package deal. i dont say that the dixie chicks were not good enough, but tell me honestly, can u really get that tune out of your head. when james blunt sings "You are beutiful..... its ture" , u really feel that way....

the winners taking it all were ---
ALBUM OF THE YEAR
* Taking The Long Way, Dixie Chicks
RECORD OF THE YEAR
* Not Ready To Make Nice, Dixie Chicks

SONG OF THE YEAR (nominated songwriters)
* Not Ready to Make Nice, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison & Dan Wilson

BEST NEW ARTIST
* Carrie Underwood

BEST MALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
* John Legend, Heaven

BEST FEMALE R&B VOCAL PERFORMANCE
* Mary J. Blige, Be Without You

BEST R&B ALBUM
* The Breakthrough, Mary J. Blige BEST POP PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR

GROUP WITH VOCAL
* The Black Eyed Peas, My Humps

BEST POP VOCAL ALBUM
* Continuum, John Mayer, BEST ROCK ALBUM


BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP WITH VOCAL
* Dani California, Red Hot Chili Peppers

BEST ROCK SOLO VOCAL PERFORMANCE* Bob Dylan, Someday Baby

BEST RAP SOLO PERFORMANCE
* What You Know, T.I.

BEST RAP/SUNG COLLABORATION
* My Love, Justin Timberlake featuring T.I.

BEST RAP ALBUM
* Release Therapy, Ludacris

BEST COUNTRY SONG (nominated songwriters)
* Jesus, Take The Wheel, Brett James, Hillary Lindsey & Gordie Sampson, songwriters

BEST COUNTRY PERFORMANCE BY A DUO OR GROUP
* Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice

BEST COUNTRY COLLABORATION WITH VOCALS
* Bon Jovi & Jennifer Nettles, Who Says You Can't Go Home

BEST COUNTRY ALBUM
* Taking The Long Way, Dixie Chicks

BEST GOSPEL PERFORMANCE
* Yolanda Adams, Victory

"MY GRAMMY MOMENT" WINNER
* Robyn Troup


Anyways, some Grammy Facts on the go.... will mention as much as i can manage by the time the tea i have place on the stove gets done... :)

• The first Grammy awards ceremony was held in 1958
• Grammy is short for Gramophone, which was a trademarked name for a phonograph, or record player, dating from 1887.
• The first Album of the Year Grammy was awarded to "Peter Gunn" by Henry Mancini
• The only artist to refuse a Grammy was Sinead O'Connor, who won the Best Alternative Music Performance for "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got," in 1990.
• The only artist to have a Grammy revoked was Milli Vanilli for Best New Artist in 1989. They beat out Soul II Soul, Neneh Cherry, Indigo Girls and Tone Loc
• Michael Jackson was nominated for 12 Grammys in 1984, setting a record that stood until Babyface tied it in 1992
• Ella Fitzgerald won 13 Grammys
• The Beatles never won a Record of the Year Grammy
• Elvis Presley never won a Grammy in a nonreligious music category
• Paul Simon (1970), Carol King (1971), Christopher Cross (1980) and Eric Clapton (1992) are the only four artists to have won Grammys for Record, Album and Song of the Year in the same year
• The youngest person ever to win a major Grammy was Leann Rimes, who was 14 when she won Best New Artist in 1997
• In 1975, Natalie Cole became the first African-American to win the Best New Artist Grammy
• President Bill Clinton and Senator Hilary Clinton have won Grammys for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical album. His was in 2004 for "My Life;" hers was in 1996 for "It Takes a Village
• Grammy awards are determined by approximately 10,000 members of the Recording Academy
• Mary J. Blige thanked 55 people -- including God, Jesus, her three children, countless record-company executives and the tape-delivery guy -- and spoke for nearly two minutes in accepting the 2007 Grammy for R&B album of the year

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Anna Nicole Smith dies

Anna Nicole Smith died Thursday at a South Florida hospital after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room.

The reality TV star, Playboy Playmate and former Guess model was 39.
She checked into the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday with her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern. Smith's private nurse called hotel workers at 1:38 p.m. and security officials went to the room to find her dead.

Smith was known as much for her sometimes-turbulent life off-camera as she was for her tabloid celebrity. The former topless dancer in Houston made her first appearance in Playboy in 1992, was named Playmate of the Year in 1993, and appeared in Guess jeans ads and movies.
In 2002, Smith launched a reality television program, "The Anna Nicole Show," on the E! Entertainment network. At one point, it was the network's highest-rated program.
She shocked people by marrying 89-year-old Texas oil magnate Howard Marshall II, who had an estate valued at $1.6 billion. He died the next year, and Smith waged a 12-year feud with Marshall's son, E. Pierce Marshall, over the inheritance

its said that death of Smith's son, Daniel, last year left her deeply saddened, a sadness she hid from everyone. Her daughter, Dannielynn Hope, who Smith gave birth to a few days before Daniel, 20, died,is now without a mother.

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Matty died for no reason except for two American pilots cowboying in the sky

L/Cpl Matty Hull, 25, was killed and four other British soldiers were injured in the incident, near Basra in southern Iraq on March 28 2003

It appears that the American pilots had no real idea where they were, and even though their controllers told them there were 'friendlies' in the vicinity, they still mistook the orange recognition flashes on the vehicles as rocket launchers. They also seemed to think that Scimitar armoured vehicles looked like flat-bed trucks.What I also heard was the shock and grief from the pilots when they realised what they had done. Sobbing could clearly be heard.

I know that in the heat of battle, things can get very confused and accidents will always happen - it is, after all, part of being human, but that being said, it was daylight and visibility was reasonable, - and at the end of the day, taking time to check once more could have meant the Corporal Matty Hull might still be alive today.Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted, and in this case, can save lives

when exactly American president will understand that he has no rite to invade a country and cause so many deaths. his stubbornness has killed so many.

after the British soldier Hull Matty was killed in a so called friendly fire, the true facts were hidden for good 4 years and one of the two pilots involved in it even got promotions. it really makes me sick to know that they are refusing to let a tape be used in the inquest when its already all over the Internet.It is a simple matter and I simply fail to understand why it is proving so difficult to resolve.

At the heart of this matter is a grieving family who have already had to wait far too long for this inquest

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Karamchand is back

When ‘Karamchand’ first came onto television back in the ‘80’s it made waves. Being one of India’s very first detective series it gathered a massive fan following, and went on to receive cult status. Same old Karamchand, with an all new look is back on Sony.

Some of the things that contribute to the success of the serial are brilliant performances, plots that connect with the masses and the stunning characterization chalked out by the director that make detective Karamchand and his side kick Kitty both vivid and irreplaceable. Detective Karamchand is a delightful mix of humour and logic. Unlike most other detectives, he doesn’t rely on high tech gadgets or forsenics to solve his cases.

He instead looks into his cases from a different perspective and uses methods of deduction and logic. He is aided by Kitty, a glamorous but ditsy assistant. They solve the cases based on Karamchand’s quirky deductions, and sometimes a stroke of luck as well.

An interesting facet to Karamchand’s characterization is the fact that he keeps chewing carrots all the time, especially when he’s thinking… and somewhere subtly through the plots his genius is linked with the carrots, just the way Pop –eye’s strength comes from his spinach! The talented Bollywood actor Panakj Kapur plays Karamchand and the series is directed by the veteran filmmaker Pankuj Parashar who is director of the original series too.

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Hacking the Blogger Templates

Oh, it has been a hectic week with me busy revamping Vir's Blog . it was tiring but very fulfilling. the days flew by and now i have decided to create some new and better templates. i m thinking about starting a new blog which will provide free three column templates for download. with whole day at my own disposal... i m spending 9-10 hours in front of the computer... in a way it is preparing me for future when i again plunge into the working-world... till then.....i will keep the happy mood up...

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New Year Resolutions

I m back after a long long time. last month went in a jiffy with things happening all around me. i fell sick and then as usual got better before i actually was. had no other option. this years has brought good news. someone i really dislike is going out of my life for a month or so. i m so very looking forward to the relaxed time. only sad thing is that i will have to spend two days without vir too.... which i know i m gonna hate. he is the only person who cares for me and i m going to be all alone without him.

and i have decided that this year i m going to be what he wants me to be - HAPPY

for that i will have to take some hard decisions. but i HAVE to take them to stop myself from going insane... and i know, when i m in pain, when my heart is broken, vir also feels it. i dont want him to ever be sad. so my list of resolutions go like this

• Be positive, dont let anything defeat me
• have a baby. i m so madly waiting to have our baby in my hands
• mark my terriroty very very clearly and not let ANYONE intrude in that.
• make sure i keep myself up to date with the IT domain
• make sure that our baby grows up in an environment which enables him/her to have all the advantage in the cut throat world. environment which is not regressive and is academicaly stimulating.
• keep the resolution.

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