Blood Donation Camp @ Heriot-Watt
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Remembering Whitney Houston
Updates from CBSNews say,
LOS ANGELES – Whitney Houston, who ruled as pop music’s queen until her majestic voice was ravaged by drug use and her regal image was tarnished by erratic behavior and a tumultuous marriage to singer Bobby Brown, has died on the eve of the Grammy Awards she once reigned. She was 48.
Beverly Hills police Lt. Mark Rosen said Houston was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon in her room on the fourth floor of the Beverly Hilton. “There were no obvious signs of any criminal intent,” Rosen said.
A Los Angeles County coroner’s official said early Sunday that her body had been taken to a morgue.
Houston’s publicist, Kristen Foster, said the cause of death was unknown.
Rosen said police received a 911 call from hotel security about Houston. Paramedics who were already at the hotel because of a Grammy party were not able to resuscitate her, he said.
Hotel California – Coming to Dubai!!!
The Eagles
If you thought it was a rumor, well, you’re obviously wrong! The Eagles! YES! THE EAGLES are gonna wow Dubai‘s 25,000 fans at the ’7he Sevens Stadium’ on Dubai-Al Ain Road. Featuring as one of the biggest concerts the city has ever seen, they are set to hit stage live on 12th April 2012. Click here to get your tickets!
Welcome back to a Re-launch!
Hey there folks!
I’d like to welcome you back to a new image of “Le tReZ Blog”. Been a long time since anything’s posted, and (if you’ve read) the stats monkeys at WP.com only gave me a wake up call to get the rust out from here! Well, I’d like to keep this short & simple, so I’ve numbered my “announcements”. It’s not a lot! Don’t worry! Read the rest of this entry
Read All Your Favorite Blogs in One Place
If you feel like it’s a chore to keep up with all your favorite blogs, you can now read posts from all the blogs you follow (even the ones that aren’t on WordPress.com!) in one convenient place on the WordPress.com home page: Your reader displays all the posts across all the blogs you follow in the order they were published, with the most recent content appearing at the top. You’ll see an excerpt of the introduction to each post, the first image in the post, and thumbnails of any other images that the post …
2011 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 1,700 times in 2011. If it were a cable car, it would take about 28 trips to carry that many people.
A Law That Will Make The World a “Fun Place”
Everyone wants power! Everyone wants to rule over somebody (or something!) Its…human nature!
But not all of us have the ability to possess a Government badge which we can flash around or pin it to our chests and walk with our heads held high in…pride?!
So if we all were given a chance to create a law…a rule…anything to make this world a more “fun” place…what would it be? (Anything apart from buildings made of edible dark chocolate!)
Well, if I was given that opportunity, I’d have to say “Legalize Racing!!!”
Or basically, just create a new lane on the highway for us drivers who wish to push the gas at over 200 kmph and dodge traffic like we were being chased by the cops! (Or we will burn your radars!
Inspire me…tell me what you would like to be creates as YOUR law?…
Romantic food in Abu Dhabi
All hands up saying Pearls & Caviar and La Mamma are the best, I’d still beg to differ that Jones the Grocer Has more to offer!!
10 Reasons Why Mumbai’s The Best!
Marine Drive (Image Credits to Original Author)
Took a flight from Abu Dhabi one day, been staying here for three weeks so far, started pretty boring! Cause its the usual routine of waking up to the traffic alarm at 10 in the morning, and the lazy walk over to the balcony, where atleast a hot cup of coffee would greet me “Good Morning” everyday! Dragging a cold cup right till lunch, and a sweet treat of 2 mangoes to put me in some good mood! Or atleast gear me up for the entire day!
And for all the days I’ve been staying here, I’ve just been wandering about why Mumbai is such an awesome place to stay in!! Well…let’s have a look,shall we!
10. Cheapest Pizza to Order when you’re Bored
Domino's Pizza
It so happened that one day, I was all alone at home and watching TV wasn’t really the best thing I could do. I needed some…”spice”! Scumming through the paper, I came across an advertisement for Domino’s Pizzas just for Rs. 39!! Vegetarian of course! So I rang up the call center and asked them to send me a Chicken BBQ pizza with a Cheese-Jalapeno Dip and, as usual, extra chili flakes and oregano (which I find rather salty!). In the meantime, I was dancing like a lunatic to the below advertisement, made famous by Domino’s themselves!
A wait for say 20 minutes only, and the door bell goes “Ting tong”! Astounded that they ‘interrupted’ my party-time, I opened the door, and well to my dis-belief was the Pizza guy, with a big smile across his face! Although I couldn’t say he was grinning because he made it withing 30 minutes or the pizza box was just extremely hot! Cause he kept shuffling his hands under the box! And hey, the Mobile Coke offer does work indeed! (Coke always tastes better in Bombay for some reason, probably because of the quality of pesticides put into it!)
And thus commenced my home-alone party, to which I ended up paying only under 150 rupees (less than 15 AED), and a small pizza to myself, I enjoyed it to my heart’s content! But more importantly cause I was alone at home!
9. Party!! PARty!! PARTY!!
All of us who love partying in the house, put your hands up! \w/ More like a trend, its also a way of life in Mumbai! Which is why its one of those reasons why Mumbai’s The Best! There’s never a moment when you complain that your “bored” or “sick” of life, especially when you’re on holidays over there! (I pity the working crowd though!) Everyday has some event or the other popping into your schedule! Either a Church Event (Wedding/Holy Communion/Baptism), or a Society event like a neighbor’s birthday party, or head out to the club if you’re friends have called for a crazy night-out, or perhaps the boring neighbor just wanted to call you over for dinner (for courtesy sake!)…or perhaps he/she/they were just bored at home eating all alone! Hehe
But sadly, this is the big difference between India and the UAE! In simple terms…when you’re in India and you step out of the house, you see a big crowd of your friends with glasses in their hands and just dancing endlessly to your favorite music! However, when you’re in the UAE, and you step out of the house, you see either of these two things:
1) Either boring old men scratching their asses and gossiping like women over their phones, or worse, with each other.
or 2) A big entry ticket to a club that requires you to dig into your wallet for that last big note you didn’t ever want to break, so that they make sure you don’t have money left to pay for the booze, so you don’t get drunk (which is supposed to happen,right?) (Never mind enjoying yourself!)
So you pretty much get the scene, of why partying…or simply ‘socializing’ is best in Bombay, rather than “The Boredom Network”
8. Drive-by!
Who over here has taken their dad’s/cousin’s car/bike/scooter and driven it on the roads WITHOUT the fear of being caught? I mean, for those who don’t have their license yet! Especially hinting to the Goans out here! Well maybe not on the main highways, but inner-city roads, cruising down paradise lane on a bike? Trees of glory “blooming” on either side, and the scenery like a story painted by God himself! Ain’t that just the life! Renting bikes are pretty cheap too, could get an FZ for 400 bucks!
For some its a thrill, for others its “exhilarating”!! Of course, you can’t really cruise down a straight road at 140 kmph listening to reggae music on the Pioneer sound system, cause well, let’s face it, you don’t get “straight” roads in India…Mumbai at least! But to even go pick a friend or go to someone’s place for a beer, hopping on a bike, kicking it, and swerving through the choking traffic is,for some folks, an adrenaline-pumping experience.
Not really something you could even dream of doing in the UAE! Cause if your caught…well its…one way ticket “Bye Bye Birdy!”
7.Street-Drama vs. TV-Drama
Whenever something, like an accident or a fight, happens on the road we’re walking on, we usually see a big gathering huddled around the scene, or a bigger gathering of people laying down their seats with a bucket of pop-corn or smokes! (well, not literally!)
It so happened that one day in Bombay, I was out with my friends on the jagged rocks of a shore (something like Nariman Point), and the space before the entry gate towards this area, was a no parking zone. But where in India does anyone follow traffic rules? As usual, you’d find loads of cars and bikes parked right under the signboard, some of them sitting in/on their vehicle munching on roasted corn on the cob! While others have left their “run-on-wheels” in the “No-Parking” zone, and put their trust in the call of some old men playing cards, just in case the traffic police come to tow away their vehicles!
So there we were on the rocks minding our own business, when suddenly the old men give a big scream, that made me jump! The tow truck had arrived! Like a bomb being blow off, everyone rushed back to their vehicles, be it a bike or a car, and just sat on them, marking their territory! The beachfront was pretty much empty for those 5 minutes!
During this whole scene though, it so happened that a woman was rushing to her scooty, and one of the “towing-men” stood in her way, throwing her to the ground! Seeing the advantage they had, they quickly rushed towards the bike to pull it up to the truck. While the woman was helped up by an onlooker, she kept abusing these men and “struggled” to pull her bike away from them! And when I say abusing, I mean real “Ma ki c***t”, “Bhein ki *****” sort of abusing! Not that you don’t hear it anyways, but one thing I admire about Mumbaikars is the way they help women! Seeing her plight, a gang of around 10-15 men walked up to the “towing-guy” and kept questioning him and well, the abusing never stopped of course! Cornered like a tiny rat surrounded by a ‘pack’ of Persian Cats, he eventually gave up and let the bike go!
As much as it was entertaining to watch such a scene play out live in front of your eyes, it is one of those few things that you get to witness in a city like Mumbai! Not the traffic police in paticular, but the street-abuse and fights generally!
6. Enjoy Nature for Free!
If there’s one thing I like most about Mumbai apart from its bustling traffic and pollution, is the entry to beaches and gardens and parks without paying a dime! Just like Gandhiji said, salt is a basic human necessity and must be provided to everyone, and not ‘taxed’, so I say, everyone is a part of Nature, and her beauty lies for all to witness, and not ‘to be paid for’!
So we’re sitting at home one lazy evening, and we decide to pull out the bikes for a ride. Three bikes roaring towards Airoli, we’re screaming and laughing all along the journey. Getting off the highway, we come across this small picture perfect frame, I like to call…Passage to Peace
Got off the bikes, stood at the edge of the drive, and the first thing that struck my mind was…”Get Kathy Out!! Now!!”
Took her out…clicked this picture and we just stood there in admiration for a whole 20 minutes. Watching the lush greens of life. The vivid sky above us. The flowing water below us. The sounds of the crashing water on the rocks. And for a cherry on top of the cake, that beautiful wet mud scent of earth that refreshed us like a splash of water thrown on our faces.
Wishing we were here much earlier, we had to get back home, cause it was getting pretty dark, and even a beautiful place like this can look creepy when the sun’s out!
Places like this I’d never see in the UAE (except Al Ain perhaps), but even if these do exist, there’d always be a gate with a AED 5 entry fee per head printed on a big white board, in red bold letters, but something like the picture above…is free to dive into, in a city like Mumbai! Read the rest of this entry
Hold On Tight
Took me an hour to figure out the best contrast for this picture…but took me just a second to realize that this moment was picture perfect!
Hold On Tight
