the top 10 Olympic stories

Following a month of public voting and panelist assessments, the 2007 Top Ten News Stories of the Beijing Olympic Games were unveiled Monday night. The most popular report involves volunteer recruitment for the Games.

The results are as follows:

1) "Smile Wristbands for Olympic Volunteers are unveiled, 700,000 people register as volunteers"

2) "Jade-inlaid medals for the Beijing Olympics embody Chinese characteristics"

3) "Planned torch relay routes for the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics are released"

4) "Pictograms for the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games are unveiled"

5) "With 21,888 torchbearers, the Beijing Olympic Games will have the largest number of torchbearers in the history of the Olympic Games"

6) "2007 'Good Luck Beijing' sport events examine Olympic preparation work comprehensively"

7) "Creative phase of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies ends"

8) "Beijing sends invitations to the world at the one-year countdown celebrations to the Beijing Olympic Games"

9) "17th CPC National Congress calls for successful Beijing Olympics and Paralympics in 2008"

10) "The slogan 'I participate, I contribute and I enjoy' becomes a feature of the campaign under the theme of 'Welcome the Olympics, Improve Manners and Foster New Attitudes'"

will follow this with top 10 wishes and top 10 key terms used and popular ....

Quiz # 1

1. On whose work was the Tamil classic Thillana Mohanambal based?
2. Who directed the last of the released Harry Potter movies?
3. Who sang A.R. Rahman’s path-breaking number ‘Chinna Chinna Aasai..” from Roja?
4. If it was Rati Agnihotri in Ek Dujje Ke Liye, who was it in the original Telugu (Maro Charitra)? 5. In the popular Hindi hit Amar Akbar Anthony, who played Amar and Akbar?
6. Which Tamil actor is credited under the name Murali in Telugu flicks?

Answer in my comments box / guest book .....
Correct Answers to be posted tomorrow .....

It's really small - ~the world around~

One half of me was really surprised and the other (cynical one, i guess) was not equally surprised to see the same / similar posts in this link (of a Confused Calcuttan) and leading me to another link of Adino on my earlier post on East Vs West .......... (also check out the 3 depictions missed by me in Adino's post with topics : "Stomach Ache, Defnition of Beauty & Perception of Each other's culture")

This only makes you realise how small the world around you is !!!

Please visit the ORIGINAL of the East Vs West design too ....


errata : my earlier post said this design was conceived by Liu Young, But its actually Ms Liu Yang

East vis-a-vis West

A very interesting email hit my mailbox, this was a caricature based comparion of the various attributes of the Easterners (China, Malays, Indonesians, Thai, India .... mostly Asians) and of the Westerners ( i guess mostly eurpoeans).

Though some of them you don't tend to agree fully, but this brings smile and a nod to most of our lips. This was concieved by Liu Young, born in China & Educated in Germany.

The BLUE coloured ones depict Westerners

The RED coloured ones depict Easterners.

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on Contacts :-

on Anger :-

on Queue when waiting :-

on Me :-

on Sundays on the road :-

on Party :-

on Inside a restaurant :-

on Travel :-

on Handling of problems :-

on Three meals a day :-

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on Elderly in day to day life :-

on Shower timings :-

on Moods and Weather :-

on The BOSS :-

on What's trendy :-

on The Child :-

on Things that are new :-

Do you agree ? .............