Friday, January 21, 2011

Amrita Arora







Amrita Arora, also known as Ammu, was born on 31st January 1978 in Mumbai, India to Joyce Polycrap, a Malayali and Anil Arora, a Punjabi. Amrita Arora’s sister Malaika Arora is also part of the celebrity circuit and is married to Arbaaz Khan who is actor Salman Khan’s brother. Before she took her wedding vows with Shakeel Ladak in March 2009, Amrita was going out with Kevin Otter, Ashmit Patel, Upen Patel and Usman Afzal.Amrita Arora won the MTV VJ Hunt and hosted MTV Chillout and MTV Houseful. She also appeared in ads like Elle 18, Ponds and Sunsilk. Amrita Arora’s first movie was Kitne Door Kitne Paas opposite Fardeen Khan. Her second movie, a comedy based on The Whole Nine Yards called Awara Paagal Deewana, was more successful. She played Mona, a nagging wife. Her only release in 2003 was David Dhawan’s Ek Aur Ek Gyarah, apart from an appearance in a song in the movie Zameen. The year 2004 saw her in Shart: The Challenge, Girlfriend, a special appearance in Mujhse Shaadi Karoge and Rakht: What If You Can See the Future. Girlfriend caused a stir owing to an onscreen lesbian relationship between her character and the one played by Isha Koppikar. Her movies Raakh, Deha and Fight Club – Members Only were average. Her releases in 2007 came and went without any impact like Red: The Dark Side, Speed and Godfather. She also shook a leg in a song in Heyy Baby and then again in Om Shanti Om. Her biggest hit in 2008 was Golmaal Returns, in which she played Esha, Ajay Devgan’s sister and Arshad Warsi’s fiancĂ©e. She was also seen in Hello, which was an adaptation of Chetan Bhagat’s One Night at a Call Center, Heroes and Kambakth Ishq.

A Laptop Story
It is a little hard to determine what was the first portable or laptop computer, the first portable computers did not look like the book-sized and folding laptops that we are familiar with today, however, they were both portable and lapable, and lead to the development of notebook style laptops. I have outlined several potential firsts below and how each qualifies, many of the off-site links provide good photos of the computers that will let you see the progression in des
The First Laptop?
Designed in 1979 by a Briton, William Moggridge, for Grid Systems Corporation, the Grid Compass was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in performance and was used by NASA on the space shuttle program in the early 1980's. A 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.

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