Hrithik Roshan tweets his fitness tips

Gone are the days when you had to slog and sweat yourself in the gym to get a dream body like your favorite film stars. These days, if you want to 'ape' your stars and acquire a chiseled body like them, do nothing but simply arm yourself with an internet connection and a 'twitter' account!

Sounds crazy? Well, the fact is that the 'Brand Ambassador of Dream Physique' department aka Hrithik Roshan, has been tweeting these days sharing all about health and fitness tips. We are sure that after reading this, all of you are going to immediately jam up the twitter server by logging onto it. But for the impatient ones, here's what Hrithik has to say (an insight) which includes his favorite health supplements and a few exercises, that will keep your entire body in trim shape!

If you are a regular on his tweets, you will not be surprised if we call him Dr. Hrithik! But for the uninitiated lot, Hrithik has been giving health and fitness tips on Twitter. Sample this: * Tone ur thigh muscles.

• High reps low weight. Cardio, diet, n u should see results. If not- TRY HARDER!
• Whether 2 lose weight or gain muscle-get good sleep!
• Days when u just can't get yourself to workout, you are free not to. BUT GET URSELF TO THE GYM FIRST and decide THERE!!
• Run / walk (flat n incline) 1min each alternating, totally for max 15mins is good enough! My target-700cals per w/o (cardio+ weights)
• Don't forget legs- large muscle- promotes testosterone which helps increase overall muscle mass. RUN/walk when u can for cardio!
• My fav supplements-vit C, multivitamin, antioxidant, L-glutamine, omega 3 (never 6), creatine (only to bulk 4 short periods),
• Consistency is paramount! Keep changing your w/o everyday. Do something different, anything! Every time u get tired, do one more last set
• Don't forget to stretch/warm up! Don't lift too heavy. Min 8 reps per set. Keep w/o's short n intense 45min max...

Hrithik states that 'Body doesn't grow in the GYM, it grows while you rest! He also adds that one need not splurge on protein supplements, since they are great if they are used in the right amount. Well, this Greek God personified also makes it a point to advice the 'grass root level basic mantra' of all times: Water! He validates this advice stating that it is water which is probably the only alkaline food in our diet!

To get a first hand experience of the same, you can follow Hrithik on twitter @iHrithik. And yes...you can thank us anytime!
source:-Bollywood Hungama News Network

Jaimee Grubbs Feels Tiger Woods Owes Her An Apology

Feb 14, Jaimee Grubbs, the alleged mistress of disgraced golfer Tiger Woods, had demanded an apology from the philandering golfer for making her believe that she was the only one with whom he was having an extramarital affair. In a recent television interview, the Los Angeles cocktail waitress has expressed that she would like the World No.1 golfer to apologize to her for keeping her in dark about his relationships with other women.

The 23 year old waitress implied that she did not understand the reason for Tiger Woods’ insistence on continuing their relationship if he was already involved in sexual relationships with so many other women. At the same time, Jaimee Grubbs, who was allegedly involved in an illicit relationship with the champion golfer for a period of three years, also revealed that the entire Tiger Woods episode has left her extremely hurt as the ace golfer had made her believe that she was the only woman in his life apart from his Swedish model wife. Moreover, the cocktail waitress also talked about the golfer’s better half Elin Nordegren and added that she has no clue what to say to her former lover’s wife but accepted that the way things transpired between her and Tiger Woods was indeed selfish.

Although it seems that the entire sex scandal involving the champion golfer, has left his alleged mistress somewhat shaken, Tiger Woods seems to have been gradually emerging from the controversy, with his release from the Mississippi sex rehabilitation center. Tiger Woods and his wife are reportedly working on their relationship in a bid to save their marriage.

A Tale of St. Valentine’s Day

Every year, on February 14th, people everywhere send flowers, candies, and cards to their love-interests or “Valentines“. Ironically, it is not really known for sure where this ritual of love began. There are three saints, by the name of “Valentine” which are recognized by the Catholic Church, and all of them have been martyred.

One story tells us that Valentine, who was a priest in Rome during the Third Century, gave his life in the name of love and romance. Emperor Claudius II outlawed marriage for young males, because he felt that being single made a soldier better able to focus on victory than having a wife and family. Since only single men were expected to fight in wars, the Emperor felt that men were getting married to avoid going to war. Valentine felt the law was ludicrous and continued to perform marriages secretly, for the Christian men to whom marriage was such a sacred expression of their love. This story goes on to tell of how St. Valentine helped the Christians, who had been imprisoned by the Romans, escape from the horrible Roman jails where they were being tortured. Valentine was finally found out and was imprisoned himself. While in the jail, it is said that Valentine fell in love with the jailer’s daughter, who came to see him in his cell. He was reported to have sent her written tokens of his love, and ended them with the signature, “From Your Valentine” a saying which is still used today.The Christians were also said to have visited Valentine and left him little notes about how much better love is than war. According to legend, the Emperor actually liked Valentine, until Valentine tried to convert the Emperor to Christianity, at which point Valentine was ordered to be put to death.

It has also been said that Valentine’s Day goes back even farther and was traditionally a pagan tradition. Apparently, according to legend, the Roman’s celebrated this day in honor of the goddess of marriage, and queen of all the Roman gods and goddesses. One of the rituals included all of the women of a village putting their names into a box. The men of the village would draw a name out, and these two were paired off for a year. It is also said that the Romans celebrated February 15th as Lupercalia, which was in honor of the fertility god, Faunus. This celebration was performed by the men of the town sacrificing a goat, wearing goatskin, and running around slapping the females with small whips made of strips of goatskin dripped in blood. The women liked this and wanted to be hit with the whip, as it supposedly ensured fertility. Often, these couples ended in marriage. This tradition was said to have been changed by the Christian church because the “coupling before marriage” was morally degrading.

According to the pagan version of Valentine history, Emperor Gelasius changed the celebration to February 14th and named it as a Holy Day  in honor of Valentine, instead of a day to honor the pagan gods or goddesses. This allowed the Christians to discard the moral uncleanliness of Valentine’ Day, so that they would be allowed to celebrate it as well. During the Renaissance, when love and romance were abounding so freely, Valentine’s Day took on more of the Holiday of Love that it has become today.

Valentine’s Day is no longer recognized as a religious holiday. The Catholic church took it off their calendars in 1969. It is a far more commercialized holiday than and history denotes, sadly, just as Christmas is becoming. In spite of this, many societies still frown on Valentine’s Day because of it’s history in Christianity. In India, it is said that some people threatened anyone who celebrated any Christian Holidays, including Valentine’s Day, and young couples who were caught in public on Valentine’s Day were assaulted. In Saudi Arabia, it was forbidden for Muslims to do anything at all to celebrate Valentine’s Day. Whether it was truly a pagan holiday or a Christian one first, does not seem to matter much now. Throughout history, Christians are the ones who seem to have risked and given their lives to celebrate love. For pagan and other religions it seems that Valentine’s Day was always simply a celebration and good time. Both versions of the story link it back to the sanctity of marriage.

Whichever version of the story of St. Valentine that you are most fond of, today this is a day set aside to show feelings of love, and to be romantic with your “Valentine.” Whether you choose to celebrate with chocolates and hearts, or dinner and wine, remember the stories of where this day came from, of those who died for love, and those who celebrated fertility and marriage. In the middle of all of the red cellophane and little message hearts, is a history, that is far greater than the money to be made by department stores by those who wish to celebrate “St. Valentines Day.” Use this day to show your love, not just in what you buy, but in who you are.

That is a Tale of Valentine’s Day. How much of the tale is truth, no one will ever know for sure. In honor of Love, and Romance, and all that this day now entails, I will be writing an article everyday until February 14th. I thought it would be good to start out with a little history of where this holiday came from. Be sure to check back for ideas on how to celebrate this day, romantic places to go, dinners to cook, and gifts to give! Happy Valentine’s Day! Be sure to Retweet and Buzz Up! You’ll do this for me, won’t you? Thanks!

Beyonce’s Brazilian show ends in gunfire

Rio Di Janeiro, Feb 14 Beyonce’s show in Brazil was rocked by gunfire. Singer Beyonce fled from the stage, as the Brazilian police started gunfire on a group of teenagers, who were said to be the members of the local gang. The Brazilian police said that the local gang started shooting at people who were waiting for taxis, to go home, after the concert.

The singer’s show in Brazil was marred by violence, when a local gang outside the Parque de Exposicoes venue began shooting at fans leaving the arena, according to Britain’s Star Magazine. In response to the shooting by the local gang members, the police also opened fire, but fortunately no one was injured in the whole incident.

The 29-year-old Beyonce was not at all hurt in the incident, as she fled from the stage, when the shooting started. Later she was also mobbed when she went sight seeing at the famous Christ The Redeemer statue. Apart from Beyonce, Alicia Keys was also present in the city, to shoot a music video, in the slums of Brazil.

TCS to hire 30,000, 70 percent freshers

New Delhi: Tata Consultancy Services plans to hire 28,000 employees in India and 2,000 abroad in the financial year 2010-2011 and about 70 percent of recruitment will be freshers. The company is currently seeing an 8-10 percent growth in revenue from domestic operations and is eyeing a double-digit growth in the next two years.

TCS CEO and MD N Chandrasekaran said that the company will hike salaries of its employees in the coming fiscal, but did not give details, reports Financial Chronicle. TCS, has not hiked wages in the current fiscal, but employees have received 150 percent VA payouts in two consecutive quarters - second and third quarters of FY10.

"We are on a path to hire 1,000 people. We have already hired 300," he said, replying to a query on hiring plans for the current fiscal. In Q3 of FY10, TCS had made 7,692 net additions, compared with a net addition of 320 in the previous quarter.

Asked about the extent to which India would be affected by the U.S. move to slash tax-breaks to outsourcers, Chandrasekaran said the matter is not an immediate concern. Also Chandrasekaran said, "China is a tough market for IT firms and the company was seeing business opportunity in Europe." Chandrasekaran said the company had signed a few large deals as well as a number of smaller ones. "The financial services sector will drive growth. We expect good growth from retail, pharma and utilities," he said.

Auto driver turns web entrepreneur

Chennai: An auto rickshaw driver from Chennai, M Samson has studied only till Standard-VII, but understands the medium of internet and online banner advertisements better than many local businessmen available in the society.

Samson runs an advertising website named as NetwayAdvertise.com. Talking to Satrajit Sen of AlooTechie, Samson said, "I started this website mainly for local businessmen who can't advertise in print or TV due to their high ad rates." Samson charges Rs.500 a year for hosting a display ad. Currently, there are about 15 banner ads running on the site and with that rate, he earns around Rs.7,500 a year from his online advertising business. The expenditures for the portal include a fee of Rs.2,000 per year for site maintenance and upgrading the domain registration, and a payment of Rs 60 to the webmaster for creating and uploading each banner ad.

It was not an easy journey for a local auto rickshaw driver to learn about the internet medium and the ways of earning money through that, but the ability to learn new things and earn more money helped Samson to reach where he is today. According to Samson, he was first introduced to the world of internet in 1997 by a traveller from Japan who taught Samson how to access and use Hotmail so that he could communicate with his foreign clients, whenever they would want to visit the city. Gradually, Samson became familiar with emails, and also came to know that news and information can be gathered from internet. In 2006, a British Airways co-pilot, who was Samson's client then, saw him accessing hotmail and gave him the idea to advertise his services on internet. "Initially, I couldn't understand how one can advertise on internet. So, my client from British Airways explained to me the concept of a website and how it could be used to communicate across the world. I asked him to help me in setting up the site and he was the person who went back to London and designed the website TukTastic.com for me," Samson said. [TukTastic is a play with two words Tuk-Tuk, which means an auto rickshaw, and fantastic.

Once the site was launched, Samson started getting a lot of queries on email and SMS from travellers. "Though, I can't recount the numbers, most of the queries came from the foreigners. But gradually Indians were also catching up to the number of queries. Presently, I get between three to five queries every day," said Samson. Later on, Samson told some of his businessmen friends about TukTastic and explained the global nature of internet, some of them became interested and wanted to advertise their business as well on internet. But they didn't know where to go. "I saw this as an opportunity to earn money and thus launched the online advertising site NetwayAdvertise.com to help my friends," said he.

Now with Internet becoming one of the fastest growing medium to connect with people across the world, many people may try to follow the path of M Samson and try to do something different in life.

Women love mobiles more than men

Melbourne: Many girls are more interested in their mobile phones than their men as a survey revealed. In a survey of 4,000 women living in Australia, carried out by British pawnbroker Borro to know their most treasured possessions, four in every 10 women said they would be lost without their mobiles, but would happily go without a man in their life.

The study claims that besides mother and mobile, women treasured their friends more than their men, reports The Daily Telegraph. Majority of the women surveyed consider their mothers to be their most prized possession followed closely by their photographs and then their mobile phone.

The survey's results showed the changing focus of what is important in many women's lives, said Anne Hollands from Relationship Australia. "I think it fits within the fact that we are very focused on our own lives these days," Hollands added.

Other items which made it to the list of most treasured items in a woman's life were diamond rings, pets, laptops and hair straighteners. As part of the survey, when the women were asked whether they would dump their boyfriends for money, a large chunk said they would consider doing so if offered more than $1 million in cash.