Taylor Swift Not Eponine in Les Miserables Film
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Gary Oldman Nabs First Oscar Nomination
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Facebook Co-Founder Eduardo Saverin Currently Based in Singapore
After watching bits (I couldn’t stand the infighting) of the HBO Asia premiere of the film dramatizing the saga of Facebook — The Social Network — I went online and tried to find out what happened to the major players aside from Mark Zuckerberg.
Winklevoss twins in the US The Winklevoss twins, the Harvard graduates who claimed that Mark Zuckerberg stole their original idea and made it into the successful online social networking site, Facebook, has settled out of court and dropped all pending lawsuits.
Globe Signal and SMS from Everest Base Camp
I unearthed a couple of texts that I’ve been meaning to post. My adventurous friend and her sister went to Nepal. One of their stops is the Everest base camp, with no intentions of climbing the famous mountain, but just to see it the safest, nearest way that they can. My friend brought her Globe phone and spent the higher rates to send me a couple of SMS :
30 October 2007
Am texting you at Everest base camp! Full bar pa signal! Beautiful but very cold and windy. Awesome views of Everest! Not much cloud cover.
Chuckles — Stopping Prank Calls the Religious Way
When my college friends and I met at Cibo Gateway Mall, one of the stories that came up was how the nuns in my friend’s congregation, Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, solved the problem of a prank caller who kept calling to make lewd suggestions, accompanied by the regular heavy breathing.
First, the Mother Superior chose an appropriate passage from the Bible.
At this point, one of my friends asked, “Is there a part that will be effective in doing that?”