Happy birthday to Kajol


Happy birthday to Kajol.

The viewers of bollywood films wish happy birthday to Kajol on 5th August, 2010. She had dominated bollywood films during the mid-90s.

Besides her combination with Shahrukh Khan had given many everlasting hits like Baazigar, Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge, Karan Arjun, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Kabhi Khushi Kabhi Gham, etc. Most of these films were musical blockbusters as well. The songs in these films like “yeh kaali kaali ankhen”, “jaati hun mai”, “kuch kuch hota hai” became landmark hits over the years.

Besides, the directors and producers of the late 90s experimented with different types of roles with Kajol. She played the role of a villain in the film Gupt opposite Bobby Deol. She went on killing Raj Babbar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and others to maintain his attachment with Bobby Deol. She also received the filmfare award for the best villain for her performance in the film Gupt.

Kajol did well in comedy films like Ishq opposite Ajay Devgan, whom she married later on. She played the role of the friend of Juhi Chawla and got involved into incidents with Ajay Devgan and Juhi Chawla. Kajol did well opposite Sanjay Dutt in the film Dushman. She played a double role in the film. Her performance relating to fear against Ashutosh Rana astonished the viewers. Her sister was killed by Ashutosh Rana, and Kajol took the help of Sanjay Dutt, an Army Officer to learn fighting skills and combat the villain played by Ashutosh Rana.
After the fading away of Madhuri Dixit and Juhi Chawla from the bollywood industry, Kajol got the maximum number of chances in big productions. After marriage with Ajay Devgan, she reduced the number of films. She made a comeback but could not maintain the success rate as she did in the past.

In 2010, Kajol gave another super hit film My Name is Khan with her successful co-actor Shahrukh Khan. Shahrukh Khan’s abnormality in the film was ably balanced by Kajol in the film. She was compassionate towards him and that helped him to recover. The music in the film was also well appreciated by the viewers.

The viewers are looking forward to better performances from Kajol in future as many people feel that she still has lot of acting left in her.

Exactly a year ago we were . . .

Yup, exactly a year ago we
The Andersons
(oh yes . . . the crazy Anderson's)

Were on a trip of a lifetime!!!
I can't believe it's already been a whole year,
it seems like just yesterday we were on this cruise!!!

I do have to say out of our 4 European vacations together,
this Greek Isles Cruise was my fave!!!

(yes yes I still owe you guys the rest of my May vaca to Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg . . .
 I'll get to it soon!!!)

Here's a photo extravaganza from our last trip,
a few of the thousands of pics taken! Lol what?! We like pictures!!! Ha ha ha . . .
Awww lovely Venice, Italy!!!
Dubrovnik, Croatia
Rhodes, Greece
My hottie in Olympia, Greece


Ephesus, Turkey

Athens, Greece
Mykonos, Greece (one of my faves!)
A beach just out of Mykonos (ok a Looooooong walk- long story that I will revisit in future!)
Corfu, Greece
Santorini, Greece (also one of my faves!!!!)
Capri, Italy
Sorrento, Italy
Pompeii, Italy
London!!!

Awww I love reminiscing! Thanks for joining me:-)

Soooo speaking of travels, etc.  Announcing a new Thursday series on my blog . . .

~Destination Thursdays~

Check back on Thursdays for destinations around the world . . .
of my travels and other people's travels! A new location each week:-)

To join in, or to have your travel destination be a part of this, email me memorybeandesigns@yahoo.com for more info!


With that said,
I hope you all have a lovely weekend planned!!!
Us:
*Family visiting from Luxembourg!!!*
*Brunch with family today*
 *Birthday tea party for niece*
*Family photos*
*Hosting a big bbq*
*Making invites for sister's baby shower coming up fast!*
*Softball*
*Happy Hour*
*Buying and painting crown moulding and trim for my office space*

Phew . . . it's bout to be busy!

What are your plans?!

Mwah!
P.S. my giveaway post will be here soon, just finalizing details, sorry my lovely peeps!!!

Happy birthday to Arbaaz Khan


Happy birthday to Arbaaz Khan.

The viewers of bollywood films wish happy birthday to Arbaaz Khan on 4th August, 2010. Actor Arbaaz Khan did well in the film Daraar. It was the film where he created attention for the first time. He acted in a negative role opposite Rishi Kapoor and Juhi Chawla and created an impact in the film.

His rough style of acting gave him an image of his own. His brother Sohail Khan till now had generally done positive characters, but as there had been huge similarity with Salman Khan, he still now had not created his own identity.

The film Daraar, directed by Abbas Mastan was released in 1996. The film was inspired by the Hollywood film Sleeping With The Enemy where actress Julia Roberts played a notable role. Arbaaz Khan received the filmfare award for the best villain for his performance in the film Daraar.

Arbaaz Khan married Juhi Chawla, but whenever he saw any person praising his wife, he got angry. He became over-possessive and did beat Juhi Chawla. He asked her whether she could swim. She said no. Then Juhi Chawla sailed in a boat and later on escaped to Shimla. Arbaaz Khan thought that she had drowned.

Rishi Kapoor met her and wanted to marry her. When Juhi Chawla gave a letter to him mentioning that she was married, Johnny Lever lost the letter and send a wrong letter. Rishi Kapoor declined to marry Juhi Chawla. But when the original letter was found, Rishi Kapoor agreed to marry Juhi Chawla.

Arbaaz Khan read in newspaper that Juhi Chawla was alive. He went to Shimla and wrongly send Rishi Kapoor to prison. He killed Juhi Chawla’s friend. Later on when she tried to kill Juhi Chawla, she was saved by Rishi Kapoor.

The songs sung in the film by Kumar Shanu, Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Abhijeet, Sadhna Sargam and others became successful. Music was composed by Sandip Chowta and Anu Malik. Songs were written by Hasrat Jaipuri, Majrooh Sultanpuri and others. The film did good business.

Many of the following roles played by Arbaaz Khan in the future in films like Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya or Hulchul were inspired by the performance in the film Daraar. In all the serious roles he kept his mark. Even in comedy roles in films like Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya, Malamaal Weekly he was very impressive. Presently he had produced the film Debaang, where his elder brother Salman Khan is playing the lead role. The viewers provide their best wishes for career of Arbaaz Khan both as an actor and a producer.

Pssst . . .

Hey ya'll! So today I'm just minding my own business . . . just got home from work, checkin a few things out online.

I go to my Google Analytics
(awesome!!! If you're not using it for your blog or Etsy shop yet doooo it!!!)
 to chk my Etsy shop's views.  Hmmm things look good, but I see this HUGE spike for this past Sunday!

Huh?!

So then I go to Craft Cult to check things out . . .
Looks like an item from my Etsy shop Memory Bean Designs made the front page of Etsy!!!
 Wooo hooo, had like 20x the views of a normal day, crazy!!!

Anywho just wanted to share my excitement b/c I can hardly contain it right now:-)

Thanks for reading!


Khatta Meetha will do good business.


Khatta Meetha will do good business.

Priyadarshan’s new film Khatta Meetha will do good business. Director Priyadarshan had cast Akshay Kumar and Trisha Krishnan in the lead roles. The main subject matter of the film includes road development. The road development project is subjected to the interference of road mafias.

The contractors who take up road projects are always subjected to criticism. Priyadarshan had given a message to what type of substandard material they provide while making the roads. The strategy is to make weak roads deliberately and thereafter expecting the roads to break. Once they are damaged the same development contract again reverts back to the same contractor.

While the subject matter is serious in nature, Priyadarshan had presented it in a very light-hearted manner. He had directed the film Vellanakalude Nadu in 1989 with the same subject matter. In that way, the film was a remake of the earlier one. Akshay Kumar had performed very well in the role of the assistant of Akshay Kumar. Especially in the scene where they tried to clean the house of Asrani before the eve of a family function, the entire act was very hilarious. Even Johnny Lever’ s attempt for repairing a road roller also was hilarious.

Pritam had composed the music of the film. He had previously provided catchy numbers in Priyadarshan’s films like Billu Barber. Urvashi Sharma, Rajpal Yadav, Johnny Lever and Asrani had played significant roles in the films aside Akshay Kumar and Trisha Krishnan.

Akshay Kumar is a brilliant start in the year with the success of the film Housefull. Although the film a number of stars together like Lara Dutta, Deepika Padukone, Ritesh Deshmukh, yet the credit for the success primarily to Akshay Kumar. He required hit films desperately, as his last year was very average with flop films like Chandni Chowk to China, Kambakht Ishq, 8*10 Tasveer, De Dana Dan, etc.
The film has all the elements of entertainment and it would end being another hit in July, 2000.

~Tunes for your Tuesday . . . Diana Vickers Style~

"The Boy Who Murdered Love"



I love this song, and her voice is super cute!!!
Another good song by her is "Once", chk it out here


P.S. speaking of murdering love . . . lol who's watching the Bachelorette?!
 Next Monday is the finale . . . are you


~OR~


???

Oooh . . . I dunno I dunno we shall see!!!

~OR~
Should it have been The Weather Man"?!
Hee hee


~OR~
"Rated R"


It's been an interesting season:-)

Hope you all have a fabulous Tuesday!!!

Giveaway sneak peak for tomorrow:


Don't miss it!!!



Salman Khan wants to make a comeback with Debaang.


Salman wants to make a comeback with Debaang.

Superstar Salman Khan wants to make a comeback with his upcoming film Debaang which is slated to be released in September, 2010. It has been almost one year after the release of Wanted that he had no hit films under his belt.

His huge expectation relating to Veer had been frustrated due to below average business of the costly film. Although Salman Khan is too big a star to get carried away by failure of any one film. But once the superstars go in their 40s, they always want a comfort zone to see at least one hit film under his belt every year. New actors come in competition and that sways the taste of the new audience and specially the young audience. For example Amir Khan provided more than 250 crores business with the film The Three Idiots. In that respect Salman Khan badly requires a hit film this year before new superstars like Ranbir Kapoor take away his command in position in box-office.

Debaang had been produced by his brother Arbaaz Khan. It had been directed by Abhinav Kashyap. Along with Salman Khan the film has a lot of importance for Sonakshi Sinha, the daughter of Shatrughun Sinha, who had made her debut in the film. It had been made on the backdrop of corruption in the police department in Uttar Pradesh.

Salman Khan had played the role of one of the police officers in the film. There are other co-actors and actresses in the film namely Arbaaz Khan, Sonu Sood, Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Om Puri and others.

The music had been composed by Sajid Wajid. Salman Khan has a lot of hope in the film. The viewers also expect that once the film is released in September, 2010, Salman Khan will make a huge comeback with the film.

Lindsay Lohan had her jail sentence due to failure

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Lohan failure to admit that I know this sound stupid, but honestly, I think if Lindsay went to jail, that the constant flood of fraud and save to crack daily updates about his life. I was wrong. Because even if you can not see the visual "pleasure", which is in a state of Lindsay on a daily basis, we still have some legal changes. And the news is not good for people to see, crazy, true love, crazy drug forcibly thrown in jail for long. Radar reports that Lindsay had two days beard, and had his prison sentence of two weeks. Lindsay should appear next week, be:

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Lindsay Lohan costs is as quick as possible to the plan. RadarOnline.com has learned that Lindsay only had two days shaved off his sentence. This means that 24 years, the actress left the Lynwood Correctional Facility in late July - far earlier than expected after his sentence was reduced to 90 days. RadarOnline.com learned exclusively that the judge was up to two days credit for time in custody Lindsay had been contractually agreed. Shawn Chapman Holley Lindsay lawyer presented evidence it was entitled to two days of credit.


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In addition, the team hopes that Lindsay will live because of overcrowding of Lynwood. Lindsay is the first August and 2 August will be released which means that 14 days would serve his sentence of 90 days. But now it is in July. Another source said Lindsay RadarOnline.com team is working to strengthen its official release date forward. It is hoped that the actress could also be published this weekend! "Team Lindsay is doing everything to secure his release from prison this weekend, a source said in the RadarOnline.com said Lohan. Will not you succeed? Guaranteed, but we think in all, the source said.

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[Radar ]   In addition, it was believed that because Lindsay was a special treat in every direction - even on days when no visit to bring the tourists. In prison, seemed relieved Finishing Special (Lindsay finally had a power outage from prison), but the radar reports was from the attorney Lindsay, Shawn Chapman Holley, was to "spend hours" with her in prison yesterday's talk of legal strategy, I think. MA come - Dina and Ali this weekend, so sad. Oh, shit - I just saw this: Some sources in Los Angeles complain that Lindsay could go today. I hope we were just talking about their asses. So Lindsay is under control 24 hours a day because he was self-mutilation. Since his incarceration.
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~Office Progress~

Hello all my lovelies!!!

Hope you had a fabulous weekend:-)

We've been going non-stop on the yard and house this weekend, phew soooo tired!


I wanted to share a few fun things:

***I ordered my first few decor items!!!***
Gotta love giveaways, seriously!!!
I won 2 csn.com giveaways, $40 and a $50 one within a week of each other
(see- you too can be a winner! I have a giveaway starting Wed)
What better room to use it for than to help decorate my new office space?!

Sooooo excited! So for this:
and this:

I paid ten dollars out of pocket, and free shipping!!!

Sooooo excited:-)

Also, today I painted my first 2 coats of base color,
then off to do my "faux painting" with my broom!
Woot woot.

Should look something like this:

but more yellow and more brush strokes,
kinda like this from Ralph Lauren paint:

~Still need~








and lots of other fun things:-)

~Just made~
a few hooks for my Etsy shop using my office as inspiration




Have you been doing any home decor project lately?!
I'd love to hear about colors and fun decor ideas:-)

 ***Or if you could re-do and furnish any room in your house, what would you do???***