The train journey

Train journey in itself is fascinating. One can see all sorts of peculiar things . I myself have traveled through train during my college time. My greatest achievement has been surviving through the general compartments several times. Its nothing to be amazed about. Its quite common in college life. The cheapest and most entertaining means of transport.
You can smell pakoras,samosas and all kinds of fried items, sometimes chutney dripping over u, cold drink wala chai wala all trying to make business in the same tiny little compartment. Its amazing if u notice how much food can be consumed in so little time just because its all happening in train. The mere fact of their being in train justifies their eating all sorts of nonsense which otherwise they neither would see nor think bout.
How people survive the horrendous time and moments and actually enjoy them by adding fun elements they discover in those moments. The scenery outside, the faces of new ppl, the fact that they are on wheels ..... U can see ppl bored, children screaming, couples admiring, guys oogling, girls makin faces at others, oldies relaxing or very troubled ppl singing sellin stuff to make some money to eat a single meal. A real life's all stages woven into those few moments.
I ve heard ppl meet n make friends forever, couple fight n never meet again, all at and in same place ... A train.

Ten Rupee coin released !!!

The most awaited ten rupee coin will be in your hands in a few days. No more taking care of old torn notes.. however it'll increase the weight of ur pockets for sure ;)

The look: The obverse side has the lion capitol with numeral 10 and year of manufacture. On reverse side, a double line cross with a dot in each pellet of cross and denomination written in Hindi and English around.

This design has been prepared by National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad with the theme of Unity in Diversity. The outer side metal is Nickel-Bronze and the inner side metal is Ferrous Steel. The weight of the coin would be 8 grams and the diameter would be 28 mm.

The coins are being minted at mainly Noida and Mumbai mint

Cheers to coin collectors !!

Lovers, by Rene Magritte

"My painting is visible images which conceal nothing... they evoke mystery and indeed when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question 'What does that mean'? It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable."
Rene Magritte

Its one of the most famous works by Rene Magritte !!

India to have its own liquid telescope

New Delhi: For a small town, Devasthal has astronomical ambitions.
Next year, the town in Uttarakhand will host a unique telescope, only among a handful of its kind in the world, that uses a big, spinning bowl of liquid—and not the usual glass mirrors—to focus light from celestial objects.
The telescope, with its 4m wide dish, will cost only one-hundredth of its equivalent-sized glass-mirrored counterpart, and is much easier to maintain, say scientists associated with the project, making it a potential candidate for futuristic space and lunar observatories.

Far-sighted: A file photo of a 6m diameter liquid mirror telescope at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. The liquid mirror telescope at Devasthal, Uttarakhand is modelled on this telescope. Paul Hickson (UBC) / Nasa

The International Liquid Mirror Telescope (ILMT), as it is called, is part of an agreement between the University of Belgium and the Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), an autonomous organization funded by the Centre’s department of science and technology.
“We will not be really involved in the construction and such,” said Ram Sagar, director of ARIES, “We will be handling the operations and maintenance part of it.”
Sagar said the telescope would not cost more than Rs1.5 crore. “The glass mirror equivalent would be anywhere near Rs150 crore,” he added.
Like in a camera, the primary dish in a telescope collects light from a source and focuses it to a point. From here, a complex arrangement of lenses magnifies the image for the human eye.
The bigger the primary mirror, greater the chances of catching light, and therefore, “seeing” a distant, elusive celestial body. However, such mirrors are extremely expensive to make. Polishing their surfaces and chiselling them to a parabola (the most effective geometric shape for focusing light) are what adds to the cost.
In ILMT, mercury is filled in a parabolic dish, which is rotated at a constant speed.
That a liquid spun in a container naturally acquires a parabolic shape has been known to physicists since centuries.
But Isaac Newton, who is credited with the design of the modern reflector telescope, and knew this property of liquids, didn’t have electric motors and charge-coupled devices (CCD), for making such a telescope.
An electric motor turns the dish in ILMT and a CCD—like in digital cameras—allows you to take pictures without a photographic film.
Sagar said that mercury is the most popularly used liquid for such mirrors. “It’s a highly reflective liquid, can peer as far into the sky as its mirror-equivalent and the images are as clear,” he added.
However, because the mercury can spill, the telescope can only look straight up and cannot be rotated like the mirror telescopes.
“So, you may have to have a series of these telescopes to increase the collection area. You can have 20-30 such telescopes instead of the rotating ones,” said Sagar.
Ravi Subramanhyan, director at the Raman Research Institute in Bangalore founded by late Nobel laureate C.V. Raman, said that such a telescope would be a boost to Indian astronomy. “This, and another 3.6m dish telescope being built in the same spot, would be among the largest optical telescopes in India. That would draw more collaborative efforts among scientists in India, as well as abroad,” he said.
India and Belgium are collaborating on a 3.6m dish telescope, which promises to be the biggest optical telescope in India. “Since we were anyway building this telescope, the Belgian scientists requested that we host the liquid mirror one, too,” said Sagar, “so that’s how this telescope is being built here.”
With several lunar missions proposed by the US, China and even India, and the discovery of a class of liquids, called ionic fluids, that have mercury’s reflective properties, but don’t freeze in the moon’s harsh winters, liquid mirror telescopes are slowly becoming more than an academic exercise.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), the US space agency, last year commissioned a research project to develop liquid mirror telescopes for lunar observatories.

Lunar observatories are useful, in that there’s a much greater chance of telescopes catching radiation from undetected, unknown bodies. That’s because the moon doesn’t have an atmosphere, which on earth prevents a wide range of radiation from reaching land-based telescopes

One of my recent Fav!!

"Teardrops On My Guitar"

Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see
That I want and I'm needing everything that we should be
I'll bet she's beautiful, that girl he talks about
And she's got everything that I have to live without

Drew talks to me, I laugh cause it's just so funny
That I can't even see anyone when he's with me
He says he's so in love, he's finally got it right,
I wonder if he knows he's all I think about at night

[Chorus:]

He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do

Drew walks by me, can he tell that I can't breathe?
And there he goes, so perfectly,
The kind of flawless I wish I could be
She'd better hold him tight, give him all her love
Look in those beautiful eyes and know she's lucky cause

[Chorus]
He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only thing that keeps me wishing on a wishing star
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do

So I drive home alone, as I turn out the light
I'll put his picture down and maybe
Get some sleep tonight

He's the reason for the teardrops on my guitar
The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart
He's the song in the car I keep singing, don't know why I do
He's the time taken up, but there's never enough
And he's all that I need to fall into..

Drew looks at me, I fake a smile so he won't see.

Impressive Resume

While surfing i came across this .. And it's one of the most impressive resume.. Read through..

EDUCATION /Qualification:

Stood first in BA (Hons), Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh,
1952; Stood first in MA (Economics), Panjab University, Chandigarh,
1954; Wright’s Prize for distinguished performance at St John’s College, Cambridge,
1955 and 1957; Wrenbury scholar, University of Cambridge,
1957; DPhil (Oxford), DLitt (Honoris Causa); PhD thesis on India’s export competitiveness

OCCUPATION /Teaching Experience:

Professor (Senior lecturer, Economics, 1957-59; Reader, Economics,
1959-63; Professor, Economics, Panjab University, Chandigarh ,
1963-65; Professor, International Trade, Delhi School of Economics,University of Delhi,
1969-71; Honorary professor, Jawaharlal Nehru University,New Delhi,
1976 and Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi,1996 and Civil Servant

Working Experience/ POSITIONS:

1971-72: Economic advisor, ministry of foreign trade

1972-76: Chief economic advisor, ministry of finance

1976-80: Director, Reserve Bank of India ; Director, Industrial Development Bank of India ; Alternate governor for India , Board of governors, Asian Development Bank; Alternate governor for India, Board of governors, IBRD

November 1976 - April 1980: Secretary, ministry of finance (Department of economic affairs); Member, finance, Atomic Energy Commission; Member, finance, Space Commission

April 1980 - September 15, 1982 : Member-secretary, Planning Commission

1980-83: Chairman , India Committee of the Indo-Japan joint study committee September 16, 1982 - January 14, 1985: Governor, Reserve Bank of India

1982-85: Alternate Governor for India , Board of governors, International Monetary Fund

1983-84: Member, economic advisory council to the Prime Minister

1985: President, Indian Economic Association

January 15, 1985 - July 31, 1987: Deputy Chairman, Planning Commission

August 1, 1987 - November 10, 1990: Secretary-general and commissioner, south commission, Geneva

December 10, 1990 - March 14, 1991: Advisor to the Prime Minister on economic affairs

March 15, 1991 - June 20, 1991: Chairman, UGC

June 21, 1991 - May 15, 1996: Union finance minister

October 1991: Elected to Rajya Sabha from Assam on Congress ticket

June 1995: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

1996 onwards: Member, Consultative Committee for the ministry of finance

August 1, 1996 - December 4, 1997: Chairman, Parliamentary standing committee on commerce

March 21, 1998 onwards: Leader of the Opposition, Rajya Sabha

June 5, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on finance

August 13, 1998 onwards: Member, committee on rules

Aug 1998-2001: Member, committee of privileges 2000 onwards: Member, executive committee, Indian parliamentary group

June 2001: Re-elected to Rajya Sabha

Aug 2001 onwards: Member, general purposes committee

BOOKS:

India’s Export Trends and Prospects for Self-Sustained Growth -Clarendon Press, Oxford University, 1964; also published a large number of articles in various economic journals.

OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Adam Smith Prize, University of Cambridge , 1956

Padma Vibhushan, 1987

Euro money Award, Finance Minister of the Year, 1993;

Asia money Award, Finance Minister of the Year for Asia, 1993 and 1994

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

1966: Economic Affairs Officer

1966-69: Chief, financing for trade section, UNCTAD

1972-74: Deputy for India in IMF Committee of Twenty on International Monetary Reform

1977-79: Indian delegation to Aid-India Consortium Meetings

1980-82: Indo-Soviet joint planning group meeting

1982: Indo-Soviet monitoring group meeting

1993: Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Cyprus 1993: Human Rights World Conference, Vienna

RECREATION:

Gymkhana Club, New Delhi ; Life Member, India International Centre, New Delhi

Name: Dr Manmohan Singh

DOB: September 26, 1932

Place of Birth: Gah (West Punjab )

Father: S. Gurmukh Singh

Mother: Mrs Amrit Kaur

Married on: September 14, 1958

Wife: Mrs Gursharan Kaur

Children: Three daughters

The Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh seems to be the most qualified PM all over the world. Can’t imagine a politician being so qualified!!!

Linux is Funny!!!

While surfing through net i found this funny article.. its a man page from linux..

NAME

date - get and print a date

SYNOPSIS

date [-s] [-local] [-k] [-blind] option=value...

DESCRIPTION

If no arguments are given, a date will be selected at random. Providing an argument will restrict the search pool of dates. Hopefully these arguments will not carry forward into the actual date. Only the superuser can select dates by name.

The -s option registers you in the date database and (if not -local) posts your vitals to alt.personals (and, optionally, alt.sex.wanted).

Using the -k option selects a date, but does not make any further arrangments.

Ranges are specified with parentheses and brackets: (18,25) is 18 to 25 exclusive while [18,25] is 18 to 25 inclusive. An array of selections is given with braces such as "{blonde, brunette, redhead}". Multiple responses are separated with commas, as in "sex=female,yes,please".

-blind To arrange a blind date.

view[=must]

View prospective date's picture. To locate a picture, date searches several picture databases, including FaceSaver alt.sec.pictures, alt.binaries.pictures, and several FTP gif archives. You must have access to the Internet for FTP to work.

If view=must is set, and date is unable to find a picture, a request will be automaticly posted to alt.binaries.pictures.d asking for one.

Options to xv(1) may follow "view" or be put in the environment parameter XV.

The following options restrict the search pool to those who have supplied the necessary information.

dim=range,range,range

height=range
Synonyms are also supported: midget, twerp, short, beanstalk, giant, basketball-player

weight=range
Synonyms: toothpic, feather, wide-load, blimp

age=range
Synonyms: juvenile, underage, thirty-nine, over-the-hill, {mom, dad}, {grandma, grandpa}

sex={male, female}[,{yes, no, maybe}][,opt options]
If sex=yes and you are registering, your vitals are posted to alt.wanted in addition to alt.personals.

race={white, black, native-american, ...}
Various slang terms are also supported.

marriage={flirting, noway, maybe, once, twice, several}
Seriousness and experience.

kids={never, rightaway, oops, have, want}[,{one, two, three, four, bunch}]
Domestic leanings.

cooking={never, loveit, when_hungry}

color Synonym for race.

religion={Atheist, Moslem, Lutheran, Catholic, ...}

temper={mellow, quiet, hot-head}

interests={lists of possible interests}

name=lastname,firstname
Specify name of your date. Perfect for hitting on. Names can only be specified by super-user.

FILES

$HOME/.daterc
Optional place to store options, for frequent daters.

$HOME/.datehist
History of dates, to avoid duplication.

$HOME/.persona
Options describing yourself, if you haven't registered in the database. Note that the first time you use date and supply this information, you are registered in the blind-date database.

SEE ALSO

man(1), woman(1)

RFC1036: Standard for exchange of USENET messages, M. Horton and R. Adams.

A Primer on how to work with the USENET community, Chuq Von Rospach and Gene "net.god" Spafford.

DIAGNOSTICS

Exit status is 0 on success, 1 on complete failure to get a date.

"You are not superuser: date not set" if you try to use the name parameter but are not the super-user.

"Vitals posted to alt.personals [,alt.wanted]" when you register globally.

AUTHOR

Won't admit to it!

Moments

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings , not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply to never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

फिर यूँही

कुछ नया....

उन पत्तों को मैंने उगते देखा है,
उस डाली से, उस पेड़ पे
एक कलि से उभरते देखा है
हरे से भूरा होते देखा है
उन्ही को मैंने उस पेड़ से बिछ्ढ्ते देखा है
डाली को छोड़ कर मिटटी में मिलते देखा है
उन्ही को मैंने गुज़रते देखा है !!


और एक
प्यार होता नहीं, बस हो जाता है
दर्द मिलता नहीं बस मिल जाता है,
क्यूँ अपने अश्कों से मैं ये सवाल करूँ,
कि ये गिला रहता नहीं बस रह जाता है!!

Don wanna Sleep!!!

I don’t want to go to sleep. I want to stay awake for the rest of my life — I feel like I miss too much in sleep — I could listen to so much great music the whole night through — or read all the books I could never have time to read otherwise — or write all the books I could never have time to write-- or sketch — or — just — think the whole night… I’d just have time — time I don’t feel like wasting anytime in the next ten minutes by sleeping….

This started last week with my exams when i had to be awake till 2:00 or so. and after that "House" made my life worse. I get late to class almost each day ... dats not a problem however ;) but i feel nyt time to be more refreshing than day tym. Don know wat to do.

Tinkle Digest

Cleaning my cupboard this afternoon i found a tinkle!!! funny u c. well just flippin through the pages read this story on "the generous pandit" who din't seem to be so generous to me.... the story said he earned his living from wat the villagers gave him as dakshina n all. and when it was a drought everyone was in dire conditions so in turn he too. Then he sets off to punish himself for no reason and finds this snake and Tiger and sacrifices himself to the lion to die. " so here he did this coz he wanted to die" but our dear forest Goddes found it a gud deed n gave him a lot of "Money"!!!

Moral: Be Selfish!! it rewards.

But again i've always loved tinkle. its like a supplement to your boredom , free? flip through it. Bored? look at suppandi n laugh at how idiot can one be.. Oh how can i forget dear Shambhu , the way he gets lucky at saving the villagers n his friends n comes out of trouble easily.
You just can't give up some stuff.

IV (The trip to Ooty)

Trip to ooty was a difficult one coz there were so many problems with planning n stuff but in the end it all ended in an awesome manner.....

THE BUS DRIVER

Before hiring the bus we were told the driver had 25 yrs exp.. and was totally familiar with ooty ;) but it wasn’t that easy. The bus seemed little old n THE DRIVER certainly came to a hill st. for the first time. But embarrassing endeavouring and irritating situations... also play an imp role

Well he definitely brought us safely.. i must say he gained lotta exp.. as he SURE got encouraged by “claps n whistles ” for every hair pin turn he passed ;)

The trip surely constituted of visits to many famous places.. but they are the boring and common stuff which everyone does. Like visiting lake.. market shopping.. lets talk about wat all WE did ;)

THE CAMP FIRE

Hmmm... the first sight of the so called “camp fire” was not even dreaded .. it certainly can’t be described, the location or music everything seemed awful.. but we certainly realized that the element “FUN” is not only composed of environment but of PEOPLE and we made most of it.
dancing all through the nyt in the chilling weather and puny bonfire warming us. We had GALLA fun. Oh.. i forgot to mention the “swings” .. there were 3 swings nearby which played a major part especially during photo session ;);). Not to say one of the guys known as “FRM” (fallin n rollin manish) fell from the swing with a THUD. ((let me tell u the name came coz he not only fell off from swing but also rolled down a little hill top))

THE WATER WAR

It was Pykara lake and amazingly green water. The scenic beauty was breathtaking. The class there got divided into motorboat and peddle boat groups. It started with 4 in a group going to battle. In total there were 5 boats.

We all started exploring the waters ant the shores around. I think we started then battle by crashing boats and they started taking revenge by splashing water but that was later wen 2 more boats(8 more ppl) joined the war.

It was the “awesomest awesome fun”.

By the end of it everyone was dripping wet and instantly cold.

However it ended with big fight with the boat owners and surely large chunk of scolding from teachers.. but it was fun ;););)

THE GOGGLE MANIA

Pic .. .... loading soon..

WHAT ELSE COULD GO WRONG

The trip could be a disaster if it wasn’t for some ppl who managed to negotiate and keep everything calm... cheers to them (think they all got the msg).

Well the scoldings constituted a lot which were directly given as a tonic to our CR. I surely would ve had a breakdown if i had to handle all the stuff he handled.

Think the number is uncountable.. but.. during going in bus, getting late while coming out from hotel, wr to go in eve, Camp fire, next day morn (little tonic), Water war, again at hotel for getting late...then the bus tyre got burnt while coming down.. the bus was hit on all sides by our so experienced driver ;) and not to mention we were almost suspended for reaching late to college...

But it was all surely worth it!!!!

Coins!! "Hobby of Queens"

Coins.. its like a source of fascination, wonderment.
I collect coins as pieces of art, well u might be aware that this art was earlier known as the "Hobby of Kings", i would add “Queens”;)

Coins were made as a media for trade n stuff.. but since everyone used them they were also used to give respect to people or lay importance to certain events, days .. etc.
It is these coins apart from the regular ones which are cool.. they are called commemorative coins. These are the ones we usually see... with diff pics behind.
Then there are rare coins with mint errors.. u can't lay hands on them coz govt. restrains them from coming to market.. but u can get them via ppl u know at mint.
These are of types like.. blank coins, coins with two heads, half prints.. n more.
Coins are a pleasure to look at... to know the history behind them is interesting.
In pic are the 10rs 50rs 100rs coins of pure silver.
To view some common Indian coins go to http://www.rbi.org.in/currency/museum/c-rep.html

More on and about coins.. coming up!!

Frndzzz...

Well formally speaking.. its really strange that I ve been posting in here for ages but I never mentioned my dearest most charming amusing n always chattering friends...

Its simply fun being together... its fun calling each other by stupid names.. especially when they get annoyed:) telling each other about the embarrassing moments .. arguing on stupid things, laughing together ..

Climbing the highest slopes, going trekking, discovering wonderful eating places, going on a shopping spree.. what not..

Its so much fun not being just me.. but US!!

Zindagi

I thought of typing some of my old poems .. so here's one!!!!

छोटी सी ज़िन्दगी पर ख्वाब बहुत हैं!
सोचा तो नहीं पर पूरे करने हैं!
छोटे-छोटे पल कितनी खुशियाँ दे जाते हैं,
यूँही ज़िन्दगी बीत जाए इन पलों को संजोते हुए!
खुशियों की बौछार कभी एक संग तो कभी बूँद बूँद कर आती है,
सभी को बटोर लो, कहीं किसी बड़ी उम्मीद के साथ ये छोटी छोटी बूँदें यूँ बह न जाएँ!

कभी यूँही जब आँखें भर आती हैं तो उन पलों का एहसास और गहरा हो जाता है
उनका महत्व उतना ही बढ़ जाता है!
दिल भर आता है लैब खामोश आँखें नम ,इतना कुछ कहकर भी कुछ नहीं कहते!
यही ज़िन्दगी है!

किसी को खोने का गम तो पाने की ख़ुशी,
हारने का दर्द तो जीतने का एहसास!
मिलने की इच्छा तो बिछुड़ने का दुःख,
ये छोटे छोटे पल ज़िन्दगी को कितना हसीं बना देते हैं!

कभी सोचा है की फूल क्यूँ खिलते हैं, क्यूँ मुरझाते हैं,
कुछ न कहते हुए भी क्या क्या कह जाते हैं!

चिडियां क्यूँ चेह्क्ति हैं , क्यूँ हवाएं चलती हैं,
क्यूँ आसमान नीला है, क्यूँ धरती गोल है??

सच ज़िन्दगी तुम्हारे लिए ही तो है
आज है कल नहीं..

बस जो पल है .. उसी में जी लो !!

I scream!! U scream!! V all scream 4 ICECREAM

Recently we discovered an awesome icecream parlor u could ever imagine in Vellore!! Lovely ambience...I think its one of the koolest place to hang out.. wid frienz n follies.. The place is called Gelato Pazzo
The sundaes really chills u out in the hotty weather!!
if u ever get to go there.. definitely try Rum's n Raisins,Coffee... How to name it(fruit sundae)!!!
The place is so exciting that we actually had 5 double scouped icecreams each.... and 4 sundaes.. 3 milkshakes!! between just the 5 of us!!
CAN U BEAT IT!!!

Around VITU!!!(places u never knew)

Its been 2 yrs since i joined VIT..n made lots of frns!!
Ppl who are at VIT or wanna go definitely need this info coz this is all about wat all is der to c n check out
In short i mean places to see!! n enjoy


Ok so the first n nearest place is .. vellore fort with boating,museum,temple(which in general ull find out)but well there's a place called "delgian"(don know how t spell) which is a cool place to discover n wander,its shaded n sort of secret place!! but our gang definitely doesnt leave anything unexplored!!!
its been fun coz we played loads of game der.. u c(dumb charades,passin n all)its much fun wen it starts to rain while u r der!!


Hmm.. second nearest place.. i would say is temple near ranipet.. which is nothin special except for the fact dat it is built on a rock.. n if u don go by d straight road u can do some rock climbing but careful!! the guards might chase u out.. swearin to send u to jail(he he)

The next is fun part its a water park which seems to be quite insignificant but if u r in a group then this insignificance turns into wonders!! The park is again near ranipet.. n is called "Green thunder" it has 2 pools with some slides n some non water rides too!! u ll definitely enjoy it in hot vellore!!


Ok now we go to not so near ones!! The beautiful "golden temple" as it is called.. it is quite a copy of the original temple n is real gold.. it even has water surrounding it n all the sculptures are beautifully carved.. u may ve to stand n go around for 2 hrs if u go durin rush hours.. it has quite a security n the best thing is ,.. it is all systematic.. ull definitely love it!!



Next we have a hill station which is a bit far.. around 100 kms!! from vellore n ders is no direct bus!! its called" the yelagiri hills" a beautiful place.. theres a lake wr u can have fun while boating..
in case u are adventurous u should definitely go trekking!! it ll even give u an experience of rock climbing!!this is a view from the top!!


Then next ders forest called "amirthi forest" which is worth exploring, there's waterfall.. n trees!!

Wish u would enjoy these places n more!!

Stretchy building

I would say a very neat n creative work..

Smoky

Well its sorta animation .. but looks cool.. n imaginative.. watsay??

Channing Tatum!!!! ooooh...

Well.. i saw 'step up' long back.. but couldn't forget the Charming, dashing Channing Tatum.. he is awesome.. u can keep reviewin the movie to see him dance..


Born in Cullman, a small city in Alabama, Tatum has one sister. He has French, Irish, and Native American ancestry.Tatum was athletic while growing up, playing American football, soccer, track, baseball, and performing martial arts, although he says that "girls were always [his] biggest distraction in school."(NO DOUBT ;))
Tatum has earned Martial Arts belts in both Kung Fu and Gor-Chor Kung Fu.(BEWARE,but cool...)
well i won't tell ya.. much but he has starred in movies like STEP UP,COACH CARTER, SHE'S THE MAN,STEP UP 2 THE STREETS,THE TRAP,STOP LOSS,WAR OF THE WORLD.
He has been dating Jenna Dewan since 2005 which is obviously sad!!

Well not to doubt In 2001, Tear Sheet magazine picked Tatum as one of the "50 Most Beautiful Faces."