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A lil' side note
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It's been almost 7 months since my last post, but it's just because I've been busy with a few things in my life.
I want to take this opportunity to tell you that I would like to thank you all for following, visiting, and supporting my blog.
I expect 2012 to be a year filled with many welcoming opportunities and many posts.
So I welcome you back to HRM Shaker and I just wanted to say I love you!
Enjoy my love tribute to you!
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We all knew that this was going to happen soon.
With its market share waining and constantly threatened by the other fruity named phone (Apple) and the friendly green robot (Android), Blackberry needs to up its game as to not loose more ground to these heavyweight and still growing contenders.
Its last attempt at saving grace was, how should I put this, a mild flop, with the Torch (9800) barely lighting the way to success and Cristal popping in the champagne room. While the use of Blackberry's OS6 on the Torch was a good move forward for the company, its lack of coherent user friendliness and potent apps gave the phone a hard time when competing against Apple's iPhone 4 and Android phones. Couple the latter with an under-performing processor that was struggling to run all the bells and whistles of the system and you were in for a lackluster experience characterized by frequent freezes and slow execution.
Nevertheless, it looks like blackberry learnt its lesson and is now coming in swinging ... hard!
Four new phones have been leaked over the past couple of weeks with the news saying that Rim will be launching the Bold Touch (9900), the Torch 2 (9810), the Storm 3 (9860), and the Curve Touch (no model number yet) soon. And boy do they all look promising.
As you can tell by their names, all these phones will be touch enabled and will look to utilize OS6's full tactile potential. Moreover, they also come with the upgraded Blackberry OS (OS6.1) which offers better features and performance and is claimed by the company as a giant leap forward when compared to its predecessor; with the experience said to be amplified through the use of more powerful processors (i.e. most of the above mentioned phones will have 1.2Ghz Qualcomm chips).
Moreover, they all look fascinating with clean cut lines, mouth watering screen resolutions, and the steel/leather combo that Blackberry has come to be known for. However, as promising and pretty as they may be, only time will tell if these new phones and their new configurations and features will catapult Blackberry back to being the drug of choice when looking for a connection high.
Following the break are some specs, pictures, and videos of the newly leaked phones.
Jorge Navarez and his adorable daughter are back with a great cover of What's up (what's going on) by the 4 non blondes.
They already stole my heart in there last duet (found here) and now i just wanna go a hug the cuteness out of that little girl cause I can't take it anymore. She reminds of that little adorable child in Despicable Me. You know the one that goes "it's so fluffy I'm gonna dieeeee!". Anyways, a very nice and a very uplifting video. So great to see such a connection between a father and his daughter.
Check it out!
(via: Roula Haddad)
At first glance, you'd think from the title that this would be some sort sappy love song. But twenty seconds into the song and you begin to notice that you're not in Kansas anymore. Her lyrics contrast with her title and throw you, for a second, in a sense of confusion as you are trying to understand what is going on. She's broken, she's hurt, yet still wants to stick around.
It is impressive what young and driven talent can bring to the old and worn. Even more outstanding is their ability to maintain hope through the most dire of situations showering in optimism and love on those within their midst. They give us untainted eyes and passionately eloquent voices with which new dialog is invoked. Tomorrow's promise is their sword and hope is their beacon. Listen to their call. Witness their strife. It is not through violence that they try to achieve alternate futures, but through their creative instincts and love for peace.
The Palestinian Theater Group from Montreal offers you a chance to experience this wave of promise.
Don't miss out on it.
Visit their facebook event page for more info and watch out for the trailer after the break.
Update: Added some pics and videos from the show. Also, there has been talk that the play will be performed in Ottawa, so if you missed your chance to watch the show, get your tickets to watch it in Ottawa soon!
Awesome Track by The Black Keys, and an even better clip. Guys will always learn from their fathers, parents benefit from their kids day by day and girls, well, they just wanna play.
It's a sick track so what are you waiting for to check it out!
What started off as a little experiment in someone's garage is now a ravaging phenomenon taking the music world by storm. Dubstep (Db) is a form of electronic music that incorporates various aspects from drum and bass to breakbeats all the while keeping them in a 2 step beat. The result is Dance Music's (DM) older, darker, and much more mature brother. And given that DM has been whoring itself out to every passerby, it's time that Db comes and whips everything back into place. Also, it has led to the development of a quite breathtaking dance style that just amazes you as you watch how several individuals are inspired to move by Db.
Wait, what's that? DM didn't whore itself out. It and Ke$ha are just friends. Yeah and I'm the Queen of England.
Moving on...
Here's a few clips of some Db classics and the newly emerging and truly amazing Db dance style, all found after the break. Enjoy!
You sometimes come across this raw awe inspiring talent that leaves you lost for words unable to describe what you had witnessed, an experience that occurred to me at a benefit I attended last week.
Two great souls collide in an unorthodox collaboration between music and words. On the one hand, you've got Ian who molds the English language as if it were his David , delivering words with the potency of atomic bombs, while on the other, you've got Balam breathing life into Ian's creations with heavenly melodies that would bring tears to an angel's eyes.
Here's a clip of one of these collaborations.
Amazing and Powerful! Keep up the good work!
Video is after the break,
Enjoy!
There are moments in our pasts that we are not proud of. Moments that we wish the sands of time would erode and bury so deep that we never have to relive them again. Fortunately, we live in the age of the internet where that sort of luxury is no longer available and embarrassing moments are immortalized forever. Thanks to the latter, we are able to see what kind of hilarious lives the generations before us lived, yet, i'm pretty sure the generations to come will feel the same towards ours. Without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Kuwait in the 80s.
MJ eat your heart out.
Video after the break,
Enjoy!
What do you get when you cross a bull and a 700 bhp V12 engine? The Lamborghini LP700-4 of course.
Lambo's new flagship ride is bound to be unveiled at the Geneva Motor, for which I now am beginning to regret not being able attend. Not much has been known about the car, and the spy shots, although gratuitous, only show the general form of the vehicle without giving its subtle design lines away. Nonetheless, we can see clear indicators of design cues passed over from two breathtaking previous models, the first being the Lamborghini Reventon, and namely for the shape of the LP700-4's front bumper, lights, and rear spoiler, while the second comes from the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento concept, unvieled last november, which heavily influenced the LP700-4's sides with the huge air intakes placed towards the mid-rear of the car.
Apparently, right now on the interwebs, there is an ongoing joke about the man that was standing behind VP Omar Suleiman during his speech to declare the resignation of the ex-president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak.
It seems that throughout the short 30 second speech, this man succeeded in maintaining what looks like a constipated misdemeanor. What was he angry about?
A dad and his daughter singing.
One of the most inspiring videos I've seen in a while.
Simple yet it warms you up on the inside like hot coco on a cold winter day.
I only wish that when I have my own daughter that we would share moments like these.
Also I bet that after watching the video you're going to be curious about who these two are, as did I. And here's a link that I found that explains the story behind this video, a heartbreaking story.
Check it out after the break,
Enjoy!
Remember I posted a video way back about Turkish ice cream salesmen and their fascinating ice cream handling talent. Well here are another few craftsmen and everyday workers that are really good at what they do. So good that it is ludicrous!!
Behold the uncredited masters of our every day lives.
Check them out after the break, my favorite is the flying bread video.
And I was wondering why Hosni Mubarak's decision seemed comical. He got them right out of a humorous play. Ah ya Ghawar, lek keef e3refet ino heik ra7 yesseer fina?
Check out the hilarious video after the break
Mad respect for Stromae. I think that he is the next best thing to have come out of France after Daft Punk and cheese. He's like the Dance version of Eminem with a French twist. And speaking of Dance, I find that it has come a long way from the meaningless thump that it once was, finding many a way to express its newly found feelings as it continues to mature.
Check out the video clip for his song Te Quiero after the break.
Talk about getting served!
Apparently this is a show that Madras (Turkish ice cream) sellers perform whenever they spot a foreigner.
Wonder what other games Turkish people would play when offering other things to foreigners. (*wink wink*)
How funny would it be if the exact same show happens when a foreign minister tries to sign a treaty with Turkish politicians? It may explain why they never got into the European Union, since this would definitely piss off the impatient Germans. On the other hand, it would vastly entertain the easy to please Belgians.
Great video after the break.
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