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<span style="color: #444444;">Waking up in the middle of the night isn't the best thing. They say everything hits you for a reason so it might about time for me to write about it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I've been thinking lately about how writing sometimes feels different. I can suddenly find myself doing it just to make other people smile while they read my work. Nothing bad in that, it is an immense reward but I don't want to write just so I can publish some piece. Guess it fails the purpose I started writing again. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">On the first day of a new year, while looking for a fresh start, my existence changed with just an eye contact. God was fast answering my deepest wishes. I can't really complain, I should be grateful for always getting what I want on the right time.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">From the simplest things to the craziest. A question of controlled vibes maybe. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Since that day, my life has been turned upside down and I never thought I'd be writing again. I had given up on this "hobby". It doesn't pay; that's what they say. But hell to that, I spent four years trying all </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Words are fighting their way out and I can't seem to get to any straight </span><span style="color: #444444;">idea</span><span style="color: #444444;">. But I need to write so I can feed my soul. Maybe everything I feel would come out in a better way, less aggressive, less hurtful, less destructive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Sometimes no one understands but you. Silence never appeased me. And it rarely will. My weakness undoubtedly.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> But some people are lucky to be loved even with such weaknesses. Thank you. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">How I've missed suddenlytwo :)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check them out deciding who is better at playing Angry Brids with a twist!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Kudos for the skills!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a stunning phenomenon, makes you wonder where your doppelgangers are or have been around the world!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I always get the "you look familiar" comment when i first meet som1, so i wonder if there is som1 other there that looks like me, and if he gets the same comment as well!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recall a saying that goes "god created 40 resemblances" or smthn like that... hmmmm</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hitchhiker set to got hitchhiking across the USA, taking snapshots of the people he met, to finally put them all in a super fun/creative Time Lapse Video!\</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and check out his website on </span><a href="http://www.adventuresauce.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.adventuresauce.com/</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Turns out the bright minds at their creative agency forgot to remove one crucial element during their CGI work, the evidence of using a RIVAL airplane in the ad promo!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The plane used in the promo has been branded with the necessary BA branding, but the airplane tag/code unfortunately slipped through, only to be spotted by a BA engineer's keen eye, almost too late!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The colors just marry each other so perfectly, the setting is so mystical, and the attention to details in it is insane on so many levels, i will leave the mystery of the painting to be unraveled as per art historian Carola Hicks</span><br />
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<div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">The couple</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;"></span>Among the foreign merchants living in prosperous 15th-century Bruges were members of the Arnolfini clan from Lucca in Italy. They combined trade with finance and were the first merchant bankers. Argument has flourished over which Arnolfini this is and we will never know for sure. The best guess is that it is Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini, who married Costanza Trenta in 1426.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The pregnancy?</span> Giovanni and Costanza had no recorded children and Costanza had died by 1433, the year before the portrait was painted. Is this a memorial to Costanza, who might have died in childbirth? Artists liked to pose women in a pregnant stance, whether they were or not, as fertility was an essential quality in a wife. There are other symbols of fertility, from the red bed to the rug – a rare commodity in 15th-century Northern Europe, and associated with a birthing chamber. Also, the figure carved on the chair behind the woman is St Margaret, patron saint of childbirth.<br />
<span style="font-weight: bold;">The bed</span><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span>This is what guests would have expected to see in a reception room. It may not have been used for sleeping in, but implied that the master of the house was of sufficiently high status to exhibit such a possession as an adornment.</span></div><div style="min-height: 1px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Freddie was a bomb on stage, he was a great person, he was a champion!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">May he rest in peace for the greatest music he brought and the influence he left in so many artists.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, my favorite song of all times - Bohemian Rhapsody</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well im not a fan of magic, nor much impressed by it, but this just was magical on a another level, more of intriguing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marco's work and the story behind it, offers a new perspective to magic. The integration of one of the most influential inventions turns the magic show into eye candy!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think!?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many hours do you spend sitting at work, at home, in the car, in the diner....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">well apparently it is killing you slowly!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">yes with the fast pace that life is taking, we are having 24+ hour days, we just don't have the time to exercise, to run, to be good to our back and legs!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i hope this infograph would help us realise the importance of a good stretching in the office, a good walk around the house, an hour in the gym a day...</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/sitting-kills"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="Sitting is Killing You" border="0" src="http://images.medicalbillingandcoding.org.s3.amazonaws.com/sitting-is-killing-you.jpg" width="500" /></span></a><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via: <a href="http://www.medicalbillingandcoding.org/">Medical Billing And Coding</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is a video for 5 simple office stretches to keep us alive longer ;)</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a firm example on brands thinking beyond social media on the web, and giving back to their fans/consumers.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1st comes Heineken's recent 1,000,000 hugs campaign, where the brewer celebrated reaching 1,000,000 Facebook fans with dispatching Heineken girls to hug 1,000,000 fan, with a big Thank You hug, one hug at a time!!! This is a great and simple way to send out a personal thank you!! Imagine the faces and reactions of people (especially the chromosome Y),, well check out the video below!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2nd example comes from one of the most prominent car manufacturers, Porsche! To celebrate reaching their 1,000,000th fan on Facebook, they went about this quite differently and unexpectedly, some might say. The guys at Porsche decided the best way to say thank you is to give every one of those fans a ride in of their power house cars, the GTR3 R Hybrid. The video below gives out the timeline of how Porsche wrote the name of all their 1,000,000 fans on the car and showcased it as their big thank you to their social community, on full display at the Porsche Museum!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compare the above to the rather very corporate boring thank you message from the guys at Swarovski!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, a nice touch from KLM with the below picture of them writing their Fans of the Day on a huge whiteboard and sharing it, cute, simple and a to the point thank you!</span><br />
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</div>SuddenlyTwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563820049465186269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004867248604193322.post-2479197569200324292011-08-14T12:56:00.000+04:002011-08-14T12:56:52.088+04:00Talking Ink!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first (supposedly) interactive tattoo work!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well i cannot but say the idea is quite innovative, that's taking the storytelling tattoos carry, to a new level!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think!? i must say i'm very tempted!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A great Ad with a creative jeu de mots or pun ! for the launch of the new stick shift Mini Cooper S</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When the worst is about to happen, how much of a wake up call lead do you need?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well i don't think there is anything more wake up like than the US Debt crisis!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">i can go on about it, but i think this short video sparks the brightest light bulb in everyone</span><br />
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SuddenlyTwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563820049465186269noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004867248604193322.post-22143362491129712022011-08-04T11:13:00.001+04:002011-08-04T11:13:47.428+04:00DIY Fixes!!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check out this graph for various fixes you might not have known about!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just a couple of hints to outsmart some victims you know ;)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">One way to feel smart is to pursue a lifetime of learning. But that's a lot of work. An easier method is to make the people around you appear dumber. I'll share with you some tricks for making your friends, coworkers, family members, and spouses (your victims) look and feel like morons.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">1. When your victim makes any statement of fact or opinion, look at him as if he's wearing a turd for a hat. Repeat what he said, but slowly, as if you're prompting him to see how stupid he is on his own.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">2. After your victim utters a statement of any kind, slowly shake your head in the "no" direction and make a dismissive sound such as "pffft." When challenged to explain your reaction, insist there is no problem, but do so unconvincingly.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">4. When confronted with a new but minor task, such as opening an unfamiliar container, most people require a few seconds of thinking and perhaps a failed attempt or two before they work out a solution. If you see someone in this state, grab the object out your victim's hand and try whatever solutions have not yet been tried, thus making you the successful container opener and your victim the failed container opener.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">5. Continuously instruct your victim to do whatever you think he or she is likely to do on his own anyway, e.g. "Don't step in that puddle." If you do it often enough it creates the illusion that the victim can't navigate the simplest obstacles in life without adult supervision.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">6. Ask your victim to remember details that no normal human could be expected to recall, such as the exact wording of a conversation that happened a month ago. This method can also be used to frame your victim as a liar.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">7. Ask your victim to remind you to do a future task. Pick a time for your request when the victim is distracted or can't write a note to himself, such as when he or she is driving or swimming. Later, after you remember on your own to do the task, remind your victim of his forgetfulness.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">8. Give your victim vague and unintelligible instructions such as "Can you go find the thing I put in the (mumble)?" When your victim fails to find the object, go directly to the correct drawer, produce the object you want, hold it high like Excalibur, and give a victory TA-DA!</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">9. Steer conversations away from topics you know little about and toward topics your victim knows little about. If the victim tries the same trick on you, excuse yourself to make a phone call.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">10. Ask your victim to do a minor task for you. After he or she agrees, add a layer of complexity that will guarantee failure. The initial request might be something simple such as "pick up something from the store." The extra layer of complexity is that the item doesn't exist in this dimension.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">That's a starter list. You might have some tips of your own to add, let us know!! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here another great ad by the creative brains in Lebanon!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Typical reflection of the fun loving, sweet tongued Lebanese hahha </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">UPDATE: Zeid Hamdan was just released, you can follow all the news on Twitter #FreeZeid</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of the most talented Lebanese artists Zeid Hamdan (former SoapKills frontman) was arrested today over his release of a short song 1 year ago!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the song below, showcases what most youth and the Lebanese society is feeling</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Distraught over the current Lebanese political and social situation with the never ending status of corruption and militia control and brainwash.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The song's final words addressing the current president General Suleiman state : General Suleiman, GO Home!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the song itself is a work of talent with vibrant beats and straight to the point lyrics, and a visually attractive video clip.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is interesting to know why the authorities have waited one long year to get their act up and decide the unimaginable arrest of the artist.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In a country considered as the forerunner of free speech and free expression advocate, seeing this makes you think twice about the song itself and its valid arguments.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yet another event that makes me ashamed of holding the Lebanese nationality, but still i am fortunate and proud to see the hope rise in me again of this country to one day rise back from its ashes, restore its "Switzerland of the Middle East" status and prove what a wonderful country it can fly out to be,, this hope which artists like Zeid and his work keep thriving to never let this flame die in us.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Im always on the lookout for creative ad copies and ad executions and such, being in the industry and all; and having a penchant for creativity and ideation.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest campaign to strike my eye, was that of Almaza Beer (Lebanese Beer)... which brough back some memories of their ads in the recent years.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They have been relying heavily on popular saying in the lebanese dialect and twisting them to fit the brand and product... it is gona be quite tricky to explain and translate the messages, but for lebos, you'll get it immediately and salute the creativity</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The latest one, with the line, "Blonde or Brunette" which is spot on, for the different bottles they sell.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1971 (right) : Lebanese Georgina Rizk crowned Miss Universe...we celebrated</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1990 (left): it settled (end of the civil war in lebanon ... we back to celebrating</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lebanese dialect specificity where we turn names into actions like We McDonalded? (as in let's go, we grab a mcdees)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After 2 disturbing summers in Lebanon, the copy reads "2008, what ever happens, we gona celebrate)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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The copy reads "you think the Dawra traffic is because of me?"</span></td></tr>
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</div>SuddenlyTwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563820049465186269noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004867248604193322.post-18650058459210840022011-05-30T22:30:00.001+04:002011-05-31T11:36:42.097+04:00Italian Beauty<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Let's start with the edgy in your face i wana race all day design of the bike! the super narrow rear seat giving it a rocket forward feel, the triple headlight design fitting so well without cluttering the front, the sleek low race like window screen (doesn't provide much wind cover though). The bike's ivory white is it's only color in the UAE market, setting it aside from the Racing rocket big sister RSV4 Factory's gorgeous red and black colour theme!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Design and ergonomics wise, the bike is tiny, barely shorter than the Yamaha R6! this is mainly because of the genius compact V4 engine design, allowing for less space than Japanese inline engines. The seat is quite thin and hard, providing some comfort for short stints, but a numb ass is in waiting for long rides; the seat sits pretty high actually compared to other bikes at 33.3 inches from the ground. Being a tall rider, the footpeg position is quite challenging cuz of the compact design of the bike, but you get used to it. The handlebars are quite well positioned for a racing feel and you tend to dip more to the front compared to other bikes, similar to the Ducati 1198S i tried a while back <a href="http://suddenly-2.blogspot.com/2011/02/hounds-from-hell-ducati-bikes-review.html">(Review here).</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bike's compact design and light weight (almost as light as the Yamaha R1) gives it a light feel on the road with a very surprising ease in the side-to-side action. The low center of gravity and perfect balance gives you a boost of confidence in riding the bike hard!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The instrument cluster is very straight forward with a compact round tachometer and the classic Aprilia orange backlight LCD with a full range of rider info, even has a bike stand engaged light! unfortunately it does not have a fuel gauge which is a downer for such a thirsty bike, but has the low fuel light. i really like the orange fork touch and the side key position for better HDD display. im not a fan though of the cylinder shaped brake fuel canister, i prefer the squarish ones!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as the ride goes, MAMAMIA! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bike is a revving rocket! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">First off, the low rpm range of the bike is quite satisfactory, very smooth and not as nervous as you would expect, this is mainly due to the great engine design, with the pistons being perfectly calibrated at any rpm range.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The main grunt of the bike however comes at around 7,500rpm, with a huge umph! contrary to the full power you get at blast off from the jap bikes! that at least kept me from controlling wheelies every time i launch the bike at a green light :p </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You do notice however a tiny flat line when you reach the 10,000rpm mark, but it quickly kicks back into action! the bike is sensational on the road and mainly due to it having the same engine as the RSV4 Factory model, a 998cc with 180hp between your legs, the ride by wire technology, having the engine electronically control the fuel injection system to provide the right amount of fuel depending on gear selected, exhaust configuration, speed, braking power and etc... </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another great feature on the bike is the racing slipper clutch it has, making the shifting between all gears as nimble as popping and un-popping a pen! it gives you a feel of having an electronically managed rev prediction system! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I find it quite hard though to find the Neutral gear, it proved to require a super feather like touch :( </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The nicest feature i must say on the bike is the mode selection is has: Track, Sport and Road.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With the Track mode giving full power to all 6 gears, the Sport mode limits the full power to the first three gears, making it perfect for city riding and finally the Road mode actually reduces the power to 140hp instead of the full stable of 180hp, proving essential for any rainy conditions or "safe" riding :p</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The braking power is a marvel as well, with the standard Brembo brakes on both front and rear wheel, though it does not provide you with much accurate feel, making it hard to reach the sought after limit of wheel lock; but gives you more confidence in late breaking into corners knowing you can rely on racing grade brakes! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ride on the bike was very smooth compared to the Ducati 1198S which had more of a stiffer suspension package, ideal for a race track; the Aprilia's suspension system provide by Showa front suspension and Sachs on the rear, both fully adjustable. the ride proves super comfy and well composed from corner exit, with a heavier hand on the gas on exit ;) </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This a superbike straight from the race track, a super competitor to the extreme BMW 1000RR and the Ducati 1198S and Desmosedici even!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pros:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Great power</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Easy to control</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mirrors are tiny and prove useless with shaking a high speeds</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, if you are looking for one of those bikes that come every now and then to shake every bike's cage and make you drool over, the RSV4 R is the bike to have for its lower price that the competition, the perfect composure and handling, on and off the track, and the chance to own a beautiful masterpiece of engineering! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is one of my fav cakes everrrrr!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and who other than baking this perfection than @LaSahley...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So which is your fav cake?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when my body wakes up, rocked by your warm voice</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when i hover the deepest of valleys, carried by your hugs</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when your gaze turns the blinding sun away from my eyes</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when my tears evaporate with your magmatic touch</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when you catch stars and put them in my hands with your laughs</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when your hand cradles my heart on my sick bed</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when your bright smile freezes my senses</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when your love devours me </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when suddenly the two of us is all there is</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when you pin me down with the lion paw of your caring remarks</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when i try to catch every breath to stay alive </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when i run around savannas trying to catch you</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when your tear drop quenches a desert's thirst</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when you are that i am</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when i am in love with you</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it is when i am... bradycardic</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey all!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">SuddenlyTwo is back in action after a hiatus! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This weekend i was reunited with a childhood love of mine, one of the best things to ever be present in a child's toy collection:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I un-boxed some new Lego toys with little young friend... the memory rush just hit me!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">remember the excitment when you find those little colorful pieces, the crumbling of the plastic bags holding them while you open them so passionately, the sparkle in your eyes, the huge smile on your face... </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You then quickly unfold the building manual to start the Lego creation</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And the fun started, i began showing the kid the ropes on how to follow the instructions, the colors, counting the number of holes, memorizing the underside of each block for better spotting during the build.. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Halfway trough the build i got excited myself, i started giving him one part of the construction and secretly buidling another part behind his prying eyes, just to satisfy this hunger for Lego!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The toy is such a marvel, gets your brain cranking, figuring out what goes where, how similar the toy will look to the drawings and the image on the box, and my best part of it all, if you can figure out the rest of the build when you are halfway through, without looking at the manual!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What i recall doing is building all the toys, displaying them for a while before dismantling them and throwing the blocks in a huge box where all the ex-toys lay... just to start pulling out the box and build from my own imagination!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I believe this is a toy ever child should be exposed to, whould be encouraged to build more and more to work out that creative side of the brain!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are pics of some interesting Lego "sculptures", and links below as well for more galleries!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you have any Lego sculptures, tpys or pics of them in your archives, do share!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy building!! </span><br />
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</span>SuddenlyTwohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12563820049465186269noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8004867248604193322.post-6504262731886352162011-03-23T12:48:00.000+04:002011-03-23T12:48:32.753+04:00The Narcicyst Beats<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today im sharing one of the great discoveries i stumbled upon this year.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It was during the TedxDubai event that i first got introduced to The Narcicsyt, he had a great presentation as you can read in my previous post<a href="http://suddenly-2.blogspot.com/2010/12/tedxdubai-ideas-worth-spreadin.html"> here.</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He's on Twitter and you better follow his musical genius! twitter.com/@TheNarcicyst</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and his website www.Iraqisthebomb.com</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is the video of him at TedxDubai, one hell of a show/presentation, an eye opener!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is his latest artwork!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The video is insaaaaane!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The start is superb with "The maker can see you, puts you on the edge of your seat with the dude dreaming, feelin guilt, makin you wonder what he did?! is he waiting for punishment?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">AND THEN, voilaaaa the beats start making your ears go drunk! the lyrics are siiiiiick!!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The effects in the video are kick ass!! loved the coins vomit with the final spit at the end,, the flock of crows with the train,,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(the views i express are solely mine and do not reflect the artists behind the video)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And here is another great track by this way talented artist!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A final nice skit he did on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcuAw77J8_Y&feature=related">Busta's Arab Money!</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll leave you all with his freakin great words about Hip-Hop:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Highly Intellectual People Hovering Over Politicians, that hyphen between the Hip and the Hop is the land that we walk on"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">@Alexi13</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's my musical buttermint of the day.</span><br />
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