Filed under: Life, Technology — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 3:26 am
A couple of weeks ago and a couple of days ago, two similar press releases have been published in our daily newspapers, they were explaining the circumstances that caused the internet problem in Jordan and why it became very slow lately.
The press release two weeks ago said that the constructions of Amman Municipality cut a cable for Orange in southern Amman by mistake, and the other one by the coincidence said that another two cables at two different areas have been cut by the Municipality constructions. That it’s a real underestimation for our ability to think before we believe such stories.
Filed under: Arts — Tags: video clips — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 9:52 pm
I was surfing YouTube when I stopped by a teaser from Ragheb Alama’s new video clip for his song “Ser Hobbi”. Apparently from the 30 seconds of the video, the director has moved to another level of shooting that I haven’t seen before in the Arab world. The way it’s done seems to be very professional and different than the ones when you see the artist goes to the hospital to see her/his love dying and she/he rescue him/her with a kiss.
Lately I was invited to more than one event about entrepreneurship and innovation, those events had a lot of people in the IT field attending them. All were discussing an issue that companies’ owner are facing in Jordan, one of those attendees was the Reuters’ reporter in Jordan. The issue simply is that our man power is “ESCAPING” from Jordan seeking a better opportunity mainly in the gulf so that we are lacking the experience.
Yesterday YouTube hosted its first ever live streaming event. It was a cool show, and one of the parts was when they awarded Queen Rania the first ever YouTube Visionary Award because of her dedication to breaking down stereotypes.
Accepting the first ever YouTube Visionary Award via taped message, Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah spoofed the famous Top 10 format from US comedian David Letterman to explain why she launched this channel.
The Tunisian director Shawqi Al-Majedi, has done a great job, in translating the story of Jenin camp that has been written again by the Palestinian writer Reyad Saif, into an amazing picture that makes you feel like you are really watching the Israeli invasion into Jenin camp.
Staring in the series: the Syrian actor Abbas Al-Nori (who played the role of Jenin’s hero Abu Jandal) and the Jordanian actress Saba Mubarak. The cost of the production for the series was very high and it took more days to shoot. In spite of that, the series has been only played on one satellite channel as most of the Arabic staellite channels was worried to play the series because of its political view.
Filed under: Arts, Life — Kamel Al-Asmar @ 1:42 pm
Last night, the global financial collapse seemed far behind as one of the most outlandish architectural extravagances of recent times opened with a $20m celebration with a feast of 4,000 lobsters.
For the 2,000 guests, it was a heady cocktail of sunshine and as much champagne and oysters as they could wish for. The poster of the event was titled “2 DIVA’s / 1 PARTY”, as Kylie Minogue and Nawal Al-Zoghbi were the diva’s who have been selected to perform at the party.
Ron Dermer, one of the advisors of Netanyahu’s campaign has another opinion about the common quotes “We don’t imitate… we inovate”. As it’s very obviuos that Benjamin Netanyahu (the Israeli candidate for the prime minister) has cloned Obama’s website.
Taking a look on both homepages (use the Russian version for Netanyahu’s one to see it from left to right direction), you will figure out that both are really very close:
A company has created a fruit-flavoured herbal drink that claims to deliver the same fix as cigarettes. Called Liquid Smoking, it promises an instant high followed by a ‘euphoric calming feeling’. It is targeted at those who can no longer light up inside public premises under the smoking ban but want to feed their cravings.
Rather than nicotine, the drink contains a potent mix of roots from South African plants, and is purported to provide an effect similar to smoking, then a euphoric, calming feeling. The beverage company hopes to sell the product in pubs and bars as a mixer with spirits such as vodka, and though there is no age limit to buy the drink, the makers say they do not think it’s appropriate for anyone under age 15.
The first time I met Waleed Qutaineh he was with a friend of mine who was telling me that Waleed is very creative and he’s a real artist. Few days after, I’ve seen Waleed again and it was his last semester as a student in Jordan University, so he was preparing for his graduation project. I was there when he and some of my friends started a brainstorming session about the ideas he’s going to draw. The first thing I have seen is the mobile wallpaper of my friend Hadi which was a really nice one and creative. It was an illustration for a smiling face that becomes an angry one when you rotate the image 180 degrees.
Just said goodbye to 10 of my family members from 1 to 85 years old. They all left back to Jenin after spending great times here in Amman!
about 11 hours ago
from Twitter for iPhone
Last night, the global financial collapse seemed far behind as one of the most outlandish architectural extravagances of recent times opened with a $20m celebration with a feast of 4,000 lobsters.
