Today, The day I was born!

One of my greatest movies of all times, especially as a young girl growing up were the Terminator movies, remember them? The very first ones, The Terminator and Terminator 2:Judgment Day .

The Terminator started showing in 1984, the year I was born, and it was one of my childhood most watched movies, every evening at the age of about 10, 11 yrs, I just had to watch Arnold Schwarzenegger do this thing and I never got tired of watching him.
Well, the production and quality of the movies speaks for itself, who can dispute what James Cameron can do? He is a brilliant film director and producer and it can be seen in the work he has put in the greatest movies of all times that he produced; Titanic,The Terminator 1 and 2, and more recently the Avatar... all great movies.

Does anyone remember the movie 'White Chicks'? Yeah that one that starred the Wayans brothers and Terry Crews? Hilarious right? Am a fan of comedy movies once in a while. It is not always good to take life seriously all the time. We need time to crack and laugh, and boy oh boy, White chicks was a nice comedy.

One movie that totally inspires me everytime I watch it, now I can't even tell you how many times I have watched this movie, Akeelah and the Bee. I love the storyline, I love the actors, Keke Palmer (Akeelah) starring alongside Laurence Fishburne (Dr. Larabee).
You will have to watch it to know what I mean ;-)

Well, you may be wondering why am blogging about movies on my birthday, I mean why not? Three great actors in these three movies share a birthday with me! Yeeeei, I mean how cool is that?

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terry Crews, and Laurence Fishburne were all born on July 30th. I feel honored to have been born on the same day with such great guys.

I will end with a Maryanne Willianson's quote that am taking with me in my next year, and this quote was read by Akeelah in the movie 'Akeelah and the Bee'.

Hope you find it inspirational!

                     “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. 
                  Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. 
                 It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. 
                       We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, 
                            gorgeous, talented, fabulous? 

                          Actually, who are you not to be? 
                              You are a child of God. 
                  Your playing small does not serve the world. There is
                 nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't 
             feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. 
               We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. 
                           It's not just in some of us; 
                                 it's in everyone. 

                         And as we let our own light shine, 
                  we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. 
                       As we are liberated from our own fear,
                    our presence automatically liberates others.”

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Vid Choice of the day

Just fell in love with this video, by one of our very own Maurice Kirya.
Hope you like it too ;-)



Enjoy!

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A review: Iphone 4, Google Nexus One, and Nokia N900

If you are a gadgets person, you know what I mean when you simply can't make a choice on what is the best you can choose from.

A few days earlier I was all pumped up with the New Iphone 4, I mean it was the latest vibe on the market. The design is good, no one can dispute what Steve Jobs can bring out in terms of design and functionality, and honestly speaking I think Steve Jobs has been pretty consistent on the quality of work he's been doing on all products, right until the Iphone 4 came up.

Hey don't get me wrong, it is still a great product, but with all the vibes its getting, especially the Antenna issue, its not been a good day for Steve Jobs this time round.


Now I took a look at the Google Nexus; I haven't been an Android fan I will admit, but this gadget is the real deal. For a person who is into doing too much with a phone, and not just placing calls, and sending texts, I think this is it for the Nerds ;-)



With all the buzz going for the Iphone, one could have thought Google Nexus one is the phone to hold up to the pressure, however, I read a post today on the daily tech news that Google is discontinuing the Nexus one!

As for Google’s statement the very last shipment of Nexus One is now being off, and until the very last piece of Nexus One on their stocks are out that means that there will be no more Nexus One customers to own this phone in the US. This is really not good enough news.

Is it a failure for Google having the Nexus One? Maybe yes and maybe no. Having only one provider in the US that leave other retailer to sell this great phone limits Nexus One to spread in many other areas in the country or even world wide.

Am a Nokia fan and I have held a Nokia phone for as long as I owned a phone.I think Nokia has really been a fantastic brand for me to stick to.
A friend of mine sent me a link to this phone and I was blown away!




This phone is one in a million. I love open source, that goes without saying, and this phone comes with an Open Source Linux distribution based on Debian originally developed for Nokia Internet tablets.

As for the features, it can do wonders, if you have some time, you can check it out on this link;
Nokia N900

So from the 3 phones, you can guess what my pick is! I won't tell you my pick, but you can leave your opinion on the 3 gadgets and let me know what you think!

Place a poll before you leave! :-)

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Safe after Bomb blasts!

Hello everyone,

I hope everyone especially those in Uganda are safe. It has been a bad week in Uganda after what was supposed to be a joyful day of watching the world cup finals ended up with Bomb blasts in the city.

Having lost a friend and workmate that Saturday, 10th July, and then bomb blasts on Sunday 11th July, I can only say it is turning out to be a dark July.

Our Internet link was also cut due to the bomb blasts, the fiber cable was cut and we haven't been able to access Internet for about 2 painful days. But am back!

I only pray that we won't have any more bomb scares and that the city is back to normal.

My condolences go to the families of the folks that lost their loved ones in the blasts.

May their souls rest in Peace.

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Gone too soon - RIP Lydia Sembuya

Life is not always fair, never plays out the way we anticipate it to, most times!
God in the wee hours of Saturday morning called her to be with him!

She was a friend, an inspiration, a person full of energy.
One would think she had 1000 years ahead of her.... but like they say,
live everyday as if it were your last.
Lydia certainly did that!

My heart goes out to her family, the husband and her gorgeous boys!
Everything happens for a reason, and am sure she is smiling in heaven right now!

As a workmate, a friend, an admirer, I deeply say I was saddened by her death.

Gone too soon and will forever be missed!



RIP - Lydia Sembuya!

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My track choice of the Day!

This is my song of choice for the day!

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Emmy Nominations list out! Excited for Glee

The list for the Emmy Awards that will take place later this year, or to be more specific on the 29th of August is out! Yeeei.

Am just excited that Glee got 19 nominations, I mean the first season of Glee
has been great and we can only wait in anticipation for the second season!

Happy for the Gleeks! Go get those awards!

More can be found here;

http://www.emmys.com/

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SYTYCD - Its a shame Wong won't lift his trophy!

This season of SYTYCD hasn't been my best season so far! and I will tell you why in a bit.
Being a firm lover and believer in the show, I quite honestly did not agree with many of the changes that were made by the producers.

The whole format was strange from the start, but I gave it some benefit of doubt that it would perhaps get better.

My first frustration was choosing to let go one of the most incredible dancer I have ever met, Anthony Burrell. I mean seriously? The dude's body was just built for dance, as a contemporary dancer I think by far, him and Alex Wong were the best of the pack. So from day one I was already biased.
But.... am over Burrell now.

Lets focus on the show now!
Last evening we had the terrible news from Nigel Lythgoe about the medical report from Alex's accident, and he won't be participating on the show again this season. Now that was a blow! He needs 3 months to rest and get fully better to be able to compete again.

Alex has by far been in his own league if you ask me... week after week, he has produced the best technical performances and he has got a great personality.
Till date everyone is still speaking about the Nappytabs Hiphop choreography routine that he danced last week with all star Twitch! I mean that was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!

I can say right now that the show should end right away and Alex be handed the title America's favorite dancer because truth to tell he deserves it!

With Alex gone, I really know if I will be interested in the show again.. I think I will just wait for next season to see him come back, with Anthony Burrell. That will be great.

Checkout the link below for the Hiphop routine with Alex and Twitch!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WghpdgPc-24

Good bye Alex! you will truly be missed.

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Am back! In July

You know July has always been one of my best months! Reasons? Well it is the month in which I was born and I have beautiful sentiments of this month each year.

I have been away for so long, and I must say I missed blogging! But after last night, I promised myself to be a regular blogger. Imagine I slept and I dreamt about my blog, and all the amazing updates I should have put up for my readers! Its a shame I haven't done that in a while but I surely will be up to date.

What can I say, World Cup is just about done! Its been a beautiful ride. I have had some nice moments in the whole tournament and pretty sad ones! One incident was the Ghana loss to Uruguay in the quarter final clash! Man that hurt so bad... they came so close to the semi finals and gave it all away to Uruguay.

Am happy though with the final 2 in the finals. For once we have 2 teams, one that had never even made it into the Semi finals [Spain] and one that has been here many times but failed to lift the World cup [Netherlands]. For the first time I wont take sides! I will just sit down, lay back and watch, who ever wins I will be happy for them.

Now with my personal life, things haven't been easier but every step of the way, I have learned to Thank God and live in the moment. Am sure I will be smiling sooner or later.

Am glad to be back ;-) Missed you all.

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