blog action day: kuwait environmental blog

First i want you guys to follow this link and see for yourselves how much the environment has changed in Kuwait. There you would find a satellite picture of Kuwait from 1972, and another one taken in 1997. It is very clear the extent of the environmental damage that has occurred in this country.
Also, a very disturbing statistic shows that Kuwait is ranked as the third most country with both high CO2 emissions per capita and having an extremely high ecological footprint.
The situation in Kuwait isn't pretty indeed and not a lot of people are doing much about it. We have a Kuwaiti Environment Public Authority, but they misspelled environment in the websites banner so am not so sure about it, for that and many other reasons.
The only thing nice i found about Kuwait on google was Alsirhan.com a site documenting all the wildlife in Kuwait. Check it out and learn more about our nature and wildlife, its interesting to see the different animals and birds and plants that share this little country with us.
So as the title of this post suggests, i thought that a good idea would be to have a Kuwaiti environmental blog, a place where average Kuwaities can share their thoughts, suggestions and complaints about the current state of our environment. Why? Because isnt this the idea behind blog action day? I mean it's all good and well to write a post about the environment but i believe this shouldn't be a thing that happens once a year, it should be a continuous project to inform people and make them aware of these not so small problems.
So i would like to know if anyone is interested in being a part of this project, i just thought of this blog idea a few minutes ago and i didnt have a lot of time to think it through so all you're suggestions will be heard and you're participation is most welcome. Actually am hoping someone else would like the idea and take it upon themselves to make it real. It could be a thing to work on over the rest of the break (for those of us who have the rest of the week off :D )

Ramadan reminisce

at the beginning of ramadan i set out to lose somewhere around 5 kilograms. I had no idea how i was gonna do it, especially that i did not renew my gym subscription, and the fact that i knew i was gonna be eating so much since it was ramadan. I had a little poll asking people what they thought the chance's were of me or in general about people losing weight in ramadan. There was a clear divide in the answers. The optional answers to the poll were, "yes" you can lose weight, "no" you cant, and third was "dont worry and just enjoy the food". Most votes fell on either the "yes" or the "dont worry", which would say that most kuwaities are confident in achieving whatever they set out to do or that they simply loved life (and food) too much to worry such things.
Now before i tell you if i lost or gained some weight let me tell you about my daily ramadan habits. At first my habits were normal, i had su7ooor, prayed at around 4AM, slept, woke up around 9, went to work, came back around 3, watched a few shows, had fu6oor, spent time with my family, went out or to dowaniya, then came back. Like i said, a pretty normal routine. Then tiredness began to set in. I was begining to feel the full effects of ramadan. I dont remember feeling this tired ever in my life. My routine slowly began to change day in day out. By the last week and a half of ramadan it looked like this: had su7oor, sleep at around 4AM, wake up at 9, go to work, come back at 3, sleep till fu6oor, have a light meal for abut 30 minutes, go back to sleep, wake up at around 12, have su7oor, sleep at 4AM. One day i came back from work at 2:30 feeling very tired, went to sleep, and never woke up until 11 at night. What was going on? I have no idea but el7imdila that routine has ended now, i dont feel so much as a lazy bum all the time as i did the last 2 weeks. Oh and the good news from all of this is i somehow managed to lose 4 kilograms during my ramadan hibernation, which was a bit surprising to me. But to conclude i have to be honest and say am very glad that ramadan is over so i can finally have some normalcy in my daily routine.

for you cat lovers

ehdaa2 to all the cat lovers out there. Isnt this the saddest cutest looking cat you've seen? reminds me of the one in shrek ;p

new camp nou seats 106,000 fans

That's the winning design for the remodeling of Barcelona's stadium. It's said that it would hold up to a whopping 106,000 spectators at once, and you know that a city like Barcelona can fill up that stadium without much of an effort. Here are some of the other designs that were looked at as possible alternatives. But in the end it was Foster & Partners who won the project. I have no idea when work would begin and how long it would take, but it looks like the legendary stadium is gonna be even more impressive. Here's some more pictures of the final design.

cool interactive music video

Strangely this interactive music video from The Arcade Fire has a catchy tune and is somewhat addictive. I still have the song stuck in my head. I think this video is very creative, definitely different from the norm.

footballers, porn and british punk'd

You might ask whats up with the title, well there's a common factor between all three and that is England and Chelsea's Shaun Wright-Phillips.


It is not unusual to see professional sportsmen use their earnings to make investments in various fields of business to insure a steady stream of income. It's just smart thinking. However, the vertically challenged winger's recent investment might have had a different motive. Mr. Wright-Phillips has made a 20,000 pound investments in the UK's Babe Central, a tv porn channel. It seems that the new porn king has been dropping by the studio's more and more often, hanging around and partying with his pals and his new employees.
Source: The Sun

Here's the British version of punk'd, hosted by Manchester Utd's Rio Ferdinand and featuring none other than the porn worlds version of Roman Abramovich.

for you ad lovers out there

If you're like me and you like advertisements then i think you'd like this website very much, it has a collection of the latest and most interesting ads from all over the world. Plus it has some links to other advertisement or marketing blogs or agencies. One such link is a website called Ad Blog Arabia where you can find the most creative ads from the arab world. I've been guilty in the past of stealing some of those blogs contents and posting them on this blog of mine, but c'mon, who hasnt done that? I've seen many blogs out there that simply copy paste something they found in another blog and posting it on their own. Is it wrong? Is it plagiarism? I dont think so. First off these blogs are not and should not be held to a journalistic ethical standard. They are after all personal website's where people can post whatever they want. One of the main attractions to blogs, at least in my opinion, is that there arnt any rules. There shouldn't be, thats the point. Bloggers should not be judged by the content of their posts. If you see a blog you dont like, a post that you think is offensive, then just move on to the next blogger. Of coarse criticism is welcome but then again I've seen way too many bloggers get personal and down right nasty to each other.
Woe, how did this post turn out like this, wait let me retrace my train of thought. Anyways if you do like creative ads then i suggest you check out those links i put up, now here's a commercial i stole from one of those site's which i liked...enjoy

leave britney alone

this video has had over 10 million viewrs so far, it's funny as hell but i some what feel sorry for the guy chris crocker ;p
here's Seth Green's funny imitation of chris ;p

freedom of speech my ass

watch how a student gets arrested and attacked by police just for asking the wrong kinda question, this in america, the land of the free, as free as "they" want you to be.