bored kuwaiti

back to the 80's

2009-10-19T22:45:00.004+03:00

i've finally got an internet connection at home that's worthy of letting me never go back to jabriya video and just download everything i wanna watch. strange thing is till now i haven't downloaded a single new movie, some are fairly new but for some reason i find myself downloading movies i haven't seen in almost 20 years. talk about feeling nostalgic, and not only that, am now actually understanding the movies (my english being far better than it was pre-american education). so in some ways its like seeing them for the first time...i found this video that has everything that was the 80's, for those who grew up in that time would no doubt feel a bit of reminiscence for our childhood years...if you do, heres a list of some of the top movies of the 80's, i recommend you give yourself some free time to download a few and enjoy...

worst job ever?

2009-09-27T18:09:00.003+03:00

am sure a lot of you have been complaining about going back to work today after the holidays...well if you're one of those people, just be glad you're not this guy

what? me write

2009-06-29T15:36:00.001+03:00

come twitter with me, lets twitter lets twitter away

2009-04-21T18:40:00.003+03:00

as i was checking out ansam's twitter thing, i decided to do a twitter too, and twittering as i did, i found a thing to do...so come and join me and you can twitter too

french burgers

2009-04-17T13:30:00.004+03:00

yesterday me and two friends had burgers at the new french place in avenues phase II (i simply cannot remember the name) the red cafe across from dean & deluca between Hagen daz and caribou, yeah it's open now. anyways, me and two other friends went there and had to wait approximately 15 minutes for a table. we usually hate waiting for a table especially if we were hungry enough to eat a whole ghoozi, each. but this was a new place newly opened and we thought it might be worth the wait. at least we were trying something new. and because it was new to us, naturally we ordered half the menu. we had onion soup for appetizer which was good if you like onion soup. i ordered warm goat cheese salad (yes i ordered a salad), wasnt that bad but when you eat the cheese you are going to know that it really came from a goat, and not in a good way, but i guess thats just how the french do it. oh i loved the bread basket, am a bread lover and i appreciate a good selection of french bread. for our main dish we ordered hamburgers, medium well of coarse. mine was, as you can see, didnt have lettuce or tomato because i like it this way. the hamburgers were in my opinion the best thing we tried at that place, but maybe am saying this cuz of my prejudice towards hamburgers, but if your a hamburger lover you know your just gonna have to try it. we also ordered the calamari dish and spaghetti bolo(naiz), both of which werent any good and not recommended by the bored kuwaiti food tasters club. we would have tried some dessert but unfortunately as it stood, there wasnt any room in our over extended bellies for it. i think there would definitely be a next time if only to sit there and have coffee and dessert, cuz also the seating area is nice and you get a good view of all the passers by, which could prove popular in kuwait.

ps: polls has been updated!

the iphone wins...for now

2009-04-13T13:37:00.003+03:00

i have been struggling for a while now trying to decide which phone i was going to make mine. i have been using the old iphone for a little more than a year now and have gotten so used to the touch screen and all that other iphone shit that whenever i touched another phone my insides twist with disgust as to how can anyone feel satisfaction with a button keyboard or those very small screens that dont react to your every touch! this is the ultimate reason why i choose to stick with apple. it was either that or the blackberry bold, and the only reason i considered the bold was because of the habba status. i just felt everyone has one and i was being left out. bs i figured the biggest reason kuwaities love it oh so much is cuz of the bbm, and i realized none of my close friends have it so what use is it to me to get it and not bbm anyone? also the first question on the polls blog was which u prefer, iphone, bb or an old school phone and to my surprise the blackberry came in last, iphone second and old school nokias and Ericsson's were by far the most preferred mobile of choice. since i wasnt gonna go back to using a conventional phone i decided that, for now at least, i'd stick with the iphone.

Also a great thing about it is when i plugged the new phone into my laptop i got a msg prompting me to either restore my old phone settings or not. not knowing exactly what that would do i said yes! and to my delight it restored all, i mean alll of my old phone settings. Contacts, ringtones, all the applications i downloaded, all the settings, past emails, and it even copied all the sms msgs i had on my old phone and put them in the new one. Heck, all the missed calls and internet bookmarks and youtube favourites were copied too. it did make me feel, for a bit at first, that i just wasted 260 KD on the same exact phone, but thats just to show you how easy and convenient it is changing phones without the hassle of setting things or copying sim card and all. over all, it was a good choice and am happy with it, but i cant say i wont get a bb in the future, cuz you really never know.

they sell reeses!

2009-04-12T18:50:00.002+03:00

they sell reeses peanut butter cups here! i couldnt believe it. dont know if they have been doing so for a while wana tawny aktishif bs these little things were an obssesion of mine back in 92 and 93 when we were living in DC and i was chucking them cups down like they were m&m's. athkir 9ij kint atfanan eb the way i eat them. talk about a nostalgic moment. kint wagif bljam3iya with the cashier sliding my stuff on the scanner and el bnaya ele wagfa waray et7i6 her things on the belt, that is when my eye noticed a small thin rectangular orange thing, 2 of them god bless her soul, sitting infront. needless to say i told the cashier to freeze while i ran down the aisle looking for them cups. there they were, hundreds of them sitting there. so i took two (am trying to lose wieght, ha!) and went back to pay for me stuff. below is one of me fav old time commercials, how do you eat your reeses?

are hamburgers really that greasy?

2009-03-25T09:44:00.001+03:00

bored kuwaiti polls blog

2009-03-18T18:33:00.002+03:00

just cuz i was bored i have gone and did a polls only blog. so if you find yourself bored and with nothing to do, go visit there, answer some questions or just suggest a poll you would like to see done and enshala i will do it. whenever am bored.

polls blog

bored kuwaiti goes to cba

2009-03-17T22:33:00.004+03:00

this has been an easy week so far compared to the previous 2 months of hell i've been through bl dawam. basically all i have to do is go to the kuwait university job fair in cba for our company and sit there and answer peoples questions. we will take your applications and cv's 6ab3an bs you can forget about getting a job offer from us at this time. as a matter of fact, almost all of the companies who are participating in this job fair are not offering any jobs at the moment. hell, even Global has a booth there lol madre laish. yimkin el wa7eedeen ele ga3d ya3600n job offers are NBK for part time call center jobs or viva for i dont know exactly what. but i really felt bad for a lot of the graduating students, i mean where are they gonna go? seriously a7is radaina 3ala ayam awal ele the only 2 places you can aspire to work in blkuwait are the government or banks (not even that now) or get in the family business, if you have one. a7is it's a good time to start your own business now. anyways, too bad bacher is the last day, back to the office the day after.

update:

Quit for a Day-Day

2009-03-12T01:59:00.005+03:00

now for starters let me just say that while quiting smoking is simple, it is not easy, especially here in kuwait. simple? yes cuz all you really need to do in order to quit is stop, i mean really decide to stop and distract yourself from thinking about it. easy? not close. the reasons why it's not a walk in the park is because it is after all a medically proven addictive substance, and you know the thing about addictions, that they are hard as hell to get rid of. the problem with a cigarette is that it is both a physical and mental addiction. we all know about nicotine, but the mental addiction is what in my opinion the hardest to get rid of.

i used to smoke for a couple of years before i had surgery to remove my tonsils which is the same time i decided to quite. medically, nicotine should have been completely out of my system and the addiction completely gone after 3 months, or so i read. i stayed cigarette free for almost 2 years. if you've guessed that this wasnt the end of it then you're right. i still remember the first cigarette i had in almost 2 years. i coughed, at first, as any first time smoker would have, but then slowly but surely my lungs adjusted to the smoke. i became what people would call a casual or social smoker in kuwait, ya3ni adakhin bs bildowaniya. that went on for a while gradually taken small steps moving away from the casual or social smoking till full on smoker. the final conversion occurred after i started my current job. we joke around in the office that it is a requirement to work here for you to be a smoker. i do admit, i met more than half the people i know in the office all from the "cigarette break". what more is it became an excuse for us to take short breaks, which we all loved so much.

i had a wake up call about a month ago when for two days straight a simple act like breathing felt like someone was digging their knees into my chest and not easing up on it (this is the usual feeling smokers have after waking up in the morning) but this time it lasted more than the morning coffee, which i have to admit scared me. i went to the doctor afraid of what i might find out. it turned out to be some illness between bronchitis and asthma brought upon mainly from direct smoking, second hand smoking and our beautiful yellow colored weather. it's not as serious as i first feared el7imdila bs never the less it was still bad enough. now i've had 28 smoke free days. technically, am one third the way to be completely rid of my nicotine addiction, it's just i wonder how long it would take for me to get rid of the mental addiction. so far i found that exercises and eating helps. i just hope i get to do one more than he other, the healthy one that is.

blogger blind test

2009-03-10T14:35:00.008+03:00

yesterday the same client with the good looking interior performed a cheesy blind test for some of it's employees to test which type of cheese they would like best (something tells me labna isnt considered cheese but more like yougert? i dont know you tell me). i wanted to be a part of the blind test bs unfortunatly i had to do my own work at that same time and couldnt get away, i wasnt even able to watch it either.

i've always wanted to be a part of a blind test, everyone does i think, i bet everyone who saw that coke vs pepsi or that starbucks vs jam3iya coffee blind tests has told themselves at one point or another hey i bet i can tell which is which, ashkara i would. well i wanted to test myself and see if i would know. hmmm...i wonder if there could be a kuwaiti blogger blind test. how? i dont know, i guess the way i would do it is for someone to to publish a set of 2 or 3 or 5 posts each from different bloggers and have the readers guess which is which, like safat but without the bloggers names, that is if they claim that they know their favourit bloggers all too well. i mean some people have a unique way of writing and telling a story or posting random things. what we post is what makes our blogs unique right? or is there another reason why we read who we read? i dont know, if you find this interesting then let me know and maybe a blogger blind test could tell us more.

unbelievable!

2009-03-09T11:41:00.003+03:00

Woman arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving

Saudi men arrested for seeking female writer's autograph

Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling

the very best part of work is when we're not working

2009-03-08T13:48:00.002+03:00

dont you agree?

what would you're dream job be? the one that makes you feel excited to get up at 7 in the morning for 5 days a week for the next 30 years? if you dont have a dream job, what would you change about your current job to make it perfect or something close to it? and if you're unemployed at all, then go ahead, tell us how it feels.

pics

2009-03-05T22:06:00.003+03:00

here are a few pics i was able to sneak in, they suck i know, it's cuz they were taking with an iphone, which normaly takes pictures that suck. but it should give you some idea of what i was talking about in the last post

the right side of the entrance from the stair way

and the left side

this is the company's cafeteria with their own gourmet (almost) restaurant, today we had burgers n fries for lunch

the hallways

they have this cool thing that blows a huge amount of air into the toilets...now i dont know exactly why it's there but am sure your imagination can come up with a reason or two behind it.

the infamous interrogation room with all new black chairs, mine is the one on the right

the bulding from the outside, and if you look closely you can see my finger on the edge of the picture

so, tell me what do you think ?

bored kuwaiti goes to sabhan

2009-03-03T23:07:00.003+03:00

i wasnt very much pleased when i found out 2 days ago that the company i had to work at for the next 2 weeks would be in sabhan. i've always had bad luck with the places i get, like meena 3bdla or amghara or in the middle of the desert (literally) somewhere off the 7th ring road, so when i heard that i was going to sabhan i felt a little depressed. (for some reason i thought sabhan was very far away)

so today was the first day going to this certain company and i tell you i was very surprised at how close the place was, i mean it might not be that close but the road going there is against the morning traffic so it doesnt feel so far away. but the real surprise came when i actually got there. picture this, a huge huge block of a warehouse with almost no windows on 3 sides and covered with metal." damn" i thought to myself as i was trying to find a parking space, "this place is gonna suck". so after i parked my car and got out and walked towards the door i entered and suddenly found myself inside a modern new york style interior design magazine. this place was, if am not too exaggerating here, the best looking interior of an office building i have ever seen in kuwait, and i have seen a plenty. i couldnt even imagine that kuwaiti companies cared enough to spend so much effort and money on the interior design. i imagined the owner must have an interior designer for a daughter who nagged him on doing this office building the way she wanted. i was so pleased that i even asked for a tour of the building (of which i was ever so abruptly denied) no matters. but i have to admit, the way this place looked cheered me up, i even thought to myself, this is the kinda place i could see myself working in. so after all that try to imagine my surprise, again, at seeing the room where we are going to spend the next 2 weeks in.

GREY! bs. thats it. grey. grey walls, grey ceiling, grey door, grey floor, grey door, no windows, grey table and very uncomfortable grey chairs. me and my colleagues have decided to call it the "interrogation room". i swear bs nagi9 ena a couple of officers come in and start torturing us o yakmil el filim.

now this horror of an image is a pic i found while googleimaging sabhan trying to find a pic that would go well with this post. this painting was done by a syrian artist aptly named "sabhan". so i just thought i would share it with you guys. apparently its art.

just another BB Pin: 2465050C

2009-03-01T19:00:00.007+03:00

do you ever get the feeling that we kuwaities sometimes take things just a little bit too far? as if there is a special gene in our kuwaiti blood that makes us feel good to over do things. i mean am not saying it's a bad thing, it's just a part of what makes us who we are, it's just sometimes i wonder about the reasonableness of certain things. lets take for example some of the crazy scenes i've seen over the national holiday weekend like a horse carriage turned into a water balloon tank parading up and down the streets of bnaider. what i really want to talk about today is the craze over the blackberry phone that has engulfed the kuwaiti mainstream life. let me be the first to admit that, while i dont own one, i did strongly consider buying one for a while. what can i say, the hype has gotten to me before (hence the iphone). but the main reason why i didnt buy it is because a lot of people complain about restarts and bad signals and i really didnt need any of those. anyways, nowadays you cant help but notice everyone is owning one, and i cant see an end to kuwait's love affair with that now famous BB pin. there's even a blog dedicated to blackberry in kuwait, people have started facebook groups and communities for kuwaiti blackberry owners, it is now obligatory to congratulate a new blackberry owner via status change, hell i wouldnt be surprised if sometime in the future girls will start having an "istiqbal" cuz she got a new blackberry, god knows they have one for almost anything these days.

i just have one question for everyone out there who has bought or knows someone who has bought a blackberry:

is it THAT good or is it just another case of a kuwaiti haba?

fat footballers union of kuwait

2009-02-23T21:52:00.006+03:00

it is a well know fact that if you are, like me, a guy who loves football, but you happen to be on the wrong side of the scale, the only football you'll be playing is on the short end of a playstation joystick. kwaities have always had a competitive drive in them, they want to win even though there is nothing to win. like in playing regular weekend football. what used to be about playing with friends and having a good time turned to a "must win" game. this competitive drive has inevitably led to the downfall of the kuwaiti fat footballer. from a time when the bigger you are meant the scarier and tougher an opponent you would make has translated into "oh he's fat, his foot must be upside down" (not an actual quote). this, unfortunately has made the old saying true that, the fit keep getting fitter, while the overweight stay home and eat. but the time has come for us to say no more! we will no longer accept getting picked last, if at all. long gone are the days when we stand next to the opposing teams goalie and wait for when the ball falls to our feet by mistake. we will stand up, we will run the field, and we will be the captains of tomorrow.

were you single on valentines? no worries, just go to...

2009-02-22T23:34:00.003+03:00

Al Raya! hurry up cuz tommorow is the last day. almost any guy who has any doubt about wanting to get married needs only to go to this event and his point of view on this subject is certain to take a leap of faith. Just take my word for it.

cooking steak

2009-02-18T19:56:00.005+03:00

today i came home early at around 6ish and felt like cooking something for lunch. lately i felt i was getting bored of the same old food routine, i usually have some snack from starbucks or whichever coffee shop near by in mid day then come home late and eat whatever has been cooked earlier in the day. so today before i left i called home and told them to get some steaks out of the freezer and prepare them for me. i like to cook from time to time although i dont get to do it that often bs when i do a7ib atfalsaf wajarib ashya mitnaw3a. today i took the steak and put on it some Dijon mustard and some sweet chili sauce and some other spices and let it marinate a bit, then i put some veggies, tomato, onions, green pepper and garlic on the frying pan. after that, i placed the steak on the veggies. so its like the whole time the steak was cooked on the veggie that was being cooked on the pan. i have no idea if that made any difference but it sure did look good. before it was done i put some rectangular cheese that i bought from sultan center of which i dont know the name of on the steak itself for about 2 minutes so it can melt into the steak. here are a few pics of the cooking:

this is when i first put the steak on the veggies, if u can see some of the mustard and sweet chili on the steak which covered the level of veggies underneath.

this is a pic of the steaks halfway through, u can see its begining to take some color and some veggies appear under it.

this is what it looked like after it was done with the cheese on top. of coarse lazem bo6a6 and some Pepsi with the meal and what is next to the steak is some of the veggies that was underneath the steak that was cooking, which absorbed all the sweet chili and were very very spicy. overall this was better then i expected and it was a nice change from the usual daily meal. its also a bit more satisfying when u cook ur own meal from time to time.

i guess this is another honesty tag thing, that i like to cook from time to time, and that i am a kind of person that lives to eat good food, even though lately i've been using an iphone application named "live strong" to help me lose weight, yeah can u imagine? a phone helping me lose wieght, wala tekniloojya. it does it by helping me keep track of what am eating. i just write what i ate and it says how many calories i have eaten and how much more i can afford to eat without compromising my 2 pounds a week weight lose target. its good because when u have something that lets u actually think about what ur eating it, well makes u think about what ur eating. so far i've been using it for 4 days and lost 1 kilo with some exercise. am doing this exercise which i found on utube called 300, its simple yet i found in less then a week that its very effective.

so if u ever have some extra time on ur hand, cook, think about what ur eating, or just do some exercises that will make u feel better.

own a piece of mike

2009-02-18T00:19:00.003+03:00

apparently things are so bad in neverland that they are holding an auction of some of micheal jacksons favourite toys. some of the things are cool, like his very own flight simulator or an mtv video music awards, others are weird like hands used in the movie "edward scissor hands" and others are down right freaky like his own golf cart with a picture of him dressed as peter pan. check out some of the items here

tough guy 2009

2009-02-04T22:58:00.002+03:00

follow this link for some great photo's of the world tough guy competition held in england a few days ago. click on "the big picture" and check out the rest of the site which has collections of some great photo's from all over the world.

mixed weddings

2009-02-03T21:01:00.009+03:00

Last Friday was my first experiance with mixed weddings, not a kuwaiti one 6ab3an but an egyptian wedding here in kuwait. It was a wedding for a lady with us in the office and everyone from work was invited. So libast qitriti o 7arakt o ri7t 9alat el afraa7 o lama dashait wila 3ala dakhlat el 3aroos wil mi3ris. en9idamt lany towaqa3t'hom ra7 eshaghloon moseeqa hadya o yamshoon ba6eee2 bs 6ala3 ena feee firqa kamla o danabik o hai9a o looya. el wath3 kan nagazi. fa lama dashait wila ashoof el shabab el kuwaityeen ele bl maktab ma3ana kilhom labseen bidal suit o karafitaat wil hnood ele min el maktab kilhom labseen dishadeesh wimqatreeen. (ana makint adre 3an hal etifaaq lana 9arli shahar morayi7 el maktab kila 3ind clients). Wala ele eshoofhom egool hathaila mn rabi3na. atwaqa3 ena ele dara bilsalfa o shafnee 9af yam halihnood o eb hal somaar e7asibnee minhom, ehnee ta7asaft llaish mawiratht mn yadee el shigar wi3yoona el zirg. 3ogob makhlisat el zafa ele 6awilat yimkin ni9 sa3a sawooo slow dance 7ag el ma3arees broo7hom, b3dain slow dance ma3a kil el couples ele bl 3irs, faja eb ni9 lighniya el hadya wil slow dance 6ifat ni9 el laitat o engalbat el aghani techno! kilman wigaf o el 3omoom gam yargi9 o e9afig o fe nas 7ata gam e6amrooon eb mokanhom o yaw o shaloo el mi3ris 3ala echtoofhom, 9ij loya bs 9ij wanasa too. Anyways, el niq6a ele kint bagoolha ena it was a mixed wedding bs ma7asait ena kan fe shay ghala6..ya3ni el wath3 kan 6abee3i o kilman mistanis. ga3adt agool baini o bain nafsee ena lo el wath3 nafsa 9ar eb 3irs kuwaityeen chan ni9 el mawjoodeen bs ga3deen ekhazkhizoon eb ba3athhom ba3ath o kilman ga3id mokana bidoon layta7arak.

anyways, akhir post gilt ena bakamil the honesty tag o al7een 3indi one more for it, fa this is number 4:

this blog is my 5th blog ever since i started blogging about 5 years ago. i dont write simoultaneously la, i stop one blog for some reason or another and move on with another one. each blog was started for a different reason and if you read them all, you would think each blog was written by a different person. I used to write a lot in those older blogs because i think back then, i had a lot to say and, probably, more people to say it to. In this blog i got used to just blogging for no reason, sorta like this is a blog about nothing. But am hoping this would change. I lost all my passwords for my older blogs and its a shame because, there is one blog in particular that i wish i could go back to and write in, even if it were for one last time.

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

2009-01-30T03:15:00.006+03:00

Finally the weekend is here. Not since I was in high school did I anticipate the weekend as much as I look forwards to it now. Work is HELL to say the least. Last week was my first solo assignment and I have to admit the pressure and the work load is getting to me. I feel like I dont even have time to think! All this week I've been trying to do the honesty tag, the one that dee tagged me, bs every time I start I type a title and maybe a half a sentence and then blank, nothing. I lost count how many times this has happened to me lately. But since its the weekend, am gonna give it one last try o ele e9eeer e9eer:

1) blank

2) nothing

3) oh two days ago while i was at work i suddenly lost sight from my left eye, my peripheral vision was completely gone. I couldn't see a single freaking thing. I tried blinking faster and more rapidly, didnt help, i tried rubbing it with my finger, didnt get better, i went to the bathroom and washed it but nothing changed. 5 minutes later it was still the same. Another five minutes and i began to really get scared. I tried to ignore it and pretend it was nothing and just go on and let it pass. Then i remember i had eye surgery about a year ago and thought to myself hey, does this have anything to do with it? Another 10 minutes later and slowly but surely my sight came back to me, but a torturing headache began and lasted for 2 days. Later i found out from google and a friend that it was a migraine that caused my temporary one eyed blindness. I dont know if i should be relieved or worried. I mean i should be relieved that it was only a migraine but should i be worried that this has the potential to occur again and again? My comfort for now is that the headache is gone and my vision is 20/20 el7imdila. And i guess thats good enough.

This is the longest post i've written in a long time. I got used to writing very short posts or sometimes posting without writing anything at all that i think i lost my ability to find words to express what i felt. This thought kinda leads me to my next honesty thing, but i think am gonna leave that one to be written for another day cause now this is all i have energy to write about.

are zain going to be liverpools next sponsors?

2009-01-23T12:54:00.002+03:00

It could happen if you believe this rumor. personally, if i were to compare liverpool in the football world to something here in kuwait, i would compare them to the road cameras that take a blinding flashi photo of you when you least expect, they are just that annoying. But if it has to be liverpool then i'll be fine with it i guess. It occurred to me that we kuwaities needed our own english football club so we can compete with the emarati, egyptian, american, russian, indian and others yet to come who have their own "english" football club. Since we cannot enjoy our own league we might as well start buying up teams from abroad. But still, it will be a cold day in hell the day i start cheering for liverpoo.

ugly babies

2009-01-14T04:00:00.002+03:00

we're all ugly when were born ;p

by Thierry Bouet

9otik wi9al ya muntakhabna

2009-01-10T19:16:00.003+03:00

enta kuwaiti? erfa3 rasik fooog ;)

creapiest stretch routine ever

2009-01-10T18:53:00.001+03:00

new thundercats movie starring brad pitt, vin diesel and hugh jackman

2009-01-09T12:33:00.002+03:00

lets see how long it takes you to realize what i realized ;p

player facing fine for palestine support

2009-01-08T23:52:00.004+03:00

he's not even arab and he did this, what are we doing ? link

Shake It To The Ground!

2009-01-06T01:32:00.002+03:00

khosh khosh ;p

دعاية زين الجديده مع الفنان الكبير عبدالكريم عبدالقادر

2008-12-27T21:46:00.000+03:00

i think this is zain's best adv yet...enjoy ;p

cold sick

2008-12-25T23:23:00.002+03:00

I felt sick at work today, fa zarragt o meshait embacher. Came back home early, had soup, watched marry poppins, then the fantastic four, now am watching the bourne identity on mbc 2. This whole situation wouldnt be so bad if i didnt have to go to work early saturday morning. When i get sick i usually take as much a time off as possible so i can get rid of the sickness as quickly as possible, but with this having to work on saturday it looks like this virus aint going no where anytime soon.

hair loss

2008-12-19T10:20:00.002+03:00

LOL! hathy showay showay ga3da etthabi7 feehom, ana la, ana china an atomic bomb wiped out a whole population in the middle ;p

bs it's ok now i've come to terms with it and starting to like it ;p

2008-12-15T22:40:00.003+03:00

To say that i really really needed last weeks vacation would be a gross understatement, it would be like saying bush didnt deserve the shoe, or something like that. Actually i still think i need it, a7is ena makanat kfaya. bs el7imdila.

One of the things i loved about this vacation is that i got to spend more than a week without internet and very limited tv. I was worried at first especially about no internet, cuz i have this daily ritual of websites i have to check and if i dont i would feel lost, like the feeling you have when you leave home and realize you left the mobile phone at home. 7asait nafsee ma3zool 3an baji el 3alam bs ana o rab3i o ahali. But it turned out to be a great thing. I really felt like i did something different.

It also made me appreciate all the small things we take for granted on a daily basis. But mostly, it was a blast, and am glad that i didnt have to travel to have fun. I really dont get some people who cannot have fun in kuwait. A7is'hom misakeen lazem esafroon 3alashan yistansoon. Anyways, if ever you get a chance to leave your daily habits behind and commit to doing something different then i suggest you go for it, it's fun.

Kuwait City here i come

2008-12-02T21:41:00.002+03:00

link

raptor or grizzly?

2008-12-02T08:01:00.001+03:00

Raptor

Raptor pros: Fast! Made from pure adrenaline, and made for pure fun

Raptor cons: Fast! as in goes up to 180Kilometers per hour, lightweight and smaller than the Grizzly, which for me translates to will flip me over and on my head in a heartbeat. Oh and plus it's a clutch gear which i don't know how to use but friends say is very easy to learn.

Grizzly

Grizzly pros: Fun, useful when the need arises, bigger and safe to a greater extent than the Raptor. Auto transmission

Grizzly cons: Slower, max speed is 110, heavier, and was made primarily as a useful ATV.

player sent off for tackling would be streaker

2008-11-30T19:44:00.000+03:00

your very own london tunnel

2008-11-29T23:50:00.006+03:00

when i first saw this my first reaction was "wait, am an arab guy, would they let me buy it?", for some reason the fact that i dont have $7.4 million to throw away wasnt a problem for me. To learn more about how you can buy a mile long tunnel in london, read the times.

Liberal kuwaiti women

2008-09-20T14:48:00.002+03:00

I found this article from a while back which talked about when kuwaiti women got the right to vote and run in the natinal elections. At the top of the article, you can see a picture that i guess was used to show both the liberal side and the traditinal side of kuwait. Its wierd that such a mistake could come from such a good news agency like BBC. Here's the picture from the article:

Here's a link to the article

single kuwaities convention

2008-09-19T14:08:00.004+03:00

This is an open invitation to all single kuwaity men and women to attend kuwait's a many-times-a-year annual event held at a local hotel ballroom or a new cool venue that will be out of style next year. Timing is, as conditions of lighting dictate, will be after dark. Conditions at the convention will be mildly hot as to give to the many faces a beautiful glow and shine. A testimonial from one of last years participants says "its addictive, it makes me wanna go again the next day". Dont let this chance pass you by, come to the convention and remember:
al ba3thu yab7ath 3an al sa3ada , wa alba3thu ya9na3ha
Dont wait for your mother to pick the girl of your dreams for you, come to the convention and find her with you very own eyes.

Come quickly cuz event will soon be banned by these guys:

fatafeat

2008-09-15T13:37:00.005+03:00

i learned that not going to work and having nothing to do except waiting for fu6oor makes me feel hungrier than ever, specially when for some reason am lying motionless in bed staring helplessly at danya khateeb ( of one hit wonder fame of a song i think better known as koko kooooko) in her cooking show on fatafeat. The theme of the show is that in every episode she goes to a different country and cooks with the local people something traditional. All the while through watching the show i cant stop thinking of fu6oorna, a fav of mine, 3aish ma3a la7am mafrooom makhlooo6 ma3a chutney spices. I need to get my mind thinking of something else other then food, cuz thinking of food this much while fasting has to be some sorta sin.
Trying to think of something else, i found myself googling images of biryani when i stumbled on this post somewhere from a complete idiot on how arabs supposedly eat biryani. The ignorance i see in some people just amazes me sometimes. Ah no use, i will try to sleep off the hunger.

Caffeinated Soap

2008-09-14T23:58:00.000+03:00

an alternative to coffee? madre etha efa6ir wila la, fe nas egoloon mayfa6ir ela el shay ele edish blmi3dah, bs ana momiqtini3.
link

min gal el jaw mo 7ilo?

2008-09-04T00:18:00.003+03:00

rifeeji egool ena hal jaw a7san jaw 7ag el mamsha o 7ag ili yabe yith3af...agola ee laish? egool chinik ga3d titmasha eb sauna!

off to kubbar for the day

2008-08-23T10:40:00.002+03:00

image taken from Q8_Hazrd's flickr photostream

BBQ, swimming, hanging under the sun with friends....not everyone who goes there goes there to do bad deeds, regular ole' time fun still exists. A note to the political islamists, stop spreading the bad images of Kuwait to try and scare people into believing our road to salvation lays solely under your virtuous hands.

Pics of israeli teenage girls in the army

2008-08-22T00:34:00.003+03:00

Link

Hi-rez pictures of Burj Dubai

2008-08-20T18:37:00.001+03:00

now THATS tall!
Link

Super Julio Baptista

2008-08-18T22:44:00.001+03:00

2008-08-17T22:10:00.003+03:00

I hate it when the only way i know i went to sleep last night is by remembering having thoughts am certain only to have in a dream...

2008-08-16T19:17:00.003+03:00

I've been looking for a good music player to put on this blog for a while but most required me to upload my own songs somewhere and am just too lazy to do any of that. I finally found this good Internet radio thing that I've installed from helpmechill.com. The music is what i call background music, something i can listen to while not really listening too it, it's something i hear in the background while doing anything else. I'll try it out for a few days and i might decide to leave it for good.

the mist

2008-08-16T18:09:00.002+03:00

This movie is as much about aliens or scary creatures as the Iraq invasion was about weapons of mass destruction. Stephen King takes a long hard look at human nature and what would we do when faced with an impossible situation. I personally think it is one of the best movies based on a Stephen King story, in this case a Novella about a mysterious mist that traps the people of a small up-state New York town in a grocery store, and how differently some people deal with their fear.

lets dance

2008-08-12T21:29:00.001+03:00

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

mad dogs!

2008-08-05T22:54:00.004+03:00

Yesterday, as you know, was august 4. Two things you might not have known about august 4th is that one, it is my birthday and two, its the date in which a small number of people in a small town somewhere in the English country side celebrate Saint Sithney day. Naturaly, I was intrigued as to find out a little more about my birthday saint so I turned to the most unreliable yet most quoted source on the internet, wikipedia. According to the site, God "asked Sithney to be the patron saint of girls seeking husbands, but Sithney said he would rather be the patron saint of mad dogs and get some rest."
Anyways, i would like to find out if any of you guys can guess how old i became yesterday, most people guess my age wrong by a couple of years based on how i look so it would be interesting to see how old people think i am based on how i "blog". There might be a prize for the person who guess's it right ;p

summer 08

2008-08-02T17:58:00.004+03:00

doesnt it seem like everyone is in a land far far away having a jolly good summer time as expected while you are stuck here struggling with the question if you should go see the new x-files movie or just watch the dvd you bought from jabriya yesterday?
but i guess there are worst things then being stuck in kuwait, in the mean, time enjoy your summer wherever you are

bored goes to work

2008-07-28T21:11:00.003+03:00

at around 9...theres nothing to do

11:30 bored still couldnt find anything to do, so he took a rather extended coffee break

1:30 with still nothing to do..... bored goes to lunch

5:00 after organizing his email to stop himself from falling asleep at the job, bored is finally excited about something...going home in 30 minutes

5:05 bored's boss comes to him with piles of work that needs to be done before 9 am the following day

:)

natalie portman goes bollywood

2008-07-25T13:43:00.002+03:00

and in case you're not the cunning linguist that i am not,
then you wont notice that the song is actually in spanish

NOOR is taking over the world

2008-07-23T19:40:00.003+03:00

when do you know that a certain show is a hit?

when you hear your 5 year old niece and her Ethiopian nanny (khadama) argue about a meaning of a certain scene
when your sister quickly says "commercial is over" and click! hangs up the phone to continue watching the show
when all the girls status on msn is curiously set to away at a certain time of day

i havent seen something like this since the first star academy hit kuwait.

BBC 'House of Saddam'

2008-07-21T18:17:00.001+03:00

I want!($200 burger)

2008-06-21T10:52:00.003+03:00

the design:

the specs:
Wagyu beef, white truffles, Pata Negra ham slices, Cristal onion straws, Modena balsamic vinegar, lambs lettuce, pink Himalayan rock salt, organic white wine and shallot infused mayonnaise in an Iranian saffron and white truffle dusted bun.

where?:
burger king, london

why?:
do you really need a good reason to try a $200 burger? if you actually do, then the reason behind it is for cherity, so you can eat it guilt free :)

the link:
link

Paul's blog on Kuwaiti nomadic roots

2008-06-16T23:17:00.002+03:00

i dont remember how i came across this blog but it contained a few posts about life in Kuwait as seen through the eyes of a foreign contractor. one post in particular that got my attention was about when Kuwaitis start camping out in the desert during winter. the reason why it got my attention is the fact that in this tiny post by Paul, you get a glimpse of all the problems in our society. I wont go into details, i'll just let you read the post so you can judge for yourselves and see how foreigners like Paul see us. Link

the way bored are

2008-06-15T17:27:00.006+03:00

little miss Fayoora has done the unthinkable and gone ahead and tagged me in a post where am supposed to ask you guys, my many anonymous loyal readers out there, to ask you how do you imagine i look like. i often put an image in my head towards someone or something am reading about, i cant help it am a visual person so i have to use imagery a lot. so with that said, how do you imagine i look like? to make it easier i put a few options, a few choices you can pick from to associate with the way i are:

the marlboro man, the definition of ruggedness, a real man's man, the last of a dying breed

cloony, regular guy with a twist

superman, in other words perfection, even his hair never moves

devito, the opposite of superman, yet against all odds made it in this big world of ours

last but certainly not least, sexy homi, a true legend, a hero to all mankind, the perfect father, husband, worker, friend and most definitely, neighbor!

i have no idea how the direction of this post got here, this was supposed to be about how i looked and ended up being a tribute to some of the greats our gender has to offer....anyways, let me know what you think.

The Food Diary

2008-05-26T16:53:00.002+03:00

"A blog where there are rules for the lifestyle plan and this blog will be where you can post your daily entries. Anyone is welcome to join. Just add your email in the comment section or email shoush to receive an invitation to join the blog."
curently am writing about my daily gastronomical habits at The Food Diary, check it out its fun and healthy.

a perfect day in rome

2008-04-02T19:33:00.019+03:00

woke up in the early morning to the cool breeze coming from the open window, the weather was in a word, perfect.

had breakfast at the hotel, then took a short walk to the Spanish steps

had some gelato at the trevi fountain

walked along the Tiber river

and the castel San Angelo

stopped at st. peters basilica in Vatican city

saw the old ruins

the Colosseum

had dinner in front of the pantheon

and last but certainly not least, attended Manchester United vs. A.S Roma, and although Roma lost that day, the atmosphere and the crowd were simply an unforgettable end to a perfect roman day

interesting maps of how kuwait lost some of it's land

2008-03-30T10:24:00.004+03:00

link

be the "hottest, coolest, most famous bimbo in the whole world"

2008-03-29T14:03:00.004+03:00

thats the objective of a new online game thats getting a lot of attention these days.
the website, missbimbo.com offers the users a chance to make their inner dreams of becoming a true bimbo come true. you get a girl with little bimbo dollars, and you objective is to be famous and land a rich hubby. the tools at your disposal are diet pills, breast implants, and some racy lingerie. needless to say that this website has stirred up a lot of anger because of the "sexist and dangerous messages being sent to young women". oh btw, the creators of the website are both men, but they're french so...?

great movie's that time forgot

2008-03-24T22:57:00.003+03:00

CRAWLING TERROR
100 FEET HIGH!

other greats: 1, 2

I Am Kuwaiti-the music video

2008-03-16T04:18:00.001+03:00

Crazy Shopping Website

2008-03-07T17:24:00.003+03:00

If you ever lived in the states and stayed up in front of the television past 1 am then you've probably come across the infamous infomercials. The idea behind Honeyshed is a continuous stream of commercials brought to you by a bunch of insane young sales persons who sell the products with lines like "these jeans are good for a girl with a big ass." Check it out.

Pictures from Paris

2008-03-03T17:39:00.008+03:00

the only honest man in speakers corner

2008-02-24T20:49:00.002+03:00

the adi dassler story

2008-02-22T22:52:00.003+03:00

a site from Adidas that tells the story of Adi Dassler, the man behind Adidas. Created with stop motion with pieces of full motion video inlayed in it, to tell the story of Adi Dassler. A very creative way of telling the story, worth a look. Link

Chinese Fur Trade (not for the feint of heart)

2008-01-20T15:51:00.001+03:00

barbaric!

The new Startbucks iphone!

2008-01-15T01:59:00.000+03:00

A new application that lets you order your drink, customize it, and even pay for it all through your phone. Link

The Original Human TETRIS

2008-01-12T19:18:00.001+03:00

cats night out

2008-01-07T17:06:00.000+03:00

a few weeks ago i left home at night to go to dowaniya at around 8ish. As i was walking to my car i could hear a very loud mewo coming from somewhere in the street. Our neighborhood is inhabited by a rather large number of street cats, so it wasnt unusual to hear them. I unlocked my car and stopped my feet on the ground so to scar away anything that might be sitting under the car so i wouldnt accidentally squish them to death. So i get in the car, but i still can hear the cats mewo so i looked around to see if she was close to any of the wheels...nothing. I turn on my engine and the sound fades away. On my way i had the radio on high, therefore i couldnt possibly listen to anything coming from outside. On the way i stopped at a traffic signal when i saw a friend in the car next to me. I roll down my window and we chat a bit. The light turns green and we say g'bye, but before i roll up my window and blast the radio i hear a very clear mewo coming from under my car. Thats when i figured that the noise wasnt from under the car, but it was coming from inside the car! I couldnt stop right there, so for the next 5 minutes all i could hear was the loud mewo. When i finally got there i stopped and got out of the car. The sound had completely stopped by then. I popped the hood, but nothing, i looked under the car, still nothing. No sound. I thought that it either fell out on the road or just jumped out as soon as i stopped. So i go in the dowaniya and hang. 4 hours later i get back into the car and head home. And what do you think i heard along the way? The cats mewo! Still somewhere inside the car. When i finally get home i get a flash light and turn the car inside out looking for the cat. This time she didnt stop her cries, so i followed it until i saw a small head peeping from under the axle in a small pocket of plastic and metal. I try to reach and grab the cat to get it out of there but every time my hand came close, the cat went deeper inside. So i flashed a light towards where it could get out and waited. A few seconds later she slowly began to crawl out. Eventually she gathered the courage to jump out of the car completely. What i saw was the tiniest smallest little kitten ever who had the trip of a life time.

poop+urine+banana peals=great gas!

2008-01-06T16:36:00.000+03:00

Biogas that is. Believe it or not, a mixture of human poop and urine, added to banana peals, animal droppings, water hyacinth and algae is the new source of energy being used to power up the light bulbs in Uganda!
"It keeps the environment free of organic wastes, is convenient, time-saving and reduces smoke-related illnesses often associated with the use of firewood."explained Patrick Nalere, the Heifer Project International country director
The mixture creates enough methane gas to safely burn and distribute energy to where it is needed. Btw methane is the same gas found in...never mind. Read the rest of the article from treehugger which will explain how the residents of some of Uganda's towns are putting their shit together, literally, and saving energy.

toys for big boys

2008-01-06T01:58:00.000+03:00

We all know the saying "boys will be boys", we've heard it over and over again in songs and books and movies (i think, i only know the song) well, sometimes men will be boys too, and what do most boys need? Well of coarse that would be lots and lots of toys! Every big boy knows that the traditional market serves mostly to the wants of the other gender. Well there's this website i find that caters well to the wanting needs of the big boy inside all of us. Simply put and by their own words, Uncrate is a web magazine for guys who love stuff. Its that simple. Enjoy

Lasik Eye Surgery

2008-01-05T17:05:00.000+03:00

First let me just point out that am so glad to have finally gotten this surgery over and done with, and only a few days later am already seeing better then ever before with glasses. Naturally before the surgery i went around and asked a bunch of people i know who've done it before about how they felt about the surgery. Everyone responded well and pointed out how easy it was, like it was easier then going to the dentist.

Yeah Right! I'd rather go to the dentist any day of the week and twice on saturday then to have to go through another Lasik surgery again! Dont get me wrong, it was not painful at all, and am so happy with the results. Only the horror of having to sit there and having your eye lids pried open, watching them cut my cornea, seeing the little metal thingie remove a piece of it, smelling the laser burning the inside of my eye ball is just too much to take! I have never felt so tense in my life. Btw i have extremely sensitive eyes so this might not apply to everyone. Still just imagine, you are seeing every thing that the doctor is doing to your eye! Do you think that this was the hardest part? Not even close. The worst part of having done this procedure is not being able to go out, watch television, or even use the computer for a couple of days! You just stay home and stare at the wall in the dark. Well, i only lasted 2 and half days of what felt like solitary confinement. So, if you're thinking of getting this surgery then go ahead, get it. Its not painful, and it's definitely worth it. But truth be told, it's not as easy as anyone might say.

furnished apartment: the search

2007-12-27T12:57:00.000+03:00

There's something quite unsettling about renting a furnished apartment online. The sites where i've been doing most of my search have some brief description's and a few photos of the available apartments, but no matter how good they look in a picture it's still not the same as actually going there and seeing it for yourself. There's this one apartment in particular that i've been eyeing for a while. It's a hybrid between a one bedroom and a studio. The design is very modern and shar7. The location is unbeatable! Close to where i need to be and close to where i wanna be. Problem is i have to pay half upfront and it's almost impossible to cancel. So if there was a problem with it, for instance the owner photo editing somethings out of the apartment (which has happened) i'd be stuck with it. I could wait till i get there myself and take a look before i commit, but i run the risk of losing it to someone else, and i really dont wanna go there without having a clue where am gonna stay. Here's a picture of the apartment and if you look closer below the tv it kinda looks like something was photoshoped, i dont know you tell me.

get your very own brazilian name!

2007-12-25T18:05:00.000+03:00

"If you’re a fan of Brazilian football, you’ve seen them. Those single names on the back of the jerseys that often have very little to do with the players’ real, given names. Kaká is actually Ricardo Izecson dos Santos Leite" the offside...

Well, here's your chance to get a brazilian footballer name of your own. This blog's brazilian name is kuwaitinhosa!

how to add a couple of pages to a script?

2007-11-11T19:38:00.000+03:00

Mr. Rod-man

2007-11-11T00:36:00.000+03:00

when you think you've seen the worst from this guy, he goes out looking like this, very classy.

girlie song singing men syndrome

2007-11-09T15:11:00.000+03:00

A few days ago me and some of the guys were hanging out in our everyday dowaniya doing the usual doings of doing nothing productive but still having a good time. On any given day, someone is always bringing something from somewhere and is trying to forge a new niche to the lethargic but strangely inspired crew of the dowaniya dwellers (I love synonyms). Anyways, one of those days we got an xbox and started playing halo3. Yes grown men do love video games. 4 of us started playing a free for all match in which everyone was on his own trying to shoot down anyone in his hair trigger. After a lot of pre-game bragging we started the game and unfortunately one of my mates was particularly good at this, and soon enough the insults were flying around as much as the virtual bullets. Excitement ensued as the game went on, my friend was on a rampage as he shoots down the first, then the second, and finally I was dropped down hard. My friend ecstatic with his new found bragging rights he began taunting us as he cut us down one after the other, and as his voice started to rise he got so into the groove he suddenly starting yelling "yeahh baby yeaah, it's raiiining men baby halleluiah"! Needless to say the game ended right then and there because we just couldn’t stop laughing.

How many times had manly men falling victim to signing a girlie song? Honestly it's not our fault, some of those girlie songs have bad ass catchy tunes. I've heard a guy happily sing my humps, my lovely lady lumps, and another singing I aint no hollaback girl, hell I've been caught signing am a Barbie girl! I think girls should not be allowed to release catchy songs with words such as girls just wanna have fun ;p

Anyways, I leave you with the mother of all catchy girlie songs, here's The Weather Girl's song It's Raining Men. On a note, the group used to be called 2 Tons of Fun, and after seeing the video for the first time I understood why, so please enjoy 2 tons of bad 80''s video fun and a catchy tune that is bound to get some guy a dose of embarrassment hell some day.

blog action day: kuwait environmental blog

2007-10-15T11:12:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-14T09:16:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-13T13:33:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-13T07:42:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-13T03:23:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-11T14:57:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-07T02:28:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-02T01:12:00.000+03:00

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

2007-10-01T04:55:00.001+03:00

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.

wants for sale

2007-09-30T02:02:00.000+03:00

According to the secre t, if i constantly visualize what i want in life, think about it, see myself getting it and enjoying it, then the universe will work it's magic and mysteriously send me what i have been craving for. A lot of people believe that, but others choose to take the matter out of the universe's hand and get what they want themselves.
Christine and Justin are a young couple from New York who came up with this interesting idea of drawing what they wanted, and selling the painting for the exact price of what it is they wanted. For instance, they drew a painting of an iPhone and they plan to sell that painting for about $600, according to them exactly what it costs to buy one. Another example is a painting of buffalo wings, which they plan to sell for $12.7. I don't know how this is supposed to work for the abs and the joke paintings but the idea is very original and interesting. They sell their paintings on their wantsforsale website.

great movies that time forgot

2007-09-27T21:27:00.001+03:00

The nightmare terror
of the slithering eye that unleashed agonizing horror on a
screaming world

bored kuwaities are not stupid convention

2007-09-27T20:53:00.000+03:00

The host of the show in the stadium says "We are all here today to prove to the world that bored kuwaities are not stupid. Can I have a volunteer?" One bored kuwaiti steps up. The host says to him "What is 15 plus 15?" After 15 or 20 seconds he says "Eighteen."

Obviously everyone is a little disappointed. Then 80,000 bored kuwaities start cheering "Give him another chance, give him another chance." The host says "Well since we've gone to the trouble of getting 80,000 of you here and the world wide press, I guess we can give him another chance."

So he says "What is 5 plus 5?" After nearly 30 seconds he eventually says "Ninety?" The host sighs - everyone is crestfallen and the bored kuwaiti starts crying and 80,000 other bored kuwaities start yelling "Give him another chance, give him another chance."

The host, unsure whether or not he is doing more harm than damage, eventually says "Ok! One more chance. What is 2 plus 2?" The bored kuwaiti closes his eyes and after a whole minute eventually says "Four."

Around the stadium 80,000 bored kuwaities start yelling "Give him another chance, give him another chance."

the worst ad ever?

2007-09-27T03:17:00.000+03:00

Question: How do you combine the hosting of the rugby world cup and the slogan "capital of love" to create the perfect advertisement?

Answer:

poppa's got a brand new bag

2007-09-25T16:24:00.000+03:00

i wanted to change the template a very long time ago but never really got to it. Besides, i wouldnt know what to do exactly. But finally, with kuwait femme's help (she did everything, i just cheered) we have a new look! I might go crazy these next few days adding all sorts of things and widgets and trying new stuff. Oh, the theme as you can see clearly is tetris, the game am currently addicted to at work. I've put a small version of the game on the left and a slightly bigger one at the bottom of the blog, am gonna leave it like this until i decide which one to keep. So enjoy the game and the occasionally interesting posts :)

2007-09-23T15:35:00.000+03:00

ihate

2007-09-19T13:08:00.000+03:00

is it just me or is the iphone hype getting a little bit out of hand? i mean, look at the picture above, at first you'd think this guy won an olympic gold medal while overcoming cancer and saving a cat from a burning building all at once. I think apple has one of the worlds best marketing strategies and teams for getting people so worked up about a phone. Any blogger who checks safat is bound to find at least one person posting something about the new iphone everyday. I admit that i too fell under the Apple spell and put up an "iphone post" in this blog. Is it a good phone, sure it's good and more, do we have something better to talk about? definitly! So this is a public service message, please no more iphone posts, lets look at the big world out there, we're bound to find something more interesting to write about ;p

بس كويت

2007-09-18T21:06:00.001+03:00

I didnt expect to like it but this show turned out to be pretty funny, it's like fakir wirba7, which i love, only amal al awadi is the host, she's doing a good job in my opinion, this is the only clip of the show i found on youtube...enjoy