Author: Mark

Spotted on Failaka.

Photo by q8tifarmer

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This video has been circulating the web for the past 2 days (warning it’s graphic) but I was wondering if anyone else thinks it could be a fake? For some reason this feels like a Saudi awareness campaign to try and show the guys who street drift like this what could happen. The car rollover effects also kinda reminds me of [This]

Update: Frankom just shared with me some more videos of this incident in the comments below and I’m not starting to think it’s real.

The number of Indians living in in Kuwait has quadrupled in the past decade to an estimated 650,000 – making them the country’s largest foreign population. For a long time seen as blue collar workers – now a new generation of Indian businessmen are changing the perception of their community by being partners in some of Kuwait’s top firms. Howard Johnson has been to Kuwait to explore the secret of the Indian community’s success. [YouTube]

Note to self: I need to try Amman Bhelpuri.

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Looks like it’s a new restaurant(?) that opened up in Jabriya. The video wall looks pretty cool. Blogger HeshoQ8 has a review of it over [Here]

Partnerships Technical Bureau (PTB) has stated it expects the Metro to begin operating by 2020, and that the first phase of the development will extend more than 54km and be serviced by 28 stations, nine of which will be underground.

We finally got a date! [Source]

While at the Avenues I spotted the Kindle Fire at Office Depot. They’re selling it for KD85 which is around KD25 more expensive than Amazon (without tax and shipping). They also had a few accessories for the Kindle Fire but didn’t spot any of the regular Kindle’s there.

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Ajarco Services & Equipment are planning to do a cleanup of Kubbar Island tomorrow, the details are below:

We would also like to take this opportunity to announce our Second KUBBAR Island cleaning campaign that is scheduled for coming Saturday 26th of May 2012 to clean up the remaining debris and other litter.

During this event you can test drive our New 2012 model ARGO HDi Special Edition amphibious ATV (www.argoatv.com).

All are welcome to volunteer for this event (up to 10 persons, first come basis), and those people who would like to join us with their boats can team up with us at the Island.

All arrangements for food and beverages will be made by us only thing which volunteers are requested to bring is their backpacks.

All this will depend upon the weather condition so please check our facebook page (fb/ajarco) for timely updates.

If weather permits we will be leaving the docking harbor at Fintas behind coast guard building around 11 am and all are requested to reach there before 11.

Please let us know if any further assistance is required.

The amphibious ATV sounds like fun. Check out the video above of their last cleanup and visit their Facebook if you’re interested [Link]

In my “WiMD Internet – 3 Months Later” post I noted on how my connection’s overall speed had decreased. Turns out the issue was with the wireless connection from my building to their tower since after running tests with their server I noticed I was only getting around 5Mbps instead of 10. The problem has now been fixed and I reran the speedtest and here are the updated results:

I was satisfied with my connection when it wasn’t performing at it’s best since I hadn’t really noticed a drop but now that it’s back to normal I’m even more confident I made the right choice going with WiMD.

Last September I got a tip saying that Prada was coming to Kuwait and opening up at 360 Mall but according to a recent interview with the CEO he stated the following:

“We are expanding in Morocco, Istanbul, Beirut, Dubai and Qatar” [Source]

What about Kuwait? I guess it could be the CEO just forgot to mention Kuwait…

With a massive dust storm still clearing up 965 Crew’s Doss felt the need to head down to Marina Waves and dance on the Edge Of Kuwait Kuwait’s Shoreline. He did two completely different dances in one take for each. They were both so good I had to use them the first is snappier while the second is smoother. You decide which you like.

Nice track. [YouTube]

The Historical, Vintage & Classic Car Museum is holding their 2nd ever Automotive Photography Contest starting from now till June 2nd which will be the last day you can submit your shots.

The following are the categories of the contest:
Best Photo of a car
Micro Photo of the Car
Black and White
People’s Choice (voted on by the museum visitors)

The prizes for first place are KD500, second place 300 and third 200. Each of the top 50 will also get KD50. The overall winners will also get KD1,000 for first, 750 for second and 500 for third. So there is a substantial amount of money to be won here.

I went through the rules, everything seems ok, the only issue I had was with the following statement:

– When you participate in the competition you will grant the Museum ALL copyright of the images submitted, and you may not reclaim any rights.

At first I thought they meant that they will basically own the photos after you submit them but turns out they just mean they will have the right to use and reprint the images for calendars, posters etc.. without requiring your permission which is fine by me.

I’ll most likely be taking part with my McLaren and Fiat 500 shots if I can figure out where to get my photos printed and boarded. If you’re also interested to participate then download the PDF with the full details of the competition from [Here]

Spotted by a friend at Mubarek Hospital. [Link]

Note: For non-Arabic speakers, it says “ward 10” in Arabic

UFC legend and hall of famer Royce Gracie is going to be back in Kuwait again next month for another Jiu-Jitsu seminar. It’s for men and women and will be held on June 25 and 26. For more information visit the Sidekick Academy Facebook page [Here]

I found out about Instajelly from a Forum user and after trying it out I think it’s the best web Instagram viewer out there. I like the way it displays all my images in a nice clean format and I also like the fact you could read the comments and then comment on photos all from within the website.

I think I’ve kinda slowly slowly been moving away from Twitter towards Instagram. Pictures are always a lot more interesting than words. Anyway you can check out my Instagram account using Instajelly right over [Here]

A group of Kuwaiti MPs is heading to Switzerland in a bid to persuade the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to allow the Gulf state to compete in the London 2012 Olympics.

Kuwait, banned from Olympic events and funding since 2010 amid allegations of political interference, has proposed a raft of measures aimed at reinstating its athletes’ in the international sporting event, state news agency KUNA reported. [Source]

Ouch! I didn’t know we were banned from the olympics. That must suck for the Kuwaiti shooters who qualified.