Author: Mark

Supposedly it tastes like a pizza-flavored Whopper. [Link]

Picture from Me So Hungry

I passed by a nose doctor a few days ago because I wanted him to check on my nose since it’s always blocked plus I sneeze a lot. He told me I most probably had an allergy and suggested I pass by an allergy doctor to find out. I did that today and ended up getting an allergy test done.

I was expecting to get a blood test but the doctor told me she had a more effective method. Basically she took my arm and marked down around 11 letters with a pen. She then started placing drops of various liquids under the letters and then pricking my skin where the liquid drops were located. The drops represented different things I could be allergic to like dust, humidity, dust mites etc.. but just allergies that would effect my respiratory. I then had to wait for 15 minutes so she could check if any of the dots on my arm reacted, one did. Turns out I am allergic to dogs which sucked since I’ve got a dog and have had one for like 5 years now. Before that dog my family had a dog as well so I’ve always been around dogs.

Luckily it turns out there is a vaccine for my allergy which works by desensitization (picture above). For the next 3 years every morning I need to place a few drops of vaccine under my tongue. After 1 year I will be immune to dogs but I need to continue to take the vaccine for 2 more years after that. It was a pretty educational experience and a very easy process so I would recommend anyone who thinks they might be allergic to something to get the test done. For more information check the following website [Link]

30 people got hurt. They should just ban bull fighting already. [YouTube]

Taken from the Arab Times, August 16th issue, page 4.

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Very entertaining to watch. Personally I can’t keep a yoyo going if my life depended on it. [YouTube]

Trailer for the upcoming 60 second commercial which will be released next month. Those of you who don’t know Frank Miller, he is the comic book artist behind Sin City. [YouTube]

According to the latest Fast Food Survey by Zagat, the best burger in America comes from Virginia-based chain Five Guys.

I would have to completely agree based on my experience. [Link]

Enthiran according to Wikipedia is the costliest movie ever made in Asia costing around $40,615,760. It’s Terminator meets Bollywood. [YouTube]

Thanks Nand

I posted a couple of days back about how AlQabas newspaper stole an image from a Bahraini blogger and published it in the newspaper. Well just an update, Aysha the blogger will be contacting a lawyer who will be sending a letter to AlQabas. Depending on the response they get they will then decide what action to take. Personally I am curious to see what the outcome of this will be.

On another note, I emailed the editor of Arab Time asking him if he was aware of various cases in which they copy pasted posts from local bloggers into their newspaper without giving any credit. I haven’t gotten a reply yet.

This is pretty insane. [Link]

There is a guy in Kuwait called Sa’ad who seems to be a pizza fanatic. He recently submitted his pizza ingredients to Serious Eats and ended up getting featured there which is pretty cool. You can check out the post and pictures by clicking this [Link]

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In Kuwait we’ve got the Facebook Cafe while in Lebanon it seems they have the Facebook Pub. Spotted this today in front of a nail salon called Hotnail.com (seriously).

A Bahraini blogger called Aysha was surprised to find out that not only did Al-Qabas newspaper steal one of her pictures and publish it in the newspaper but that the picture they stole was a picture of herself. She was completely shocked and surprised to find her picture plastered in Al-Qabas and now wonders if there is anything she can do. She has a full write up on her blog which you can check by clicking this [Link]

Sadly I doubt there is anything she can do about this and we all know this isn’t the first time that Al-Qabas uses pictures without permission.

What’s probably stranger than these cards is the fact that people still send Ecards… [Link]

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I always forget how terrible the Internet is in Lebanon until I get here and then I either want to throw my laptop out the window or save myself from this misery and jump out myself. I can’t live like this!

Update: Ran a SpeedTest and ended up with the results above