2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003Do you produce excess ear wax?
Do you have stretch marks?
Do you suffer from chicken skin on your upper arms?
Do you get spontaneous bleeding?
Do you have yellow palms?
Do you get bags or dark rings under eyes?
Do you have a pale appearance?
Do you get excess dandruff?
More… [Link]
Update: Seems my body is telling me I have major vitamin deficiencies!! Need to start eating healthy food or popping vitamin pills..
In 1976 the government established the Reserve Fund for Future Generations, into which it placed an initial US$7 billion. It resolved to invest 10 percent of its revenues annually in the reserve fund. Money from the fund, along with other government revenues, was invested in overseas property and industry. In the 1970s, most of these funds were invested in the United States and in Western Europe: in German firms (such as Hoechst and DaimlerBenz , in each of which Kuwait owned 25 percent), in property, and in most of the United States Fortune Five Hundred firms. In the 1980s, Kuwait began diversifying its overseas investments, placing more investments in Japanese firms. By the late 1980s, Kuwait was earning more from these overseas investments than it was from the direct sale of oil: in 1987 foreign investments generated US$6.3 billion, oil US$5.4 billion. The Financial Times of London estimated Kuwait’s overseas investments in early 1990 at more than US$100 billion, most of it in the Reserve Fund for Future Generations.
The Iraqi invasion proved the importance of these investment revenues. With oil revenues suspended, the government and population in exile relied exclusively on investment revenues, including sales of investments for sustenance, for their share of ongoing coalition expenses and for postwar reconstruction and repair of the vital oil industry. While these funds were depleted to $40-$50 billion after the war, they currently are estimated around $80 billion.
I hate it when I try to visit a site and its blocked. It doesn’t have to be porn, sometimes regular sites are blocked for no reason! This is why yesterday I signed up for Proxify. For $20 every 6 months I can access any site I want without worrying if its blocked or not. You can try it out for free but I think 20$ for 6 months is a very good deal. Incase Proxify.com gets blocked they have other secret urls you could use. Try it out. [Link]
A9.com has done a minor cleanup to their starting page, they also fixed up their Maps page. While maps.google.com shows you satellite images of countries, maps.a9.com is pictures from the ground of store fronts. Of course not all the cities are available and its only US cities but its still really cool. Using maps.a9 I was able to show Nat every shop I passed by when I was in New York on vacation. Shops which I had forgotten their names I was able to find by maps.a9. Try it out. [Link]
You guys know the movie The Terminal right? So you probably know that its based on a true story right? Well did you know the guy is STILL living in the airport? [Link]
War of the Worlds is coming out in Kuwait today, here are the movie showtimes:
Marina – 7:00PM
Marina – 9:15PM
Plaza – 9:15PM
Al-Sharqia – 9:45PM
Al-Fanar – 10:00PM
Al-Kout – 10:15PM
Laila – 10:45PM
Muhallab – 11:15PM
Al-Fanar – 12:15AM
Al-Sharqia – 12:15AM
Al-Kout – 12:30AM
Marina – 12:30AM
Muhallab – 12:30AM
You can book you tickets online using KNCC.com
I was at the Kuwait University today in Shuwaikh doing something for work. When I was done I passed by the cafeteria which to my surprise turned out to be segregated in half, I can’t believe they did that. The funniest part is the Starbucks which is located right in the middle of the dividing wall. So, what you get now is a Starbucks divided in half, half for guys half for girls. In the picture you can notice the white wall on the left, thats the wall that cuts Starbucks in half. I was standing in the male side of Starbucks when I took this picture. Really stupid.
When the movie SuperSize Me came out everyone was like “did you watch it did you watch it?” And I would be like “yeah its bullshit’. No one believed me.
Now a new movie is coming out called “Mickey D’s and Me” that supports my view. The movie is a documentary made by a woman called Soso Whaley who went on a McDonalds diet and ended up losing weight and cholesterol points! Soso believes people are responsible for their weight gain and not the restaurants which I believe is true. Click here to read her interview.
After checking out the Google Sightseeing website, I decided to make a collective of landmarks around Kuwait. I found a couple, if you guys can help me in finding some more it would be cool. This is what I have found:
Amir’s House
Baseball Fields
Bayan Palace
Entertainment City
Funky Circles
Green Island
Kuwait International Airport
Kuwait Towers
Kuwait University
Liberation Tower
Quarter Mile Race Track
Seif Palace
Shaab Leisure Park
Sheraton Roundabout
Souk Sharq
The other day I posted about how you can check out Kuwait using Google Maps, well I found a site that will take you sightseeing around the world using Google Maps, ever wanted to visit Disney Land, Buckingham Palace, or the Colosseum? What Google Sightseeing have done is find these and more famous landmarks using the satellite maps and then given us the links to them. I just sent them the Kuwait Towers link for them to add. Check out Google Sightseeing. [Link]
Update: This one is dedicated to Maryam, the Space Shuttle [Link]
This is the picture of the fake Hungry Bunny that I spoke about a few days ago thats opening on the 4th ring road. As you can see, although they are using a similar typeface and color scheme as the official Hungry Bunny, the main visual of the bunny rabbit is different.
Just yesterday I posted about the end of the Sub Club here in Kuwait but when I went to Sbarro for lunch they gave me their own version! Its only valid at Sbarro, Hardees, KFC and Baskin Robbins.. but the Fashionway branch. Order anything over KD1.200 from these 4 restaurants and they will give you a sticker. After 4 stickers you get your choice of either a Hardees or KFC combo for free! Offer valid till August 10th.
Was playing around with Google maps when I decided to check out Kuwait. It’s amazing! I didn’t think they would have Kuwait but they do. Now for some reason half of Salmiya is NOT available on Google and that half includes my house but a lot of other landmarks are available to spy on from above. Check out the Kuwait Towers and the Amirs house! [Link]
Update: Here is the link for an overhead shot of the airport. [Link]
It seems Flickr got banned yesterday in UAE. According to this discussion, Flickr got banned because of the nudity found on it. This said, the UAE users are blamming the people who are shooting nudes for the ban when they should be blaming their government.
Update: According to a comment left in this post the UAE flickr community will be moving to UAEflickr.com
Update 2: Can’t find nudes on Flickr? Try this link, followed by this link and then this link.
Just a note, the Hungry Bunny opening on the 4th ring road is NOT the official one. Thank you.