Category: Kuwait

Around 10 days ago a fire broke out in the building right in front of my office and today a fire broke out in the building to the side of my office. The firefighter in the picture above was really pissed off at the other firefighters driving the fire trucks since they all parked in the wrong area and he was trying to get them to park in front of the main entrance of the building. He was screaming at everyone and even at the cops who had parked their car strategically between the firetrucks and the building on fire. I snapped a few shots and then left for lunch.

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The US Embassy will be having a Mari Gras event on April 18th at the US Embassy starting at 6PM. I will try to get more information on this event but I am guessing there will be a lot of beer available and I am hoping a lot of girls flashing, but most probably no topless girls just beer.

We needed an ambulance at our office because a guy with diabetes fainted due to low sugar (or something like that). We called 777 and within 5 minutes the paramedics arrived. I am impressed.

Last weekend (March 23) was the Ferrari road show. 35 Ferrari’s participated in the event and they drove 70KM from Sha’at en-Gifa’a on Bida’a Road to Kempinski Hotel Julai’a. Here are 3 pictures from that event.

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Note: Pictures were not taken by me.

I passed by my favorite videogame store in Rihab Complex yesterday. I wanted to get Sonic Rush for my Nintendo DS and also check out the new DS Lite while I was at it. So I went into the store and shook hands with the owner and he asks me why I haven’t been passing by. I was honest and I told him that I am just downloading games right off the web. He was like yeah thats the best thing to do, but I got the feeling he wasn’t very pleased. Ok so this post isn’t as dramatic as the the title made it out to be…

Today I passed by Aramex to pick up some old packages I had lying over at their place plus to pick up the package Ananyah sent me earlier in the month. She told me she was sending me a cookie monster doll which from the picture looked like some cool tiny phone sized thingy. To my shock the doll turned out to be pretty big and not only that she sent me two fucking cookie monster dolls, a cookie monster tshirt, a gift for Nibaq AND a whole bunch of chocolate munchies for Nat! Really cool stuff and best of all Geo is having a blast playing with whats left of the colorful wrapping paper and packaging. Thank you Ananyah!!

Click here to check out the pictures of the goodies

Another cool thing I found on flickr, the pictures above were taken on a beach in Kuwait by Psycho Milt. They are both pictures of the same car except the first one was taken back in September and the second one taken mid March. Pretty cool.

Also if you like shots of crashed cars, Psycho Milt has a whole bunch of them which he shot here in Kuwait. You can check those out by clicking the links below:

Crashed cars of Kuwait 2005
Crashed cars of Kuwait 2006

I was flipping through flickr when I found pictures of this guys room at the Hilton Resort in Mangaf. The guy I think works with the US military and has atleast 5 laptops in there with a whole bunch of equipment that would fit nicely with Jack Bauer. You can see the pictures on the guys flickr account by clicking [here] but I also saved the images and linked them below incase he decides to remove them.

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I just heard that Totally Fish has now opened at Marina Crescent.

As most of you know you can’t use Firefox with Watani online, so I called customer support and they gave me an email I should send my complaint to, [email protected]

This is the email I just sent:

Hi, I spoke with an IT person earlier and he advised me to email you my complaint.

I am a Mac user and I can’t access Watani Online. When I try to access Watani Online with Firefox or Safari it tells me to download Internet Explorer. But when I went to the Microsoft site to download Internet Explorer I got a message saying the following:

INTERNET EXPLORER FOR MAC NO LONGER AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
In June 2003, the Microsoft Macintosh Business Unit announced that Internet Explorer for Mac would undergo no further development, and support would cease in 2005. In accordance with published support lifecycle policies, Microsoft ended support for Internet Explorer for Mac on December 31st, 2005, and is not providing any further security or performance updates.

Accordingly, as of January 31st, 2006, Internet Explorer for the Mac is no longer available for download from Microsoft. It is recommended that Macintosh users migrate to more recent web browsing technologies such as Apple’s Safari.

https://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/internetexplorer/internetexplorer.aspx

But when I use Safari I get an error and I can’t use IE because its not available anymore. Could you please allow Mac users to access Watani Online with FireFox or Safari. If not could NBK provide its customers with a CD that contains Internet Explorer for the Mac. But again, I am thinking that if Microsoft is recommending Safari it means IE on the Mac isn’t secure in the first place so I am not sure I would like to use IE anyway to access my bank records.

Awaiting your reply

If you are a mac user and have a complaint send it to the same email address.

Summer is here and guess what just arrived at my doorstep… 2 liters of Boozah Boozah ice-cream. Boozah Boozah belongs to the same group of young Kuwaitis that own Choowy Goowy cookies. I will have some ice-cream tomorrow night when Nat comes back from Dubai and then probably post a review.

If you are looking for a good deal on a Mac I will be posting two ibooks for sale in the next few days. One is a 12inch G3 600mhz the other a 14inch G4 1GHz. I am just waiting to get some pics of the ibooks and their finals specs and I will post everything online. The prices will be very good as usual like everything else I have previously posted for sale on this blog.

I took route 55 to get to the airport from my Kuwait City office and it was my first and last time I take that road to the airport. Too many traffic lights, lots of traffic, and just totally not the right way to get there fast. Anyway I am stuck in traffic and I look to my left and I see two Kuwaiti girls in a car. They look in their 20’s, the one driving looked like a nerd and her friend I guess looked decent. I didn’t think of them much and traffic started moving. We get to the next traffic light and they are still next to me. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed the decent looking girl was doing something, I didn’t turn to look because I didn’t want her to think I was checking her out or anything so I ignore it. Traffic light turns green we start moving and I look to my left and suddenly the decent looking girl is wearing a black hijab and her face is covered and you can just see her eyes. I was like what the fuck is going on here? We each drove off in different directions but I didn’t really understand what happened. Can anyone enlighten me on this? Is this like a normal thing?

Yesterday I had lunch at the newly opened Johnny Rockets branch right across the street from Al-Oustoura and Salhiya Complex in Kuwait City. I have to say its the best designed branch so far.. they actually have movable tables and chairs! Finally you can visit Johnny Rockets if you are a group larger then 4. When you go there though make sure you visit the bathroom beforehand since they don’t have a bathroom in the restaurant and you need to walk over to one of the neighboring malls if you want to use one. If you want to know how to find the place, go to the Sheraton roundabout in Kuwait City, then take the exit towards JW Marriott Hotel which would put Sheraton and KFC on your left hand side. Then take your first right which would take you to the front entrance of Salhiya Complex. You should see Valet Parking guys waiting there plus Al-Oustoura and Chopard on your left hand side. This would put Johnny Rockets on your right hand side but you won’t be able to see it but its there. Park your car (preferably in the underground parking over there). Then, if you are standing right in-front of Al-Oustoura start walking away from it and you should hit Johnny Rockets after like 25 meters or something. Here is the area on google maps. [Map]

Sultan Center are selling AstroBoy toy robots. The one in the picture above has a hand scanner that reads these special trading cards and in return they change the lights and noise he makes. And its cheap for only KD5!