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Information Internet Kuwait Mags & Books

Bazaar Magazine Knows Shit

bazaar

I just read a post on K The Kuwaiti’s blog about an article in Bazaar magazine on local bloggers. While the whole world is talking about bloggers and realizing their online importance, our local Bazaar magazine seems to think us bloggers don’t have a life and are just a bunch of loser hermits living at home. I guess that article basically summarizes the magazine’s naive mentality. I should blame the author of the article but I would rather blame the editor instead since he was the one who approved this crap. Maybe the Bazaar editor should try using the Internet one time and maybe check up on the definition of bloggers before he would agree to allowing a lame ass article like that get published. Oh well, it is Bazaar in the end so you can’t expect too much intelligence. [Link]

Picture by Nibaq




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Automotive Kuwait

Pimped-Out Envoy

envoy pimped

My friend told me about this place in Kuwait that can pimp out your car by making your doors open vertically instead of horizontally.. like Lamborgini’s. I think he said it costs KD1000 per door or something. So today on my way back home from work I saw this pimped out envoy with the doors open and I took a quick picture.

Oh and earlier tonight I was crossing the traffic light (walking) behind this old Ford Bronco when I saw a sticker on his rear window that said “Don’t Look Inside”, so I looked inside and wow, the guy had the whole interior of the car laid out with speakers on the bottom and the amps all around the inside windows. There were atleast 12 subs and an equal amount of amps all laid out. Really cool shit.




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Kuwait Personal

Eid Al-Fitr

I have time off from Thursday 3rd of November till Sunday 6th of November due to Eid Al-Fitr. Our office in Saudi Arabia though will be out from tomorrow Wednesday 2nd till the 8th!!




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Commercials Funny Kuwait

Wataniya Ads

wataniya

I was coming in to work today when I briefly saw an ad on the street which at first glanced looked like Coca Cola had some sort of deal with Sony Ericsson. When I got to the office someone was talking about the new Wataniya ads with Rotana. So I go to the Wataniya website and there was the ad I saw in the morning. It wasn’t Coca Cola with Sony Ericsson, it was Wataniya with Rotana and Nokia!




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Apple Kuwait Shopping

Eureka Macs

I think Eureka are living in a world of their own. I past by yesterday and they had the old 15inch powerbooks for KD1115 which is $3818 making it nearly $2000 more expensive then the new 15inch PowerBooks. Way to go Eureka! I think they are officially the most expensive Mac store in Kuwait.




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Information Kuwait Links

Rampurple is Back

From the makers of Rampurple – Days Go By, Rampurple – The Evolution Continues is about the latest phase in my life. Part 2 in this series of blogging. Enjoy! [Link]




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Events Kuwait Music

Rock Concert

I just got the following message with bad punctuation about a rock concert that will take place in Kuwait but it doesn’t even say where the place is and I have no clue who sent it to me:

Rock Show on 24th of November ! ,thursday, doors open at 6 . Band silent scream . For tickets call: rashid 9551602 or max 6224577 . “BE THERE” !!




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Information Kuwait

Comment from Aramex

aramex

Someone from Aramex left the following comment in one of my posts:

Dear valued customers, we thank you for your valued feedback and comments on our very special and unique ShopN’Ship service. Rest assured that all your comments and complaints are being taken into considerations; We are taking things up to top management to plan for necessary corrective and preventive actions to make sure all these problems would never recur again and our customers are happy at the end and satisfied. We are taking some newly measures and changes which we are sure it will improve our service level drastically and provide you with utmost satisfaction. All your comments and feedback are highly appreciated and welcome to our mail address [email protected] where they will all be recorded and logged into our system for review and investigation. Always at your service. Rabih Jabboury.

Hopefully what he said is true and things are going to get better. What new service I would like to see is maybe a mail back to sender option where we could ship products back to the States incase of damages or returns.

Update: Turns out the service IS available!

Dear Mr Mark,
Returning a package to USA which was originally shipped as SNS shipment is possible depending on goods itself and its value. USA have some tighten customs regulations on imported goods into their country. Whenever you have any such case please feel free to contact us back at [email protected] prividing us with original ARAMEX airway bill number which you received the shipment under, description of the content and its original value. Always at your service. Rabih




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Information Interesting Kuwait

Fight Fight Fight!!

fight fight fight

Fuck my luck, I have been waiting all day for a decent shot of something and finally when it happens turns out my camera was set on manual focus! Me and Nat where standing at the traffic light which had 3 lanes. We were parked the third row middle. Suddenly a car pulls up beside us with two people in it. The passenger wearing local clothing gets out and goes to the car infront of him and starts punching the passenger there. The driver then follows him and starts kicking in the side windows of the car infront of him and smashing them. By then I had my camera out (it was on my side since I was shooting earlier) and I started taking pictures. Then I realized my camera was out of focus and wasnt focusing because it was set on manual. Suddenly the car that was getting attacked climbs the sidewalk, nearly runs over the guy in local clothing who was trying to hang on to the car, and then crosses the red light nearly hitting an oncoming car. The two attackers get back into their car and rush off in a high speed chase through traffic. Our light turned green so I tried to follow them but it was impossible since they were weaving in through heavy traffic dangerously and then they ran another red light. It was such a rush watching all this happen and it all happened so fast. Damn my luck for having my camera in manual focus. I am sure they would have been interesting pictures. The picture above was the only picture I was able to take after quickly putting my camera on autofocus again. You can see the local guy on the floor and the car jumping off the curb through traffic. You can also see where that car was parked.




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Kuwait Sports

Brazil Vs Kuwait

Nat just scored us 2 free tickets to the Brazil Vs Kuwait soccer game next month. I’ve always wanted to watch Kuwait play soccer live and this will be my first time. I would have rather watched Kuwait vs Saudi but this will have to do.




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Kuwait Photography

B-Side 019 2/12/04

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Was flipping through my Miskan archive when I found this picture dating back to February of this year which for some reason I never ended up using. Looking at it now I think its a lot cooler then the image I finally decided to use that day.




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Apple Kuwait

3 Gifts Left

Two days ago I posted about an offer that if you purchase a 4GB iPod Nano from zMacShop for KD88 and mention my blog you will get a free unpowered boom box for it in addition to the free sleeve. Well just to keep you updated there are only three more gifts left. So hurry up.




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Apple Kuwait

FOR SALE: 4GB iPod mini

iPod mini
Blue Color, 4GB (First Generation)
Excellent condition, with no scratches
Will include case for Free
Asking Price: KD40

If you are interested leave a comment and I will send you contact info.

Note: These ipod’s I post about for sale are NOT mine. They are for people I know.




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Kuwait Photography

B-Side 347 26/10/05

car wreck

Todays B-Side is from a car wreck near McDonalds on the Gulf Road.
Click here for the Miskan post.




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Apple Kuwait

FOR SALE: 6GB iPod mini

iPod mini
Green Color, 6GB (Second Generation)
Good condition, 1 minor scratch
Will include case for Free
Asking Price: KD50

If you are interested leave a comment and I will send you contact info.