2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003
The Economist have an article on smoking and how even with all the warnings on the packets and the increase in knowledge that smoking is bad for you, in some countries smoking is still on the rise. Kuwait happens to be one of those countries. We’re definitely not nearly as bad as Myanmar and Lebanon but still bad enough to warrant a position on their chart above. Check out the full article [Here]
Thanks Narain
If you take all these crazy videos from Saudi and mash them together into one, it would make a pretty cool Saudi tourism video. [YouTube]
The Kuwaiti criminal court sentenced on Sunday four suspects to death for killing a Lebanese doctor with a cleaver in December last year.
Samir Yousef Jaber, 26, a Lebanese dentist born of a Kuwaiti mother, was repeatedly stabbed with the cleaver following a disagreement with the four young men at Avenues Mall.
It seems all four individuals involved in the murder will be getting the same sentence. [Link]
Cool post from the blog Stuck on Vintage about how you don’t need an expensive outfit to look good. She purchased the cool dress above from Souk Mubarakiya for just KD1.5. Check out her post [Here]
A fire that caught a Kuwait University (KU) facility early on Saturday has been quenched, a university official said.
Firemen responded immediately to a call from Kuwait University warning that there was a fire at an under construction KU building, and managed to put the conflagration under control within a record time, Dr. Rana Al Fares, the chief of the construction program of the Sabah AlÂSalem University City, said in news remarks.
The fire initially caught the 8Â000Âsqm College of Education for Girls and then moved to the 9,000Âsqm nearby College of Arts for Girls due to winds, she said. [Source]
The fire looked huge I’m surprised they were able to put it out by evening time. [YouTube]
A reader sent me the picture above of what looks like a maid sitting in the trunk of the car. #wtf
Thanks Phil via @WaleedAlsubaie
Local blogger Abdulla was on his way home late at night when he found a cat stuck in the sewers. Him and his friends tried to rescue the cat to no avail and as they were about to give up they decided to call 112. They didn’t think they would be willing to help but called just as a last resort and to their surprise (and mine), the 112 emergency service responded professionally and sent a fire department team to help save the cat.
You can read the full story on Abdulla’s blog [Here]
Who Took My Lizard is the creation of the multi talented artistic genius that is Lewis Chapman. He is a master painter, insane musician, teacher and even created the lizard costume itself! We filmed this video all over interesting spots in Kuwait. For future videos and projects with the lizard fan created content about lizards will be used so get those creative juices flowing and hit up the websites below to find out more about this amazing project and of course the always cool Lizard itself! The song was originally acoustic but he and master producer Amin Fari teamed up to make it a fun dance track for everyone to enjoy. [YouTube]
Photo by @ovnadal
Gizmodo have a post on views from the world’s tallest buildings and a photo by Pedro Dashti made the list. It’s the photo above taken from the top of Al Hamra Tower. Check out all 22 photos [Here]
Thanks Nasser
A 3D tour of the new Al Manshar Mall in Fahaheel that will be replacing the old one. Looks pretty big. [YouTube]
Thanks Eddie
A reader (Alex) is starting a series of 360 landscape shots which he’s calling “Landscape in Motion”. The first of the series starts off under a bridge outside Kuwait City and you can interact with it by clicking [Here]
Make sure you click the “Stand Here” icons when you see them to be transported to a different location. And yeah Kuwait does look really beautiful in these shots.
A few days back an Instagram user going by the handle @aymanalruwayeh posted a picture of the beach near Shuwaikh showing how dirty it was. Someone from NBK ended up seeing that picture and decided to gather up some volunteers from the bank and go clean up the beach. Pretty cool initiative.
