2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

Last week I posted about the new order here intercom system at the Gulf Road McDonalds thinking it was something new in Kuwait (sorry I don’t use drive-thru much) and it turned out to be something old… very old. BUT, now that the system is setup I noticed the McDonalds one has a screen right under the mic where you place your order. How it works is you place your order by talking into the mic and then the employee at the other end punches in your order into their system and you get to see what you are ordering on the screen in front of you. So say you ordered a Big Mac combo and she heard it as a Quarter Pounder combo, you would be able to see that on the screen and correct her mistake. Now don’t shoot me if it turns out this system is available at every bakala in Kuwait, I haven’t seen it before myself.

Judging by the picture it looks like the Al-Zayani garage in Al-Rai is on fire. Zayani = Bugatti, Bentley, Ferrari, Jaguar and Maserati.

Thanks Nibaq

Update: It seems its the building next to Al-Zayani garage that caught fire, Al Baghali Sponge. Your Ferraris and Bentleys are safe.

Update2: And here is a video of the fire.

[YouTube]

Four years ago I posted asking what you guys were going to do with the KD200 the government was giving everyone. Today I read the government is giving every Kuwaiti KD1000. That’s a bigger chunk of change so what are your plans for the thousand dinars?

Update: I just realized something. KD1000 x 1.12 million Kuwaitis = KD1,120,000,000 which = $3,964,601,780 which = the same price it cost to build Disneyland Paris. We could have had… Disneyland Kuwait!

Just found out a huge fire broke out last night at the Agility warehouse. Hopefully no one got hurt since the fire looks huge. I hope my boxes of Coco Puffs are also safe. If you work at Agility and have information on this fire or pictures please [Contact Me]

Update: Here is a video, the fire is HUGE [YouTube]

Update2: An Agility employee had the following to say regarding this fire:

Hi Mark… Just wanted to set the record straight after seeing some of the comments about the Agility fire. I am an Agility employee. We’ve lost a 20,000 sqm warehouse last night which was occupied by our commercial customers only. No US army business was conducted there. Luckily no employees were hurt and we are working on multiple fronts to normalize operations for our clients who have been very supportive.

Funny t-shirt and it’s being sold on Amazon. [Link]

Thanks G45

This happened earlier today in Shuwaikh where Tilal Complex is.

Thanks Ali

Kuwait’s came 61st in the 2011 Index of Economic Freedom with a score of 64.9. Its scored 2.8 points lower than last year, with declines in five of the 10 economic freedoms, including a large drop in labor freedom. In the Middle East and North Africa, Kuwait ranked 8th out of 17 countries. It’s the only GCC country to drop in points but it’s overall score is still well above the world and regional averages.

Bahrain came in 10th place in the full world ranking.

Here is a link to the full ranking [Link]
Here is a link to the detailed breakdown of Kuwait’s score [Link]

Thanks FYI

At the end of December I went ahead and turned 2:48PM into a community blog which is a blog in which anyone can create an account and publish articles. I’ve simplified the process of signing up and posting as much as I can to help make it easy for people who’ve never blogged before. The blog isn’t without some rules though and every post that gets published passes through me first before appearing on the blog. The reason for that has to do more with quality control and not censorship.

So if you’re interested in posting on 2:48PM, just go ahead and sign up. [Link]

On yesterday nights episode of Arabs Got Talent on MBC4, a Kuwaiti opera singer and the Kuwaiti PK Jaguars made it to the next round. I couldn’t find a video of the Kuwaiti opera singer but the video above is of the PK Jaguars. [YouTube]

Update: To watch the Kuwaiti opera singer click [Here]. He kicks ass!

The weather was pretty cold today but a lot of people passed by the Gulf Run car show at 360 Mall. I got there at 1PM, had lunch at OFK and then spent the rest of the day hanging out at the GulfRun stand. Tomorrow is the last day for the show so pass by if you can and check out all the cars. I’m probably going to be there all day again tomorrow.

The video above is in Arabic but its about savings in the GCC. Kuwait and Saudi scored the lowest in terms of savings while 93% of the people questioned believed their savings were inadequate for their future needs. [YouTube]

The GulfRun race day is creeping up quickly just over a week left before everyone heads out to Bahrain for the two day event. Today everyone got together at the Al Falah car wash in Kuwait City to give the cars a nice rinse before applying the final sponsor stickers and heading out to 360 Mall where they will be parked the next two days for the car show.

The car show in being held at 360 Mall on Friday and Saturday (Jan 14 & 15). You will be able to check out all the cars up close, buy some Gulf Run merchandise and also raffle tickets to win some great prizes. Here is the link to the Gulf Run website [Link]

Organica Fish & Chipshve opened up their second branch yesterday. Their new branch is located in Salmiya, Salem Mubarek Street near AUK. Trying to be Fahad posted about some of their product benefits which you can read [Here]

Here is the link to the Organica Fish & Chips Facebook group [Link]

The blog Cyrographics took the video above of this SUV burning in the middle of the road. Not sure how a car suddenly bursts into flames but it seems to be a common occurrence. The picture below is of whats left of the car. More pictures and details available [Here]

So last week I posted about how I was against making my street greener before the garbage issue gets sorted. Well the street is now 3 days away from being completed and it’s starting to look good. Maybe this new look will encourage people not to litter.