2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

I went jet skiing today and took my new cheap ass water proof camera (pictured above) to try out. The result? Astonishing! Because the camera is so cheap and poorly built I think while winding the film or rewinding, the internal plastics rubbed against the film scratching it. The end result were photos that look like they were taken decades old! The heavy vignetting (the darkening near the corners) also came out pretty cool. Overall I love the effect and it came as a complete surprise.

I just got an American mango (top left of photo) from Dean & Deluca to try out and it was terrible, nothing like regular mangoes. It just tasted really really horrible, the worst mango I have ever had and by far! I hope I’ve not been scarred for life..

Three Kuwaitis, Muhanad Al-Sultan, Husain Ashkanani and Ali Al-Bairami are going to ride their motorcycles around the world through 17 countries in a trip that will last around 120 days. They’ve set up a blog called “Our Shared Planet Motorcycle Adventure” where they will be documenting the ride which I think takes off from today. Their trip is sponsored by the Public Authority for Youth and Sports. Here is the [Link]

Thanks Dhari!

Looks like they were caught filming for the new season with a Lamborghini SV, Bugatti Veyron, Mercedes SLR 722 and a McLaren F1. [YouTube]

Thanks Yo_ghurt!

This appeared as a flier in one of the local newspapers.

Thanks Ginni!

A friend of mine at the office just bought a BlackBerry Curve 8900 from Carrefour for KD120. Comes with a QWERTY keyboard even!

Update: The actual price is KD127.750 and they were out of stock today (May 16) but they told me they would be getting some more tomorrow.

I can actually see the sand storm coming!

Update: It’s here…

I just got a phone call telling me they were talking about me and my blog on the radio, on FM98.4. I’ve never heard of this station before but supposedly its an English station? Did anyone hear the conversation?

Found this at Boots and thought it was funny. Must be serious business though since it costs a whopping KD65!

I just had a box of jumbo Alphonso mangoes delivered to me. Last time I ordered the regular ones but am going to be trying the jumbo ones now. The shipment arrived from India just a few hours ago and they’re all sold out. I wanted to buy another box but now I have to wait till next Friday (not this one) for another box.

The jumbo mangoes are KD9.
If you want to order a box call them on 99880008

I just had my endoscopy procedure. My appointment was at 7PM at the International Clinic. At 7:20 I finally go in and got prepared for the procedure. By 7:45PM the doctor was still not there and I had been waiting on the bed with a needle in my arm and I was getting fed up. I told the nurse if in 5 minutes the doctor doesn’t come remove the needle and other stuff connected to me cuz I wanted to leave. Its not like its an exciting procedure that I really want to get done and I can go do it anywhere else. Finally doctor came in and I don’t remember much after that. I ended up going to sleep and waking up a short while later with Nataly and a friend next to me. I was told the procedure didn’t work because the salad I had for lunch was blocking the way. Now I have to go back tomorrow and do the procedure again.

Now I tweeted the whole process with pictures on my twitter account. I only couldn’t tweet after I fell asleep but the before and after is all there for your viewing pleasure. Check it out on https://www.twitter.com/mark248am

I need to get a high speed video camera! I am going to ask the guys if I could be in the next video maybe with the Wrangler taking a few jumps or something. [YouTube]

I put my new “healthier diet” aside for the night and passed by Falafel & Company. Me and my friends were invited to try out the place (free food!) and I think I over ate a bit. I tried the chicken shawerma with chipotle tahina sauce, their meat shawerma, their 5 kinds of falafels (Lebanese, Egyptian, Spanish, Italian and Special), a white lawn sandwich (Lebanese falafel, with cucumber, labneh sauce, and olives), fries, crispy onion strips and topped it all off with a bowl of mohalabia. I am going to have a hard time sleeping tonight! The BuzBerry guys were also there and so was Marzouq. I didn’t take many pictures but I know they did. Here is a link to BuzBerry’s post with pictures [Link] and once Marzouq posts his pictures up I will update this post.

Falafel & Company will be opening up soon, I think next week but not sure.

Update: Here are Marzouqs pictures [Link]

Although a bit late (like 6 months late!) Marzouq just uploaded a video him and his friend put together of Gulf Run 4. Gulf Run 5 is going to be held this November and I am not missing it this time around. [Link]

Lola et moi emailed me to tell me that Discovery Mall has now officially opened. The mall is located next to the ice skating ring rink in Kuwait City and caters to kids. One thing I don’t like about the place is the fact there are only three restaurants and they are Nathan’s, KFC and Chili’s. With obesity being such a major issue here in Kuwait you would think that the restaurants at a kids mall would be more healthy. The picture above is from the new Lola et moi store at Discovery but if you want to see pictures of the mall check out the Kuwait Black Market blog by clicking [Here]