2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003
I just saw the new Alghanim Electronics store at the Avenues and although I am not a big fan of Alghanim Electronics I was actually impressed by the place. The place looks pretty cool and EVERYTHING they have is on display to be played with from phones and cameras to mp3 and portable video players. The new store is located under Cinescape near NBK and IKEA.
I was expecting more cables. [Link]
Streaming live news from the USA and around the world. Pretty nifty. [Link]
Flag Telecom has released a press bulletin with an updated status on the cut fiber links:
Cut # 1: FLAG EUROPE ASIA Cable cut between Alexandria (Egypt) and Palermo (Italy)
- The ship loaded with spares has reached the fault location and has initiated the repair work; the repair work is estimated to be completed within 6-7 days.
- The Mediterranean network will be fully resilient with the addition of FLAG Mediterranean Cable current under implementation.
- The cable cut was reported at 0800 GMT on January 30th 2008 around 8.3 Km away from Alexandria cable landing station between Egypt – Italy segment.
Cut # 2: FALCON Cable cut between Dubai (UAE) and Al SEEB (Oman)
- The ship loaded with spares, marine experts, and optical engineers have reached the site yesterday. The crew has recovered the one end of the cable and cable joining work is in progress.
- The repair team has observed steady progress and the repair work are expected to be completed in next 3 – 4 days.
- The weather conditions are not favorable but the crew is continuing with the repair process.
- The cable cut was reported at 0559 GMT on February1st 2008 around 56 Km from Dubai, UAE on segment between UAE and Oman.
We should expect internet to return to normal within the next week. The official press bulletin is updated daily and can be found [here].
-Posted by K.
When will this stop? A regular combo used to cost KD1.750 a few years ago at Gulf Royal Chinese in the Marina Mall food court and then they increased the price to KD1.950. Now they’ve increased it again and the new price for a regular combo with coke is KD2.250.
Amazon just dropped the price of the Xbox 360 HD DVD player to just $79! Thats really really cheap!! [Amazon Link]
The reaction of the American guys taping the fight is hilarious. [YouTube]
I really like the old Sadia commercial above. Even though its really old I still remember watching it as a kid. Below are two more commercials I found. The Sakhr one I hadn’t seen before and I didn’t find interesting except for the fact its a Sakhr commercial. The last one is an Indesit commercial and I found it really funny but probably for all the wrong reasons.
For some reason I always thought Rainbow Brite’s horse (Starlite) was a unicorn. [Link]
From all the online dessert/munchies stores that are opening up in Kuwait this has to be the strangest one so far. I was checking out the blog Some Contrast today when I found out about an online store here in Kuwait that makes and delivers flavored popcorn! They deliver popcorn to your house.. thats nearly weirder than the idea me and Nibaq came up with for selling flavored banank online! [Link]
Picture above taken from Some Contrast
I am not a big American Football fan but one thing about the Super Bowl I look forward to are the commercials. Advertising Age have collected all the ads from this years Super Bowl and have arranged them in alphabetical order. You can check them out by clicking [Here]
Talk about cheap, Jazeera Airways has an offer where you can buy tickets from Kuwait to either Beirut, Dubai or Bahrain for just KD1. Even when you add the taxes thats still really cheap. [Link]
Update: For the non believers, here is proof you can find tickets for KD1
