2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

I don’t know if anyone has any details on this or if they can confirm it, I heard that Easa Husain Al-yousifi & Sons Co. lost the brand Panasonic and instead now have Sharp. If this is true, who will get Panasonic?

update: Turns out they didn’t lose Panasonic but just added Sharp:

Dear Mark,

Thanks for the concern. We are still the agents of Panasonic in Kuwait. As for Sharp, we have created a joint venture with Al-Mulla group to better promote Sharp in Kuwait. We are dedicated to bring the best products with the highest quality to our customers.

Feel free to drop me a line at
[email protected]

yours,

Abdulaziz Al-Yousifi
Retail Manager

Just found out from a friend that Taco Time is coming back to Kuwait. They used to be open before in the mid 90’s but then shut down and now it seems they are reopening again. According to their website they will be opening 4 branches, one in Salmiya, one in Souk Salmiya, another in Hawalli and one more in Salwa. The Salmiya one is supposedly behind Johnny Rockets and the signage seems to be up. The launch according to their website is third quarter of this year. [Link]

Little hand painted people left in London to fend for themselves.

This is art. [Link]

Some convincing arguments that puts the E70 ahead of the iPhone by a guy who is in love with his phone.

…the Nokia E70, it’s the pinnacle of human achievement, and I love it more than my family.

…yeah REALLY in love with his phone. [Link]

Your password must be at least 18770 characters and cannot repeat any of your previous 30689 passwords.

[Link]

Was just browsing when I fell upon some illustrations done by a French girl called Anne-Julie Aubry. I love her style and I just emailed her asking if she had any paintings for sale. The illustration above is called “The Fall”. [Link]

Some incredible light graffiti by a photographer called Michael Bosanko. [Link]

update: The photographer had this to say:

Hi folks. Thanks for the kind words about my work 🙂 Somebody pointed this link to me, and it made my day 🙂

All of the images are done in one take, maximum 30 second exposure, no photoshop involved in any of them. I pre-determine the images before I mark them out with light. I’ve started introducing a secondary light into my work, which means I need to be extra fast, as you can see on the example in the cornfield I did.

Anyway, just thought I’d pop in and say thanks!

Kind regards,
Michael

The BeerBelly is a fake belly you wear under your clothes and it has a container which stores your cold or hot drinks. I could imagine people trying to sneak alcohol into Kuwait with this. Since Kuwait is the 8th fattest country in the world you wouldn’t even stick out. [Link]

Thanks Nibaq!

Two years ago I posted about the signs on the Gulf Road that are placed before the exits that take you to the sea side restaurants like Chili’s and Fridays. Well today I noticed they have new signs in place and they look even worse! Not only that but they have two of the signs mixed up, they have the Fridays sign at the exit for Johnny Carino’s and the Johnny Carino’s sign in front of the exit for Fridays.

Instructions on how to make caffeine Jello shots. Rated safe for Kuwait. [Link]

I have gotten a few emails from a few people who were wondering how Geo (my dog) is doing and how come I haven’t been posting about him.

Well Geo is fine, he is around a year and a half old now. He is still extremely playful and hyper and is still on the BARF diet. The reason I haven’t been posting much about him is because not many people are interested in reading about another persons dog.

I do want another dog though and it would have to be either a Saint Bernard or an Irish Wolfhound. Problem is I need a backyard with a garden which I currently don’t have meaning no second dog for now…

Fan death is an urban legend that originated in South Korea, but has since spread to other countries in the Far East. The belief is that an electric fan, if left running overnight in a closed room, can result in the death (by suffocation, poisoning, or hypothermia) of those inside. This belief also extends to air conditioners and the fans in cars. When the air conditioner or fan is on in a car, some people are apt to leave their car windows open a crack to avoid “fan death.” Fans manufactured and sold in Korea are equipped with a timer switch that turns them off after a set number of minutes, which users are frequently urged to set when going to sleep with a fan on. [More info]

This is the latest cost comparison chart put together by k.thekuwaiti of local internet providers.

More details [here]

I’ve been having a ton of fun with this at the office,
its the best bang for the buck.

I heard about this on the news yesterday and I just watched it on YouTube. Really freaky…

French long jumper Salim Sdiri was speared by a javelin in a freak accident at the Rome Golden League meeting on Friday. Sdiri was hit by the javelin which had been launched by Finland’s Tero Pitkamaki at the other side of the arena at the Olympic Stadium. [News]