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Events Kuwait

Mardi Gras Kuwait

The US Embassy will be having a Mari Gras event on April 18th at the US Embassy starting at 6PM. I will try to get more information on this event but I am guessing there will be a lot of beer available and I am hoping a lot of girls flashing, but most probably no topless girls just beer.




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Information Kuwait

Rescue 777

We needed an ambulance at our office because a guy with diabetes fainted due to low sugar (or something like that). We called 777 and within 5 minutes the paramedics arrived. I am impressed.




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Automotive Events Kuwait

Pictures from the Ferrari road show

ferrari road show

Last weekend (March 23) was the Ferrari road show. 35 Ferrari’s participated in the event and they drove 70KM from Sha’at en-Gifa’a on Bida’a Road to Kempinski Hotel Julai’a. Here are 3 pictures from that event.

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Note: Pictures were not taken by me.




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Fashion Personal

Smartwrap

Smartwrap

Smartwrap is a small rubber stereo earphone cord manager. Basically what this means is if you have a headphone with a really long cord, the Smartwrap solves that issue for you by making it shorter.

When the Smartwraps first came out ages ago I wanted one but the only website that sold them only accepted PayPal which wouldn’t work with my Kuwaiti visa card. I then forgot about it until yesterday when I noticed someone at work had gotten one. His sister had ordered a couple and he ended up giving me a black one.

This thing rocks, its such a small simple thing but its won a couple of design awards and its just extremely practical. As you can see in the picture above I have wrapped my headphone around the Smartwrap, its annoying to have excess cable when I am working at my desk and its a lot neater now.

Anyway I just checked Amazon and they are selling the Smartwraps in packs of 3’s for like $11 so you can head over and get one incase you are interested.
[Buy from Amazon.com]

Update:
I really love the Smartwrap!! I just uploaded a super hi-res picture of it, check it out. [Picture]




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Information Travel

Jazeera Airways now even cheaper!

Jazeera Airways

Book to any Jazeera Airways destination and get the following prices:

Book on April 2nd and pay KD 2 (USD 7) one-way
Book on April 3rd and pay KD 3 (USD 10) one-way
Book on April 4th and pay KD 4 (USD 14) one-way
Book on April 5th and pay KD 5 (USD 17) one-way

These very low fares are for flights between April 23 and May 23 and are only for bookings made through jazeeraairways.com and travel agents.

Update: More info on this offer is available [here]
I just bought a two way ticket to Lebanon for Nat and the total came out to KD26 after taxes. Someone else in the office tried to get a ticket for the same day but their total came out KD62. The prices are going up quickly as more and more seats are being filled so hurry up.

Update 2: In case I wasn’t clear I meant to say that tickets on certain dates are getting more expensive because a lot of people are choosing the same day (ie weekends for example). You can find KD2 tickets but it most probably will be during the weekday.




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Interesting Television

Lost S2E17

For those of you who watched the last episode of Lost (S2E17) click the link. If you haven’t watched the episode yet then don’t click it, its a spoiler. [Link]

Also my best guess is don’t read any of the comments below if any since they most probably will also contain spoilers.




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Food & Drinks Interesting

The Great Taco Hunt

There is a guy going around trying and reviewing every Taco in LA. I want to do the same in Kuwait except I want to try and review every shawerma. That would be so awesome! [Link]

[source kottke]




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Blog Info Strange

WTF? My Stats are in Arabic

I was just checking my website stats and everything is showing in Arabic. I hope this is an April Fools joke by TivoGuy since I am hosted on his server.. [Link]

Update: Ok now its back to normal.. weird..




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Funny Internet

April Fools Jokes for 2006

Wikipedia has a list of all of the big pranks that have happened today and the list keeps growing. [Link]

[source digg]




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Funny Information

Your April Fool’s Joke Sucks

A list of things which do not actually constitue a valid April Fools’ Day joke taken from Anil Dash:

“I changed my stylesheet! To someone else’s!” Why isn’t that funny? Because I still knew it was your site.

“Our tiny company bought/got bought by a giant company. Like Microsoft!” Wow, that’s lame. Neither believable nor surprising enough to be amusing.

“We are embracing this thing we’ve demonized forever!” So you’re a pest removal service that’s getting into the cockroach-raising business? Sigh.

“We have a big announcement today!” No you don’t. It’s Saturday.

“Our new product does the impossible.” You mean like making an April Fool’s joke on the web that’s actually funny.

I was actually planning on changing my stylesheet to something funnier before I read this list. Nibaq already pulled the second one today.




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Kuwait Personal Video Games

Piracy destroying friendships

I passed by my favorite videogame store in Rihab Complex yesterday. I wanted to get Sonic Rush for my Nintendo DS and also check out the new DS Lite while I was at it. So I went into the store and shook hands with the owner and he asks me why I haven’t been passing by. I was honest and I told him that I am just downloading games right off the web. He was like yeah thats the best thing to do, but I got the feeling he wasn’t very pleased. Ok so this post isn’t as dramatic as the the title made it out to be…




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Blog Info

Blog Stats – March 2006

The highest amount of visitors the site received in one day last month was on March 3rd with 6,989 unique visitors. The lowest amount of visitors in one day was 4,087 and that was on March 31th. The average amount of visitors per day for March was 4,912 compared to 4,799 for February. The total amount of visitors in the month of March was 152,277 compared to February’s 134,375. For more details you can check the [Website Stats].




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Kuwait Personal

Package from Ananyah

Package

Today I passed by Aramex to pick up some old packages I had lying over at their place plus to pick up the package Ananyah sent me earlier in the month. She told me she was sending me a cookie monster doll which from the picture looked like some cool tiny phone sized thingy. To my shock the doll turned out to be pretty big and not only that she sent me two fucking cookie monster dolls, a cookie monster tshirt, a gift for Nibaq AND a whole bunch of chocolate munchies for Nat! Really cool stuff and best of all Geo is having a blast playing with whats left of the colorful wrapping paper and packaging. Thank you Ananyah!!

Click here to check out the pictures of the goodies




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Automotive Interesting Kuwait Photography

Before and After

Car before and after

Another cool thing I found on flickr, the pictures above were taken on a beach in Kuwait by Psycho Milt. They are both pictures of the same car except the first one was taken back in September and the second one taken mid March. Pretty cool.

Also if you like shots of crashed cars, Psycho Milt has a whole bunch of them which he shot here in Kuwait. You can check those out by clicking the links below:

Crashed cars of Kuwait 2005
Crashed cars of Kuwait 2006




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Electronics Geek Kuwait

Pimped out room at the Hilton

Pimped out Hilton

I was flipping through flickr when I found pictures of this guys room at the Hilton Resort in Mangaf. The guy I think works with the US military and has atleast 5 laptops in there with a whole bunch of equipment that would fit nicely with Jack Bauer. You can see the pictures on the guys flickr account by clicking [here] but I also saved the images and linked them below incase he decides to remove them.

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