2:48AM - Entertaining Kuwait since 2003

Where will Michael Jackson land? Reports are saying that he may be settling in Bahrain where he recently has been vacationing. Jackson has been enjoying the anonymity of living there as opposed to the media circus in California. There have also been rumors that he is moving to Berlin and some of Jackson’s lawyers say they know of no plans for the pop star to buy land in Bahrain. Bahrain is in the midst of a housing boom with a number of massive projects including Al-Marsa, a floating city designed to be a little Venice. Maybe Jackson’s next career should be as a real estate speculator. [via]

Anyone know anyone who works at Easa Husain Al-Yousifi and Sons co? ie. Panasonic. I need someone preferably in management. I need to contact them for something business related. Thanks

Wow, this was a surprise! Apple just released a 2 button mouse a minute ago, the MIGHTY MOUSE! AMAZING! [Link]

Heh, finally, some official rules we can follow. I used to use the “Shotgun No Breaker” command so that no one could break my shotgun, but it seems officially I have to call “Shotgun No Blitz”. [Link]

Mac users, install this, specially if you are a video games fan. I just installed it and opening applications now feel like a great accomplishment! [Link]

Is MSN blocked at your office? Still want to be able to get on and chat with friends? This is a solution. Use e-messenger.net to chat via your web browser, but it most probably would be blocked by your company so access e-messenger using a proxy service like Anonymizer, Proxify or installing your own proxy service on your server for free using PHProxy. Go to the url https://mob.e-messenger.net/mobile/ which is a similified version of e-messenger and log in. You should now be able to chat with your friends from your office.

Here are tons of pictures of the Xbox360. [Link]

Check who is linking to you. [Link]

According to Naharnet, “King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has died in a Riyadh hospital, the royal court announced in the Saudi capital on Monday. The statement said Crown Prince Abdullah was immediately proclaimed the new monarch of the world’s largest oil exporting nation.”

How will this effect Kuwait?

If we did this in Kuwait we would probably get shot at. A group of flashmobbers in San Francisco decided to dress up as zombies and terrorize the streets looking for human brains. This link will take you to pictures of the event. [Link]

Yesterday night I watched the movie The Machinist which stars Christian Bale (Batman Begins, American Psycho). I am not that big a fan of Christian Bale but he is a cool actor. So anyway when the movie started I spent the first 5 minutes trying to figure out if the actor we were watching was or wasn’t Christian Bale. It was incredible, Bale was like incredibly skinny, like you can see every single bone on his back and chest. Turns out for the movie he went down from 86KG down to 58! The guy is really fucking crazy, he is such an incredible actor for being that dedicated to the part. The movie was also great, there was some suspense at times which I usually hate but overall the movie with the ending was truly something. If you can get a hold of the movie definitely get it. Here is a link with pictures from the movie where you can see how skinny he was. [Link]

If anyone is interested in buying my Roomba, please contact me. Its in excellent condition and comes with 2 virtual walls. What is a Rooma? Its a robot vacuum cleaner. Email me or leave a comment below. Asking price is KD50.

Note: Originally purchased for $215 (with virtual wall and taxes, excluding around KD20 shipping to Kuwait).

Nat and I are planning on going to New York for our vacation so I was checking up on hotels so I can reserve us a room but they are just too expensive. $200 a night for a 2 and half star hotel room, I would rather spend that on shopping. So, I have found a better solution, rent an apartment. I was checking Craigs List and there are some really good deals there from people who want to temporarily rent out their apartments. For example one guy was renting out his huge 3 bedroom apartment in a charming old building for only $500 a week. Thats way cheaper then a hotel and you get a lot more. I checked out the pictures of the place and it looks amazing.. just like New York apartments in the movies! [Link]

I had some time to kill last night so me and Nat decided to pass by The Video Club in Salmiya. I used to go there a lot when I was in highschool and buy atleast 1 music tape a week. It used to be the best music shop, they used to get all the cool alternative bands and all the tapes were original. So I passed by yesterday to show Nataly my old favorite music shop but the place at the moment is just a sad story, I don’t know how they fucked up (don’t blame Virgin). On the bright side for us consumers, they have a huge selection of KD1 CDs. I found Pearl Jam’s No Code album (one of my favs) for only KD1 and I found a large collection of Sound Garden’s Down in the upside album also for KD1. Ofcourse there is a lot of crap like Captain Hollywood or Mr President but thats to be expected. I wasn’t able to browse through all the CDs since I didn’t have that much time to kill but I probably will pass by tonight to continue the search.

This is a cool website with lots of tips and tricks from people. My favorite is from a Sandwich Enthusiast:

When ordering a “custom” sandwich from a deli, Subway, or college cafeteria, say the name of each ingredient with a air of finality, as though it will be the last ingredient on your sandwich. The sandwich-maker will pile plenty of the stuff on, trying to fill your sandwich to a respectable size, not realizing you intend to ask for more ingredients.

Make sure you check the archives for a lot more. [Link]