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I love Kuwait. This is a video of a guy in a Ferrari 360 having fun at a traffic intersection. [Video 0.9MB]

This was the team formation for round 3 of the Halo 2 Frag Fest was as follows:

Team Damen
Edjamacated Guy
Nibaq
Fadibou
Mark

Team Da Hui
Ozy
Ripping Fabric
Kyon
Ramsey

Results? Out of atleast 10 games we played, Team Damen didn’t even come close to winning a single one! We totally got our asses kicked. Next time we should split up Team Da Hui and mix and match between their team and ours. We are no competition at the moment. The grudge match between Ripping Fabric and Fadibou resulted in Ripping Fabric winning.

At first I thought this movie was a hoax or a spoof but it turns out its real and its a documentary. Its really interesting and funny, its about a group of people who live 2 lives, their real life where they work and have a regular family, and their play life where they are part of a huge army of medieval warriors. Maybe we should setup the same thing here in Kuwait. [Link]

K sent me a link last week about Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s Mercedes SLK that was fitted with an SLR engine. It seemed a bit like too much BS and it was causing the same BS feelings in various forums. Today K sent me a link with details on this extreme makeover and it turns out this is a real car and it really is an SLK with an SLR engine. Check it out. [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]

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).

Jeremy Clarkson is the coolest, this week he put the Maybach head to head with the Rolls Royce Phantom. [Link]

Note: He also mentions Kuwait 🙂

The sheer volume of gadgetry in its rear quarters means you quickly forget you’re on Mercedes suspension, behind a Mercedes engine. It is a wonderful way to travel if you are a northern businessman or a Kuwaiti or you have the mental age of a six-year-old. Which is not a criticism, by the way.

A few days ago I was at McDonalds and I ordered the Fillet-O-Fish combo with a Quarter Pounder Sandwich. which was supposed to come up to a total of KD1.650 according to the “McDonalds Pricing Bug“. But suddenly the McDonalds chick was asking for KD1.850! I thought I must have miscalculated and had my lunch.

Yesterday night I passed by McDonalds and I asked the manager if they had increased the prices. He told me they had, by 50fils. Thats not 100% accurate though. Some of the value meals like the Fillet-O-Fish combo and the Double Cheese Burger combo were priced at a super value price of KD1. Now they are priced at KD1.150 which is a 150fils more expensive! The breakfast menu seems to be intact and unchanged, the 100fils ice cream cone is still 100fils also. When I asked the manager why the prices had increased, he told me that its due to the increase in the price of the goods. So now Starbucks and Mcdonalds have increased their prices, whos next? I heard Chilis also increased their prices.

I saw this computer case today at the ASUS dealer and it sooo wanted me to get a PC. It looks really cool and aerodynamic plus it comes in 3 funky colors.

The case is called the Vento 3600 and its available on Amazon for only $149. At the dealer in Kuwait it costs KD100! And I thought only Mac dealers in Kuwait were expensive… [Link]

Asus Dealer Kuwait: 2477101 or 2477102

According to an email from Moe, the movie House of Wax was removed from all theaters in Kuwait by KNCC due to heavy pressure from the Ministry of Information. I have no clue why they would do this since the movie was already heavily cut, maybe Paris HIlton is just banned in Kuwait.

Round 2 was a disaster, last week my team (Blue Team) lost but today we were pulverized.

Blue Team
Mark, Nibaq and Keltanen

Red Team
Ozy, Ripping Fabric and Ramsey

First Game
Red Team 50 Kills
Blue Team 9 Kills

Second Game
Red Team 50 Kills
Blue Team 8 Kills

Result
Red Team Win

After Team Da Hui won the first round against me and Fadibou, this week they will be facing a new team made up of me, nibaq and a newcomer from all the way in Finland, Keltanen.

Team France (get it?)
Nibaq
Keltanen
Mark

Team Da Hui
Ozy
Ripping Fabric

Date: July 14th, 2005
Time: 6:00PM (+3GMT)
Prize: Winners will receive 2 Shani drinks
Setup: 2 TV’s, 2 Xboxs, 2 player split screen per team
Rules: 50 kills, two rounds, two levels, a third round if necessary, no time limit. Random starting weapons. One level chosen by Team France, one level chosen by Team Da Hui. If there is a third round, Nat will randomly choose it.

Today at 6PM, Fadibou and me played Halo 2 against Ripping Fabric and Ozy in the first game of this summers Halo 2 Frag Fest. We got our asses kicked, here are the results:

Blue Team (eXtinct: Fadibou and Mark

Red Team (Da Hui): Ozy and Ripping Fabric

Game 1 Results [Area: Lockout]
Red Team: 50 Kills
Blue Team: 6 Kills

Game 2 Results [Area: Headlong]
Red Team: 50 Kills
Blue Team: 17 Kills

Overall Winners: Red Team

I was meeting with this guy last week and we got into talking about the MSX computers (Sakhr). He asked me if I knew Microsoft was involved in the project. I told him no I didn’t know, I still have my MSX2 but I never knew that Microsoft had any involvement. He then told me if I knew how they came up with the name Sakhr. I told him no, he was like you would think it was an Arab but in fact it was the Japanese. He told me the Japanese had created a software that puts letters together and you can control how many letters you want and stuff and the software would combine letters that would be easy to pronounce. The software came up with 3 options, one of them was Sakhr.. although I have no clue how Sakhr is easy to pronounce.. So what does MSX stand for? Well there are many beliefs, some people believe it stands for Microsoft Extended, referring to the built-in MSX-BASIC programming language, specifically written by Microsoft for the MSX system. Other people say it stands for Machines with Software eXchangeability’. No matter what MSX actually means it played an important role in many peoples lives back in the 80’s here in Kuwait. Everyone I knew had one, either the white colored MSX1 (AX170) or the black colored MSX2 (AX370).

[MSX on Wiki]