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على قولة الفليبيني اللي يشتغل هناك - haza ka’ba!

هاهاهاهاها ضحكني والله! قلتله ترى حتى الكعبة اختلاط

First of all - can anyone explain to me what شنو يآي is??

Second - They put a sexy Angelina Jolie with a sexy pout holding her top as if its about to fall any second….and say بدون تقطيع

يعني يا كويتيين يا همج ياللي مو شايفين خير اذا اشتركتوا السالفة فيها “لابسة من غير هدوم” و بدون تقطيع يا “هورني باستاردز”! مو مهم شنو أفلامنا و برامجنا ….. عندنا تفصصصصصصصصخ

Yesterday I went to one of the NBK branches to do something. As soon as I walk in, as usual I saw the front reception desk. The lady there was standing and actually greeted me with a smile!! A nice genuine smile to a customer! She really made my day with that small gesture! Thank you

“Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile.”
________________ _ - Chinese proverb

I wish this short sentence can be sent to every company and ministry in Kuwait!!

Why don’t we smile at each other? Even I stop smiling as often when I’m in Kuwait, why?! I know that part of the reason is that if you smile to any member of the opposite sex, they will probably take it the wrong way, and if you smile to a guy, he might take it the wrong way too!!

Men and women in general don’t smile alot in Kuwait when you see them walking around and so on, it diminishes their “هيبة” I guess! Laazim il rayaal in Kuwait iseer thigeeeel, which also includes not smiling alot, to be a real man!

limaaaaaaaaaaaaaaathaaa hal 3uqad?!

Smiles really do take you a long way, they honestly help alot! Having a dimple (qammaaza) also helps make my smile look alot more genuine ;*)

I like music, but recently my taste in music has been changing and switching more than Kuwait’s national coach position! Anyway, not much music has been really grabbing my attention. Today, at the airport virgin store, a friend of mine, who will soon be contributing to this blog with a story of his, recommended an album to me. When I saw it I remembered seeing the singer on Jay Leno or Letterman and I remember really liking it, so I bought the album.

Excellent stuff!! It’s like taking a really nice trip to a really cool relaxing place! It’s Swing/Jazz at its best. Enjoy!

Not many of you may remember this, but back in November, I decided to boycott the monopolizing disrespectful company called KNCC. For a full explanation of why and so on, check out this long discussion at Zaydoun’s blog back in Novemeber.

I have to admit, I was tempted more than once to break that boycott, and if you’re gonna comment and say something to the effect of me boycotting wont affect the company, then my response is I dont care! I still believe that company doesnt deserve a single fils and although it wont change anything, im sticking to my principals!

To be honest Im proud of myself for holding out so long. I love going to the cinema, used to go as often as i could. Some decent films have come and gone but I still stood firm! I was lucky that I was in Qatar when Star Wars “Return of the Sith” came out so I was able to see it there. It nearly caused me to break my boycott seeing everyone happy and talking about it!

Anyway, I heard alot about Batman Begins, mostly good stuff! I knew it was out in Kuwait, and I really want to watch it!! But I still refuse to give my hard earned money to them. I reached my weakest point 3 days ago, while passing by Laila Gallery, I craved a good movie and popcorn and all that, and suggested to my wife that we go. She said its up to me (she has been more than great about this boycott thing, totally understanding and didnt complain not even once about wanting to go!). So I thought about it a while and realized that we would be very tight on time since we had plans later. As soon as I said lets forget about it, I got a phone call from a weird number. It was someone who had 2 invitations for me to attend Batman Begins at Fanar as part of an MNet promotion! Zaydoun had a post about this event last week, so I guess they did it again!

How lucky was that?!? I get to watch the movie finally, and without paying a cent to KNCC!! Technically, I am still on boycott, but when I get an invitation from a friend, its impolite to refuse, right?! ;P

I didnt even buy popcorn or drinks or anything from them!! As soon we left we got water! hahahahahahahaha!

OK by story is over, now for a few comments about the movie and the event. The movie is EXCELLENT! It is extremely dark and creepy and a perfect Batman movie without any childish elements! As for the event, the invitation was really elegant and nicely designed. It said 6:30pm, my wife and I and another group were the only people inside the theater at 6:30! The show didnt start till 7, which is ridiculous! Made us waste half an hour and messed up plans we had for later!! Even at 7, people were still strolling into the theater!! And plz dont tell me u put 6:30 so ppl come at 7! That is just stupid and disrespectful for people who actually have the decency to come in time!

The worst part of the evening was that the theater itself was basically a fridge! The temperature could not have been above 15 degrees! So imagine the first half hour of waiting, plus the 2 hours and 20 mins of film time, I left the theater with no feelings left in my nose or ears! CRAP company!

MNet on their other hand are a good company, and they were nice enough to invite us and they deserve a free ad here

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First of all, I need to clear something up….I have the memory of a goldfish!

This memory thing deserves a full post but I have to mention it before I continue.

I have always loved watching movies, but I rarely enjoy watching the same movie twice. Except that because of my really bad memory, most of the time watching a movie again a few months later is like watching a new movie! Im not kidding about this!

Anyway, when I got married, my wife and I both wanted the other to watch his/her favourite movies. Mine are a mix of old classics, art house movies, foreign films, and really silly comedy. My wife’s favourite movies are all Indian. So we made it a habit to watch a movie every week. Obviously this didnt work perfectly, but recently, we’ve been consistant! Every Friday, we look forward to it. One of the things I wanted my wife to appreciate was science fiction movies, which she was never a big fan of.

First, watched the Lord of the Rings trilogy. She loved them, which made me happy! She also wanted me to get her Gollum! (she loves all kinds of animals)

Recently, we started watching the old Star Wars movies. Again, after the first one “A New Hope” she was hooked! With my memory, I loved watching the first one because I cant remember anything that happened. Then we started the next one “The Empire Strikes Back”, and here I started to panic, because I couldnt remember ANY of it! It was great because I enjoyed watching a new movie, but what scared me is that I lived all my life thinking that I actually saw all the Star Wars movies but because of my memory couldnt remember them, when in fact I didnt even watch them in the first place! Totally freaked me out! That got me thinking, did I really see the Godfather movies?? I realized that I haven’t! I might have seen some bits and peices of the the first one, because I remember the beginning, but nothing after that! Should I start questioning everything in life?!?! Its scary to realize how bad my memory is! One of my roommates in college used to play a trick on me, where he would tell me that I owe him money, and because I trust him with my life, I would ask him how much and give it to him, he would then burst laughing at me, Mr. Goldfish! LOL! My friends from college hate reminiscing with me because its absolutely useless half the time!

Anyway, yesterday we finished the final part, “Return of the Jedi”, and its a kick ass ending to a kick ass trilogy! And my wife wanted me to get her anything with fur that was in the movie, which is alot!

Now we have to watch the 3 new ones, out of which the first one is awful, the second is a bit better, and the third is excellent! Those Im sure I saw bcz i have witnesses who came to the movie with me! I highly recommend the latest one, part III, “Revenge of the Sith”!

This is one hell of an outdated review, but who cares, I just saw them, and they kick ass!!

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Is it just me, or did the number of taxis increase 1000% in the past couple of years?!?

If you haven’t noticed it, make an effort during driving and you will see what I mean! There are so many taxis all of a sudden! And they all look different and have silly names with sillier spelling!

How about centralizing them?! Lets have an organized, modern, good looking, well monitored fleet of taxis! The old orange ones are crap now, but they had character at least! I wish I had a picture of them….

Anyway, here are a few examples of taxis worldwide….

The famous New York cab…

Of course, the famous London black cabs…

This is a picture of the impressive new Qatari taxis, with the old one in the frame. These new ones are government owned but are excellent! They are a bit more expensive than the old ones but what you get is a car that is cleaned everyday inside and outside (they ave to otherwise they’re fired!), and you really can appreciate the cleanliness! Also, its modern, the staff is trained and have a neat uniform, and technologically its impressive with a flat screen interactive meter/gps.

Dubai taxis are pretty good too, nothing special, but at least they’re clean and organized!

In Kuwait, we have a million taxi companies with each having a different design and different car, they’re everywhere but totally unorganized! I haven’t been in a taxi in Kuwait yet, so I cant judge how effecient they are or how clean. But I think they should all merge to form one giant taxi company that is well regulated!

Apparently the main system of the KSE was down today! So no trades since around 10am! Anyway, i checked the website and got this…..for some reason i LOVE this! I am definitely a night person, and I think it would be interesting to see how it will work if its fixed by then!

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Again, Happy Independence Day everyone!

June 19th is a special day for Kuwait. I hope each of us can celebrate it by thinking about this beautiful country and how much love it has given everyone, and what can we give back….

Excellent post by iDip

Zaydoun wishes Kuwait a Happy Birthday with a gift from ABC

Kil 3aam o intaw ibkhair o ilKuwait ib alf khair inshalla!