Browsing the blog archives for March, 2007

Sums up my day

I love rain.
I am happy.
I’ve been to car dealerships today.
This video is an old favorite of mine and couldn’t stop thinking about it all day!

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Dizlee 2nd Number deal

Yesterday at dinner, a friend mentioned that he heard something about a service at MTC where you can get a second number for your phone without changing your chip, and to make things better, you actually pick your number!
So today I called MTC at 107 and asked about the service, the lady told me to [...]

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Harvard course podcast

This is pretty cool and a very useful resource too!
Harvard Computer Science
Gotta love techonolgy!
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MTC – Network problems!!

*UPDATE* – After two hours and getting the network back, I couldn’t call any other MTC number, and surprisingly, I got an automated message from a company in French and English!! Couldn’t catch the name of the company, was hoping it was MTC’s new name, but couldn’t catch it no matter how many times I [...]

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Shift of business power

More on the business theme that has been recurring the past couple of weeks.
Kuwait has been slowly in a decline compared to most other gulf countries, especially Qatar and Dubai, who have been taking giant strides in all aspects of urban development and economic planning. In education, many international universities and colleges opening in both [...]

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Cars and us

What is it with us and cars?
A couple of new deals and an old one to show our relationship as Gulf countries and car manufacturers -
Kuwait firms agree buying Aston Martin stake
Two days ago, Investment Dar and Adeem Investment Co. agreed to buy a stake in Aston Martin (around 15-20%) for $772.6 million from Ford.
Bahrain [...]

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Sleeping pattern from hell!

I am currently having one of the worst days ever in terms of sleep!
I woke up Friday at around 1 pm …. and couldn’t sleep all night, and had alot of important things to do at work in the morning, so I just pulled an all-nighter for the first time since college, and went [...]

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Fantasy Government

Im a big fan of fantasy football, for the English premier league as well as the Champions League. It is basically a game in which you pick any 11 players every week for your team. You get points according to their performance that week and it goes on the whole season.
Anyway, as you all know, [...]

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Classic 70’s videoclips…

This has to be one of the funniest things I have seen on YouTube!
عائلة بندلي – Do you love me?

I never heard of these guys before … عائلة بندلي , and apparently this was shot in Kuwait in 1978!
I would love to know more information if any of you knows much! There is alot more [...]

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Qtel buys out Wataniya Telecom

So today we all awoke on confirmation on the deal of the year, where Qtel bought 51% of Wataniya Telecom! They bought out KIPCO’s share in the company in a deal worth 1.1 billion KD.

Qtel is Qatar’s only telecom company. It was listed in 1998, and it provides local and international fixed telephone, mobile, Internet, [...]

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