Have fun! and stay away from the gulf road area! and if you live there.. well.. BWAHAHA!

Posted By Mishary.

Today i was talking with Bashar, he asked me if i have seen a show called “Kasou Taishou” in YouTube my answer was NO. When i went home i did some search and came up with this information:

Kinchan and Katori Shingo’s All Japan Costume Grand Prix) is a semi-annual show on NTV in which various amateur groups (or solo artists) perform short skits, which are rated by a panel of judges. Especially in recent years, many of the skits have revolved around clever methods of “faking” cinematic special effects on a live stage. The most famous of these skits, and the most successful at “fake special effects” was a skit which is widely known as “Matrix ping pong“.

The show was AMAZING! REALLY AMAZING! they are creative! Actually there are tons of videos but i uploaded two of them just to give you the idea of the show:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxbcutsglcs&rel=1]

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfcIJ1ypDS0&rel=1]

Here are some more:

Matrix – Breakout

Matrix Karate

FUTBOL A LA MATRIX

Matrix Ping Pong

Finally my thanks goes this times to Bashar

Posted By Mishary.

Today me & Yousef decided to add a new section to the blog to contain all of our reviews. Its up there on top, can you see it? if you can’t, no worries, we have it all figured out! Click Here For easy access. But hey, you gotta learn where it is coz this post won’t be on the front page for long.

Posted By Yousef

Wanna see her in concert? then you should get ready for a big splurge. Got the following info from This site, which I was reffered to by Celine’s Official website

THE DUBAI ELITE HOSPITALITY PACKAGE includes:
o Premium Seating in the Elite Seated Area
o Exclusive access to Elite Hospitality area with private toilet facilities
o Welcome drink on arrival
o Cash bar available (pre-show only)
o Selection of hot and cold canapés and an elaborate snack menu
o Onsite Security and secure parking (one vehicle per two packages)
o Official Event Souvenir Programme

Price per person Elite AED2998 / £425 / €638 ex Local Tax (10%)

This is the only package available at the moment. I think there will be other less expensive tickets available soon. There should be IMO. Anyway, The concert will be held in Dubai’s rugby club on the 5th of March.

For more info check Here & Here.

Posted By Mishary.

I just got this by email from my friend Abdullah, The newspaper was Alwatan which was on 25.Jan.1983 it says that Madenat alsabeya will be completed on Sep.1987 “hatha kalam el awraaag” but the actual date is still UNKNOWN because my work is in north Kuwait and every day i’m passing this area and until now they didn’t finished any thing! even the streets they didn’t construct it yet! Its been 21 years from that statement and i can assure you guys it needs not less than 5-6 years to complete it.

Finally all what can i say is “Hathy el Kuwait o sal 3ala el neby hathy el Kuwait of feha ely naby”

My Thanks goes to Abdullah.

Posted By Yousef’s Mom

For all of the Kuwaiti and maybe Arab Girls out there, Mom got something to say about the way the Kuwaiti 3aza has changed and how the 3 days that follows, where women gather in the grieving family’s house to offer condolences, is no longer about offering support and consolation!

Mom wrote this next part:

“It was no easy duty to go and condole a woman on her loss, It wasn’t easy for other relatives to see a member of their family suffer and go through those horrible days. It was a simple gathering where everything revolved around the family and their grief. it was simple yet very heavy, intense and somber experience. Therefor not everybody was allowed to go, only the eldest of the family would go and represent the rest and do the necessary (wajib). The place where the guest would be seated was never big or specially set up for the sad occasion. It was a small hall where the guests would stay QUIET for awhile, Read some Quran, Offer their support and condolences and then leave to make room for other guests. The atmosphere used to be filled with silence, Sadness and above all Respect for the grieving women and her family.

Fast-Forward to present day’s 3azas. Things have changed a lot since people had feelings and consideration. Nowadays Everybody goes to 3azas (not for the right reasons). Even little girls are brought to the 3azas. With their hair on their shoulders, Their little plated jewelry and their dazed eyes. The grownups haven’t spared us either, they attend wearing their topnotch abayas, filled with swarovski crystals and what not. Abayas suitable for weddings rather than 3azas!

Some even went as far as wearing makeup. The new type of makeup, the “Sad occasions” makeups. And we find the supposedly grieving family now setting the place up so that it can seat as many people as possible, going out of their way (and sadness) to make the people comfortable and make sure they “enjoy” their say. We find them renting chairs and filling up the place with as many chairs as possible, turning the place into a little cinema, a little show, a shameless masquerade.

The once feared and respected occasion has become just another place for gatherings. For relatives to see each others and pass their hellos. I often hear the salams and the sowalif (chitchats) now. oh and the salams are not passed with soft-voices either! And the nerve on some of the women… I personally heard a woman say to her friend one time “I’m so happy I ran into you on this wonderful occasion!” –> “monasaba sa3eeda o imbaareka iny shiftkom!”

fa hal hatha min mazaya taqadomna?
am min masawe2 ta2akhurna?”

I tried my best to capture Mom’s words and this is the best i could do. she was much more eloquent though.

Posted By Mishary.

I’m thinking this will be nice gift for the coming birthday of my brothers in law children’s, Today i found this slippers which can be filled with water and whenever u walk it gonna splash water “esara7a fakart fehaa bas kheft ashterehaa a7asel zafa men ahalhom coz it will be a disaster for their families!

For more info click HERE.

Posted By Yousef

Yes, we should lighten up. We should take things less seriously. We should always compromise and accept new questionable things into our lives. What’s with the people nowadays always clinging to their traditions and what they believe in? Don’t they know we’re in the grey age now? Don’t they know that the less you standout the better it is for everyone else?

Lets be less opinionated and more with the flow…..

So what if we celebrated a pagan occasion?
So what if we celebrated the memory of a Christian priest?
So what and so what again?

We can always go with the flow…

Its easier…

So lets just go with the flow until we are so far away we can’t even look back to where we were.

*yes i’m being sarcastic and i have a headache*

The picture above is taken from Here.

Posted By Yousef

Mariah’s new song “Touch My Body” is set to premiere on B96, Chicago’s top radio station, today the 12th of february at 4:00pm Central time which is 1 am in Kuwait’s time. you can always listen to the station’s live stream by Clicking Here.

Aside from that radio station, all access will make the song available for all of the other radio stations at 6:30pm.

Update!
Thanks to loco for letting me know that the song debuted on B96 a bit earlier than expected!

Here it is
[audio http://somecontrast.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/mariah_touchmybody.mp3]

And here is the HQ MP3 for you to keep.

Posted By Mishary.

It will be held in Barcelona, from the 11th to the 14th of February 2008. If u dont know what 3GSM is, Then its basically and mainly a mobile-industry show where all the main brands show off their new mobiles and technologies, such like Nokia, Sony Ericsson.. ect. So if ur thinking of buying a new mobile, just wait a couple of days to see if ur interested in the new phones, and if not then you can go ahead and purchased ur lame mobile

Posted By Yousef

Amazon’s digital music catalogue is all set to go global, and although a launch date has not yet been settled, it shall hit sometime this year. Given Amazon MP3 offers DRM-free tracks, which are generally cheaper than iTunes limited, equivalent offerings, we cannot help but think an epic battle between the big As is all set to take off.

click on Amazon and Here for more info. Thanks INM.

Steve Job’s keynote revolved around 4 announcements:

1-New Airport base with 500GB or 1TB harddisk. now you can sync your time machinr wirelessly.
2-New Iphone and Ipod touch softwares. should be a nice boost to iphone owners.
3-Added Movie Rental feature to the iTunes store.
4-Introduced a new line of laptops, called Macbook Air. the Tiniest laptop in the world. the price ranges from $1799-$3098. a bit expensive.

here are some more pictures..

Link: Apple

Posted By Yousef

macworld san francisco 2008 is 15 minutes away, I really hope there will be an update to their pro laptops line. most of the predictions are saying there won’t be any. I’m kinda curious as to what this year’s solgan “There is something in the air” means!? we’ll find out soon

For LIVE coverage Click here or Here.

Posted By Yousef

It was one interesting ride from Dubai to Kuwait! it took us 11.5 hours to enter the Kuwaiti borders. my friend INM and me got up yesterday at around 5:50am, we both took quick showers and headed out. we were on the highway on our way to abu dhabi by 7:15.

we reached UAE-Saudi borders by 11 o’clock. the guys at the border were very nice and friendly, we passed with no problems whatsoever.. we were very happy and relieved, and then the saudi border appeared…. I hate them! the way they talk, the way they look at you and the way they went through our bags. we were told to get the bags out and lay them on the bench. he looked in the car, opened every drawer and looked under everything, then took a look inside each one of our bags and then said something..

INM: here is the passport, you go, i’ll wait in the car.
Me: where? what did he say?
INM: he said he wants you to take a look at your laptop.
Me: Reallly? when? I didn’t hear him say that?
INM: no he did, he wants to take a look at your laptop.

I went there with my laptop and entered his office. 2 guys were in there, one sitting at a computer checking the passports and stuff and the other guy is sleeping. I said my Salam’s but nobody responded, so I said SALAM ALAIKOM! i woke up the sleeping beauty.. he took one look at me and left the room.. another guy came and started asking me questions:

Officer: open up the laptop & go to search….. (he was gazing at my screen like he’s never seen one before in his life)
Me: ok…
(1 minute went by and he’s just gazing with no expression on his face)
Me: you know this isn’t windows *pointing to the screen*.. this is Macintosh..
Officer: yes yes i know.. this is not windows.. this is VISTA! i know..
(STUPID STUPID!!)
Me: no this is something else.. not windows… not Vista…..
Officer:……………….. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Officer: ok now tell me, what do you have in there?
Me: music, movies, some college projects…
Officer: no no lets be honest here, just tell me whats in there..
Me: as I said, i have music, lots of music files and some college related…
Officer: i want you to be honest
Me: I am being honest.. you won’t find what you’re looking for in my laptop
(he gave an awkward smile)
Officer: yakhoy latwakhethna a7na ma6loob minnnah ina infatesh.. bla bla bla
Me: no its ok, you’re doing your job.
Officer: you know what, just stay here for a while and then leave, lets pretend that I went through your laptop, but just don’t tell anybody.
Me: ok, sure, i won’t….. (we’ll see about that )

We entered Saudi Arabia and INM took over the wheel. we were expecting to get bored and exhausted but that didn’t happen (we slept like dead people when we got home ) but when were on the highway we were mostly happy.

INM didn’t want to eat anywhere (he is a bit picky… just a tiny bit), and i wanted to experience the cheap food.. you know the kind of food you eat when you’re with traveling with your friends.. the grilled chicken and saltless rice? those kind of nice cheap food? I wasn’t about to give up this part of the adventure! so we stopped at one of the restaurant that had “stomach ache” plastered all over it… 15 minutes later we were back on the highway and this time i’m back on the wheel.

2 hours later we were here

30 minutes later we were here

we reached kuwait just as the sun disappeared.. it was a very nice trip. thanks INM

Posted By Mishary.

Today i’ve checked Apple store to see if there is any update in the specs or so and found that its down ! At CES? A week before Jobs’ keynote? gharebaa !

You can check it HERE

Posted By Mishary.

Its was in 14 March 1981 Alwatan news paper

Click the picture to see the normal size of it.

Posted By Mishary.

Today is Yousef’s Birthday ! Yes yousef’s birthday is 1/1 ! He’s a lucky guy ! .. So happy BIRRRDAAAAAAAAAAY Yousef

I’m currently having problems keeping up with my study plan. The finals are here! 3 down and 3 more to go.. Fun is not an option for me until the end of the next week. Inshallah I’m going to be done with the exams by the 5th of january.

My friend INM is coming over on the 6th to help me out with some stuff, and we’re going to head back to Kuwait Via land transportation for a change we’re going to drive back to Kuwait! this should be interesting! 2 guys with not so many things in common, locked in a car for 12 hours… I can’t wait!

Posted By Yousef

Finally, the Net is back!!!! sij laigalaw, you don’t know what you got till its gone! I’ve got so many things I want to do.. I want to check every site out there, check all of my emails and reply to them all (even the ones that don’t need replies) and download every possible file! I missed having the world at my finger tips!

Yes Macworld Expo. is just a couple of weeks away it will be held in 14.Jan.08 so get ready for the new stuff !

The rumors said that iPhone 2.0 will be announced and also a 12” Ultra Thin MacBook Pro ” this is just a rumor “.

For more info regarding Macworld click HERE.