My cousin got married yesterday (malach). The 3rd cousin to get married in less than 6 months (mashallah). Hey cousin, Congrats! I wish you and your wife a lifetime of hapiness inshallah 🙂
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Zain Create have an offer for limited time, if you register before the 1st of april you’ll get KD 5.100 (thats 5 kds and a 100 fils) of credit to download songs off their music store. I went ahead an registered, it was an easy process and I got the promotional 5KDs credited to my Zain Create account. You should all register, there is no need to miss out on this one time deal.

Anyway, I looked around the site, then wanted to download something to try the service out. I went to the top 10 list and found that Fadhel Shaker’s new album is in the #1 spot (Not just that, He is #1 in the top songs, albums, and artists list!) so I went with Fadhel’s new album. I bought the album (10 tracks, each track costs 300fils. You can’t buy the whole album as of now, but it says in the FAQs section that the option will be available soon. It better be). I bought the album and am now listening to 2 of the songs.. the download rate is between 10kbps and 35kbps (I’m using ego 7.2).

I’m listening to Jowa Al Roh right now and the quality is superb. the song is 4:27 long, in MP3 format, 6.2MB, 192 Kbit/s. Obviously good quality. and comes with an ID3 tag with the picture of the album’s cover.

The whole site is very well designed and is easy to use. I love it.. but there is room for improvement. Hear me out if you have a say in this project:

1- I need to be able to tell which song is already downloaded. Like for example as I was downloading Fadhel’s songs, I lost track. There needs to be a sign or a label on the song which has been downloaded so i don’t download it again by mistake.

2- The lack of Mac software is not acceptable.

3- The song sampling is very fast, which I appreciate a lot, but sometimes the play button doesn’t work and I have to refresh a few times before I can start sampling the song.

4- I should be able to download the whole album as a package, coz it was a hassle downloading each track separately. I know it’s coming.. but still, it should be available from the start imo.

5- It says that once I download a song, I should receive an sms immediately, and yet, I downloaded 10 songs, wrote this post and still not a single sms.

I think the service is very good and that Zain did a great job with this whole thing.

Visit Zain Create and get the offer before it expires.

Update:

I was sent an email by Zain replying to the 5 points I wrote above. Here is their reply:

1-Noted will work on it you can check your downloads on my create section .

Finally , try out the streamed channels of Rotana( Audio & TV ) as well on the website & try to download the mobile application from web its compatible with Nokia & Sony Ericson symbian mobiles ,,, blackberry soon ….

Thanks Alia

It looks like the new double faced speed cameras are popping out everywhere we turn, and that the existing cameras will all be switched soon. We’ve compiled a list of the new ones and we’ll be updating the picture above with every new camera added. Help us out guys and let us know if there is if know you know about a new DF camera that isn’t already pointed in the picture above.

Thanks Fawaz

Inspired by Mark’s post, my friend tried it and liked it, so He and I decided to have it this weekend. It was my first time making this McGangBang thingi, and If I had my eyes closed while eating I wouldn’ haven known what the hell I was putting in my mouth.

The sandwich is basically a chicken burger shoved in a double cheeseburger. The process didn’t make a mess, but I can’t say the same about the way it tasted.. coz that was a complete and utter mess, the flavors were all over the place, and it was too big it had my jaw throbbing by the end.

It tasted like 4 buns and ketchup.. won’t have it again.

“Within Gmail Labs, an option now exists under Settings to turn on “Undo Send.” From that point on, whenever an e-mail is sent, an “Undo” link will appear on the send mail confirmation. By clicking that link, the message will be routed back into composition – where the user can then change that “Meeting on Firday” to “Meeting on Friday.”

This feature can’t pull back an e-mail that’s already gone; it just holds your message for five seconds so you have a chance to hit the panic button,” Michael Leggett, user experience designer for Google, wrote on the official Gmail blog. “And don’t worry – if you close Gmail or your browser crashes in those few seconds, we’ll still send your message.”

Pretty useful feature if you ask me and I sure did need it more than once.

Thanks Tariq

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We were invited to the premier of the film ‘Journey To Mecca’ showing on IMAX in the Kuwait scientific center. There weren’t a lot of people and the place looked beautiful as usual. (Side talk: I was thinking how it is funny when we want to talk up a place we always say machinnik bilKuwait “it’s like you’re not in Kuwait”.)

Anyway. The movie tells the story of Ibn Batuta and his journey from Tangier, Morocco, to Mecca to do the Haj ritual.

I didn’t know much about Ibn Batuta.. I mean I’ve been to the mall 😛 but didn’t really know anything about the person. Pretty interesting life he must’ve led back then. He Left his family in Morocco to go to Mecca, and returned 30+ years later.. I guess he just couldn’t resist riding passing by China and India on his way back to morocco.

The Journey To Mecca is now showing on IMAX in the scientific center of Kuwait, Gulf Road, Salmiya.

Thanks Hind

So yeah the inevitable have happened. The blackberry slipped, fell and hit the ground. You know there is always this sinking feeling when you drop something shiny and new, and then there is the few moments between the sound of your mobile crashing, and you picking it up with one eye closed dreading the sight you’re about to see.. I hate those moments.

I always take good care of the things I own, be it a mobile, a laptop, a camera or whatever (I’m not like Mishary, I don’t change my mobile every 3 days! I’m loyal to my mobiles and I use them till death do us part 😛 ) But then if something bad happens to one of my things, I just can’t continue caring for it as much anymore. Once a mobile is scratched, I stop treating it with care. And now in this case.. my mobile isn’t just scratched, as you can see, it got a tear on it!

9ar mobile moqawil.. fa if you guys know a place that sells BOLD covers in Kuwait, I’d be thankful. I gotta cover this ugly torn thing.

My friend HKR was looking all around for white tea. He heard much about it, he heard that the white tea is the finest form of teas available and it is also the healthiest. He then finally stumbled across this tea shop in Almuthanna complex.
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People who throw trash out of their car windows disgust me. I think only trash can throw things out like that.

Reminds me of this post by Nibaq. I’m guessing it’s by the same artist 😛

The parliament has been dissolved. The reellection should be held in 2 months.

Thanks Taymoor

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Update By Mishary:

As per KTV the next elections will be on 14th of May.

We’ve been hearing a lot about this restaurant called Rice that opened recently in the avenues and we decided to give it a try.
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I started 5 books but finished none of them. There is no time for reading. When there is time for reading then there is time for sleeping! which to me is always a priority over reading..

The 5 books I’v started are:

• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• Water for elephants (very good so far)
• Waiter Rant (A real waiter writes about his life as a waiter. Makes you think twice before calling a waiter ‘excuse me’)
• Secret lives of bees
• The Shinning

So the company my cousin works for had a seminar yesterday and they provided the attendees with this very nice and efficient device. My cousin was nice enough to give it to me so I could share it with you guys.
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It’s an online Kuwaiti boutique dedicated to clothes and accessories for little girls. The things they have are really cute, you should take a look if you’re looking to buy things for the little ones.

From the site:
“Judee La La is an online children’s boutique, specializing in girls clothing and accessories that makes them dance, twirl and jump for joy. Everything is special, whimsical, and truly adorable. All items at our store are “Judee Approved” and guaranteed to bring out a smile, an ‘awwww’, or an ‘I want one!’ from people, so if you feel like spoiling your precious girl you’ve come to the right place. We hope you enjoy shopping at our site as much as we enjoyed making it.”]

Judee La La

Thanks Reem

Saleh & Dawod AlKuwaiti were Jewish musicians who lived in Kuwait in the past. According to the article, they were ingenious musicians “”They even invented certain scales that didn’t exist at the time.” The Emir of Kuwait would go visit them in their house to listen to their music. They named one of their sons Sabah after the Emir’s family name. The Emir also attended his circumcision (6ohoor) and gave them a box full of gold coins as a present.

The part in the article where it mentions their stay in Iraq is what caught my attention the most. It says that the AlKuwaiti brothers were responsible for inventing what we now call “Traditional Iraqi music.” The Iraqi government didn’t want Saleh and Dawod getting credit for the great music they were introducing and were labeling AlKuwaiti’s music as traditional/old iraqi music, as in ‘not originals’, and in some cases it was credited to other musicians by force.

They immigrated later to the newly occupied palestine. That was when they faced the biggest blow to their talents.. Not being able to play their music in concerts, where it belongs, but instead they played in family dinners and parties, “had to play weddings and barmitzvahs and family fiestas, with people eating and drinking… and not listening.”

Anyway. The article is an interesting one and you should read it. The video on top is of a song I’m currently in love with, produced by Saleh AlKuwaiti.

Thanks HKR & Hamad.

BBC ARTICLE

Poste By Yousef

I’ve been reading similar arabic dates lately. It seems to be getting more and more common to write weird expiry dates. Have you noticed?

Wared Lease & Finance company fired all of it’s employees, from the GM to the tea boy and left on a few to followup on clients. All of the employees were paid 3 months’ salaries in advance and were let go till further notice. Wared is owned by Investment Dar company.

Allah yaster 3albajy.

Thanks Fawaz

I was recommended this restaurant by a friend, and was very interested in trying it out since it specializes in chicken wings. I really like having chicken wings with it’s spicy buffalo sauce and thought I’d try it for dinner. I spent some time looking for this place, although I was told it’s near Sahran in Aljabriya, which is supposed to be very easy to find, I still managed to get lost.
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An email forward from Taymoor