Since the weather has been shifting to madness by the second I thought you might find this site, KuwaitStorm, helpful to decide whether to stay indoors or go out. I know I’ll be checking it from now on before I make posts like “Enjoy the weather this weekend.” 😛

You might want to check Yahoo Weather too. My brother seems to like it.

Thanks Hamad.

LINK

A couple of days ago Me and INM were in Hadi Hospital and INM noticed something weird! Guys if you concentrate in the picture above you gonna see it. got it? They built a small satellite dish to stand for the “RECEPTION” area. come on now! It was very cheap looking and out of place!

Thank you INM for taking this picture, because it was very hard to stand in front of these guys and take a picture of their lovely dish!

Someone from Kuwait airways obviously got pissed at my Kuwait Airways Sells DVDs? post and is insulting me in the comment section.

Here are his comments

“go die yousef you know nothing about kac just talk bad about us so childish and bastardo dont fly with us go and fly with some one who dont give a shish about you and treat you like a dog you are heeeeeheeeeehheee”

“and bastardo yousef show your shishy face so we can sue your (…) for insulting our effort and next time basterd when you get to your destination safely know that pilots got you to where you want to go routen apple ok wa khalik ryalll”

Funny. Considering my uncle was one of the people who established Kuwait Airways back in the 50’s.

Yesterday my Nephew-in-law’s celebrated his 2nd birthday. We bought him a gift, but we can never give a birthday present to just one of the kids! We always make sure not to let the other kids just watch and leave empty handed, so the nieces got gifts as well! (one of the nieces is very vocal. We’re afraid of getting on her bad side). 😛

Yousef’s Nephew was there too! He cried a lot at first, But once he got to know the faces, he went back to normal and enjoyed his time there. 🙂

In each birthday my wife takes the mission from A-Z! she decided to choose the colours, boxes and even the toys herfself! and as always she accomplished it.

Since the kids are ALWAYS watching cartoons in the living room TV we decided this time to give each one his/her own mini TV plus DVD player which is available HERE, So that their parent can charge them and they are able to play a full movie “2.5 – 3 hrs” in a single charge!

Now when it comes to wraping, My wife LOVES this part! she’s a profissional in gift presentation “Mashalah”. 

Don’t they look great! 😀

Yesterday Me and INM went to Marina Crescent to eat breakfast at Le Pain Quotidien. The weather at first was a bit hot for INM’s taste (I was dying but kept a straight face coz i wanted to sit outside). INM suggested that we change our table, so we went and sat in a shady area, and thank God we did! The weather was absolutely amazing under shades! There was just the right amount of humidity + sun + breeze, to make us comfortable while eating our breakfast Brunch Lunch!

I returned the Croissant after taking the first bite coz they heated it up in the microwave without asking!

Birds were everywhere and INM started feeding them (He ate half of his omelette and gave the other half to the birds. He fed the birds eggs lol)

I really recommend going out in the mornings, I mean actually being out to enjoy whats left of our decent weather, coz you’ll find yourself struggling for air in no time. kho t3arfon 7arna may’3ashmir.

There is this new restaurant called Ayyame, It took Biella’s location, Anyone knows anything about it?

I’m posting this from Chabd right now with 2 of my friends. (Allah i3afy itaqnalogya)

Jaber Al-Ahmad International Stadium

6aa6 6aa6

I’ll take pictures of our beloved national dish, the muchboos deyay, once its served 😛

Edit

As Promised 😀

The Muchboos Anthem
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A Few days ago I was talking to Labeba and she mentioned that our local banks don’t allow their employees to wear red ghetras “echmagh.” And today while I was talking with Ali He too confirmed this! My question now, is this for real? any one works in any of our local banks can confirm this? and if its true.. WHY?? What purpose does it serve?

UPDATE:

It seems the rule is applied in

• Gulf Bank.
• National Bank Of Kuwait.
• Kuwait Financial House.

Thanks to Hamad & 5ermesS

I went to Mom today and asked her if she has any comment regarding the elections and our beautiful MPs to be. With no hesitation she took her little note book and gave it to me. 😀

Here it is, Mom’s 3rd Post:

“Kuwait is in a 5 electoral districts marathon for the first time nowadays. It’ll be interesting to see who’ll succeed in lying his way to the chair. The ones who reach the end of this marathon are more often than not aren’t the real winners in our eyes. Most of them are going to dedicate their time to polish their new chairs and use their newly found powers to their own personal gains, getting back what they lost on the elections being #1 on their lists. This election is going to cost a lot, because as you know, paying people in cash is out of fashion this time around, now its all about renovating poor people’s homes, which costs a lot.

Aren’t you people tired of the irony? Claiming that Kuwait’s interest is your main objective then going for whoever promise you to drop the loans and increase your salaries? don’t you know its things like that that keeps your country in its steady fall? These MPs and their ways of manipulating people’s feelings! They’re like a low fat product that has no nutritional value and cause cancer in the long run. We don’t need them. There is no good coming out of them, actually its quite the opposite! they’re in it for the goods!

 

#1
My mom was telling me how she wants to go on a trip. Apparently she wants to go to a bunch of casinos and have fun. I know it’s probably a losing proposition but if she’s going to have fun the money will have been worth it. From what she tells me the 威博百家樂 casino is the first she wants to go through. It’s not really my thing but I hope she has a lot of fun. She’s a good mom, she has and still does work hard. I say she’s earned it.

#2
He’s very religious and preaches religion & ethics whenever he can. till last week I saw him on TV preaching. But what some of you might not know is that in one of his many journeys out of the country, God wanted to blow his cover, He was caught drunk in a car accident. Our good government have threatened him and black mailed him so he stays on their side. He’s a good friend with the government ever since.

#3
A guy who is responsible for over looking the “negative phenomena committee” (whatever that means) had a sad turn of events when every news paper in town reported his visit to a nudist beach. (Y’all know him right?) 😛

#4
One of our Islamic MPs was seen in a casino in Las Vegas, wearing a t-shirt and a short and gambling. when he was asked about his behavior He said something along those lines “My look differs according to what I’m doing and the place I’m in.” Despite Vegas being famous for casinos and games akin, the gradual growth in online games and its reviewers is also on the surge. One can easily get to know the reviews on slots plus mobile about casinos and slots.

“Eldeen baree2 minhom o min ta2aslemhom”

We need Fresh, New, bright-looking and beardless faces! We need them with long dishdashas too! no more fakers! no more pretense and using Islam in vain! We don’t want MPs who ride waves and trends for the sake of popularity. We need them to be real, so they can see things as they are and actually do something about them and make the progress their supposed to make. We want a solid and deep vision of what should be done to accomplish some of the goals we’re hoping for. And more importantly We want them to dedicate themselves for the good of NO ONE but Kuwait“.

My friend just called and told that they’re going to pay you, you poor working force of Kuwait, the 120 KD salary increase for both March and February. And April is going to be paid when April’s salary is due.

Up to now its nothing but a Reliable rumor. My friend got the tip from a “reliable source” as he put it.

Thanks Taymoor for the tip. (Now you know whom to pray against if this bshara doesn’t come true 😛 )

UPDATE
I just saw the news on Alwatan Tv. The Minister of finance said that the salary increase will be paid at the end of April and it will include Aprils due amount and March’s retroactively. No mentions of february. 😀

Today me & Ali were coming back from work and Ali found a new type of petrol machines in the KNPC station. Its located between Mishref and Bayan. He was wondering about new colors so i left my car and went to the employees who were installing it and asked them a couple of questions. I found out that they are introducing 2 more types of fuel, dedicated to our SUPER RICH people for their Super cars.

They are defined as following:

• Pink Color – Name: Ultra Euro – Cost: 120 Fils/Liter.
• Orange Color – Name: Ultra Diesel – Cost: 100 Fils/Liter.
• Green Color – Name: Ultra Super – Cost: 90 Fils/Liter.

Actually the employees there said that they are facing a lot of problems installing the machines & that this station will be the first petrol station to offer these fuel types. So it might takes some time to run them across Kuwait.

Thanks for the picture Ali.

 

Guys just want to share these info with u it might be important to some of u, Just imagin in 2013 what Ramadan will look like 😛

Here is a professional photographer from Argentina his name is Diego Goldberg. He decided to take portrait pictures for all his family from the day he got married. Here are his chronicles,  1976 till 2007. Check out el zeman eshloon eghairaa 🙂

For a video and more info click HERE.

Thank you Ahmad.

Posted By Mishary.

A few days ago Me, Bashar and 9K2HN decided to go to Dalag Es’hail Restaurant/Cafe which is located in Souq Almubarkiya to have something to eat. They have amazing Grills by the way. Anyway, after we finished 9K2HN suggested to have a look at a shop that specialized in…? Guess what?! Tester Perfumes! 😀

The shop offers two kinds of perfumes:

• Knockoff Perfumes.
• Authentic Tester Perfumes. (Just want to mention that the tester perfume will last much longer than the normal ones, Thats why I prefer them).

The price range for the Knockoff Perfumes was about KD3 – KD6, However the testers were around KD7.5 – KD10.

The only problem with these testers is that they do not come with their original box. For me thats not a big deal!

Thanks Bashar & 9K2HN for inviting me, I had a blast. 😛

Mom has been doing this cake for over 20 years. Its one of her signature cakes. As simple as it may seem, Nobody has ever mastered it the way Mom does Every Single Time! 😛

From Mom’s cook book and exclusively (6al) to our blog, here comes the best Mud (chocolate) cake ever!

Ingredients:

• 1 2/3 Cup of Flour
• 1 1/3 Cup of Sugar
• 4 Eggs
• 1 Cream (shown above. gamair)
• 1/3 Cup of Cocoa Powder
• 1 1/2 bar of butter (Size shown above)
• 3 Table sp. Nescafe melted in 1/2 a cup of hot water
• 2 Tea sp. Baking Powder.
• 4 Aero Chocolates
• 1 Flake
• Sprinkle of salt

Mix all the ingredients together in a big mixer, leaving only the Aero, Flake & 1/2 the cream for later.

Mix like crazy!

Mix Mix Mix!

Incase you were wondering whats inside the Cocoa tin 😛

Oil Brush this thing

Pour your mix in the thing and put in the oven for 35 on 350 degrees.

Might as well make use of your time while you wait for the cake. Take out the 4 Aeros and melt them in a water bath (Mom used this word, Bath) with whats left of the cream (remember you mixed just half of it with the cake mix).

Less than 5 minutes later it should look like this, Unburned!

Take out your cake when the 35 minutes is up. It should look something like this.

Cover it with the chocolate you melted earlier.

Sprinkle some of the flake (you get to eat whats left of the flake!)

And Voila!

Note from Mom:

“Many Have asked me for this recipe & I turned many of them away. Making this Cake on your own is what makes it special. If you’re going to give this recipe to the maid, you won’t get the same results, been done many times and the results were always sub par, As they should be.”

Posted By Mishary.

Today i found that ANM brought Coca cola Zero from the super market. I wonder how they make it ZERO calories?!

Posted By Yousef

I wanted to review DHL’s @ Home forwarding service for over a week now, but I waited until my first 3 packages got to Kuwait so I can get a sense of DHL’s speed and their delivery patterns.

I ordered 3 packages, 1 of them was a laptop for a friend. The laptop took 12 days to arrive in Kuwait’s customs. The other packages, one took 12 days and the other took 8 days. Keep in mind that I start counting once they are delivered to my US mailbox, which is checked twice a week, every monday and thursday. Once the shipments arrive in Illinois in the mailbox, you’ll feel like you’ve been disconnected from the package until it arrives to Kuwait.  There is no tracking number and no site to monitor the progress. You just have to wait. It can get frustrating as you wait and have no idea about your package status and its whereabouts. You may however call DHL in Kuwait and ask about it.

Now, my cousins had a different kind of experience with DHL’s @ Home Service. I learned that  DHL once misprinted the value of one of the packages which contained a couple of PC games and printed an extra zero, causing my cousin to pay around 45kd as tax for a package not worth that much. While my other cousin told us that they do not use DHL throughout the route to Kuwait. They use other company to deliver the package from illinois to Bahrain, then use DHL to deliver the packages from Bahrain to Kuwait.

First impressions can make or break a company nowadays. DHL should know that by now. Having no advantage over other competitors and no site to go with the service is not helping at all. What would make anyone leave their current forwarding service and join DHL? What will motivate them? At the moment, the answer is Nothing.

Having said all that. I think its still too premature to make a real judgment as to whether I’d continue using DHL for my online shopping or if I would go back to the miserable Aramex. They both, up to now, are doing a job that leaves much to be desired. But DHL being the company that it is, makes me a bit more hopeful for a real improvement. And with Sarita on board, it actually makes it worth giving it a chance.

UPDATE:
Click here for a newer updated review

I think they were going for a traditional, straight up Kuwaiti feel with this Invitation.

For the Arabic-illiterate, They’re basically saying that the official opening of Villa Moda’s new Almanshar branch is going to be held on the 6th of April at 8 o’clock. The attendants should were the traditional Kuwaiti kaftan for women (dara3a) and Dishdashas for men. There will be also a tradtional musical acts performing for the audience.

Posted By Mishary.

Since INM birthday is today Me & my wife decided to invite him and my family to lunch at Lenôtre.  By the way, this chief (in the picture above) saw me taking pics so lazam ela ye6la3 bel sora! 😛

i will leave you with some of the orders:

Rocca Salad 

Fried Mozzarella cheese

Chicken Club sandwich

Steak with white Mushroom sauce  (Yousef this is my order, Yes! MEAT again 😛 )

Rib Eye Steak

Since Lenôtre is a well known restaurant, i wont say anything more than its a classy family restaurant.

Posted By Yousef

I never got people’s obsession with herbal teas & herbal medicines. yurrkhh.

Posted By Yousef

Happy Birthday INM!! Me & Mishary wish You a Happy Birthday and a great year to come! o 3o2bal 10² sina! 😀

Remember the picture above? 😛