Posted By Yousef

I never knew Bahrain had started a low cost airlines. Their fleet consists of 2 airplanes, a boeing 737 and an airbus A320.

“Bahrain Air, the first privately owned Premium Low Priced Carrier (PLPC), started operations on 3rd. February 2008 using modern Airbus “A320″ fleet, operates from Bahrain to Alexandria, Amman, Beirut, Damascus, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait and Mashad. By April 2008 the destinations will be extended to include Dhaka in Bangladesh”

Currently there are no routes to Kuwait. but there will be in the future.

Do you know that in the past 5 years 5 new airlines started their operations in the gulf region alone?

In 2003, Air Arabia & Etihad Airways. Jazeera Airways in 2005 And in 2007 Bahrain Air. And I think somewhere in 2008 we will get Alwataniya Airways. Its getting a bit too competitive. (7i6 7ailhom bainhom)

Thanks INM.

BahrainAir

Update:
Apparently there are more and more carriers popping up every day 😛 Mr. Solutions told us in his comment that Dubai has just annouced their own verion of low cost carriers! read more about it Here.

Posted By Mishary.

The project is located at the northern part of Kuwait on Khour Al Subiyah overlooking the Bubiyan Island.

The beach front extends to about 500 meters and is regarded as a shallow water area with a high percentage of deposits due to its proximity to the Shatt Al-Arab Delta.

The resort components are a hotel with 100 double-rooms, a resort with 63 chalets, various cafes and restaurants, a Spa health club and marina complex for servicing private and rental boats of sea-bound visitors.

Developer: KAMCO

Thank you Ali.

Posted By Mishary.

Today me, Ali and Abdullah were going for dinner at Ruby Tuesday. Just before we were there Ali noticed this new building which, at first, he thought was an Indian restaurant called Muhraja Palace.

This Restaurant is circle shaped and divided into two sections, 2 half circles, One is Fish Market (not related to the one near Marina Mall, and the other is Fusion.

Fish Market is a sea food restaurant and Fusion i think is either Japanese or Chinese. Both restaurants are owned by Americana. Both are going to be officially open in 15 days.

As you can see, the decoration must’ve costed them a small fortune! no i take it back, i think it costed them a HUGE fortune! You can see there are a fish tanks all over the place.

Here is the entrance for both restaurants.

Here is a part of Fish market restaurant. As you can see there are a lot of fish tanks. I think they’re there so u can choose the fish you’d like to eat and they cook it for you.

Thank You Abdullah for letting me use your mobile camera and thanks Ali for asking the employees all these quesion, which proved to be very helpful to this post 😀

Posted By Mishary.

I like t when it comes to competition. This is yet another site that share the same concept as 6alabat.com. But this one is exclusive to Crown Plaza and Holiday Inn’s restaurants.

From the site:

ieatonline.com is an online site which is operated by Crowne Plaza Kuwait. ieatonline.com is easy to remember & you can order online from the detailed menus of the international cuisines without visiting or calling to your favourite restaurant. Now you can enjoy the food in your home with your family & friends.

The delivery fees are 400 fils/order. 6alabat.com fees are 200 fils/order. I think they should reconsider their pricing.

HERE is their link.

UPDATE:

The Myka is what many Torrent fans have been waiting for. A device that makes it easy to download torrents and play them on your living room TV. You can connect to the internet via LAN or WiFi. Your choice of 80, 160 or 500 gigabytes (and USB expansion) and the Linux OS with pre-installed BitTorrent software.

“Connect her to the Internet, plug her into your TV and Myka does the rest for you. With the BitTorrent protocol built right in, video torrents can be downloaded directly from the Web or transferred from your computer, freeing up your PC’s or laptop’s memory and processor for work or play”

Available for $299 – $459.

I don’t see this taking off, but what do I know? 😛

Thanks INM 🙂 . for further information click THIS link.

You know how most of the time when you’re faced with a problem with a device you own, you start going through your manuals and online FAQs but your problem is no where to be found? It happens to me a lot.

This site right Here provides solutions to problems related to housewares, gadgets, electronics…etc. The solutions are provided by users (like u & me) and specialists, they’re continually refined so only the best solutions remain. Me likey 😀

FixYa.com

Posted By Yousef

Apple on Tuesday announced the immediate availability of Safari 3.1, the latest version of what the company calls the “world’s fastest web browser for Mac and Windows PCs”. To download click HERE.

I specially loved this part of their report “Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2.” 😛

Source

Posted By Yousef

^Thats a real 1/2 Dinar note

Electrozan.

Posted By Mishary.

Just got this email from ushopeweship.com

“Dear Sir/Madame,

***please note***

Effective March 31st we will be at our new location and all shipments must be addressed to:

Inter-World Express Services
283 Hendrickson Ave
Lynbrook, NY 11563
Tel: (516)724-7421

Thanking you,

Anitha”

So dont forget to change your addresses 😛

Posted By Yousef

A couple of days ago I read on the internet about the controversy Genpets has created when they announced and released their new children doll/pet line. I read into it. The movie child’s play (AKA Chucky) came to mind as I read more about this THING.

From the Site

Bio-Genica is a Bioengineering Company that has combined, and modified existing DNA to create the Genpets lineup. Genpets have blood, bones, and muscle; they will bleed if you cut them, and die if mistreated just like any other animal. The electronic components are only in the packages and are for basic life support, outside of the packages the Genpets are wholly organic.

Its a living organic Thing, or a pet as they refer to it, You buy it for your children. And they , the Pets, “wake up” when you open the packaging. They recognize the first face they see and get attached to it. They Live up to 1 or 3 years, depends on the type of animal you buy.

They have feelings and emotions. they don’t scream when you cut them because they lack complex vocal cords. They do however produce different kind of noises. Here watch this VIDEO.

I’m beyond freaked out.

Thanks blasha for providing the video & bringing this up 🙂

LINK

EDIT: Oppppss!

Turned out the whole thing is fake and was a result of an artist imagination as to what would come out of real DNA and Bioengineering experiments with pets. Thanks Z for clearing it up.

From the Artist behind this idea:

To dismiss Genpets as a ‘hoax’ would be to completely miss the point. The spirit of art is to create an illusion. Genpets is designed ‘as is’ to help the viewer ponder the idea a bit longer.

Link to the Artist’s site.

I don’t know since when but its the same company, they even have the infamous lentil soup! 😛

Posted By Mishary.

Today i got 2 invitations from ARMANI CASA (one for me & wife and one for INM) For the opening of their new location (they got transfered from SUNCITY).

The New store will feature the home collection, chocolate shop and flowers shop and it will be in 3 sections:

ARMANI CASA.

ARMANI DOLCI.

ARMANI FIORI.

The official opening will be on Sunday, March 16th 2008 @ 7:00 PM.

Location: Shuwaikh, Al Tilal Commercial Center, Pepsi St., Store NO. G44

Posted By Yousef

Anise, A newly opened Restaurant in Dubai’s Intercontinental Hotel in Festival City.

Me and loco went to this beautifully designed restaurant a few days ago. its a multinational buffet kind of restaurant where there are multiple live stations cooking food live & per request. Unfortunately I couldn’t take pictures of the main dish(s) coz we were too hungry to be bothered. I’m gonna let the pictures do the talking now 🙂

5 Out Of 5

A Must.

Hotel’s Link
The Restaurant was Designed By a Japanese company called Super Potato

Posted By Yousef

Mishary Posted the other day about DHL’s @ Home Service. So, I went yesterday and signed up in DHL’s new service. They’re open from 9am till 6pm. I went around 2 o’clock and was greeted by the one and only, Ms Sarita (early members of Aramex’s shop and ship will know her very well). She was as friendly and as efficient as ever. She recognized me and said “you gained weight haven’t you?” at first I thought she was talking about herself so I replied “No! you look better than ever!” later I realized the comments was directed at me! err…

Ok, so She started by saying “I don’t want to over sell the service we have here, coz its really knew and we’re still working on lot of things.”

Pros:

1)You have Sarita working there.
2)Just like aramex it costs 2.5kd for the first 1/2 kilo and then 2kd for each additional 1/2 kilos.
3)The Mailbox is located in Illinois, so you can save lots on tax money (macbook pro’s tax is $240 if delivered to Aramex’s newyork address. and only $140 when delivered to illinois).
4)4 days delivery from the US to your address in Kuwait.
5)I like that its DHL. they’ve got to be worried about their reputation, so the chances of them screwing up are much less than the other services.
6)You have an optional 2% insurance. it covers the whole amount. so If you ever receive a damaged package, you can get your full money back. no matter how large the amount is.

Cons:
1)Its still a pretty new service, so there are lots of missing options (like tracking ur package) but She, Sarita, told me I can call her whenever I want to know the status of the shipment. and she’ll call whenever it arrives.
2)They charge on either, the package’s weight or its volume whichever is the highest. (a guy ordered light plane model and is being charged a big sum of money because of the size of the package).

I just love dealing with Sarita. thats why I think this new service is going to Rock!

PS. there is a one time 10kd fee when you sign up.

Tel # 2246502

Posted By Yousef

This site should be bookmarked by ALL of You out there! Its an online directory for lots of useful telephone numbers. It contains MANY categories! you can go through their MANY categories, select one, click search and it will show lots of the shops within that category.

Take a look and judge for yourself. I’m gonna bookmark it for sure. 😀

KBD’s LINK

UPDATE:

Turned out we have 3 more online directories in Kuwait, Thanks Mr. Solutions for sharing them with us. Here they Are:

–YPK
–EKYP
-And last but not least, or maybe it is least i’m not sure, KOCD

Posted By Mishary.

Today our driver gave ANM the new traffic laws. Not really new laws, but more like a list of penalties if you break one of the laws, which I found really good if they were applied (ya3ni mako was6a. bas mathen). the most intersting one i found:

Driving without a license will cost you KD500 PLUS 3 to 6 months in jail! (sij khooosh 3eqaab law 6abegooh)

You can click on the picture above to view a bigger version.

Thanks to ANM and Rajoo (our driver) for providing table. 🙂

Posted By Mishary.

It’s confirmed: Apple’s next event is scheduled for March 6th, next Thursday. It’ll be a Town Hall event; obviously new MacBooks and MacBook Pros aren’t to be expected, but the unambiguous “iPhone software roadmap” Time will tell us 😛

Posted By Mishary.

Today Ahmad called Sarita in DHL to ask about their @ Home service, and here is the main idea:

I posted the other day about the concert, But here is an update on ticket prices for Celine’s upcoming concert in Dubai.

The prices (As you can see from the above pic) are as follows:

Platinum General Admission (front field) $267, 980 DHS, 72 KD
Gold General Admission (centre field) $180, 660 DHS, 47 KD
Silver General Admission (rear field) $116, 425 DHS, 32 KD

SOURCE

Posted By Mishary.

The’ve added:

-Penryn chips.

-Multi touch pad “same as the Air”.

-LED backlight (option!) for 17-inchers, as well as LEDs on all the rest of the Pros .

-Added RAM to the graphics cards (up to 512MB for the higher-end 15-inch, and all 17-inch models).

-MBPs rocking 200GB or 250GB options, while the MBs range from 120GB all the way up to 250GB.

SOURCE.