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Estathmer is a National Campaign targeting a large sector of Kuwaiti Citizens to both encourage and educate them on Investment in the Local Market. Both the seminars and the workshops are for free and will be held in GUST (The Gulf University for Science and Technology). The workshops require you to register in advance. Again the workshops are for free, they will be conducted by expertise in the related fields and each participant in all workshops will receive a certificate.

Thanks Yasmeen

Estathmer website

^Click on the announcement for the English version.

Its confirmed now Mohammed Al Fayed sells Harrods store to Qatar Holdings for price of £1.5bn, So expect it soon to be in Doha 🙂

SOURCE

Thanks Taymoor

Electrozan are holding an event for the new 3G iPads at their Salmiya branch. They have 2 demos set out for you to try out and get their feel. They’re working on having them in store soon.

The thing with this event is that it’ll be kinda exclusive for you blogs readers. It is only advertised in blogs where Electorzan is a sponsor, so you won’t be annoyed by huge lines and lots of people waiting. You’ll get alone time with the device and try it out all you want. Fill the form below and you’ll have a slot reserved for you to try the iPad out. I was told there are gifts in store for you if you reserved your slot online and went to try it out.

Fill your form here

iPad 3G event is powered by VIVA Micro sim cards.

Will be tomorrow, It seems they are dropping one after the other, it’ll be interesting to see which one would last.

PICTURE

UPDATE: They’ve just announced that the last issue will be on the 10th of May. Total newspapers in Kuwait will be decreased to 14 newspapers.

House of Etiquette are having an opening reception today May 3rd and wanted us to share this open invitation with you guys to the official launching:

It is with great pleasure and joy to announce that The House of Etiquette, Kuwait is finally launching!

After over two successful years of effort and industrious training in Europe’s leading internationally certified academy – The Etiquette & Protocol Consultancy and Modular Finishing School Academy of London – UK and a plethora of research in the field of education and etiquette, we are proud to officially announce the launch of The House of Etiquette, Kuwait.  The House of Etiquette has spent a generous time planning and forecasting educational strategies to suit our goals and aims, in addition to finding the personal and bespoke needs of our clients based in the Gulf Region. Therefore, our etiquette school is the first in Kuwait specialized to offer children with the grace of elegance and poise … an asset that would last them for a lifetime filled with professional and social success. Not only are children welcome to be a part of our etiquette school … but programs for young adults and adults are available to! Courses for young adults and adults will be launching soon…but courses for children will be offered first!

The House of Etiquette, Kuwait is very proud to state that it has been solely built on two young Kuwaiti ladies – Bibi Al-Ghanim & Ma’ab Al-Qassem.  These young ladies have an eternal passion and respect for etiquette – both classical and modern. Both Bibi and Ma’ab not only are certified in the areas of etiquette but in addition, Bibi’s knowledge further derives from her master’s degree in Education Management and Leadership whilst Ma’ab’s corporate educational background and over thirty varied certifications in the corporate realm combine to creating a formula of diversity and achievement. The House of Etiquette presents an admiration for refinement with a unique mission to spreading social grace and sophistication within Kuwait’s society. These young ladies are proud locals who know the cultural codes of the Gulf and are finally ready to share their knowledge with YOU!

Therefore, we would cordially like to invite you and your guests to join The House of Etiquette, Kuwait at its official opening reception launch on May 3, 2010. We truly look forward to having you become a part of The House of Etiquette family.

Click to view the invitation

House Of Etiquette Kuwait

So they’ve been married for 2 years. He proposed one night by disguising the real ring inside a ring pop wrapper. Now on their second anniversary and while renewing their vows, he presented her with this candy ring above. It’s real. Made of white gold, pink sapphire and white diamonds.

Ok I knew blogs had impact on people, and I knew our blog had a big audience, but when I was writing my post, and leaking the news to you guys about zain’s new MicroSim Cards, I didn’t expect to cause 2 big companies like Wataniya and VIVA to panic!

Our friends over at Buzberry and Frankom just posted Viva’s MicroSims and Wataniya’s press release, respectively. Coincidently just 2 days after the Zain news leak.

I’m so enjoying watching companies trip over each other over a post 😛

We’ve got some juicy piece of exclusivity for you guys! A reliable insider just told me the new MicroSim cards are going to be available at Zain on the 28th of April, thats this wednesday! It’ll be tested and then made available just in time for the new iPad 3G release date, on the first week of May.

We’re putting an end to all speculations! The MicroSims will be here and ready to be used with your new iPads and whatever new technology, on the first week of May!

I’ll try and get the real little MicroSims pictures for you soon.

Update:

We were just contacted by Zain, and were told that the MicroSims batch they’re receiving on the 28th isn’t the first, but actually they’ve already got MicroSims in the warehouse. They also wanted to further stress that they are the first telecom company to get the MicroSim Cards in Kuwait.

My favorite part of the email was, their promise to provide me with a MicroSim soon, and let me be the first to share the pictures with you guys.

^Click on the article for a bigger version.

I can’t believe that something like that can happen in our Kuwait. Whoever was responsible for this unjustifiable act, should get what they deserve, and then some more!

Thanks Amer

NBK are having a draw as part of their FIFA 2010 world cup campain, and the first 7 winners will get packages to the finals at South Africa, and then another 10 winners to get visa cards with a $1000 gift in each of em.

Click for details

New Prime and Toast Branch will be opening in AlBidaa, don’t know when but hopefully soon. The best spaghetti Bolognese (yes the best) can be found at this place!

Thanks Bader

My friend Nasser managed to send me some pictures from inside the exhibition. He told me that Zain will kick off their yearly exhibition titled Zain City tomorrow at 4:30pm. The Exhibition will include many new technologies, offers, discounts and surprises. The guys are still working there till this hour (i’m writing this post at 12:37am).

Exhibition is open everyday from April 22nd to May 1st.

Thanks Nasser

More pictures

I don’t know this guy and I didn’t know he existed till 10 minutes ago, when I read a mobile message with a link to his article published on Qatar’s AlWatan newspaper dated April 11th 2010.

I’m all for accepting other people’s opinions, but for some reason I didn’t accept one word from this article, and thought it was a cheap attempt and uncalled for, Especially that it’s on a Qatari newspaper. My blood is boiling 🙂

Sorry no english translation this time around. It’s too much to translate as you can see.

بدر صفوق

مجلس «البزران».. الكويتي

الديمقراطية حلوة جداً.. لمن يتعامل معها بشكلٍ راق.. ويقبل بنتيجتها.. أيا كانت فهي عبارة عن لعبة شد وجذب..ومن وجهة نظري البسيطة ان أول من وضع قانون ديمقراطي في العالم العربي الاسلامي هو الصحابي معاوية بن أبي سفيان عندما قال «والله لو بيني وبين الناس شعرة ما انقطعت» ككناية عن الشد والجذب.. اللذين تتعامل بهما النفس البشرية الواثقة من نفسها والتي تتقبل اختلاف الرأي.. والتباحث به بكل أنواع.. الدهاء.. الحنكة.. الخبرة سمها عزيزي القارئ ما شئت «حتى لا أصادر عليك رأيك».

ولكن ما يحدث في الديمقراطية الكويتية الآن.. «وبمجلس الأمة تحديداً».. منطق «بزارين». والبزارين لمن لا يتكلمون الخليجية تعني «أطفالا»..«وليس أي أطفال بل.. أطفال شوارع صايعين وحرامية.. وبلطجية.. ويشفطون باتكس» بعد.. والباتكس نوع من أنواع الغراء التي يلصق بها عمال الأثاث المنزلي السجاد على أرضية المنزل يستخدمها للتوهان أطفال البرازيل الذين يسرقون المارة عنوة في شوارع ريو دي جانيرو «شفتهم بفيلم».

وبما ان لدينا الآن خمسين «بزراً» بجانب الحكومة التي لاتختلف عن عقلية هؤلاء البزارين ولكن توّها.. «مخليّه الباتكس» فقد صدمت بمستوى الحوار الهابط الذي يتم داخل قاعة الشيخ عبدالله السالم «أبو الدستور» فهناك نائب يقول للآخر «جــب» والآخر يقول لآخر «كِل تبن».. وثالث يصرّح ان ثلاثة أرباع المجلس «مفوشحين» والفوشحه طريقة للمشي لمن تمت له عملية «طهور» وهو كبير في السن.. وآخر يردح لنائبة في المجلس بأنها «حرامية» والبنت تبكي وتقول له باللهجة الكويتية الجديدة «بأتحداك ازا عندك ورق فرجيني اياه».. وبزر يريد مقاطعة البزر الآخر لأنه يتكلم عن بنت خالة زوجته التي تعمل مديرة ادارة.. وذاك يقول لزميله البزر «الأقدم منه عضوية» في الشارع.. عفواً مجلس الأمة الكويتي.. اذا فيك خير.. اطلع بره.. وهذا يقول لذاك أنت كذاب أبن كذاب.. والآخر يرد أنت واطي ولا أنت كفو.. وآخر يقول ان زملاءه البزور.. كلهم «هابشين من الحكومة الّي توها مخليه الباتكس وطايحة بالشم».. وأخر يقول لآخر «أنت مو ولد أبوك» مما جعلني أرى ان مجلسنا غير الموقر.. وحكومتنا ربع الموقرة «عشان لا يقطعون الراتب» يجب أن يعتمدوا شرط عمل فحوصات الـ «d.n.a» لكل من يتقدم للترشح لمجلس الأمه أو من يتم اسناد وزارة اليه.. حتى لا يدخلوا البلد بحيص بيص.. وتعال فاكك عاد.

وبما انني أحترم مبدأ الاختلاف وأؤمن بالديمقراطية والحوار مع «الرجال فقط» فإنني أرى أن يتم تحويل المجلس بأكمله مع الحكومة «ربع الموقرة» لسجن الأحداث لأنني أعرف ان هناك عقابا لكل من يشتم زميله في ذلك السجن «التربوي» بطريقة تجعله يفكر ألف مرة قبل أن يشتم مرة أخرى زميلا أو مشرفا أو حتى عامل النظافة الآسيوي.

وبما ان شتائم البزور الآن أصبحت حديث الساحة الخليجية والعربية وخوفاً من أن نصبح مثل برلمان تايوان وكوريا الجنوبية الذي وصل فيه الأمر لتبادل الضرب بين أعضائه فإنني أقترح توزيع حارس بين كل «بزر» و«البزر» الذي يجلس جواره حتى يستطيعوا التفريق بينهم لو فكر أحد باستخدام السلاح «الأسود» الذي يتم وضعه فوق الرأس ويسمى في اللهجة الخليجية «العقال».

أخيرا:

!!! «البلد تسير الى الهاوية منذ وقتٍ طويل.. ألا يوجد فيكم.. «حكيم

Link to the article

Thanks Fawaz

UPDATE:

And Kuwait’s AlWatan newspaper responds!

Thanks Khalid for the update.

Heavy smokes coming from Sabah AlSalem. I hope no one got hurt.

Thanks M7

“The country’s biggest bank, posted on Saturday a first quarter net profit of $264 million, up 20 percent from the same period a year ago.” – Reuters

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Hotel Chocolat, the gourmet chocolatier’s long awaited first branch has just opened in AlKoot Mall.

Thanks M7

Wataniya Airways has announced on their official site that they’ll reach new destinations; Istanbul, Rome and Vienna, starting on May 2nd, May 31st, and June 2nd respectively.

Wataniya Airways

Thanks Fawaz

Zain & NBK have teamed up to provide an interesting offer for Laki & Mustaqbal accounts. Click on the picture above to view a bigger version.

Transfer your salary to NBK and get a chance to win Kd 5000 weekly, and an instant gift voucher redeemable in any ZAIN branch. You get:

1. Free gold number.
2. 50 free local sms per month for 3 months.
3. 3 months free subscriptions with Zain’s employees packages.
4. Free Zain E-Go.

Offer valid until July.

Mishref’s Texas Chicken is offering 20% discount on their meals for the “Jamaiya employees.” Good idea and I really like their Arabic to English translation 🙂

Thanks ANM