Soon there won’t be anymore afternoon shifts for all the banks in Kuwait. Based on the tabel above, the majority seems to be with the new timing, which i from 7:30 AM – 3:30 PM. and thats it.

Thanks Abdullah

This is the guy I promised you guys to post about, His name is Abu Abdullah and he makes his living out of doing this home delivery kind of barbecuing. He brings all of his tools, meats and stuff and does the barbeque right infront of you.

His grills includes Reyash (lamb chops), Kabab, Sheesh 6awooq (the chicken in the picture), sho2af (tikka), and Arayes (the sandwich in the picture below. It is minced meat+onion+tomatos+cheese, all sandwiched and grilled together).
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I remember seeing a video just like this one on intlxpatr’s blog a while ago. It’s hilarious and so true 😛

Link incase the video doesn’t work.

Thanks INM

After two years of talks, the Apple iPhone will be available in the UAE by the end of this month through a deal announced yesterday by Etisalat. Whether it would release the phone locked or not is yet to be decided. Also it will be released in KSA by Mobily later this year.

Well, as you all may have known already, Dean & Deluca (fancy name huh?) has opened in the Avenues. My  brother went there and liked what he saw. He said that he liked the idea of having a fancy gourmet grocery store in Kuwait.

The place looked very fancy and spacious (attached to a relatively small cafe) and the products were of premium quality and most of them were the hard-to-find types in other groceries.

It has many things to offer including fresh fish, crabs, cheeses, fruits, veggies and sweets. Also a bakery and a wide variety of packed sauces (for pastas and stuff).

The place is a gourmet grocery store, so the prices.. yep you guessed it.. are high compared to other places like carrefour and sultan center, But you know, you get what you pay for.

I still haven’t checked it out. I want to go there sometime.

Thanks INM & HNM

Dean & Deluca

AlQadsiya football club received an invitation to participate in a major tournament held in Spain this summer (The real madrid friendly tournament). Other participants include elite European teams like Real Madrid, Barcelona, Manchester United, Arsenal, Liverpool, Bayern Munich, Ajax, Lyon among others.

Mr. AlHassawy, The clubs vice president, said that choosing AlQadisiyah to participate in this tournament had to do with the club’s reputation and the fact that the team had won many titles in the last ten years across the region.

He also added that their acceptance of this invitation isn’t final as of yet and is pending Alqadsiya board’s approval.

*AlQadsiya is the first club in the region to be invited for this tournament.

Thanks Fawaz

SOURCE

Yes, from today there will be no Assawt Newspaper.

SOURCE

I was just asking my friend the same question and he said he likes the nescafe 3 in 1. For me, I’d have to go with water.. I drink 4 to 5 glasses of water and I’m enjoying every sip :p

What is YOUR favorite drinks at work?

I thought the Sheraton’s Mhammara was the best till I tasted my in-law’s version. They got the recipe originally from fatafeat.com.

You’re going to need:

• 4 red peppers (flaifla/felfel barid)
• 1/2 cup of walnuts (joz)
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 lemon’s juice
• 1 Tablespoon of dibs ilroman (someone tell me what it’s called in english please)
• 1 cups crispy, oven-toasted bread crumbs
• 1 teaspoon of sugar
• Olive oil
• Salt

Now to the part where we learn how to mix the above to create one of the best starters:

-Grill the red peppers till they turn blackish. Then put them in a bowl and cover with plastic wrap, and when they cool off, peal the skin, take out all the seeds and cut them up to pieces.

-Put the cut up red peppers and all the rest of the ingredients, except the olive oil, in the blender, and mix them till you get a thick texture. Then start adding olive oil while you’re mixing till you end up with a creamy texture. Voila! you’re done. Whip out a slice of bread and start dipping 🙂

Thanks Ahmad and Saleya for sharing the picture and the recipe.

Its located next to Albesher mosque.

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Months ago, when I was having massages like crazy, I came across this piece of info and was excited and about to post about it.. till I discovered that the spa is for girls only. So here we go girls, for those of you who don’t know about the Banyan Tree, click HERE to get a better idea. It’s in Royal Hyatt hospital in aljabriya.

The official opening of this restaurant is going to be this sunday, the 1st of February.

We were all at our friend’s yesterday, invited to his house for his melcha-dinner gathering. I don’t have much to say except congratulations (again) 🙂 and to show the rest of you some of the things we had for dinner..
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The MPS held a convention/celebration to acknowledge Hamas’ perseverance.

Literal translation:
Woman: This is Kuwait’s Ghetra. You MPS sold Kuwait. You’re all hypocrites. This is the Kuwaiti’s Ghetra.

Implication (in my opinion):
People at the convention were wearing the palestinians’ Ghetras or Keffiyeh, as a sign of support for Hamas and palestine. The woman felt offended and was opposing the whole thing, in a very unsubtle way.

I’m hoping there is a full video somewhere of this incident so we can get a better idea.

Thanks Khalid

Guys i thought the salaries were supposed to only increase but i got shocked once I read this.

Thanks INM

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I’ve received this via email from my friend, and apparently I wasn’t fast enough to post it since atleast 2 blogs did so far. But anyway better late than never. For those of you who cannot read arabic I’ll make an attempt to give you the gist of the letter:

In a nutshell this is a letter sent by the Emir of Riyadh, Salman Bin Abdulaziz, to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, stating that the way the Emir Sultan was behaving was inappropriate and that calling the TV station and reprimanding the TV hosts in public and on live tv was not in line with the kind of tone the Saudis have come to expect from such public figures.

The Emir of Reyadh also mentioned that Emir Sultan was overstepping his authority when he called Abu Athnain, who is from a well-known family, an ill raised. And then finally He asked the King to try to stop this kind of behavior, pointing out that this wasn’t Emir Sultan’s first time, but that He had done similar things in the past, and some were in public too.

This keeps getting better 🙂

Thanks Khalid

Update:

So AlArabiya published a statement by saudi officials denying the whole content of this letter above and they said it’s all fake and fabricated. Personally, I don’t think it’s fake coz I think If I ever did something similar and sent this letter and it reached the public, I’d deny it too.

I just checked Buzberry and it seems me and Alvaro are on the same page 🙂

Thanks HBZ and Fawaz for the link.

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look to the center of the image for a minute then look at the keyboard .. What are you seeing? 🙂

Thanks Ahmad

We’re happy to let you all know that we’ve added a new section to the site, that isOur Recipes, and we’re going to keep updating it with more recipes over time.

Happy cooking everyone 🙂

Picture by Mishary

Today my wife found out that Nespresso is offering a new flavour which is Caramel.. So we went ahead and ordered some but unfortunately we haven’t tried them yet. I’ll let you guys know all about it once I get a taste 🙂

A week ago I received my Vodafone branded and unlocked Blackberry Storm which i bought from Ebay. I’m not a fan of touch screens phones, but since i found this with an unbelievable price of KD160 including delivery expenses plus shop&ship’s, I became a fan. Just to give you guys an idea on why i thought this was a good deal, a quick comparison is Kuwait-Mall.com, they’re selling it for KD297, almost double the price.

UPDATE: Have anyone tried to send mms with a Blackberry?

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