Remember my previous posts about the blue and green amber ? Today i’ve received from UPS my custom made blue amber misbah. Yes finally ! it went from Dominican Republic directly, So i decided to take Ali with me and head directly to souq mobarkia to make it a real misbah ( ya3ni re7t ashekaa ) 🙂

Anyway Thanks to Ali

I was told that the gas stations in Kuwait won’t be operating tomorrow due to a strike. I don’t have anymore info about this. We just filled up all of our cars’ tanks.

Update:
The strike was only in KNPC stations, and Mr. Solutions just said that it has ended coz the KNPC management agreed to give the union what they want.

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This is a new idea to prevent your kids from sharing their sandwiches with others.

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We’re on our way to Bahrain. We’re a group of 16 in 5 cars about to leave Kuwait and into Saudi right now. We’re going there for the weekend and to attend a friend’s wedding in Alkhubar, which is 30 minutes away from the hotel.

My brother told me I should post about this PS3 game. Apparently it’s something a lot of guys have been waiting for 😛 It’s available now in AlRehab in Hawally.

Our friend got his neck hurt while playing volleyball in the chalet and we rushed him to Al Adan hospital.

The whole Adan experience was a sad one. I went in expecting the worst kind of doctors with the worst attitudes. I expected to have a bad experience as a result of incompetent staff. But that wasn’t the case.. that wasn’t the case at all. The doctors were doing their jobs to the best of their abilities and the nurses were running around to help as much as they could. I’m not going to talk about the receptionists because, simply, they do not qualify as human beings (inshallah ma3ashat’hom zaqqoom bichbood’hom) so i won’t mention them (again).

The one thing that was bringing the whole thing down.. the one thing that was wrong with the hospital (aside from the building itself) was the people. The patients and their families. As soon as we were by the doctor’s door the shoving and cutting inline started. We saw our number flash on the screen and went to the doctor to find a whole other family entering before us and taking our turn. And when they came out, another women wanted to cut inline and even had the nerve to feel offended when we refused to let her go in before we do.

When we were in the doctor’s office and our friend being diagnosed, there was atleast 5 attempts to open the door. The nurse had to lock the door. I asked how often this happens, and they said they visit Top Master Locksmith to get tools to fix their doors atleast twice a month.

There are always people complaining about the doctors in Kuwait and how they’re not doing their job. How they get misdiagnosed and stuff.. But now I know, in my opinion, the main cause behind such complaints.

The Kuwaiti people need to take lessons and be parented all over again before we are let out on the streets. We should go to some sort of a facility with courses where they teach us how to respect our own boundaries.. and then a whole set of other courses to teach us all about other people’s rights. How do you expect the doctor to give you a fair treatment when the nurse has to block the door by force as to not let other people in while you’re being diagnosed? How do you expect to get the doctor’s full attention when there is some idiot outside the door banging like a maniac wanting in? What goes through YOUR mind when YOU cut inline??

I think the state of Kuwait’s hospitals perfectly fits the state of it’s People’s mentality.

My second post about recipes is here (cheny estanast 3ala el akel 🙂 ) Now its about Cream Caramel, we call it here in Kuwait Ber el Waldain .. This is what mom told me, straight to the recipe and instructions 🙂

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My friend Talal who is a student in Dubai just wrote us saying there is a big issue going on with all the Kuwaiti credit cards (Visa, Master, and even Visa electron) that’s been used in Dubai within the last 6 months. He said they’re suspending all the cards and issuing new ones due to recent theft incidents. Make sure you always do a credit card comparison.

He also said that NBK is going to send him his card via DHL, and that if someone who’s in dubai and in desperate need for cash, they can lift the block on his card just temporarily in order for him to withdraw some money and then block it again right away. Click here to learn more about an alternative which is better than using your credit cards for loans.

Did you guys know about this thing? I didn’t. All I know is that they’re replacing all of their cards with new ones with a chip in them. Sort of an update and not something serious.

Thanks Talal.

Update:
I just spoke with someone from NBK and he confirmed that there have been many pretty big hacks and theft incidents on credit & debit cards used in Dubai in the past 6 months. And it’s happening with all the other banks too, not just the NBK.

Today i found out HNM wearing these weird looking naked slippers, It may look difficult to walk around in without the straps, but the slipper sticks to your feet like magnet. There are lots of colors to choose from too.

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So Apple’s long awaited event took place this evening around 8pm (our time) and the following are some of the results:

• New revamped macbook pro with many new features.
• New silver macbooks that look exactly like the pro line have been introduced, and dropped the black ones.
• Macbook air. upped the harddisk to 128gb and added a mini display port.
• New led backlit Cinema Display with a magsafe to power notebooks, a 2nd USB port and a display port.

Personally I was most concerned about the new macbook pro line, since I just bought mine 6 months ago, and honestly, I thought I’d be a bit more jealous, but I’m not. I’ve always hated the black keyboard on the Air’s, but then again, I’m really impressed with the new mouse button (now THATS innovation) and the new improved battery life.

To know more about the event in details se ENGADGET’s live feed.

Today was HNM’s birthday so as usual me and wife decided to bring her a gift which was wrapped by my wife. By the way i like the combination of dark and light gray.

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YouTube is entering a new level by adding some action for their videos you can see some of it by clicking HERE, this is what I call creativity!

We went today to the Men Time spa in Almuhallab mall, Me, Mishary and my 2 cousins. We booked an appointment for 4 people almost a week ahead. The spa is much smaller than the spa I reviewed last week (The Day Spa) and a step down in almost every way.

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On friday we went to thba3iya to our friend’s relatives shalaih to see their collection of RC planes.. and what a collection they had! They had all the RC planes you could imagine. Big and small. mostly très big. They even built a runway for their planes.
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they got hacked by a group of hackers and now they moved temporary to ther new location www.alarabiya.tv

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As the topic said, 7asafa walla, it was really good policy. If no one know whats the policy is, then its simply that if you bought something from Amazon and its price on the site dropped within 30 days of your purchase then you could contact them and get a refund for the difference.

Thanks Ahmad

UPDATE:

Here is an email that confirm the above which Mark got when he requested to get a refund on the difference for his camera:

“Hello from Amazon.com.

Thanks for writing to us about the recent price change on “Nikon D90 DX 12.3MP Digital SLR Camera with 18-105mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S VR DX Nikkor Zoom Lens”. I recognize you have a choice of retailers and appreciate that you prefer to order from us. Unfortunately, we do not have a post-order price guarantee.

I’ve reviewed your order and see that the price change was significant and you just received this item from us. Under the circumstances, I’ll make a one-time exception for you and issue a refund for the price difference in the amount of $46.99.

Please understand that I’m issuing this refund because of the exceptional circumstances, and I’m doing this for you against our standard policy.

WHY DON’T YOU HAVE A PRICE GUARANTEE?

While we don’t always beat the best available price on every product, we do offer deep discounts on many thousands of items. From time to time, prices on some items will change due to special offers from suppliers and manufacturers or our inventory and sales volumes. When we can offer a lower price for new purchases we will, but we cannot extend these discounts to completed orders.

Thanks for shopping at Amazon.com. We look forward to your next visit.

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Yes i just finished installing Leopard on my Wind and i also upgraded the ram to 1.5 GB even the battery got upgraded to 6-cells which gives me 4+ hrs. The only thing that is not working right now is the wifi but my new card is on the way via ShopnShip.

Anyway i just want to thanks Mark and Bashar for helping me with the installation process.

Finally ..The rumors were true. Apple next event in San Francisco next Tuesday, October 14th at 10AM PST.

Its for a new laptop inshalla they gonna released a 13.3″ one or smaller, Anyway stay tune we’re gonna cover it inshallah 🙂

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Life Goes On… Drive Carefully

Now my question is: What do you think of this ad. .. Again are you convinced ?

This sign was on a small one room building near where we stay in france. For years we’ve been passing by without paying much attention. A couple of years ago Mom started telling me about this guy, who turned to be a great french philosopher. Apparently he stayed in our area when he was young.

I just googled and read about him. He wrote many books. I read that he invented modern autobiographies. I skimmed through his Confessions book and the first thing he wrote was a bit of a turnoff:

“I HAVE begun on a work which is without precedent, whose accomplishment will have no imitator. I propose to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature; and this man shall be myself.”

No imitator, huh? I bet he’s turning in his grave with the debut of every new autobiography and reality show.

Then I read a line that made me laugh:

“I believe no individual of our kind ever possessed less natural vanity than myself.”

I’m sure when this last line is put in it’s context may come off less self-absorbed/conceited, but still I find it hard to accept that someone would say something like that about himself and still think he has low vanity..