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Warning: Nokia Exploding Battery recall
Tuesday, 14 Aug, 2007 – 21:10 | View Comments
Warning: Nokia Exploding Battery recall

Following models are affected:
Nokia 1100, Nokia 1100c, Nokia 1101, Nokia 1108, Nokia 1110, Nokia 1112, Nokia 1255, Nokia 1315, Nokia 1600, Nokia 2112, Nokia 2118, Nokia 2255, Nokia 2272, Nokia 2275, Nokia 2300, Nokia 2300c, Nokia 2310, Nokia 2355, Nokia 2600, Nokia 2610, Nokia 2610b, Nokia 2626, Nokia 3100, Nokia 3105, Nokia 3120, Nokia 3125, [...]

BBC Echo Zone on Gulf Road
Sunday, 5 Aug, 2007 – 9:48 | View Comments
BBC Echo Zone on Gulf Road

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Off lately I have observed that every time I drive between Amiri Hospital and Applebees on Gulf Road, BBC English starts to act funny. The transmission has echo transmission, that is, I would hear two channels of BBC transmission with a time delay of few seconds. Strange stuff..

Middle Line Idiots
Tuesday, 31 Jul, 2007 – 8:16 | View Comments
Middle Line Idiots

You might have heard of border line personalities, but in Kuwait we have a great collection of gifted Middle Line Personalities AKA Middle Line Idiots who never stop to amaze you with their antics.
What am I talking about? Well to clarify my point better let me take you for a ride along the Gulf Road.
How [...]

KFC Meals are a rip off
Monday, 30 Jul, 2007 – 11:00 | View Comments
KFC Meals are a rip off

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..not exactly what they advertise, especially when its over priced at KD 1.500/-. This is KFC Fish Zinger, and you can check the amount of tartar sauce they ’spit’. Also the drink that goes with it is ‘half’ ice, and half the drink. Next time you go there as [...]

Review: Transformers
Thursday, 26 Jul, 2007 – 10:19 | View Comments
Review: Transformers

A handful of Autobots, couple of Decepticons, a lame boy and a uber-hot chic, add action, some comedy, tons of effects, and a truckload of crappy story, mix’em well and you have Transformers. Yes my friends, Transformers could have broken the benchmark setup by movies like Terminator-2 and X-Men in terms of story and effects, [...]

Look at the humidity in Kuwait today
Wednesday, 25 Jul, 2007 – 18:55 | View Comments
Look at the humidity in Kuwait today

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…what you see is not fog, nor is it air-pollution, just plain old Humidity!

Yin & Yang of 248AM : A-Sides vs B-Sides
Wednesday, 25 Jul, 2007 – 13:42 | View Comments
Yin & Yang of 248AM : A-Sides vs B-Sides

Now this is weird, 248AM vs 248-AM AKA A-Sides vs B-Sides AKA Mark vs The Real Mark! I saw the new site couple of days ago, and was taken aback with the site’s design, layout, and especially the content. A-Sides is a mirror copy of B-Sides. Well literally a mirror copy, that is the content [...]

Rare picture of the resting place of Prophet Mohammed [PBUH]
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 – 10:22 | View Comments
Rare picture of the resting place of Prophet Mohammed [PBUH]

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A rare picture from Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi in the holy city of Medina. A very small number of people have been inside the guarded fence enclosing the resting place of Prophet Mohammed [PBUH].
Update from ForzaQ8..thx

that picture been going around e-mails
its not from Al-Masjid Al-Nabawi its a shrine in turkey

http://majdah.maktoob.com/vb/showthread.php?t=1956

Latest fad in Lebanon ‘Cash for Plastic’
Tuesday, 24 Jul, 2007 – 7:45 | View Comments
Latest fad in Lebanon ‘Cash for Plastic’

Heard this on BBC today and checked it out..yeps, its true that banking institutions in Lebanon are offering this. These banks are offering Cash [read Loans] for Plastic [read Plastic Surgery] . First National Bank of Lebanon believes this practice is as ethical as offerig loans for any other services like car, house or [...]

Rare picture of Holy Kaaba from ‘inside’
Monday, 23 Jul, 2007 – 12:44 | View Comments
Rare picture of Holy Kaaba from ‘inside’

EXCLUSIVE VIDEO from INSIDE the HOLY KAABA

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More Info on Holy Kaaba [LINK]

Very Interesting: Check if your mobile phone is original or not!
Monday, 23 Jul, 2007 – 12:24 | View Comments
Very Interesting: Check if your mobile phone is original or not!

Someone sent me this method to identify the source of mobile phone assembly/manufacturing unit.
Type *#06# and press DIAL [green button]
After you enter the code you will see the IMEI code : 154526009564585 [sample number]
IF the Seventh & Eighth digit numbers are 02 or 20 that means it was assembled in Emirates, which is very [...]

Friday-Saturday days off confirmed, effective Sept 1
Monday, 23 Jul, 2007 – 9:33 | View Comments
Friday-Saturday days off confirmed, effective Sept 1

Arab Times has news from an anonymous and reliable government source confirming Friday-Saturday as off days, effective September 1. This has been approved by the cabinet and certain government organizations have already taken steps for this move.
My question is, if such a decision has been taken at cabinet level, why don’t we see official circulars/ads [...]

I am addicted to these..tch tch
Saturday, 21 Jul, 2007 – 2:12 | View Comments
I am addicted to these..tch tch

…and am lovin’em

Hala Kuwait: Arrived back today
Friday, 20 Jul, 2007 – 3:01 | View Comments
Hala Kuwait: Arrived back today

Hello Kuwait and fellas…just arrived from Karachi after a two week break. Lots to share in the next couple of days. Had couple of Yan Jing’s in-flight…damn the thing was ugly. But something is better than nothing