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Wonderful presentation on Saving Water
Thursday, 26 Mar, 2009 – 10:47 | View Comments
Wonderful presentation on Saving Water
President Obama speaks to Iranians on Nowruz: US opens to diplomacy
Friday, 20 Mar, 2009 – 15:46 | View Comments
President Obama speaks to Iranians on Nowruz: US opens to diplomacy

Watch the video of President Obama speaking to the Iranian population and the leadership on the occasion of Nowruz, expressing solidarity and warm wishes. Finally it seems that US is now thawing its relations with Iran after all the rhetoric of the past administration. Now lets see how Iranians respond to this..

HH Amir of Kuwait dissolves Parliament: HH Sheikh Nawaf new PM
Thursday, 19 Mar, 2009 – 9:43 | View Comments
HH Amir of Kuwait dissolves Parliament: HH Sheikh Nawaf new PM

The political turmoil that Kuwait has been facing in last couple of weeks, finally ended after HH Amir of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah dissolved the Parliament. This means there will be new elections in Kuwait within 2 months. The senior members of the Al-Sabah ruling family have also recommended that Crown Prince HH Shiekh [...]

Nokia N97 release date not March but June?!
Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 – 15:32 | View Comments
Nokia N97 release date not March but June?!

Nokia’s latest & greatest [according to many] the N97 touchscreen gizmo, the iPhone nemesis is slated for release by the end of June rather than end of March as first assumed. Many websites are already taking pre-orders [with shipping by June 23rd], and have priced the device at Euros 800-1000 approx. This means that this [...]

Traffic week leaflets & shitty weather onslaught
Sunday, 15 Mar, 2009 – 10:01 | View Comments
Traffic week leaflets & shitty weather onslaught

Today morning while waiting at the traffic lights in Kuwait City, opposite the temperature building near Mirqab, the drivers were in for a bit of a surprise. Traffic cops was standing at the intersection with some media person, and the cops went from car to car saying a few words and handing over something. I [...]

Mega fireworks rattles residents in Salmiya
Wednesday, 11 Mar, 2009 – 21:59 | View Comments
Mega fireworks rattles residents in Salmiya

At around 9.30 pm today there was a major fireworks extravaganza on the Gulf Road towards the Scientific center. Everyone was caught unawares as the fireworks blasted across the night sky. Residents rushed out to catch the glimpse of the show, but most were just plain scared as hell as booms sounded off every second. [...]

Arab Times hoaxed by Burundanga: Dizzy headlines galore
Monday, 9 Mar, 2009 – 10:13 | View Comments
Arab Times hoaxed by Burundanga: Dizzy headlines galore

Arab Times today front-paged [print and online] a story about Burundanga drug being used in Kuwait over laced business cards. Seems they didnt cross check Google before publishing their stories of women being offered burundanga laced cards.
Strangely the first story of a woman getting laced card at a petrol station is a hoax email on [...]

RIPOFF: Incoming calls to be charged again?!
Monday, 16 Feb, 2009 – 21:16 | View Comments
RIPOFF: Incoming calls to be charged again?!

News outlets are buzzing that atleast “two” mobile carrier companies in Kuwait are already complaining that they are not able to make huge ripoff profits from us, after the incoming call charges were lifted late last year. Now who could these “two” companies be?! Ofcourse we all know that these would be the same companies [...]

Expats flee Dubai leaving cars at airport
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 14:38 | View Comments
Expats flee Dubai leaving cars at airport

Dubai is facing the onslaught of the Global Economic crisis and the worst fared are the expats who have been living a high-n-dry dream with home loans, car loans, and credit card balances. In the last 4 months or so around 3000 cars have been left outside the aiport with keys in the ignition and [...]

Chrome Mercedes in Dubai
Saturday, 24 Jan, 2009 – 15:24 | View Comments
Chrome Mercedes in Dubai

Now this is one cool paint job on one cool ride..imagine the cost of paint job on this beauty?!

Why do we support Jewish fashion industry, while Israel massacres Gaza civilians?
Saturday, 17 Jan, 2009 – 21:50 | View Comments
Why do we support Jewish fashion industry, while Israel massacres Gaza civilians?

Kuwait and other countries in the GCC has always patronized high fashion, designer boutiques, and premium fashion brands. Some of these well-known brands are owned by designers of Jewish origin. If we could raise our concerns when a Danish cartoonist published caricatures of Prophet [PBUH] by boycotting all their products, its time we raise our [...]

Israeli soldiers admit “Purification” agenda in Gaza
Monday, 12 Jan, 2009 – 21:32 | View Comments
Israeli soldiers admit “Purification” agenda in Gaza

So the holocaust survivors progeny considers their mission of Gaza massacre is nothing more than “purification”. Well Nazi’s called it ethnic cleansing, so I guess Israelis are heeding to Nazi principals in Gaza now. This video was banned by the Israeli establishment, but released anyways by an Israeli channel.

Download new International call rates list from Kuwait: MOC reduces tariff by 50%
Tuesday, 6 Jan, 2009 – 11:31 | View Comments
Download new International call rates list from Kuwait: MOC reduces tariff by 50%

As I had mentioned previously that MOC Kuwait was planning new call rates for International destinations from Kuwait. Here is the updated list of new call rates. And yes rates have been slashed by upto 50% for many countries.
Download International call rates list [CLICK HERE] PDF version

Shameful: Israel Army video shows how they bomb a Mosque in Gaza
Thursday, 1 Jan, 2009 – 11:27 | View Comments
Shameful: Israel Army video shows how they bomb a Mosque in Gaza

Israels’ Army have launched a channel on YouTube where they are uploading videos from bombing aircrafts over Gaza. In the above video they allege that a mosque in Gaza has hidden missiles, and then they go about bombing the Mosque.
I think Arab neighbours are sitting too quite and would rather watch from distance how humanity [...]