Saturday 24 November 2007

Colbie Caillat - Bubbly

Can't get it out of my mind :}

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PWfB4lurT4

a very cute song, hear it the house, on the way to work, at work ;p

off the mood ,, I do enjoy this one too!

نمر بن عدوان و الجانب الرقيق من الرجل

المقالة متأخره لكنها افكار تلازمني ،، و اخرجها للسطح بريد الكتروني قمت بحذفه بعد حملة تنظيف شاملة قمت بشنها على صندوق بريدي الاكتروني ككل

نمر بن عدوان شخصية عربية قديمة "بدوية" يلتصق بها اساس الجملة التي يقولها بعض الناس، اجمالا البدو "هذا بلا ابوك يا عقاب" و المقصود بها الاشارة الى خصلة تميز شخص ما و ارجاع محبة هذا الشخص الى تلك الخصله ، اي ان هذه الخصله هي سبب الحب بمن قيلت عنه

المثير للاهتمام بان البريد الالكتروني الذي حركني لكتابة هذه المقالة قد وصلني من رجل ،، على الرغم من افتتان النساء بشخصية الاعرابي الذي يتخطى الاعراف المتداوله و يظهر عاطفته لزوجته التي يحب الى الناس اجمعين و ان يمتد هذا الحب الى ما بعد وفاتها، الا ان لشخصية نمر بن عدوان صدى لدى الذكور على حد سواء و اعجبوا به، مما يغاير النظرة بأن الرجال عموما لا يحبون الرجل العاطفي

اثبتت هذه الشخصية بان الرجولة و اظهار العاطفة لا يرتبطان ببعظهما كالماء و النار و ان احدهما لا يخمد الآخر، بالعكس يمكن لرجل ان يعبر عن عاطفته و ان
هذا الشيء ليس به اي انتقاص للرجولة

و افتتان بعض الرجال به بنظري هو فأل خير :) فالتعبير عن العاطفة لم يعد حكرا على النساء عموما، هذا لا يعني انكار عاطفة الرجل ولكني اتكلم بالعموم! ذلك لان الرجل عموما يتحكم بعاطفته اكثر من المرأة "بشكل عااااام و ليس خاص" و لعل نمر بن عدوان سيكون رمز لتجديد العاطفة بين الازواج و التعبير عنها بحرية اكثر و بلا خجل و بكل احترام؟! الشيء الذي يندر وجوده و في بعض الاحيان ان وجد تسمع الاصوات التي تقول:

"ليييييييييييييييييييش تبي اتفطن الناس علينا و يحسدونا @@ لا ويه لا تقول لاحد"

و في بعض الاحيان باصوات اكثر خشونة

"خرووووووووووووووووف"

صحيح ان للأشعار الغزلية نصيب الاسد مما يقولة الشعراء على مر العصور و بالاخص الذكور منهم، و لكن التغزل بالزوجه لم يكن من غالبية هذه الاشعار ،، حسب وجهة نظري ،، ولا املك اي شيئ ضد هذه الكتابات فللشاعر حرية ما يكتب به،،

و نعود الى نمر ،، فإن كان العامل المحفز هو نمر بن عدوان او غيره! شخصياً يسعدني وجوده و انتشاره،، لان التعبير عن المشاعر لمن نحب بوقت وجودهم في هذه الحياة ظروري فكلنا زائرون لهذه الحياة و سنتركها بوقت ما ،، فلنخلف ورائنا ما يسعدنا و يسعد من نحب

Tuesday 20 November 2007

A quick dish!

Yesterday:

When I got home, lunch was not appealing, looked into the fridge found some useful things [mushrooms - coriander - Parmesan] and did the following:



Took out some garlic & coriander



Butter in the pan



MUSHROOMS


Crushed garlic with coriander, added some salt when squashing them, it makes it easy to squash them :D this is my mother's tip! Then added some pepper "I prefer freshly crushed" and some dried rosemary



Added the mushrooms to the mix



Did not have time to cover the pan & wait for the mushrooms to sweat so i added a little bit of water ;p then after a minute or two added some cream over



A few minutes to simmer, the mushrooms with the fake white sauce mixed along well :D finally added some Parmesan cheese just before serving



Annnnnd :D I was DONE, it was ready to be eaten



This sauce with the mushrooms fits a pasta or even with some grilled chicken or steak ,, am a white sauce + mushroom + chicken lover :D thats why I made up this dish, although am not a garlic lover but with the white sauce it works well!

Mistakes:

It was a bit salty, I forgot that I added salt to the garlic & coriander mix :/ but I ateeee it along with my sister & bro,,, and they are FINE :D el7mdillah

a lot of cream and water added, a lot of sauce was produced :D which made it fit a pasta more than to be eaten alone ;p

I ate it with some brown toast. All in all it was a good quick Q80-ChillGirl'ie meal :D "that did not sound nice! too long"

Sunday 18 November 2007

Sharq




I went to see the Sharq movie premier here in Kuwait tonight @ 8 pm......


The Cancellation:

A few hours before the show my sister & friend could not attend the premier with me but I went there :D alone and it was not easy for a shy person like me, yet I had fun.

The Family mixup:

When I stood for a while near the gate, a family stood in front of me, yes not beside me but in front of me LOL it was hillarious how people looked at me as they came to greet them and wondering who was I ??!!

The Early Bird:

I came there early! too early, 45 minutes before the show, and we did not get in till after 8:05, Arabic timing, Although I liked the fact that I came early still the wait is not for me! I could not stand still for more than a minute! I went here & there, up & down, I can not handle waiting well, if only I took that book with me at least I have read a few pages!

The Salfa:

مو قادره انسى سالفة اثنين يهبلون تخاتيخ من عمر العشر سنين او بداية التعشات ،، يقول للي معاه ايييطقها بالكتاب و قالها انا كنت بطق الذبانه او طق المدرسه او مادري شصار المهم شكله و انفعالاته تشوق :> و اللي يشوق اكثر انفعال اللي معاه لوول حدهم مختبين على السالفة

و هم كان شكل الصبيان اللي لابسين دشاديش يونس،، انتشروا بالساحة اللي جبال السينما ذكروني ابيت عمي العود بالعيد ايام اول ،، لما كانت الدشداشة اللبس الرسمي للصغار

The Faces:

Saw a few familiar faces :D they made me smile :D although some of them don't know me but they made it easy! with the net's aid that is.

The Organizing:

Was good, except for the delay in the playing time, I had a busy day so every minute counts! especially that was dead tired!

The movie, My review:

All in all I liked it, its not something extraordinary but very worth producing, I have always felt that there is this poor one Kuwaiti movie that counted as a try in the cinema world, Bas Ya Bahar, of course EXzombie's latest article proved me wrong & informed me with a lot of facts regarding the kuwaiti cinema and movie industry, an article worth reading it is a documentation of a part of the Kuwaiti culture. Still it is young, and done by amateurs "majority" but its there.

Sharg is a movie about a group of kids who want a new football after theirs being ruined! so the search for a new ball begins, in an other part of Kuwait far away from where they live, my most enjoyable part is the scenes in the middle of the movie where they flash back around the places they went to in Kuwait in their search for Sharg!

I enjoyed the movie a lot, the editing was very nice, script and enjoyed the movie as a whole, it was funny, I would give it 4/5. If you did not see it, or hasty to go & see it, DO NOT !! this is so worth it and its only ALMOST 22 minutes long :)

The Ogre:

She did not look anything like an Ogre but I wanted to use this discribtion in particular to describe her impoliteness! let aside the laughs from here & there, the comments for no obvious reason! the repeating of lines! she kept doing, when a scene of poor/ simple houses came, which I assume is in the "Taima" Area in Al-Jahra district, known as "Al-Sha3beyat" since the movie started from Al-jahra, Al-Sh3beyat are one store houses built originally by the government to house Kuwaitis until their real/ bigger houses are built but this project failed as "Al-Sawaber" one did! they are located in two areas of Kuwait: Al-Sulaibiyah & Al-Jahra.

Nevertheless some have not seen them before or took a closer look at them, I did, it was not a pleasant scene and I do not wish for them to exist in Kuwait I wish that every one has a nice house to fit them, what if they don't?

But to say: umbeeeih hathe El-Jahra chetheee !!

It's a shame, a woman with her age "mid - late 20s" does not know how Al-Jahra looks like, or heard or seen how it looks like? even if you have never been there, have you not known any one living there? haven't you heard about their houses? Personaly I do not live there but I know a lot who do, and you my miss :) should take a trip over there just to sea how things are.

I liked a guy's comment who was close by when he said "this is how Al-Sh3beyat in Al-Jahra looks like" to him I say thank you, to her I say, spare us your comments, true its not a library but to me watching a movie is the same as reading in a library :)

Tomorrow is the last day! do not miss it, book now :D

My day ended with a bag & a brochure of the movie beside me on the ride back home,,,,

Tuesday 13 November 2007

The Son of man & the Thomas Crown affair!

The other day I watched a movie I REALLY like, the Thomas Crown Affair, a wonderful movie where thrill, wit, art, love is there :) a perfect combination to keep me hooked. Although its a 1999 production but still one of the movies I still like to see.

In that movie the painting below is displayed, since 1999 I wanted to dig up information about it, enough to fill all the blanks I have regarding this painting but never got to it until last week when I saw the movie again,,,, annnd here goes nothing !!!


picture from



++ Son Of Man from a Wiki point of view:

"The phrase son of man is a primarily Semitic idiom that originated in Ancient Mesopotamia, used to denote humanity or self. The phrase is also used in Judaism and Christianity."


++ However the Wiki says more about the painting above
:

"The Son of Man (French: Le fils de l'homme) is a 1964 painting by the Belgian surrealist painter René Magritte."




This is for the information related to the painting and its name, now to my butter!

The artist is classifies as a surreal one, surreal in my tiny presepective is un-real, meaning it is real because the artist could use real thing/ places/ objects/ creatures! but in an unreal way, like the master Dali :) "which will have his own post if not posts"

So pretty much the word explains that kind of art, and I also like to explain it as :
painting a dream

now if you see the picture above in a large view "click it" you will notice that his eyes are not totally hidden behind the apple, still one appears more than the other, the one exposed more, the right one for us, corresponds with a shaded hand! mean while the other eye, the left eye corresponds with the not so shaded hand :D

3rd button un-buttoned

ears not symmetrical

those observations I had when I first saw it, the artist could have done them deliberately or not, but the only one I think might be not deliberate is the ear one.

I think it symbolizes the Adam and apple temptation that the son of man still faces till date! and will ever do. If life was the apple I would say it makes a lot of sense to me :) although we can see through the apple, it still hides the big picture from us!


Monday 5 November 2007

Strangers




A he from the UAE

A he from Egypt

A she from Kuwait

All total strangers, to me, to each other. All made me smile :D

It is amazing how by a simple opinion or a few words like "I read your blog" a total stranger can make you happy, this week has been loaded with new people making me smile, to those three I dedicate this post, to appreciate you guys & thank you.

Not to forget, the wonderful ones that keep e-mailing me or commenting from time to time :D THANK YOU,, big time.

Friday 2 November 2007

From here and there

فوضة ولا موضة ،، فوضى مو فوضة !! ولا بس علشان تمشي مع كلمة موضة؟ بغض النظر عن الهدف الدرامي من العنوان و من الرغبة في جذب الجمهور لمشاهدة البرنامج ،، لكن لهذا العنوان خطورة و بعد لغويين ،، من اكثر الاحرف التي ينالها اللغط اللغوي باللهجة الكويتية حرفي الضاد و الظاد و اعترف انا اعاني من هذه المشكلة حيث يبدو لي كل ما يشابه الضاد هو ظاد! و القراءة هي المنفذ الوحيد المساند للخروج من هذه العلة ،،
فالقناة بذلك تكون على غرار من يكتب "آنه" بقصد ان يقول أنا باللهجة الكويتية ،، متناسيا بان الكلمة تبقى أنا و أنه على المدى البعيد قد يتأثر الناس و يتساهل كتابة آنه بدلا من أنا و قد نصل الى مرحلة الجدال حول ايهما الاصح؟

فكيف اطلب من امة اقراء التي لا تقراء ان تقراء و تفرق بين الضاد و الظاد،، و اعميها ببرامج تتوجه لجمهورشاب به نسبة لا يستهان بها من جاهلي متى تستخدم الضاد و متى تستخدم الظاد ،، لست بصدد ان اعلق على محتوى البرنامج فهو لا يهمني الان ،، ما يهمني هو تعديل المسمى ليكون صحيح لغوياً من قبل اداة اعلامية لا يستهان بها ،، فالاعلام المرئي اقوى من اي وقت مضى ،، و أعتقد بان اللفض يكفي ولا يجب ان تتخذ الكلمات نفس الاحرف و ان يتم تغيير كلمة لمجرد ان يكون شكل اسم البرنامج جذاب :) النطق يكفي و يوفق و الدعاية للبرنامج كلها نطق

و خلال البحث عن رابط للبرنامج او للمحطة لقيت هالموضوع عند فرانكوم ،، قديم من بداية ال 2006 بس شدتني الردود!!؟

Wondering weather I should publish a story online or keep it in the notepad that I store it in? The mental debate is the copy rights in the first place & in the second is harsh judgment since am not really that perfect in English but for some reason feel the urge to write in that language....

الجو مو طبيعي هاليومين! بالذات الصبح بالدرب للدوام شي مو طبيعي ،، نفسي تنفتح للدوام و ودي امشى على راحتي و ما ادوس و مستانسه اني ما احتاج التكييف مع اني من اكثر الناس اللي ما يتحملون اقل ارتفاع بدرجة الحرارة ،، جو يستحق الاستمتاع به لانه بالكويت لا يطيل المكوث

Stressed, is the best word to describe the current situation of the work load combined with crappy people around you, in every work place there is the good & the bad, be smart and become neither! This should reduce the stress a bit :D