From here and there

My deepest condolences go to the dear blogger and brother EXzombie. There is nothing harder than losing a family member, let alone a mother, but its the hard times that make us stronger.

الدوام: كل يوم اقعد من النوم اخطط لعذر علشان ما اداوم، و بعد تكرار هالحالة لمدة اسبوعين اكتشفت اني احتاج اجازة :) و بالذات عقب ما حلمت بالشغل و اني دشيت بموضوع صعب حلة و كنت بروح اجتماع هوشه و تاثرت لدرجة اني قمت من النوم و اكتشفت ان الساعة ٨ الصبح "يعني متاخره عن الدوام" علشان استوعب ان هاليوم كان يوم السبت

Elections: Getting involved takes too much effort and time, not getting involved makes me feel like I'm passive, and being an optimist and loving this country, I still have hope and I will make time out of my time, just not yet.

ماوصلتني حمى البلاك بيري بس قاعدة تحوش كل اللي حولي بالتدريج، يا اني قاعده اكبر و ما استوعب هالكثر تكنولوجيا بيدي وين ما كنت و احب ان للكمبيوتر مكان و التلفون مكان و المسنجر مكان وما اغراني موضوع ان المسجات اتطرش عبر المسنجر مال البلاك بيري بدون تكلفة، و اعتقد اني احتاج التلفون النقال علشان ادق و اطرش مسجات و بس! ما لي اهتمام اني ادش النت بتلفوني بروحي متعقدة من شاشة اللابتوت ١٤ انش هالدور بعابل بشاشة كبر علبة اعواد الكبريت؟ و ببساطة احس اني ما احتاج اللوية اللي فيه ،، و عليه تقرر استمرار رفض تكنولوجيا العنبة السودا

Social obligations are becoming very annoying, I'm pro quick visits while people in Kuwait expect you to spend more time! Especially weddings that take place in the middle of the week, I can't find my self to enjoy them nor stop yawning when its near 12 :)

Quiet, Stressed and still alive

Work is extremely tiring those days, I even come back home withe almost no ability to talk to anyone, can not think for too long, read or see anything that requires mental abilities that go beyond saying your name, that is the biggest mental activity I can afford! The work load is crazy, the piling mixed tasks are crazier!

Out of the blue, I check out this picture of the flowers in my vase in an amazing angle & lighting, courtesy of my sister. Made me think how things may seem different from one point of view to the other and how light plays a role in what we see.

A piece of paper

Fridays are always warm cozy and relaxing for him, a regular activity in a Friday morning is coffee and a book. In the very busy life of Abdullah, little time was spared for his beloved books, therefore his Friday's were booked for them. After getting ready to go out he randomly picked a lonely black book he stopped reading after 10 pages during a flight.

Two years later, in the Friday that he decided to re-read it, losing memory of why he stopped reading it in the first place, he picked the book and went to that quiet distant tiny coffee shop, enjoying a lovely morning in Kuwait, as long as the weather allows it. As he sat along with his water and coffee, he read the book very quickly, since it was "an easy read" he told himself. He stopped to enjoy whats left of the coffee at a 70 something page, he forgot to bring his book marker, the page number recalling seemed a bit optimistic for his memory and although he hates folding a paper of any book, he decided the unexpected and as he was about to do the forbidden act, he noticed that the book has a piece paper slightly appearing between the back cover page and the last page. He turned the book, took the paper out and his face was bloodless, suddenly he became blue for a few seconds before he regained his sense of people around him, you can not risk showing shock or any obvious feeling without having all the people around you stare at you!

When he laid his eyes on that piece of paper a strong quick flashback came...

Trip to New York
Transit flight to Amsterdam
Lufthansa
Last minute booking
Drunk man beside me
Her memory, my pen, my notes
The cold couple reminded me of her
How sad they were and angry at each other
Falling asleep to hide tears

" I miss what I thought I had, but since I didn't have what I thought, did I really miss out on anything? Of all the assurances I have, that I did the right thing, I sore with agony to what was wasted, of time and energy. I'm happy with who I became and of the lessons learned, but I will never be the same. I want me back."

The above was what he wrote on that piece of paper, back in 2006, when after seeing a couple sitting together physically but mentally very distant, beside him. He recalled her, the her that he gave a chunk of his life and his heart in full to, back when she was his wife. Just like the couple who sat beside him, he and her were apart. Of all the closeness they had and the wealthy life they lived, emotionally they were broke. They both stayed in that cold life, for the heck of it! Since they are in it, why not give the institute of marriage a chance? That was the choice he regretted, he should have known that the road has no ending, and there is no yellow brick road to follow home, nor he was a girl in a fictitious movie! He created his own world with nievity, he thought that if he tried everything, she will change.

"We change out of love and among that change we still long for the old us at times and if we were lucky we would enjoy the new us"

Abduallah was telling him self, to reassure that in that past, he was a young man with very pretty hopes and dreams, yet did not care for what he wanted more than what others wanted, nor did the right thing. He wasted his time fearing divorce and not facing the simple fact that his marriage was a loveless marriage.

"Love is not everything" his family kept assuring him and that with time they will be close together and they will grow on each other, with each other. Little did they know who & how their son was.

He folded the paper quickly not noticing the waiter that was blabbering over his head, but he saw his face right when he looked up...

"Excuse me, what are you saying?"
"Sir, I was asking you are you OK? The coffee just spilled on the table as I bumped into it. I'm very sorry sir!"
"I'm fine"

He took his book, his piece of paper and water, got up, looked around quickly to see that every one is busy with their own business, talking, eating, drinking. Little did they know that he was bleeding, it was a pleasant feeling to know that they do not know, yet very bitter on his heart, for he was the wounded and healer at the same time. He left in content and no regret.

From here and there

No matter how people try to say that the teletubbies are not scary I shall not agree! the picture of the retarded toy above proves my point, and do not even try approaching the "this is a bad clone" argument! because still they have the hideous dark circles around their eyes which is scary! did any one notice how scary their eyes look? They look like bald monkeys with big tummies filled with TVs in them! how can that be cute and educational to kids? :/

صاير فيني هوس اني اصلح بدليات خلق الله، مع العلم اني اكفي و اوفي عن ديره بالبدليات! بس احس احب انبه الناس على كثر ما اتمنى ان الناس ينبهوني لما اقط بدلية

Did anyone notice how hair is oddly growing over the girl's heads lately? its not only the alien Hijab that hit our streets now its the over sized hair do thing, the good thing is that Amy is not alone in this world. I still do not get the dress code around here.

صورة تعبانة للي بقى من كوب شاي اخضر و نعناع، احب اكثر النعناع و اكتشفت اني لا شعوريا لحد الحين لازم اكل جم نعناعه و انا اشرب الشاي! يعني لي زرقت ورقة بالغلط ما ازعل بالعكس اكلها :> عادي و الوضع جدا طبيعي، اكتسبت عادة اكل النعناع الاخضر من جدي الله يرحمه، لما كنا نروح كل اربعا كان يحب يسوي القهوة و الشاي بنفسه و كان زارع عنده بالحديقة اللي بالبيت نعناع! كنت احب ريحة الحديقه من صوب النعناع و كنت اروح وياه لما يقطف نعناع من الارض علشان يحطه مع الشاي و كان يعطيني جم ورقة نعناع علشان اكلهم مع اني اول مره كنت مستنكره الموضوع بس عجبني طعمه مع الوقت قمت احب النعناع، كنت احب نعناع جدي و ايد جدي لما يعطيني النعناع كنت ادقق فيها حيل و اذكر اني كنت احب تجاعيدها ،، الله يرحمه

العرموطة المتتفتحه

العرموط فاكهة و التفاح فاكهة منفصلة عنها اهم يصيرون حق بعض! بس هم مختلفين، كل وحده لها خوات و تنتشر بعدة بلدان، امس جبت عرموط، و عرموط من تشيلي بعد، الوالده كلت من هالعراميط عرموطة علشان اتجربه جان تقولي

"العرموط اللي جبتيه حلو ،، كليت وحدة و اشحلااااتها جنها تفاحة" سيدا ردة الفعل الطبيعية عليج بالعافيه يما

اليوم و انا اقرم بعرموطة من هالعراميط جان افكر و انا اخز المسكينه المقرومه، الحين لما امي قالت عن العرموطة انها حلوه جنها تفاحة، اهي مدحت العرموط ولا التفاح؟ الحين بما ان العرموط فاكهة مختلفة عن التفاح مو من الظلم ان نشبه طعم العرموط بطعم بالتفاح؟ معناته ان طعم العرموطة اللي كلتها امي مو مميز ولا له كيان قائم بحد ذاته! و يكفي ان طعمها كان يشابه طعم التفاحه علشان ننكر تميز طعم عرموطة امي!

يعني انا الحين في حيرة من امري ،، العرموطه انمدحت ولا انذمت؟

و هالتساؤول ينبع من وحدة اتحب التميز علشان جذيه التشابه "و ان كان الشيئ المشبه به جميل" يبقى خصلة مو جاذبه لي و تحفزني على البحث عن التميز،، يعني اللي بعدو! غير العرموط التشيلي شنو اكو؟ لازم اوصل للعرموط اللي نكهتة مميزه و عرموطية "ان صح التعبير" و انا ادري انه ما يصح بس طوفوها لي



خارج الموضوع و نغزه مقصودة بمناسبة الانتخابات المرتقبة: الحين بالنسبة للي تبونه للكويت، تبون الشي ولا الشي اللي يشابه الشي ولا الشي اللي طعمه حلو مثل الشي؟
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World Autism Awareness Day: 2nd of April

Even info as listed in Facebook:

Date:
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time:
10:00am - 5:00pm
Location:
Avenues Mall

Children from the Kuwait Center of Autism together with Volunteers from LOYAK will be in the Avenues mall- Kuwait; distributing brochours in the cause of spreading the awareness of Autism in the community..

Spread the word and knowledge, educate your self while being in the place where you can't miss anyone in Kuwait, you see every one you miss and don't :) the Avenues this Thursday.

I am very happy to know that the Kuwait Center of Autism is spreading the word along with LOYAK, Autism is not very common but its out there!

"Autism is a brain development disorder characterized by impaired social interaction and communication, and by restricted and repetitive behavior. These signs all begin before a child is three years old. The autism spectrum disorders (ASD) also include related conditions such as Asperger syndrome that have milder signs and symptoms." [wiki]

More info at the World Autism Awareness Day website.

Collision

From the Wiki "A collision is an isolated event in which two or more bodies (colliding bodies) exert relatively strong forces on each other for a relatively short time."

When the collision of mind, soul and heart occurs, a lot is anticipated, the worse is crashing or separating, the best is merging of objects. Depending on the wished outcome the best might come worse and VS. Also, new is introduced, can be a plus or a minus.

So this post goes out to the day of verbal interpretation of collision and two great blossoms, cherry and peach tree blossoms. How is all this related,,,, beats me :D

From here and there

Politically I have a lot to say, yet prefer to be quiet and observe in the meantime, but eventually something must be said to end this game!

أمثلة للأسئلة العبيطة
سؤال.١: لما تكون بعز النوم و يجي احد يقعدك و يسألك .. انت نايم؟

It is painful to discover the bad in some people, see the dark side in their personalities, baring in mind that no body is perfect! still I can not cope with how envy can destroy a person, I pity who gets eaten by envy.

سؤال.٢: لما يتصل احد بتلفون ثابت "البيت - المكتب" و يسأل .. انت وين؟

Did I mention how much I love the work of LeRoy Neiman ?

كَـمَـا تَـكُـونُـوا يُـولَّـى عَـلَـيْـكُـم

و استقالت الحكومة :)

ما يحصل لم يكن وليد يوم و ليلة التأزيم و التوتر السياسي في الكويت وصل لمرحلة شديدة من السخف، و اقصد بالسخف هنا من باب الاستخفاف بالعقول و غياب المواقف الرزينة من شعب و نواب و حكومة! حالة لا تطاق من عدم الوعي، و الاصوات العاقلة اصبحت اندر من تلك المشغولة باختلاق المشاكل و اكل القطعة الاكبر من الكويت، حالة الملل من التأزيم السياسي مدروسة و ان لم نكن كشعب نعي ما يحصل حولنا و نفهم كل المؤشرات التي نراها حتى اليوم و لم نشعر بوجود خطر يحاصر الكويت فنحن لا نعي ما هي الكويت ولا تعنينا كما ندعي

الصدع كبير، بالوعي نتغلب على التأزيم الغير مبرر، كن كويتي من اجل الكويت و فكر بالكل و ليس نفسك او البعض، لعل تعدي القانون بدرجات بسيطة مثل تجاوز السرعة القانونية بالشارع او تخطي الدور في مكان يسهل على الكثيرين، ولو توقف شخص ليفكر باحترام نفسه و الغير لاتضح له ان حب الكويت لا يمت للتوجهات التي تتلحف بستار الدين او العلمانية او الليبرالية بصلة! كل ما نحتاجه ان نصبح بشر! نحترم الآخرين ولا نقبل عليهم ما لا نقبله لانفسنا، ان تلملك رأيا حر و توجه واضح هو موضوع و آن تحاول تملّك رأي الغير موضوع آخر و خبيث، استغلال كافة الاساليب والمعتقدات الموجوده امر وارد في التكتلات السياسية و منهم من يملك القناعة و الشفافية بهذا الاستغلال و منهم من يخفي وجه قبيح و مقيت، فهل يميز الكويتي بينهم؟ لن نصلح الفساد الذي ينخر بجسد الكويت ان لم نصلح انفسنا

مسلسل التأزيم لن ينتهي و ان جاءت حكومة من المريخ، لان "الخمال منا و فينا"، بالوقت الحالي لا نحتاج تكتلات، لا لحى ولا بدلات، نحتاج مواطنين! كويتيين! ليولوا عليهم مثلما هم

حالة التدهور السياسي الحالية افضل وقت ليقف الكويتي مع نفسه و يفكر بعيدا عن وثيقة الجنسية التي تختم بكل مشاركة لنا في الانتخابات، هل تصنف نفسك ككويتي؟ و هل خفت الله بالكويت قبل لا ترشح؟

Pixar's - UP

[picture from Disney Pixar facebook page]

Up is supposed to be release May, 29th this year. From the trailer it looks funny and pretty cute "i love the cheeky kid! lol", I like the idea of the movie but feel like it wont come up to my expectations "story wise" but Pixar is a winner with me :D and I can't wait to see this one.

A rant

Old and new comers, people who pass in your life, very few leave a mark, but who does, engraves his finger print in your memory. A lot of people came in and out, some left their character, others their visual print. An encounter with a vivid mad memory left me mesmerized at how can you store your life inside mass madness! and how tiny this world is and how easy it is to find who is among us worshiping God. I think I found a finger print, that left me breathless. meanwhile the smile stuck in the corners of memory tells me that its a good one of all the bitterness, mysteriousness surrounding it.

Tulips will remain as my best and most beloved flowers, the blue however "seen above" is tampered with :) its not naturally like this, the combination of what I love, creativity with colors and blue gave birth to this rant.

I won a BMW X6 !!!!!

According to an e-mail i just received!

"You have won a BMW X6 CONCEPT CAR 2009 and £750,000.00GBP contact Barr
Freeman Sandler, BMW Agent.

Email: *************@hotmail.com. with RefNo:BMW:6678BMW45/09,
Name, Country, Age and Phone no."

LOL! Now who would fall for that?
Not only an X6, a concept one too? and cash with it LOL, it cracked me up.

From here and there

Went to Slumdog Millionaire, a great movie definitely worth seeing, will review it in full later one.

يومي كان طويل و المشاوير قاعدة تاخذ مني طاقة ذهنية بس علشان انظمها و اخطط شنو قبل شنو
:/

Napket, cool place I likey very much but its a little over priced?! I still love the atmosphere and the table out in the terrace or balcony thing the one right in the middle corner with the low fence, did any one get it? :p

باجر >> جمعية الخريجين
الساعة ٧
بمناسبة ذكرى وفاة الدكتور آحمد الربعي الله يرحمه

"في الذكرى الأولى لوفاة الدكتور/ أحمد الربعي، تتشرف جمعية الخريجين بدعوتكم لحضور فيلم وثائقي عن الفقيد تحت عنوان "وداعاً أحمد" في الساعة السابعه مساءاً يوم الموافق 8 مارس 2009 في مقر جمعية الخريجين في منطقة بنيد القار"

I had a good time at the bloggers meeting :) hoping to meet female bloggers in the future

Diet

After my many trials to lose weight by personal food control and trying to watch what I eat, I failed to lose the excess weight I had put on, So I went to a dietitian to organize my messy eating habits & schedule too :> I can not deny my love for food but know very well that I should control it. So far a month and almost 2 weeks passed I lost a good chunk of fat. The target weight is supposed to be achieved by April, I'm still highly motivated but refuse to go along with the Dr's wish to lose the weight quickly, the rate of 1-2KG/week is the max I wish to hit, I don't want to lose and gain weight quickly!

Living Glass - Italy

Picture from [the cool hunter]
p.s: this is not in Kuwait :D

One of my favorite cafes in Kuwait, Waterlemon, with the lovely tables "filled with colored water" that I enjoy playing with :> I took the Livingglass URL of a table! found the lovely B.Lab with amazing floors and tables, very creative jumping from liquid underneath glass to shattered glass....

"B.lab is a multicultural, multidiscipline design laboratory which researches, develops and manufactures alternative architectural materials. Blab designs are driven by the desire to break the ordinary static aspect of our furnished environments."

Creativity is sweet :)

p.s: Thecoolhunter is a GREAT website! where creativity breeds and gets spread well, highly recommended as a regular net-stop. I think I found there my dream home :}

Weekend day.1

The weekend officially started :D so the gear for today:

Ordered some DVDs
Coffee
Catching up with season 2 of the Gilmore Girls
Atomic Sushi is on the menu later tonight

And I think the most annoying part in my room is the library, it has clustered books, magazines, CDs, personal files and toys! I think tomorrow I will have mercy on that poor corner in my room

The curious case of Benjamin Button

Picture From [CHUD]

This is not an ordinary review, its a movie review with some thought into it, because The curious case of Benjamin Button made me think,, a lot :)

The movie is based on a short story as the mighty Wiki says. Simply revolving around an ordinary man captivated in a body that lives counter clock wise. He, Benjamin was born with a body of 80 years of age, then his life is plotted around the movie and as a movie lover I will not spoil it for others but I will list the important thoughts I came out with:

1. Age is just a number.
2. Turning back time will not change things, however cherishing every lovely moment and view is a thing not to be missed for it will only occur once in your lifetime :)
3. The external view of one is something very different from what they have inside.
4. Time is moving, all we can do is take pictures to remind us or rely on the blessing of memory to recall or forget things we passed by.
5. How simple things like the sounds of curtains can make a home feel like home, also how one can find beauty in the simplest things.
6. Love, once it hits you it will never leave you, no matter how hard life becomes.

Although I was not sure I want to go and see it in the cinema, I had the DVD, yet going to the movies is still a joy :) although movies are butchered by censorship it is still a joy for me, I like the cramped seats, dark all around atmosphere except for the screen light, the wide screen and loud sounds. Of course I couldn't help my self to notice the goofs in the movie like when he was with the English lady "Elizabeth Abbott" making tea, the level of tea in her estikana differs in a distracting way that annoyed me! I hate it when I notice little things and focus on them, I had to hardly remind my self that I should focus on what they are saying & the whole picture not a part of it, and I noticed some other stuff but they were minor.

A movie worth seeing, and thinking about.
9/10

From here and there

. Annnnnnd here I am back again, missing my blog and the whole blog-o-sphere :D Have a lot to do and already did a lot, been in a hectic two weeks which passed like a flash and now comming back to the regular every day Kuwaiti life.

.. I was amazed by the sand storm pictures of our house! I really didn't think it was that bad, but it was!

... Finished up catching up on e-mails two things left, organizing e-files and my library.

.... Finished out two books:
1- كارل ماركس - رجل ضد الاديان : ل عصام عبد الفتاح
2- eleven minutes : by Paulo Coelho

As for the book about Marks it is the beginning of my comparison study about this worl known figure, I am very curious about him but found out with the initial search by internet that he is controversial! personality, philosophy & life wise! so I went for the comparison way :D to read books that are pro and con then after all this ends I can really form a proper image about him and his life.

Eleven minutes as again a lovely easy read by Paulo and again he is a preacher, all his book roves around the value of marriage and commitment on the outer shell and in the inner side of it you can see many vertues and thoughts praised by religions are being promoted, along with strength of one being and how we can choose and not be submesive to what happens around us and put up a good fight in life. Again a positive novel by Coelho

From here and there

Do you know when they tell you that if you want to know people better, travel with them? it is VERY true! and I'm not talking about a weekend trip, nope go for at least one week and every thing will be exposed, careful of some who can hide well behind lies :)

بوجود الحدود الغريبة اللي يفرضها علينا وجودنا تحت اسم معين او ابناء اسرة معينة القى سطحية البشر تتجلى، لانهم فجأه ينسون ان احنا بشر و كلنا ننزف دم :) و المساواة عند الكثيرين تقتصر على الاحلام

I'm proud of how independent I am and that I conquered most of my fears, except my fear of the cockroach :/ its simply a scary & ugly insect!

مجلة الواح للمهتمين فقط :) و للغير مهتمين ستكون مملة

Peach Blossoms, the latest interest :>

Fairlady - Nissan Z series 2009

although I highly respect the Patrol as a good 4x4 and liked the one my father owned once when I was really young, BUT I was never a fan of the Z series, I thought it was dull and absolutely HATE the vintage ones used for "eltg7u9" by some irresponsible things "Can't call them human". UNTIL I laid my eyes on this Fairlady! above. I have to admit no drastic changes were made in the car body design, it just got a little less round and became slimmer :) BUT the lights and the rims caught my attention greatly! Although the rims were very simple but amazingly catchy, I'm a fan of elegant simplicity :) Both, the lights and rims gave the car a whole new definition! This is the 6th generation, the I likey generation!

I wonder if it will be or has been released in Kuwait?