Where have I been?!

In the era of Twitter and Instagram, the tools to publish on the go, blogging seems is a bit time consuming, but has a greater joy to me :} This post will sum up most of the highlights in the past two weeks....

A banner @ The Sultan Center, if your into Jazz, check out the Gulf Jazz festival, coming up next week!

Reuse 5.0 is on now till 22nd of April, check out en.v website & follow them on twitter @env_initiative for more information, I will go in a few days inshallah & might post about it. I still have last year's pictures that I blame a lot my self for not sharing them! I need to find a solution for the boredom in blogging pictures, due to the long process I take in resizing them & adding the blog URL stamp.

Final note, go to reuse, support "REUSEing" :}

"REUSE is an annual exposition that serves as an opportunity for non-profit organizations, companies, professionals and aspiring creative talents to showcase their accomplishments in the fields of social responsibility and sustainability via a range of artistic mediums and interactive activities for the general public." via FB event page

احب الطيور و بالذات الزرازيير ،، هالزرزور كان مونسني كل صبح في كورس جدا ممل و موضوعه جدا جميل! مشكلة المحاضر ان اسلوبه هادي و على وتيرة وحدة و الموضوع جدا ممتع و يحتاج شخص عملي و متحرك اكثر، ذكرني باهم دروس حياتي ان المادة العلمية تعتمد على المرسل بقدر اعتمادها على المتلقي.

و على مدى ٤ ايام و انا اصوّر هالزرزور (او زرازير مادري لو تغير ، كلهم يتشابهون) و اخيرا باحد الايام عبرني و طالعني! من وناستي بنظرته سيدا انستاجرااااام :> 

ممتع انك تلقى اشياء بسيطة حولك تونسك ، عندكم شي يونسكم بالطبيعة او الناس اللي حولكم مثل وناستي بشوفة للزرزور؟ اذا لأجربوا تلقون لكم شي / شخص / مكان

Was an amazing NIGHT organized by DAI in collaboration with the USA Embassy in Kuwait , I have never heard Coco York before , what a strong beautiful voice she has mashallah! Mike del Ferro was on the Piano, his reactions while playing killed me, he was funny, however, when you listen to him play, you go to another world see this video for them in "My funny valentine"

Now the CHERRY on top, or shall I say cherries started off with ... Salman AlAmmari , a very famous Kuwaiti singer of old Kuwaiti songs. A huge shift in the mood, Mike tried to go along with some piano tunes but I am biased to "AlSout" art, to get a feel listen to this songs in youtube, this is one of my favorites by him called "إذا المرء - ّIf a person" based on a lovely old Arabic poem by AlShafe'i.

و عقب العماري دشت بنية "نسيت اسمها، يمكن بشاير؟" كانت تسمع يوكو تغني اليوم اللي قبل حفلتها في مركز الامريكاني ، فقالت لها تعالي غني! و رافقتها عازفة جاز سويدية :) ونسونا و بعدين شاب نسيت هم اسمه للاسف، و غنا لنا، بس بالنسبة لي فاصل العماري كان جميل. انا جديدة على فن الصوت و قام يطربني حديثا من سنتين تقريبا، العماري يعجبني و صلاح حمد خليفة بس اللي فعلا صوته عجبني سلطان مفتاح، و اهو اللي حببني في حسنها شل روحي

 

A really nice event, fototalks it was a 2 day event, included a general presentations, discussions and workshops. I mostly liked the live photographer's challenge where they gave 2 photographers 15 minutes to take a picture and edit "if needed" for a certain object, none knew what before the competition started :}

I'm looking forward for next year's fototalks , I think it was a great event, lacked publicity especially on twitter, I wished if it had a designated hashtag where participants shared their view of the event. All in all it was a great 1st time {:

Last but not least, attended this cine-concert for 4 cellos by "the musinema cello quartet" more info in Kuwait-music. In short its 4 cello performers who put a sound track for a silent movie, the performance was somewhat boring to me BUT when they made extra sounds "vocals" that added effects to the music, I took a pause and started to see the big picture! At the beginning of the performance  I either focused on the musicians or the movie, then kept watching the movie and forgot they were there, although I have a very wide view of the stage, here it hit me, the importance of sounds (music / voices) in a movie, how they are the hidden solders that might make a great performance, story and direction fail or succeed :}

Then it became more interesting, as I focused on the big picture, where really important factors of success are hidden and how you have to look very carefully into details to appreciate every bit was put in ANY effort. It was a nice experience.

Hello!

Its been a while since I wrote in my blog, the intention was to take a break for a week or so then back to posting, a lot of drafts pending the final editing "as if it would do my endless badleya/typos any good" :p Also got caught up with a lot of things around mostly work and the new room making.

Politically Kuwait was not so chilled, on the contrary from December till now we jump from one thing to another. I wanted to write but the fact that my blog is a place to calm down stopped me and that local politics was a daily subject at home and work, so decided to keep it out. Adding to that the fact that I did not have much time for online publishing.

Twitter is the quick solution to keep me in touch with the net world, the connections in twitter are increasing rapidly, I am really enjoying it :> but it will never take my blog's place :}

So Hello blog & readers :D

Dailies

I daily forget to take of my dailies! Have been using Focus dailies for around 4 years the best thing about them is that they are very thin, too thin that I barely notice I'm wearing them. The bad abusive part is that I do not maintain the daily change habit :> Along with the dust and bad weather I feel like consuming my eyes. Therefore I decided to spread the contacts all around in my bag, room, office,,, as a try to remember to change them DAILY. Eyeglasses & some drops for the night, for a much needed maintenance for my eyes :>

Car-ache

And so I took my baby car to the dealer for her service and some notes, I'm very attached to my car we have a good relationship and we talk everyday and if we don't then she gets my mental telepathic language. Back to reality so I get surprised that the person I usually deal with is not there today and a colleague of his is substituting him, a very nice person I might say. Except that his tongue was pierced! Don't get me wrong I'm pro freedom of choice I have no comment the act of piercing BUT other than the fact that it feels a bit disgusting to me the mouth as it is, is hard to keep clean let aside with a metal piece inside! but that's not it today ,,, it was so distracting! I could not keep my eyes of that shiny silver thing in there! When ever he talks or tells me a note I keep staring at that wiggly silver dot inside his mouth! and I swept away with the questions of:

- Did it hurt when you did it?
- Didn't you fear infections? with all the substances that go into the mouth?
- Why did you do it? do you think its pretty? or is it a man thing?
- Do you like have a piece that you can attach instead of the round dot and is more like a tooth pick so it can be handy in cleaning between the teeth? because that can be useful :D
- How does it feel to have a new addition to your mouth? every day, every hour, all life long?!

Thank God that I had the notes written on a piece of paper and read them else I would have forgotten all what I was about to say :) apart from that distraction he was a very good service advisor, well "car'ly" educated! very professional and took all the notes using the PC with all those cool tools and screens of what should be done in this service & compared them with what was done in the last one, and was very patient to read all that to me and explain it too :> I liked the pierced tongue guy :D but defiantly will try to keep my focus out of the mouth area, I will use the "between the eyes" area to focus when he talks.

And according to the mighty Wiki Tongue Piercing is pretty ancient, and some Sufi Muslims practiced that act:

"There is a history of ritual tongue piercing in both Aztec and Maya cultures, with illustrations of priests piercing their tongue and then either drawing blood from it or passing rough cords, designed to inflict pain, through the hole. There is no evidence of permanent or long term tongue piercing in Aztec culture, however, despite the practice of many other permanent body modifications. It was done to honour the gods.

Piercing the tongue has a long history in religious and performance practices. Mesoamericans such as the Aztecs practiced this as well as other perforations as a part of offerings to their deities. Islamic Fakirs and Sufis from the Middle East, and Asian Spirit Mediums of the Far East practiced tongue piercing as an offering and proof of trance state."

It was interesting to read about it but also rather scary for me :/