note: I wrote this post few days ago.

OK, so who are we kidding? We’re all sad about the amir and officialy we’re stilly mourning but c’mon guys, you gotta admit that we start listening to music again the very next day if not later the same day.

Now we got that outta the way, I just have to give it to the marina FM guys when it comes to picking nice instrumentals to go with the mood the country is having right now.

I just think it’s funny and stupid at the same time of them to think that instrumentals with vilion and oud isn’t really ‘Music’. I think the way they look at it is, like, If you can’t shake your ass to it then it’s not really music. This is almost as stupid/funny as playing the nay instrumental during prayers times on Kuwait Radio or even playing the soundtrack of Al Risallah on 99.7 FM.

I don’t think we have enough musicians in the arabic world doing music without much vocals. I think that’s very limiting for them to come up with any new genres or even innovate musically. I remember once an indian friend of mine who used to DJ all kinds of stuff was telling me “If you hear one arabic song, you heard them all” … I kinda agreed with him.

OK, I’m gonna rant and rant about it … deal with it …

I hate the fact that almost all the known [arabic] singers are signed to one label (Rotana), that will totally kill any chances of being unique and innovative. The label would most probably use the same producers, song writers and maybe even the same direcotrs to direct the videoclips that will be shown on the same channel that the label owns. Doesn’t that just remind you of A.R.T? Oh fuck, where are they now? are they still alive?

Why musicians here who do instrumentals only get stuck doing soundtracks for commercials and producing pop crap while they know and we know they can do better stuff on their own without any shitty posers singing over their tracks.

Why such musicians can only find the recognition they deserve in shitty compilations like buddha bar and shitty compilations like that.

I think starting online labels that are specialized in digital music and maybe doing actual CD releases for their successful artists is something we really need, something will change the face of arabic music. BTW what’s taking rotana so long to make an agreement with apple to distribute music online thru their iTunes store? Doesn’t El Waleed Bin Talal own big shares in apple? Won’t that make things easier? does he really think by doing so he will encourage arabic music piracy?

… and while we’re at it, I compose beats, drumloops and rhythem sections, I would love to work with other musicians on something. ANYTHING. If you play an instrument really good or you know someone who does, let them get in touch with me.

Update: Somebody told me Marina FM already made some ‘patriotic’ songs to celebrate Sheikh Subah being an amir finally. Somebody please remind who owns Marina FM?

What’s the best way to ship a midium size box of food goods to the UK? I’m looking for something kinda cost-effective and fast. Do DHL and Fedex allow this in the first place?

First of all and just to make things clear, I’m not trying to make fun of any race of people here and I respect flipino people just as much as the next guy. I have flipino friends and I hope this won’t piss them off. It’s not about them, it’s about the ad.

On the back cover of the amazing bazaar dining guide (comes free with the free bazar magazine) you will find an ad for Ikea store restaurant. The ad is so blah you won’t even notice anything wrong about it if you were living in kuwait for some time.

We are so used to see flipino staff in most restaurants that it’s almost normal to ignore how hilarious this ad is. Here’s the ad …

Did you notice what I’m talking about?

Swedish hospitality? You portray that by showing your flipino staff dressed in cheap, silly swedish customes? I really feel bad for the staff who got dressed in these silly customes, I also feel sorry for the pathetic guys at the agency that made such ad. Maybe the client is stupid but it doesn’t mean you have to be as stupid as them. They’re paying you money so they can use your so called experience to do their ads professionally.

Shame on you Al-Homaizi, Shame on you Ikea and fucking shame on you Impact & Echo (If you still have that account) :p

Peace & Love to my flipinos and flipinas

… and sorry if I pissed any swedish people off in the process.

I know it’s kinda late, but I really wanted to do that. :p

Cinnamon sticks in hot water

No sugar please.

How many hours of sleep do you need everyday?

How do you wake up?

Do you drink caffeine heavy drinks? RedBull? Too Much Coffee?

How many cups of coffee do you drink everyday and when do you stop drinking?

Can you tell I’m having a trouble having a fixed sleeping pattern?

Does anybody remember that TV series produced by lebanese TV station, Future TV. It was aired in ramadhan like 7-9 years ago, it was about this halawanji guy called Ismaeel and how he’s a failure and how he try to make it big with the help of his uncle’s wife (marat 3amu) Najaah

Now the series wasn’t all that great or anything but I remember the into music, It was done by that band that used to do all the promos of Future TV (Ala Eyni) or somethhing like that.

Can anybody help me find the intro song? PLEASE!

I know someone who says dude in a way that sounds like deyood

Hint: Deyood in kuwaiti means tits, pronounced like this ed-yood, a soft e.

Apparently this person is responsible for the blocking of the whole .blogspot.com domain which also includes a relatively huge sum of the kuwaiti blogs hosted under mentioned domain. He called Fastelco and reported that some blogs “… insult Allah and his messenger …” and the result? a big chunk of the kuwaiti blogosphere is unreachable for people with normal connection. You can still access anything using a proxy.

Dear Asshole,

The web is full of people expressing their opinions on many subjects, islam is one of them. People been making fun of religion ever since religions existed, Look at the west and how they incorporate religious icons (like jesus christ) in their comedy shows and TV series.

Please dedicate your life to something worthwhile, stop wasting your time (and ours) and fucking things in a major way in the process. I remember I got a message about this petition for the company that runs paltalk to stop one channel that was dedicated to curse and make fun of prophet mohammed (pbuh) and the company asked for a million signature. How is that petition? do you guys still collect signatures? did you reach fifty thousand fuckers who don’t have anything better to do? How hard is it to just ignore low lifes who run such channels and avoid being the closest thing to them?

Brother … Literally, Get a life.

Give the dumbfuck a piece of your mind.

Update: The blocking issue has been resolved.

• Misspelled the name of a continent
• Chose crappy stock images, and didn’t even ‘cut’ them nicely.
• Hot colors for a cold season
• nothing is almost aligned with the other, and the box below shows an obvious misplacement. The designer apparently never heard of grids systems.

So which grocery store is designing Kuwait Airways Holidays division these days? and why oh why it has to be handled by another agency than the one that handles the main account.

Don’t call Abul Kalam to pick up your car when it’s fucked on the road, He will tell you ‘Dooon’t Wooorryyyee, Siiiir. I aaam coming’ and then he will leave you waiting under the sun and will never show up. Also, I’m not sure you want to call his business-card-mate either, Do you trust a man who has a different name in english?

Found on the wall of our local Irani bakery shop.

Apparently I got infected with some bad virus, people been getting emails from me attached with viruses and shit. I don’t email much anyway, so if you get anything you’re not expecting from me delete it.

Gonna find that motherfuker and I’m gonna burn it burn it down.

Good morning beautiful people

Just upgraded to Wordpress 2.0, It wasn’t that hard … didn’t face any problems. I read the instructions carefully and I followed them. Thanks god the plug-ins I use the most are working fine in the new version. I will fix the ad banner issues once I have free time. Tell me if you notice anything weird.

I don’t know how will things go from here but I hope everything will be fine.

Just yesterday I was designing a book for a local company in which there’s a page that had the pictures of Shiekh Jaber, Saad and Subah … I guess I will have to take that picture down now.

I’m shocked, this feels as if I lost my own father.

Is this stupid or what?

When you ask someone for his [business] email and you find “free_birds” in there, what does that mean exactly? He’s a pimp? If so, then this guy takes customer satisfaction to the next level.

It was a pleasure doing business with you, ta3al kil yom.

P.S: What do you think about the recent changes in fonts?

Layaleena’s ripoff, Sho Fee Ma Fee, in their december issue had a really interesting, absolutely unintentional yet fabulously hilarious mistake. Bad design could cause disasters but bad design here just embarassed the guy featured on the cover and gave me a little something to laugh at in this lazy morning.

Did you get it?
Damn chicken nuggets …

Explanation: The designer used different background colors and lines to separate the pictures AND a sentence long enough to go under two pictures. However, by seperating that sentence, which says “هل أنتهت كوارث العام؟”, … and …eh should I go on?

Oh yeah … and WHY OH WHY they called they magazine Sho Fee Ma Fee, I would rather see “Shako Mako” Sounds funkier and “Kuwaitier” … somebody call the editor and ask him why they called it that.

Absolut Raspberry, RedBull, Power Horse, online games that involves worms and sperms, Ibrahim Ferrer and Pink Floyd.

That’s what happens when you have the right/ wrong? office mates not to mention the big presentation I’m working on.

I guess I won’t be fasting tomorrow, will you?

Dear Tata

I have a problem and I wish you can help me find my way out of it. I know this old lady that I have regular casual sex with, the sex is amazing … she’s a nymph and I couldn’t ask for more really. Now the problem is, In a most bizzare way I discovered that this woman is the mother of one of my closest friends. He’s the one I connect with the most although I only met him few months earlier. I can’t imagine my life without him, the rest of my friends are shallow as a fuck.

What should I do now?

Anonymous

Daaamn

I love the rush of meeting a tight deadline while frank zappa is playing a hot prog solo (you gotta hear his first solo album Hot Rats) under the influnce of RedBull.

How are you guys?

Damn … I forgot my phone at home and I feel totally lost without it. Weird how we get so attached to cell phones.

Today on my way to the office they had Nabeel Shuail’s ‘Sekkat Safar’ on the radio. It’s been like a million years since the last time I heard that song.

That’s what I like mostly about Marina FM, although it’s mostly operated by kuwaitis, the music appeals to many tastes.