So I found this animated flash banner somewhere on the web. As you can see, the “sections” get stacked on top of each other. The last one is either an adjective to whatever preceded it or just another section, depends on how you read it.
Never under-estimate the power of tashkeel, or a blogger with lots of time in hand.
The other day, I was on my way to pick a friend up and I saw this. Didn’t get a chance to go in but I guess they sell what KDD makes, milk, ice-cream and all that.
Seems like KDD was really hurt by the Co-Ops decision to pull their products after they raised their prices. Opening their own shops would be the logical step but I just can’t see it happening, unless they have their own shops in each area in Kuwait.
Sounds like a good idea, right? One newspaper and bunch of student leaders couldn’t write more than four lines regarding the new segregation in education laws? Seriously?
It seems like, two of those guys have no problem with any enforced segregation, they’ve got their own thing.
Aww, how adorable.
Also, you gotta check this dufus who apparently was dragged from Friday Market for this full page feature.
I just came to know that one of my favorite restaurants, Sargam, is closing down. It seems like they are demolishing the whole building.
It’s sad, really sad.
After a relatively long-running teaser, I’m disappointed with the revealer; Burgan Bank’s new identity. I even thought it was a teaser for a new hospital in town (that picture of a pregnant woman was kind of misleading).
Burgan Bank’s logo has been pretty much the same since their establishment back in the seventies. With only little modernization retouches here and there every few years depending on the mood of the marketing team.
This is the most disgusting redesign I have seen in a while.
I can see the arabic “ba” letter (with the orange dot) but where is the “b”. I have a crazy theory, hear me out; I think there is a “b” but it’s kinda hidden.
The icon is a blue 3d ribbon spinning around and the continuation of it that makes the rest of the b is to be realized by the viewer. The only clue they have there is the sharp cut in the dark blue part. Also the gradual change in color is another clue; dark blue, light blue then white (which is stupid because the background color is white as well and not so stupid because, well, it isn’t really there).
Sometimes there’s a very thin line between stupid and genius. I’m not sure exactly what I think of the logo, I’m still somehow disappointed.
Wiki: Gestalt Theory
So I lost my ATM card, and I don’t even have the card number to login and transfer the money to another account or something. What would any sane person do on a weekend, given that all banks are closed on weekends.
You go to the airport where you will find the branch of “The best bank in the Middle-East” open all the time and they will help you in each and every way possible.
So I head to the NBK booth at Kuwait International Airport, Say the following “I just lost my ATM card and I need either cash or the number of my card to login online and transfer the money to another account”.
Immediately, they asked for my Civil ID and they proceeded to do some phone calls. I sat down slightly relieved that they are working on it. Few minutes passed by and then they hit me with it, “we can’t give you any cash here”. So I asked “OK, that’s fine … just fetch the card’s number from your database or something so I can login and sort out my shit. You guys need to sit down for this. Do you know what the über-smart clerk did?
“You can’t use the card’s number anymore, sir. We just CANCELED it” so I was like “WHAT? Did I ask you to cancel it?”. “No sir, but if somebody finds it and travel outside they can use it like a credit card”.
Well, remind me if I’m mistaken Mr. Camel but isn’t it my own fucking money? Don’t you need an authorization from my ass to fucking cancel my card? Now I’m even more fucked thanks to the stupidity of your clerks.
So much for “The best bank in the Middle-East”.
Oh yeah and Mubarak 3alaikum El Shahar and all that.
I was asked to speak at Art’s & Design Department at Kuwait University’s College For Women in Al- Adeleyia a while ago and I agreed to do so.
Today was the day, I kept procrastinating on what I should talk about that I only managed to write anything in the few hours before the lecture, hell, I even managed to do a quick slideshow.
I wasn’t satisfied with the quality of the material overall but I still think it will be useful to them. I even asked the girl who’s coordinating the whole thing about the worst case scenario and what could happen if I just couldn’t make it. She freaked out and she told me that it might affect their grade and they’re honor students.
It became a mission to me to do this presentation no matter what, I can’t hurt the girl’s grade … I really can’t live with that especially after I gave them my word.
So I step in the classroom say hi and start plugging my iPod to the main computer to get the presentation. I was quite nervous the first ten minutes but I snapped out of it and I managed to impress myself. I really felt I was in control and I was giving the girls something they can really use in their professional life.
I talked about the job market and their real-life options after they graduate. I offered tips on the process of job hunting and landing yourself a job in an advertising agency.
Funny thing is, Just minutes after I arrived at the office I found this comment on my blog. I just couldn’t help but read it out loud for my colleagues and crack out laughing. I wonder what the other girls thought of the lecture.
It’s so dusty outside you can hardly breathe. The cell phone networks is messed up, I get calls with people’s voice distorded the sound like a robot.
Wish I can record that.
For a while I thought this logo was a sun going down and it’s reflected on the water surface of the sea or something with waves.
Bottom line, I think It’s a head with two friggin’ faces or something. How beautiful.
My mom loves found objects and I think I inherited that from her. Few days ago while having lunch with the family I saw this weird looking thing she found while walking around.
It looks like the grave of some barbarian fighter or something. It could also be the cheesiest ornaments to decorate your house with.
I just got back from The Avenues mall. I’ve always thought the location was shit, since it’s close to an industrial area and my thoughts couldn’t be more right when I struggled to find a way to get into the mall since I came from the 5th Ring Road from Jahra side. Anyways, after a long unnecessary trip I managed to find the entrance and I parked my car downstairs in their absolutely spacious parking lot.
I knew Carefoure is supposed to open there and everybody is waiting for the gap too but all I cared about was two brands I absolutely love and adore, Footlocker and H&M’s men’s store.
Footlocker absolutely didn’t disappoint, the showroom is way larger than Marina’s and it had an amazing collection. I was like a kid in candy store. They have an opening promotion too where if you buy anything you get a gym bag filled with some goodies (my favorite of which, a shiny red metallic water bottle). Talking about red awesome things, you totally got to check out that red sneaker designed by Porsche Design for Adidas. I just hope somebody wiped my drool off the floor near that shelf.
Now it was another kind of story for H&M, I was looking forward seeing the showroom design and check out their prices really more than seeing their collection as I have already did that when I was at their store in Mall of The Emirates in Dubai. Apparently H&M was so pressed with time they didn’t even bother have a standard for hiring people for the store. More than once I get approached by a salesman who’s unshaved, sweaty and really just plain disgusting as if they just came out of some garage in Shuwaikh’s industrial area. They didn’t even behave like the usual H&M’s friendly staff you find in other stores. Some guy was like “Hay abou el shabaab, keefak?”, “badak shee?” … all I could think about was “badi shee mino shino you disgusting fuck”. I just simply didn’t appreciate the shopping experience I had in a place that I really really love.
So far, fucking good!
I’m still conducting more tests and stuff.
If you have any questions, just leave a comment and I will try to respond.
Who the fuck wrote that?!
No no no, who the fuck did approve it?
Update: Fixed the picture
I slept over at my family’s house last night. My parents are going for haj together and I feel like I have to spend more time with them before they leave. I might even stay over with my brothers and sisters for the whole haj period till my parents come back.
One thing I was looking forward was seeing how long it will take me to get to work from jahra. I mean I know I’ve been living in jahra all my life but I just wanted to make sure and just compare it to the long times I spend on Fahaheel Expressway on my way to work from Salwa (where I live at the minute).
I left the house at 7:07 and I reached the office at 7:44. If I left my Salwa residence at 7:07 I would be stuck in the school traffic and barely be able to make it to work on time. (at 8:30) Ok, maybe I’m exaggerating but c’mon for crying out loud, it’s supposed to be an expressway, right?
I lost count of how many traffic lights are on my way from jahra but I can tell you, the are more than 5, 4 round abouts, endless turns here and there. Still, I get to work faster if I’m coming from Jahra.
Hello everybody … I’m really interested in knowing what you people think of this local hip-hop band, army of one. I need you to back up your answers with facts or references to their tracks.
Only those who know the band, heard their music, saw their video clips are eligible to answer here. Please be subjective and fair.
Thanks everybody
I didn’t spam your post.
I just pointed out that the monthly kuwaiti bloggers meeting will be this thursday at 5:30PM at Second Cup (near the kuwait stock market). I also said, the meeting has always been open for everybody (boys and girls) and the 2:48AM fans as well as yourself and whoever is interested are welcome to join the meeting. I assure you there were no links to any penis enlargement kits of any kind in my comment.
Just thought I might help some people save some time by not re-inventing the wheel. So I posted some absolutely relative information and I don’t think I strayed from the main subject of your post.
Also, grow the fuck up.
In this month’s issue of bazaar, an article about kuwaiti blogs. The writer goes on and on about how smart and interesting the kuwaiti blogs are. Then she talks about this guy … I will let you read for yourself.
A little something I recorded in less than an hour, while making a mixtape for the one and only DJ Maha. If you’re a follower of her show (every friday 9-11 PM on 99.7) I’m sure you heard me on the radio saying “Hello”, “yep” and “Oh Yeah” and last but not least “Bye”. Yeah that was one hell of an interview, no really, I was just there sitting enjoying the excellent music.
Hello there, I need help here finding images of any of the previous Amirs and Shyoukhs in a historical photos related to oil. Something like the photos I included here.
You guys have been nothing but helpful when I needed this kind of help before, so don’t let me down now. Love you all.
This post is dedicated to my neighbor who just found out about my blog by weird, bizarre coincidence.
I still have to go and ask her what made her so sure it’s me.
Best culture-jamming I have seen in kuwait so far.
Now it says something like “Raise your voice, be heard … but also keep your eyes open.”
Found somewhere on Gulf Road.
Rock the vote ladies.
We just got this from MTC’s (or I don’t know whose) obligatory service, Kuwaitna.
الوزير المعتوق: الأوقاف أول وزارة في الحكومة تطبق التراسل الإلكتروني.
Oh really? You guys just found out about email? and now you’re bragging about how ignorant you are?
I wonder what will they send to each other? Anybody up for a new Nancy Ajram video?
Here we go again, It’s been a long long time since the last time I commented on any MTC Ads. I just have to do it to this one, I’m itching to do it. Let’s go …
First of all, The guy with the dictionary. Why in hell he has to be kuwaiti? What do you think you’re saying with such image? Kuwaitis are ignorant bastards who can’t speak a word of english?
Now I’m not saying each and every kuwaiti knows english better than Shakespeare himself but I know that kuwaitis in general are educated enough to be on a level where portraying them in an ad like this is a crime.
I wouldn’t mind seeing that person wearing a jeans and a t-shirt, that would make him more generic and you can’t really tell his nationality. MTC had done it before why not now?
Somebody might defend MTC and say “Well, he could be in a foreign country”. If so then that’s even worse, because I can’t see a single clue to tell me he’s in a foreign country. No architectural clues in the background, nothing significant on the table and if anybody say a thing about that lousy hat I’m gonna shove it up his ass. NOOOO? He’s wearing a fake-ass cowboy’s hat, Ooooooh HE’S AMERICAAAAAN. Yeah, not only that … but he’s texan. Plus, How many kuwaitis do you know who wear dishdasha when they’re traveling? Get real.
Not a single one of those three sitting on the table looks really “foreign”. As a matter of fact even the supposedly kuwaiti guy doesn’t look kuwaiti at all, even with the half-assed beard. AND PLEASE OH PLEASE, Look at the way he’s wearing his ghutra and more importantly his E’Gaal (the black round ring-like thing). Kuwaitis don’t shove it AROUND their head, unless they’re Abdulaziz Al-Musalam. However, I have to admit, that e’gal shoving thing really works if they want to make the guy look like a total ass. Which reminds me of my first point, Why he has to be kuwaiti?
On a final note, did you notice how I wrote this whole post without mentioning the “Leb…” word? Quite an achievement, huh? Well, fuck that … I have to get it out of my chest. All the of models are lebanese, The ad was shot in lebanon and was produced by a lebanese agency in a lebanised kuwait. Thank you very much and god bless.
Note to the Copy Writer of that Ad: Check your spelling Yo!
I can’t believe a consultancy company that specialize in help existing businesses to improve their inner working structures has a logo this bad. Now I’m sure this is not a money-issue, They can afford a decent agency to do that job, It’s OBVIOUSLY the taste of the decision maker who have absolutely nothing to do with design.
Why do they think because they own the company they can do whatever they want? I would really respect a man who confessed his weaknesses in certain areas and handed the job to people who know how to handle it.
This logo on a scale of ten doesn’t even deserve 1. Unreadable, badly-designed, lines are too thin to be seen from a distance (best example, their billboard on gulf road) … and really what the hell they were thinking when they used the triangle ( the A if you must insist) instead of the alef.
Back with another post, It’s one of these laid-back and chilled out days at the agency. Been reading as many blogs as I can, kuwaiti blogs didn’t even make up 5% of that surfing journey. Every time I check Safat, I see the same old stuff … nothing interesting really. No offense my dear blogger friends, maybe it’s just me.
I remember having this conversation with the don’t-know-where-the-hell-is-she Gigi. We both confessed how became really dependent on blogs (especially kuwaiti ones) to stay informed and “in the know”. Well, I don’t think so anymore, not that I think I know it all and I’m better than anybody else but It’s just the signal to noise ratio is just scary. I don’t want to go through all these blogs and filter the contents and judge. I don’t have time for that.
Especially these days, with the elections and all that. In addition to the visual pollution in the streets I can safely say we have a contents-polluted blogosphere. However I’m proud of all the political initiatives associated with blogging and elections, really proud. I wish I can help with these things but work got me really busy recently.
For those who are curious to know what happened to the goatee, well, IT’S BACK! I was just dead curious to see what would I look like without facial hair. The cool thing I documented that change, including the Ron Jeremy look that lasted one day and a half. I’m gonna stay with this for another five years then see if I ant to change it.
I’m gaining weight and it’s not funny anymore.
Hilton’s pool is ziggaaan, never go there on a friday. Do people ever have a shower before stepping in the pool? You, Yes you with the tight-gay-speedo, fucking shower before you dip your dirty body in there and hey next time you decide to wear a speedo and strut your stuff around, have a heart and trim your pubes, we don’t need to see them to know you’re man.
On a sentimental note, I really miss Gigi. 
Bassinet is opening today in its new location in Salmyia , at Tala Complex. It should be really interesting. A lot of bloggers are going to be there, hell, the owner of the shop is a blogger herself. So I guess you can call this a blogger-stalkers dream event. :p
OK here’s the deal, I’m absolutely broke (no I got 450 fils, not even enough for Sargam. you got the picture) Buy some of my t-shirts there and support a starving fellow blogger (and you will go to heaven mos def.)
On a political note, I heard there will be a gathering in front the parliament tonight at 8 PM.
Now she wants to sell her car.
It’s a hatchback, 2003 Renault Clio with a sun roof. Full option, white color. Less than 3 years used. No Accidents ever. Woman Driver.
Price: Cash or installment KD 1600.
I used the car myself for a while and I absolutely loved it, very economical.
The stuff from my last post is selling like a mofo. Get your hands on some before it’s too late. A lot of the stuff has been booked but her only rule is, whoever comes with money first, get the furniture.
The prices as you can see are ridiculously cheap.
There are more things if you decide to actually come and see the place, a lot of dishes and little interesting things.
Bassinet, The coolest gifts shop in tow and a proud reseller of Tata Botata T-shirts is relocating to Salmiya. It will be located in Tala Complex (next to Laila Gallery).
