How to Make Qer9 Moqla 3la il fa7am!

Yesterday Afternoon my mother had some fresh coals burning on the portable dowwa to make some chai fa7am… So a thought had struck me… why don’t i try to make Qer9 Moqla?! 

My first 3baya buying disaster…

Buying a 3baya is not as easy as i thought it would be!

Let me tell you what happened to my first bought abaya… it’s been a long time since i have written a long ranting post! Feels like the old blogging days…

Anyways…

The past week have been spent 3baya hunting… first i went to

The Bogus Upgrade from Zain!

Ever since yesterday when i connected my Zain’s Ego and opened the browser i get the message above. Apparently my subscription was upgraded to 1 Mbps  and they thank me for being loyal!

Good wallah… i never thought they cared to the extent of giving free updates to long time customers. My husband calls them today to ask about the upgrade… you know what they told him?!

“The message you received by mistake. Only the new subscribtions are getting an upgrade. Your subscribtion is old so you didn’t get an upgrade and you recieved this message by mistake!!!!!!”

Wallah?! What’s with the thank you for being faithful? How can i be a loyal customer when old subscribers don’t get an upgrade while new ones who you don’t know how loyal they are getting ones?! It’s like some one is sticking his tongue out at me and saying “Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah no upgrade for you!!!”

Lakin ilsharha mo 3lekom. El sharha 3la ile lel7een meshterek wyakom!!!

Why am i getting rude comments on my London posts?!

Getting rude and disrespectful comments goes hand in hand with blogging. if anything it means that you are going in the right direction for you have triggered someone to attack you.

What i don’t understand though is why the volume of rude comments significally increases whenever i start posting about London?! Why Q8y people are taking those posts as personal insults against them is beyond me!!!

It’s not like i am saying you flan X don’t know London or you flana Y ma etdeleen London. It’s not like i am the first Q8y or Khaleji or Arabi to set foot in London. London is filled with Q8ys who live/study/work/visit there and know it like the back of their hands. I am just another one of those. I have a camera and i take pictures of whatever i do when i visit there and post it in MY BLOG!!! That’s it!

It’s my blog and i am FREE to post my memoirs and my experiences and my trips and my purchases and share them with friends, family, and the rest of world. Ma feha shay y3ni! It’s not like ini ga3da atshay7a6 3la el awadm o I am not saying that i am Christopher Columbus who discovered all things London and you didn’t. and to think i am posting about London because you are clueless and i am not is something from your imagination… lakin i guess inah kil min yshof il nass ib 3ain 6ab3ah… mo?

To you… you know who you are. Grow up and get a life. Elle 3la rasah ba67a ye7asesha welle mo 3ajbah any of my posts, London or other, the solution is to simply click the X icon on the top right corner of this page, no one is forcing you to come here and you cannot expect me to write whatever posts that make you happy… understood?!

Rant: Develish Lurkers on Facebook!

OK explain this to me because i cannot seem to be finding an explanation…

My husband has a private profile on Facebook. All of his friends on Facebook are his MALE friends and family. Most of his of pictures and info are private. To the ones he shows his info he has MARRIED TO available on his profile. It is very clear he is NOT interested in meeting women.

Why then does he get one friend request after another from girls? Q8y girls, full names included, even though he doesn’t know them?

Why are some girls shameless? You send a friend request o a man who you don’t know… your friend request is REJECTED! Why do you keep coming back? why do you send him a private message on facebook?!?! What the hell do you want?

What on earth are wrong with girls?! Don’t you have any dignity? throwing your self at a man like that? what exactly do you think? By stalking a man he will cave in and what? Marry you? Can’t you find a more dignified way to bag your self a husband?

Esh yeswa 3leech inah we call up your father or your brother o we tell them gethbaw bentkom?! Oh yes it can happen… or you can find the wife at your door smiling at you sweetly then clutching a bunch of your hair with her fist and using it to pull your head around and bang it against the door… maybe that will knock some sense into you!

What would you do to rebell stalkers on facebook and KEEP them away?! Sometimes even women you don’t know want to be friends with other women ‘3asob 6eeb even if you don’t know them! Eshfehom il awadm?!

 

 

Have you ever been robbed before?

I was shopping in Selfridges yesterday when i heard scream and i saw a woman running like the wend, getting out of Selfridges door and disappearing in the crowds while another woman was running after her… after a while the 2nd lady who was chasing the first woman came back and started talking to security. Apprently the 2nd lady was shopping when the first woman came close to her… snatched something which i am guessing is her bag, and ran with all her might infront of all these people. Never mind that there are CCTV cameras every where and that she can be identified!

It is very scary indeed. It could have been anyone of us. Sometimes when i am shopping my stuff are all over the place and i do not really pay much attention… Now this incident will make me think twice before i let go of my stuff or open my bag in public!

I have never been robbed before. Once a couple of European guys tried to open my backpack while standing behind me in the escalator in ODEON but they were too close i felt them and moved away before they could snatch anything. Have you ever been robbed before or known someone who was? In Q8 or abroad? How did it happen?

What happens when you order the “Check” in a Restaurant?!

The number one beloved activity in Q8 is getting together for something to eat in one of the restaurants we have dotted all around us! You sit down, flip through the menu, order half the menu or order a cup of water, whatever the circumenstances… and you enjoy the time with the company you have sitting with you.

The moment the check is called in however, you can brace yourself for some amusement… Some people will gather around the cheque and calculate how much exactly did ever one order and break it down into the smalles fils. Others would fight over the cheque, pulling the little paper and swearing that no one will pay but themselves… fights of this kind are the most amusing and can go on for a while especially if it includes digging up of old memories… others would calmly and agreebly divide the amount on the cheque between them and then each produces 10 KD and puts it on the cheque since, surprise surprise, no one has any change but they all want to pay 😀

and sometimes you would have someone so elusive, they would “pretend” to go to the bathroom before asking for the check, go pay at the register when no one is looking… and come sit down innocently.

In my case i hate fighting for the check. I hate the drama and the pulling and the tugging and whenever i try and protest and want to pay the check i always lose -shameful i know- ! The way i prefer it best is dividing the amount on the cheque on the number of people and each pays her own, no mess, no fuss, and no feeling “indebted”… i hate it when people pay on my behalf or insist on paying on my behalf escpecially when i can never win a paying the check fight!!!

Why can’t every one divide the cheque on every one o khala9? Is is the best way around and it’s the next fairest thing to do without all the drama! What do you think? How do you usually go about paying the check in restaurants and which way do you think is the best way?!

A bunch of used needles found carelessly on the street!

I parked my car in a very busy street in Jabriya… flats, taylors, restaurants, salons, stores, and gyms dotting the area and people parked in that street all the time to get to their destination on foot. As i got out of my car i saw a the crushed and apparently used needle above lying on the pavement and i shook my head in disgust. There is a protocol for disposing of used needles and they shouldn’t be crushed and lying on the ground no matter how it was used.

Only then did i notice that it was NOT the only one! I found

A New Level of Sucking for the OSN Reciever!!!!!

Yesterday at 4 PM… i was ready to settle in front of the tv… i checked the OSN guide and i found there is a movie that looks promising… Caroline on OSN HD 1… i put the channel… the movie had just started… 2 seconds and BAM!

I get the Message above “The Programme is Copy Protects” … the screen is all black… i can hear the movie and read the arabic subtitling but i cannot watch the movie!? You know when you go to a hotel and they give you a preview of a  movie by showing you a glimpse then the screen goes blank with a message to purchase the movie? This is a similar thing… only i am paying 16+ KD a month to include the bloody HD channel in my subscribtion and it usually works!

I thought it was a mistake. I closed the reciever and opened it again, no such luck! What is this supposed to mean y3ni? Ok copy right protected so why are you broadcasting it if ur not willing to show it on TV ? No really i DO NOT UNDERSTAND this… this is what we call in Arabic 3aba6 o estehbal… i can’t watch a movie for a channel i am paying for because it’s copy right protected? News flash for you… ALL THE MOVIES ON PLANET EARTH ARE COPY RIGHT PROTECTED! OSN? Your reciever sucks… your movies suck… your transmission suck… your service suck… your subscribtion suck… and your pricing suck and I AM NOT GOING TO UPGRADE AND PAY MORE SO I CAN GET THE NEW RECIEVER IF THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO…  

Where to buy *Fake* Designer Items in Q8…

I heard about this store a while back. Tucked away in the basements of the Old Souk of Kuwait in Mubarkiya is a little stand that sells grade one replicas of designer bags, wallets, belts, shoes, rings, watches, bracelets, and so much more! I had to explore so i asked for directions my self… 

Someone is flattening my tire on purpose! What to do?

I woke up this morning intending to go to work. and i found out that my left front tire was flat.

I had no one to help me change the tire since it had to be changed in the garage. We had no other available car to take me to work. I had to miss work today and i have a deadline for a project this week. I am not happy.

The thing is, yesterday my husband was driving my car and he had a flat tire. He took the car to the garage and they changed two of the tires?

And then we drove the car until 10 PM yesterday. Came back home. It was fine and nothing was wrong with it. 6 AM and the tire is flat? and you know what?

When they took it to the garage, the tire was absolutely fine. It was not punctured. The tire was emptied from the air on PURPOSE! and this is not the FIRST time!

A while back i suffered the same fate to my old car. Same tire, the one between cars so whomever was emptiying the tires out of air was crouching hidden between cars… for 3 weeks in a row my car tires were emptied out of air?

Now it had started again!!! and i am NOT happy! I am quite scared actually! Who would want to empty my car from it’s air? Why only my car? Why not any other car standing there? I have no enemies… and i cannot imagine anyone i know driving all the way to my house after 10 pm to flatten my car tire? WHY… WHO? No seriously why?

Esh hal la3ana? Why did i have to miss work today? Why?

and what am i supposed to do? How do i ensure that this never happens again? Do i install cameras? This is serious! This is a car i am driving on the road! How irresponsible can you be to flatten someone’s tire?! Over and Over again?!

Have you ever been in this situation? What do you think i should do?

What’s newly written on a Chicken Takeout Box…

My husband is a big fan of Naif Chicken so we occasionaly get takeouts on our way home from work. The last time we got him a takeout however… we noticed the new line printed below the logo on their chicken box… the one showing in the picture.

Now for the past 30 years we have been living on the face of earth and ordering from Naif -or any other place for that matter- we have never bought something with a “religious” reminder before eating. So why now? What happened? Did they just discover the need for people to bless their food with gods name before eating? Or did they have a poll and realized people were not saying gods name so they had to intervene and “gently” remind people? Or because it’s the new style of life… preach people 24 hours aday cause every one is doing it already?!  My first reaction when we saw the writing on the box was “Haw? Shako?”

If i want to say god name on my food i don’t need a chicken box to remind me to. If i do not want to say gods name on food i will not say it even if that chicken logo materialized out of the box and hit me with a cane on my head. Why now? Because it sounds “more islamic” and “islamic preaching” is more appealing now adays? Why is Islam being shoved in every single little detail when it wasn’t before? We must be preached about Islam EVEN if we are having takeout? It’s jut a box of chicken! What changed?

I don’t like their box anymore. I think that there is absolutely no need to print that sentence and that their preaching is distasteful. In other words… malah ma3na…

What do you think?

The Effects of the New Tomato Prices…

We read that the prices of tomatoes in Q8 are on the rise… we heard that people are boycotting the tomatoes being too expensive and all.

What we didn’t see coming was the effect of the price increase on the “Quality” of our fast food burger! If there is one bonus to ordering a burger from Hardeez or Mcdonalds it’s that they always add one huge crisp and juicy tomato slice in the middle. Same goes for the lettuce. However, when my husband ordered a Hardeez Big Delux for lunch last Friday… and for the first time in our lives… we witnessed the tiniest saddest slice of tomato EVER! It was neither crisp nor very fresh either!!! He had to grab a tomato from the fridge and slice it to add it to the burger!

What’s up with that? We know the prices of tomatoes have increased but seriously?! That sad excuse for a tomato slice?! What is happening!!!

Have you noticed other restaurants reducing the amount of tomatoes in their dishes?!

My *ALMOST* Solved Rubik’s Cube…

Well what do you know… it’s a no brainer at all… apparently it’s a pattern and you have to swivel the thing according to the pattern a number of times and solving from one place to the end and VOILA! That’s it!

I found the solution from this amazing website (http://www.rubikssolver.com/) The problem is the last piece which is solving the bottom corners of the cube is not there and i am stuck :`( All the other websites are very hard to follow and i cannot recreate the problem on my own -still too dumb-

Now do you know how to solve the corner pieces of the Rubiks cuber last layer?

10 Reasons Why: I dread Salon Makeups in Q8!

1- It is almost impossible to get an appointment. Everyone is fully booked weeks before hand. What am i supposed to do hire a fotrune teller to tell me when i am going to be invited this upcoming year?

2- If IF you are lucky enough to get an appointment… it is always in a bad time. Like 12 pm or 3 pm and the bloody party starts after 8!

3- There is always someone in your chair at your appointment time getting the “last” touches done. She looks in the mirror and says “no do this a little lighter” or “no this is a little heavier” or “la la mo 7elo redo this” etc. etc. … WILL YOU JUST