Archive For The “News” Category
1- Soup in the Anime or 7asa2 as they said in our cartoons! You remember how they always sat in front of big bowls of some yellow soup with bobbing bits of thingies on them? Whenever I see them
I was in the Mashatel yesterday looking at the plants and flowers when my eyes fell on the most gorgeous
I’ve been looking for some paintings or photographs to hang on the living room wall in my apartment. Wherever I went I wasn’t satisfied so I decided to hang my favorite pictures on
I was asked by Lisa Conrad from Kuwait times to contribute to an article she was writing regarding the anticipated spring trends by giving my humble two cents on the matter. We did it last Friday and lo and behold, it was published on Saturday! That was kinda fast! I appeared in Kuwait Times, it [...]
ArchofKuwait account on Instagram has a challenge where instagrammers in Kuwait shoot pictures of places in Kuwait and use the hash tag #ArchOfKuwait to enter those pictures into the challenge. Arch of Kuwait then chooses from the best pictures entered and announce them as winners on their Instagram account plus they print them out and [...]
Yesterday I was in Mishref Co-op when I found a plastic tray filled with huge Kinder eggs each one as big as a big KDD Qaymar carton. One of the Kinder eggs was cracked open and we could see that inside its the old Kinder egg with a huge capsule for the gift inside. I [...]
Yesterday I was in TSC sharq thinking to myself that the Alphonsos are late this year as usually they arrive by mid March. When suddenly I saw a few boxes of Alphonso mangoes sitting
On my last visit to Solo Pizza I noticed that they had the hugest Nutella jar on the counter topped by another normal looking nutella jar which in turn was topped by the tiniest looking nutella jar ever! Even though I am not a fan of Nutella at all there is one place that Nutella [...]
Kuwait Center for Autism (KCA) is celebrating Autism day today, the 2 of April. KCA is a non-profit charity organization established in 1994 by Dr. Samira Al-Saad aims to relieve the country’s shortage in Educational Training, Diagnosis and Treatment of children with autism and strengthening all the
In a dark alley right besides Solo Pizza Neapolitan sits a little burger joint sporting a very hip identity of not having a name or a sign on the door, the name is
Last week as I was trying to fall asleep because I had work the other day, the clock showed that it was 2 AM in the morning and all I could think of is a
Thursday is here, Thursday is here! It was one of those weeks which stretched on forever and thus the arrival of Thursday seems even more precious now! There is also no dust so we can celebrate with outdoors lunch! What are you planning for your lunch? Eating in the office? Bel zwara? At home? Skipping lunch? [...]
A few years ago I wanted some picture of Kuwait during the Iraqi invasion of 1990. I searched the internet high and low but to dismay I barely found anything. I was really surprised no one took the initiative to archive that crucial period of Kuwait’s history. Then Mr. Adel Al-Yousifi published his a website named [...]
Based on a best selling trilogy of novels that started publishing in 2008 comes the movie “The Hunger Games”. I didn’t read the book and I didn’t know about its existence until I noticed it on display in Waterstones UK last March. I thought I would see the movie first then decide to read the book if the movie [...]
The list is back again for March 2012! I’ve noticed a big drop in the quantity of over all blog posts in Kuwait so I thought this list might stir things up a bit for my fellow bloggers! 2012 is different indeed! A lot of new blogs popping up yet none are making a big impression. [...]
Last week many bloggers had received a white box with yellow helmets from the Avenues with an invitation to spend Saturday afternoon in an exclusive preview of the newly constructed Avenues phase III premises. Needless to say I was very excited. After all, who doesn’t like the avenues? The meeting point was at 1 PM [...]
My husband came home a couple of days ago telling me that one of his friends had been to a new restaurant in Mubarkiya that serves traditional Q8y dishes and that they had an amazing dish he wants to try. So yesterday we went over to try it over dinner. Tikka o Loomi is located [...]
Early this morning I was browsing through the Instagram pictures when my eyes fell on the T-Shirt above from Capital District Kuwait. I was in love immediately! Pizza Italia logo on a black t-shirt! Now that must not seem like much but to someone who lived through the prime days of Pizza Italia it just [...]
One thing I can find in Switzerland and I cannot find in the UK is their super fresh salad platters. Salads in the UK are usually a bit meh in comparison. One of my favorite restaurants in Switzerland is
Our fellow blogger MadeinQ8 had just released an android application where you can view some of their favorite blogs in Kuwait, mine included (yay!). If you are an android user then you will want to add the application for the favorite blogs updates straight to your android device. You can click here (link) to install. Good [...]
I was in Pinkberry yesterday when I noticed a new kind of topping. It was stiff and green and I thought it was honey dew but then I saw the little card stating what it was: Cucumbers! CUCUMBERS! Ew ew ew ew ew EW! Why would ANYONE want cucumbers on their pinkberry? I know cucumbers and [...]
Wow! I am well on my way to reaching the 20,0100 comment now :p Thank you everyone! The winner of a brand new shipped from the states Apple TV is… Just a Bunch of Thoughts! Congratulations hon! Hafsa & Jacquies were really close, really really close! The Apple TV is an AMAZING device! Plug into [...]
The owner of the 20,000 th comment is almost here! Your Apple gadget is waiting for you! Today, tomorrow, depending on the commenting traffic, the winner will be announced! There is a good chance if you comment it could be you! Whose going to be the owner of the 20,000 comment? Just to clarify, the comment should [...]
Crumbs bakery are at it again! As Crumbs have done with previous “sagas” such as Twilight (post) and Harry Potter (post), the upcoming release of the much anticipated The Hunger Games in Kuwait means a new Movie Night Competition! To enter the chance to win 3 VIP tickets to see The Hunger Games with Crumbs [...]
Thursday is here and the weekend is about to start! What are you planning for lunch? Eating in the office? Bel zwara? At home? Skipping lunch? Many people I know are in London right now having lunch in its many lip smacking restaurants. Last Thursday I had a warm and very delicious bree and chevre [...]
