Archive For The “Thing that annoy me!” Category

My *ALMOST* Solved Rubik's Cube…

By | October 7, 2010

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 [...]

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10 Reasons Why: I dread Salon Makeups in Q8!

By | October 6, 2010

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 [...]

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Cinescape Stops Movies for 10 Minutes During Maghrib Prayers.

By | September 30, 2010

OK. This is rant worthy. Lets imagine how it’s going to turn out now shall we? So it’s the middle of a movie in 360. People are lost in the plot. Suddenly the screen goes dark and the lights go on and it’s time for the viewers to go pray?! Seriously? Now how many viewers [...]

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Laish Ma Y9eer In9ob Banzeen?

By | August 18, 2010

As i opened my window and turned off my engine on a hot & suffocating summer night, waiting for the fuel station worked to bestow upon me his divided attention and fill my car tank with gasoline, i began to lose my patience. You see the man is over worked. There are a LOT of [...]

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Help Needed: What Wakes you Up in the Morning?

By | August 4, 2010

For the past few weeks i have been having a hard time waking up. I tried every thing: I slept earlier, i slept after eating a very light dinner, i changed my wakeup time several times,  i have one alarm clock blaring far away and my phone alarm right under my ear, both wake me [...]

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Do you Stare At People Who Brush Their Teeth?

By | August 2, 2010

I am at work, i take my tooth brush and tooth paste and go to our bathroom, which sadly is shared between two departments, i squeeze a little paste on my dry brush and start brushing vigorously, looking around, trying to finish up fast before someone comes in… Why? Bayga booga? 3amla 3amla? People in [...]

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Help Needed: Vitamin D Deficiency Treatment in Q8

By | August 2, 2010

A year or 2 ago i began hearing women saying “Vitamin D and Vitamin D”… i thought what is wrong with women… kil yom habeen lohom habba… Vitamin D get in the sun o khalasna… especially inah No9 il q8yat imsaween tan… so why care about Vitamin D Deficiency? Read about the deficiency here… and then when [...]

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The Number One Culprit in Ruining our Sunday Diet Plans!

By | July 15, 2010

You say your diet will start next Sunday. You have your last good buy free meal. You have your healthy diet breakfast and head to work/school/college… You come home hungry… and then you see those food pamphlets stuck to every corner of  your news boxes at home! Why do they always appear on the same [...]

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What weird food combinations work for you?!

By | July 5, 2010

I slave over the stove trying to make the perfect vermicille rice, i was craving a meal of vermicille rice and KDD low fat yoghurt… 2 hours later my rice is done, steaming and fluffy… Butoote asks if it’s ready and i say yes… I then find the dish above… apparently my dear husband believes [...]

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Breakfast: Heart Shaped Eggs on Bread…

By | June 21, 2010

On Saturday we unearthed a heart shaped frying pan we bought years ago and never used. We thought why not? Lets try it and see how the eggs will turn out…

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10 Reasons Why: I never use those Q8y Words

By | June 18, 2010

6b3an ana mali sho’3ol fekom… it’s a free country o ppl barely speak q8y anymore… i am saying this about my self… why i, Danderma, never used/stopped using them… 1- “Y36eek/ch el 3afiyaa“… i feel like im in bab il 7ara greeting el3aqeed… my badeel oho Gawach/Gawak Allah… athrab 2- “Amana“… shamantah ballah? y3ni you [...]

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10 Reasons Why: I Dread Driving in the Q8y Summer!

By | June 13, 2010

1- When you enter the car… be it day or night, parked in the shade or under the sun, it is exactly like entering a furnace :S 2- Even with the best of cars… the AC will not start blowing cold air until you are 2 minutes away from your destination. 3- Unless you wear [...]

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Lost in Translation: Badliya or a New Word?

By | June 10, 2010

Standing in line at the KNCC consession stand, i read the above advertisement… ”Production: The first Magazine for Creatives in the Middle East” Now what is wrong with that sentence? When was the word “Creatives” Invented? I thought Creative was an adjective! The only was for it to have a plural form is if it came [...]

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Only in Q8… Worker Dangerously Cleaning Windows

By | June 8, 2010

I had an appointment with International Clinic and while i was walking towards the entrance… i saw this poor Asian worker dangling from the window while cleaning it! As Ansam would say… NO NO! By the time i whipped up my camera he had stood up… he had been in a much more dangerous position! [...]

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Traffic Jam in Jabriya Caused by… Ice Cream !!!

By | May 30, 2010

It was Thursday. Jabriya. The ugliest, busiest roundabout in Jabriya. and it was rush hour time when people returned home from work. A long line was forming. Cars were honking thier horns. In the street leading to the roundabout near Shanakel/Sable/Co-Op the left lane was not moving AT ALL. It is a two lane street. [...]

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What's Wrong with Cinescape Show Times?!

By | May 27, 2010

A while ago i wanted to watch madry ay movie… and i coudln’t find reservations in a *decent* cinema. Killa ya Laila ya Ajyal… I thought it was because of the movie. I have been away for a while, now Shrek III is out, it is a Big Deal y3ni… i try to reserve but… [...]

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The New OSN Reciever Sucks Even More!

By | April 26, 2010

I was just sitting down with my cup of tea, ready to relax and enjoy the rest of my evening after a long day… I flip through the channels and there i find the movie No Reservation on Show Movies… i <3 that movie and it had just started… i watch, very happy, very absorbed [...]

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Review: The New OSN Reciever… It Sucks!

By | April 22, 2010

My dear husband Butootee got all excited when he heard about the new OSN reciever thing. You give them a call and they bring you a brand new HD reciever that works without a card, free of charge. Your old card would render useless afterwards but you are supposed to be happy with your new [...]

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Lost in Translation: Don't Eat inside WHAT?!

By | April 20, 2010

Late night browsing at Geant 360 mall provided some entertainment for me… i couldn’t stop laughing when i saw the Arabic translation… Ay Fatha2 Tejari Allah yehadakom?! Can’t you just say, simply, Dakhel il Ma7al?! Tara ma yabelha shay!

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Kodak Self Service Kiosk…

By | March 28, 2010

Fi Amreka wa Oroba wal dowal il mota7athera… there is an invention called a Self Service Kiosk for all your picture printing needs. Simply take your pictures in a flash or a cd, or even via your phone by bluetooth, and voila! 5 minutes later you can have an array of merchandise with your pictures [...]

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A very stupid road sign!

By | March 10, 2010

Underneath the Shuwaikh Port Bridge, there is some construction work going on AND this very stupid sign… In English Go Slow ok comprehendible… in Arabic Serr Khafif means NOTHING! Y3ni in an Arabian country having a road sign that makes sense in English but not in Arabic is very fashla! Why is it so hard [...]

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STOP Advertising on the Street Signs!!! O b3dain?!

By | February 21, 2010

When you wanted to announce that you kill animals in a Halal way for ppl to eat… didn’t you find a better place to hang it than on this road sign? Seriously? Why? Are you advertising a cure for cancer?! I took this while waiting for my turn at the Surra Roundabout… those signs are [...]

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Stop Littering the Streets… The Video!

By | February 16, 2010

30+ years have passed o mako fayda… ppl still throw garbage from their car windows! I am so glad they at least learned to use the deodorant!  Check out the story the end of the video @_@

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How to Get Rid of Hiccups?

By | February 12, 2010

Hiccups can be the most annoying thing on earth… especially if they arrive on the worst inconvenient time – and thats when they usually do- i for one have suffered from hiccups for a long long time and tried every thing to get rid of them… until the day i discovered my golden method

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February in Q8 Means: Spraying with Foam Has Begun!

By | February 11, 2010

I go out the door this morning only to find my moms car sprayed with two lines of foam from head to toe -or bumper to bumper- with the bloody dreaded foam! She was in the Avenues last night which means spraying has already started! We are still in the first 10 days of February! [...]

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