Archive For The “Things I hate!” Category

When the wedding invitation arrives…

By | June 10, 2011

Men of Q8 One hour before the wedding Take a bath, shave, put on bukhoor, wear your dishdasha, ghetra and 3eqal. Grab your accessories (pen mesba7 watch). Put your feet into a good gleaming sandals or shoes and go. During the wedding Go inside, congratulate the groom and his family, meet with friends over the [...]

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Mino hal Dobb? El Mared El Bared?

By | June 5, 2011

As I was driving into work today I saw this white huge bear eating KDD ice cream on the back of the bus. Who the hell is that? Is this the mascot KDD chose to replace el7ajji wel 7ajiya? We are supposed to identify with him y3ni now? You know because Kuwait is filled with [...]

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Help: Where to have a facial after CosmeSurge’s Horrible Service

By | May 30, 2011

I go to have a facial once every six months. I love the way my skin feels afterwards when I am done, soft and glowing. I was due to have my facial last week but I had so much to do so I booked it for 4 PM yesterday in Cosmesurge. I love their service [...]

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The car damaging accusations…

By | May 30, 2011

My dear VW Touareg was taken to the service on Saturday. My husband came home with some paper he gave me and asked me what exactly was I doing with the car? Apparently the blue marks on the Touareg’s body in the picture above are all hits and bumps? and that they were inflicted by [...]

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Ansam’s 518 Birthday Competition

By | May 17, 2011

Our dear fellow blogger Ansam is celebrating her birthday tomorrow (518). She is celebrating by moving into hew new blog domain www.Ansam518.com and throwing a competition with lots of prizes from amazing popular sponsors like Burger Hub, Baking Tray, Pizzetta, Gelato Italiano, Tony & Guy, Napket, Zero Degrees, and much more! Now I personally will be on [...]

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Farewell, the Avenues Phase II Fountain. You will be missed :(

By | May 13, 2011

May seems to be the month of good byes! First the KDD ice creams of our childhood were gone, next the old frappucinos of Starbux are changed, and now the phase II fountain in the Avenues is gone as well. I love this fountain! I loved sitting in Casper & Gambini’s and having breakfast there, [...]

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Windows 7 Starter Edition Sucks big time!

By | May 13, 2011

Let me give you a piece of advice to keep in mind the next time you go shopping for a laptop. Look closely at the windows stickers. If its like the one shown in the picture above and spells “Windows 7 Starter” then run for your life. Do not spend one KD on that laptop simply [...]

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Good bye, Starbucks Frappucinos

By | May 12, 2011

Today, I have finally come to terms that I will never drink another good tasting Starbucks Frappucino again, and that I might as well give up trying. I don’t know what changed exactly, but the new Frappucinos taste horrible! They are more like chilled flavoured milk shakes rather than the lovely blended coffee I used [...]

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Why these questions? What’s it to you?

By | May 4, 2011

I am amazed by people who, if you tell them about a new business or a new place in town, would ask you ‘Who is the owner?’ before you could even continue your story about the place. Their excuse actually being ‘I don’t buy from a place without knowing who the owner is!’ Why? What [...]

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A 30% Increase in Nakhi & Bajela prices!!!

By | May 3, 2011

I was in the Co-Op a couple of days ago getting Nakhi & Bejal when I noticed the “New prices”. Two weeks ago a box of Nakhi or Bajela cost 300 fils only Now it costs 400 fils! A 30% increase! Eshda3wa? What happened? Did they increase the salaries or something? Is it because of [...]

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KDD’s Response to the Blitz email

By | May 2, 2011

Remember the yesterday’s post (link)? I recieved a response to the email i sent yesterday from KDD. Here is what it said… “Dear Danderma, Thank you for writing to us. We greatly appreciate your email and empathize with your sentiments. As brand owners, we have had to deal with a similar emotion since the names [...]

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No for Blitz Ice Cream, Bring back the old names KDD!

By | May 1, 2011

Dear KDD, I’ve been a fan of your products for over 30 years now. I grew up drinking KDD Chocolate milk. I memorized the word Columbia as a child even before i spoke English. I was familiar with the names Failaka and Burgan before i knew what they meant and as a result my eyes lit up [...]

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Pray for FourMe :(

By | April 29, 2011

Today started out as a great day. I went from happy, to much happier, to euphoric. Than I received the news about FourMe and I plummeted down to the pit of despair. FourMe, the girl who was told she had cancer on her 29th birthday, the girl who barely

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Rant: Moving from one Bank to another

By | April 24, 2011

Don’t you hate it when you have to close a bank account or transfer your salary to another bank? I am dreading going to my bank to tell them of my decision. I have decided to part ways and move my salary to another bank. I have decided that last Wednesday. I have been obsessing [...]

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Children Begging in Spoons… Can We Stop This!?

By | April 1, 2011

For the past two Thursday nights i have noticed something *new* in spoons while dining there… a young child would approach our table with a packed of sunflower seeds in hands and tries to sell it to the diners… people of course are sitting to good mouthwatering meals digging when this poor little child approached [...]

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The word is tweet… not ta’3reed!!!

By | March 24, 2011

Since every one is on Twitter now a days and since it has become the latest trend in our society… and as someone who has been on twitter for almost 3 years… let me tell you something very important… The name is twitter. The terminology is “Twitter, Tweet, and Tweeps” There is no arabisation for [...]

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Habba Alert: Heavily Tattoed Eyebrows!

By | February 15, 2011

When i was in Dubai i could tell if a girl is Q8y or not just by glancing at her eyebrows! I tried my best to draw what i’ve been seeing lately in the picture above but they are not exactly coming out right! Tattoed Eyebrows… HEAVILY tattoed eyebrows… it’s like they have shaved their eyebrows [...]

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This Blogs Supports 248am.com’s Freedom!

By | February 6, 2011

This blog supports Mark’s freedom of posting his review, whether good or bad, on his blog!!! In case you have been living under a rock lately, the story is that blogger Mark from the blog 248am.com is being sued by the Benihana Kuwait owners simply for trying their restaurant, not liking the food, and stating [...]

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My Gift Wrapping Station…

By | January 24, 2011

I always loved doing things on my own. Growing up in the 80′s meant throwing birthday parties with lots of little kids and lots of little party gifts that had to be wrapped and distributed for guests per party. Therefore i learned how to wrap gifts at a very young age. When i grew up [...]

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A Visit to Einstien’s House in Bern…

By | January 19, 2011

I was browsing through my old pictures yesterday thinking of making them into an album when i found pictures of my trip to Bern, Switzerland… What interested me most is the pictures of my visit to Einstien’s House in Bern! Of all swiss cities i love Bern the most (post)… the old buildings and the [...]

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Things 2 Get 4m London: Silver Spoon Food Decoration & Colors!

By | January 17, 2011

Since we have recieved the news of the 1000 KD Amiri Grant and i can’t stop thinking about going to London and shopping there… so i’ve decided to share with you something i usually bring home with me when i travel… especially considering the strange lack of food decoration supplies in Kuwait…  Silver Spoon’s food

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Book Wanted: Hind Wal 3askar!

By | December 27, 2010

I am not sure how new this novel is… what i know is it’s being sold in the big libraries in KSA… it’s about a woman named hind and the 3askar denotes the society keeping her oppressed or something. Many people are saying things about some controversial sentences that appeared in the story. Some say [...]

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My first 3baya buying disaster…

By | December 23, 2010

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

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How did you spend your first salary?!

By | December 15, 2010

While posting about the Body Shop Gift Set the other day i remembered how much i loved the Body Shop. Growing up i always vowed to spend my first ever hard earned salary buying everything in the Body Shop By the time i did actually get my salary, the first thing i bought was a [...]

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Fatburger… never again!

By | December 9, 2010

I have heard mixed reviews about Fatburger… and being a vegetarian i wasn’t looking forwards to trying it. But then my husband told me that they did have a veggie burger on the menu so i thought why not? We order two meals: Mine a veggie burger with onion rings and water and his was [...]

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