Danderma's Blog, page 107

Ma 3arafnalkom?

If we say something is good try it/read it/watch it, then we are dishonset and being paid to say so. If we say something is bad don't bother with it, then we are getting our revenge and we shouldn't say that.

If we post about events then bs ga3deen endoor o nakel ib balash. If we post about non event personal stuff then we are not important and popular and very boring.

If we post about food then we are bal3a. If we post about diet and fashion then we are superficial o ga3deen netshay7a6.

If we post about Kuwait fa bs e7na Q8yeen o nadry mako '3airkom edel el deera. If we post about other countries then shino ma7ad safar '3airkom?

If we post about charity then ana emsawya roo7y mama teresa! If we post about things we bought ga3deen netshay7a6 o why don't you think of people who can't afford stuff.

If we post more than 3 times a day then waaay athetoona postat. If we post less than once a day then weh shakhbary she posts bel sena e7sena!

If we post about a recipe we made in the kitchen then wayh emsawya roo7ha 6abakha o chef. If we post about food we got in a restaurant weh bs etdoor min ma63am lee ma63am.

If we post about new places in Kuwait then e7na hayteen o bs inhobee bel 9keek. If we post about blogger gatherings then e7na free o ekhtela6 o ma neste7e 3la wyoohna!!!

If we put up ads from businesses in Kuwait then weh daf3een lohom o kila el blog da3ayat ma feeh shay thany. If we don't post about busineses then ma7ad yadry 3n their blog o mafeeh wala d3aya!

If we post photos we took then weh emsawya roo7ha photographer! If we use photos from the internet they you are a bawagat 9owar and copy right violater!

O b3dain?  Tra ana wa7da t3bt wallah! Wallah el3atheem t3bt!

Movie Review: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Oh my GOD! I don't know what is happening to Hollywood movie writers! The quality of the TV serieses are on the rise but the quality of movies is going down low! Have they seriously ran out of stories?

You know the kind of movie that you know will get an oscar but is so bloody boring you want to tear your hair out? It started fairly nicely: Tom Hanks is the father of a little boy who is a bit off and very shy and he played games with him and always engaged him in treasure hunt like games. Then the father dies in 9/11 towers collapse. The boy then finds a key and decides its the last hunt from his father an he persues it.

The story is good on its own. Tom Hanks appears for a handful of scenes only and then disappears! Then it is boring boring boring boring. Boring to the point that four people have left the movie at one point or another.

You also think to yourself what kind of mother lets her boy -who is not 100% well- wander the streets of NYC on his own on both Saturday and Sunday for weeks on end? He is obviously distressed about the less of his father, he is even hurting himself, yet no one took him to therapy? Doesn't he have homework? Doesn't he have exams?

Then when its supposed to end khala9, it wouldn't! It just bloody wouldn't! For the love of god that's ENOUGH! I've barely made it through the first time watching this movie. Never again am I going to watch it again, ever!

If you decide to watch it, take a pillow and a blanket with you. It should be renamed as Extremely slow and Incredibly Boring!

New Topping at Pinkberry: Diced Cucumber!

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 plain yogurt come hand in hand, as a matter of fact I adore Tzatziki -greek style cucumber and yogurt- but there is no chance, in a million years, that I would eat cucumbers with sweetened yogurt! EW!

Is it because of the watermelon flavor? Which by the way tastes exactly like strawberries? But then it would still be disgusting! Mint & watermelon I would happily eat. Cucumbers and watermelon? NO WAY!

Have you seen the new cucumber topping? Would you ever dare try it?

Owner of Comment 20,000 is…

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 your TV and it will open up a new world for you. I already take it with me whenever I travel

So congratulations Just a Bunch of Thought! Email me please to arrange for your gift pickup. There is a good chance I am going to celebrate the 21,000 comment now because its so much fun and the gift will be even better! Stay tuned and comment away!

Owner of the 20,000 comment is nearly here…

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 be…

1- It has to be a real comment. Nothing like Yay or Thanks or . It will not be eligible.

2- Winners of the 10,000 and the 15,000 comments will not be eligible either. Sorry guys

3- This goes without saying but hate and rude comments will not be eligible either.

4- My ego is not looking for praise either. Comments saying how amazing I am out of no where won't be eligible. Just comment normally people.

5- I won't be mailing stuff abroad so unless you have someone in Kuwait to pick up the Apple thing I will not consider the comment.

So comment away and best of luck to everyone!

P.S. You cannot comment on this announcement!

Help! My iPhone is Eating Up my Emails!

Ever since I've crossed to the iPhone territory earlier this year I have been very happy! My iPhone is dazzling! I keep wondering why it took me so long to purchase one (it was the touch screen thing). The iPhone is like the super device that is not supposed to do anything wrong.

HOWEVER! There is one small minor problem which is unbeliveable! The mail client on the iPhone is crazy! BIG Time!

First I noticed that it didn't retrieve my emails unless I prompt it to update and do so. Then I played around with the settings and push notifications trying to make it recieve an email the moment it is delivered to my inbox. No such luck. I would update the bloody thing and nothing will come up while my inbox does indeed have many emails waiting to be read.

I made my peace with that. So the BB would receive my emails a second before it would appear on the computer, the iPhone won't. Emails are not everything on earth right?

Until one day it started.

I received an email that I've read quickly on the go. I remember being happy about it. I decided to get back to it later and read it thoroughly. Later on the day I've searched all the folders on my email, on the iPhone and on my pc, but I couldn't find it. Not even in the Trash or the Spam.

It simply vanished. I couldn't believe it, iPhone wouldn't do that to my emails for sure right? I must have imagined I recieved it, there is no record of it coming into my inbox whatsover.

Then it happened again! And again! And again and again and again and again! To this date within 2 months of usage I've lost nearly 20 emails! I can't have imagined all those emails arriving to my inbox! I am very careful when I open and close them because I am aware they might "vanish" into thin air! I searched for them carefully! To no Luck!!!

Is this normal? Is it only my iPhone? Is it every iPhone? I can live with the delayed mail delivery, but why on earth is it hiding my emails from me? This is a major catastrophic fail in an email client provided by a leading company like Apple! Do you have any solution for that? Help?

The Cadbury Creme Egg

I remember a time when Cadbury Creme Eggs were sold year round in the UK. I love those adorable little chocolate eggs. I get shivers when I bite into one and the creamy sugary fondant fill comes pouring out. It is one of my top favorite Cadbury products if not all time favorite of mine

The last time I remember buying them in the summer was from a vending machine in London Underground on June 2004. Afterwards the creme eggs disappeared, only to resurface between January to April -for Easter- every year Now that was just cruel! How can someone not want to have a Cadbury creme egg whenever he feels like it? A fresh one that is?

Therefore whenever I am in London or if I pass by TSC when my favorite creamy eggs are in season I make sure to stock up on them! They taste amazing, they are very very cute, and the filling even comes in white and yellow colors resembling a real egg white and yolk! Brilliant!

Believe it or not many people do not like this succulent piece of chocolate! Some think its too sugary, others wouldn't even try it thinking its disgusting! What's disgusting about it? It only looks like an egg, it doesn't taste like one! If you are one of those people then you are missing out, BIG TIME!

Would you look at that creamy golden fondant? The lovely thing about it is that the texture has the tiniest hint of roughness about it, like 99.9% melted sugar, which in my opinion makes all the difference. As you consume the fondant you feel those grains on the tip of your tongue, and the rest is history

I adore Cadbury Creme Eggs

Are you a fan of Cadbury Creme Egg? It seems to me that no one I know likes them for some reason?

Picture of the Week: The Brick Wall

Sometimes it seems like life has planted a stubborn brick wall in your path and you see no way around it. Its OK, it happens, don't panic. Just take a step back, a deep breath, let our heart beat settle down, and once you can think again you will see you can overcome this. If all comes to nothing you can always backtrack.

Does this make any sense? It does to me. Just don't be intimidated by the sight of that brick wall.

Blast from the Past: King & Baloons MSX

I really doubt anyone would remember this game. Its simply ancient! When I first discovered my MSX emulator I started remembering my old games and searched for them by name. However this game I didn't remember. Then one day as I was playing it just hit me: there was a game with baloons!

There was a game where we used to shoot baloons! What game was that? I remember that I loved it dearly, that we didn't own the cartridge of the game and had to wait to go to one of my cousin's houses to play it, and that we had to take turns and when it was my long awaited turn I would be ecstatic. I searched high and low for this game until I found it: King & Baloons is its name! So the little fella is a king and we are supposed to be defending him y7leelah!

The game is addictive. It literally doesn't change in pace and it doesn't end, but still I would play it whenever I feel there is something on my brain that I need to release and escape from. A great stress releaver for sure.

Do you, by any chance, remember this game on MSX sakhar?

Book Review: Q, a Love Story by Evan Mandery

To be frank I picked up this book because I was standing at the long check out line in Waterstones and I was panicking. It was my last chance to buy book before going back home and my eyes fell on the NY Times quote printed on the cover above. Tear prone? I am very much tear prone! I cried so hard when I saw Titanic that other -crying- people in the cinema were alarmed. I cried so much in Devdas in Odeon London that during an intermission an Indian chap left his girl friend and sat next to me asking me if I was OK -his GF was NOT happy-.

So of course I picked the book up. I wanted a heartfelt sad ending where I can cry my eyes out. I didn't even read the story description until I was about to start it, which made it even more intriguing. The book tells the story of Q, Quentina Elizabeth Deveril, the love of the narrator's life who together are preparing for their wedding day when one day a man from the grooms future apparently appears to him, sits him down, and asks him not to marry Q.

The books is fast paced, the story about Q starts quickly and early. It is beautifully written and very philosophical. It presents you with notions that make you stop reading, think for a moment, then resume reading. It is even a novel inside a novel as the hero of the book is a writer himself and you get to read chapters of his books.

Between the pages you can also find dry humor. The kind that makes you laugh but doesn't come off as silly or impossibly idiotic. The book has big words too, I had to google some of them so I can understand it. It is not the easiest of reads but it is a good book. Quite different if I may say myself. After all it was written by a Harvard graduate.

However, the story is not entirely about Q but ends with Q nontheless. The ending is abrupt and, well, weird. I didn't get it. I kept reading the last page then flipping it to the acknowledgement thinking there were a missing page. There wasn't. I closed the book in anger at NY Times. 'That's it?" I thought to myself! Tear prone o crying in public? Not really, not at all! And this is coming from the one of the worst basket cases you'd ever encounter.

It is the kind of book you enjoy reading once, but once you reach the ending its all ruined for you. Finito. I don't suppose I need to keep it in my bookshelf. My copy is going to be up for grabs soon or you can buy it from Amazon (link).