Danderma's Blog, page 113

Diet Care's National Day's Gift Basket

During the holidays I've had a knock on my apartment door then came a delivery guy bearing a bread basket filled with healthy goodies from Diet Care.

An assortment of sandwiches, Tik Delight, Strawberry Cheesecake, and a slice of the Kuwaiti flag cake. All low in fat and calories and have 0 trans fat. Given that we would be stuffing our faces while cooped up in the house for a few days what better way to do it that with diet friendly stuff?

The sandwiches were really good and my husband loved the desserts. Thank you Diet Care so much for the healthy basket. It would be a great thing to take to a gathering of dieting people

Happy Birthday Bu Tootee

My Bu Tootee's birthday falls right before the National Day & Liberation Day celebrations. This year however he wanted me to bake him a cake but since we still have no kitchen he refused to have a cake from any where else! Nevertheless I wasn't going to let his birthday pass without anything so I got him a cookie -he cannot resist cookies and biscuits- and a box of mini cupcakes decorated like Kuwaiti Flags from little treats. Its not only his birthday we are celebrating after all!

Maskeen when he saw the cupcakes and the cookies he was so happy! No birthday is a birthday without some sort of cake! The candle I used was supposed to be letting sparks out but it failed and barely a spark was there

Happy birthday my Bu Tootee o 3oqbal 100000 senna :*

The Boy Who Cried at the Movies

During the National & Liberation day holiday we decided to go to the cinema and watch the highly acclaimed "Woman in Black". The woman in black is a horror movie, period. As we settled in our seats we heard "Gaa gaa aghoo" as always. Some mindless parent had decided to bring their infant into a horror movie. We just hoped he would shut up and not gurgle while we were watching.

Then in the middle of a very very very scary part of the movie we suddenly hear "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH EYKHAWEEEEEEEF". Apparently a kid below the age of ten was scared out of his mind with what he saw. He began crying -very loudly, drowning out the sound of the movie- and the audience started laughing at his bawling. You would think his mother would leave her seat and take her frightened child outside? Noooo. She didn't even bother to shush him. The most important thing was for her to watch the movie whether or not the child was traumatized for life and to hell with the goats sitting around her trying to watch. They will manage.

Isn't there a rule against letting babies inside the cinema? How was this child allowed inside a horrific scary movie that I, a 31 year old woman, kept my eyes closed with my palms most of the time? What kind of mother are you, taking your child to an hour and a half of horror? Lets say you were stupid enough not to check what the movie is about before it started, when you saw it was a horror movie and it scared your child, why didn't you leave? Why would you stay put?

Its about time movie viewer ratings were enforced in this country. Not every movie is suitable for all genres! If the people are too stupid to choose the appropriate movie then a law should be made to force them to keep the children away from such movies until eventually they learn and start respecting the law! Its not rocket science y3ni!

Kuwaiti Students wishing Kuwait a happy liberation day

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This a videoade by Kuwaiti students in the USA who wanted to celebrate our indepandance day in their own way. The guy bu chraimba was so funny y7lailah

Gawakom Allah o insha2 Allah u graduate o celebrate again with your families

Picture of the Week: Free Kuwait

Kuwait is free, was free, and will be free insha2 Allah until the end of days.

Thank god 3la ne3mat el amn wel aman wel 7oryah. We will never forget this date, not 21 years later and not a 100 years later. Ever.

Event: Solving the Jimmy Choo Puzzle

I love jigsaw puzzles.

No no, I don't just love them, I adore them! I used to put together a 1000 pieces ones and frame them once upon a time. Now a days I cannot find really interesting ones to put together but I have no problem spending my nights sprawled on the floor trying to put jigsaw puzzles together. Therefore you can understand my sheer joy when I was invited to "Solve the Jimmie Choo Puzzle" event yesterday!

As I arrived at 7:15 PM -the event was at 7, traffic was too horrible- I found that I was the third blogger to arrive and it wasn't very crowded. Tables were set outside the store for something… hmmm.

and inside we were greeted by generous Fauchon catering while we waited for the rest of the bloggers to arrive.

Then we went around the store checking the new collection. I loved this shoe very much. It was my favorite piece in the store. It doesn't show well in the picture but the color of the show is a soft glittery green silver. Gorgeous!

Other pieces I loved in store.

Ms. Ala'a Al-Zamel modeling for us a pair of snake skin heels from the new collection.

And this summery wedge is my second favorite item in the store.

As soon as I took a picture of the wedge above we were called in and told to form teams of two and select a shoe from several shoe options and take it outside. One of them was the wedge above so I grabbed it immediately!

Our team was the only one with three people: Me, Ansam, and Dusty Roses -nice to meet you girl-. As we waited around a jigsaw picture of our shoe was handed to us to break it apart.

After it was broken apart we had 15 minutes to put it back together and the team which puts the most pieces back together wins!

15 minutes later and this is what we got. We didn't win first place but we were in 2nd place for sure :p

Pink Girl & The Side Talk had the hardest puzzle but a beautiful shoe!

In the end we each left with a Jimmy Choo goody bag.

Thank you Jimmy Choo and AlYasra fashion group for a fun evening! We had so much fun indeed! Next time we want a treasure hunt for a shoe or something

Shino '3adakom Elyoom?

Today is Thursday! Happy National Day and Liberation Day holiday! Today is also my Bu Toote's birthday, happy birthday sweetheart :* So its a happy happy day and lunch should be a big deal! Where are you having your lunch? At home? at work? In zwara? In the chalet? On the air plane going somewhere?

I confess that I have a bad weakness towards something really unhealthy: Fried Mozzarella Cheese Sticks. I cannot resist them. I could eat my self a dozen's worth of those stringy chewy deep fried cheese sticks and I would still want some more I am craving some for lunch really badly!

In my humble opinion the best cheese sticks around K-town are the ones in Chilli's. Really chunky and flavorsome. I used to make them myself from low fat mozarella cheese and grill them in the oven instead of frying them but now I don't have the time. Chilli's would do. Maybe with a vegetarian fajita and a mound of chips dunked in salsa. Now that's what I call lunch

Shino '3adakom elyoom?

Pink Girl's National & Liberation Day Goody Bag

My dear friend Pink Girl was distributing a CD of national songs to bloggers a few days ago. 6b3an I was jealous where is my CD? Yesterday she not only gave me a CD, she gave me a bag with a sticker that has my name on it and its chock full of Kuwait flag themed stuff to use when celebrating National and Independence days!

Here is the CD! I listened to it on my way to work this morning o it was so good I cried all the way to work. Cried too much in fact I almost slammed into the concrete! I've got to stop crying whenever I listen to a National song, ma 9arat!

And the celebration stuff… este3dad kamel for any maseera goer o for an entire family b3d not just one person masha2 Allah 3leeha

Badges, tatoos, nail art, face paint, flags, key chains, baloons, strass cover for the phone, head band, the works!

Thank you my dear Pink for the lovely and patriotic gift :*

Event: Launch of the Starbucks Card

Yesterday evening I was invited to the launch of Starbucks's first "Starbucks Card". If you read my blog you would know that I love store cards of all types (post) and I couldn't be happier to know about the launch of a new card! So basically it was two birds with one stone: Launch of a store card and introduction into the social media world.

The event started with cups of brewed coffee cups distributed around for the bloggers. The coffee being used is the a new one from Guatemala called Guatemala Casi Ceilo.

Guess what? We did a… coffee tasting! Memories of my coffee tasting experience in Gloria Jeans Coffee came back to me (post) as the crowd was told to sniff and slurp the coffee to feel the body and taste

Then the event had started by introducing the newly launched Starbucks Card and explaining how you can use it exactly.

Afterwards a session of Q&A followed on which we were encouraged to ask anything we want from Starbucks. I asked if the Starbucks instant coffee sachets VIA are coming to Kuwait or not. I am tired of hauling them from the UK every time I am there (post). By the way I own the UK Starbucks Card too and its exactly the the Kuwaiti Starbucks card functionality wise.

After that the event was wrapped up and we were invited to the a buffet they've set up in our honor. As people were eating the Starbucks teams was chatting to bloggers and asking them questions and getting more feedback from them which is really considerate especially given that 80% of the population do visit Starbucks at least once a month or so. My own statistics but then everybody does love Starbucks.

The good thing about Starbucks card is that you can give it out as a gift for coffee addicts and Starbucks addicts! In the future when their website is launched there should be more to the card than free wifi connection and drinks payment.

The Starbucks Card is available in every Starbucks in K-town starting today, Wednesday! If you are interested hurry up and grab it. I already now own the Alshaya card and Starbucks card

Thanks to all the teams of Starbucks for their warm welcome and their undivided attention. For a first social media event you did quite well indeed. We hope to see more and more events and promotions in the future

Book Review: Time of My Life

Cecilia Ahern is one of my favorite authors. If you don't recognize her she is the author of "P.S. I Love You" which was her debut novel at the age of 21. If you haven't read the novel you might have seen the horrible mutilated movie they made out of the novel. Anyways ever since I read P.S. I love you I've devoured every single book she has written and all of them are beautiful. Here latest book, Time of My Life, I have just finished and I am sorry I finished it. I miss reading it. It is that good

 Cecilia always sprinkles a little bit of Irish magic into her stories, that's what makes them extra special. In Time of My Life, Lucy's life is a mess, she has lost her boyfriend, her job, lives in a pigsty, lying to her friends and family, and hiding a cat from her landlord. One day an invitation arrives at her door to meet with her "Life". Weird no? But then again she avoids the meeting. She is too busy tangled with the mess that is her life to meet with her life in the flesh.

The story is AMAZING! So sweet, so subtle, and putting aside the magic you can see the analogy they are making! Everyone can relate to it. I was so caught up in Lucy and her life "the guy and the life life" that I never wanted the story to end. I read it in two days because it was cannot-put-down good! Don't miss it! Kudos to Cecelia for another great book. Definitely going on my bookshelf.

The book is available in amazon (link).