VIVA Annonces 4G Network in Kuwait

We were invited to attend the VIVA’s “VIVA Speed transition Experience” press conference that was held yesterday in their Marina Mall branch at 9-ish PM yesterday.

The beginning of the press conference, they said “we told you in our last press conference that we are going to release something big in the coming weeks” I had no idea about the last press conference but got excited just because they were hyping it up for a few weeks now so it got to be something big. “We are proud to announce the first 4G network in Kuwait” and held up one of 2 4G modems they had at the conference.

Also there are plans to upgrade the current generation of LTE networks to what is called LTE Advanced which has theoretical downlink speeds of 1 Gbits/s.

The expected release of the Kuwait’s first 4G network is Q4 2010. Mr. Al-Awadi said we are almost ready to release it just waiting for some paperwork to clear from the ministry.

Lateish but still: مبارك عليكم الشهر

I haven’t been posting for the past few days because I Just came back from Umrah a couple of hours ago. This might be a little late but I wanted to say: “مبارك عليكم الشهر “

B+F Open Flame Kitchen

Since I’ve been out of the country for 3 months, when the guys decided to have dinner yesterday I thought I might as well let them pick the place. My only request was it should be a good place to eat as I didn’t have lunch, so I didn’t want to experiment with new places.

The guys picked B+F Open Flame Kitchen, from the same guys who brought you Burger Boutique and Slider Station which are both a personal favorite restaurants so experimenting was back on the table.

At 7:30pm 2 of the guys were already at 360 Mall and put their names in for a table, waiting time was 45mins to 1 hour. We arrived 15 mins later and sat at “Life With Cacao” as our table becomes available. We waited the full 1 hour for the table and went in at 8:30pm. By then the place was packed and the waiting time jumped to an astonishing 3 hours. It was crazy.

When we got seated it took a while for us to be attended to, I didn’t mind that since it was my first time there and I wasn’t familiar with the menu. They had a good selection of their burgers, sliders and fries from their other restaurants and also some pizzas and steaks. So they cover all the bases and have a good variety of food fore all tastes.

We ordered a few dishes, for starters we got the Chopped Salad (very light dressing – not exactly my taste) the Lobster Tail Tempura (very good) and El Diablo Pizza (Also was very good). My main course was 2 pieces of the Wildfire slider which was excellent. The guys had some more kinds of sliders and pizzas that I had no interest in trying them because by the time I finished my sliders I was beyond full.

Overall it was a very good experience, good food and semi-hectic service as they they forgot a main course but I wont hold it against them due to the unbelievable number of people and it being just a soft opening. Hope everything gets sorted out by Eid time and I thing it will. And I’m definitely going there again next week.

B+F Open Flame Kitchen is located at 360 Mall under The Meat Co. and opposite to Life with Cacao. Operating ours at the moment are 7pm-11pm Tel: 25309990

I’m Back

I am back in Kuwait, The weather is not that bad here or maybe I just missed the worst part. Anyway its good to be back.

The 24 Hour Journey Back Home

So today is my last day here in the US, I will be heading back to kuwait enshalla. My flight plan is as follows: San Antonio – Dallas – New York – Kuwait. Currently I’m in JFK airport in New York waiting for my Kuwait Airways flight 118 to board. The weather is unstable here in NYC, there was some heavy showers and some thunderstorms when we came in to land. I’m almost halfway through my trip. Hope the second half goes as smoothly as the first half.

Imagine Cup 2010 – Go Team MAA

With the world cup having a 2 day resting period, we can now turn our complete attention to Warsaw, Poland were the Imagine Cup 2010 finals are being held from the 3rd to the 8th of July (you just missed the opening ceremonies don’t worry).

Kuwait was represented by 5 teams in the star of the preliminaries competition that was held a couple of months ago in a competition that had more than 2000 participants. The winners were a Kuwaiti all-woman team. Members are Mariam Al-Najdi, Abrar Amin and Aysha Al-Rowaished, and those girls are representing Kuwait in the finals.

Just because our national football team didn’t make it to the world cup this year (or any other major competition for a number of years) doesn’t mean there isn’t anything for us to cheer for this summer. So pull out your Vuvuzela’s and start cheering for team MMA.

The Hot Foot

Our friends NegativEffect and BrakeBanzeen joined forces to create one of the best automotive blogs in the region . The dynamic duo launched The Hot Foot recently and it looks great.

We all remember NegativEffect’s infamous GulfRun videos. Waiting for GulfRun 2011 videos man. And BrakeBanzeen has been writing for a while now, and if you are a gear-head you definitely have read his blog.

The blog will cover as it subtly puts it “Reviews on anything driven by fuels”. The blog looks great and posts are wonderfully written. Hope we see some airplane reviews.

Keep up the the excellent work guys. Best of luck.

The Hot Foot

More iPod/iPhone/iPad Compatible TV Shows: درب الزلق

Another Kuwaiti TV classic is up today, this time its درب الزلق. I will keep them coming as much as I can but my schedule is a little nuts here.

درب الزلق

Karkoosha

Karkoosha (Kar-koo-sha) noun: An Arabic word for a tassel.

After two years of different business ideas, Karkoosha.com came to life. A unique online experience; Karkoosha.com is an online exhibition providing virtual space for exhibitors from all over the world. It is set up into boutiques with different time frames, depending on the exhibitor’s package. Each boutique has its own culture, history, inspirations, trendiness, art, heritage, and popularity. You can find designers that you have already heard about, or new designers that have just opened their doors to show off their unique talents. This experience not only includes fashion; it includes anything you can imagine!

Exhibitions are held on a 2-week to 1-year basis. The services provided to our clients is a process that takes over the displaying, selling, marketing, packaging, and delivery tasks of the exhibitor. All the exhibitor has to do is register online or email us at exhibitors@karkoosha.com. We then contact the exhibitor, arrange a meeting, approve their products, create a photo- shoot of the items, display them on the exhibitors exclusive boutique, sell them to the client, pack the items in our elegant packaging, and finally deliver to the client’s house anywhere in the world as soon as possible.

Since KARKOOSHA will be launching soon, this is what we have to offer to your readers and our interested exhibitors:
Are you a fashion designer, artist, furniture designer, entrepreneur, or publisher?

Do you want to have a boutique online without having to worry about employees, photographers, website designers, marketing, packaging, deliveries, etc.?

www.KARKOOSHA.com is your destination!

KARKOOSHA is an online exhibition providing virtual space for exhibitors from all over the world. It is set up into boutiques; each exhibitor has his/ her own boutique with the time frame they request.

We will be launching the website end of May. If you would like to have your own boutique on KARKOOSHA.com, all you have to do is email us a description of your products at exhibitors@karkoosha.com. We will then take a photo-shoot of the items and create your own boutique. We also take care of marketing, managing sales, packaging, and delivery to the client anywhere in the world as soon as possible.

Life is so much easier with KARKOOSHA!

* First 10 exhibitors will get two additional weeks!

www.karkoosha.com

iPad and iPhone Compatible Kuwaiti TV Shows

I dont know if you have noticed but the TV Shows that I have uploaded to viddler where taken down a few weeks ago. And since then I decided to take it to the next level since Steve Jobs wont.

I will be re-uploading the TV shows again but this time they will be both iPhone and iPad compatible. They are not in a HTML5 format but rather a MP4.

First show will be رقية و سبيكة