Qatar Will Host The 2022 Fifa World Cup, And This Is How They Did It

Yesterday, during the Kuwait and Iraq match’s penalty kicks. Sepp Blatter announced the wining hosts for both the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. We were changing channels back and forth like crazy and praying for 2 things, 1) for Nawaf Al-Khaldi to make some saves and 2) for Qatar to host the World Cup. Mr. Blatter really got on our nerves with his long introductions, but it wasn’t long before we also started to jump around in excitement and happiness even before Kuwait won the match because Qatar was announced as the winning bidding nation for the the number 1 tournament for the number 1 sport in the world. These 2 videos will show 6 stadiums that Qatar are preparing for the tournament.

Congrats to Qatar for this amazing achievement.

Hayat Cancer Foundation GulfRun 6 – Raffle

GulfRun will be having their second annual Charity Raffle during the GulfRun Carshow to raise money for the Hayat4Cancer Foundation. We had a successful year with support of our readers, blogs, sponsors, and GulfRun participants, and we hope to make it an even better year. And this years amazing prizes include three powerful vehicles:

• 1. Polaris Razor RZR800 from Seas & Deserts
• 2. Can-Am DS450 ATV from Al-Ghanim Marine
• 3. Can-Am DS450 ATV from Al-Ghanim Marine

Tickets to the raffle – which runs until January 15 – are only 5KD. All proceeds of the raffle will be donated to the Hayat4Cancer Foundation. The Ruqaya Al-Qatami Hayat4Cancer foundation was established in 2003 to offer support and medicine for cancer patients. The raffle draw will be on the second day of the GulfRun Carshow at 360 Mall on January 15th 2010 @ 8pm. Please call 97118488 for tickets to supporting the cause and participating in the raffle. We greatly appreciate your support for those who desperately need it.

A Blast From The Past: عبدالله الرويشد – انا بتبع قلبي

انا بتبع قلبي و بس ما علي في الناس
كذب اللي يقولون المحبه لها مقياس
يقولون لي سيبه تلاقي مثيله جم
و قلبي يقولي لا تسيبه ترى تندم
احبه محبه من زمان الصبى واقدم
احبه محبه قبل يخلق ابونا ادم
احبه بكل ما فيه من عاطفه و احساس
كذب اللي يقولون المحبه لها مقياس
انا اعيش بين ايديه يظلمني او يرحم
في اليد ذا سقمي و في اليد ذا المرهم
و اذا ما مسح بيده علي يزول الباس
كذب اللي يقولون المحبه لها مقياس

Only On KTV

His phone rings on live TV and he know that he did something wrong. His reaction is priceless.

“DSLR’s” Banned in Public Places in Kuwait

So this is idiotic. I got an angry email (and I don’t blame him) from Marzouq linking to an article on the Kuwait Times’s website stating that the public use of “DSLR’s” and only DSLR’s is banned here in Kuwait. And apparently for no good reason.

It seems that from the article that photographers *think* that the ban came from the people’s fear of their privacy being invaded by The Big Black Camera.

If I spent a few hundreds/thousands of my hard earned Kuwaiti DInars to buy a camera and a few lenses, that meant I’m taking photography seriously and not looking to invade anyone’s privacy. The one’s who are doing this shit are maybe any idiot with a capable phone camera or even a Point&Shoot.

I got into photography a couple of years ago and I absolutely love it. In fact, I just bought a couple of new lenses and a brand new DSLR (Sony SLT-A55) and its sitting waiting to be cleared by customs for the past 10 days.

Read the full Kuwait Times article [here]

UPDATE:
It seems that mark also wrote about the same issue. [Link]

Happy Sheep Day

Sorry for the late post……again, but I was a little busy these days.

Anyway, Happy Eid all.

WhatsApp Camp

Ok, this is getting ridiculous.

Jaber Stadium Panorama Shot

Took this shot a few days back during Qadsiya vs Ittihad game. As you can see form the image, the stadium is packed. In the bottom right corner is where the Syrian team supporters were sitting. The rest was all Kuwaitis.

Click on Image to enlarge.

Hiyya Hiyya – Mo Qadsiya

Yesterday, I jumped at the chance to go and see the new “Jaber Stadium”. Anyone who watched the game yesterday will know that the place was packed. Cars were parking all over the place and there were no signs whatsoever to guide the people who were there for the first time.

The place was so dirty and full of sand. It clearly has never been cleaned ever since it was built. The screens in the stadium were not good at all, they were completely useless other than displaying the score and time. They didn’t even display the goal scorers.

What also was disappointing is that the pitch was horrible, it looked worse than almost any other football pitch in Kuwait. Qadsiya couldn’t play their beautiful fast paced flowing football O_o

II’ll think long and hard before going there again, unless I will see some proper football.

P.S. Qadsiya lost on penalties 4-2 after drawing 1-1 in the initial 90 minutes.

IT’S ALIVE!!!!!!

I posted previously about my Blackberry curve just dying on me the other day. thanks to the commenters and some quick online research I discovered that that means either the OS has failed or an app is causing all of this. I didn’t have time to do my research to fix it myself so I just went to a shop to fix it for me.

A friend recommended I go to a place called “” literarily translated to “Chinese Michael”. The shop has like a ton of variable disassembled phones everywhere. After showing him my device he said it will take 15 mins and KD. I didn’t mind at all I just wanted my device working again.

After 10 mins or so of strolling around a went back to the shop and my device was already waiting for me with an upgraded version of the os (OS 5) I never even thought of upgrading my blackberry cause I am loving it because of the physical keyboard and not it’s dull OS.