Oh, so there's nothing wrong from your side!

ME: ********* resident technical support, Rand_4 is speaking, how may I help?
Customer: Yes, I've been trying to connect for the last few days, it doesn't log in at all! Something wrong from your side?
ME: I can't tell without checking...

***Took the customer's account details, turned out that his line have been up for 2 weeks without a single drop. and his line can hold up to 8Mbps (He subscribed for 1Mbps)***

ME: Sir, the line is connected for 2 weeks without a single drop.
Customer: How can that be? I've been trying to connect for the last few days and nothing work; no MSN Messenger, no SKYPE, no WoW, no nothing! Is there a new cut in the submarine cables again?
ME: We haven't been informed about any though I doubt. But from what I see in my sys... (interrupted)
Customer: Then why it doesn't work?
ME: I don't know, probably something from your side, let's check few stuff in your computer. If nothing worked, I'll write a request to send you a technician to check things out.
Customer: OK.

***Checked the IP configurations. Long story short, I kinda figured that his workplace doesn't have DHCP enabled so he HAVE to set things manually. The guy forgot to switch his settings to (Obtain from server) for both IP Addresses and DNS settings***

ME: So there you go. Problem solved. Anything else I can help you with?
Customer: What was the problem?
ME: Just to make sure, you take your laptop to your work, right?
Customer: Yes, why?
ME: Well, your work uses specific IP Addresses that only works in their sy... (interrupted)
Customer: Arabic please.
ME: OK, Your work place has specific set of configuration that they applied on your laptop that doesn't work on your router. So basically, you weren't able to connect because you kept the work's settings you just didn't reconfigured things.
Customer: Oh, so there's nothing from your side!
ME: Yes, you had configuration issues and we just solved it.
Customer: No submarine cables issues?
ME: No, we haven't been informed about it. And I doubt that will happen.
Customer: Oh ok, bye.
ME: Anythi... (Customer hung up)

Now, this isn't the first customer that acts this rude and ill-mannered. So I kinda got used to it.

But seriously, did people get used to the "Submarine cable issues" incidents that, they assume instantly it's the problem?

And what's with the interrupting attitude? I'd understand if he was a teenager or an old-fashioned old man (Don't get me wrong, they're well mannered [few exceptions with teenagers], but they usually snap when they sense something wrong). But he was a FUCKING DOCTOR!!!

How did I know? There's "Dr. " before his name... Well, whatever...



Next story will be titled: "IT DOESN'T WORK!"

I'm 4 months leech old!

To give you a brief about my work, I work in ********* ISP in the resident helpdesk department. We're operational 24/7 and the guys here work really hard regardless what people usually say...

I wont be mentioning real names since I consider'em company's secrets... So here we go:

ME: ********* resident technical support, Rand_4 is speaking, how may I help?
Customer: I can't connect to my wireless. Can you help me?

***We provide wireless support if (And only if) they bought our router because we configure the remote access so we could fix things remotely***

ME: Ofcourse, what's your DSL phone number?
Customer: It's 2*******.

***Few keystrokes and mouse clicks to check our system***

ME: Sir, do you remember your wireless key?
Customer: Wireless key? My wireless was open the whole time! It just got locked today for some reason.
ME: Are you the only use in the house?
Customer: Yes, I've been using it for 4 months without password or wireless key or whatever.

***Few more keystrokes and mouse clicks to access his router and check things out***

ME: Sir, your wireless network's name is *********?
Customer: No, it's XXXX.

***Note that (*********) is the ISP's name, we usually set the router to the ISP's name, while (XXXX) is the router's brand name which is the same brand that we sell***

ME: Sir, your router is ********* and the password is ##########... You probably have been using the neighbor's wireless for the last four months!
Customer: What? You mean, I've been paying for 4 months without using my DSL connection at all!?
ME: Seems like it. In any event, your wireless name is ********* and the password is XXXXXXXXXX... Do you want me to guide you through connecting to yours?
Customer: Yes, please.

***Guiding the customer through connecting the laptop to his wireless router... And luckily, he's using Windows Vista, way easy to guide over the phone: Just click on the wireless icon, choose your connection, put password and you're in***

ME: So, are you online now? Can you access any website?
Customer: Yes, but how can I make sure it's not slow?
ME: Go to download.com, download any big file and tell me the download speed.

***Guided the customer to download AVG Antivirus just to see if it's actually slow or not***

Customer: I didn't get that number before!
ME: Well, that's your internet speed. The connection you've been using is probably the neighbor's and they seem to be subscribed for something slower than your connection.
Customer: I knew there's something wrong. Thank you so much for helping me.
ME: Anything else I can help you with?
Customer: Kidding me? I'll download the whole internet now! Thank you so much!!
ME: Thank you for calling *********. Have a nice day.

So I hung up the phone, went to my supervisor and told him about the incident, he sprayed his coffee laughing...



Seriously, The customer subscribed in *********, wouldn't it be so obvious that the ********* wireless connection is his noting that the signal was SO POWERFUL (Almost full) compared to the other XXXX with almost no signal?





Next story will be titled: "Oh, so there's nothing wrong from your side!"

Working in helpdesk; Good'n'Ugly!!

OK, I didn't write anything for decades because, well, life got busy and shit... So I thought of starting some series of writings: Working in helpdesk...

I finally got a crappy job in some ISP's helpdesk... And because I face many weird\lame\funny calls, I thought of sharing them here without mentioning real names ofcourse...

Stay tuned, first story will be named "I'm 4 months leech old!"

Waaaaw... You have a Porsche and you still think I'll beat you... Waaaaaaaaw!!

I received a call from mom telling me that my brother is having a surgery which freeked me out... Even though it's a minor surgery, it still freeks me out...

Anyway, she wanted me to stay over at the hospital and sleep there in case he needed anything...

And to make things worst, I had to drop one of his friends because he's depending on me to drive him back home from Salwa to somewhere beyond infinity :P

So, on my way from Salmiya to Salwa, I had to pass through Ta3awun Street stepping on the peddle at max...

I passed by this Porsche and had to shift my gear up when I reached him since my RPM reached 6000... And he was really driving slowly...

Next thing I know he stepped on it and literally became 5 meters ahead of me in a second or two... Woah!! That's fast...

But really, why would a Porsche want to race a slowpoke Mitsubishi Lancer!? He could beat me driving in reverse for fuck sake!!

I swear I'm not trying to race or anything... I'm just in a hurry to drop my friend to his house and go back to my brother and spend the night there hearing his snores (He's actually snoring right now next to me... I'm writing this while he's asleep)...

Why did he had to sink as low as my car's level just to beat me? He could've U-turned and had fun with other cars in his level (Or maybe A level [My car is few levels lower than his])...



Well, I couldn't help but hav my own fun...

I turned my right signal as if I wanted to take right... And because he was ahead of me, he took right... Then I turned off my right signal and went on straight driving as slow as 40kmph, honking on the horn, laughing at him and enjoying his angry face and expressions :P



I LOVE DOING THAT TO SUCH IDIOTS!!! YOU MIGHT BEAT ME IN A RACE BECAUSE YOU HAVE A DRAMATICALLY BETTER\FASTER CAR, BUT YOU CAN'T BEAT MY PRANKS :P

Signs where Kuwait started to turn bad: KINDERGARTEN

So I was getting outta my room heading out to literally run away from home and meet up with a friend that I haven't seen for months...

On my way out, I heard my niece asking my sister (her mom) this cute little question (I'll write it in Arabic to show my point):
"ماما ... صج هوت دوج بالانجليزي يعني نقينقة*؟"

*Nuqainuqa since the marks aren't properly shown in Arabic...

I literally kept on laughing for 5 minutes maybe... Not that much of a laughter, but when I came to my senses, I realized how WRONG that was...



My niece is still in kindergarten... I asked my sister where did she learn that and she said it was her teacher who taught my niece that...

Now seriously, this incident explained and clarified several things for me:

ONE - YOU THINK IT'S CUTE, BUT IT'S WRONG:

Hearing funny stuff coming from children is fun and cute...
My niece used to call me "Walaal" and her sister calls me "Dalaal" now (Thanks to her, my friends are calling me "Dalaal" as well)...
My youngest brother used to call me "Thalaal" because he had hard time saying "R" which was kinda cute
I used to say "مايطافي" as in "مطافي"... I didn't know back then...
My niece calls the computer "Oh My God" since her mom always yells "OH MY GOD" every time she get's close to the computer...

Cute children, cute names, but things will be ugly if they grew up keeping these names without knowing (Or teaching them) the real and true names...

Let's go back to the hot dog event...

There's two reason (I came up with) to tell the little child that wrong "Nuqainuqa" name:

1) The teacher don't know the English name for it.
If that's the case, I have several questions:
a. WHY THE HELL DID SHE OPEN HER MOUTH AND SPOKE WITH SOMETHING SHE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT!?
b. HOW THE HELL DID SHE BECOME A TEACHER NOT KNOWING SUCH A SIMPLE, EASY AND COMMON WORD?
c. WHO THE HELL DID QUALIFY YOU TO BECOME A TEACHER?
d. WHO THE HELL WOULD HIRE SUCH TEACHER THAT LACKS SUCH ENGLISH SKILLS!?

If that wasn't the case (Which is probably is not), I have this question:
WHY THE HELL DIDN'T YOU CORRECT THE CHILD'S DEFINITION AND WRONGNESS!?

2) The teacher didn't know that feeding them wrong definitions and words in early years is like writing on cement; easily written when wet, almost impossible (Or let's just say hard) to erase when dry (As in, they get old).

Teachers shouldn't do that... They should at least say "I don't know" if they literally DON'T KNOW!!

There's a total difference between "Someone who knows stuff and can teach" and a "Teacher"...

Teacher (Specially kindergarten teachers) has other responsibilities than just "Deliver information to students"... They have to EDUCATE them... Teach them manners... Teach them true from false... Right from wrong... Do from Don't... They have to correct whatever wrong behavior they aquired even if it means contacting their parents to tell them about it...

I know it's not easy to handle kids and children because of their innocent and pure souls and minds... But if you're not up to handling them properly, you're better off not dealing with'em at all because, without knowing it, you'll create a generation that's built on false facts and wrong ideas...

I remember my Arabic teacher back when I was 7 years old... I asked him a question that my dad knew the answer for it but he didn't... I was really shocked like "You're a teacher!! How can you not know that!?"... He simply replied with "No one is born knowing everything... We all keep on learning... I know some stuff that you don't know, and you probably know some stuff that I don't know... I know more Arabic stuff, you probably know more Science and math stuff than me"... I was stunned because he didn't lie and he gave me the flawless reply... I had to respect him more than ANY other teacher in the world...

In general, When it comes to teaching, you don't feed your students with wrong info and answers... You whether say "I don't know" or "I don't know, I'll look it up in my own books and give you a good answer tomorrow (Or later)"...



That concludes my first part of the "Signs where Kuwait started to turn bad"...


NOTES:
My sister went to that fake teacher and gave her a headache for feeding her daughter wrong stuff... I wouldn't surprised if she spat on her face... She'd get that aggressive :P

Killer pigeons...

Enough weird dreams already!!!

What the HELL is wrong with me and the weird dreams that pop in my head!?

OK enough freaking out... Here's how the idea was:



I went to my friend's apartment (Some fictional person that, his face looks totally unfamiliar)... And when I opened his apartment's door, I saw him laying on the ground with 7 pigeons eating up his body...

I freaked out and called "11271" (Which is, "777" in real life... WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE THREE NUMBERS!?) and later on they came and took care of everything...

On my way back home, I keep seeing pigeons flying over covered in blood with some meat remaining on their pecks\face...



Then I woke up and literally thought that was real for the next few hours that, I was actually going to call one of my friends to confirm that the killer pigeons doesn't exist (or atleast, not in Kuwait)...



Now, I can assume I'm having THIS weird dream because I ate too much "Papa Jones" Pizza... But that doesn't explain why I had the weird previous dreams...

Can anyone recommend a good shrink!? :P

Ow... My back...

I'm not an active sport guy...

I do sports whenever I really need to... Like, when I run away from my friends wanting to beat the crap out of me because I said a lame joke (Which stalled them for few seconds giving me some time to run while they think about the joke) or my college class...

Anyway, for some reason, my back hurts which that it wasn't any of a big deal...

But I went to the doctor just to check it up... After all, it was in the middle of my backbone...

The doctor almost literally said "Tsk... You just pulled a muscle... Grow up kiddo"...

He said to come by if nothing changed in 3 days... In my own mind, I was like "Such a lazy ass... But it's ok, I'll play along with'em"...


After a week from that day, my back pain actually grew, let's say, a double and half times the pain it actually caused back then... It's not that I can't bear with it... It's just annoying and I'm starting to worry because, hey, it's my back and the middle of the backbone... If it's something, I might lose an important part...

So I went to the doc again (Another doc though) and explained the whole thing... He asked me to take an X-ray image of my back and the guy who took the image made me pose like a model laying on some flat plastic bed :P

He looked at the image and all and was like "You need to rest... It's only the muscle that you pulled"...

I thought "Bullshit!! A muscle pull wouldn't last this long"... He resumed "You need to stay in bed for atleast 2 days... As in, the only time you get off the bad is to answer the nature's call"...

Ofcourse his answer didn't satisfy me... So I just played along and was like "Hopefully the time to sleep that amount of time would come..."



Well, alot of things happened and all... I have flu now thanks to my nieces and all... So I decided to relax and stay home yesterday... Which I did...

I played Call of Duty 5 and HAWX... Went to bed by 18:00... Woke up by 10:00...

To me, it's a big accomplishment since I haven't been able to sleep for more than 5 hours in the last few months...



I woke up to check my back, and the pain is 3/4 gone... I can't really believe it... The docs were right...

Now I feel like going out and pull that muscle again to have an excuse to stay home and be treated :P

Come to think of it, How the hell did I pull that muscle? By STANDING OFF MY COMPUTER CHAIR!?



Lessons to be learned:
* Public Hospital aren't that bad... Yes, we see slacky docs every now'n'then, but there's good ones as well
* Must keep my nieces away from me... They made me sick :P
* I should buy more chocolate to entertain me while I'm in bed :P

Why I hate the phrase "Break a leg"...

It's been a damn long time since I last time wrote anything... So here we go...



Y'know, break a leg is something like "good luck"... But when it comes to me, it NEVER means good luck... Here's why:

* I was talking with my gf and told her that we're moving to another house so I gotta bail out move stuff and all... She said "Break a leg"... Later on that day, the closet fell on my feet and I almost break it.

* I was talking with my gf again and told her that I need to move some stuff with a friend since he's re-decorating his room... She said "Break a leg" again and his books box fell on my leg which almost broke my leg.

* Now that I suspected that my gf is bringing me bad lucky (fortunately not), I was talking with another friend telling him I'm going to play soccer (I haven't done that in years) and he said "Break a leg"... The next thing I know is that, someone just kicked my leg accidentally and hurts like crazy.

* I mentioned to my friend that my friend is moving out to another house (He's Irish and he's switching apartments) so my friend said "Break a leg" and I warned him about it and how unlucky I'd become... His mini-fridge fell on my foot (Good thing I was wearing my bro's military boot that I stole :P )

* This is a killer; Someone told me "Break a leg" and I knew something would happen. So I avoided doing sport or any labor stuff... Went to my Irish friend's place and he decided to take his car for a spin... And when he decided to park his car, he slammed on the brake and a car behind him hit his car which pushed his car abit... And because the gear was on "Neutral", the car wandered straight and hit my leg (Luckily it wasn't a hard hit and I didn't get hurt at all)...



They should change it from "Break a leg" to "Break your leg"...

Childhood obsession

I know this IS a useless post, but aren't most of my posts useless? :P

Anyways, I like to wear t-shirts like crazy. I wear'em when I go to sleep, when I go out, when I work on something, when I... Wait, I WEAR'EM ALL THE TIME!!!

And since I like stuff like "cookie monster" and other childish stuff that I, myself, find'em funny, I tend to wear t-shirts and even boxers of'em...

And for some reason people don't like the fact that a 24 years old man that wears t-shirts with funny\childish stuff on'em (And that includes my both parents, my older brother, aunts and uncles, some friends and those who meets me for the first\second time)...



Now, take 4 steps backword (Yes, 4... The random number) and take another look...



First of all, we still like childish stuff even when we grow up.

I mean, just switch your TV to Tom & Jerry and witness almost every family member (including the maid and driver) sit there and enjoy the show...

So how's Tom & Jerry isn't as childish as Sesame Street? It's actually more childish than Sesame street...

What about Bugs Bunny? Betty Poop? (Couldn't help it... Sorry :P ), Popeye? Donald Duck? Hello Kitty?

Y'know, the list is endless... But for some reason they consider Sesame Street, Barney the gay dinosour and Teletubbies the homosexuals are too childish and shouldn't be something to be liked when you grow older than 7 years (Well, I personally would forbid my kids to watch Barney and Teletubbies... Just so not as educational as Sesame Street)...

I dislike Barney and actually forcefully liked Teletubbies (My cousin used to force me to watch it till I liked it and she hates it now :P )...



Secondly, there's nothing left to wear BUT funny childish t-shirts.

Take another 4 steps to the back and turn 4 degrees to the right... You'll witness how lame and stupid t-shirts became...

Take a close look and you'll see how gay things turned...

You can actually predict a person (In our case, guys) behavior and personality by his t-shirt...

The brighter and glittery the color is the more douche bag and (bi\homo)sexual the wearer is... [Ofcourse, there's an exception for every rule, but the key word is "AN EXCEPTION"... Which means you can find probably ONE person who's hetrosexual and isn't a douche bag]...

And you better be careful when you see a dark t-shirt person... It's hard to predict the following:
* They could be (bi\hetro\homo)sexuals whether they know it or not...
* Emos...
* Weed\Joint\Alcohol\Whatever Junkies...
* Goth wannabies (It can easily show by the face)
* Well or ill mannered



There's this saying that goes like "Wear what the others want you to wear and eat what you want to eat" (Literal Arabic-To-English Translation somehow)...

I'm totally against that saying... I wear what I like to wear (As long as it doesn't offend anyone) and eat what I like to eat (I don't care if it offends you or not... It's getting IN MY TUMMMEEEH!!!)...

I'm not against what would others wear because it reflects their personality (Unless they're wearing dishdashas and formal suits... Things can get tricky in here)...

Which is why I don't wear what common Kuwaitis wear: Polo shirts (They've been here since I was born and they just started to wear it 2~3 years ago... I wonder why :P)...



If wearing [Cookie Monster\Domokun\Stewie] t-shirts is childish and only means I'm still a child, well, atleast I'm straight, well-mannered, well-educated, have various useful hobbies that makes use of my time and totally not a typical Kuwaiti with almost no goal in life

Three years later...

So almost everyone who reads my blog knows that I have issues with my dreams...

But I NEVER thought something like this would happen...



I checked my emails and all before I go to sleep... Then I obviously went to sleep... (That happened in real life)

Then suddenly, all I could see is a black screen with the sentence "Three years later..." appearing in white (That's in my dream... Even the three dots are there :P) that lasted for a second or two...

I heard a phone ringing, it was my friend calling me to solve some infinite for loop in C++... I solved it (That happened in real life)...



So basically, my dream was nothing but the "Three years later..." image...

Why do I have to dream like this? I swear I haven't seen a movie for a long time... I haven't played any video game for a while as well... WHY!?

THEY BE CUTTING MA HAIR!!!

I've becoming much more lazier than the extreme laziness I personally am...

And as a result, I didn't cut my hair for months... I barely shaved my beard because I had a date with my gf :P

My hair is growing long... Everyone would think it's not long at all, but considering my usual hair and all, IT IS LONG!!!

I'm too lazy to have 3 minutes drive to the Paki barber to cut it out... And in fact, I kinda liked my careless hair which represents my carelessness personality...



Anyways, I don't remember what was my dream about... But I remember that I had to go to the barber and get a hair job...

I swear the moment he cut my hair I just woke up with a freeky face like "NOOOOOOOooooooooooooo!!!"...

But then I idled for a minute to get the puzzle straight and all and thought "Why the hell should I fear the barber!? It's just hair and I'm better without it!!"...

But then again, I kinda like it that way... I think I'll grow it for another month :P



Why the hell did I have such dream and thought of it as a nightmare?

Maybe because I ALWAYS make fun of my friends with long hair :P

Cookie Monster ate me!! TWICE!!!!

I slept so early today (2:00... Which means TOO DAMN LATE) and had weird dreams...



First dream:

A 6-floors-sized Cookie Monster was eating me alive...

The thing is, it didn't hurt or anything... It was like being trapped in 2 massage machines... I was actually enjoying it... Cookie monster got no teeth or anything, just that flat black Pac-man mouth :P



I woke up freeked out abit then laughed like crazy for 15 minutes... Then went back to bed to have my second dream...



Second dream:

A human-sized Cookie Monster was munching my right hand...

Same sensation... Which was funny...



Seriously, WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME? WHY DO I HAVE TO HAVE SUCH A CREEPY DREAM!?

SCREW YOU EVIL COMPANY!!! NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU TRY MESSING WITH MY HEAD I'LL STILL LOVE COOKIE MONSTER!!!!!!

Why I love kdcow more than KDD?

I know this is one of the extremely weird and random posts, but I thought of eye-bleed whoever reads this post or blog :P

Anyways, I have three reasons that I find'em good enough for me to like this and hate that (When it get's to milk and dairy products of course... Juices is something else)



Reason #1 - Loyalty:

I'm sure you'll ask "What loyalty got to do with this?" And here's my point:

If you remember correctly when Kuwait's salaries raised and goods prices raised as well... What happened is KDD increased their prices let's say additionally %50+... Which means that their old 100fils KDD Chocolate milk costs 150fils after the raise...

Of course, KDD wasn't the only company that raised prices, almost every single company did the same (Even ABC... I wonder why they still exist, their goods aren't that good and they raise prices!? :P )...

But there's other companies that didn't raise prices as well, kdcow is one of'em... Their Chocolate milk (Which kinda reminds me of kindergarten days) remains 100fils...

Then prices dropped back to normal after having hard time gaining profit from that dramatic, idiotic price raise (I think it's due to profit drop... Not quite sure)...



Reason #2 - Taste:

We're all raised on KDD's chocolate milk... I drinkg it every now'n'then just because it's something I got used to...

Leaving the chocolate and flavored milk aside, let's talk about normal ones...

When you drink a normal full creme milk from both sides (KDD and kdcow... I wonder if people still drink full creme and wouldn't worry about gaining wait and fat :P ), you can feel that kdcow's milk taste like milk... You can feel that it's been milked from a cow... No powdered stuff and all while KDD milk feels like a powdered milk or something... I'm sure alot would differ but here's what I think (I can think what I like but it might not be like what I think :P ):

The kdcow milk's taste is abit "Zafer" (I don't know it's English meaning) while KDD milk's taste totally "Zafer"less...

Another thing, shake the container, you'll notice that in kdcow there's air inside... A little bit of air... While in KDD, when you punch the straw inside the container you'll feel as if the air rushes inside...



Reason #3 - Glue:

This is the most important reason for me and the least reason that makes sense to normal users... The glue on the box that holds the straw on the box... I have this habit of removing it from the box and be as careful as possible and cause as less damage as possible to the container...

On KDD's milk container, the glue is so little and when you remove it, you drag alot of the container's cover along...

On kdcow's milk container, there's ALOT of glue that I enjoy ripping'em off and it doesn't actually damage the container and doesn't rip it off...





Things I've learned from this post:
* Al-Mara3i FTW!!!
* kdcow's banana milk tastes almost exactly like KDD's trianglic banana ice cream.
* kdcow's taste reminds me of my kindergarten days... Now come to think of it, they used to make me drink that dairy products under the kdcow's old name...

What the hell am I doing!?

Y'know when you sometimes have a headache that you kinda enjoy it?

Doesn't hurt much, but gives you some weird atmosphere and all... You don't? Well, I do :P


Here's what happened:


I came back from a friend's place yesterday around 03:00. And Luckily today is a vacation so I don't really have to worry my parents lecturing me about "Sleep early to wake up early for college" thing.


Anyways, the good thing is that I slept at my friend's place for three hours which would make me stay awake for a day (or maybe two).


Went back home and started to play Call of Duty 5. Then I fell a sleep (Last time I remember seeing the clock, it was 07:30).


I had this weird dream of me and my mom fighting about eggs. She worries alot when it gets to food (As if it isn't a built-in function in moms). The fight was about not allowing me to eat eggs while I LOVE something called eggs (Specially Kinder Surprise :P).


So yes, the fight lasted 2 hours in my dream (Which in real life, didn't last for 5 minutes), and then I woke up with this weird headache.


I felt as if the world is abit of heavy on my head. Not the "Your fattest friend's heaviness"... It was the "Your GF's heaviness which let's assume she's much lighter than you and you can handle her weight without breaking a sweat" kind of heaviness.


That feeling made me feel and think funny...

I went to my sister's husband (If you recall, he rented the apartment above us), and played zombie on him. I wasn't even acting up! I did the "Oh, I'm too lazy" kind of zombies so he just let me do whatever I want since I can't really do much. I just wanted to do this because I feel like doing it. I can't even open my jaws to bite him.


Done playing zombie stuff then I went to the kitchen to make me some eggs...

Why? Not because I was hungry or anything, it's because of the dream and argument I had there. So I just wanted to eat eggs to piss off my mom (Love you mom) even though it's nothing but a dream (Though she'd get annoyed if she knew I had eggs).


I kicked back somewhere to relax and come to my senses... And when I did, I literally yelled "WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING!?".

What the hell did I just do? Why did I feel like biting my sister's husband? Why did I eat unproperly cooked eggs (The maid was hiding somewhere doing the laundry)? Why I'm doing this?


Then my niece just popped in my vision going to her mom asking her for something (She's 5 years old). So I decided to play zombie on her, her sister and their mother (Ofcourse, I almost got a black eye :P)...


I think there's no use for me to even try to think about being a normal human being.

And by that, I mean I don't really have to make sense on whatever I'm doing or question my stupid useless actions as long as I'm enjoying them.

Mud from the sky!!

This proves what I wrote about Kuwait's random weather.

Here's a picture taken today at 10:04





And here's another picture taken after 22 minutes (10:26)





And, here's another one taken in 11:00





I tried so hard to figure out the function that generates such weather, but I always fail...

TROGDOR ThE BURNiNATOR

Went to "Macaroni and Grill" (If the name is right... The Italian fooding place near X-Cite Alghanim and IKEA) with my friend...

We sat and the our waiter introduced himself and all... And then I noticed 2 crayons (Red and Green) and the paper we're eating on... That concept was first presented in Kuwait at Gamewhizzzzzzzzzzz in Marina Mall (Previously known as Gameworks... I forgot the fooding place next to it... Something with "X")...

Anyways, the instant I saw the red'n'green crayons, TROGDOR just popped in my head and I had to draw it... So I did (In case you don't know who's TROGDOR, Click Here to know who's TROGOR)...

So here's the pic (I should've used a better camera or double drew some lines):



Don't ask why I had to draw it... I just have to obey my weird brain sometimes... And I did :P

Did you enjoy 26th of Feb? I kinda did... And so did my friends...

Well, 26th of February was quite an entertaining day for me and my friends...

Here's what happened in my side:
* I had ALOT of chocolate
* I played Mirror's Edge and passed some level I couldn't pass yesterday (But got stuck at something but I kinda know how to pass it... I just need some patience)
* I hung out with friends...
* Had very good dinner...
* Played FIFA in my friend's Xbox360... And won (I usually don't... I suck at soccer games)...
* I played with my friend's cat for a while...
* My car didn't get sprayed (Actually, some kid just sprayed on it, but I'm in a good mood)...
* Didn't get into traffic (Which means, no Gulf Street, Plajat Street or the end of 5th ring road)...

Here's what happened to my friends:
* One of'em had a quite good night with his gf...
* The girl that got her wallet stolen was actually able to transfer all her money (Under her dad's account) to one of her friend's account to be able to use'em... She bought another mobile, retrieved her Wataniya SIM card and bought some stuff for her place...
* One of my friend shared some of the chocolate I had...



So basically, it was a fun day... No problems or troubles at all (There might be little stuff that doesn't worth mentioning)...

Happy Liberation Day Kuwait... I really hope everyone enjoyed that day

Did you enjoy 25th of Feb? I didn't... And my friends didn't as well...

25th of Feb is Kuwait's National Day...

If you've been in Kuwait, you know that the streets will be foamed... Leaving the fact that we HATE foaming thingies in Kuwait and hate the fact that Non-Kuwaitis are celebrating this event (It's Kuwait's National Day... Why Zalamat and Indians celebrate it? It's not Liberation day)

Me and my friends wanted to play basketball in Marina Mall's courts (Celebrating this isn't something we'd do)...

Now, I'll explain why things were bad in my side:

* I was planning on staying home and playing PS3, but I couldn't... They forced me to do so...
* Then when I thought I'm going out, I had to deal with some labor stuff in my house...
* When I finished home labor, my sister gave me some stuff to deliver to her friend...
* I picked up my friend and delivered what she wanted me to drop, then called me to force me on coming back and pick up what she forgot to give me to deliver...
* It's already late and my friends are playing there, so I had to drop my friend from Jabriya to Marina Mall and then come back to Jabriya...

That basically explain why my day was bad... And because of that, I missed the game...



Now allow me to explain why my friends suffered:



One of my friend got his mobile stolen while playing there... His mobile got his friends numbers from his country (Romania)... Now it'll be a pain in the ass to get the numbers back SPECIALLY since his Romanian friends only knows his mobile number... Luckily he's half Kuwaiti and he won't have to worry about identity issues...

And another friend (In the same crime) got her mobile and wallet stolen... Her wallet got her Social Security Number (She's Canadian), credit card (Under her dad's name which hols 1500KD), Abu Dhabi health insurance card, 40KD and other important stuff...
She have to:
* Call her dad to cancel his card which got stolen...
* Go and cancel (or replace) her mobile's SIM card which got numbers that she really depends on for her business...
* Suffer to contact the Canadian embassy to let them know...
* Wait for weeks\months to get her important cards back...



Leaving the argument that it was their fault for being clumsy and careless (Which they mostly weren't), actions were taking and all... But why would someone steal these stuff?
I mean OK, screw the money... Atleast leave the important stuff that you won't have any use of so you wouldn't destroy lives...

How do you want people to think of Kuwait\Kuwaiti people in a possitive way?


So anyways... 25th wasn't a good day for us... I hope whoever reads this (Or not) is having a wonderful day in whatever measurment they're considering...

What's more dangerous than Nuclear weapons!?

Here's what my friend and I think about the weapon that could deliver more damage than an nuclear missiles and crap; WOMEN BEHIND WHEELS!!!

Why? Here's why...



First - Extreme lanes and speeds:

Yes, Mostly they suck at driving skills at start... They drive at extreme speed in extreme lanes... And by that, I mean they drive extremely slow on the left lane where it should be the fastest lane or the other way around; drive extremely fast on the right lane where it should be the slowest lane...

And when they drive, they really need to concentrate... And I mean that when they go at extreme fast lane with extreme slow speed and you're behind them in an emergency (Answering nature call or your friends are eating without you), they REALLY need to concentrate on whether when to turn to the middle lane...

And they only decide to turn when there's a car next to them... And they turn to the middle lane, AAAAAND go all the way to the right lane sweeping whoever gets in their way...

And it's ALWAYS your fault because she's a girl and need to concentrate...

Well, such issue is resolved by time when they gain experience from real streets rather than the areas they've been training on...

Yes, I might be over-exaggerating, but it's true... And yes, there's ALOT of good driving women as well... But they're lethal as well (I'll explain later on)...



Second - NFS drivers:

Every now'n'then I drive in gulf street I see a cop pulling over a girl and I think "Oh crap! He's after her mobile number"... As it turned out, it's mostly not for that reason... Recently, girls started to drive so recklessly!!!

They just drive fast regardless the lane they're taking and just passing by cars even though it shouldn't fit (Other cars usually move away giving them space so they wouldn't get hit)... And because they're mostly daddy's girl(s), they get fast luxury cars (Porsche Cayenne Turbo SSSSSS or Range Rover Turbo HSE CBK HTI WRL... Imaginary letters, but I had to kick'em in for the fun of it)...

Funny thing, they even perform car stunts and stuff that I can't even do (I lack such crazy useless skills)...

This issue might get solved when the girl turns 40 years old... Or maybe 50... Or 60...



Third - Queens of the left lane:

This does frustrates me ALOT...

Imagine a woman driving at the left lane in gulf street with the speed of 50KMpH~60KMpH and you're in the left lane driving at 80KMpH...

Eventually you'll have to slow down to her speed... But it's the left lane... She gotta move aside or at the very least drive at 80KMpH (Since it's the legal maximum speed she could go on gulf street while the urban maximum speed is 200KMpH)...

So you flash her (Not the moobs flashing you idiots!! The car flashers thingy!!) or honk your horn since you're abit of surrounded... But in her own mind, you're following her and wants her number or something so she decides to sticking to whatever she's doing... And when you see an opening that could allow you to avoid her and pass her, she decides that it's time to move away and let you pass (Or in her own mind, get near her so you could ask for her number and do the kuwaiti thang... Yes, thang)... So you go to the right lane and kiss the traffic light and all...


Now, I talked about direct damages they cause... And I'm sure there's a big amount of men behind wheels with similar (if not exact) categories of driving issues, but it's a no-match for women behind wheels when it gets to statistics and numbers... Yes, Men can be stupid and idiot drivers and a huge amount are... But when it gets to numbers, women outnumber men for the following reasons:
1 - Statistically, females outnumber males in term of existance in Kuwait (FACT).
2 - Women haven't been driving in real streets before applying for driving license while men usually start learning how to drive when they reach 15 or 16 years old... Few exceptions.
3 - Women usually gets it easy when they run the test drive and try-outs while men usually gets abused and over tested... Few exceptions.
4 - When men were kids, they're ALWAYS obsessed with cars so driving is mostly in their blood while when women were kids, they're mostly obsessed with dolls and stuff... Few exceptions.



Now it's time to talk about Indirect damages they cause:



First - Innocent womAn:

I'm sure everyone is familiar with a lexus (Or even sometimes a camry) is followed by 9276492629287346297E8237642983 cars ranging from crappy Sunny to Lamburginis and cars that you've only seen in Magazines (Or maybe in other planets)...

Such situation is caused by a women driving in peace and followed by single\double\short\long\integer\float\word\string*** men trying to get her number or something... And since she's a single woman, it can't be sedusive (I'll explain this point later) because she's alone and only driving to reach her destination (Malls, restaurants, movies or someone's house for whatever reason)...

This point can evolve if there was womEn not just a single womAn...

This can happen in 3 forms:

a - Victim on the right lane:
This form rarely happens since women aren't attracted to right lanes because they're the slow lanes (I'm not interested in such lane as well)... And in this form, the innocent women get's surrounded by cars... The cars ahead of her usually slows down, the cars on the middle and left lane struggle and fight over the right spot to be able to talk to her, the cars behind her will join the fight... The innocent women is trapped and literally can't drive... So accidents happens and crap

This form usually allows you to make use of the left lane to pass such moving bottle-neck


b - Victim on the left lane:
This form usually happens since that lane is the awesomest... Innocent women would move away if you flashed her (Sometimes not)... But because she's surrounded by horny 16~61 years olds (And sometimes 601 years old), she can't...

Such form is frustrating since you can't really pass them because the right lane is the slow one and drivers tend to be real slow trying to match their speed with the innocent victim...


c - Victims on the middle lane:
This is the common form that happens in the majority of such cases... The victim gets literally trapped in every direction and can't really drive because she's surrounded in every single direction...

This form usually gets irritating but you sometimes can get through this could of horny men behind wheels



Second - Sedusive women:

A small car (Let's just say Ford Focus) filled with Alienware headed girls (7jaab Bu taf5a) seducing guys and messing around with them in whatever form they're trying to apply (Playing rap music, dancing and shaking the packages, shouting and yelling for guys)...

This can happen in the previous 3 forms but with more annoying results and escape methods...

But what's so special in this case is that, they actually get to choose who wants who (As if you're shopping a grocery store for men)... Every car can reflect the man's personality (Exceptions may occur here):
1 - Crappy dirty cars with loud music: Careless guy (Or usually bunch of guys) and probably short on financially resources... If the girls are desperate they'd hunt'em...
2 - Desperately pimped out cars: A guy who think he's cool because he pimped out his 500 decades old car with gum and ducktape (QUACK!!)... They're desperate girls target in major scenarios.
3 - Normal salon cars: Usually a serious guy who might want a serious relationship...
4 - Big cars: CAUTION: SMALL PENIS!!!
5 - Affordable luxury cars (Mercedes, Lexus, BMW, Jaguar): The amount of phone credits you could get might worth their car :P
6 - Unaffordable super cars (Ferrari, Lamburgini, Maserati and so on): These guys might be renting the car for few days... But if they actually bought it, they can buy you and few neighborhoods next to your house.
7 - Bikers: Bunch of assholes that girls would want'em to probably have a ride or two in their bikes.




Third - Wandering ghost(s):

They have no real reason for driving... They just want to drive probably because they're having a bad day or they just like driving... Decent drivers... Good skills... Good driving experience... But guys always follow them and cause driving stunts just to reach'em... They'd reply in a possitive (Exchanging numbers) or negative way (Giving you the finger)... They just want to have their peace driving but guys wouldn't let them





Now, why's that more dangerous than nuclear weapons? Here's why:

Because if a nuclear weapon striked Kuwait, the whole country will be wiped outta existance and I'd have a reason to be involved in such attack because I belong to that country... It'll be an International issue that will get countries involved and leaders having talks and stuff...

But when I drive totally peacefully in the middle lane at the speed 60KMpH~70KMpH and I get hit by a reckless Yukon driver (God damnit!! You have a huge car!! You must watch where you're going!!) because he was speeding after some seducing girls in a Nissan Maxima (They're only missing RedBull and a Cigerette to become fully 3agad), I will have to deal with that person who would come outta the car yelling at me because I didn't make way for him... And I'd mostly screw up because that person would have connections to bail him out while I don't have any connection at all (Or I would've been having a better life)...




Things I learned from "Women Behind Wheels":
* When you see a street bottle-neck, always assume it's a girl hunting group before you assume it's a car accident or a check point (Unless it's 18:00 in a weekend in gulf street... That means they're all going to Marina Mall)...
* Most of the seducive girls aren't that pretty, but we're horny enough to think they are...
* What's more dangerous than "Women behind wheels" is "Fags\Gays behind wheels"... Men will STILL follow such homosexual males...
* Most of gulf street cars are rented... And most of the rented luxury cars are rented for few days...



***Incase you don't get the joke here; in programming, there's different types of variables depending on the way they're handled... And since single represents a martial state and in the same time represents a variable time, I thought of kicking the rest types... I'm sure most of readers wouldn't get this joke, but I'm sure some would :P)...

Kuwait's random weather

This is something I can NEVER understand; Kuwait's random weather...

And funny thing, people wouldn't understand how amazing it is to have a random weather...

Think about it, if we knew what's our weather is going to be at specific time, things will be so predictable and boring...

Like, "Oh, tomorrow is going to rain, then it'll be sunny for 3 days, then humid for 2 days, then sunny for 7 months"...

But things would be entertaining if the whether became so random (Kuwait's weather)...

Like, "OK, it's sunny... No need to worry about rai... DAMN IT!!! IT'S RAINING!!! MUST GET AN UMBRE... Oh god!! It's dusty now!!! What the hell? It just got muddy!!!!!"...

I always believed in Kuwait's weather being generated by a random function...

Remember the dust few days ago that lasted for few days?
Remember the rain shower that lasted for few hours?
Remember today's fog?












The last dusty picture is special... If you noticed the zoomed area, you'll see the guy's face and "me" thing... I laughed and said "Shasaweelik ya3ny!?" when I first saw it...

Now, Why would we want to know that's you?

I'd understand how proud he would be if the picture was real not photoshoped... As in, Both Amirs (Allah yer7amhum) were standing there and he was behind them... That'd be an honor that I'd probably do it... BUT NOT A PHOTOSHOPED THING!!!

Seriously, Why would we want to know that that noised-up face is you?

All I see is a bald head and a big nose... I mean, I might think he wants us to know he look handsome BUT IT DOESN'T SHOW!!!

What is he expecting us to do? Stop him and shake his hand? Stop him and give him chocolate? Stop him and talk to him?

That's just priceless... I wouldn't be surprised if he got few girls numbers because of that move... Things sunk that low anyways...



Now, leaving that mentally retard behind wheels guy aside, you know by now how extremely random our weather is... Dusty few days ago and Foggy today... I'd say tomorrow it'll rain, but I'm sure the random function will generate something unexpected (Maybe snow)...



Things I learned from Kuwait's weather and that retard guy:
* He probably just got the Kuwaiti Nationality or working hard to get one
* Wearing face mask or not wouldn't matter, You'll inhale dust no matter what
* You can park your car somewhere and make out with your gf\bf (Whether same or different sex)... No one would notice because the heat inside the car will fog the windows so people won't be able to see what's inside
* Drive slowly if it's foggy... You wouldn't see vanishing scenes so often
* Drive extra slow when it's dusty... Whacky drivers are EVERYWHERE

Literal thinking..

One of the weirdest abilities I have is "Literal thinking"..

And by that, I mean, just think literally of anything that sounds weird..

To me, it's a great ability that not alot of people appreciate (They think it's plain stupid).. Why I think it's great?

Because it makes things probably easier to understand but mostly funny to process (if you can add a touch of imagination)..

Here's a good example happened a while ago:



My friend got back from Australia for a vacation from his Naval Biology whatever he's studying.. So I asked him "What would you do when you graduate? What would your work be like?".. He replied "I'll be planting and growing fish"..

Saying that, my mind started the literal mode and worked the imagination thingy in my head.. Here's what I imagined:









Yes.. My mind can go this literal and sometimes even worst.. I know he meant "breed" by "plant" and all.. But my min functions this way and I just laughed..

And sometimes when someone say "I'm tired" I just think of it as if he was a "Tire (As in, a car's Tire.. Or maybe Tyre)" but he changed to something else (maybe a steering wheel)..

Not like I don't understand what they mean by what they say, but sometimes my mind ignites the literal spark and visions appears before my eyes and drop me laughing..

People think it's stupid, I think it's a way to make me laugh whenever\however I want.. And sometimes it helps when I'm with my friends and they're all talking about "Soccer", I just live in my own little literal world and keep myself occupied..



Things I learned from this thingy:
* Photoshop is WAY easier to draw comics and simple drawings (like the one I made) than MSPAINT in WindowsXP (It changes in Windows7.. I should give it a shot though) :P
* When you get sick, this ability's limits gets pushed a little further
* (Coffee, Sugar and Chocolate) + (Literal thinking): People will think you're on a crack.. Well, alot of people thought I'm on crack.. Whether with'em or not :P

Time sense theory

I woke up by 22:35 and waiting for the time to turn 00:00 so I could take my fever pills (No happy pills.. Bohohoo)..

So while I was waiting, I started to wander about time sense when sick, when waiting and when excited..

Today, I went to the clinic (Mustaw9ef.. Must aw9ef.. Must describe :P) and waited for around an hour or something, but it seemed as if I was waiting for few hours..

So I made a theory about it and backed it up with a chart to clarify my theory.. Could be right and could be wrong, I just made it for the fun of it (And to waste some time till I get my pills)..


Sorry for being blurry, but lemme explain the chart for you:

The blue bars represents the "Sense of time when sick"..
The red bars represents the "Sense of time when waiting"..
The yellow bars represents the "Sense of time when excitement"..

The X Line (1, 5, 10, 15.. 60) represents the sense of time in minutes..
The Y Line (0, 10, 20, 30.. 60) represents the real time in minutes..

To understand the timing thingy, you must add the previous bars till you reach the wanted sense of timing..

Here's an example:
The first minute = 60 minutes in sick time, 5 minutes in waiting time and 1 minute in excitement time..
The five minutes = 60 minutes + 55 minutes in sick time, 5 minutes + 15 minutes in waiting time and 1 minute + 2 minutes in excitement time..
The ten minutes = 60 minutes + 55 minutes + 50 minutes in sick time, 5 minutes + 15 minutes + 20 minutes in waiting time and 1 minute + 2 minutes + 5 minutes in excitement time..





Well, to me it's something similar to this.. It could vary from a person to another, but the chart's form will be close to the chart I made:

* Sickness sense of time starts with a big delay then adjust slowly
* Waiting sense of time starts with dramatically less delay than Sickness sense an adjust faster than Sickness sense
* Excitement sense starts faster and adjust later on

I hope someone will make use of such chart :P

When good music becomes bad...

I'm not saying I have the best taste of music.. In fact, I think I have the worst taste of music..

Anyways, I've been coming to 2nd Cup Al-Bustan frequently for almost 6 months.. I like that place ALOT..

The goods aren't bad priced.. I can stay the whole day for 2.5KD (1KD for internet card and 1.5KD for coffee and water)..

The atmosphere is random in here.. People in the coffee house are usually quite and wouldn't bother even a fly.. The sandwiches aren't that good but they're not that bad either.. Friendly staff (One of'em calls me cookie monster because I once ordered something wearing a cookie monster t-shirt :P)...

The internet here is great.. Not so fast (probably 512kbps) but for 1KD, you could stay the whole day.. If you still don't like that, you can leech from CafeSupreme.. Free WiFi but weak signal (Sometimes things go weird and you'll have to pay up for CafeSupreme's wireless)..

2nd Cup's internet is more secured than CafeSupreme, it doesn't allow you to detect any other laptop connected in the same network as if you're the only one there.. Broadcast thingies are disabled as well.. So paranoid people are recommended to use 2nd Cup's WiFi..

CafeSupreme's internet is less secured though, you can apply MITM attacks and get passwords and stuff (Tried it and kinda worked) :P.. But hey, it's for free.. No one is bored enough to do such actions (except me :P)..

Anyways, things are so cool so far.. But here when it gets annoying; 2nd Cup's music!!

I've been listening to the same damn songs for months.. And they totally don't fit the place's atmosphere.. Why? Well..

The manager of this place is Lebanese.. He's a decent and really well-mannered person.. But his taste of music sucks since he's the one who plays the songs..

I think you guessed it right (or not), Fayrooz.. Fayrooz in a foriegn coffee house (American, Italian or whatever).. It's wrong..

OK, Fayrooz rocks!! I don't like her, but I know for a fact she's a great great great singer and her songs are amazing that not alot of people can handle such taste of music..

Fayrooz songs could be played in Lebanese restaurant or coffee place (Or maybe Egyptian if Om Kalthom wasn't there anyways)..

But for a foreign coffee place, Jazz is the most appropriate genre to be played (Most of Jazz musics though, not all of'em).. Maybe Miles Davis, Norah Jones, Chick Corea or even Pat Metheny..

Alright, so Fayrooz is being played.. It's ok for a day.. Or two.. Or three.. But not so repeatidly that they play the same damn songs for a month or so..

And not the type that would atleast blend in with coffee's atmosphere, there's a song or two probably about war (Zahrat Al-Mada2en).. I'm here to drink coffee damn it!! I'm not picking up any weapon to fight somewhere!!

I don't mind if they played different Arabic songs (Old or new).. But the keyword is "Different"..

I'm not sure if it's a lebanese thing or not, but once they like a song\artist they stick to'em like a leeching bug..

I'm no different though, I like Daisuke Ishiwatari, The Bad, Avenged Sevenfold, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Beethoven (And the list goes on)..

But I don't listen to'em so frequently.. I explore new songs.. And whenever I'm with my friends and I get to choose songs, I whether listen to my songs that only I can enjoy'em to piss off my friends, or try the new songs I've downloaded with my friends..

The only way I used to save my day (and ears) was by listening to my iPod.. But it's busted and cracked'n'opened it to see what makes it tick.. Now I have to bear with whatever songs they play..

Things I've learned from 2nd Cup:
* Their coffee is SO BITTER.. I LIKE!!
* iPods (Well, my iPod) uses IDE HDDs.. I can make use of it.. 20GB can save lives :P
* Always bring your music player or a friend with ya so you wouldn't have to keep listening to an inappropriate music (And by inappropriate, I mean something that wouldn't blend with the place's atmosphere)..
* If you like this type of music, well, you'll hate them when you start coming here frequently..

Gulf Street idiotic car (Sport Related) marching

I'm not a soccer fan (Yes, Soccer.. NOT FOOTBALL!!!).. But I know for sure that this annoyed ATLEAST me and few friends in my car.. And I know this is so old but I didn't have enough time to write anything here..

All I know about the tournament is that, Oman won the whole thing beating KSA and Kuwait and Qatar fought for the 3rd place.

Yea yea.. Kuwait didn't make it to the final match.. I'm sure alot would go "They suck!!" and others would go "They gave their best".. I personally go with the "They suck!!" option.. But that's just me..

I'm trying to understand the stupid and idiotic Gulf Street Car March whenever Kuwait wins a match yet I always fail understanding that reason..

I would totally understand if it was some Asian or World title.. But not for such title..

It's ok to go hyper and active when they score a goal, win the match.. But don't over do it and take it out on Gulf Street..

Now, did the marching and cheering do them any good? They only reached the 3rd\4th place.. Not even the SECOND!!

From the start of this tournament, a friend told me they'll do good this time and I simply replied with "Never expect anything from wannabes".. Well, I believe I'm right in this one..



After watching the video above from 4th Ring Road, I started to wonder if our players would be scolded an bitched at the KSA way (I'm sure they won't.. They' probably be given candy so they wouldn't cry :P)..

Alright, so Kuwait didn't make it to the final and Oman did claimed the title..

Good for them and all.. But why did some Omani cars have to do little Gulf Street marching HERE IN KUWAIT!?

Is it because we couldn't be there at the finals? Or is it because you were really bored and felt like doing it? Actually, I think it's because its their first time claiming such title..

I'm really happy for them because they really have the right to do so. They could go nuts about it in their own country.. It'll even be bigger, proper and much better than doing it in 4~5-cars in a marching party..

Why do they have to bring it HERE IN KUWAIT!?

Leaving Kuwait soccer (sux0r) team aside, Why don't they do such marchings when another Kuwait Team from a totally different sport wins an important title?

I'm sure we have great GREAT athletes here in Kuwait; Ali Mohamed Al-Zinkawi and Fawzi Dahash Awadh Al-Shammari (I didn't know about'em, just googled the "Athletes of Kuwait" and got some Wikipedia page about'em).. They even made it to Wikipedia damn it!!

We have a great Handball Team as well!! Why don't we do Gulf Street march for'em? I bet you can't even do that in your neighbourhood, can you? :P

Why don't I do such thing? I'm not a sport fan.. I like playing it just to have some fun (And maybe for the excersize's sake) but not cheer insanely like most of Soccer fans..





Things I learned from Soccer fanboyism:
* Don't go out to Gulf Street when a soccer team wins (whether it was a local or foreign team).. Which means almost every single day :P
* Kuwait actually got great athletes.
* Kuwait youth is mostly formed by soccer (sux0r) fans.
* The "Half Barcelona, Half Qadsiya" sticker on a Nissan Patrol is really retard!!

Red Label laying around like this!?

After checking Q8Geek's latest post and seeing his pictures, I gave his both flickr and the gallery a visit..



After seeing the picture above in his gallery I did that "WTF!?" face..

So I had to reach him to actually ask him about it.. After telling me, I actually LMAOed..

Ofcourse, there's illegal drinks such as rainbow labels (I don't know how many colors they got), but to see a bottle in such publicity is funny..

This picture (As he said) was taken around 10:30~11:30..

So I'll write the brief of the convo that happened.. I'll skip the greetings and get straight to the questioning.. QG is Q8Geek and R4 is Rand_4..

R4: Why the hell did you take a picture of it? Ran outta ideas?
QG: More or less, I got outta my car with my Tele Lense.. Though of taking a picture of it but it wasn't so good.. So I went to that bay watch tower to snap few pictures..
R4: You mean, the picture in your gallery is what you took in your Tele Lense? It's a good!
QG: Not really.. Y'see, I got back from there and was planning to leave.. Yet the bottle was still there.. So I changed to the Standard Lense and took few shots of the bottle.. I think the one in the gallery is the best of those I've taken
R4: You could've snapped alot of pictures that wouldn't involve this bottle.. WHY THE HELL DID YOU SNAP THIS ONE!?
QG: I simply felt like doing it.. I actually thought of putting it in my Flickr Page but I thought it'll cause a chaos.. So I prefer keeping it in my gallery just for the fun of it.. I'm sure alot of people would come and ask me about this.. But I'm as clueless as everyone else.. I just saw it and took a picture of it.
R4: Was it the only bottle you found here?
QG: Yes, for today.. But I usually find some here'n'there every now'n'then.. You can find a huge pile of'em in Kubbar and other islands..
R4: Oh, okay..
QG: Funny thing that there was some guy with a 3arabana drove next to me asking me if I'm a reporter or something..
R4: 3arabana!?
QG: It's my definition of those crappy white japanese mini trucks that we call "Waneet"..
R4: Oh.. What did you tell him?
QG: I thought of faking something up, but it could lead to an annoying chain reaction.. So I just told him I'm a hobbyist and he replied with "Oh good.. Just don't take pictures of me or anything".. I'm not sure if I can say this, but he seemed abit of nervous :P
R4: OFCOURSE!! He's probably the one who drank and threw it there
QG: We'll never know.. Only the Evil Company does!!!
R4: What?
QG: nvm..

It's my version.. I'm too lazy to bring the real convo from my log..

But seriously, Q8Geek could risk himself by doing so.. And he could've have some fun torturing the guy.. Or better yet, call 7³ "777" but it would probably cause something..



Things I learned from this convo:
* Q8Geek got some weird brain.. Really REALLY hard to understand yet he come up with the weirdest, randomest crap ever!! (I wonder how he's able to do that)
* NEVER TAKE A PICTURE OF AN ILLEGAL THING.. It coul backfire at ya
* Eating sugar is FUN!!! (Well, that's what I'm doing right now :P)

Why the hell would I want to know your email?

I, personally, feel disturbed whenever I see someone's email on a car..

I will mock phew email phenomenon:

Short emails:
So you have a short email like "G7Y-----@hotmail.com".. And you think it's cool...

It's not even short damn it!! the "---------.........----" counts you idiot!!

Beside why the hell do you think it's an interesting email? Because it's short? Well being short and have no meaning behind it (such as name's initials or anything similar) is more stupid than having a normal email!!

And WHY THE FUCK DO YOU THINK IT'S COOL WHEN YOU HAVE A HOTMAIL!? IT'S FUCKING FREE!!.. I might consider a paid-email %0.009876152637123E-2763542 cooler.. Like, yourname@yourname.com or what@ever.com...


Uncompleted Emails:
I notice "whatever@hot", "whatever@hot.....com" emails...

What happened to the rest?
Didn't have 250fils to do the rest?
You want to create a riddle out of your email? (Duuuuh)
Too lazy to write the rest? (As if you're the one who's sticking the email.. I'm sure it's the poor mentally and visually violated Indian guy who works in such crappy car shops)
You think it's cool to do it that way? (Well, it's not!)


Emails with useless characters:
I laugh when I see "loooooool@hotmail.com" or "ja7eeeeeeeem---------7834r6weurat7kesrfktz@hotmail.com"

JUST CHANGE THE FUCKING TO SOMETHING ELSE YOU FUCKING RETARD!!


Emails written in *bling bling*:
Something like "agra3aaaani.@live.com" (I think hotmail got its share :P.. And that XXXXXXXX is an 8 digits number since 7 were old fashioned.. Yes you figured, his mobile number)..

WHAT THE HELL!? I'M SURE YOU WONT BUY SUCH SHINEY STUFF FOR YOUR GF\WIFE\BF!! SO WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK!?


Emails with additional 7~8 numeral digits:
An example: "ad.XXXXXXXX@msn.com"

Is this an indirect way to give your number to a girl\gay guy? What happened to the old fashioned "For Sale XXXXXXXX" stickers?

Now, be creative people you'd probably run by a valid email by adding a first letter of a guy's name with his\her\it mobile number (Or any number)...




Saying that, I have three logically slightly valid reasons to commit such visual and mental violation:

1) I'm cool!! My car has my email written on it..
WELL YOU'RE NOT

2) Hey girls.. I'm a retard!! Add me in MSN Messenger..
ARE YOU THAT DESPERATE TO SCORE WITH GIRLS? And unfortunately it works!! (Did girls sink that low?)

3) Hey everyone! I'm an easy target!! Steal my email and abuse me!!!
Well, it actually works, knowing such ill-mentality, you can figure out his email's password by:
a. Creating a serialized number combinations from 0 to 9 in few shapes.
b. Writing the guy's name in Arabic using english letters (احمد = hpl])
c. Using his mobile number (And hope his email has it so you don't have to rape your mind talking to him) with few alphanumeral combinations
d. Apply the previous steps on the secret answer the all the three steps above failed.
e. JUST ASK HIM THE ANSWER FOR HIS SECRET QUESTION!! HE'LL ANSWER UNCONSCIOUSLY!!



Seriously.. The more I see such phenomenon the more I want to steal their emails and let'em cry to bed :P

The new generation of Anime fans SUCKS ASS WITH A STRAW!!!

I've been watching animes since I was 16 (almost 8 years ago).. I'm sure I got a weird taste of Animes, but I totally hate it when someone come and say "Naruto, Bleach and Death Note are the best" and other crappy animes without knowing atleast few old animes..

In this post, I'll be talking about animes and how the (Current generation) SUCKS in animes-related-stuff...

Naruto:
The start was AMAZING till the Zabuza part.. Then I started to hate it little by little.. Why? Well here's the why:

1ST REASON:
Naruto is supposed to be an anime about a drop-out kid who wanted to be the village's Hokage so everyone would acknawledge him (Or whatever).. So things should progress slowly..

I mean why the hell would he be able to get in that test knowing NOTHING but the Harem-No-Jutsu, Kage-Bunshin-No-Jutsu and that Kawarimi-No-Jutsu?

They totally killed the learning progressive curve that Naruto is supposed to follow..


2ND REASON:
The thing I hate about Naruto is that they totally killed the Ninja spirit in that anime. And when I talk about Ninja spirit, I mean something like Ninja Scroll..

Naruto became nothing more than magic skills and crap.. No REAL mele fights.. Ofcourse the big fights (Like the last fight between Naruto and Sasuke in the first season, the fight between Sasuke and Orochimaru right before he receive the curse, the fight between Naruto and Neiji at the test before the Konoha invasion and some other entertaining fights) were surprisingly amazing!!

There was some Ninjatsu which had nothing to do with mele, but there was some reasonable mele strikes here and there


3RD REASON:
The ART!! Seriously, How can you bare raping your eyes with 3~5 frames per second animation!?

I mean COME ON!! EVEN DIGIMON AND POKEMON GOT FASTER FPS RATE THAN THAT!!

What the hell with kicking 3 enemies with only 3 frames movements? (A frame for the kick, a frame for the punch and another frame for another kick)??

So personally, I was able to bear watching Naruto till Sasuke ran away... That's just it!!

The first 15 minutes of the 2nd season's first episode was AMAZING!!! Why? The FPS was REALLY GOOD... BUT THATS JUST IT!!! No good FPS for the rest of the anime



Bleach:
I really liked Bleach till the part they got outta Soul Society.. Why? Because everything was improving in a decent pace.. Not as slow as DBZ neither as fast as Naruto.. Just the right pace of improvements and developments..

And what I really liked about it back then is that there's some stuff that I didn't expect'em to happen.. But the Vampire crap ruins it all and I lost interest in watching it again (Even though my friend said it just gets much better later on)..

Yes.. It might be a good anime, but not to me.. Why? It became an Emo-Anime and a weirdd crappy fashion show!!

I'm not gonna talk more about it because that actually explains why I hate it..



Death Note:
I haven't watched that Anime and totally not willing to.. Why? Because of those who made it as if it was the best anime ever..

Don't get me wrong, I don't usually follow what others say.. I watched "Ouran High School Host Club" and I really enjoyed it while alot of my friends thought it sucked.. I really hated "Hellsing" while alot of my friends thought it rocks (The same goes with "GunGrave")..

But why not Death Note? Well, I totally respect the anime and totally not saying it sucks.. I actually think it's quite an amazing anime.. Original ideas.. Unique drawings and arts..

But I hated it because everyone got so obsessed with it as if it's the best... You see\hear\read\watch\breath a "Death Note" related quote\story\name everywhere.. And I reached the point of hating it due to that (The same thing happened to the Batman's new movie "Dark Knight" or whatever)..





Alot of people consider such animes are the best animes ever.. Yet they haven't seen any GOOD anime... And by that, I mean things like:
The Gundam's animes (Haven't seen'em.. I dislike most of the Sci-Fi animes)
The old Mecha animes: Mazinger, Grandizer and similar (I hate them.. C'mon, they're classic, BUT NOT THE BEST)
The Guyver's animes (Only seen the old ones which I can't really remember)
Fist of The North Star (Not willing to.. Too old for me)
Dragon Balls (Hehe)
Ghost In The Shell (Seen it all baby!)
Rurouni Kenshin (SPOILER ALERT: ITS GETS STUPID WHEN SHISHIO MOKOTO DIES)
Ranma ½ (Almost)
Ninja Scroll (Bloobath)
Berserk (Haven't seen it... And not willing to... Because I have to read the comic and I'm no comic guy)
Full Metal Alchemist (New stuff, but SURPRISINGLY AMAZING)
City Hunter (Not alot of people can digest this)
Initial D (First 2 seasons sucks drawing-wise, But things got better)
Hajime No Ippo (A MUST)
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..
..
The list could go on forever..

I'm not saying that they suck about choosing Animes (Well, they do!).. But they only talk about such 3 not-so-special animes forgeting that there's alot to watch which actually formed the huge base of anime creators inspirations and crap..

As in seriously, they talk about these only 3 animes as if they're the only animes published in the history and got nothing but these 3 animes to talk about in this life..

I, myself, obsessed in Ghost In The Shell and Hajime No Ippo.. Yet I know there's great animes as well and I've seen quite few of'em..





To me, those who only saw those crappy animes (Yes, Crappy compared to the real good ones) are like those who only seen Mesaratti cars thinking they're the best cars ever made!!..

Ofcourse they're great, but they're not the best either in both performance, prettines, design, safety and everything wise..



I recommend doing the (Zeyad’s don’t talk to me anymore until you know what you’re talking about) move to such retard anime-wise people

Freelance programming is a PAIN IN THE ASS

One day my friend called. Why? His friend wanted someone to write a customized software so he could manage some paperwork properly in a faster process.

I'll name him "MEGA BYTE" in this convo because he's "mashallah" HUGE!!
MB == MEGA BYTE
R4 == Rand_4 (Which is me)

MB: Hey Rand_4. How are ya?
R4: I'm alive. How's things in your side?
MB: I'm good el7emdellah. Listen, I have this friend who wants to have a software programmed for him. Can you do it?
R4: Depends, how complex it is?
MB: He only wants a software with little inputs; a serial number, company's name and if they paid their rent or not. With the ability to change states and stuff.
R4: No networking?
MB: No.
R4: Personal or the workplace computer?
*Personal computer means the .NET Framework is already installed while workplace computer would require installation for that .NET Framework*
MB: His laptop. He's paying from his pocket money just to get things done faster than paperwork.
R4: Alright. I'll work on it and keep you up to date.
MB: How much would you charge?
R4: Seriously dude, if you told me do it for free I would. So don't really worry about it. I'm flexible when it gets to pricing stuff
*MB is a friend of mine since I was around 14 years old. He saved my ass few times in critical situations. Writing such crappy software is totally nothing compared to what he's done to me so far*
MB: Alright. But you must know it's your right to ask for a proper price.
R4: Sure. Catch you later.
MB: Take care.

I kept wondering if I should write it in Visual Basic 6 or .NET. And since I'm getting into .NET I thought of writing it in that to avoid problems.

And I wouldn't have to worry about installing .NET Framework or upgrading it since it'll be installed on the guy's personal laptop since he upgrades an updates it every now'n'then.

I actually worked hard and finalized it in 2 days (14 hours in total; 10 hours programming and 4 hours debugging). Not a bad job for a newbie Visual Basic programmer who just started learning the language.

I didn't use any database crap (SQL or Access shit); the software stores the data in a file that's formatted in a way that can be easily read and understood (Even if you viewed the file with Notepad. It's all text-based).

Called MB as soon as I finished the program. Here's the dialog (Short Version):
R4: Hey man, I'm done.
MB: Cool. How much would you charge?
R4: Look, I've been working on it for 14 hours. So how much do you think it'll cost?
MB: I don't know! You're the one who wrote it!
R4: Listen, my friend charges 50KD per hour for his friends, 25KD for his close friends and could go as high as 150KD for corporates.
MB: That's an overkill!
R4: No. That's how good he is.. I'm not any good, but tell him I'll charge 5KD~15KD per hour. After all, I wrote it in 2 days.. Didn't want to make him wait.
MB: I'll tell him. Are you free today by 22:00?
R4: Yes, I think.
MB: Come to The F*** ******* ***E.. There's a coffee house that me and him will meet you up there.
R4: Alright, later.

So I met MB with his friend that I'll label him "Whatever" because I can't find a proper name for him. It was around 23:00 in some coffee place. C'mon, we're Kuwaities. :P

Here's the convo:
R4: Hello MB. Hello WE.
Both MB and WE: Hello R4.
R4: Sorry for being late. You know how traffic could be nasty on weekends.
*I'm sure everyone who've been in Kuwait would know*
MB: It's cool. Let's cut the chase; Show him the goods.
R4: Ofcourse.. Here's the software in my laptop.. Just run it and see if there's anything you want me to modify.
*Me and MB started to talk about alot of stuff while WE starts to poke around with the software.. After all, it's been almost a year since we last time talked*
WE: So far so good. I really like it.. So simple and light.. But seriously, whats with your screen?
R4: Well you know, my laptop is meant for field stuff.. Which mean I don't really care how clean it is.. I'm totally fine with it as long as it works.
MB: Thats just you.. You haven't changed abit!
R4: Check out the cracks on the monitor.. Check out the broken screen.. You think I'd really care anymore? I'll probably care more if I GOT A NEWER LAPTOP
*Me, MB and WE started to laugh*
WE: Alright, I like it. But there's few things I'd like you to fix.
*He pointed at few captions that I named wrong and similar stuff.. After all, he wanted his software in Arabic*
R4: Alright, I'll finalize it by tomorrow.
*A moment of silence*
MB: So, how much would you charge?
*I started to talk about the charge per hour method of charging.. And I decided to go 5KD per hour.. Which would be 70KD in total*
WE: Let's cut that child play, is 50KD good?
R4: Deal. I can't really say no.. You're MB's friend anyway.
*We started to talk. Then everyone left the crime scene*

I started my car and drove off.

I received a call from MB. Here's the talks (Short Version):
MB: Hey Rand_4, sorry for dragging you this late.
R4: No big deal.. I really wanted to see you anyway.. It's been centuries.
MB: Well I'll just spit it out; My friend don't want the software anymore. He was expecting something as low as 25KD AT MAX!
*I should've known... But seriously, I could've did something for my own good in these 14 hours*
R4: MB, I told you.. If you wanted me to do it for free I wouldn't say no.. If he want it for 25KD it's all his.
MB: No he doesn't want it at all.. He was really embarresed to actually tell you that so he asked me to do him this favor.
*The big baby!!*
R4: No worries dude it's cool.
MB: I'm really embarresed to tell you that. It's uncool to make a deal then break it off.
*I know how embarresing it could be.. I've been there before few times.. I really hold nothing against MB but I so want to snap WE's neck :P*
R4: Haha well no worries about it dude.. I really appreciate that you actually called me to offer this deal. Breaking it is his own peoblem.. Listen, I'll be free the next week, wanna meet up?
*I had to kick a laugh to break the shitty atmosphere*
MB: Sure!
*We started to talk normally like any other 2 friends would talk; lame jokes and how's work, life, studies an whatever*

We hung up.. I have no hard feelings for both of them.. MB was really thoughtful for taking this move and WE didn't want the software after all.. I respect both actions (Though he could've told me in the face I would've really understood with a wide, stupid smile on my face).

What I've learned from this whole madness:
1) MB is still a really good friend of mine.. He would've forged any lie to keep both sides clean but he just spat that in my face.
2) WE got shocked when I first told him 15KD per hour.. Think about it: 15 x 14 = 210KD for a less-than-1MB-software.. So 70KD for such software IS scary too.
3) When it gets to freelance jobs, ALWAYS TAKE THE FIRST HALF OF THE BREAD!!!
4) I figured out a way to store and load small text-based files without any husstle.. Which gives me more reasons to port to VB.NET