Do Things Right

Halloween

2008-10-31T10:11:00.003+03:00

NOOO!!! I don't like watching scary movies!! I seriously cry if I get a scare.. and it gets sooo embarrassing!
and since I have nothing to do today.. I think every TV in the house is gonna be occupied with someone.. whether its sports, news, some stupid tv show or a SCARY MOVIE!! AaaaH!!
I dunno why I stay and watch the movie.. maybe cuz I like watching the movies that make fun of the scary movies.. anyways.. enough about those movies :
Yeah I got a costume party that was supposed to be within those days.. but thank God it was delayed.. cuz you know.. as usual.. I wanted to make my own costume.. and as usual I didnt :P
Once I wanted to be senora chiquita (the banana lady) and other times I wanted to be a waitress and etc.
So you see .. Halloween is not the best time of year for me, I prefer St. Patrick's Day HAHA.. it gets annoying and funny when you start pinching people who are not wearing green .. yeah about that, my friend once starting throwing books and hitting and kicking me cuz I pinched her for not wearing green :S But u see.. she was the one who got hurt in the end cuz im all bone.. well .. that was yesterday, until my cousin told me I look pregnant!
Yeah.. so?? Im gaining weight.. yeah.. SO?!?! its just a little... yeaaah!! SOoOo?!!?!?! Hey... I have no feelings about the weight thingy.. so you don't have to sympathize with me.
Anyways.. Im gonna look for something orange to wear.. Gotta have a little fun at least :P.. wish I had a pumpkin... don't ask why.. I just wish it!
Cya

How to grow a bonsai tree?

2008-10-28T19:26:00.004+03:00

Well doon't ask me! I've been trying to plant my bonsai tree 2-3 months ago.. and by the way .. it still looks the same!

I placed it in a dark place like they explained in the instruction guide.

I wrapped it with a plastic bag they gave me and like they asked.

I think it was seeds that I planted one inch under the soil..

But Im not sure what went wrong??

have a look at it!

I mean.. REALLY!! what went wrong?

So.. Im thinking of getting a bonsai tree that is already planted and there! Right infront of my eyes! and this one... well Im gonna keep trying to make it work.

Things you can't cook in the microwave!

2008-10-28T16:03:00.003+03:00

First of all, you have to know I'm writing about microwaves because I had many bad experience with it Hahaha :P
Remember, these things are not safe for a microwave!
1. Plastic Wrap unless its microwavable
2. Foil
3. An egg, eggplant, sausage and Potatoes
4. Paper plates, grocery bags, newspapers or other paper items(Wax paper, parchment paper and oven cooking bags are usually safe to use).
5. Plastics ( they are toxic, so do not ever use it)
6. Styrofoam (try adding gas or superglue to styrofoam and see what happens!)
7. Metal items.

Safety rule: if your microwave catches on fire.. hit the stop button. Don't open it or pour water on it!

Nails2u

2008-10-28T15:13:00.004+03:00

http://www.nails2u.net/

+ (965) 67736695

So.. here is who I call when I have no intentions of going out..

I just love their sevices..

Manicures, Pedicures and Massages all at ur home!

When this business first started.. I was like "FINALLY! Someone thought of a great idea for lazy people like me!"

I usually tell myself that I dont deserve a manicure, cuz I work with my hands being an artist and all.. When the lady was done painting my nails.. I ruined the nail polish as usual! She didn't complain at all.. and she didn't pretend not to see me ruin it.. her first reaction was like "GIMME! I will do it again!"

I almost hugged her!

I just love them!

Gulf Bank Draw

2008-10-28T14:58:00.003+03:00

So.. after the crisis in Gulf Bank...
What do you think of the next Danah millionaire? (ME)
I still have my money in the Danah account.. hoping to be the only one left :P You know.. so I can be the next millionaire.. oh wait.. MAYBE NOT!!

Job Fair

2008-10-28T14:24:00.003+03:00

Job fair this week at Arraya.
26th of October 2008 until 30th of October 2008.
Many companies are there including:
Zain
Wataniya
Al Shayaa
Equate
AlGhanim
Mabani
Kfic
Banks, including:
National Bank of Kuwait
Commercial Bank of Kuwait
Burgan
Boubyan
and there are also fairs for people who would love taking courses in:
Expression (to learn English)
Al Nazaer ( Directing, Script writing, TV Makeup and Lightings for studios.. etc.)
also there is:
Takweet and Careers (they apply jobs for you)
Takweet needs ur CV only and an application you apply there
Careers needs ur CV and ur ID and ur Diploma/BA...etc.

Its best you take your CV with you to apply there.. if not.. you can send it to the emails they give you over there..

To Do List

2008-10-28T01:25:00.004+03:00

1. listen to foreign music ( I dont mean arabic or english) maybe Chinese or Polish or German...etc. Something I dont understand.
2. Go to the doctor for a full check up (have to.. once a year at least)
3. Get rid of clothes you don't wear anymore.
4. Get your picture taken (passport size) and not digital!!
5. Learn something u dont really wanna learn.
6. Jump on the bed like a 6 year old!
7. Get a full body massage.
8. exercise blah blah blah.
9. Try a new hairdo.
10. Act like a tourist in your own country/ city.
11. Go to a soccer game.. one that includes Real Madrid :P
12. Act like a statue in the elevator.
14. Go to ur favorite shop and act like you work there.
15. Clean your car.
16. Give ur best friend a gift for no apparent reason.
17. Sing a song to ur loved one... (naaah tooo cheesy!!)
18. Pull a prank on someone.
19. Be sure that someone doesnt pull a prank on you!
20. Try to do a few of this list!

City Stars- Egypt

2008-10-28T01:15:00.004+03:00

Once I was in Egypt.. and we parked the car in city stars parking.. it was huge.. so we had to remember where we parked somehow.. ;p

Annoying Calls!!

2008-10-28T00:29:00.004+03:00

So yesterday.. I got a COLLECT call from a lady..
I said "Hello?"
She said "ALOH! This is a laaady!!! :O"
Then she closed the phone without apologizing.. so I thought.. hey! maybe she is my friend and got me confused with someone else
So I called...
"ALOH!"
"yeah.. I think u just called me?"
"yeaah I did! wrong number!!" she had this bedouin accent..
so I said " yeah u can just say wrong number.. not close the phone without explaining urself u got me confused!"
She was like " NO !! I am gonna close the phone without explaining myself...etc"
I didn't hear what she said at the end cuz I closed the phone before she did :P
and I saved her number as Crazy Lady!-- more like wa7da hayligiya

Next day..
she started calling
non-stop
and again
and again
so then I thought.. this lady is cheap.. she had me pick up a collect call yesterday.. so I started answering for like 3-4 seconds and then end the call (without saying a word)
I think I kept doing that until her prepaid card ran out.. she started giving me miss calls..
But then again.. she started doing it..
So this time I answered but not with my normal voice.. I copied the voice from the movie "The Ring" when the caller says "seveeen daaays!!"
and she started yelling.. hahaha!! I had fun doing it for like 6 of the million calls I got..
She even asked if I was Indian..??
So without answering her question.. the next time she called I had a CD that had a bedouin song in.. so I turned it on.. and made her listen.. this time.. u won't believe this.. the phone call not only lasted 6 seconds... it lasted about 38 seconds until she gave her phone to her husband! LOL!
so I ended the call again!
In conclusion.. I think she was trying to prove to her husband that Im a girl and not a man!
She lost the war :P

How to Style Your Bedroom

2007-06-28T23:55:00.004+03:00

Well.. as starters.. I would personally feel better working with a blue print so I can imagine everything on there..
To start.. you may want to classify each corner and space into your own taste..
For me.. I like the open area in the middle so I can move around freely..
Then you may wanna choose your furniture and get to know what style you like..(modern, classic, cultural..etc)
For my room I chose simple furniture and mixed the african style in it.. with wooden statues and colorful paintings.. after that I started choosing my colors.. I got a greenish floor ceramics with three different sizes, and I arranged them in a pattern that I like. I chose an oily blue sofa bed and dark brown wood for everything.. and as far as I know.. most of my accessories will be beige (for lamps and a part of my curtain).
For my curtain.. that I am not done with.. I chose beige circles that are attached together.. and I wanna add brown or blue beads with a solid color material .. like blue or green and that depends on the beads.. for example if I have the beads in blue.. I will have the green material.. and if I have the brown beads.. I will put on the blue material.

So basically. My room has 4 main colors: Dark brown, blue, green and beige.
Its best when we use the color circle when we decorate a room, we either use colors that contradict each other such as yellow and purple with neutral colors, or colors that are adjacent to each other and with neutral colors.

My room was made out of the 2nd option, which are adjacent colors (blue and green) and neutral colors (brown and beige)

So there are warm colors which helps excite a person and make them feel energy, these are:
Red
Orange
Yellow
and the cool colors which helps a person be calm and relaxed:
Green
Blue
Purple

As you can see, I chose the cool colors in my bedroom so it will help me relax so I can sleep peacefully with no noisy colors.
I would rather choose for a living room some of the warm colors; it helps a person be more social and talkative and actually more fun!
A mixture of both warm and cool colors just keeps it in between a relaxed but interesting ambiance.

So you can choose your colors according to your personality..

2007-06-25T18:39:00.001+03:00

The Road

A foggy road exudes a passionate essence of lavender and musk.
The twisting clouds wrap themselves along the tall evergreen trees.
Endless carpets of Egyptian silk covers the cracked and burnt road.

Amidst the mist lurks a tall shadow of a man.
He progresses slowly, steadily.
While I stand patiently at the end of the indefinite road,
A gush of wind flows from the shadow and swirls around me.
With it I felt a sense of warm bliss and endless glee.
I close my eyes dreaming of his arrival,
Telling myself, “Finally I will be free!”

Waiting on the uncertain road that leads to me,
“Patience, he will finally come around.”
The years go by and the wait is wearing me down,
But every once in a while a breeze flows, falling on my skin,
Telling me, “The wait will be over soon,
And that one day I will see thee.”

2007-06-25T18:05:00.001+03:00

The Self-sufficient state;

A flower will blossom in the spring, but this flower will not stay for ever, unfortunately winter will kill the plant. To keep the plant alive and beautiful we must put it in an adaptable environment. The same example I can make with a country. The time before oil, Kuwait was a basic non active country. At the discovery of oil Kuwait blossomed and achieved great success! But like the flower Kuwait's success will fade away as the drying up of oil is inevitable. Even with the oil, what is the success of Kuwait without its oil? Our blind reliance on oil should give every Kuwaiti deep fear for his country. It takes my breath away whenever I come across the idea of the drying up of oil wells. Some people say we don’t have to worry for the oil will keep us going for more than 100 years. I say that’s not a lot of time in the lifespan of a country. 100 years is barely accounted for in history, and we all want Kuwait to survive and flourish for far more than that! Even so, even if we had enough oil to keep us going for a million years, no country should base its economy on a single income. What if oil becomes replaced? People come up with new ideas and new sources of fuel everyday! And not one of these ideas will be good for Kuwait because these ideas soul purpose is to replace oil, hence, replace Kuwait's main source of income! For Kuwait this should be a major problem.

For every problem there is a solution. I, propose a solution. My theory is that the Kuwaiti oil should only be used for the purpose of boosting Kuwait's economy and infrastructure in a way that it would lead Kuwait out of the danger of a one source based economy. Kuwait is being cuffed down by this reason, a reason that makes our economy an inflexible and stiff economy, so stiff that it will break by the approach of any obstacle that comes against income.

This solution will bring many good results then bad, if there are any. First we will make the most of our free land. As you know, Kuwait is using less then 15% of its land. And also University graduates don’t have to wait 1 to 2 years to finally get a job. I propose we conquer our own country, by saying that I mean instead of investing millions outside of Kuwait, Kuwaiti traders and investors should invest in their own country. In order for Kuwait to free itself from a one source income economy Kuwait must rely on itself for the basic needs such as building materials, plastic, metals, or things complicated as machinery or simple as clothing fabrics. But in order to make all these things, we need factories, factories need money and money comes from our oil. In this situation instead of selling our oil to foreign countries and buy our oil back in the forms of plastic and other materials we make our own.

Why do the poor countries stay poor and the rich countries stay rich? The rich countries buy the one thing the poor countries can offer and then, sell it back to the poor countries with a higher price in a different form! For example what can Indonesia offer the United States? The answer is cheap labor. The United States opens its factories and expands its economy in Indonesia where there is cheap labor and produces the product cheap in Indonesia to sell everywhere in the world triple the price or even more.

The Ottoman Empire, the offspring of the Roman Empire, the America of its era dominated all of Europe and most of Asia, became a backward empire, an empire that stopped evolving while watching smaller countries advance into the industrial age, slowly and gradually becoming stronger and stronger. It is safe to say that the reason why the Ottoman Empire became known as the "sick man of Europe" is because it refused to accept change and advance into the industrial age. That logically is what led to its collapse. That makes me think, did Kuwait really go through the phase of the industrial age? If not shouldn’t we worry? If such a great power like the Ottoman Empire deteriorated because the empire didn’t advance to the next level, shouldn’t we as a country take that into consideration?

So why do we sell our oil to other countries and then buy it back for example in the shape of plastic like a toy? Why can't we produce that toy here in our country? We would get the toy cheaper, plus we would have created more jobs for people in Kuwait at the same time. We would rely on ourselves for the product and flourish our economy hitting two birds with one stone.

Looking at the outcomes of the theory from a different angle, we, from this plan tackle another major problem in our country. The bidoon or the unofficial Kuwaitis that live on our land and can't have any progress in their lives what so ever, because of a crack in the system. These people have been lost in the middle of a problem that until now no one who had the power, wanted to solve. How do these people come in handy in a theory like this one, Industry means production and production means labor. Bluntly, I would not be surprised if I don’t see a great excitement among Kuwaiti citizens acquiring a job that involves hard labor in a factory. With this in mind, the bidoon, desperate for jobs would be a perfect solution for filling in the jobs that require hard labor in our industrial movement. In other words blue collar workers or the workers that physically work the factory have the undesired jobs. While the white collar workers or the workers that work in offices these are the higher paid well respected workers of a factory or a company. Every industriously developing country needs both types of workers to fully reach its potential growth. While most Kuwaitis are only willing to work white collar jobs, the bidoon unhesitant for any type of work, would be more then willing to take over the blue collar jobs.

The proposition demands a grand spread through our country's land. America didn’t become an enormous industrial power over night. The industrial age of America molded the country in such a way that town factories began to spread all over the land. Town factories are towns established for the sake of the factories. Hence the factory workers are the town's people. Examples of such are coal mines, all the major coal mines had towns established around them.

In conclusion I believe we have both the resources and land to fulfill our full industrial potential, so we can say at the end the results of this great change give us more positives then negatives, the three main goals would be met. First, we would be fully dependant on our own production; second, we multiply the sources of income for our country and don’t just depend on one source. Third, we solve the problem of the bidoon, not to mention that over population is becoming a major problem in our country for the population is growing fast, but our areas that we live in are not changing size wise. While spreading our population across our country we will be decreasing the pressure of over population in the city. I would like to end my article by stating a quote that expresses good human quality is described by working the land you have to its full potential and by educating the people to reach a certain goal. For Xenophon a Greek general and historian once said – "If you consider what are called the virtues in mankind, you will find their growth is assisted by education and cultivation."

By:
Mohammed Shams Al Deen.

20 Things To Do This Summer

2007-06-25T16:49:00.001+03:00

1. Take little kids you know on a day out.
2. Go bowling with friends.
3. Practice Ice Skating.
4. Go on a Roller Coaster ride.
5. Spend time with your mom.
6. Redecorate a room in the house.
7. Buy new towels.
8. Get a beauty day for your self.
9. Read a book.
10. Watch a classic movie.
11. DANCE!
12. Work on something artistic.
NO 13 <-- very bad!
14. Do something that scares you.
15. Try out a new restaurant or cafe.
16. Learn some words and phrases from a foreign language.
17. Try not to swear when you are driving.
18. Quit any bad habits.
19. Finish unfinished business.
20. Plan a surprise for someone.

The Gain Weight Campaign

2007-06-25T16:07:00.001+03:00

So I wanna start this campaign that is called the "Gain Weight Campaign". Its for people who wanna gain weight.. but there are always healthy and unhealthy ways to do that. So my goal is to achieve that healthily.
* First of all, you can check if your weight suits your height (BMI)
* If you truly need to gain weight.. well You can't do that overnight. You will have to do it gradually and not by eating fried foods or chocolate..
* Plan a diet that is made out of three meals and one or two snacks per day.
* Make your meals a little larger.. so add an extra toast to your breakfast.
* Your snacks should be something like raisins, crackers, yoghurts, cheese, or dried fruits.
* exercise regularly 5 days a week (15-30 minutes daily) and be sure to eat more when you exercise.