Happy Clean Eid

Like the foam phenomenon on national and liberation days, I noticed another trend amongst some Kuwaitis during the night before Eid: car washing. (This is not to be confused with car cleaning).

On my way back home, all I could see were puddles of water spewing from every other house while drivers and/or housemaids frantically sprayed and wiped car surfaces.

This got me thinking, “If everyone takes a shower, wears new clothes, gets in their washed car, on the same day street-cleaners are particularly roaming around, wouldn’t it technically make it Eid Al-Na’6afa (The Eid of Cleanliness)?”

Anyway, as with every year, I’m not going to go around all +100 blogs so I’ll say it here:

“3eedkom Imbarak!” :)

“The Egg Of Our Love?”

I remembered Cixousy as soon as I saw this :P

“Bai’6at 7obbina?” -3baid

“3baid, how come…”

…you don’t comment on my blog?
Chances are, I’ve read your post but:

1. Didn’t have anything to add to the topic.
2. Didn’t have the time to type a proper response.
3. Noticed someone else has already made my point.

…you don’t comment on my blog?
Chances are, I’ve read your post but:

1. Didn’t have anything to add to the topic.
2. Didn’t have the time to type a proper response.
3. Noticed someone else has already made my point.

…you don’t reply to my comment?
Probably for the same reasons above, but I assure you, I read ‘em all.

…I’m not on your blogroll?
My blogroll is constantly changing and I use it to manually visit blogs if I feel that my feeds have been slowing down. It is also a way for me to promote newer blogs (even though they may not be interesting at first). Finally, I don’t want my blogroll to be very long because that would defy its purpose. I personally prefer to link to active bloggers though.

Information Overload

“Alas! Go forth and spread thy comments!” -3baid

I spent the entire day reading blog posts. It’s hard work. Even with RSS feeds.

“3baid, Did You Feel That?!”

My cousin just IMed me saying he literally felt an earthquake a mere few minutes ago (~2 AM) that “only caused a few books on the shelf to fall”. His parents called the 777 emergency line and according to their response, it’s been detected by people around these areas:

• Andalous
• 3deliya
• Kaifan
• 9ba7 Al-Na9er

Details are still unknown so if you’ve experienced anything as such, comment here!

Updated Areas:

• Salwa
• Rumaithiya
• Qurtoba/Surra/South Surra (?)
• Mishref
• Abbasiya
• Sabah Al-Salem
• Salmiya

Blogger Updates:
http://dishevelled.blogspot.com/2007/08/earthquake.html
http://enigmaq8.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/i-felt-it-too/
http://www.spikeyq8.com/2007/08/earthquaaake.html
http://www.chillnite.com/did-any-one-feel-mild-tremor-in-kuwait-at-145am
http://shooshasvenue.blogspot.com/2007/08/7addi-7mara-p.html
http://mishref.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/earthquake/
http://witsinkw.blogspot.com/2007/08/did-earth-move-for-you.html
http://blog.rayboy.org/was-there-an-earthquake-in-kuwait/
http://greyfort1.blogspot.com/2007/08/i-felt-it-too.html
http://q8enviro.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post.html
http://blog.vibin.com/?p=33
http://q8razz.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/did-you-feel-the-eathquake/
http://q8iamamloo7a.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post_18.html
http://www.forzaq8.net/2007/08/18/earthquakes-what-earthquakes/
http://ansam518.blogspot.com/2007/08/earthquake-agnitude-43-kuwait-saudi.html
http://pinkykuwait.blogspot.com/2007/08/did-earth-move-for-you-too.html
http://themcode.wordpress.com/2007/08/18/my-earthquake-exprience/
http://www.rampurple.com/blog/2007/08/18/earthquake/
http://ra1.blogspot.com/2007/08/earthquake.html
http://theaggressor.blogspot.com/2007/08/earth-moved-for-me.html
http://ling-bling.blogspot.com/2007/08/earthquake-in-kuwait.html
http://nubgah.blogspot.com/2007/08/uuuhhhh-what-hell-was-that.html

Details:

• The USGS website reported an earthquake of magnitude 4.3 between the Kuwaiti-Saudi Arabian Border region at 01:46:13 AM (epicenter).
• Al-Watan Report
• Surveillance camera video – Youtube
• Google Maps Of Earthquake

Wii Fit

A while back, Laialyq8 mentioned that her brother got a Wii; convinced that it would get him to lose weight. And despite that many websites have popped up promoting similar “Wii Health” concepts, a few have remained skeptical about their effectiveness. Including Laialy herself ;P