Today was just a full running schedule, the Energizer bunny got nothing on me!
7:45 Am – 2:00 pm

• Riding to Julai’a
• Hot Chocolate Coffee
• Riding to Marina Mall
• Salad
• Riding for another hour then home

2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

• Had Lunch
• Chilled with Family
• Woke the Kids up

4:30 pm – 7:30 pm

• Took the kids (Niece & Nephew) Barqoue in the Avenues
• Ran Around Barqoue for a little while then headed home

7:30 pm – 12:00 am

• Sat with the kids during their dinner
• Played power rangers while my nephew hit me with new and different projectiles
• Fell asleep for half an hour while my nephew remained still watching Power Rangers (They have really changed)
• Put the kids to sleep and went to get something to eat
• A lot of places were closed, and so I settled for the McDonalds McChicken
• Slowly dozing off on the couch before going to bed

I haven’t had a fun and full day like this in a while, I was feeling tired but I was really happy so I kept going. One funny thing that I did that felt good was to use a trimmer to remove the scruffiness of my beard/goatee, now its basically just a dark area and it felt a lot better. I wish everyday was like this, and of course some anime was inserted in different parts throughout the day.

I love Eid in Kuwait, waking up early in the morning, going to prayer and then heading out from there. I tend to get me a quick frappuccino in the morning since its a bit early, then I go visit my grand mother and great aunts.

The best thing is how empty the streets are and it takes five minutes to get from one end to the other of Kuwait and the amazing weather. You can feel that everyone is in a good mood, and all these kids running around nicely dressed and all happy.

The rest of my Eid mornings will consist of a lot of riding!

I hope everyone is having a Eid

I know now that I am officially the favorite uncle at this point! My nephew has loved seeing the motorcycles during Ramadan riding in front of our house. And he likes the motorcycles in the basement, and since his uncle is always riding he now says “Big Shaykal”, “Small Shaykal” which I find hilarious! He likes my bike but is afraid of the sound.

Now they got him this red motorcycle (like mine) and he rides it with a helmet, elbow pads, and knee pads! He doesn’t stop but he is getting better and I hope he gets a sense of balance! I won’t say I’m not loving this, being the favorite uncle is the best possible part since he views me as a source of fun!

The tables have turned over the years, I remember growing up when the family would be giving us kids money. When we were very little we weren’t sure of the value but as growing up we really knew what we were getting. Now that I have been working for a little while I can’t help but give to the little kids. I always gave to kids that I did know and there were times there were a bunch of kids all together, and I would ask them who their parents were but I would give to all of them.

Some of those kids are so damn adorable and especially the way they dressed up. And if there are kids that are special to me I give a them a little extra. The nice part is seeing all these kids dressed up the same, you knew they were from the same family.

When my nephew comes over I always check to see if he just woke up or not, because sometimes kids are cranky if they just wake up. To my luck he was ready to play, and he wanted his uncle! So we took him down to futoor since he knew it was time to eat, and these days he tends to eat some solid food. He always does something funny when he eats, its only a matter of time. So when he was done with his meal, he kept going around and under the table and in every possible direction, he also wanted me to join him in the festivities. He would also ask for desert since it was being offered to him, and I had a feeling sugar my give him that extra boost to run around even more. So when we head up he goes straight to my room, and I managed to sit him down for a bit to watch some anime and get him to love anime. I was surprised this time he sat through a whole episode which is a good sign. Then he ran to the shelf behind me to get one truck, which is really optimus prime. I let him do whatever he wants as long as he doesn’t hurt himself, I like kids to learn from their mistakes but not dangerous ones and he has learned from some of his mistakes. When he was sitting behind me I suddenly hear a tear and I look around to find my crippled helicopter completely wingless and my nephew going vroom vroom. It reminded me of a dragon fly but not wings. I was laughing because he just kept flying with it and I would fix it later but as long as he is enjoying it I won’t really tell him off. I was very happy that he was always looking for me and wants to play with me, you could say I love his attention and his mischevious tendencies do entertain me.

Through all this I would play with my niece as much as possible as well and its funny seeing children a bit jealous but you could tell the children do love each other. When we would clap for the children during a song my nephew would jump and down, and my niece move side to side. Then taking them around in a little plastic car and pushing them is really enteratining for them, and I tend to have my own driving tactics when pushing them. Then when my nephew sees the motorcycle magazines he says “Big Bicycle” which I find to be funny. It brightens my days when the kids are around, next time move breakable items away!

The other day our nephew came and a lot of the other kids came over. The funny part he is only a year and a half when all the other kids were 6 – 8 and he was playing with them. Suddenly they became a little too noisy so they decided to the send to my dewaneya in the basement.

I went down with them to set things up so that they would the least possible damage. We removed a huge table, and they took all the cushions and started making forts out of them. Then I put the Justice League on the tv and they were shocked I had that, it was key to making them remain stationary. When the episode finished they were going nuts asking for the next episode, and so I played it for them and they were stuck to the screen again. My nephew sat next to them because they were all sitting down, it was really funny seeing him with them.

As soon as I plugged in the Gamecube and they played there wrestling game all hell broke loose. The kids were running around who weren’t playing the game. They were all on top of each other if they were playing the game, and of course I jumped in and grabbed them one by one. My nephew was enjoying this whole mess and jumping around as well. After they were done it took a little bit to reorganize but at least they had fun and didn’t want to leave.

Maki seems to be a favorite for a few people in Kuwait, and so we got invited there by our “other cousin”, I will keep referring to him as that. This is a funny turn of events since the venue changed once and he wasn’t able to come before that. So they decided to go there and I didn’t mind, all I knew is that it was going to be funny night. Sometimes you aren’t supposed to have some people all in the same room at one time, and that happened that evening. We were laughing our heads from the beginning and I was browsing through the menu ordering a few different things, but Maki isn’t the normal sushi place.

I was flipping through and told everyone I’m just going to order a large assortment of items from the menu, between me and my brother we had everything covered in the menu. The funny part about Maki is the Sushi has been localized with names such as Eissa Maki, Manayer Maki, Abdulla Maki, and Majid Maki. The list just keeps going and going, and some people even know who are the people the Makis got named after. Those are the special ones, and I think the Manayer Maki is my favorite maki out of all of them.

It was a funny night from beginning to the end, we were at each others throats the whole evening, someone always taking a shot at the other! Maki is pretty good at some things, and not so in others.

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I went to my brothers house after finishing up my errands, I reached their home before them so I put my things down in the living room and I went upstairs to find my niece bouncing around in her little baby thing with wheels (Don’t know the name of it). She gives me this look, who are you and what do you want! She is cute and then I played with her for a bit until she found things which interested her more.

I heard the door bell, and so I walked down expecting my brother only to find my nephew coming back from playing next door. I picked him up and of course he was asking for his father and mother, but I had to do for the next 20 – 40 minutes. I was entertaining him by playing with him and his car as well as, running after the ball which he found to be hilarious.

The funny part is later when they came back he wanted some chocolate biscuits, and he would bring one over to me to eat and try to place it in my mouth then he would take it and eat it. He would laugh that I fell for his joke, and then I would point at my open mouth for him to feed me. He did it a few more times before he fed me, he was also causing havoc around the area and I found that be entertaining since I really wasn’t stopping him, I was only laughing. I also bit his arm later in the day since he was not feeding me, he was laughing since he enjoyed his biscuits. I can’t blame him for liking these biscuits, they taste so damn good so I kept stealing from him.

I really enjoy when I come back from work and here noises inside the house, it only means one thing my nephew is in the vicinity! Then I hear him running around with a ball or balloons! So I go upstairs and start running after him, whats great is that he has learned some new words!

My name has also taken a transformation:

• First time he said it was – MAJOOK and that was the last time
• then he keeps saying MAMDOOK.. now that has phased out as well
• and now when he comes to the entrance of my room and my back is to him while on the computer he says AGOOOK and runs off knowing I’m going to chase him around the hall!

I honestly find it funny when he says my name how, and the other day he told me “NAWTEEEEE” (naughty) and slapped me, I was in total shocked and I started laughing really hard, I couldn’t believe he did that! But he seems to keep telling me I’m NAWTEEEE, he seemed to have learned the truth quickly!

And my niece is adorable she is only a few months old and she is curious! I love carrying her around and my nephew is doing his thing at the same time!

I went over to my cousins place on the very dusty day, ready to start our usual marathon. On my way there the roads were so dusty that I was sliding around on all the turns which was quiet entertaining. I got there and the first thing I ask for was some Orange Sherbert but that wasn’t readily available. We started off with Friday Night Lights, and I have to say the show just keeps getting better and better! I really do love this show and the season finale was great and I’m happy NBC signed it up for a season 2!

We were then interrupted by the arrival of our other cousin! He was late, very late, and he wanted us to stop watching Friday Night Lights (The Season Finale) to chat! What Blasephomy! We stopped and he wouldn’t answer some of our rediculous questions, but it was entertaining bagering him with rediculous ideas! He was annoyed with our ritual of marathon, but all will adhere to it!

Then started watching Sleeper Cell for a bit and then we stopped it since it wasn’t that good of show, I was disappointed really. We then swtiched to something a lot better, and I got to watch the most important scene in 300! It was fantastic! I don’t know how many times I have seen 300 but I still can’t get enough! THIS IS SPARTAAAAAA!!!!