Wednesday was a hectic day, I had to finish a lot of work and I was handing over some projects to some people I work with. I was running around all day, plus I had to go to the bank, and I got a quick shave and cut. Checking on some maintenance for the house as well. Then I was with family for a little while. I didn’t even start packing at that point but I knew I had a lot to do. I was bouncing from one end to the other just finishing up last minute details.

I was heading home to finish up packing, and since it was Wednesday and most of my friends didn’t have anything to do I asked them to take me to the airport once we finished up our usual night. I was running back and forth between the basement and my room since I was hanging out with them and still packing. I left them for a bit and went to my brothers house to say goodbye to him and his family. As soon as I saw my nephew he shouted Agoog Agoog! I was happy to see him, its been a week but it feels like ages! And I saw my niece, she was adorable but she was tired! I was only there for five minutes but my nephew kept saying baara baara becase I was going out. And he was saying bye bye Agoog bye! I thought that this was the first long vacation I have taken in over a year, and my nephew got me all choked up. The little bugger got to me, and I really will miss him! Then I went back home to find the guys still chilling watching the movie while I went upstairs to finish packing.

Four of the guys were going to take me to the airport and the rest were too tired. It was going to be a funny ride to the airport! We got the bags down, and we took off. We were all squeezed up in a Dodge Durango. It was funny as we were going along and music was blaring, when we go to the airport it was totally packed. There were a lot of flights coming in and going out so we had to find parking. We parked really far away and walked, checked in the bags and stood outside the security check for a little while. After that I went in to the Pearl Lounge to relax for a bit before getting on the plane. As soon as I boarded the plane I passed out, there were a few people I knew on the plane but I only chatted with them at the gate. As soon as the plane was taking off I flatten the seat and go to sleep.

Today was one hell of day, there was an event planned for my brother for a special occasion. The plan was to do a Treasure Hunt across some area in Kuwait, and we guys didn’t have a clue what or how to do anything. I have to say it was exciting and a very different thing to do. We met up and we were 6 people at the Starbucks in Qibla. From there the events began, we were separated into two groups and we had to figure out clues which led us from location to location. We had to figure out clues to go to the next location, the first clue was the hardest.

We were told that girls usually figure out these clues faster then the guys. And guys are really just brash about things!! We were a little more then Brash, we were just hilarious! The first thing that happened, after they explained the semi-complex rules to us, was a car chase! We didn’t know what we were doing and we thought they knew what they were doing. So we tried following them, we tried following them from afar and a few times we managed to keep up but the vehicle was much faster so after a while we gave up and decided to work on the clue to figure out the answer. Each clue gave a key to open a lock on a metal box that had another clue, and there were three locks in them. We did the most insane things, such as water from a water fountain in The Avenues, to finding a key inside a clothing store. I was the navigator and helper. We had someone making calls if need be, we wanted to win at all costs. And one of the clues was too funny trying to figure out that I think its worth someone to do.

A few mishaps happened where a friend of ours was a casualty of the adventure. His shoes got completely soaked just to get the water from the fountain. And they asked for evidence such as video and photos that we did everything that was required. It was funny as hell. We were accused of cheating but we didn’t… we really didn’t!

Honestly it was an amazing job, and they can customize it for you to be across all of Kuwait or in just a certain area. Oh yeah.. my team won!

I came to the realization that I have a lot of anime, and I have some old anime that I haven’t seen yet and they are in storage in folders deep deep within the cavern and tunnels of my directories. I surprised when I come across them and I make a mental note to watch them, but then I get too caught up with the ones I have right in front of me, but I still feel like its candy when I see that I have episodes to watch.

What I’m Watching

• Kiba (Very Good)
• Naruto Shippuuden (Excellent)
• Claymore (Excellent)
• Planetes (Excellent)
• Shadow Skill (Good)
• Eyeshield 21 (Excellent)
• Bleach (Excellent)
• Welcome to NHK (Good)

Complete Series

• Gundam SEED CE73 Stargazer
• DGray-man
• Paranoia Agent
• Saiyuki Reload
• Saiyuki Reload Gunlock
• Karas
• Berserk
• Zegapain
• Gankutsuou

Currently Downloading

• Seirei no Moribito
• Darker Then Black
• Ergo Proxy
• Kiss Dum – Engage Planet

One way or another these lists always grow and there is always space for more anime. I’m not even including the piles of DVDs that I haven’t even watched yet. Not enough time to watch them all.

At this point the time is coming close when I will be going on my first vacation for a while now. I leaving on Wednesday night to the states for some time off. I have a lot of things planned out and its all with friends.

I’m going to visit a lot of friends on the West Coast and that is where I will be for about 2 and a half weeks. I have gotten the time off from work, but I think I will still be in the loop for all the work and other tasks. I’m trying to remember all that I have to do before I travel, and hopefully this time I remember everything since this is going to be a longer trip.

I will be landing in LA staying there only for a day before driving up to San Francisco with a friend and staying there for the rest of the trip. We might be planning to go somewhere for labor day weekend. Whats great is that everyone is going to be there and I am just going to enjoy the time off. I got a few surprises though for everyone and a few things to look forward to while I’m there.

I have had to change my laptop bag recently and Tumi is one of the bags that I have been buying over the past couple of years so I thought I would get a Tumi bag. I had a different one previously but after 4 years of use it broke and it couldn’t be fixed. I got two bags from Tumi one is the T3 Flip Flap Bag, and the other is the T3 Map Bag. The T3 Flip Flap bag is for my laptop and a few accessories it small enough to put everything I want in it and carry around easily, the T3 Map Bag is when I want to put my camera, and note pad, cell phone is a small bag to take with me if I don’t want to keep it in my pockets. The T3 Map Bag is really versatile for a small size bag but I’m finding it very useful. The T3 Flip Flap Bag is just big enough that I can squeeze my 15.4 inch Laptop into there, its probably meant for a smaller size laptop but it is accommodating it.

I have been very happy with Tumi bags and their quality over the years, and there are other good quality bags out there but its their style which stands out. Even when I’m at the airport gets my bags from the conveyor belt the Grey and Light Blue Tumi bags stand out from the rest, so they are easy to spot.

Link: Tumi T3 Bags

For the past week and a half I have been preoccupied with some family things so I have had a bit of a long schedule every day since I came back. And today I was passing out in a meeting later in the day, and then I was visiting family for a while and passing out there. Then I went to the barbershop and I really wanted to relax, I passed out the whole time and I woke up with a completely shaved head and shaved goatee. So I was feeling really nice, but I need some rest. Got a lot of plans for the next couple weeks so things are going to get interesting.

I as going through the DVDs I had in my closet and these are some of the 80s movies that I really enjoyed. I do love some of these movies, some I have on DVD, but some I don’t see as worth having. But if these movies are on TV then I would sit there and watch the movie.

• Robocop
• Terminator
• Pink
• Lethal Weapon
• Die Hard
• Indiana Jones
• Look Whos Talking
• Star Wars
• Coming To America
• Space Balls
• Mad Max

While in London I managed to go to a few places in only two days. What I do like is that there is always something to do or somewhere to go to in London. There isn’t something new every time you go but you can always find your usual places. I remember when I was there I loved going in the cabs and I also loved walking around with my mp3 player just blasting. I would stop at any store I found interesting. I remember walking all the way down Piccadilly to Piccadilly Circus, then back and entering Bond Street then taking a Cab to Harrods then walking around there for hours, then Sloane Street for a bit and all back around. The first day I was just cruising for things I had in mind and there were days where I was just in one place for a long time, there were times early in the morning where I would go through the park to get from point a to point b. Its s nice change and some people really like it and some don’t. The weather was nothing but perfect during the time I was there, slightly warm during the day and cool during the night, I could see a lot of riders out enjoying and the normal deliver guys. I wanted to be riding since it felt like I haven’t ridden for ages. Everyone was outside doing something in Londons’ streets during this time. I’m one of the people that do enjoy walking around London.

Be warned there are many pictures!

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I was doing my alignment for the Landcruiser a couple of days ago and its usually 5 KD by hand and 10 KD with a computer. I opted for the computer since it would adjust the pull to the left I had, and it was better then before but not straight all the way.

Then one day my CD changer just stops working, the Landcruiser has a 6 Disc CD Changer and it just fails to work at this point. So I’m left listening to the radio but I have a few other options but I am too lazy to work on them regards to plugging a few things in. I was told the only way to fix the issue is to replace the unit from Toyota and its not going to be cheap so I’m looking into other options as what I want to install in its place. I prefer Alpine head units since they have very good quality of sound but once you go into the audio upgrades you upgrade everything and it adds up and I don’t feel like going into that and I doubt the capabilities of those in Kuwait.

It just turned into one of those funny nights, we were talking about lots of different things. And a few of us were working on the new media PC I have in the basement. Then one of our friends walks in with a bag filled with every ice cream that KDD makes and then the attack commences. I went for the Golden Cone at first and after sitting on the floor and working on the machine for a little while I went got myself a Failaka (Strawberry on a stick) Ice Cream. The HTPC turned out to be really good and we are able to just watch shows at a click of a button and we also watch a few concerts, the quality on the screen totally depends on quality of the video stored.

The screen resolution is set at 1920 by 1080 which is pretty damn good for that graphics card, but I’m having a little jitter from high resolution videos which I hope to resolve. Right after dinner two people disappear and reappear with more scoops of ice cream but that time it was from Baskin Robins. It seems it was an ice cream night, more then usual really.