There was a Molton Brown craze in Kuwait a few years back, I dont know how it exactly it came about, but damn I love the smell of the Molton Brown soap. I remember the first time I tried it was on the British Airways flight and I know that helped spread the name of Molton Brown like wild fire.
The funny part is during that period they immediatly opened a store in Kuwait which closed after sometime, I wasnt aware how long it took, and I didnt know why it wasnt succesful here since lots of people really like it. I was in the states at the time and you had to order from the UK to get the product so I used to order the soap just to wash my hands with. It was clean and it smelt so damn nice. They also had a really nice aftershave cream, some people like Nivea and I like it too but the Molton Brown was a little different and felt good. I dont even know if they sell Molton Brown anywhere in Kuwait, but I will be asking someone to pick some up for me from London if they are stopping by anytime soon in London.
Link: Molton Brown
These past couple of mornings its been hard as hell to get up. Its nice and chilly outside, and it has been pretty cloudy. I know I need some more sleep but still I feel like Im dragging myself out of bed these days just to make sure I got to work. And those hot showers arent completely waking me up in the morning these days, I still feel tired after the shower.
You know you have that feeling when its going to be a long day at work the next couple of days!
Freedom at last! Its been so damn long since my stuff has beens stuck in customs that I thought I was never going to get my DVDs. I cant even remember what was in my order it was a while back now. Its annoying as hell that they did this.
This started October 15th and Now its December 11th.
Items I have been waiting for:
- Flame of Recca – 400 Year Old Truth (Vol. 4)
- The Unit – The Complete First Season
- Fafner – Going Home (Vol. 7)
- Godannar, Vol. 5 – International Affairs
- Beowulf & Grende
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, 2nd GIG, Volume 07
- The Fast and the Furious – Tokyo Drift (Widescreen Edition)
- Daft Punk – Interstella 5555
- Scrubs – The Complete Fourth Season
- Voltron – Defender of the Universe – Collection One
It took over two months for my items to be released! And there was nothing to hold it for. They make things so difficult and annoying. From what I head PWC or Agility has taken over customs, but I dont know what exactly they are doing. But they are causing problems and one of them seems to be this problem.
My Next Order is going to be soon, but Im going to order a direct shipment to Kuwait through DHL and Im going to see what happens. Its going to be books and DVDs and hopefully it will come through as others have experienced.
I need one day to sleep in, and do nothing all day. Something that would require very little effort from my brain. The only thing I would have to do is think about what I want to eat or watch. And then I would get a good nights sleep.
I have been operating on overdrive for the past 11 days now that I feel beat up by the time I sleep. I woke up this morning feel like I was lifting 1000Kgs and my body was dead. When I lifted myself out of bed I felt so damn heavy, and my alarms at a high volume are having a hard time waking me up. The curtain are open yet I dont seem to be able to get up that easily. The only reason Im getting up is because I know I have deadlines and my time is commited after work to family and others. Its not really that I have a choice, somethings are just really out of my hands.
I need to just pass out one day to get a good nights sleep, and I dont want to waste my friday not being able to ride or do what I want so I dont sleep in. Im feeling everything from this week and last week.
I had a lot of work to do over the weekend, not specifically just work some of it was family related. But I managed to do quite a few different things. I was running around meeting people and visiting people. Thursday night I went over to my cousins place for a bit, it was my first chance to get on the bike all weekend even though it was at night. I didnt care I wanted to get on the bike since thursday morning I didnt go to work on the bike because it rained in the early morning and the roads were still damp.
Over at my cousins place we had some chinese food, and we watched two episodes of Heroes but I cut out early and headed home since I was tired. I was reconnecting my media pc back to the screen and testing things out. It was really fun just wiring things together and watching some anime on the big screen.
Friday morning I went out for a quick ride, and then I came back to find my nephew just arrived at our house. It was a fun day with the family and then I spent a little while entertaining my nephew after he woke up from his afternoon nap. Its fantastic that he has a good amount of energy, and the littlest things entertain him. I just love the weather was fantastic this weekend.
Im most probably chilling in Kuwait for New Years. I really dont think that Im going anywhere, and I have spent a few New Years in Kuwait and you have to pretty much provide your own source of entertainment. New Years in Kuwait is just like any other day, no real feel to a new year. And thanks to all the religious MPs that we have they banned all types of concerts in Kuwait, which is ludicrous but it is still in effect. The events done at restaurants are horrible, and I went once and I wont repeat my mistake. I have spent New Years in different parts of the US and its extremely entertaining. Things were pretty good in Kuwait until the MPs wanted to intervene, for some reason every time they intervene they usually do something dumb, but they were voted in and nothing much can be done about it.
We were previously planning to go to Lebanon for New Years but that went out the window, and I hope things settle down soon. I havent been to Lebanon in over 4 years, and I was looking forward to seeing how it has changed. And going to anywhere in the Gulf is out of the question.
So I just hope for good weather on New Years day because I will be riding. I dont care how cold it is I will be riding New Years morning!
It has been strange weather the past couple of days since it could get cold and warm in the same day and we are in the first week of december. I wanted to make sure that people wouldnt freeze in the house so we took out all the heaters of storage and started putting them where they used to be. But I hate having a heater so I never put one in my room, and sometimes because of the weather I sometimes switch on the A/C if no one is in the other rooms that is connected to this A/C system. I love sleeping in the cold!
So after putting each on in its specific location I was slowly switching each one on to see if everything was on. Then I went for the fourth heater, and then boom and a really funny smelling burn in coming out of the heater. It tripped the fuse box for the floor so everything went out and I was going to go nuts beacuse it switched off items on my PC that I didnt save. After a little flip switching in the fuse box I got things working again and I checked that all the other heaters were ok, but damn it stell smelt of a burning after that broken heater. Then I spent 20 mins selectively switching items on in my PC armada! It was funny seeing what happened!
I was slightly drained that day but really really looking forward to hitting the gym. I changed at home and went in the Land Cruiser because I wasn’t sure if it was going to rain but I wasn’t going to try my luck. So I head over to the gym and I see a bunch of cars, and Arjan Complex filled with people like usual.
Im already in my gym cloths so I go up and I head straight to the elytpical that I always use. The funny part is that I have been using the same elyptical for the month and a half that I have been going to the gym. So I think Im sticking it!
On my left there was an elderly lady, and on my right on a treadmill there was an elderly man. Then I remember that they are couple and they are very nice. Last time I went on my bike they told me they like my bike, and like my gear! They were a very cute couple and even though they are pretty old they came to the gym together. It made me smile! Now you can’t ask much more then that.
After 30 mins on the elyptical I went to the machine which targets the back muscles and started from there. The salsa class was going at full swing and this time it was more organized, everyone seemed to have specific partners and do their thing. After that I was rotating between all the back machines, and started with some leg excercises. And just kept on going until I felt exhausted and I finished all the reps that I had to do. Then I went straight home for a nice shower and passing out for work.
It feels great after a nice warm shower!
So the other day I went to Kuwait airport to pick-up my mother from the airport since she has been away for the past couple of weeks. She was arriving on an early flight I was at the airport early in the morning expecting the plane to be early too. I thought I would just wait in starbucks and take a look at the magazines in and around there.
As I walk in I see that the plan is delayed for 34 mins, so I decided to get breakfast before going to work. As I walk in there a was a young man on the right who has a decently long religious type beard. My assumption here is that you wouldnt grow it out to the extent where you could measure with a ruler except if your going for the religious look, or maybe the Chuck Norris 1980s look but a little more shaggy, I dont really but it was long.
I saw that he was working very intensly on his laptop and I was curious as to what he was doing on his laptop. So as I am walking up to the sales counter, lined with 4 to 5 starbucks employees, I turned to the right as if looking at the mugs but Im really looking at the guy’s laptop screen. I was in such a shock that I got a closer look, as I got a little closer I was interrupted by one of the starbucks employees seeing if I want a mug or something I told him in a sec. The first time I saw his screen he was playing a game, as I got closer it was a real time strategy game! I was envious of the guy! I wanted to be playing too! It looked like a Command and Conquer type game! I love those types of RTS games, especially with the modern weapons. He was highlighting here, attacking there, building overthere, and sending troops to support the attack! I was watching him intently until I noticed I was pretty damn close to the guy and left to order my breakfast! I was laughing at my self because I wanted to play video games early in the morning too. Now that was a nice shock in the morning! It really entertained me, and after a while my mother arrived, but I was still laughing at my self for being somewhat jealous of the guy who could play video games from 6:50am in the morning, and by the time I left the guy was still playing. I need to play some games!
I have had my home theater setup for a year now and Im very happy with it. I only had two front speakers, one center speaker, and one subwoofer from Mirage. So it wasn’t a complete Dolby Digital Surround system yet since I didn’t have the rear speakers. I didn’t get them previously since I wasn’t sure of the seating arrangement and I thought it might be different at a later point, but after a year and keeping the same arrangement I decided to add the rear speakers.
So I got the Mirage HDT-R from the same range that my speakers are currently from, and they cost $1500.00 (without installation) from online audio shops. ETC did a really good job with the installation and they used high quality audio cables to connect them to my Onkyo receiver.
All together I paid 620KD including installation. I didn’t mind the price difference since I understand they pay shipping charges and other details, but their service is really good and they installed it the next day. It only took two hours to install even though I thought it would take a lot longer to do it since they had to move a lot of objects out of the way. Heavy and breakable objects, but they did it quickly and I’m happy customer because it sounds fantastic and a very clean installation.
I will be posting pictures when I get back home.
For testing purposes I played different scenes from three different movies: Gladiator, Hero, and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
ETC
Location: Shuweikh
Phone: 4825851
Link: Mirage
Link: Vanns Audio