Manchester United vs. Everton

It was a really good match and manchester had a really nice come back...until the the beginning of the 2nd hald everton were winning 2-0 but manchester did it as always...thank god...the game ended 4-2 to manchester...

and the other good news is that chelsea (ranked as 2nd after manchester)had a draw match (2-2) against bolton wanderers which makes the 5 points away...well thats alot better than 3...

here are the goals of the manchesters game:

Alan Stubbs (12')

Manuel Fernandes (50')

John O'Shea (61')

Philip Neville (67') Own Goal

Wayne Rooney (79')

Chris Eagles (92')

Jet Airways To Offer It’s Travellers Private Cabin to India

Luxury travel is getting more and more luxurious. If you don’t own your personal aircraft then too, you can now enjoy a luxury flight with facilities like those of a personal aircraft. We have earlier told you about Etihad and Emirates airways luxury seating with 180 degrees swivel, personal LCD video screen, mood lighting, built-in massage facility and fold-and-swivel meal tables and the Delta airways Lie-Flat Seats, but Jet Airways has gone a step higher with its private mini cabins. Yes..if you are a frequent traveler from London to India then you can now get as comfortable as it could get!



Jet Airways will be offering its passengers a luxury service dubbed the “Orient Express of the Skies” that offers complete privacy with mini cabins with colonial-style sliding doors. The exclusive mini-suites boast 26 square foot room, an 83-inch bed, a wall-mounted 23-inch flat screen TV with more than 200 hours of the latest movies and dining for two. Each passenger will even has his or her personal hanging wardrobe as well as office facilities for working. Meals are served on hand-painted Bernardaud porcelain dinnerware with Dom Perignon and Krug among the champagnes on offer. There’s also a communal bar.



And all this royal treatment would set you back for £4,422. Each of Jet Airways’ Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will have eight of these luxury suites and the first flight takes off from Heathrow on May 5.

[Via Born Rich]

Absolut-ly Over

I didn’t know to feel when I read that Absolut is retiring it’s iconic ad campaign after 25 years of abundancy, especially as much of Absolut’s fame is directly tied to it. The campaign, featuring an object shaped like the distinctive Absolut bottle in the center and a title “ABSOLUT ____” at the bottom, started around 1980 and has had more than 1500 ads, making it the longest running ad campaign ever.

The Absolut Vodka bottle has become something of a modern icon, and the Absolut ads, having stretched the boundaries between advertising and art, have already been collector’s items for years. I’m sure their value as such will increase exponentially with the retirement of the campaign, making me wish that I buy/bought magazines.

Over the past 25 years, chosen artists, including sculptors like Arman, crystal glass designers like Bertil Vallien, fashion designers like David Cameron and John Galliano, were given complete creative freedom, the only stipulation being that the bottle must be visible in the work. The campaign has even made it to an 11 meter high ice-sculpture done in the Swiss Alps, and features works of every conceivable style from Dali-type surrealism to cowboy-kitsch.

Naturally, the campaign also has a golden star in the hall of fame of the advertising and design industries. Absolut is to date one of only three brands inducted into the American Marketing Association’s Hall of Fame, along with Coca-Cola and Nike. It is also the only product in history to have won both the most coveted prizes in the US advertising business – the Effie and the Kelly awards. On a scholastic level, complete design courses that dissect the campaign and nothing else are offered in several art schools. Even locally, I have seen the campaign make its appearance on slideshows and presentations a lot of times in my design classes at the UofJ.

Of course every campaign has to see an end, but 25-years is such a long run that I’m actually absolut sad to see it go.

[Via And Far Away]

Nice Ariel Ads

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Virgin Marina Mall In Kuwait Shutdown

Virgin in Marina Mall was shutdown because they were caught selling inappropriate movies.





[Via 2:48am]

Manchester United vs. AC Milan

vs.

In General it was a really good game and manchester came around in the end...I am a Manchester fan btw...the score was 3-2 for manchester...

here are the goals:

C. Ronaldo (5')

Kaka (22')

Kaka (37')

Rooney (59')

Rooney (90')

I copied the links from kooora.com forums btw...

DHL

Have you ever wondered what does DHL stands for?

Well today it occured to me so I looked it up, and it turns out that it stands for the first letter of the company founders last names: Dalsey, Hillblom and Lynn...

and here are some interesting facts i also found about the company:

Number of Employees: around 285,000
Number of Offices: around 6,500
Number of Hubs, Warehouses & Terminals: more than 450
Number of Gateways: 240
Number of Aircraft: 420
Number of Vehicles: 76,200
Number of Countries & Territories: more than 222
Shipments per Year: more than 1.5 billion
Destinations Covered: 120,000

Meshary Alruwaih

I just opened The Kuwait Times web site to check if Meshary Alruwaih (the writer who wrote "How To Survive 10 Days In Riyadh") had any other articles about Saudi Arabia, and i just found out that he has an article "Saudi Arabia...I'm Sorry."

I felt waay better knowing thaat he didn't mean all the things he wrote earlier and I am sorry for calling you A Racist...

Here is the article he wrote quoting it from the newspaper's site:

"You know how sometimes you joke with a friend by teasing him or trying to be sarcastic about the way he looks or behaves? Usually you mean no harm, and certainly you didn't mean any disrespect. Still your harmless humour can end up causing discomfort to your close friend to the point that you see it through his eyes. Suddenly you realise how silly your remarks were, and you swiftly apologise.

I would like to apologise to Saudi Arabia.

A few months ago I wrote an article titled "How to survive 10 days in Riyadh" describing how boring my visit to Riyadh was, and making 10 basic rules to help me survive the boredom and depressing atmosphere of that city.
At the time it was published it did not really draw a lot of attention. But about a week ago, my article was all over the net sent to people as an attachment and posted on many forums.

I started getting tons of emails from Saudi guys, slamming my article. Some were respectful, others could not control their temper. But all agreed that the piece was offensive to their city of Riyadh and to the whole kingdom.

For that, I am sorry. In no way do I hold any negative feelings toward their country, the kingdom is dearly held in the hearts of many Kuwaitis, including mine, and its role during the Iraqi invasion is never forgotten and will always be appreciated.

Let me tell you something, writers love attention, they love their articles to be talked about, whether positive or negative, it does not matter as long as their names are mentioned and their ideas are being circulated, clearly that article achieved just that for me.

But I don't want to be known as the guy who talked ill about Saudi Arabia, I hate to have my name associated with any offences toward the capital of our big sister, if attacking the kingdom is the way to popularity, then I do not want it.

I see writing as a career, not something that I do when I have spare time so I'm aiming big, I dream and I aim for a future in this career, And believe me I do not want to be remembered one day as the guy who assaulted his neighbours.
So, yes, I do regret writing that article, still I do not regret the experience that taught me many lessons including the need to apologise when you offend a person or a society.

Apologies are not easy to make as they involve dignity and pride. But when you are wrong you are wrong, and when you apologise to your brothers they understand that your apology is not because you are weak. On the contrary, it's because you have the strength to come out publicly and say I'm sorry.

And certainly I do not regret the opportunity that allowed me to get to know a few Saudi guys who kindly explained to me how hurtful my words were and even invited me to Riyadh to see its good side and change my idea about it, very kind and generous invitations indeed. But I do know the good side of Riyadh and the kindness of its people. Maybe next time I'll visit Riyadh I'll come up with a new article titled 'How to enjoy 10 days in Riyadh.' "

Dubai...

Dubai is like "Singapore on steroids", I just read that in an interesting blog An Englishman in Saudi Arabia.

You Are A Racist

ok i just read your article "How to survive 10 days in Riyadh" and please read my comments

1- "you will end up watching animal planet" am pretty sure that the TV channels you get in riyadh are the same ones you get in kuwait, so if you end up watching animal planet then i think you enjoy it.

2- "spend long hours in your hotel room" if you don't have friends to go out with then that is also a problem with you. Try to be more interesting. As for going out, tell me where do you want to go:
Cinema: buy a movie and watch it in your room as you said.
Clubbing: Riyadh is in KSA and KSA is an Islamic country.
Cafes & restaurants: Riyadh has millions of cafes and restaurants.
Malls: there is all kind of shops in Riyadh.
Unless of course looking at girls in the mall is something you enjoy.

3- There are lots of people who go to Riyadh, so please don't generalize...and Kuwait isn't a really hot spot for travelers in case you haven't noticed.

4- You always have a near death experience when you drive, goo take driving lessons. All countries have stupid drivers and good drivers.

5- PRAY!! you should pray everywhere...and riyadh doesn't have any temptations, that is actually the first nice thing you said about Riyadh so thanks...as I said KSA is an Islamic country so if u accept that the same country that accommodates Makah and Medina, accommodates clubs and alcohol, you have another problem.

6- This one you just wrote to make the article look longer. It’s useless.

7- You are a MAN. You smoke 30 cigarettes a day. Something you want to show off.

8- Well Riyadh tries to be shisha free, whats wrong with thaat. It values its citizen’s lives.

9- You Italian men mashalla 3aleekom...this one show that you don't even qualify a writer since you don't like God’s creation.

10-"flawless" i won't say anything more because am not a racist and i accept that each country has a good side and a baad one.

I have to saay that after knowing that a newspaper could publish such article written by an obviously untalented writer is just something wrong. And this is not the first time, what about the Aprils fool prank...is thaat a newspaper or a comic book and to post it on the first page...mashalla. If u dont have something to fill your pages please reduce the number of pages then. Don’t fill it up with crap.

Huge Dubai Creek Extension

A 13 kilometre extension to Dubai Creek, which will more than double its length, was approved yesterday by the Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. It will run from Ras Al Khor, which is the wetland at the end of the natural Creek, into the Gulf at Jumeirah, giving it two outlets to the sea.

Read More [Via Metroblogging Dubai]

Blocked

I just read in UAE Community Blog that 40% of the internet is blocked her in the UAE...That is alooot...

The Wafi Roberry

I dont know if you all heared but yesterday there was a roberry in wafi city...here is the story as people have told me...and u can check the video above...

two Audi A8 cars broke into wafi through the main entrance, they broke into one of the jewlery shops. there were six armored, masked and wearing all black men...they stole around 24 million, went out the other entrance...and some people say tha the cars were found a bit later set on fire...i also heared someone saying the robbery took about 1 minute and 50 seconds, while the police arrived after 3 minutes...

this is a really serious thing and its the first time it happens here in dubai and if they didnt get caught i think more people will be encouraged to do similar attempts...

but the weord thing that i opened Emirates Today and the only thing i found was a really short article about thee lines long in the right bottom end of the third page...

Vista Upgrade

it has been while since i posted anything, but a couple of days ago i installed windows vista and it took me a while to update all my drivers and install all my programs so as of now everything is finally up and running...

Pay By The Second

XBox 360 Qwerty Keyboard Rumors

Earlier today, Gamespot made mention of an upcoming QWERTY keyboard add-on for the Xbox 360 controller. Since that time, the post was yanked, but Engadget posted some rather slick looking images of what the controller could might look like.

There were rumors as far back as 2005 that Microsoft would release such a device, but those never came to fruition. However, with the recent announcements about integration to Windows Live Messenger in the console’s upcoming Spring 07 Dashboard Update, now seems like the right time.

[Via Technabob]

Trucks Banned From Using The BB Bridge

Lorries, tankers and other heavy vehicles have been banned from using Dubai’s Business Bay Crossing.

The order by the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is intended to ensure the safety of drivers and keep traffic moving in both directions between Bur Dubai and Deira.

The ban applies to any vehicle weighing 2.5 tonnes or more and will be in force 24 hours a day as well as on all holidays.

It differs from the lorry bans on other crossings, which are lifted at certain times.

Maitha Mohammed bin Adai, Chief Executive Officer of the Traffic and Roads Agency at the RTA, called on lorry drivers and firms that owned heavy vehicles to obey the ban, which applies to the crossing and the roads leading to it. Salahaldin Al Marzoki, of the Traffic and Roads Agency, said the opening of the fourth crossing on the creek had helped to reduce traffic jams on the other three.

There was, therefore, no justification for a lorry or tanker driver using the Business Bay Crossing. Any accident involving a heavy vehicle will cause massive damage, he said.

Bin Adai said work on another crossing, the Floating Bridge, had reached a key phase – the development of roads and interchanges on either side of the creek. He said: “This is one of a series of vital projects being undertaken to upgrade roads and crossings.” “The project is in line with RTA’s strategy and its continual efforts to keep pace with the construction boom and the emirate’s social and economic development, and to meet the needs of Dubai’s growing population.” The sixlane Floating Bridge is being built half a kilometre south of the Al Maktoum Bridge. It will link the area around Deira City Centre and the Dubai Creek Golf and Yacht Club with a new intersection on Riyadh Street between Dubai Courts and Creek Park. The bridge will be constructed using 20-metre-wide hollow concrete blocks that will float on water. Work began at the end of last year and the project will cost Dh127 million.

[Via Emirates Today]

Burj Dubai Towers With Storeys

Burj Dubai, already the tallest structure in the Middle East and Europe, has set a new global record for having more floors than any other building in the world.

Currently at 120 storeys and 422.5 metres high, the iconic building developed by Emaar Properties is also one of the five tallest structures in the world.

Height-wise, the tower is now taller than the Empire State Building (381 metres) in New York City and the John Hancock Centre (344 metres) in Chicago – two of only five completed buildings in the world that have 100 storeys or more.

So far 304,800 cubic metres of reinforced concrete and 59,200 tonnes of reinforcing steel have been used in the construction of Burj Dubai.

“Burj Dubai is setting a new record with every passing day – in terms of height and the number of storeys,” said Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties.

“This is the accomplishment of teamwork, with the world’s best in engineering, construction and design services working together to create a new landmark not only for the UAE, but for the world,” he said.

Burj Dubai, designed by Chicago-based Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, is being constructed by high-rise experts, South Korea’s Samsung Corporation.Turner Construction International is the project and construction manager of the tower.

When completed, Burj Dubai will be the tallest building in the world in all four categories recognised by the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH). It ranks buildings on the basis of spire height, the highest occupied floor, roof height and pinnacle height.

Burj Dubai forms the epicentre of Downtown Burj Dubai, a Dh73 billion mixeduse project featuring residences, commercial space, hospitality projects and several retail outlets.

[Via Emirates Today]

A Catalogue of Errors Made a Man’s Life Hell

A patient claims a doctor’s incompetence has turned his life into a nightmare.

Abu Mohammed went to a hospital in Dubai for treatment to remove stones in his left kidney – and ended up losing the organ and being infected with hepatitis.

He had been suffering from severe pain and a medical examination revealed the presence of kidney stones. His doctor said the procedure to break them down was simple and would not take long.

But hours after the procedure Mohammed, the Syrian who works for a private company, woke up in agony.

“I felt severe pain that no human can stand,” he said.

“Blood was oozing from my side – it stained my clothes and the bed covers. This continued for three days.

“The doctor reassured me that loss of blood was normal after the treatment. He told me to drink lots of water and take my medicine regularly, and said I could leave the state-run hospital.” But the pain and the flow of blood continued, and a day later Mohammed had to return for treatment to break down blood clots. He stayed in the hospital for 11 days enduring severe pain and growing weaker due to the loss of blood.

A further examination was then carried out and Mohammed was shocked to learn an artery entering the kidney had been cut during the original procedure.

“The doctor was greatly embarrassed and promised to correct the error,” he said. “He did his best to find a solution to the severed artery, using a blood-clotting agent to help repair the cut.” Mohammed was then sent home. But he again experienced intense pain and started bleeding heavily.

“My wife fainted when she saw blood oozing,” he said.

He had another operation and the doctor assured him he could continue his normal life. But two years later, Mohammed felt acute pain and visited a private hospital in Sharjah. It was then he received the worst news yet.

“The kidney consultant told me I was living with only one kidney,” said Mohammed. “The left kidney had contracted and hardened and was a real threat to the other one.” The doctor decided to remove the kidney, which he said was working at only four per cent efficiency. The surgery cost him Dh20,000.

And his ordeal did not end there – he was later diagnosed with hepatitis caused by the use of contaminated blood when he received transfusions at the government hospital.

He cannot have treatment for this condition as the drugs would affect the performance of his kidney.

“My life is hell,” Mohammed said.

[Via Emirates Today]

Liquids To Be Restricted On Board

Passengers may have to give up liquids, pastes and gels under the government’s new safety rules covering hand luggage, Emirates airline conveyed yesterday.

Any drink, pastes, gels and lotions in containers larger than 100ml will have to be handed over before boarding. This restriction will apply to all fluids as well as aerosol sprays and creams.

The regulations, which are in line with the recommendations from the International Civil Aviation Organisation, are being introduced.

The new hand baggage restrictions apply to passengers boarding in Australia, China, the EU, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Japan, the Maldives, Mauritius, New Zealand, Norway, Pakistan, the Philippines, the Seychelles, Singapore, South Korea, Switzerland and the United States.

Some carry-on duty-free items could be confiscated during transit desk security checks in any airport in any of these countries. Because of this restriction, Dubai Duty Free has introduced a service that allows passengers to have goods placed in the aircraft hold at the departure gate.

Airline baggage tags are attached to these items and passengers are able to collect them at their final destination along with their checked baggage.

Liquids, gels, lotions and substances of a similar consistency that passengers wish to carry on to an aircraft must be placed in transparent resealable plastic bag with a capacity of no more than one litre.

These bags must be held separately from hand luggage so that they can be presented for visual inspection. And each passenger may have only one bag.

Fluids in bottles or canisters larger than 100ml will not be accepted – even if the container is only partly filled.

The security measures have been introduced to safeguard passengers from the possibility of explosives being smug gled on board an aircraft in liquid form.

[Via Emirates Today]

Open-Door Jet Caper Lands Man In Cuffs

Dubai Police have arrested a troublesome passenger who caused panic among 300 odd passengers of an Emirates flight during the landing phase of a six-hour non-stop flight.

Emirates airline officials have confirmed a passenger, who during the landing opened the door of EK040 from Birmingham to Dubai on Thursday, has been detained by the Dubai Police for interrogation as part of its investigation into the strange and unprecedented incident in the aviation history of the UAE.

However, Emirates officials have categorically ruled out that the incident was part of a hijacking bid.

None of the 307 passengers on board were injured in the incident that caused a 30minute delay for passengers to disembark.

“While taxiing to the terminal building after landing at the Dubai International Airport on Thursday, an aircraft door on flight EK040 from Birmingham was opened by a passenger.This caused the emergency inflatable slides to automatically activate,” said Sarah Shaughnessy, the official spokesperson of Emirates.

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Let Strepsils Be Your Mic

[Via Ad Blog Arabia]

Microsoft BOB

It turns out that the folks over in Redmond might have a sense of humor after all. I was working on getting my new install of Vista Ultimate up and running on my machine this weekend, and stumbled across this awesome easter egg.

It turns out that there’s an entire functional copy of the 1995 Microsoft BOB operating system hidden inside of Windows Vista. BOB was supposed to be an easy-to-use interface for Windows 3.2, complete with fuzzy animated characters (who eventually led to “Clippy” the paper clip in Microsoft Office.)

Here’s how I managed to activate it:

First, you need to make sure you have full administrative permissions on your machine. Then, go to the Start menu and enter “W.0.w.B.0.b.” (note that those are Zeros not Os) while holding down the Alt key. Then, set your system time zone to “Cairo”. The next time you reboot, type in the same phrase backwards and you’ll be in the Windows Bob environment, complete with all of the original features. Once BOB is activated you can set your clock back to your regular time zone.

Surprisingly, the new version of BOB has been updated to include integration with Outlook 2007, so you can actually see your calendar entries and e-mails in the BOB organizer. Post back and let me know which character is your favorite. Personally, I like Scuzz the Rat.

[Via Technabob]

The Rolling Bridge

The idea behind a Rolling Bridge is just fantastic to say the least, I’ve never seen a bridge that could roll itself and become a circle, so this is surely a “new thing in town”, more exactly in London (UK) but I think this could become a great addition to the City of Water also known as Venice (Italy).

The rolling bridge measures 12 meters and is composed by 8 steel and timber sections, that I suppose measure 1,5 meters each and are almost symmetric. As you can see on the image the bridge is suppose to curl and become a big wheel.

Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch.

[Via The Uber Review]

Nice Cartoon

[Via Blog.code.ae]

April Fools

I saw this on so many blogs today...i totall agree with 2:48AM when he says newspaper shouldnt participate in April's Fool Day...i bet many people will take advantage of this...ok it is funny and nice but not in a newspaper...

Adidas: Love Competition

[Via 2:48AM]

The New Showtime Arabia revealed today 1 April

Apart from the big news that Showtime Arabia has won the rights to the English Premier League, there have been sweeping changes in the look of the station and its channels as of today, 1 April.

The new channels have been branded Showcinema, Showmovies, Showkids, Showsports and Showseries…. etc.

Three new Showsports channels replace the previous Sportsnet channels, and should provide Showtime with a leap in subscribers just before the next football season starts in August.

Showtime Arabia promoted it’s new look, through teaser promos for the past couple of weeks, as the network continues to gain marketshare in spite of the free-to-air challenge of MBC Group channels which follow a similar formula in Western entertainment programming.

ART, losers of the Premier League rights, are yet to announce any major shift in strategy to cope with the potential fall-out next season.

Without a doubt, there will be plenty of football-associated sponsors, like Snickers and Pepsi who will move to Showtime.

[Via Ad Blog Arabia]

Karate For Kids (Creative)

[Via Ad Blog Arabia]