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A Year of Life goes by , should i celebrate ?

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its like the half embty cup or half full

Am I 1 year older with more experince or am i 1 year closer to the finish line ?

Questions that does not have an answer

But at least the 5th of December will always be remmbered as Ninja Day !

Some other important stuff that happened on this date

( taken from wikipedia )

    1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
    1933 – Prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States officially ended when the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

Some people who were born on this day

  • 1839 – George Armstrong Custer, American general
  • 1901 – Walt Disney, American animated film producer
  • 1969 – Morgan J. Freeman, American film director
  • 1985 – Frankie Muniz, American actor
    • General, Kuwait

    Kuwait Book Fair 2006

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    Anyone who know me knows i must go to Book Fair , never missed one since i was around 14

    So I went this Year What i noticed ?

    – Less Books : there are less books than Last Year , not much Translated book or new English Books for example Last Year had hilary Clinton Books and some Michael Moore Books Translated to Arabic , i didn’t see any of the books released this year or past year there
    ( when i say any Books i mean Books that made headlines , like bob woodward books )

    – There Are more Kuwaiti Publisher and they are Good , more books and better quality Than Egyptian and Syrian publishers

    – Speaking of Syria , What is their Problem ? how Could the people running the fair allow this kind of Farce ?
    check this picture from 2005

    Syria Corner 2005

    Yes our beloved Sheik with a smaller picture that Bashar Alasad , when i asked them they said they couldn’t get a bigger Picture of sheik Jaber , when i asked why couldn’t get a smaller picture of bashar ( not like they don’t have all sizes I’m sure , even passport picture size ) he didn’t respond

    now check this from this Year

    Syria Corner 2006

    Same big freaking picture and not even a picture of our new sheik , what gives , no respect at all

    – Some people of the world ( some would say most ) think Arab Are terrorist , and nothing to show that more but to sell books like these

    Weapon Book

    Okay i want to ask , is there even a market for books like these ?

    – If there is a Book i recomend to Buy is this

    sonsofsinbad

    I have Read The book Many Times in Arabic ( i had a Translated version , Very old one ) and was trying to get this Book for a long time ( found it on amazon lately for 50 $ and was going to order it
    It is a story of a British Man who goes on a Kuwaiti Ship and sail all the way to Africa , the hardship they endured

    General, Tech, Travel

    Bahrain Airport …

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    At Bahrain airport , waiting for my flight back to Kuwait

    My flight is delayed , i hate when that happen , i want to back ! i miss my bed

    Watching BBC , and they have a report on Kuwait , must try to find it later
    they met with some MP , and are talking about why Kuwait isn’t going forward

    Bought some DVD from duty free , not sure if i can get them to Kuwait without much problem and hassle

    What is a trip without buying a gadget ? of course i had to fumble it up somehow , i have a portable DVD player ( which i bought relay cheap ) But its region 2 ( Europe ) and i don’t feel like going back to its country to exchange it back , and i throw the box out to save space in my bag

    At least i know some guy who may be happy to hack it

    General, Rants, TV

    Fight of The TV channels

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    Even when a good thing happen , it has to happen in a bad way in the Arab world

    TV channels fighting for rights and programs in good , thats why you get a better quality programs in the USA , and part of why NBA and NFL can pay high $$ for players , you see how much a 30 second ad on NFL final Cost ? a lot

    Now here in the Arab world we imported this thing , we have channels like ART , AlJazeerah Sport , Showtime sport , Orbit and other local channels and they fight for TV rights to prodcast world sport events and league like the Italian league and English league

    This should be good right ? that mean if anyone want it they have to improve rigth ?
    nope

    and not only that , in the USA if for some reason ESPN lost NFL prodcast right and lets say HBO won it , what do you if you don’t have HBO ? call the cable company and ask them to HBO , problem solved

    But here in Kuwait what you had to do when Abu Dhabi lost right for Italian league and Aljazeera got it ?
    You had one of two choices
    1- buy Aljazeerah Card
    2- Buy Art Card and Add Aljazeerah on it

    and since the world cup was coming i went with two and paid for a 6 month in advance for both channels ( ART made you pay 6 month in advance for world cup )

    And you what happened 2 month later ( and before Italian league start ) ? Art sent me an SMS telling me that Aljazeerah are no longer with them and i can use the money i payed for Aljazeerah for months I’m not getting on another ART channel or make it a down payment for more months with art sport ! i still didn’t do that , the phone there does answer and its a hell of drive there ( and parking is hell )

    Then they publish an AD in the newspaper that if you want Aljazeerah you can get it free with Showtimes , 2 weeks later Showtimes middle East ( the on in Dubai ) call and ask if i have any problem , i tell them yeah i didn’t get ALjazeerah Sport
    he tell me i have to upgrade to Movie Package ( i have Sport Package and no ALjazeerah sport , oh the irony )
    of course i didn’t , i don’t watch TV that much and Showtimes movies are going to Waste
    ( if it wasn’t for my father watching Discovery and my brother watching sitcoms sometimes i would have canceled it long ago )

    So now I’m left with getting Aljazeerah Card , I’ll End up with AlJazeerah Card and ART sport Card

    Now report are saying that Art Sport aren’t going to cover English League , great just great