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Kuwait, Rants

Your Direction Are not helpfull !

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Do you hate it when people tell you to go to some place and not give direction or give you bad direction ?

It happened more than once with me , yes i lived in Kuwait most of my life , doesn’t mean i know every place in it
Your camp in Cha’abd ( كبد )? don’t be surprised if i didn’t know where that is , no i don’t know the station there either , i didn’t work there

What ? your house is next to Hisaniyat Ma’arafi ( حسينيه معرفى )? sorry but i need better direction my friend

And the new area’s aren’t helping also , we have like 7 or 9 new area’s all named after dead sheik’s , some new and some changed from old name , and some are relay relay confusing
I mean Jaber Al Mubarak and Mubarak AlJaber thats just asking for people to get lost

P.S: anyone have any idea where is Dunkin Donuts Salmiya ?

General, Rants

Time , Time , Time , Deadlines !

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The year near its ends and with it deadlines !!

two projects , one is a multimedia project ( i hate late night filming ) and the other is a design project
I’m juggling my time barley able to meet both deadlines , but the last parts are incoming and they might be the hardest 🙁

Kuwait, press, Rants, Tech

Kuwait Newspapers , Please Stick to Local News

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Anything else and you embarrass your selfs

So i Read Today AlQabas , while reading i get to science and technology page , and i find this

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If you don’t read Arabic it basically says that Google intend to buy Youtube

Wait a minute ! Intend ? Google Said they Intended back in October 9th

And Closed The DEAL ( aka finished aka got it ) in November 13th

Is the guy writing that page out of loop ? doesn’t he check news sites from time to time ?

Link To the page in AlQabas Site [PDF]

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