June 2011
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www.yousefq8.com - The New Blog
Switched over to wordpress.
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Thinking Of Switching To Wordpress
Tumblr is a great blogging service. It’s easy to start, easy to post, and easy to maintain. The whole point is to post quickly and get lots of people to check out your stuff in an easy and fast way. I like it for what it is.
But, it is too simplistic. Ever since I started using Tumblr, the themes have been severely limited in terms of their options. With every theme I’ve ever used I...
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Fire Next Door - June 18 2011
I was chilling at home playing some Dynasty Warriors 7, when I hear my mom yelling upstairs. I quickly go up to see whats going on and she tells me that next door theres a fire!
I run out and find around 5-6 guys pumping water from their hoses down to the basement of the house next door and throwing buckets of water down there, including my dad who was trying to help out. An electrical fire...
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MVC3 and MK9 Tournament @ Freeze Club 360 Mall...
Guys! GET HYPE! First MVC3 and MK9 tournament in Kuwait!! I’ll be there, hopefully to help out as I’ve contacted the guy running this, if not, I may just join the MVC3 tournament. Money is ON THE LINE!!!
FULL INFO:
MvC3/MK9 Kuwait Tournament @ FreezeClub 360Mall The next tournament at the Freeze Club is here! It will be a MvC3 tournament and MK tournament over 2 days! Fees Players...
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Terraria - New Game Addiction!
I’m addicited to this new game I found out about yesterday. It’s called Terraria, and it’s a 2d old style graphics platformer/rpg.
It’s hard to describe exactly what Terraria is about. After you generate a completely random world, you build houses, mine resources, make cool weapons like swords and boomerangs, make cool armor, and fight lots of different types of enemies...
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Tumblr Is Cooler Than I Thought
So apparantley, Tumblr is cooler than I thought. I read up on another site about how on Tumblr you can “follow” people, so then on your dashboard all their posts will show, and you can give “hearts” or “likes” to posts made by other people to show that you like those posts.
Tumblr is way more web 2.0 than I previously knew!
So I’ll be following a bunch...
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Internet Upgrade - 1 to 2 mbp/s
Upgraded my internet connection to 2 mbp/s.
Black Ops multilayer is now bearable. I actually stopped playing online altogether for around 4 months because of the constant lag and disconnects, but now, if Black Ops makes me host of the game, there is very little lag. The game is so much more enjoyable and I’ve started playing it again. There is really a huge difference and I advise anyone...
May 2011
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Gulfnet ISP - You will hit the limit in 20 minutes
With Gulfnet ISP, you can get a special “plus speed,” which allows your internet speed to boost up to 24 Mbp/s from 3am to 3pm every day.
Gulfnet implements fair usage policy, which means, once you download a certain amount per day, your internet speed will be cut down 75%. This resets everyday at 3:01am.
So lets say you subscribe to the 2 Mbp/s plus speed plan, your daily limit,...
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Pizza Inn Pizza Eating Competition - MY FRIEND...
My friend won the Pizza Inn Pizza Eating Competetion!!!!!! Woooo!!!!!!!
He ate 21 3/4 slices of pizza within 12 minutes. He was amazing! People were cheering him on as he was downing the pizzas and he ate the pizza like a pro!! Congratz to him! He won an Xbox 360!
I myself ate 12 slices. My stomach isn’t as big as my friends, and I ate a lot slower, even though I was trying to eat as...
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Pizza Inn Pizza Eating Competition - I'm In!
Pizza Inn is hosting a pizza eating competition! It’s tomorrow, May 23rd from 5-7pm.
http://mskuwait.com/pizzaInn/competitions/index.html
My friend and I joined. Honestly, I don’t know how long I’ll last, but I know I can at least woof down 8-12 slices pretty quickly, after that it’s anyone’s game lol!
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Chrome Books - My Perspective
Google has recently announced they’ll be selling Chrome Books through Samsung and Acer.
I don’t think the chrome books will be a hit at all. Chrome OS was a cool idea… 2 years ago. Since then, netbooks have rapidly been dying out because of full featured laptops costing around the same as netbooks, e.g. $500-$600, and another factor is the tablet craze. So here comes the...
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Elevation Burger Kuwait Review - Seriously...
So my friend told me about this new burger place in The Avenues that had good burgers. He was telling me about it because he thought I might actually like this burger place. See, I’m really picky about my burgers and I actually don’t really like burgers all that much, but he knew that I would like this new place.
First, the menu is short and simple. About 4 types of burgers, and...
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Sound Advice
If you’re the only one laughing, you’re probably being an asshole.
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The Thing About Tier Lists
They don’t mean jack compared to skill.
Stop bringing up tiers. Stop picking only top tier characters. Stop repeating stuff you read on the internet about characters and how they suck or are good. Tiers don’t mean anything.
Play who you want to play, and who you like, and have fun.
April 2011
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You know you've been using photoshop too much...
…you can name every font they use in every commercial on TV.
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Internet VERY SLOW!!!! ISP = Gulfnet
For the last 7 days, the internet has been VERY SLOW!!!!
I’m talking about barely loading pages. 30 minutes buffering for 2 seconds of youtube video loaded. Gmail DOES NOT open! I cannot download anything because the speed is at 1 kb/s! NO JOKE!
So, I decided to call Gulfnet and ask them about it. I ask the gulfnet rep about the slow internet and he says theres a wire cut in bahrain or some...
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Just Saw The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Just saw The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift
Okay, the storyline was weird and way too forced, but the cars, action scenes, girls, and everything else was pretty awesome!
I’m a total Japanese car junkie, and I named every single car in the movie! Plus drifting is so cool and Japenese cars + drifting is a total win.
The movie was nonsensical, but it was completely fun and over the...
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Hackertyper.org - Makes me feel so awesome!
Check out this site I recently found out about from lifehacker.com
http://hackertyper.net/
All this website does is write random code when you type on your keyboard.
It is so simple, but I find it so awesome and cool looking. It makes me feel totally cool and makes me laugh so hard. If only coding was this easy!
Awesome website!
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Red Bull Drift Competition 2011
Red Bull hosted a drifting competetion at the Mishrief Fair Grounds. I went to it and snapped these photos.
Winner of the event, Saleh Bin Eidan from STS. Great drifting and definitely had the loudest turbo out of all the cars in the competition.
Famous Lebense Rally Driver with full rally ready Subrau WRX STI. This guy came out a handful of times and was doing crazy drift maneuvers. A...
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DHL Borderlinx/Express Easy Shop Kuwait - Review
After getting incredibley fed up with Aramex and their regular month long delays of shipments, I decided to open up a DHL Borderlinx/Express Easy Shop account and try out their service.
Registration was really easy. You just go to their website, register an account, and bam, you get your US address right away. I thought that was really convenient and easy.
I’ve been needing new acoustic...
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My Music Featured On Kuwait-Music.com
The newish Kuwaiti website based on music happening in Kuwait, Kuwait-Music.com, has a cool feature where you can put your bands info. I decided to put my own information in, as I am a Kuwaiti musician living in Kuwait.
Next day, I check kuwait music, and I find that I’m featured. That’s really cool of them to have featured me!
I’m feeling inspired now, and I really want to...
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New Phone: HTC Desire
Recently my Mom got a new phone, an HTC Desire. I was quite impressed with it and liked it.
A couple days ago, a friend of mine asked me to help him out with rooting and flashing his own HTC Desire to get Android 2.3. I helped him out, and after I did it I was seriously impressed with 2.3 on this phone. Very fast, snappy, and a joy to use and so I told him that I liked it a lot. One of that...
March 2011
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Kuwait Crazy Sandstorm March 25 2011
Check these pics I took of the crazy sandstorm Kuwait got hit by today!
It was so crazy! Visibility was so low, and there was so much dust and wind blowing everywhere! As soon as I opened my door dust just started flying into the house! My eyes and hair were covered in sand!
Crazy crazy sandstorm!
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Fix blue tint/cool colored screen on a new Windows...
A lot of laptop manufacturers ship their laptops with an overly cool colored screen. This makes white look sort of blueish, and can throw off colors on your screen, not to mention that it’s really annoying.
My new laptop had the same problem. The screen had a blue tint to it and it was really annoying me. I did a lot of research on the net, but couldn’t find any info on how to...
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The FerraBusa - Ferrari Hayabusa Motorcycle
My friends, I give you the FerraBusa - The Ferrari Hayabusa Motorcycle:
I walked into a motorcycle shop today, MRB Performance Kuwait, and saw this beauty. It’s a show motorcycle, and it’s designed after Ferrari cars. People call it, the “FerraBusa.”
Painted Ferrari red, and decked out with an assortment of Ferrari logos, this one of a kind beast is sure to boggle and...
February 2011
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New Laptop - Samsung SF310 info and short review
Bought a new laptop, the Samsung SF310. I previously owned an Apple black macbook, but decided to get a windows laptop this time around due to my budget and also because there are lots of programs and things I like about Windows 7 and wanted to go with it instead.
Here are the specs of the laptop:
Core i5 2.53ghz with turbo boost up to 2.9ghz
Nvidia Optimus switching graphics with...
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Happy Kuwait!
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Saw the most...
… horrific thing ever in person yesterday. I don’t want to share the details, but I can’t get the image out of my head.
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Destrega PS1 Game - Fun but don't take it too...
Destrega is an old Playstation 1 game that came out in 1999. When I was much younger, my friends and I always used to play this game and have a blast. We decided, hey let’s grab the game off the net and try it out again.
So today, 12 years since the last time, we played the game. We were having so much fun that we played nearly 4 hours straight.
Destrega is a crazy fighting style game...
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AIS Rock Show Was Canceled
It was canceled, which sucks.
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Kuwait Rock 2011 Live Concert At AIS
http://kuwait-music.com/2011/01/24/12-feb-2011-quick-update-kuwait-rock-2011-bands-line-up/
There’s going to be a rock show featuring local bands at American International School, tomorrow, Friday Feb 12th starting at 3:30pm.
Check the source link for bands that will be playing.
I’m definitely going.
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My Blog Entry Featured On Kuwait Music
Kuwait Music featured my blog entry on Kuwait’s metal scene and how it’s dead. They also offer their insight on the matter and are way more optimistic about the future o fmetal in Kuwait. You should check it out:
http://kuwait-music.com/2011/02/06/my-rant-kuwait-metal-scene-dead/
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Kuwait Blogger Sued For Opinion On Restaurant
Mark from 248pm was sued from the company that owns Benihana, due to his negative opinion on the restaurant. Check the links for all the details:
Original blog post he is being sued for.
“I’m being sued” post, with full court order.
I posted in the comments what I thought on the subject:
My dad and brother went there, they said it sucked and was expensive. Oh shit I hope I...
January 2011
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Kuwait Metal Scene - Currently Dead (and the...
Back in 2006 and 2007, there was a thriving metal scene here in Kuwait. There were around 6 live concerts full of local metal bands playing covers, and they were usually sold out, and it was pretty awesome. But, it’s all dead and gone now.
One of the main sites that used to be the information hub for all things metal going on in kuwait, the q8 metal forum, is dead. There hasn’t been a...
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Taco Bell In Kuwait - It Doesn't Taste Good
Taco Bell recently opened up in Kuwait at Avenues Mall.
Before it even opened up, a lot of guys at school hyped the shit out of it. They hyped it up each and every day before it came out, and in that sense, created a bias. When I heard someone mention they were excited about Taco Bell, I was like, “What? Taco Bell? Don’t get your hopes up man…”
I’m no stranger to...
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I Miss Dating
One year has passed since I’ve come back to living in Kuwait, and through this whole year I’ve had exactly 0 girlfriends. I’ve hung out with girls who are friends, and was even interested in a handful of girls, but the more I got to know them the more I became uninterested.
When I was living in the US, I dated a good number of different girls. Each girl I dated was like having...
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Kuwait Music - Cool and New Website
Was surfing the net and I found this cool website called Kuwait Music. It looks relitively new, and it has a bunch of posts about music that’s happening in Kuwait, be it from Kuwaiti musicians, or about music around the middle east. They even have a buy/sell section which is pretty cool.
I may post on the forum over there or something, cause I’m looking for a singer so I can form...
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If only...
…we could speak again.
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"xxx is an asshole" - No, really?
Lately, a lot of people who I see around, are not around too much anymore. Today, I talked to a person who always used to hang around this one place on campus, and they were alone, so I decided to talk to them.
I mentioned that I don’t see them that around this certain area anymore, and asked why so? Turns out, the people that this person used to hang out with all the time in the same area...
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My Car Got Robbed Today
After classes I went back to my car and found this. My dad’s laptop, which I was borrowing, and a camera I was borrowing from the university were both stolen from my back seat.
I’m honestly just really amazed that this happened. I never even thought that something like this would happen to me, and both things that were stolen were not even mine. I always throw my stuff in the...
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Shooting Range Fun!
Went to the shooting range at the military camp next to Mubarek Al-Kabeer tonight. My friend and brother wanted to go, so I tagged along with them.
I have shot a gun before, my uncle’s M9 (pictured), so I knew all the basic safety precautions, still though, I decided to go through the mini tutorial from one of the guys there to show me how to do everything correctly. The guys working...
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New Part Time Job
Got a part time job in Shuwaikh. My uncle helped me get it and so far the job is really chill and fun.
I’m happy.
December 2010
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Nice Honda NSX in Kuwait
The International Car Show here in Kuwait happened last week and it was a pretty cool event. Most of the cars were new and I didn’t have too much interest in them, but in the Honda section, they had on display this beautiful modified NSX. It’s the closest I’ve been to a NSX and I adore these cars.
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Merry Xmas
Have a good one Kuwait.
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Black Ops 4vs4 Tournament Kuwait DEC 24 - COME...
I am hosting a Call Of Duty: Black Ops 4vs4 Tournament at my house on Dec. 24th. Maximum 8 teams.
For full information, plesae go to this page:
http://www.topdark.com/vb/showthread.php?t=9470
You must join the forums and post in the thread to join the tournament. Also to see the map and directions.
Even if you don’t want to join the tournament, you should come just to watch. There...
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I Was Attacked By A Cop Today
Today I was attacked by a cop. A white pajero was turning into me, I beeped the horn, then it started coming at me more and I couldn’t move away because of the narrow street (under the salmiya bridge), so I beeped the horn again thinking he didn’t see me, then he went faster in front of me and slammed on his brakes. Thankfully, I stopped in time and no one was behind me, but I almost...