This event is organised by the folks at Monstarium. It sounds to be the right event for Graffiti artists and fans to come together and enjoy their passion legally. It will held on May 10th, 2013 i.e. this upcoming Friday. We will definitely be there to cover the event and the graffiti.
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Just stumbled upon this beautiful image of the lightning in Kuwait, at the Al Jazeera twitter account.
The photo belongs to AFP, was published on Al Jazeera.
Categories: Photography. This new trailer covers all three main characters individually:
Categories: Games. The Open Mic Literary Night held yesterday at the GUST was organized by the Kuwait Writing Club. This is was a one of a kind event in Kuwait or Have I never been to such an event?
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Tags: Kuwait, Kuwait Writing Club, mic, open mic, open mic literary, Poem, poems, poetry, riyadh writing club, Sons of Yusuf. As the covers came off, we were up for a treat. The Lykan HyperSport first shown, at Qatar Motor Show proudly calls itself the first supercar out of the Arab world. Its a very promising car and a pretty unique one.
During the unveiling at the Kuwait Historic, Vintage and Classic car museum, we met the founder and Chairman of W Motors, Ralph Debbas and the designer of the car, Antonio.
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Categories: Cars. In a recent survey conducted by the World Economic Forum, Kuwait is ranked on the 137th position out of the total 140 countries in the list. The report is titled ‘The Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013‘.
Iceland is ranked as the most friendly country for this report.
Kuwait’s ranking
Kuwait is ranked a little bit better ‘Tourism openness‘ list at number 60:
Kuwait ranked at 60
In the list titled as ‘Extension of business trips recommended‘, Kuwait is ranked at a worse position, i.e. 139 behind countries such as Sierra Leone or Chad. Second to the last. Hmmm, disappointing I must say.
Kuwait ranked at the second to last position
And in the final list, ‘Degree of customer orientation‘, it is ranked at a much better position of 62.
A much better ranking, at 62.
Whats going on? I mean, we have friendly people here. We have some very friendly people here even though Kuwait has few tourism spots. Two of the rankings in the report are for the better and two are at bad spots, hopefully we will see much better positions next time. Kuwait really needs to up its level when compared to countries such as UAE and Qatar.
For the full Criteria, read the report that was recently published.
Categories: Information. Facebook pages that list out confessions of students are a new trend. The pages record confessions from students anonymously and then the anonymous admin posts those confessions.
Further information: The Huffington Post
Well, as a former high school student, I came across several confession pages of various schools in Kuwait. A quick Google search will let you into any of those pages.
As the article in Huffington post suggests, confessions are fun to read if they are fun but what happens when teenages use it to bully someone or point fingers at other’s integrity including the teachers’. Then, all hell breaks lose.
My biggest concern for this post is this message some of those confessions pages have got:
“Hi,
This email is on security notice basis.
We have come across multiple post on your page which directly attacked individuals and also school reputation.
The **** institution is managed by our **** group and the entire database admin is related to our firm.
We tracked multiple information about this page and also noted the name which were frequently posted as a record.
Upon surveying several sources we have partially identified the admin and the group associated with it.
If the page still persist, we will take legal action via Kuwait Cyber Crime as well as Pakistan Cyber Crime branch under the article of insult and hatred towards an institution. Since admin record multiple locations on his\her profile, we are oblige to contact both the country Cyber Crime Branch department.
In Anticipation
Kuwait Cyber Branch”
First of all, there is no such thing as Kuwait Cyber Branch.
If this post was so important, then why does it have such horrible grammar? Apparently, the officer that is waiting in anticipation is not so keen on his/her English.
Anyways, I think its a troll message either sent by school administration or teachers or either by a teenage troll.
A couple of days ago, I came across a facebook page about a Convention in Kuwait. They called themselves Q8Con. The page had around 40 likes and since then it has grown to 80 something likes on the page.
As usual this is a comic-con[vention] as it is called around the world.
As this is the first time that I saw something like this in Kuwait, I asked the admins what was it about anyway.
We were told that they are about to organize the Q8Con event this summer around the time of Eid-ul-fitr. That’s alot of festivities coming our way! It is organized by a group of talented individuals such as artists, gamers and comic fans. They claim that each person involved is committed to the comic and gaming community in Kuwait. One of the greatest things they’ve mentioned is that they recognize the need of all people, Kuwaitis and Expat Citizens alike, to come together and share the common interests among them.
Q8Con organizers are promising a fun and family level entertainment event that attracts fans of all kinds of Anime, Manga, Games and Comics! The activities include video game tournaments, cosplays, performances, artist-fan meetups and various such things, you know like most of the major Comic-cons in the world. They promise to bring alot of artists, performers, producers, writers, media-personnel, artists and game designers from various parts of the world especially the GCC and showcase the talent and fanbase around the region.
Their goal is simple and straight forward which is to put Kuwait on the map as in various cultural activities, you know to show that not only Dubai but Kuwait too can organize events like these.
My opinion too on this is, simple and straight forward. I’m looking forward to this event and I think if done properly will be a success and bring us all together. I know a community of Anime/comic/manga lovers who haven’t found other anime and comic-book lovers in Kuwait. This will bridge gaps, bring us together and let us enjoy in a positive atmosphere. We still to wait and see what they have in store for us.
Recently we have seen a surge in events in Kuwait such as video game tournaments. Now, we have Q8con to look forward to!
More information coming soon.
Links:
Facebook Page
YouTube channel
Tags: anime, comic, comic con, comiccon, convention, games, Kuwait, Kuwait con, manga, midde east comic con, Q8 convention, Q8Con. We at Area965 strive to show Kuwait what is up with the talent all around. This is the first in the series of many interviews with some talented young people. The criterea is simple, the person we will interview is aspiring and young and needs exposure.
Meet Montaser Ali, a photographer/enthusiast who started photography as young as he could. He is passionate about his work and alternates between school and work. He likes to photograph cars and bikes and takes photography as a serious passion.
To know more about him, We asked Monty (as he calls himself) some questions. Here’s what he had to say:
I am a 17 year currently doing my 12th grade in school.
Born and raised in Kuwait with the Indian blood.
Don’t know what to really tell about myself. Lol.
My father had taken a couple of photographs back in the old days when he had a film slr… When I checked out our family album and saw those shots, I wondered if I could do the same.
Also I have always been inspired by landscape photographs. If they can do it, why can’t I
Initially it started as a hobby, but then I figured keeping this as a hobby can get boring at times…everyone I probably knew started a page. Some deserve the name too! So anyway, I changed it to a part time hobby. I do photo shoots in my weekends and sometimes on work days after my school hours. I’ve never had any hobby as interesting as photography. I’ve been doing it since December 2010 and I know the addiction just won’t stop.
It does at times, but I can’t get anywhere in life without compromising or hard work. So I have to give importance to both equally.
Actually I have two! Landscape and automobile photography!
I love to blend both together when I go for a photo shoot.
I don’t have one in particular, it keeps changing over time. I practically like alot of them even!
The satisfaction of being successful after seeing the completed shots, being able to meet new people, everything about it!
I have a Canon 5D Mark II.
I use the kit lens (24-105mm L IS USM) lens for wide angle shots of the car or to zoom in. Its the most frequent lens I’ve used.
I also own a 50mm f/1.8 lens for portraits or bokeh. The 2nd most used lens.
And the last but hopefully not the least, the 75-300mm lens. I barely use it as I got it for cheap and its not what I expected it to be when I got it.
Some of the best photos taken by Montaser:
I would like to thank Montaser for this interview.
You can contact Montaser Ali for yourself at the following links:
Disclaimer: The following post is an opinion piece, we don’t hold anything against any company.
Brand loyalty is a big thing and so is, Brand awareness. As a business student I understand what’s a brand and how they can impact people’s lives. In this capitalist society that we live in, we relate to the brands, various brands. We love Apples and Blackberries of technology, we love McDonalds for it’s famous M logo and we love KFC for Colonel Sanders (amirite? No, its the chicken right?). Its just what we grow up loving, that we attach ourselves to it.
And so, we came to love the company that called itself ‘The Red Carpet company’. Wataniya doesn’t sound bad, does it? It’s easy, its a word we use in everyday language and its just easy and snaps. What’s wrong with it? Nothing I would say. Wataniya was my first SIM card, before it was even that Red. It has this beautiful simple W and ‘wow’ mashed together in its logo that at one stage I used it as my signature as, ya know my name starts with a W.
We have seen rebrandings before such as Zain doing it, that actually made sense because coming from MTC Vodafone to Zain was an improvement as a brand. We have seen several branding changed back after public outcry, GAP for example (even though it was just with the Logo and not the name, people took it serious) or we take a local example, KITCO with its chips packets.
From W to Oredoo
I would not go into corporate details but I think it was very not much of a wise decision by Qtel to change the name to ‘Ooredoo“. Ooredoo too is an Arabic word, actually two words: ‘I want’, we use it in daily language but it doesn’t hold as much as the name Wataniya does. We know what they have to say about it. We do know that its their property and they can do whatever they want, with it. OK, Qtel we understand that its your thing but ‘I don’t want’.
As of yesterday Qtel has changed to Oredoo only in Qatar and most likely Kuwait will be the next one.
Anyways, I have nothing against any corporation and I still use Wataniya for some services and overtime we all will adopt to the new multi-syllabic name and leave the ‘Red Carpets’ behind. I hope someone from Wataniya Telecom reads this. We will miss Wataniya.
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