Happy New Year 2011.. Blah!

Yeah well.. Happy new year & all that stuff! .. okay.. so I became such a boring writer.. But, hey, who said anything about being good in the first place ?!..

It's all game and fun.. isn't it? ... I guess..!

Anyways.. nothing special to write about, although a lot has been going on in my life, but, I'd rather keep that hush hush for the time being.. maybe share those things in later posts. At least that way I'd have something interesting to talk about.

As for general stuff, it's too cold to do anything except eat, so I've been doing a little bit of cooking and more & more eating.. less work and more sitting..

Having FB, twitter, a new iPad and a brand new iPhone doesn't help when it comes to moving !! I keep downloading applications for my iPad & iPhone.. don't feel like moving..

I should exercise more.. I know.. but really? can I? it's too cold :(

How about a song?..

Updates on Recipes:

Oktoberfest Bavarian Potato Salad

http://wellfedclub.blogspot.com/2011/01/oktoberfest-bavarian-potato-salad.html

بالعربي

http://wa9fa.blogspot.com/2011/01/bavarian.html

Dear Diary, a.k.a. Blog .........after a bit of shopping we decided to.....

Day: Sunday
Date: August 3rd 2008
Time: (22:31) 10:31 pm
Location: Marina Crescent, Kuwait
Exact Location: ayyame Restaurant - Arabic Fusion أيّامي

picture borrowed from Google Image

Pre dining: Entered the restaurant..requested a table...sat down.. annoying waiter.. dirty napkin..waiter argued it was a print on the napkin.. I argued it was used napkin.. waiter agreed to get a new napkin.. went ahead and ordered...Order consisted of:

شــوربة حريره
شــوربة عدس
سلطة فلافل
كــشــري
2 عصير رمان

The order itself was a ticking bomb, never mind that.. it got worse..

picture borrowed from google image

we both had our soup.. a bit too much cumin but hey,, no biggi.
the salad was ok.. nothing special ..it was a green salad with falafel pieces and taheini dressing.

Kushari tasted like 3aish w daqoos..

so far no problem.. not a great experience but ..eh, what the heck it's a try out.
so while digging into my kushari and through my 4th bite I choked.. seriously choked!! I couldn't figure out what was that I sensed in the back of my throat.. sorry for being too graphic.. but I neither could swollow it nor could I spit it out !!

After 2 glasses of water and a few sips of my pomogrenate juice I was finly able to wash it down!
I was still puzzled by the sharp sticky object that I couldn't swallow.. so I did my little investigating technique and searched through the kushari bowl to find out what was this little surprise they served me.. it was a small piece that looked like a raw onion, yet not exactly?!..

So,, my partner in crime decided to dissect the object to find out what it was.. to our astonishment it was not a rough onion nor a cooked one!!!.. actually,, it was not food at all !.. and after all the smelling, pinching, bitting, nipping and tearing of the object.. to our surprise it was nothing but PLASTIC! yes ladies and gentleman plain old plastic.

picture taken by 3abeer

our conclusion was that while preparing the extravagant dish.. and putting the ingredients together .. some of those ingredients came in a plastic bag .. and ofcourse... a little plastic gift was stashed in there for me to discover

Ratings:

Service: Average
Atmosphere: Good
Food: Guess!!! Bad
Over all experience: in my case BAD


moral of the story: check your food prior to eating it.. you never know what kind of surprise awaits you !

Note to self: NEVER go to ayyame again!

تجيبها كده ... تجيبها كده ... هيه كـــــــده

ما تترقع ! كل الأحداث اللي قاعده تدور على المستوى المحلي والعالمي وحتى الشخصي ما تترقع وين ما أطقها .. عــــــــــــــويــه



لبنـــــان

الكــــويت





أمـريـــكا

اييييييه وبعد

وعلى الصعيد الشخصي

الأغنيه هذه معلقه معاي

ويبييييله سفره

uuuhhhh.. what the hell was that?!!?!!

Kuwait -
Time: 1:00 am or something..
Location: home
Specific location: My bedroom, working on my computer.. yes a desk-top!
Reason for being up this late and tomorrow is a working day: cause sleep won't come to me !

...Suddenly.. I feel it! .. oh my God.. everything is sorta shaking!

did I just accidentally bump into my desk and cause all this movement? .. well I'm clumsy .. I have established that..and everyone knows I am.. but ... the thing is .. I would've known if I had hit the desk!!.. simply because I'd either feel the pain of that hit or get a bruise the second day...hmmm none of that!

so what the hell happened?? why were my tower of Cd's moving? why was I feeling as if I was being shifted slightly ??

next day I get a call and now I know....

I have experienced my first earthquake!! and where?? not in the US..right here in Kuwait.. after all the tornadoes in Florida.. after all the major thunderstorms in Miami and the Hurricanes... now this





did anyone else experience it?

3abeeriyat

I was on a Bike hunt!!..been looking for a decent bike for the longest time, and I finely managed to find one..yaaay! my new 2007 trek 3500.
but the weather is not being very friendly lately, and I'm recovering from bronchitis..! can it get any worse??
Mother nature.. please have mercy!!.. enough with all the dust!! .. I make believe it's only fog! delusional .. aren't I?!

on a more interesting note...

Heard of the term Metrosexual ?!

man of any sexual orientation (usually heterosexual) who has a strong aesthetic sense and spends a great amount of time and money on his appearance and lifestyle. He has a sense of fashion and a taste for culture, who loves to shop and look good. Do you know anyone like that? I do ..hehe

I googled it.. and my favorite description was... " it cracked me up..hehehe"

"The typical metrosexual is a young man with money to spend, living in or within easy reach of a metropolis — because that's where all the best shops, clubs, gyms and hairdressers are. He might be officially gay, straight or bisexual, but this is utterly immaterial because he has clearly taken himself as his own love object and pleasure as his sexual preference. Particular professions, such as modeling, waiting tables, media, pop music and, nowadays, sport, seem to attract them but, truth be told, like male vanity products and herpes, they're pretty much everywhere.
—Mark Simpson, "Meet the metrosexual," Salon.com, July 22, 2002



question....
is it ok to have icecream when you have bronchitis??..if not.. what do you do with such a craving ?!

Bored..bored..bored... enough with the bed rest!!! I'm hyper by nature and this bed rest thing is KILLING me.


oh.. and one more thing... color me sick
Note: Alia.. Rome was very helpful.. merci darling
.. and a little thank you note for a certain blogger (you know who you are) thanks for your sweet gesture and offer for help.. it did help.

إلى متى ؟؟

اغتيال الجميل

When will this end? is it going to slip back into a civil war?
I was optimistic in seeing the birth of a new Lebanese national identity! I don't want to lose hope .. not now!

Last night's movie...

I got occupied with a few things at home... didn't notice the time...called (....) and took a rain check on our dinner plans...

it was too late to go out anyways and I'm tired.. but I'm not sleepy..so I decided I'll just stay in and watch a movie.

I found an art film.. a German film I bought a while back.. but never came around to seeing it.

Mostly Martha.. (bella Martha) 2001

Directed by: Sandra Nettelbeck

Genre: Comedy/Romance/Drama

a "food movie".. a romantic comedy about a thirtysomething year old top chef in a four-star restaurant in Hamburg, Germany, who finds love in the kitchen. Chef Martha (Martina Gedeck), a perfectionist who lives to create culinary masterpieces. Her sister dies in a car accident which turns her orderly world upside down and she takes in her eight-year-old niece Lina, when a fun-loving sous-chef named Mario (Sergio Castellitto) who is hired to help out in the busy restaurant attempts to win her hardened heart.

a bit of humor.. a bit of romance.. and alot of food. A lovely, lighthearted movie with a beautiful soundtrack.

highly enjoyable... what a way to end my day ...

I'd give it...

Nip / Tuck: Intense, Dramatic and very funny.

First season, second season and now the third season will be released on DVD on August 29th.
What a show!! I got so addicted to it that once I got the First season, and from the first episode I got hooked. It's an eye-popping, surprising and completely compelling series, revolving around the lives of two very successful plastic surgions who live in Miami, Sean McNamara and Christian Troy of McNamara/Troy. Living in a society were looks are everything and perfection is seeked, you find those two partners who have different values and ethics struggle in doing the right thing. Sean who's suffering marital problems and is very serious about his job, often finds himself running around trying to fix Chritian's mistakes, while Christian is busy dating all his female clients and conducting shady business deals for the love of money.

if you're squeamish, this is not the show for you. I know I am! but I'm already addicted so I close my eyes during those real bloody scenes.

I'm so hooked on the theme song as well - A Perfect Lie by The Engine Room.