We took a quick road trip to Khafji in KSA for the sole purpose of two reasons: 1- Find the book Hind wal 3askar i am searching for and 2- Visit Hungry Bunny for a nostalgic childhood meal… Directions? Take 6reej el shalehat, road 30 or 40 i am not sure, go straight straight until [...]

I was going through a box of old junk the other day when i found the above cartridges!I was immediately pulled back in time to my childhood… lazy summer mornings… us in Pajamas waking up to run downstairs and turn on the tiny TV and the MSX Sakhar computer… playing all day long while sipping [...]

Once upon a time very long ago, we gathered in the tent in front of the dowwa in the then freezing Q8y winter… one of my aunts would bring a little pan (moqla)… mix some eggs milk saffron cardamom & flour with sugar, then pour the mix into the pan and over the coal she would make [...]

Whenever i see the dark green box of After 8 chocolate mints something comes over me and i grab my self a box for me to enjoy later. It is not the best tasting chocolate on earth but there is something different about it’s dark colors and posh feel and it’s tangy minty taste is [...]

While shopping in Selfridges London i saw these Retro Timex watches being sold. They reminded me of the casio watches from the late 80′s and early 90′s when people dreamed of having a watch that is also a phone… something like the little girl from the cartoon Inspector Gadget used to have Now the gold, [...]

I saw this Toy Story Woody Cowboy Costume the other day and i immediately went back in time to the early 90′s! I have a cousin who was a woody fanatic (yes A. that’s you ) and he had a similar costume back then that he adored! I cannot look at the woody suit without remembering [...]

I was in the body shop the other day when i saw the gift set above and smiled to my self. I remember when that gift set was the coolest gift to give for someone’s birthday EVER! It was late 90′s and every one got body shop gift sets for every one else too… specifially those [...]

I saw this quirky Baby Foot table in Selfrdiges and couldn’t stop laughing! The players are replaced by footless armless Barbie dolls and the whole table is made up ib Barbie’s signature pink color!!! As a person who grew up playing with Barbie’s it freaked me out a bit to see them cut and skewered [...]

Another collection of books right out of the past is now available for sale in the garage sale section of ChillPillBox.com I remember the Manara Bookshop and saving up to buy those little horror books… they were horrifying indeed and i still prefer them to Adult horror books to be frank. I kept my most [...]

If there is one chocolate that defines my 80′s childhood… it’s Kakaw Bu Nathara!!! How we loved the little foil packaging that looks like glasses… how we held them up against our eyes and looked through the little holes… how we popped the little sugar & colour coated chocolates happily and ate them… i don’t think they [...]

OMG! I can’t believe i have totally forgotten about this show! I remember watching it in the UK during the invasion on Kuwait! Me & My siblings LOVED IT! Then they brought it over to KTV2 and it was again even more fun… the games were actually fun and they would collect crystals and then [...]

oooh where do i start with this one? ًWhenever it rains in Q8 i start singing the opening tune of this cartoon. Whenever i remember it i remember the old cosy days 80′s… my father would have just woken up from his afternoon nap and the cartoon would have just started… my father would cut [...]

Once upon a time when Re7ab Complex wasn’t all about video games, there was a library in the basement called “3alam Thaqafat El6efel”… they made subscribtions for kids and sold educational books and toys… they also sold Arabic Tin Tin Comics. My father came home one day with a bag full of Arabic Tin Tin [...]

I clearly remember Wednesday afternoons of my childhood in the 80′s. I would come home from school and there would be a collection of new magazines waiting for me “Mickey, Majed, Sameer, Sa3ad, and Mickey Jeep”!!! I loved sitting on my bed and losing my self in all those magazines on Wednesday afternoon <3 Mickey [...]

I have been decluttering lately when i dug into an old dusty box and found these! OMG! i remember how crazy we were about these when we were kids -and teenagers!- i remember going to from one Co-Op to another, looking at the little orange boxes sold in the kolaf store and trying to choose [...]

Who doesn’t remember the most popular cartoon of 1990!! Right before el’3azo! I remember hearing someone say that Sally kan wayha faqer 3la il q8 because the invasion happened right afterwards but then other countires weren’t invaded fa shako :p I still enjoy watching it… i still remember the lovely life she had before her fathers death… [...]

I have unearthed another collection of books to sell in the Garage Sale Corner of ChillPillBox.com! This time it was a bit hard to let go, for i have saved one KD after one KD and awaited the weekends where i would go to Family Book shop or the other book shop which i forgot [...]

One of my favourite cartoons EVER! The episode when Judy joins the school and eats and eats and eats… and the ice cream she ate… i still remember salivating while watching them eat! It was so funny and witty… the mystery of who that good man was sending poor crazy Judy all those stuff with kindness… it was [...]

  As i was walking in the Book Exhibition my eyes fell upon the neat rows of green little story book i once adored as a child. I think this might be the first ever series of books i collected… the stories were wonderful and there were so many of them. At one point i [...]

I was rooting through some of my old boxes trying to declutter my life… when i found this ancient little frayed catalougue with a note from one of my cousins written on it. I can’t believe i have totally forgotten about Playmobil toys! I was a fan of Playmobil for as far as i could remember [...]

As i was waking in the Book Exhibition my eyes fell upon these little novels and i was instantly a 13 years old kid drooling over them. If you are a chicken nugget who grew up in the 90′s chances are you never heard of Takhtakh before. If however you grew up in the 70′s [...]

As i was waking in the Book Exhibition my eyes fell upon these little novels and i was instantly a 13 years old kid drooling over them. If you are a chicken nugget who grew up in the 90′s chances are you never heard of Takhtakh before. If however you grew up in the 70′s [...]

Back in the early 1980′s when there were not many places to dine in Q8… i remember us going to the TSC Jeans on Fridays and ordering a very popular dish back then “Escalpoe Panée”… the dish was so popular back then and i suppose it still is in Egypt since whenever you see a movie/series where [...]

One very important part of our childhood is yan yan chocolate. Although it wasn’t very tasty it was a favourite… now i am tring to guess why we liked it and i think i have two answers. 1- It was so much fun and very messy to eat… you dip that skinny biscuit into the [...]

Whenever i see this yellow box with it’s funny happy rabbit i am pulled back in time to the days of my childhood. Since my parents had a strict chocolate eating policy enforced on us where we were not allowed to eat chocolate freely all the time,  we had to imrpovise! Whenever they were a sleep, me and [...]

I know Eid comes around every year… Now adays Eid is just another day for me… I miss Eid like it used to be. I miss what Eid used to mean to us, what it represented back in the days. I miss anticipating Eid and the thrill that would consume me whenever i thought Eid [...]

I was in Mishref Co-Op searching for some bread when i found those neatly stacked pink and yellow packages… I picked one up… and i cannot believe i have forgotten all about those cakes! We used to love those cakes when we were kids! I don’t remember the last time i had any but i [...]

Whenever i am in Dubai i make sure i pass by a video store or a Virgin Mega Store and browse whatever old cartoon collections they have available for sale. I love our old cartoons. I still watch our old cartoons and i think the cartoons of the current generation are pathetic -aside from Conan- [...]

I used to love these canned chips! Though i was never a fan of the Hot Sauce ‘Tabasco or Daqoos BuDeech’… the other day i was at the Ma67ana when i saw the two of them right next to each other and i snapped that shot… I took the chips alone… they were as horrible [...]

Right on the corner of Leicester Square, London, there stands a lovely red sign with a group of people queuing to go inside and be seated… That place is one of my favorite  spots to relax in the UK… it’s Häagen-Dazs I remember being a little child in London, and my parents allowing only me to tag along with them [...]