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 [...]

With less than a week to my Big 3 Oh… I headed for my photo albums to see how i had celebrated my Birthday and what did i have for a cake on each and every one! My favourite so far is My first Birthday Cake shown above! It’s the most creative one… Date: July [...]

18 years ago, i was walking with my mother down Baker Street, London, when she announced that i had a new baby girl cousin! You can imagine my surprise when i made the math and realized that my  baby cousin is all grown up… she is now an 18 Years old Adult @_@ I attended her [...]

I was rummaging through a drawer filled with junk when i found this little thing! I was confused for a moment trying to place it… then it hit me! That’s my Magic Diary!!! If i am not mistaken it was back in 1993 when one day an ad appeared for this diary in the news papers… kids [...]

The year was 1986 or 1987 i am not quite sure… what i was sure of though is the fact that El Sanafer (the Smurfs) were being shown on TV… they were a BIG HIT… and every single child in Q8 was smitten with them… Then Hardeez had the great idea of distributing these little [...]

One of the greatest cartoons ever! I still watch it because it’s  my favourite! The way Kabamaro is always hungry and eats chow mein like mad is amazing… the lunch boxes… the karate… his relentless search for his childhood friend Hayatt – i always cry when i remember how he runs after him and Hayatt doesn’t want [...]

Etrayaqtaw? Ma an9a7kom you continue without breakfast… unless u have something coming on the way… Do i need to introduce the best pizza in Q8? All of us know about it.. Most of us like it… The little spicy tabasco thing with the smudge of sweet ketchup and the strings of sharp cheese over the [...]

I have been looking for this song on the internet ever since Youtube was invented! I searched and searched and searched and FINALLY yesterday i found it on the website www.niceq8i.tv At LAST! This song is so old, most of you weren’t born when it was sung! 1986 chinna? I remember me and my cousins [...]

Late night browsing at our old Jabriya Co-Op caused me to stumble on boxes of Sunkist Juice! Shakhbaree! I was back in the 1980′s in a whim… fighting for my breakfast in the non existant line at the school canteen… getting my self an icy cold Sunkist Orange and a Triangular Cheese Fa6eera… you were [...]

I was browsing the kids DVD section in HMV when i saw the DVD above that looked very very familiar. I picked it up and it hit me… i know this show! I didn’t know it’s name – now i do- but i remember it being shown on KTV2 back in the mid 80′s… i [...]

I was in the chocolate aisle, browsing with closed eyes when a strong nostalgic coconut smell hit my nostrils… That sugary coconut smell… hmmmm… i had to open my eyes! and there i was, infront of a closed tin of the lovely Kakaw Bu Jooz El Hend as we used to call it Oh how [...]

I was surprised, a little appalled even, to find out that someone in Q8 doesn’t know who Sabkahawa is!!! Sabkahawaaa!!! Matatoooo! Bye Bye London! Watch the above video from minute 3 till minute 7 and you will understand who Sabkahawa is… you MUST know Sabkahwa!!! LoooL Just for the clarification, Maryam El’3athba is the wife [...]

I remember when we were little kids, my mom had a lovely copper cast/pan that was shaped like a butterfly… every other weekend she would spend a lot of time in the kitchen making a water bath and some eggs beaten with sugar and loya… in the end we would gather around for the yummiest [...]

How did i forget about this? It suddenly came to my mind and i remembered it! It was shown almost DAILY on tv, me and my two cousins would gather around the tv when it was on, each of us saying that this girl is her, and jump around like maniacs with the song! Esp. [...]

The post background is blue to support the The World Autism Awareness Day This cartoon is what made me decide, at a very young age, to study computers when i grow up! You see we just had our MSX computer then… and i would spend hours clicking every combination of keys on the keyboard that [...]

As i escaped from my dentist last week, i felt so down i wanted something to pick me up. Wandering in Salmiya, i suddenly remembered a dusty childhood memory with a lingering flavor, took a wrong turn, and finally i was there for my nostalgic meal! The place above is called 3marat il Khalid… if you [...]

I have boycotted the chocolate aisle since 2005… not strictly of course but whenever i pass by -once in a blue moon- i find such strange stuff i begin to wonder how long has it been since i have last been here?! for example…  this is a coconuty bar by al saidawy that i have [...]

My Alphonso… My time Capsule… My fast track lane to my 80′s childhood… is BACK! Last year i ate one only. This year insha2 Allah i might go on a one month Alfonso Mango diet: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner! Might spend sometime on my MSX Emulators while i am at How do you eat yours? [...]

The other day i saw a Fico Cardboard box of some potato chips and on the box there is a picture of Floona Bufak! I have not seen this bufak in AGES! Maybe since 1992! When we were kids in the 80′s we loved bufak a lot and tons of girls loved floona -i hated [...]

This cartoon was probably the end of all good meaningful cartoons of the 80’s era… it was a very strange one that is not very understandable, it aired in late 1991 or early 1992… my baby sister could barely speak but every day after school i would let her sing along with the song… until [...]

2-3 years prior to the darkest 7 months in Kuwait’s History… this song was very popular… so popular i had a cousin of mine decide that for the national day vacation we were to present our family with a dance we would perform while playing that song…
She forced me and her sister to train on [...]

Does any one remember this? It was very very popular in the early 90’s… the guy loses his dad and he tries to find him… every episode he gets closer to him then he misses him! I still like the episodes very much… and i wanted the little horse blink as a friend… i think [...]

Most of the new generation have never seen this booklet before but those who went to primary school before the wretched 1990 invasion do!
Back then kids were encouraged to save money in the bank… therefore during break time after we were done fighting for our daily sunkist and triangular cheese fatayer we would go and buy [...]

Why is it whenever i talk to someone about it… they have a question mark on their faces and shake their heads by no?
It aired in 1991, right after we came back from ‘3azoo, it was meant to be about a war thingy which i think it was in WW2 but they translated it as [...]

It’s the Weekend! So time for some happy nostalgia! Ever since i could remember… whenever it was time for the Food Exhibition at Mishref… it meant we had to go look at those little chicks (ketakeet in q8y) and marvel at their cuteness… then my siblings & my cousins would get a box each and i [...]

I remember kooki from we were children in the 80’s… When me & butootee saw the trailer for the movie Astro Boy we were ecstatic! We had to see Kooki’s movie!!!! Enroute to the movie all i could do is hum the opening song of Kooki in the video above… and it was a good movie [...]

Rj3 il ‘3ali akheran Rj3! KDD announced it’s return in Newspapers and in Every Street…
Allah ya fayetik ishkoborha ya b3d 3mry ya 7leeb il kakaw! You were, and always will be, the one drink no diet can conquer, the one drink i drank since i was 1 until now… because of you i am a [...]

In the first days of December (or January)… when the cold starts to seep into your bones and shake you uncontrollably from within… there is nothing like a hot steaming cup of Milk infused with golden Saffron strands and spicy sweet Cardemom pits to hold between your hands…

Step aside you bland hot cocoa with marshmallows! To [...]

If you were born in the 80’s, you must MUST remember this! We used to dance 3leha ayam gabil… they just don’t make them like that anymore
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