So many people i know do not mind going out for Futoor. I have always wanted to have futoor outside my home in my 30 years of existence. I did it once. and i didn’t like it at all to be frank. I have my futoor rituals. I have to be in comfortable clothing. I have [...]

As i opened my window and turned off my engine on a hot & suffocating summer night, waiting for the fuel station worked to bestow upon me his divided attention and fill my car tank with gasoline, i began to lose my patience. You see the man is over worked. There are a LOT of [...]

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- [...]

For the past few weeks i have been having a hard time waking up. I tried every thing: I slept earlier, i slept after eating a very light dinner, i changed my wakeup time several times,  i have one alarm clock blaring far away and my phone alarm right under my ear, both wake me [...]

You say your diet will start next Sunday. You have your last good buy free meal. You have your healthy diet breakfast and head to work/school/college… You come home hungry… and then you see those food pamphlets stuck to every corner of  your news boxes at home! Why do they always appear on the same [...]

There is a lovely store in Carnaby St., London, where a collection of amazing vintage fashion items are sold… You cannot deny the beauty of those items, nor the lovely shapes/colors/fabrics/designs, and the attention to detail is simply AMAZING… nothing like the mass produced clothing items we find every where now adays… Same thing in [...]

Years and Years ago… i was in Mubarkiya or some similar souq stocking up on Bukhoor (Incense) when i saw this mini Mubkhar (Incense Burner) that comes with a car attachement thing… Supposedly this electric Mubkhar should enable me to burn Bukhoor in my car comfortable since it’s tiny, stable, electric, doesn’t get too hot, and [...]

I slave over the stove trying to make the perfect vermicille rice, i was craving a meal of vermicille rice and KDD low fat yoghurt… 2 hours later my rice is done, steaming and fluffy… Butoote asks if it’s ready and i say yes… I then find the dish above… apparently my dear husband believes [...]

I was in Caribou’s yesterday waiting for my drink when some blinking caught my eyes… i look around in search of the offender… wella it’s a coffee sleeve blinking happily all over the place!!! Y7leelah! Oho cute o funky yet still moz3ej… it did make me laugh though… but i didn’t buy it… chini ta7asaft [...]

Yes you read that right… Shampoo el7e9en!!!!! I was out with my sister the other day running some errands, on her list was ‘Buy Shampoo El7e9en’ from TSC… i was like shino Shampoo el7e9en b3d? According to my sisters and my aunt and my aunts best friend… Shampoo El7e9en is an AMAZING shampoo for all [...]

I know it’s been there for a while… the moment it was out i squealed and added it to my shopping cart… however it didn’t make it to the cash register… every single time afterwards the same scenario will repeat… i would take it, think how great it must be in my car, almost make [...]

1- Speak French,German, and Italian. 2- Learn how to play the piano. 3-Learn how to shoot a gun. 4- Weigh 45 Kilos. 5-Get the perfect blonde hair dye. 6- Visit Japan. 7- Go to the original Disney Land. 8- Learn how to ski. 9- Get rid of Acne and Black heads for good. 10- Open [...]

Today the count down begins… the last month of my 20′s is passing by! With every passing day i shall wave bye bye to my youth and welcome my “middle ageism” :`( Yet I am very grateful for Allah to have granted me to live to this date with my health, my money, my family [...]

Standing in line at the KNCC consession stand, i read the above advertisement… ”Production: The first Magazine for Creatives in the Middle East” Now what is wrong with that sentence? When was the word “Creatives” Invented? I thought Creative was an adjective! The only was for it to have a plural form is if it came [...]

We were about to watch a movie in Cinescape Avenues yesterday when a big black box by the entrance caught my attention… It had a pirate sign outside and two openings that looked like doorways and it looked like you could take a walk inside… I was very intrigued and naturally i wanted to step inside and [...]

I was about to ride my car this morning when i saw this annoying card on the floor nearby. I picked it up to throw it away when i noticed the Mussasa thing? I flip it over and sure enough… they translated Mo2asasa into Mussasa… Not Corporation no no Mussasa… Qorb Ma6afi is another badliya. [...]

It’s now available in the market… price tag $1.15 Million b3d…  click here for more Hypothetically, would you buy a house with such history?! You wouldn’t catch me in the same state as the house, let alone buy it… kafee 3lay my light flickering ghosts! Brrrrr Filed under: Freaks, Legafa, Movies, Q8, Scary, Things to [...]

Around 7 pm every day… i sit on the table with my main meal of the day. I switch on my tv, and i watch an Egyptian Series i like and follow on Rotana Zaman… Sometimes i flip between Rotana Zaman and Spacetoon Power to watch Conan between Rotana ads… But last Thursday, i sat down, [...]

I was just sitting down with my cup of tea, ready to relax and enjoy the rest of my evening after a long day… I flip through the channels and there i find the movie No Reservation on Show Movies… i <3 that movie and it had just started… i watch, very happy, very absorbed [...]

I was browsing Net-a-Porter when i saw the shoes above… i thought to my self ‘those are some hideous shoes! What are they doing here?!’ when i looked closely and saw that they are actually Christian Louboutin shoes that are being sold for £333!!!!!!!!!! Laish?! I do like the cut of the shoes and i [...]

While paying for our Pinkberry orders yesterday, the salesperson added a sample of chocolate Pinkberry to our tray, announcing that they will start selling the new flavor this Friday… How did it taste? Well, by the time we made it to the table, my sister looked every where for the tiny sample but it was gone!!!It’s either [...]

According to our laundry service… the correct English translation for the Arabic word “Konya” is… Lakab! Reminds me of Saif El 3arab’s Play with the Konya Part! Filed under: Lost in Translation, Q8, Things to Ponder

I saw this very strange sign… another sign where the English is comprehendible while the Arabic is … well weird! Do you think there are some letters missing to make the word smch or does it actually mean something?! I am completely lost in Translation! Filed under: Freaks, Lost in Translation, Strange, Things that do not [...]

Underneath the Shuwaikh Port Bridge, there is some construction work going on AND this very stupid sign… In English Go Slow ok comprehendible… in Arabic Serr Khafif means NOTHING! Y3ni in an Arabian country having a road sign that makes sense in English but not in Arabic is very fashla! Why is it so hard [...]

Chef Daniel Angerer from NYC’s Klee Brasseries came up with the idea of using his breast-feeding wife’s milk to make cheese! Apparently readers have liked the concept so much they wanted to try it and BAM a Human Milk Cheese Canapé with Figs and Pepper are available on the Menu!!! There might be a Gelato [...]

My beloved husband Butootee is a very talented man… but cooking is not one of his traits… One day i was taking a nap and woke up because of a strange smell… i open my eyes to find the above plate of pasta, lovely unusual colors… but i did not think it looked good enough [...]

Hiccups can be the most annoying thing on earth… especially if they arrive on the worst inconvenient time – and thats when they usually do- i for one have suffered from hiccups for a long long time and tried every thing to get rid of them… until the day i discovered my golden method and i use [...]