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On friday I installed Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). All I had to do is insert the DVD and follow the steps. it took me 30 minutes to upgrade my previous OS (tiger) to the current one. very simple and fast process.

So far I haven’t had the chance to really check the features and play around but…

1. Spaces: amazing feature.. you can’t imagine how useful can this one be. I’m already addicted to it.
2. Time machine.. OH YEAH!! i can’t wait until i really need it and it helps..
3. Calender.. Haven’t used it much but should be nice
4. Mail.. Loved the RSS, I want to use the to-do more and sync it with my Mobile.
5. My Docs. on the dock can be very useful.
6. Widgets.. haven’t had the chance to check them out even though I was excited about it the most.
7. Alot more which I will keep adding to this post as I use it.

* my laptop feels faster too*

Definitely a must have OS if you are using Apple desktop/laptop. (price 129 euros)

This post is dedicated to my mother (the greatest mother of all time). Today I found out that she reads my blog, which is great! now she can follow up on what I do here.. so everyone say hi to Om Weld El-ma6aba! love you mom.. enjoy the blog, and I hope you like it (and like we said, this is a secret :P)

The second part of this post is dedicated to my cousin Om A7midy.. I guess she fell down the stairs last week or the week before but I only found out today about it. Salamat and I hope you are feeling well. Matshofen shar om a7midy

A week ago I made my first purchase from Crocs. I have always thought it’s an ok brand and it has it’s hype like puma for example. but after buying their mammoth slippers I realized how comfortable those things can be!

This is the exact one I got but the picture is from the website, I realized that I fell in love with this brand yesterday when it was really cold and no shoes was able to keep my feet warm but those Mammoths! they best part about them is that you can put the fur on any other Crocs, just like their Jibbitz.

The will work great for:

1. Snow
2. Mazra3a
3. Mokhayam
4. Yakhor
5. Chalet
6. Home
7. Everywhere

In the past couple of months I have been to introduced to many new dishes… but this is my favorite one:

This is Deer Steak. the meat is so tender, juicy, and flavorful! this has to be one of the best steaks I have ever had in my life, too bad it was the “dish of the day” and I don’t expect to see it on the menu at Cafe Rotterdam anytime soon.

Another dish that I have been eating like no tomorrow is the Dutch Bitterballen which is available in almost any place you go to ranging from street stands, restaurants, bars, etc etc… I guess it’s some sort of meat with another stuff all grounded and then deep fried as balls. It tastes so good with Dijon mustard and they are very very greasy

This picture should explain it.. It’s still October for god’s sake! and it was actually lower before I took this snap.. but you get the picture.

To be honest it didn’t feel like zero… it felt alot colder!

I figured I haven’t been driving for the past 2 months which is alot btw so I went and got my self a ticket just by riding the damn metro!

Here is what happened.. the race finished yesterday and i’m obviously very very happy because Kimi won the 2007 Formula 1 Championship so we went to have dinner and after that I took the metro back to my apartment. as soon as we got off the metro they had a check point! even here in Holland they have it !! so the guy looks at my monthly pass and it was expired (for some reason I though my pass expires on the 27th) .. so I had to pay 37.7 euros ticket for a monthly pass that only costs 33 euros and I have to go get another one which i’m not looking forward to standing in line for this stupid pass.

Lesson: metro pass expires!

Today is the final formula 1 race as some of you may know and it is the Brazilian Grand Prix. My driver (Kimi) has a good chance of winning the race if he gets a 1st and something happens to McLaren’s drivers. I can’t really talk about the race now because it start in no time and I haven’t left the apartment yet. i’m going to watch the race at this sports bar in Rotterdam.

Top 5 on the grid:

1. Massa
2. Hamilton
3. Kimi
4. Alonso
5. Webber

Will update it later on today.

 *** UPDATE ***

Kimi Raikkonen Won the 2007 Formula 1 Championship!

The race was an amazing one, great driving, good accidents for some action, AMAZING pit strategies, and great team work like the Ferrari case.

The 2 moment that I almost jumped from happiness were when Massa blocked Hamilton at the green light to open up the track for Kimi. the second one was seeing Hamilton goes back to 18th or something like that. The race was tailored for Kimi! I’m happy .. thats all I have to say

Well well,…. it’s Eit people! so 3edkom embarak!!! I just woke up (it’s 9 am) and i’m getting ready for my usual day at work .. nothing fancy

BUT tomorrow alot of my friends are visiting from Kuwait.. so my real eid starts tomorrow

I’m sitting on my laptop yesterday and I was going through some pictures from back when I was in college and I realized that I miss Baybimmers, The BMW car club that I was a member at. we used to go cruise, race (professionally and illegally), have dinners, talk about BMW’s, go-karting, and so forth.

Now i’m having thoughts of starting one here in Kuwait because I haven’t heard of one that I can join. what I have in mind for the Club is to have an organized monthly or even bi-monthly meetings to talk about cars, drive around, exchange some technical knowledge, go-karting, photoshoots, and more.

if anyone is interested in organized something like this with me please shoot me an email at weld@ma6aba.com or leave a comment here.

Last weekend (starting Thursday) I went to Madrid. I have to admit, I fell in love with the city. I even requested an application to apply to IESE Business School for MBA.. which I will hopefully work hard enough to get accepted to.

Now the city.. first of all.. Hotel Silken Puerta America is one of the best designed hotels I have ever been to, the hotel is 13 floors which every floor is designed by different designer. I stayed on the 3rd floor which was designed by David Chipperfield.

The hotel’s room service is excellent, good restaurant, good lounge on the 13th floor with a city view, and good coffee at the ground floor’s bar. check out the website, it’s very nice.

The first night nothing really happened, I was catching up with my friends from Madrid.. we went to have dinner at a tapas place in Madrid called La Canaria, obviously great food (I Love tapas, especially at this restaurant).

Friday we went to see the Real Madrid Stadium, we took the Estadio Santiago Bernabeu tour which takes you around the Stadium starting at the top of the stadium then to the Bernabeu museum then to the field then the lockers and press room and finally the store. nice tour

Later than night we went to Buddha bar and then we hung out with some friends.

On Saturday we went to Gran via and we walked around for a while during the day and then we went home to my friend’s place and took a nap until 9 (really tired from last night) and then we had dinner in some restaurant i can’t remember now (tapas as well) and went to see some friends that we couldn’t see earlier.

Sunday I flew back to Amsterdam and took the train to Rotterdam.