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A friend of mine at work sent me this link to a website which basically tells you what to do in the worst-case scenarios… my favorite is how to land a place. but there is really good ones as well.

check it out by following this link

I was reading Marzouq’s blog zDistrict when I read this post about the article in KuwaitTimes… and I totally disagree with the article. I once wrote about the definition of a blog in a previous post which specifically mentioned that it’s a personal diary.. yes blogs can be for a specific purposes but that’s not why they were created in the first place.

a part from the previous post:

An online diary where people can post messages and others may view and respond to the posts.

Blogs have been a great addition to this society for many reasons such as ..

1. you see different point of views on political, social, controversial issues and many more.
2. you hear about events, news, and breaking news through blogs.
3. the replace therapy (people vent … and they get feedback)
4. it’s a social network.. it connects people to the world around them.
5. blogs bring out talents people.

نحن نستمتع بقراءة كل ردودكم و تعليقاتكم، تقريباً، ولا نمانع انتقاداتكم. لكن اللجوء إلى التهجم والتهديدات الشخصية.. فهذا أمر لا نقبله. ونود أن نلفت إنتباه من إعتقد أن بإمكانه التحكم بمانكتب ومالا نكتب بأنه شخص غير واقعي. التدوين شيء جديد على البعض لكنه جميل. نرجو أن يبقى كذلك

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Definition of RSS: a family of Web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format.

Ma6aba’s RSS feed is http://www.ma6aba.com/blog/feed you just go to the address and click on subscribe now as simple as that.

1. Hello
2. Hi
3. How are you all
4. want to meet 24yr boy?
5. *and obviously the hate mgs”, either for me or to another “chatter” comment
6. why no one is talking?

So I figured I should find the available definitions of a blog  on the web and post them incase someone needs more information about blog:

• A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
• Online journal. The term BLOG comes from web log.
• A frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links.
• A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.” Blogs are typically updated daily using software that allows people with little or no technical background to update and maintain the blog.
• An online Journal
• An online diary where people can post messages and others may view and respond to the posts. “not chat, discuss is another thing”

I hope this is helpful ;)

• Ordering flowers, groceries, cakes and cookies on the go “now that’s a attention grabber”
• Find a phone number for any store, restaurant, or any other commercial entity.
• Where to go this week
• News
• Islamic section which provides you with quran to listen to, and prayers timing.
• Events notifier
• oh yeah, and you can read my blog on it as well ;)

To access the Zain WAP

• Send MI as an sms to 99999
• Save the setting you receive
• Enter the following URL into your phone browser http://wap.kw.zain (yes it’s http://wap.kw.zain)

This is how the portal looks:

Where are we headed? it’s a very scary thought to see inflation go this high.. and with oil prices and gold going up we will only see inflation go higher.

Refer to my previous post about oil which was commented on by Skunk:

“these oil prices arent even good for opec countries as it is the oil price itself which is the cause of the record inflation that even opec countries are suffering from. while alot of the world’s money is coming here, alot is also going out to import stuff into this region cos nothing is made here.

so rents are higher cos it costs more money to bring in materials to build new buildings, food is higher cos of transport costs, fertiliser costs, packaging costs, etc.”

Seriously, money lately isn’t worth as much as it was worth few years back.. I still remember being able to survive a weekend on 4 or 5 KD when I was younger. now if you are lucky and you don’t spend much you will be throwing out no less than 30 or 40 KD (on a good weekend) without even buying something that you will keep.

What scares me even more that investing your money is harder now (obviously).. couple of months ago I wanted to open a fixed deposit.. and the rate they offered was 2.75% per annum for the monthly deposit! that means you are actually loosing money on your deposit..

What would your saving plan be in such a scenario? share..

UPDATE: a friend just sent me this picture.. it’s true regarding inflation