So it’s been 6 years since I started blogging and we’re nearing the 7 year mark! Wow it seriously has been long hasn’t it? The other day I got to thinking how I used to blog back then I remember writing a ton of posts a day to the extent that Purgatory had to tell me to slow down so he can read them and ever since I went on to writing 1 post a day at least. I know that recently I have been in a rut and I sort of lost touch with myself but I am hoping this all ends now.
Since my new theme has some cool awesome new features I thought I should take a look back at my Archives and man oh man was that a trip down memory lane. I got to the point where I created an Excel sheet of how many posts I wrote back then and started to compare the years myself and if you see this image you’ll get to understand what happened.
I started off with Rubduckie.com sometime in 2005-2006 because before then I was hosted on Blogspot.com and early on in 2007 I made the switch over to Couchavenue.com after thinking hard for a new name since I thought Rubduckie.com was a bit childish I wanted to grow up and so I chose the Couch instead of the Duck. If you see above you’ll notice that 2006 was my golden year in which I posted 343 posts! And March was my craziest it was also the year I graduated in from College and during March I had a slight Internship where my dad worked and that was the reason for the overflow of posts. Slowly my posts became less and less as time went on and 2009 was the lowest point in my blogging career in which I blogged a total of 77 posts. I was depressed that year it was a hard year for me but I wasn’t really sure in which areas; what I remember vividly is the fact that I hated my job a lot and was experiencing trouble then but thank god I’m done with that job and I quit earlier this year.
So far, 2010 I started off shakey but I’m hoping that I can bounce back hard and September marks the most month in which I posted in. I hope to see another 2006 in my life, in truth it was the best year ever I loved 2006 to the extent well I would wish I could go back to that time. It was truly my golden year! 2007 – 2009 just sucked and I didn’t like them that much.
So there you have it, what do you guys think of me posting more often now? Should I continue this pattern or not? I find it’s much more soothing that I update more often now and I hope to keep this up.
I’ve used and read this phrase quite often since I’ve gone over to the dark side, you know the side where iPhones are the new children and where apps are where all your money goes into. Ever since July 2008, I’ve been an addict taking my iPhone everywhere and anywhere, doing everything with it. Hell if I could sleep with it I would, oh wait, I actually did sleep with it once.
It was under my pillow you dingbags! Timing my sleep pattern and all that jazz, yes I’ve got an app that does that. There are apps out there doing everything nowadays hell it can even pop your popcorn! But back to my point, as I was driving this morning I thought to myself people are now using their iPhone and Blackberry to email others and write posts on their blogs among other things but you always see this tagline in the end. I thought to myself, why is it there?
Is it to warn those who are reading that if you find any misspelled words it’s because I was hunched over a tiny cramped keyboard clicking my thumbs away? But then again most of those emails are spelling errors free and read better than when you typed them on your computer. So that must not be it. Could it be that they want us to know that you are some rich dimwit who has the $$$ to buy a smartphone such as the iPhone/Blackberry? Hmmm no I don’t think so either.
I kept wondering why do we see this “Sent from my iPhone/iPad/Blackberry” there has to be a reason and I am willing to hear your explanations! So hit me with them.
For those of you who don’t know me that well, this was a filler post or an attempt at trying to sound smart, because I just might not be that smart.
So I’m in a wondering stage at the moment. I’ve got my beautiful iPhone 4 with me at the moment however I’ve been experiencing dropped calls with Zain when on the 3G network and just plain slowness. My bills are never stable every month, some months I pay 30KD some more. I can never be sure where exactly my money is going. Only issue at the moment is that I am attached to my phone number, and the majority of my family are either Zain or Wataniya (the Aunt and Uncles I speak to mostly are on Zain – Dad, Mom and sisters are Wataniya). I am looking for the better deal for my buck and this is what I currently am subscribed to at the moment.
The better coverage, signal, deal for the 1KD, good 3G speeds, is what I am looking for.
Current package: Wiyana 19KD + Mobile Internet 7 KD (Speed 1Mbps, Usage 1GB) + 0.500 KD MissU = Brings the total to 26.500 KD what I should be paying monthly. I have yet to see that.
I seem to be liking the VIVA More package since you can customize it and I can get the same if not better package for around 21KD -> 24KD a month.
Please help :)
20 years later, it’s still a day I will never forget, it is that fateful day where Iraq invaded our soil, our safe rich heavenly soil. Saddam Hussein may be dead but what he did to Kuwait at that time will never die, we will always remember this fateful day for years to come, we will learn from what had happened back then and protect our lands even better.
My last memory of that day was waking up in our flat, my father was away on a business trip and we were home with mother and my 2 sisters, mother was pregnant at the time with sister #4, I had woken up quite early that day and was watching cartoons, when all of a sudden my mother gets a phone call from my aunt saying that we were invaded and to turn the channel to see it. It was then I believe where they put a video of Saddam celebrating a birthday or being all happy or something. At least I think that was what happened because my memory has been wiped out for the most part of that time and all I can remember are bits and pieces. Maybe it’s a way of coping with what happened but the fragments are still there and I’ll never forget them.
Desert Storm is what made my generation be what it is today, my generation and the previous ones. I am just so sad to see the newer generations not understand what we went through and not have that experience to guide them in life. I would never wish this on anyone but our hardships are what make us stronger.
I love you Kuwait, God Bless you, and may he keep you safe and sound from all enemies.
“We will forgive, but never forget”
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Something has been bothering me lately, and that is the fact that the government is mixing two different scenarios and treating them the same way. I understand that there is a situation with the dual citizens of the Middle East (i.e. you are a UAE citizen and you’ve got a Kuwaiti one too or any other GCC citizenship + Kuwait) the matter was that those people would be getting government benefits from both countries and therefore taking more stuff from Kuwait than they should have.
But what I don’t get is why they are adding into those ranks those who were born in the US or UK or any Western country. I mean the parents are obviously fully Kuwaiti, they were in the West for one reason or another, so why are you mixing matters. They are Kuwaiti and they had an option of being born abroad. The US doesn’t care about what your original nationality or citizenship and they’d give theirs to those being born there. The benefits there don’t even come close to what Kuwait is offerring but again I want to stress those are Kuwaitis born in Western countries not Foreigners given the Kuwaiti Citizenship.
One thing that sucks is for those who have the American/British/Australian/Western Passport is that if they give it up they will not be able to go back into that country again because they would need a VISA and the embassy wouldn’t grant one since they are technically still a citizen of that country.
So why are you being so weird Kuwait? Why are you treating both situations as the same? And okay since you are why don’t you penalize those in the high class families first? I believe that almost 50% of Kuwaitis were born abroad so why are you hurting those, rather than penalizing the idiots who rob you of your benefits, those who come from different GCC countries change their name get your citizenship, reap your benefits and take a short break go back home and use their main identity to reap more benefits.
I am just hating the double-standard and I kept quiet for a long time but I just can’t stand it anymore the two situations are totally not the same and therefore should not be treated that way.
Just my 2 cents.
I need to update more often but problem is, I feel lost without my beautiful iMac 27 and I am postponing the inevitable, I will probably give the guys at warsha.com a call and have them come over to the house and check it out, that way I won’t have to keep it overnight someplace and worry about it.
Anywho, let’s see Italy is out of the World Cup but my greater powers that be made me get Portugal, Brazil, and Argentina out too :) It was so fun watching them exit the World Cup and I’m glad that they’re out if Italy can’t have it then none of those teams can have it LOL! I dunno yet who I want to win for the final game but it’s going to be a tough one because it’ll be either Germany or Spain vs Netherlands and that’ll be one hell of a game, I’m looking forward to it.
Pretty soon, my sisters and mom will be travelling and I’ll be home alone for 1 night and then Daddy comes back to keep me company, the house will consist only of us and it’s going to be a nice experience to deal with. I am planning on finishing up some pending stuff in that time.
Confession Time: I feel alone most of the time when I’m surrounded by a bunch of people, it feels like a big hole is in my heart and it kinda hurts to think about it or see it, therefore I choose to bottle it up in a small bottle and file it somewhere in one of the closets of my heart. I know it’s not healthy but that’s what I’m feeling right now so sad but oh well.
I got myself the White Blackberry Bold 9700 because I got fed up with the Curve 8900′s trackball it kept getting stuck and felt nasty and this new trackpad is awesome and so is OS 5.0. I am waiting for the arrival of my iPhone 4 which will be sometime this week and then I can retire my old iPhone 3G.
I have more to say but I guess I’ll leave it to some other time. We’ve got only 5 months left of this year, let’s hope they’re awesome months and that my weird feeling goes away.
On my way yesterday morning, I kept thinking about the cold weather we were experiencing and then I started thinking about the clothes that we wear. I was in a way mesmerized and fascinated by how clothes come in different shapes/sizes/material/etc.. and how each individual incorporates them. The clothes we wear are not only fashionable or nice to look at but they serve a greater purpose in keeping us warm.
I thought back to the days where cavemen were roaming around naked I think before they discovered that large leaf where they covered certain parts and before I believe they discovered the ability to skin the animals they eat and create nice fur coats.
Can you imagine surviving the cold being naked and only covered by a leaf to protect your privates or if you’re lucky that fur you got from your last meal? Today we wear a thousand layers just to keep warm, I don’t think I know if I can survive in that state.
Just a random rambling that was going through my mind and I thought I would share with you all :)
Today was one of those weird days, the days were you wonder what made you get out of bed, what made you dress up and head out to work because nothing seemed to go correctly.
Apart from the fact that you have a billion things to do because the past week you were away at a training course, there is the fact that customers come in to complain for previous Staff’s mishaps and such.
But that is not the whole point of this post, the whole point is, that a customer did come to me today and was upset with the service he was getting, he requested something that was impossible to achieve on my end and after promising to look into it, we were to head downstairs since my office is on a different level so he would pick up his new card. And little did I know that the elevator will choose that moment to stop on us.
Seriously it was stuck in between floors for almost 30 minutes and even when we pressed on the bell no one came to help. The best thing that I have started to do is take my mobile phone wherever I go. That way whenever there is an emergency and I have service I will be able to phone for help, which is exactly what I did. However they were not able to restart the elevator and therefore they ended up moving us manually until we safely reached the ground floor where they pried the doors open.
It was truly an experience, the customer himself laughed and said now you will not be able to forget this, it will go down in history.
So my word of advice, when you wake up feeling that something will go wrong today, don’t think positively, instead choose to stay underneath your covers and go back to sleep, wake up when there is no danger to yourself out there in this big bad world.
Dear Gray Hairs,
Why oh why are you appearing again in my hair, and always on the left side of my head?
Why are you even visible to the world, do you want them to count that I have more than 3-4 strands?
I love the color gray and love how sophisticated you make me look but I totally loathe the feelings I get inside when I see you.
Others will sit and pluck you out or color you to make you disappear but I wear you like a badge of war.
Why do I think that 25 is the new old ancient age rather than a young ripe one?
Seriously why am I feeling this way? Take me out of this depressed, pitiful mood please.
Make me young again.
Yours Not-so-truly,
Jacqui
Depression hurts sometimes, and wanting things that you can’t have actually hurt even more.
I haven’t updated in a while not because I’m lazy it’s just that I don’t feel like writing anymore because I am so sick of everything, work is so hectic it’s not even funny.
I have worked all jobs at the branch this year except a branch manager’s position, and let me tell you it’s not that great nor even funny.
I am missing my friends, or the friends I used to have back in college, and the later years, hell I miss the twirlies, and it’s not even fair. I don’t have time to talk to anyone. I am working 12 hour shifts basically rather than going home in my break I stay at the branch and finish my work. And when I do get home, I just sit and read blogs and watch my TV Shows as they help me unwind. I want to start reading again but I just can’t anymore.
My hair is falling like crazy. I guess it’s all the stress.
I am sleep deprived.
I am emotionally deprived.
I need a huge bear hug.
I think I want a shoulder to cry on, not for anything major I just need to let it all out.
Hell my little Macbook purchase is not doing it’s usual pick-me-up-cheer-up that it usually does. Granted it’s still not in my hands but I am not entirely that excited anymore than when I ordered it.
I need a break.
a 28 year old Kuwaiti Gadget Freak who is obsessively in love with Apple Products so much that she probably has everything made by Apple. Currently she's being a lazy bum and putting off writing and everything else but when she does this is her space where she likes to vent and release everything, so welcome to it.
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