It has been a while and I’ve been meaning to write but I kept procrastinating and postponing the transfer of the photos from my camera to my computer and when I did, I enjoyed my Instagram shots more than anything else but I’m slightly off topic here. Let’s start over.
Earlier this year, the blogging team from invited us to celebrate the winner of “The Cutest Baby Blogger Instagram Challenge” at which is located in 52 Degrees in Al Tilal Complex. So on a Thursday evening of January 5th , my sister #3 (aka ) and I headed over there to have a lovely dinner with friends and well I can honestly say that they are more like family as well.
My sisters and I arrived very early, even wasn’t there yet but nonetheless we took it as an opportunity to walk around a bit and have both sisters of mine get scared from a cat (yes they don’t like cats). But soon enough Dudette made it and started setting up when we were just walking in. The place was beautiful and all ours! We monopolized the place to the final extent, had provided us with lovely name badges (not that most of us needed them) but did the most awesome thing by placing comments underneath each one :P I was known as “The Sabyak Baby with Garfield Touches” (roughly translated as ‘The Tomboy baby with Garfield touches’).
Earlier this week, our good friend Salem from conducted an interview with me and published it on his blog. Unfortunately I went on for too long but for those of you who want to know more about me and the blog head on over there and read it!
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Thanks Salem for the awesome Interview and for being amazing as always!
To break my mourning posts a bit I thought I would share with you this truly amazing work of art made by a fellow blogger showcasing her favorite blogs not in any particular order! Our good friend left me along with many of our colleague bloggers speechless by this beautiful art piece.
Thank you very much for making our days with this beautiful piece you should truly vectorize it and put it up somewhere to showcase it’s true beauty!
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This post is really really late, well not as late as the others but I feel that I should’ve written about this earlier (damn my laziness, yes I said it I am lazy I know! :P)
Anywho, last September on the 9th specifically both and I were invited to attend this insanely awesome gathering “The 2nd Bloggers Union” (The first happened in June when I was in New York so I wasn’t able to attend that) that was meant to unite the bloggers and not to announce new products or whatever. Back when blogs were not insanely popular in the early 2000s , , and a couple of other bloggers used to hold a gathering at Second Cup Cafe where they meet up every month to just hang out and talk about anything, but being a female blogger and sometimes we were a minority in the first blogging world we opted out of these events simply because we were shy or rather I was.
Thanks to His from , and for setting up this awesome meet up where we got to meet Lana Al Resheed who offered us the Movenpick Royal Suites Building in the Free Trade Zone and our fellow bloggers. There were many there and I got a chance to meet some new people such as OmarVloggable from 4RocknRollers as well as finally see N from , , among many other bloggers oh and not to forget the other person involved in Q8Blend.
Small businesses offered us lunch and desert that day and I went crazy over Gelato Italiano because I simply love my Gelato! We had Kiwi Bakery, Crunchy, Mama Paulina juices and Pick-Yo.
This gathering was so cozy it felt like we were sitting with family and not strangers, the awesome thing was that got to present us with an idea he had and asked for our opinions on how to work on it, changing the society view on Bloggers. Most of the people out there feel that bloggers are living the best life there is with free stuff coming their way and free invites and so on, but that’s not true. We get free stuff but it was only recently when social media became a tool for companies to get their messages and products out there and bloggers are the most hip way to do it. The event was filled with fun activities (mainly that board where we get to type whatever we want :P) as well as a competition which was supposed to grant the winner a Blackberry Bold 9900 but instead that prize went to the winner of the last-minute raffle which was . Both Lujain and I had a ton of fun and wish to see more of the bloggers in the next meeting.
Blogs that covered the event nicely: , , , , , [P.S. Great minds think alike I didn't remember that you used the same heading except after re-reading your post] and as well, , F, , , and .
Thanks to and for the awesome invite and to for providing us with amazing commentary during the game. I am proud to be part of the Bloggers Union and wish to see more bloggers in the near future.
This is the first time in a very very long time in which I give a shout out to a new blog that is on the rising of becoming something awesome. The only reason I decided to give it a shout out is because it has the promise of becoming something awesome. Not only because one of the writers on the blog happens to be one of my dear old college friends but they are cool and they have insane topics which they write about.
blog features (the guy behind the redesign of His & Hers, as well as my dear old friend), and along with many contributing writers the list is quite long but the fun fact you all should know is that their blog “The Dusty Co” will feature all kinds of topics from all over the place whether it is technology news, tutorials, fashion, lifestyle, celebrity news, everything and anything is on their list.
I for one added them to my Google Reader and my Twitter account. I can’t wait to see the awesome news they’ll give us! Good Luck dear friends and may we see your awesomeness!
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Who knew the day that I came out of “semi-hibernation” (let’s face it I will still hibernate because deep down inside I am a nice cuddly teddy bear) will be the day that we welcome a blogger baby into the family!
have officially become parents! YAY! *throws confetti and does the chicken dance*
Let’s all join together and share their joy and happiness and welcome their awesome cool munchkin “Baby Mishari”
Dear ,
Mabrook Ma Yakom Dears! O Yetraba Eb 3ezkom Enshalla! Enshalla Ya rab ebaleghkom feeh El Thereya El Sal7a!
Sincerely,
Jacqui (the lazy bugger)
Disclaimer: This post in no way endorses my idea of jumping out of a plane just for fun, nor is it written to bribe a specific someone to send over a brand new MacBook Air my way (I am holding Adobe CS3 hostage until I get my own :P) Yes so that’s my disclaimer!
Fellow Blogger and Newly Established friend (who wants to kidnap ) has submitted a video to the VIVA Passions competition of his passion which is “Skydiving” otherwise known as “Jumping out of planes that are way high up in the sky with nothing but a parachute to ensure safely reaching ground because they want to feel alive rather than dead :P” and the video is simply awesome so be sure to vote for him! :P
Vote for if you like his passion or even if you like his video which is beautifully put together.
I will vote for him once I see that MacBook Air *ehem* I mean when I figure out how to register first :P
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The day has finally arrived, I am no longer waiting on fire for the book signing because you are now cordially invited to book otherwise known by its English title “The Chronicles of Dathra, a Dowdy Girl from Kuwait” and you will get a chance to meet the person behind the hilarious series!
It’s going to be a big event with several other authors signing their books, Media coverage, and so much more! Let’s support our friend and colleague in this time and show up! I know I’m going for sure!
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Let me start off by saying that I am proud to say that I am actually writing this post on the night that the event happened and not procrastinating as I usually do! So Kudos to me!
I had lunch today with Yehya the Egyptian, the dude who is on “Jimmy Kimmel” he’s an Egyptian living in the US who has an awesome hobby of taking pictures with celebrities, some might say he is some sort of Paparrazi person but I would like to think of him as a hobbyist! So, Zain invited me and Lujain to have lunch at Pizzeta in Spoons today and meet with this awesome dude! Not only that but I got to meet awesome bloggers and have lunch with them! (Yipppeee!)
Yehya, started off this hobby in the 60s or something like that, all I know is that he’s been doing this for 20-30 years and he’s got quite a collection of over 1000 celebrities, American, Canadian, South American, Egyptian, Indian, French, if the person is a celebrity he has it! He started off with Dalida and this other guy and well he went on to the modern day celebs we see today. It was nice hearing his stories and seeing his albums! I loved it!
Lunch was awesome, and it was nice talking about blogs and blogging with other bloggers, I felt old there though being the oldest blogger hehehe but it was fun! I am literally the oldest blogger (in blogging age) but I believe one of the few non-commercial ones! You know you are out to have lunch with bloggers when the second the food arrives everyone whips out their camera to take snapshots of the food. Even “Yehya” commented on it and said that this is the first time he sees food as a subject of photographs (personally I think he was jealous of the attention *just kidding*) hehehe I loved seeing , , , His from , , and other Zain staff! It was a nice intimate lunch and I kind of want to get to see more of these!
Man, time sure has changed since the beginning of blogging, back then everyone wanted to remain anonymous and never went anywhere for fear of others finding out. Now, everyone wants to be known!
Thanks Zain for this invite it was AWESOME!
For more coverage check out what our blogging friends wrote, also I *borrowed* the video from our favorite Dudette (7ajiDude):
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I miss my sisters: , , and (aka Knee) (aka aka Sister #4) it’s been a while since they’ve been back, Dee was back during the Winter Break for only 3 weeks (which is short) but the other 2, I last saw them in August/September of last year and they might be coming back later on in July I believe :/
I was looking at the pictures of the P2BK posts that bloggers have been posting and I remembered the time I went with my sister Fee (it was a fun time!) and it got me thinking how much I miss hanging out with her.
I know I have Lujain here and things should be awesome but there is an 18 year difference between us. I miss Nee’s commentary on the TV Shows we watch! I would just look across our shared desk at home and we’d discuss the latest One Tree Hill dilemma, swoon over Blair and Chuck in Gossip Girl, drool over Damon & Stefan from Vampire Diaries, and so much more. I miss Dee and her diva-ness, she really is sometimes full of herself but in a good way hehe and is up for anything (she is also the one who I’m depending on to get me the iPad 2′s!)
I just miss walking into any one of their rooms and having a late-night chat about anything and everything, whether its in their bedroom or sometimes the occasional bathroom conversation hehe.
Come back already idiots! Come back! Finish your studying and come back!
P.S. In the meantime I have Auntie as my big sister, as my almost near twin sister, as my closer twin sister, and as my younger sister, and Lily as my baby sister. Although and Lily are abroad I still have the others I love you all!
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.
A blogger for the past 8 years and still loving it.