Shamma Hamdan is the latest khalijiya to make it in Arabs Got Talent. She’s a young 17 year old teenager from the UAE, who has a wonderful voice.

It turns out that Shamma is quite famous too, she’s got pictures of her with Sh. Moh’d Al-Maktoum, Al-Jasmi, Fayez Al-S3eed, and holding several awards.

Here are a few pics of her (all from Google). If the judges (especially Najwa’s opinion) are honest in their praise of her singing talent, then we sure will be seeing a lot more of her in the near future.

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Nancy Ajram was in Kuwait yesterday, to celebrate the launch of the Arabic version of Good Health magazine. Here are a few pictures of Nancy and the ceremony.

Thank you N.M. for the pictures.

Britain’s Prince Charles presents the weather forecast in the Six O’clock studio whilst on a tour of the BBC Scotland Headquarters in Glasgow.

He does a wonderful job. I bet his popularity amongst brits will increase if he continues to do stuff like this. He came out charming, confident, and funny.
Thx R.S. for the vid.

This is a monthly vid compliation of the previous month’s top 10 songs. For this month, these are my personal favs off the top ten: #7 Call me maybe and #3 Glad you came by The Wanted.

Click [here] to view more of those Top Ten Vids.

RIM & Blackberry are having a new promotional campaign, to give their customers in Kuwait free treats and discounts at a lot of places including: cafes, restaurants, hotels, beauty salons, and fashion shops. Here’s their first freebi:

• Starting from next wednesday, you get a free donut and coffee for two from Dunkin Donuts.
• Just go to a DD shop and register your PIN.
• Offer available every Wednesday from 6-10 pm, for four weeks.
• Customers will also be entered into a weekly draw to win some cool weekly prizes.

Keep in touch with them via Twitter and  Facebook.

Nancy Ajram is in Kuwait to promote the Arabic version of Good Health Magazine, and the ceremony is taking place this Thursday.

I never knew that Nancy was a vegetarian. But now that I know that, I’m not really surprised, seeing how she looks so gorgeous and all.

Being a vegan is the best weapon against aging.

Just take a look at Jared Leto. He’s almost forty years old, and still looks like he’s in his late teens.

There is a new documentary called Fearless Encounters, and it’s about the Fires of Kuwait that happened right after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, when the Iraqi Army burned Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat and surrender of Kuwait.

The documentary is almost an hour-long, and is made mostly of never before seen footage. I personally remember the fires (and their subsequent pollution) first hand, as me and my family had stayed in Kuwait during the whole invasion period. The whole of Kuwait was covered by dark smoke all day and night. Noon and early afternoon looked more like twilight and dawn, than bright day light days.

The fires and their heavy smokes were very much a huge part of our lives during the months after the liberation, but they still were the heaviest and darkest the closer you got to the oil fields.

I remember driving up to the Chale area just a few weeks after the invasion, and we could literally see the smoke and darkness get thicker by the minute as we get closer to the chales. We were there around early afternoon and spent only a couple of hours tops there, but ever since we crossed Fahaheel\Ahmadi, the place was too dark to navigate without lights or masks. And in addition to the dark and the smoke, the whole beach was dug into trenches and underground bunkers. The whole scene was heartbreaking, Kuwait was destroyed in a very savage way.

Almost everyone said that the oil fires would take years to put out, so everyone in Kuwait felt very proud and patriotic when the fires were put out in just 8-9 months. This documentary shows the hard work the firefighters and engineers put in to accomplish this patriotic work.

It opens in Kuwait on thursday the 10th of May, across all KNCC\Cinescape cinemas:

Fearless Encounters is a new documentary film honoring the Kuwaiti Oil Firefighting Team. The film was never edited or released until 2011. Shot 20 years ago by the Kuwaiti filmmaker, Talal Showaish-Salem, who spent 6 weeks with the team in the horrific inferno. Telling the inside untold story of the Kuwaiti oil firefighters’ heroic Fearless Encounters .

When the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was forced out of Kuwait by the world coalition forces in February 1991, out of spite and hatred he ordered his defeated retreating army to blow up all Kuwaitis” oil wells. More than 650 oil wells were on fire for 8 months, burning on average 6 million barrels of oil P/Day. In total, more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil was burnt.

The Kuwaiti firefighting team started 180 days after the main 4 world famous, American and Canadian oil firefighting teams. The Kuwaiti team overwhelmed the world by their unmatched speed in killing the fiercest oil well fires, reaching temperatures of 2000C. Against all bets, the Kuwaitis managed to extinguish the biggest well in Kuwait BG160, which was burning 60,000 barrels of oil per day. With their speed and relentless enthusiasm, they ignited the competitive spirit amongst all the other firefighting teams, which lead to extinguishing all the fires in 7 months only, compared to the initial world expert predictions of 5 years.

Click [here] for more details.

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Desperate Housewives is nearing its end. Next week’s two-hour finale is the series’ final episode, marking an ending to a successful and entertaining eight years. Don’t miss the finale, the promo looks so great.

Get your tickets to the Real Madrid vs. Kuwait National Football team over at Kuwait Concierge. There are five different ticket categories: KD 25, 50, 100, 125, and 150. Call phone # 22969904, which is open 24/7 till the game day, to buy the tickets and get them delivered to you. And you can also connect with them via Twitter.

You might want to check their website for the seats\categories through this [link], but that information is not up yet so you’ll have to check again tomorrow or the day after.

Click [here] and [here] to know more about the historic match.

Two Polish architects purposely built a new house the upside down way, to be viewed as a local Austrian attraction. The house looks kinda nice, not at all bad, but would probably give your brain a migraine trying to process all that information backwards.

Click on the pictures to view them in a slideshow. Click here for the [link] and [here] for a short video of the crazy people house.

This girl is very much a Kuwaiti. Her looks, her personality, her power, her humor, her confidence. She is by far Kuwait’s best act at this season’s Arabs Got Talent

Al-Qabas quoted the Quran to show the dangers and implications of the new death penalty that was passed yesterday in our parliament, applicable on anyone offending our Prophet, his wives, or his sa7aba.

You can also read Al-Jareeda’s legal analysis (done by constitutional legal expert, Mr. Shafeeq Emam) of the proposed death penalty, and how it is both legally and religiously wrong.