Sweet Child O mine - Indian Version

I thought that was very well performed.

If you want to see the original by Guns N' Roses you can find it here.

Gold Update

On September 19, 2007 I bought some gold. It was not gold bars, but shares backed by gold bars with the ticker symbol GLD.

GLD was priced at around $71, today it reached more than $85, a generous 19% increase within less than 4 months.





My prediction is that gold will rise further as oil prices increase and the US federal reserve devalues the US dollar more with lower interest rates and increased liquidity to help bail out the banks and financial institutions caught in the sub-prime quagmire.

Happy investing to all.

Starbucks going Skinny

Starbucks has started a low profile campaign called skinny. The idea is that when you order a drink, you ask for it to be a skinny drink which means you'd like sugar-free syrup, non-fat milk, and no whip cream.

I don't know if it also works in Kuwait, someone needs to try to order something skinny and let me know.

But, the Barristas' in the States are protesting, because a lot are overweight and they feel uncomfortable using the word skinny.

More here.

Picture taken from here.

Happy 2008

What is wrong with this video?

Bollywood Coming to Kuwait

According to the press release:

Kuwait, Dec 27: A group of Indians here are in search of talented and enthusiastic people for various positions for a mega Bollywood movie to be shot in Kuwait.

The movie unit is in search of actor, dancer, singer, cinematographer, composer, writer, music director, sound engineer, lighting technician, make-up artist, hair-dresser and extras.

The movie will be produced in Kuwait with prodessional Bollywood crew.

Those interested may contact 7585764 or logon to: www.TalentSearchQ8.com for further details.

Press release link.
You can apply for the movie here.

I hope the movie turns out to be as cool as this one:

Chargepod - From Mess to Bliss

This is my mess:





This is what I need:





You can buy it here.

Bangladesh Group

Bangladesh group performing at a local winter camp in Kuwait.

Seven Popular Myths Debunked - and a few of my own

The following medical myths where proven untrue by scientists:

* People should drink at least eight glasses of water a day
* We use only 10% of our brains
* Hair and fingernails continue to grow after death
* Shaving hair causes it to grow back faster, darker, or coarser
*Reading in dim light ruins your eyesight
* Eating turkey makes people especially drowsy
* Mobile phones create considerable electromagnetic interference in hospitals.

Full article here.

A few of my own follow:

Mobile phones are not dangerous in airplanes, I had my mobile phone turned on in my carry on luggage and nothing happened to the airplane.

Eating Vegetables make you lose weight, if this is true, why are cows so fat?

Playing video games is a waste of time. Actually, I played a lot of video games and I got great hand eye coordination and an appreciation of the technology involved, therefore my time was not wasted.

Google Talk is Speaking In Tongues.

Google Talk, google's chat client and messenger is speaking different languages. Google has introduced new chat bots that are added as your chat friends. Whatever you type to these chat friends gets translated to the language choosen. Among the choices are:

ar2en, en2ar (Arabic<->English)
bg2en (Bulgarian->English)
de2en, en2de (German<->English)
de2fr, fr2de (German<->French)
el2en, en2el (Greek<->English)
es2en, en2es (Spanish<->English)
fi2en (Finnish->English)
fr2en, en2fr (French<->English)
hi2en (Hindi->English)
hr2en (Croatian->English)
it2en, en2it (Italian<->English)
ja2en, en2ja (Japanese<->English)
ko2en, en2ko (Korean<->English)
nl2en, en2nl (Dutch<->English)
ru2en, en2ru (Russian<->English)
uk2en (Ukrainian->English)
ur2en (Urdu->English)
zh2en, en2zh (Chinese<->English)

For instance, invite en2zh@bot.talk.google.com, open a chat with it, and then whenever you type something in English, the bot will repeat the same in Chinese (say e.g. “hello” and the bot correctly translates to “你好”).

Here is an example of me translating English to French:





For more details you can go to Google Talk's blog, here.