Tallest building in the world

Kingdom Company (KHC) Announced Bechtel as the Chosen Company to Supervise the Construction of the Massive Jeddah Project, Investment Value Estimated at SR50 billion
(17/09/2007)

Project Master plan received by Pickard Chilton

Kingdom Holding Company, Chaired by HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz Alsaud, announced today Monday 17th September 2007, that Bechtel (BEKtl) company was chosen t supervise and develop the real estate project in Jeddah. Bechtel company was chosen out of seven other companies that were in a competitive bid to supervise and develop the Jeddah project.

Bechtel is a global engineering, construction and project management company with more than a century of experience on complex projects in challenging locations especially in Saudi. Privately owned with headquarters in San Francisco, they have 40 offices around the world and nearly 40,000 employees.

Kingdom Holding Company received the Jeddah Project Master plan from Pickard Chilton, reputable and renowned designers who have designed some of the world's significant and recognizable buildings, including Kingdom Center recognized by its iconic tower.

The Jeddah project, one of the major real estate projects planned by Kingdom Holding Company, and other projects in Riyadh, has an area of 5.3 million square meters and is located in the city's northern area on the Red Se coastline, which is a strategic area for the development of this project. The investment value of the project is estimated at SR50 billion upon completion, comprising of a colossal skyscraper with a surrounding area for other facilities (residential, commercial, construction of a five star hotel and offices). The residential area will be 1.5 million square meters, the size of the commercial area will be 470,000 square meters, education vicinity with an area of 150,000 square meters and the size of the offices area will be 800,000 square meters. The remaining lands will be utilized for leisure facilities, tourism and the construction of four star hotels.

Furthermore, there are plans for the development of a diplomatic quarter on the Jeddah land. Th site plans for the land were developed by HOK, a Canadian company that has world wide recognition. The project will also connect the Red Sea coastline of the area to Sharm Obhur, an environment of natural beauty. KHC is also currently in cooperation with the Jeddah municipality and other administrations to ensure that all the appropriate requirements are met for the success of the project. KHC is known for the high quality of their real estate projects that have won international awards.

Notice how the tallest 4 towers in the world are in the gulf region.

Guys, what are you compensating for?

Just buy a Hummer like every other man with a small ......

HOW TO HANDLE IRRITATING SEATMATES

.....ON AN AIRPLANE

If you are sitting next to someone who irritates you follow these instructions:


1. Quietly and calmly open up your laptop case.
2. Remove your laptop.
3. Start up
4. Make sure the guy who is annoying you, can see the screen.
5. Close your eyes, tilt your head up to the sky & move your lips as if praying
6. Then hit this link

Happy.....

..... 3eid, weekend, and holidays !!!!

btw for my 3eidiya i only take 5kd bills and higher :P

TNG (9)

Here are the scores, up until TNG (8).

momo 8
chikapappi 7
elijah 5
hammoodee 5
dishevelled 3
kinano 4
blue dress 3
ms loala 4
touche 3
kj 2
sailor 2

This is also an easy one, but you guys won't figure it out easily.

Finally

finally there will be a place in kuwait where u can go have a bagel for breakfast. it's about time !

Prime & Toast is opening very soon (next to burger hub); it's going to be a franco-american bistro which will also have all sorts of breakfast foods.

right now i can picture myself having an extra toasted sesame bagel with rich cream cheese, next to a steaming cup of coffee......

TNG (8)

Since everyone got a point for the 7th TNG (thanks to Momo), here is the updated list:

momo 7
chikapappi 6
elijah 5
hammoodee 4
dishevelled 3
kinano 4
blue dress 3
ms loala 3
touche 2
kj 2
sailor 2

And here is the next TNG, good luck

TNG (7.5)

TNG (7) had some misunderstanding, most of the people thought they had the right answers, but didn't exactly have the correct description, except momo who precisely indicated the exact location of that 7th TNG.

Due to this elijah's comment (strike on TNG), i decided to be democratic and let the people vote it out, better yet, i'm going to let momo do the final decision:

momo, do you want to:

- consider everyone a winner for TNG (7) ?
- re do TNG (7) ?
- take the point and screw everyone ?

this is going to be fun to watch

Running late

my ramadan working days started at 9:30 up until the 3ashr il awakhir (last 10 days of ramadan), where they have been pushed a half an hour, to 10am.

when it was 9:30 it was quasi impossible to make it on time and i was always getting in between 9:45 and 10 - blame it on traffic, the snooze button, the what-to-wear block, whatever.

now that i don't have to be at work til 10, u'd think i could be on time, right ? wrong ! i cant seem to be here before 10:20 :s

why is it that i always manage to be late, no matter what time i have to start? i guess it's not really because of external factors now is it.

Top 10 Cities of the World with the Most Beautiful Women

A survey was taken around the world and the results were determined by:


1) Quality of women,
2) Amount of Women per men ratio
3) Ease of talking to women.

10. Amsterdam, Holland
09. Tel Aviv, Israel
08. Montreal, Canada
07. Caracas, Venezuela
06. Moscow , Russia
05. Los Angeles, California
04. Varna, Bulgaria
03. Buenos Aires, Argentina
02. Copenhagen, Denmark
01. Stockholm, Sweden

I agree with some, but still believe that Montreal should be #1 AND Brazil and Lebanon need to be somewhere on that list.

Ouch

3 men die and go to heaven. the heaven guard starts to examine how faithful they have been to their wives during their lifetimes.

he starts with the oldest one, charly: "u cheated on your wife 50 times, so i'll give you a Fiat for your transportation needs in heaven." Charly drives off, he sure got off easy !!

it's Johnny's turn. he 'only' cheated on his wife 15 times, so he gets a Ford Focus; he's a happy camper.

the youngest of all 3, Timmy, who's never cheated on his wife, finds himself with a brand new Ferrari. he is beyond happy.

some time goes by, the 3 friends haven't seen each other in over a week; then 1 day, charly drops by with his fiat and is surprised to see timmy in tears, and so he says: "what's the matter with you, you're driving around in a Ferrari, you've never cheated on your wife, you should be ecstatic !!"

Timmy looks up and says: "i just saw my wife, she's on roller blades !!"

TNG (7)

I gave away too many easy ones, now i'm going to start with the hard.

Current standings:

momo 6
chikapappi 5
elijah 4
hammoodee 3
dishevelled 2
kinano 3
blue dress 2
ms loala 2
touche 1
kj 1
sailor 1

Heaven & Hell

Heaven is where the police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French, and it's all organized by the Swiss.

Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss, and it's all organized by the Italians.

i tried to incorporate "Kuwaiti" or "Arab" in there somehow but i couldn't come up with anything.

any ideas ?

TNG (6)

Here are the current points for each contestant, don't forget that there still a chance to enter and win even if you join TNG now


5 momo
4 chikapappi
3 elijah
2 hammoodee
2 dishevelled
2 kinano
1 blue dress
1 ms loala
1 touche
1 kj



Guess the location of this one

Black or white

sometimes when multi-level parking lots are full, there's an electronic sign outside displaying the word "full" in red - like in fanar mall for example.

in muhallab, here's what the display says when the parking is NOT full:



cos if it's not full, then it must be empty (like public bathrooms). who makes these decisions ??

TNG (5)

What is this building?
(the first one from the left)

Ranking:

momo (4)
chikapappi (3)
hammoodee(2)
elijah (2)
dishevelled (2)
blue dress (1)
kinano (1)
ms loala (1)

Men

A Man was out golfing one day when he hit the ball into the woods. He went into the woods to look for it and found a frog in a trap. The frog said to him, "If you release me from this trap, I will grant you three wishes."
The man freed the frog, and the frog said, "Thank you, but I failed to mention that there was a condition to your wishes. Whatever you wish for, your wife will get times ten!" The man said, "That's okay."

For his first wish, he wanted to be the most handsome man in the world. The frog warned him, "You do realize that this wish will also make your wife the most beautiful woman in the world, a Venus whom men will flock to". The man replied, "That's okay, because I will be the most handsome Man and she will have eyes only for me." So, KAZAM-he's the most handsome man in the world!

For his second wish, he wanted to be the richest man in the world. The frog said, "That will make your wife the richest woman in the world. And she will be ten times richer than you. " The man said, "That's okay, because what's mine is hers and what's hers is mine." So, KAZAM-he's the richest man in the world!

The frog then inquired about his third wish, and he answered, "I'd like a mild heart attack."

Moral of the story: Men are clever. Don't mess with them.

Attention male readers: This is the end of the joke for you. Stop here and continue feeling good.

Female readers: Please scroll down.

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The woman had a heart attack ten times milder than her husband!!!

Real moral of the story: Men aren't as smart as they think. Let them continue to think that way and just enjoy the show ;)

PS: If you are a man and are still reading this; it only goes to show that men never listen!!!

Crooked

what happened here ?

Ramadan Kareem

Zain (MTC) is going to be made fun of like the NBK YABEELA champaign

Google doodles

i've always enjoyed the playful changes google does to its logo on certain meaningful days as an acknowledgement / commemoration of those days.

google, being as cool as it usually is, has created an online museum containing all these holiday logos - link

there is actually one guy whose job it is to create them; i'm no graphic designer, but how cool would it be to have this job ?

my favorite ones:

1. braille's birthday


2. martin luther king day


3. andy warhol's birthday

TNG (4) and Standings

For those of you that don't know what TNG is, click here. (and you still have time to join and win)

For those who have been following up, here are the lastest results:

momo (3)
chikapappi (2)
commenter (1)
elijah (1)
dishevelled (1)

Good luck