Social Slave

Here is a list of the Annual Christmas Bazaars as promised. If anyone knows about any other, please drop me an email so I can add it to the list.

TES Winterland Bazaar

When: Friday, December 9th from 2-5pm
Where: The English School [Location]
* Take a picture with Santa!

Charity Winter Bazaar * new

When: Thursday, December 15th from 5-11pm
Where: The Lighthouse Church, Kuwait City [Location]

Winter Fayre

When: Saturday, December 3rd from 10am-4pm
Where: Sadu House, Arabian Gulf Street, On the corner of the museum [Location]
* Free admission and great door prizes + Refreshments at the Diwaniya

Charity Christmas Bazaar

When: Friday, December 2nd from 9am-12.30pm
Where: IEAS – Don Bosco School, Salmiya Kuwait
[Facebook Invitation]

German Ladies of Kuwait Christmas Bazaar

When: Friday, December 2nd from 11am-3pm
Where: Yarmouk, Block 2, Street 3, Jaddah 5, House 10
* Traditional German baked goods and Christmas ornaments

The BLS Christmas Bazaar

When: Saturday, November 26th from 10am-4pm
Where: The British School of Kuwait [Location]

The Annual Holiday Bazaar

When: Friday, November 18th from 10.30am-9.00pm
Where: Salwa Sabah Al Ahmed Ballroom, Marina Crescent
Fee: KD1 entrance fee per person
* Santa will be there from 11am-2pm and 5-7pm.

Hotel Missoni Kuwait is combining the popular Friday brunch concept with luxurious spa treatments from the Six Senses Spa to offer ‘Sprunch’. How it works is that you book for a Friday brunch at the Luna Restaurant between 11–3.30pm and once you’re done with that, you go the the Six Senses Spa for your 50-minute signature massage treatment anytime between 9am until 11pm, and then laze around the hotel and the spa common pool if you wish.

Sprunch is offered every Friday by booking through the Luna restaurant for brunch between 11 – 3.30pm, whilst the spa and pool component can be enjoyed anytime between 9am until 11pm.

Book [Online] or call the spa directly on 2577007.

Now this is one collection that I’d love to own each piece of! H&M teamed up with the costume designer for the new ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ movie, Trish Summerville, to create a fashionable version of Lisbeth Salander’s dark edgy look. So there’s going to be ‘leather jackets and trousers, torn jeans and slouchy hoodies in industrial shades of black, grey, worn white or dark red’. The collection will have an exclusive debut at the boutique Colette in Paris on 28th November and will then be available in stores worldwide on 14th December.

Hash & I loved the original movie that was dubbed in English and Lisbeth’s character, and now the David Fincher’s version comes out on December 26th. Roonie Mara got a whole new makeover for this movie but we personally prefer Noomi Rapace’s look from the 2009 version.

For those who are not already following the site, go to Mouth Taped Shut which is like an insider production blog of the new movie to engage the audience.

KDD now has a Jumbo version of the Chocolate milk. Double yay! Can never get enough of it, the regular pack just gets over too soon.

I just read on Al-Watan Daily that the Ministry of Commerce has activated a 24-hour hotline for consumer complaints. They have increased their staff and have emergency teams working around the clock to handle any complaints. They have also added an answering service in addition to the voice mail service to save the caller’s time.

So if you’ve got any complaints about any product or service, you can now call the 24-hour hotline # 135.

[Source]

I just read in the news that the HSBC Bank in Kuwait informed its customers that they should move their accounts either to other local banks or to other HSBC branches since they might be closing down their branch in Kuwait.

They’re saying that it could be because of HSBC’s global restructuring program they announced couple of months ago that would include laying off 30,000 employees and closing down some branches over the next 10 years, including its operations in Lebanon.

I’m not sure how far this is true but I guess their customers should find out and take action soon enough.

[Source]

Update:
HSBC will only be closing down their retail banking operations in Kuwait at the end of the year and focus only on their global banking and markets, commercial banking and private banking businesses. They have posted an announcement on their [Website].

I tuned in to the FM 99.7 twice today, once at 6pm and again a few minutes back, and both the times there were some Arabic shows going on. At first I thought maybe it’s a mistake or something but it’s still going on in Arabic, and has been all evening. What happened to the radio station?

Glitzy Goodies has a new spooktacular collection of Halloween treats and favors. Check out the album for more pictures and information. Place your orders soon since there’s only 10 days to get your spook on! All gifts items can be customized or personalized on request to suit any style or budget and delivery service is available.

Check out the collection [Here]

India launched the world’s cheapest touch-screen tablet computer called Akash that supports web browsing, video conferencing and word processing. They’re planning to sell them at a discounted price of $35 just for students and a commercial version of the same will be sold for about $60 in stores.

It’s a 7 inch tablet that runs on Android 2.2 OS with 800 x 480 pixels screen resolution and 256MB RAM. It also comes with a 2GB internal memory expandable up to 32GB, WiFi, 3.5 mm audio jack and a USB 2.0 port.

[Source]

Fall season is here and the only down side to this beautiful weather is the seasonal allergies! I’ve been under the weather since the past week and I’ve only been sleeping most of the time and haven’t been able to blog much.

Now that I’m a bit better, I can’t wait to go out and enjoy this lovely weather in the evenings at the cafés or even have a beach-side barbecue, anything really! Two more days to go for the weekend!