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Sheeel.com is celebrating their 1st year of success by giving away a special one-year anniversary gift to 365 customers! 200 gifts were already ‘Sheeeled’ at midnight and there will be 165 more for tomorrow between 11am – 1pm. All you have to do is place your order and just pay KD1 delivery charge.

Compared to all the other local deals websites that opened up past year, Sheeel.com is by far the best overall. In their first year of business, they had a deal for each of the 365 days and about 28,000 deals were ‘Sheeled’. So this is a very thoughtful way of giving back to your customers.

It’s going to get really cold this weekend. The maximum temperatures during the day will already be low enough and they’ll go down below zero at nights. Besides, it will be pretty windy and dusty as well. So make sure you’re all covered and warm enough before heading out.

Have a warm and safe weekend everyone!

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The Avenues Mall will be holding contests every Thursday for their new Weekend Giveaway exclusively for their Facebook fans. The contests will start every Thursday and you have until Saturday to post your entry for a chance to win gifts, vouchers and more from many of their stores and brands. Winners will be announced, and will receive an email on the following Sunday so they need to bring a copy of that email to claim their prize.

The first contest starts tomorrow Jan 19th on their Facebook Page.

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The EVENTmania team is bringing AbracaDabra 2, their second International Illusion Show right here to Kuwait and this time it’s a lot bigger with five of the world’s best illusionists from America, Europe and Asia – Michael Grasso, Daniel Jester, JC SUM & ‘Magic Babe’ Ning, Keelan & Charlotte and Rafael. It’s going to be a 90 minute show and it’s definitely not to be missed! Click [Here] for a preview of what’s to come.

Dates: Jan 30th, Jan 31st & Feb 1st
Times: 2 shows per day – 4.30pm & 7.30pm
Venue: Ice Skating Rink

So far they haven’t announced about the ticket prices but they are available at VIVA outlets at the Avenues, Marina and Olympia Malls. There will be more locations available soon so keep checking back for updates.

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Here are the movies coming out in Cinescape this weekend:

Underworld Awakening [Trailer]
Coriolanus [Trailer]
My Week with Marilyn [Trailer]
Contraband [Trailer]
A Monster in Paris [Trailer]

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David Beckham’s Bodywear collection for H&M is going to be available in stores in February. It’s going to be a long term partnership and not a limited availability so I guess we won’t be witnessing a total bedlam at the launch like Versace! Besides, it’s menswear.

[Here] is the full collection.

Last month I had my worst experience with Aramex to date. So far besides the minor delays, price changes and customs charges everyone was facing, I didn’t have any other issue to complain about but they just blew it with my last shipment.

Hash had ordered the Apple Logic Studio on 7th December and considering that it’s just a small box of software, we thought that we would probably get it in 4-5 days tops. But it turned out to be a nightmare with the the package getting held up in customs and MOI, the constantly increasing shipping charges and then the address issues!

The shipment arrived in Kuwait on 11th December and then went on to be held at the customs and MOI for 13 days all the way from 12th December until 25th December just because the description said it was a DVD/CD! When they finally had it out for delivery, I called them to deliver it to my office since we weren’t going to be home until late that day. Turns out that their address policy has changed and they no longer make temporary address changes like they used to and you can only have one permanent delivery address which takes a day to change in the system, so they would deliver the next day.

Next day I called to ask about the delivery and they tell me that the person who changed my address didn’t notify their Operations Department and so my package wasn’t sent out, and it was finally delivered on 28th December!

And all this while I had been noticing that their shipping charges kept changing every few days. It started with KD5.450, which changed to KD8.450 few days later and on the day it was supposed to be delivered I got a text message that it is KD10.450. When I called them on the day they were supposed to deliver, the lady on the line told me to add another KD1.600 for the MOI charges making it a total of KD12. But the delivery receipt turned out to be the same as the text message and I paid KD10.450 in the end.

A small box of software, hardly weighing a few pounds took 16 days within Kuwait to get to us with an additional KD5 for customs and MOI charges and the box was not even opened for checking!

Souq.com has the iPhone 4S 16GB for just KD180 as their their Deal of the Day. If anyone’s interested, there are just a couple more left!

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Update: They’re all sold out!

This time I won the Crumbs’ Twilight Movie Night competition! Last time it was Hash who got it for Harry Potter. My sisters and I had been waiting so long for Cinescape to release Breaking Dawn so you can imagine my excitement when I saw my name on the winners list for 3 tickets to the Movie Night with Crumbs, it was a sister’s night out all right!

The Movie Night was on Dec 29th at the 360 Mall VIP Cinema. We arrived fifteen minutes earlier and got our tickets from the lovely Aseel Al-Turkait when she handed us a big bag of Crumbs’ yummy goodies! We grabbed our usual nachos and popcorn and headed straight in.

All I can say about the movie is that it was badly chopped up. The story on the other hand was not as enjoyable or watchable as the previous parts. Bella’s character is dry as ever, Edward continues to sulk even more, Jacob seemed like the only thing alive in the movie, literally. Daily Mail’s review of this movie says it all.

All in all it was fun to hang out with my sisters and enjoy the Crumbs’ Movie Night hosted by the lovely ladies, Arwa & Aseel and the darling little Lulu. Thank you so much ladies and Crumbs!

Hotel Missoni’s Cucina Restaurant is one of Middle East’s top 10 restaurants to try out in 2012 according to Arabian Business. They’ve put together a list of all the finest and chic places that have opened up recently or will be opening soon this year in the Middle East and are not to be missed.

Here’s the full list:

1. Hakkasan, Qatar
2. Jamie’s Italian, Dubai
3. S.T.A.Y, Beirut
4. The Ivy, Dubai
5. Gaucho, Dubai
6. Cucina, Kuwait
7. ‘O’ by Okku, Saudi Arabia
8. Zuma, Beirut
9. Roberto’s, Dubai
10. Amador, Abu Dhabi

For picture and more details, check out the gallery [Here].