Epic-Fu mix question

Last week's Epic-Fu mix question is

What is the biggest problem, other than language, communicating with someone from another country?

Below is my video response:


في حلقة الأسبوع اللي طاف في مكس برنامج إبك فو كان السؤال هو

ما هي أكبر مشكلة، غير اللغة، للإتصال مع شخص من دولة أخرى؟

تلاقون تحت إجابتي:

Kuwait, desert's lighthouse

I've created this slide show (below) for Kuwait's independence and liberation days (25th & 26th of February) using photos I've taken my self between 2006 - 2008 in several locations such as:

Salmiya, Kuwait city (Salmiya side), Kuwait towers beach, Shuwaikh water front, Pylons in Doha, Ras Al Salmiya beach, Mosque in Kuwait city by the dancing fountain, Kuwait city (Shuwaikh water front side), Airport road, Kuwait towers, Kuwait city (locally known as Al Deera), Fatima's mosque, F;ag of Kuwait, Oil refinery and petrochemicals complex in Shu'aiba, Liberation tower, Distillation plant (station) in Doha, Al Seef palace, Maryam Al Ateeqi mosque, Bayan palace, Sharq shopping complex, Kuwait Petroleum corporation, Photos of Kuwait liberation, Water tanks in Bayan, Chamber of commerce and industry, Kuwait Fund.

I used unreleased audio track by Latifa, written by Ahmad Al Kathem and composed by Marwan Khoury...You can find below English translation of the lyrics, it's sounds better in Arabic.

ATTENTION!!!!!!
1. I appear in the video at 2:15 when I was little.
2. Please notice the lyrics and the photos are matching...God I am a true artist but I didn't get my chance yet :(

سويت سلايد شو هذا (تحت) بمناسبة عيد الإستقلال و عيد التحرير للكويت، بصور صورتها شخصياً بالفترة من 2006 و لغاية 2008 في عدة مواقع منها:

السالمية، مدينة الكويت من جهة السالمية، شاطئ الأبراج، واجهة الشويخ البحرية (بحر الشويخ)، أبراج الضغط العالي في الدوحة، بحر راس السالمية، مسجد الديرة بجانب النافورة الراقصة، المركز العلمي، مدينة الكويت من بحر الشويخ، شارع المطار، أبراج الكويت، مدينة الكويت (الديرة)، مسجد فاطمة، مهبط الهيليكوبتر في مارينا مول، علم الكويت، محطة تكرير النفط و مجمع البتروكيماويات في الشعيبة، برج التحرير، مجلس الأمة، قصر السيف، مسجد مريم العتيقي، قصر بيان، محطة الدوحة لتحلية مياه البحر، سوق شرق، مؤسسة البترول الكويتية، صور تحرير الكويت، خزانات الماء في بيان، غرفة التجارة و الصناعة، الصندوق الكويتي للتنمية.


إستخدمت بالموسيقى أغنية لم تصدر للطيفة، كتبها أحمد الكاظم و لحنها مروان خوري...تجدون كلمات الأغنية في الأسفل.

إنتبه!!!!!!!!!
1. أنا أظهر في الفيديو لما كنت صغير في الدقيقة 2:15
2. لاحظ تركيب الصور على كلمات الأغنية....صج اني فنان بس لي الحين محد إكتشفني :(

إني أحبك كيفما تشاء...
كيفما تأمرني صبحاً حبيبي أو مساء...
صيفاً، خريفاً أو ربيعاً أو شتاء...
إن طلبت القرب أحضر...
إن طلبت الهجر أهجر...
أنت عشقي أنت رمز الكبرياء...
وطني أحبك كيفما تشاء

أنت صوتي...
أنت حسي...
أنت أرضي و السماء...
فيك أحلامي و آمالي و أفراحي و فيك الأوفياء...

يا سر هذا الكون يا وطني الحبيب...
يا شعلة لا تنطفي و منارة الصحراء

I love you, the way you want me to love you...
The way you order me night or day!
I love you during Summer, autumn, Spring and winter!
If you asked me to come closer I will..
If you asked me to abandon you, I will walk away!
You are my admiration...
You are the symbol of pride...
My homeland, I love you the way you want me to love you!

You are my voice...
You are my sense...
You are my ground and my sky...
All my dreams, hopes and my happiness exists in you

My beloved homeland, you are the secret of the universe...
You are inextinguishable torch and the desert's lighthouse!

UPDATE (6th of March 2008) My mother cried when she watched the video, my sister went crazy and 2 female co-workers was sad because they think I have a great talent and no one discovered me yet (I swear they said that LOL), my other (2 male) co-workers thinks that I should save it on DVDs and distribute it everywhere.

Will to life...إرادة الحياة

Probably nobody knows what I am talking about except Kuwaiti people!
The building in the photo above is The Nation's Assembly (The Kuwaiti parliament)...Keep reading
اتوقع محد يدري شنو انا اتكلم عنه غير الكويتين!
المبنى في الصورة فوق هو مجلس الأمة (البرلمان الكويتي)...تابع القراءة

If people had the will of living, destiny will obey for their will
The night will be a morning and the chain will be broken
Who isn't interested in life, will evaporates and fades
Who doesn't like to climb mountains will spend his whole life in a hole
When I asked earth: "Hey mother, do you hate humans?"
She replied: "I bless ambitious people and who likes to (ride) danger"...
"And I damn who doesn't keep up with time and live his/her life still like a rock"

Poem by: Abo Al Qassim Al Shabbi - Name: Eradat Al Hayah (Will of life/surviving) - Translated by: Me - You can listen to that poem as a song here

إذا الشّعْبُ يَوْمَاً أرَادَ الْحَيَـاةَ فَلا بُدَّ أنْ يَسْتَجِيبَ القَـدَر
وَلا بُـدَّ لِلَّيـْلِ أنْ يَنْجَلِــي وَلا بُدَّ للقَيْدِ أَنْ يَـنْكَسِـر
وَمَنْ لَمْ يُعَانِقْهُ شَوْقُ الْحَيَـاةِ تَبَخَّـرَ في جَوِّهَـا وَانْدَثَـر
فَوَيْلٌ لِمَنْ لَمْ تَشُقْـهُ الْحَيَاةُ مِنْ صَفْعَـةِ العَـدَم المُنْتَصِر
كَذلِكَ قَالَـتْ لِـيَ الكَائِنَاتُ وَحَدّثَنـي رُوحُـهَا المُسْتَتِر
إذَا مَا طَمَحْـتُ إلِـى غَـايَةٍ رَكِبْتُ الْمُنَى وَنَسِيتُ الحَذَر
وَلَمْ أَتَجَنَّبْ وُعُـورَ الشِّعَـابِ وَلا كُبَّـةَ اللَّهَـبِ المُسْتَعِـر
وَمَنْ لا يُحِبّ صُعُودَ الجِبَـالِ يَعِشْ أَبَدَ الدَّهْرِ بَيْنَ الحُفَـر
وَقَالَتْ لِيَ الأَرْضُ - لَمَّا سَأَلْتُ :"أَيَـا أُمُّ هَلْ تَكْرَهِينَ البَشَر؟"
"أُبَارِكُ في النَّاسِ أَهْلَ الطُّمُوحِ وَمَنْ يَسْتَلِـذُّ رُكُوبَ الخَطَـر
وأَلْعَنُ مَنْ لا يُمَاشِي الزَّمَـانَ وَيَقْنَعُ بِالعَيْـشِ عَيْشِ الحَجَر

الكلمات: أبو القاسم الشابي - قصيد: إرادة الحياة - تستطيعون سماع القصيد مغناة هنا

I've never voted and will never vote for anyone, they are all cows

عمري ما صوتت ولا ناوي اصوت، كلهم بقر

Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum

Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum [Read]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy

I had to take some photos of "Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum" (keep reading to know what it is)...
I didn't know where they are exactly although I passed by them few times, so I asked who lived in the exact area where the Museum is...

The Museum consists of three houses located in residential area in Kuwait called "Al-Qurain", many Kuwaiti men of the Kuwaiti resistance group of "Messila" where killed by the Iraqi army on 25th of February 1991 (only one day before the liberation of Kuwait on 26th of February 1991), one of the houses was attacked intensively while the other two houses weren't really effected compared to the first house.

Back to my friend who I asked for direction to the Museum, only this week I found out that the father of my friend was killed in that house too, I already knew that he was killed by the Iraqi army but I didn't know that he was one of the men in "the Qurain Houses" I only found out this week...When I was talking to the phone with him, he told me to say Hi for his father then we both laughed...

I was thinking, well it will be very fast just snap some photos of the houses from the outside then go back home, but one of the guards saw me and asked me if I wanted to take photos from the inside I should do it now because they were closing the museum in less than ten minutes and I said OK.

Until today, I never seen "Al-Qurain Martyrs Museum" in real life, so when I got in I saw all the Iron bars surrounding the walls to prevent the house from collapsing, I kept taking photos and then I reached a room where I found photos of the martyrs with all spot lights and some information written about them such as where they actually work, how many children they had, photos of the children, what they were wearing at the time...Etc

While I was walking from room to other, floor to roof I was looking at the walls and reading all the writings on the wall (some of them were written by them), I has flash backs of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and I begun to imagine what those guys been through that day and how each one felt linking that to the holes caused by the bullets and tanks on the walls with all the writing and stuff it made me cry.

So I decided to share that story with the whole world because I do want people to know what happened there once upon the time...

Photo and description dedicated to the souls of the courageous resistance men in heaven.

Friendship

Friendship braceleT
Originally uploaded by radiant guy

I've made many friends online, some of them been my friends for 7 years - and counting - we never met though but that doesn't mean that we are not close friends.

Photo above shows me wearing a friendship bracelet, it was made specifically for me, I picked up the colors my self using the dropper tool of Corel Paint Shop Pro (it blends perfectly with my blanket and my praying carpet).

The girl who made that for me have a hobby of making bracelets and she is good in it...Thanks "S", I love it :)

17 years ago...

On 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait...At the time I was 8 years old (currently I am 14 years old) yet I do remember certain things vividly.
17 years ago I wake up around 10 A.M., I found my family all a wake and looking through the windows, when I asked what's wrong?
They said Iraq invaded us...I looked through the window and I saw columns of smoke everywhere raising in the sky with bombing noise which I already heard earlier but I didn't know what was it at the time.

I do remember that day when my father came back home with my brother, a bullet almost hit his car's tire.

I also remember my aunt (my mother's sister), she used to record stuff from TV and get them to us so we can watch it, because their house is closer to Saudi Arabia so they can get better TV signals, she used to write "Om Kalthoum" (She is a dead singer) on the VHS tapes to pass through the Iraqi check points.

I also remember when the Iraqi army blown up more than 600 oil fields (more than 1 billion barrels were either spilled in the sea or burned), the sky at 1 P.M. was more like 1 A.M. except there was no moon or stars!

The photo above of my uncle, he wrote our names on the missile as a gift from us to the army of Saddam.

The photo below is a snapshot from Kuwait TV (As seen on many Kuwaiti patriotic songs), my father was driving a school bus with almost everybody in our neighborhood on board, we had a road trip on the liberation day (26th of February 1991) to the north, I am the one in red.

Currently If you visited Kuwait, You will not
realize that a war took place here.

Today, 17 years ago...

Today, 17 years ago...
Originally uploaded by radiant guy

On 2nd of August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait...At the time I was 8 years old (currently I am 14 years old) yet I do remember certain things vividly.
17 years ago I wake up around 10 A.M., I found my family all a wake and looking through the windows, when I asked what's wrong?
They said Iraq invaded us...I looked through the window and I saw columns of smoke everywhere raising in the sky with bombing noise which I already heard earlier but I didn't know what was it at the time.

I do remember that day when my father came back home with my brother, a bullet almost
hit his car's tire.

I also remember my aunt (my mother's sister), she used to record stuff from TV and get them to us so we can watch it, because their house is closer to Saudi Arabia so they can get better TV signals, she used to write "Om Kalthoum" (She is a dead singer) on the VHS tapes to pass through the Iraqi check points.

I also remember when the Iraqi army blown up more than 600 oil fields (more than 1 billion barrels were either spilled in the sea or burned), the sky at 1 P.M. was more like 1 A.M. except there was no moon or stars!

The photo above of my uncle, he wrote our names on the missile as a gift from us to the army of Saddam.

The photo below is a snapshot from Kuwait TV (As seen on many Kuwaiti patriotic songs), my father was driving a school bus with almost everybody in our neighborhood on board, we had a road trip on the liberation day (26th of February 1991) to the north, I am the one in red.

Currently If you visited Kuwait, You will not
realize that a war took place here.

الله يحفظ الكويت و شعبها

!اتفشلوووووون

!اتفشلوووووون
Originally uploaded by radiant guy

غير عنوان الصورة ما عندي تعليق!

USA support Al Qa'eda

I just read a translation of an article in the Kuwaiti newspaper "Al Rai Al Aam", the orginal article was published in the May/June 2007 issue of ForeignAffairs magzine.

You can read the summary below or VIEW the full article as written by the author Bruce Riedel.

By rushing into Iraq instead of finishing off the hunt for Osama bin Laden, Washington has unwittingly helped its enemies: al Qaeda has more bases, more partners, and more followers today than it did on the eve of 9/11. Now the group is working to set up networks in the Middle East and Africa -- and may even try to lure the United States into a war with Iran. Washington must focus on attacking al Qaeda's leaders and ideas and altering the local conditions in which they thrive.
Bruce Riedel is a Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He retired last year after 29 years with the Central Intelligence Agency. He served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Near East Affairs on the National Security Council (1997-2002), Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Near East and South Asian Affairs (1995-97), and National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asian Affairs at the National Intelligence Council (1993-95).

It's all OVER!

For the past few years, I've been going with some friends to a remote area in the south of Kuwait called "Al Zoor" (very close to Saudi/Kuwaiti border) to swim in the crystal clear sea, clear to the point that you can see your shadow on the floor with jelly fish break dancing around it (I am not kidding I did see jelly fish for real that day, they even bit me LOL... I ment ouch not LOL)!

The sea in Kuwait could be separated into 3 groups, North sea, Kuwait city sea and South sea.

- The north sea is muddy, you can not swim over there.

- Kuwait city sea is better than the north but the water isn't clear.

- The south sea (and some Kuwaiti islands) are the best place for swimming, the water is crystal clear, or Diamond clear!

This year I and my friend had a road trip to the south of Kuwait to find a new swimming spot since our usual one was closed, a Saudi oil company took over the place...It made me furious, Saudi Arabia is larger than probably 8275634972349 times...They don't need a free spot somewhere else to build whatever they want. Other places around that spot are owned by Kuwaiti citizens, and no one can swim there and it's crowded with beach houses.

Now If you want to swim in a clean and clear water, you should own a beach house in the South of Kuwait or a Yacht to take you for an island such as "Kubbar" (Arabic script: كبر) or "Qarooh" (Arabic script: قاروه).
It's way cheaper to travel abroad and enjoy the beach in South east Asia or maybe Madagascar and I am not talking about the cartoon which I and my 3 years old niece really love.

Photo above is unposed photo of me taken by a friend while I was fixing my stupid swimsuit :+
I've taken tons of photo but they doesn't show the water's clarity as this one.

Avaaz.Org

Stop the Clash of Civilizations

IfAmericanKnew.org helps to reveal the truth!

Ever wondered what is the real difference between the Zionists entity (aka Israel) and every other Arab/Islamic states?

Such a thing would never happen to anybody in any Arab and Islamic state no matter what's your nationality, name, Skin color, language and religion.

And some people says Israel is a real democracy?!

The following video created by www.ifamericansknew.org watch it and you'll get what I am talking about.

Outlandish - Look into my eyes song

I was "Googleing" today and I found by accident the lyrics of Outlandish song Look into my eyes, the song reflects the way many Arab and Muslims feels.

I searched about the song and I found out more informations about it...It was originally written on 21st of August 2003 by a Palestanian little girl called "Gihad Ali", the original poem's title is "Eye to Eye: A Palestinian talking to Americans".

You can read the lyrics and watch the music video below.




Look into my eyes
Tell me what you see
You don't see a damn thing
'cause you can't relate to me
You're blinded by our differences
My life makes no sense to you
I'm the persecuted one
You're the red, white and blue

Each day you wake in tranquility
No fears to cross your eyes
Each day I wake in gratitude
Thanking God He let me rise
You worry about your education
And the bills you have to pay
I worry about my vulnerable life
And if I'll survive another day
Your biggest fear is getting a ticket
As you cruise your Cadillac
My fear is that the tank that has just left
Will turn around and come back

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight
I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters

See I've known terror for quite some time
57 years so cruel
Terror breathes the air I breathe
It's the checkpoint on my way to school
Terror is the robbery of my land
And the torture of my mother
The imprisonment of my innocent father
The bullet in my baby brother
The bulldozers and the tanks
The gases and the guns
The bombs that fall outside my door
All due to your funds
You blame me for defending myself
Against the ways of my enemies
I'm terrorized in my own land
But am I the terrorist?

Yet, do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows
Has our world gone all blind?

Do you know the truth of where your money goes?
Do you let your media deceive your mind?
Is this a truth nobody, nobody, nobody knows?
Someone tell me...

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

America, do you realize that the taxes that you pay
Feed the forces that traumatize my every living day
So if I won't be here tomorrow
It's written in my fate
May the future bring a brighter day
The end of our wait

(pause)

Ooohh, let's not cry tonight, I promise you one day it's through
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,
Ooohh, shine a light for every soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers, Ohh my sisters,

Ohh let's not cry tonight I promise you one day is through
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!
Ooh shine a light for every Soul that ain't with us no more
Ohh my brothers! Ohh my sisters!

RadiantGuy.com [COMING SOON]

RadiantGuy.com [COMING SOON]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

I registered the domain name on 22nd of February 2007, I just created the index page and hosted it temporarily - free - on Geocities.
I thought that I already wrote this but it seems that I had a problem in my with flickr and my description wasn't saved :S
I always wanted to create a site but I had no idea what kind of content I should place in it LOL

RadiantGuy.com

VIVA KUWAIT aka Q8 [MOSAIC]

VIVA KUWAIT aka Q8 [MOSAIC]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

During February, Kuwait celebrates Independence day on 25th of February and Liberation day on 26th of February.

The buildings are decorated with the colours of Kuwait flag (Black, Green, White and Red).

For the last two days I've been trying to capture the atmosphere in Kuwait, I ended up with the photos above plus some others in my HDD.

Mr. Santa

Mr. Santa
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

I just thought to share my new look, I had a hair cut which you can't see because of that hat :Pp~ I dyed my goatee and that you can see LOL
I am going to rejoin a gym on Saturday I promise :+
I have to eliminate the bad things in the new year such as my skinny upper body :(
Plus my dirty room which I am going to start cleaning NOW, well not now just after dinner time...And I am talking about Dinner time of 25th of December this year which is 2006 LOL

OK, I just ate my dinner and I am sleepy, cleaning could wait until tomorrow LOL

I don't know why usually people start judging their self in the end of the year only, If they kept judging thier actions all year the world would be a greater place.

I received this SMS yesterday...
The four stages of life:
1) You believe in Santa Claus
2) You don't believe in Santa Claus
3) You are Santa Claus
4) You look like Santa Claus
LOL

P.S. I hate to write stuff on my photos, do you think i should re-upload it?

I have to sleep now, it's really late and I don't want to skip work again LOL

Oprah...An angel on Earth

Oprah...An angel on Earth [read me]
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

Before a while I was watching Oprah, one of her guest was a little girl who've been living in the USA for awhile now; she is originally from SeraLeon, Africa.
The girl was telling her story when she was back there in her home country:
She was raped at age 6 by a gang, she was fighting them back so they chopped her left hand, her mother tried to stop them so they chopped her mother's hand too!
In some way they managed to scape (the mother and her daughter); the wounded mother was carrying her wounded girl and walking for 3 days while the flies were feeding on their open wounds on their way to to safer place.

Shortly after awhile the mother let her little girl to leave to USA because she knew that her daughter will have a better life there and they never meet since then.
Oprah and her crew were seeking for the girl's mother for four month to reunite her with her daughter...
I WOULD LIKE TO SALUTE OPRAH, HER CREW and the girl's mother; May God bless you people.
May God bless you people, I really wish if there are more people like you in the world and more loving people like the girl's mother.

Why did I blog that?
Because wars it's all about wars in Africa over natural resources.

Photography by: Matthew Rolston
Photo editing: radiant guy
Photo source: Oprah.com

Will you ALL learn to love each others, stop wars and killing each

Will you ALL learn to love each others, stop wars and killing each others OR I'LL START SHAKING YOU ALL REALLY HARD?
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

I really mean it!

YES WE HAVE GRASS IN KUWAIT!
Originally uploaded by radiant guy.

I've seen two kind of msgs and comments about agriculture (grass/plants) in Kuwait and the other GCC countries (That's will include Kuwait, KSA, Bahrain, Qatar, UAE and Oman).

Some people just became surprised when they see some photos taken in Kuwait or any other GCC country and goes :O
How come you have plants over there?!!!!

WAKE UP people!
First of all, we are living on Earth, we have the exact atmosphere!
It's the 21st century!
shake that 6th century stereo type of the Arab desert, we don't live in a tent just in the middle of a starry desert with goats around us, a camel on the left, a mercedes benz on the right and an oil field in the back of the tent!
I also seen some comments comparing the agriculture in the Arab desert with the agriculture in the occupied territory of Palestine...
First of all, Palestine have a cool weather and natural source of consumable water by humans, animals and plants plus fertilized soil; while the GCC countries are using complex sea water processing to have consumable drinking water, the desert's alkaline soil needed to be fertilized so the plants could survive plus it's extremely hot over here; around 50 Celsius (around 120 Fahrenheit) in shades!
That's why they need to be watered and sprayed by water all the time or the Sun will letterly burn them.

Despite these facts about the Arab deserts, plants and grass can be found everywhere!
I could upload some photos but probably some ignorants will say, they are all photoshopped, I guess you should come over and see your self!

It's not a miracle to grow plants and grass in Palestine, but for SURE IT'S in the Arab desert!