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The latest Tweetup Riyadh was held in Caribou Coffee in Riyadh. While the coffee was excellent the seating wasn’t the best. So if you have a suggestion for a meetup location then make sure to post a twitter reply to @tweetupriyadh with your suggestion. Remember that the Tweetups are now held on the first Monday of each month instead of Thursday. Only less than 12 hours remaining until the return of final season of Lost. I found this funny parody song about the return of Lost and if the writers will solve all the answers or not. I also found an updated version of the “Lost in 8:15 minutes” video.
Video and lyrics after the break. Here are the top posts on SaudiMac for the month of January 2010. As usual I made a post on SaudiMac.com English website and SaudiMac.net Arabic site. Can you guess what’s the main item? Yup, the Apple iPad. Something interesting from Mövenpick Al Nawras in the fine city of Jeddah. This sign has been found on the Internet:
Translation: Single men absolutely cannot rent a room, no exceptions allowed. Families can rent a room only with an original family card (دفتر العائلة) no photocopies allowed. These are instructions from the Saudi MOI. Apparently someone misused the services of the Mövenpick resort, so everyone else have to pay the price Guess I can’t go unless I get married or borrow my father’s family card For fellow fans of the hit TV show Lost: Flight 815 crash done in real time, 24 style. You get the plane scene, the hatch scene and the otherville scene. Enjoy (10 minutes video):
Lost’s final season (season 6) will air Tuesday February 2nd, a bit early this season. I will be I have made a list of my favorite iPhone Apps (some free, some aren’t). Make sure to check them out: In English: My favorite iPhone apps in 2009. And in Arabic: برامج الآيفون المفضلة لي في العام ٢٠٠٩. Make sure to check this list of Arabic web sites, I mean apps, strange, in Arabic it’s مواقع = websites but it’s web apps = تطبيقات الويب. Enough nitpicking. Here’s the list of Arabic Web Apps:
Voting will begin next Friday. I talked about Tea Gschwendner (Tee Gschwendner) before. But I will take the time to list all the branches with Gowalla links in Saudi Arabia for easy reference. One important note that Fahad reminded me on Twitter: ” اذا بغيتوا تشترون من تي جشفندر لاتاخذون كلام البائع كله اعرف وش تبي قبل Here’s the list:
Come on, Jeddah and Dhahran friends, use Gowalla and add these shopping centers to the map. Spotted by Hussain at Hyperpanda near Extra electronics store in Al-Khobar. Only in Saudi Arabia we will see idiotic signs like these. Hey bachelors, you are not allowed to buy groceries.
Expect more “Only in Saudi Arabia” posts. Update: Last time I ramble uncaffeinated! fixed facts! Sorry Mobily. Both the Saudi Telecommunications Company (STC) and Mobily has announced yesterday that they are the first to offer HSPA+ (Evolved HSPA with download speeds up to 56Mbit/s!!!). They announced the same thing in at least 2 different Saudi newspapers: AlRiyadh and Al-Eqtisadiah simultaneously! Here are STC’s “news” articles: on AlRiyadh newspaper and Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper (Arabic links). The two articles are identical, in fact they are most likely a press release by STC. STC claims to be the first in the country, however… Mobily had the same thing: on AlRiyadh newspaper and Al-Eqtisadiah newspaper. In addition, the news was also announced in Saudi Gazette English newspaper. The first part was identical to the Arabic press releases however it did include some info about the new Mobily Connect modem promotion. Mobily claimed to be the first in the region STC was wrong!
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. But they should exclude all single men, not just us Saudis. I am sure single expatriate men won’t have this problem because that sign is in Arabic only. Also Mövenpick Al Nawras should have mentioned this on their 
واذا نويت تجرب جرب كميات قليلة”. If you wanted to buy from Tee Gschwendner do not believe whatever the salesman said, you should know what you want and if you want to try something just buy in small quantities (100g, 50g). Yes, I agree with Fahad completely.
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