Barrack and other Sony Ericsson retailers in Kuwait are currently charging 10kd for bad Arabic support on your P990i and M600 phones, when all they are doing it copying over some Window fonts and that you can do it at home for FREE.
So after reading this post change the system font for P990/M600 to find out where to place the fonts folder in the memory card like how it was on UIQ2/P910i.
You just take took the Tahoma.ttf font from Windows Fonts directory (or just search for tahoma.ttg) and copy it 4 times and then rename each file to:
Sans-Serif_Latin-Regular.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Italic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-BoldItalic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Bold.TTF
Then placed them in your memory card under the directory of Resource/Fonts (You may have to create it).
Restart
Tada
This will give you the ability to read Arabic. The only problem is that you lose Bold and Italic font styles and the font is bigger in the system.
It isn’t a perfect fix, but a quick one till I can find a font that has the 4 font styles and Arabic structure in it.
The new Midas in Dujeej/Farwaniya is huge and very well designed and with some great stuff. Really a sight to see.
Arab state of TV advertising will never reach the level of sophistication, admiration and innovation of the Japanese.
Disagree? Watch the The Tarako Cupie Girls.
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I been having this crazy craving for black coffee even since I been back from Bahrain. It is really strange. It really been bothering my brain and functions. It started on Saturday morning with just a little tinge when I saw the coffee pot at home. I was thinking “oh I’ll take a thermos cup of it with me so I can drink on the way to work”. Then of course I totally forgot with the push and rush to get to work and decided to brew me a pot when I get to work, and of course work takes over and I totally forget. Which led me to feel really angst and really out of it.
Then Sunday it started the same thing with me totally forgetting to get a cup when leaving to work and not making one at work, but I did go to Coffee Bean and get a mocha latte there, but that really didn’t work. It quieted the urge a bit, but didn’t quiet hit it.
This led to an icky headache that lasted most of the day, even with the Casper’s X-Presso Yourself in the afternoon didn’t even get close to that craving, and just made my head ache almost worse.
Even now at 2am I am thinking about it, my mouth is even salivating at the thought of it. I know if I go down to the kitchen and brew me a pot I might as well just shoot myself in the head rather than turn to a zombie tomorrow. Also it isn’t what I want. The more I been thinking about it the more I been wanting a certain type of coffee. It has to be either from the airport Cinnabon with their Seattle Best Coffee, or from Johnny Rockets.
Luckily my schedule tomorrow will have in Salmiya area where I can my coffee fix.
Oh the tiredness, we arrived home around 10 last night. It was a much easier drive back cause the Saudi borders wasn’t as crowded as the way there. That is what is the kiler on these road trips waiting at the border for you turn in line and then its the customs check.
Like Bahrain, the guy was asking me if I had any knives or daggers with me, and was quesitoning why we had cameras and tripod with us. I explained to him we are “tourists” we are visiting and going to take pictures and such. Yet that question about knives and daggers really put me off.
Then you have Saudi where its just a mess. You got 4 lanes of cars coming from passport control going to this one line for customs check and thats where the mess happens. You wait and wait for your turn and then get stuck behind a car that will take forever.
Kuwait on the other hand is a dream. It took us 5 minutes to do passports and customs! It was great. It is the icing in the cake after that long drive and getting that service!
This morning I woke up like ussualy at 7am feeling totally fine in my brain and upper body, then my legs protested. They were in throbbing pain and weren’t ready to move. After 4+ hours of driving I know how those cosmonauts felt when they return from long trips around the Earth away from gravity.
The trip was great, I have a post in draft from yesterday about some stuff, will post more about the trip and the Bahrain bloggers oon.
Finally made to Bahrain around 9:30 last night after leaving my house at 3:30. The road in Saudi was great for a little rough patches but it was still a 2 lane road and I was able to have a good constant speed. The delays were due to the Saudi border. It was a mess in Kuwait/Saudi and was at the Saudi/Bahrain side.
Once we read a place with like 4-5 lines of cars we’d say “minoo maynoona?”. On which car would we be behind as we wait. Sometimes we would get lucky like with the Green Astro in Saudi/Bahrain, other times like in Kuwait/Saudi we weren’t but it moved.
Then once getting to Bahrain it was a bit of a mess since my GPS has the old streets where there were round-a-bouts now there is bridges and overpasses and highways so took us a bit to get to the Hotel.
At the hotel we were just dead, and not in the mood to leave and explored it. The plan today:
Have a nice breakfast.
Hop in the pool/beach and get some sun and water
Head out to Caterham
Relax
Relax
Relax
Blogger meetup.
