Kylie Minogue, the Australian pop star, is reportedly being paid $3.5 million for a 60-minute performance at the grand opening of The Atlantis resort in Dubai.

No expense is being spared at the opening party of the flagship resort on The Palm Jumeirah, according to British newspaper reports which suggest the party will be one of the most expensive ever staged, costing $28 million.

As well as Kylie’s gig, there will be a firework display by Grucci, the company behind the Beijing Olympic firework display. While catering and further entertainment will cost another $2.6 million.

Four Michelin-starred chefs Giorgio Locatelli and Nobu Matsuhisa will also be cooking up a storm in the kitchen.

Reports also suggest that the guestlist, which will include politicians, actors, musicians and royalty, will be flown in from around the world and will be given free accommodation at the resort. That is costing $8,700 per person – a further $17.5 million.

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I want to connect my macbook to my TV and I can’t find a way to do so, see…

I have big ass TV (for a student abroad anything above 29″ is big) and a good creative 5.1 surround system.

The only problem is that my TV can only accept S-video or VCA plugs, so I googled and found this at the Apple store, the Apple Mini DVI to Video Adapter for £15 which is fine.

Now my problem is that the Apple store keeps rejecting my credit card, and It’d need a week to arrive and I’d pay around other £6 for shipping, so I’d rather get it from the local Apple dealers, I called Digits Galleria 2000 but they won’t pick up, tried with iCity but they don’t have it anymore. I called Digits Marina to find out they have it for 15 KD, I guess I’m buying it today after Eftar. No other choice!

“Sometimes you will have to function with no sleep”

If you’re not Muslim, an Arab or someone who lives in a country where religious laws are applied, you might read this and think to yourself, “what the **** is Moey talking about here? I don’t get it.”

Well, Ramadan is a holy month, you are not allowed to eat/drink anything from 4 am till 6 pm. First meal is usually at 6 pm and the last meal at 2 am, so you usually stay up even if you don’t fast because everyone is, it is kind of a schedule killjoy. However, you need to wake up next morning and be at work by 9 am and function well until 3 or 4 pm.

Now, this is totally fine (not in Ramadan, where your schedule is normal and you get to sleep earlier) but in Ramadan it is a mess.

Now you might say “I hardly sleep right now and I’m in University! All I do is stay out all the time, sometimes party, go online and sleep for 3 hours/day yet ace my exams!”. Well, working is different (I mean DUDE, it is Art school!).

Well, that is true, I do the same thing. But, the one thing you have and I don’t is… Naps!

Naps, which you recharge your batteries in let’s say, do not exist in the real world scenario, not if you work in advertising. If you don’t sleep well at night (because you were working on a deadline, updating your files or trying to communicate with those you can’t reach at work) you still have to work for 9 hours (and sometimes more) and you do not get to nap. Try imagining that day for an extended period of time and then you will know what I am talking about.

Being tired is fine but the fact that you still have to be FULLY FUNCTIONING no matter how tired you are is what matters. To wake up, you will end up drinking 2 liters of coffee, and once that doesn’t you will have to switch to Red Bull… then you will start sweating as if you’re in a sauna room.

Eventually, you survive without screwing anything up and get a “good job” from your boss…

Advice: If you can’t stand this, do not think of advertising.