Entries from August 2007

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Ice and Cool tip

Instead of adding ice cubes to the water bowl to cool the smoke, which take up a lot of the water space and won’t filter the smoke not to say make it hard to take a toke–try crushing small the cubes or putting in the blender. The ice will then cool well. You’ll be able […]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

Smecht Gut, Ya?

The ultimate  shisha info video done by the German science version of Galileo, but if youknow English or Yiddish you’ll understand 95% of the words. Its quite self explanitory and amazing to watch.
We  have the young chap Max Held–hookah smoker in residence driving down the road with his hookah in the car  left hand on […]

Monday, August 13th, 2007

an Idea when Lighting Charcoals

More often than not when lighting  quick lighting charcoals I get two negative results right  away. One is the sparks flying and sometimes  half a coal sets off into orbit around the room which is dangerous.
The second being that the coal only burns well on one side and I have to blow on it for […]

Saturday, August 11th, 2007

Videos,Arab music war in Afghanistan multi-national

Here we have some videos, music to hear while smoking, and some to watch. No political or religous favouritism here meant pro or con.
“Night and day” by the famous Farid Al Atrash RIP
http://youtube.com/watch?v=nBkWozvUq70
“Ya Mustapha” by Sami Yusuf
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dEJ-nJS7lng
Dannish UN troops in Afghanistan
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sd0osZoVjhU
Farid Al atrash on the  oud, singing and a dancer.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zWddWhpKrmM
Those nice boys from Canada get […]

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

Poll: How often do you smoke?

How often do you smoke shisha in a week?

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

You need a bath

A great idea is to  get yourself all set for a nice soak in the bath, but first set up your  hookah! Put the hookah within close reach, get in-take your time and enjoy the smoke!

Wednesday, August 8th, 2007

what is your favorite coal?

Which company makes your favourite quik-lighting coal? I  use  natural coals a lot,but also  as a quick-lighting coal either Soex from India or Pegasus from Greece.
Here’s where I buy them :
http://www.hooka-hookah.com/hookah-coals.html
They’re both long lasting burnersgiving even heat.

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

From the Arabic sites


Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Original hookahs with old fashioned twist

These hookahs are newly manufactured, but look like something a Sultan would ask to have custom made.Can’t vouch for how wellthey smoke!
http://www.egyptian-shisha.com/Egyptian-shisha.html

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007

Exotic Hookah manufacturer

See the photos of these beautiful hookahs
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ar&u=http://www.mzidanshisha.net/&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=8&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dshisha%26hl%3Den%26lr%3Dlang_ar%26safe%3Doff