Tomorrow I leave for Saudi on business, it will be the first time i step foot in the Kingdom. I must admit i am a bit interested to go see Saudi Arabia, a place so close yet so far. I don’t know what to expect or how to react but i know that it definitely will be interesting & i would have alot to say.
I’ll keep you posted.
Dear horrible driver,
No you don’t look good today
No your friend doesn’t add parsley to her soup
Yes your lips are large
Yes your eye brows are drawn in and you look like crap
FYI, there’s a new law with regards to driving and talking on your mobile
guess what, texting is as dangerous
No your not a great driver
The baby that should be in the backseat who’s jumping up & down on the passenger seat needs to chill the fuck out
Please keep your eyes on the road
Please keep your ears on the road
Your boyfriend at 7 a.m. definitely has morning wood so please stay home finish your business and then drive
Yes i am flashing you at the fast lane, which means by now you need to move your ass out of it
Thank you for driving with a car bangged up from every angle, it just makes me worried to be next to you
You do know there are signals on your car?
You do know that they actually put the mirrors there for a reason?
Your H&M t-shirt is not worth your life, put your seat belt on!
and get
the fuck
out
of
my
way
Every morning on my way to work, a woman has to either turn on me without looking, get so close to me driving 1000 mph and flashing my car, brake FOR NO REASON abruptly, turn without using their signals and i’m tired of it. Now i leave the house at 6:15 to avoid, not the phone, the faulty tire, the distractions, the sudden stops, the loss of stability, or all the dangers that exist from driving a car, but from the Kuwaiti Female Driver..
One question: how did you pass the driving test?
I have recently upgraded our Internet connection at home to 2MB, and it has been a disaster since. I guess my phone lines in the house are weak, Quality Net did do everything to insure that I can have 2MB connections by coming out to the main boxes at the avenue and at the M.O.C. and to no avail. Finally a technician made it out to the house to check the internal wiring and i guess i have to change all the phone wiring in the house. Help 
I was messing around YouTube yesterday at home when i came across some of the most disturbing videos in the world, Egyptian police brutality. Go to YouTube and type Egypt Police and please take a look at the worlds most disgusting videos i have ever seen. the fact that stuff like this exists in the world makes me sick to my stomach.
After the ususal thursday lunch with the boys at Burj Al Hamam, i got onto the Gulf road to head back home when i bumped into a check point that they normally have on the Gulf road on thursday at that hour. When i got to the cop, he asked for my registration which unknowing to me was expired. He asked me to pull over and i did.
I obviously had to leave my car and walk over to the lazy fat ass cop who had injected himself with steroids so that he could look like terminator with his Ray Bans’ and stare at chicks all day long. This is what happened.
“tadree ina il daftar mintehee”
“la’a”
“inzain ana lazem akhalfik ilyoum”
“khalif”
“tara hathi bil 3ada feeha sa7b daftar”
“itha si7abt il daftar shloon bajadid il daftar, hatha qanoon ghabi”
“law sima7t il7tirim nafsick”
“ana mo7taram foog matekhayal, bas laman itkhaleeeni amshi bil 7ar o ana malmafrooth anzil min il sayara il mafroooth il shor6i iyeeeni o ta36eeni dars 3ashan daftar sayarti mintehee wana wagif o yami 7awash lasgeeen stickers 3ala sayarta-hom o 3agad shloon tabini atekalam”
“ana lazem as7ab il daftar”
“sib7a o sadigni ra7 yi6la3 ba3ad nos sa3a”
“hak il mokhalafa o ala weyack”
one phone call later
“law sima7t akalim il thabi6 ma 3alaick amir, feee a7ad bikalmik”
“hatha daftirik o sami7na yal ghali”
now i need to renew my f-ing daftar, i’m sure i’m goig to have lovely things to say about the idiots running that diasaster.
My reply to everyone who thinks i was harsh in this post:
1. I never claimed that he shouldn’t have given me a ticket, that’s his right and i even told him that i probably deserve a ticket and then he asked me to pull over.
2. I don’t like this idea that when a cop pulls you over in Kuwait you have to get out of your car, alot of times i actually see cops pulling over non-kuwaitis who often go to the cops car while he sits his ass behind the a/c and rights a ticket.
3. what i also think is really stupid is taking away my registration in the same time giving me a ticket for it expiring, give me the god damn ticket i’ll take my registration and go get a new one, what is going to solve to take my registration and make me go have to get it from a place that sucks big time and wait in line for hours & then go renew it, so why the ticket?
thanks!
Have you ever wondered how your cheap labor carpenter shows up to your house under 30 minutes? it’s because he probably purchased an old Honda for less than 100 KD. Yes you heard right, you can get a car in Kuwait for under a 100 KD.
Normally I could care less since i do believe in the disparity between the have and have nots BUT when the cars are so beat up and have no safety features whatsoever and they actually endanger peoples’ lives, it pisses me off.
How do these cars pass the car annual test? i’m sure the cop who’s salary is 1,000 a month pumps it up to 2,000 or maybe 4,000 from just taking brides and passing these death sentences on the road. We really need to put an end to this,
why?
1. if you can’t afford a car, you shouldn’t drive one.
2. it will take some cars off the streets, which is less congestion that we so desperately need.
3. Gass prices should go down (although the rules of supply & demand don’t apply here in Kuwait when it comes to gas)
4. Public transport needs a boost, what a great way to achieve that.
How?
1. impose a law that states cars on the road have to be at least 5 or less years old.
2. if you have an older car then it has to go to a separate annual safety testing and the fees (registration etc) should be higher which will discourage the purchases of 1976 Honda Accords for 150 KD.
3. Have a board or committee that looks into corruption between testing centers and randomly take a look at the testing agents cash account 
4. Maybe everyone in Kuwait holding public office (or listed companies) needs to have their financial background open public information. That might solve alot of problem and maybe we get to see where the hell is all this oil money going?
i’ll write something w/ regards to that soon.
I have been experimenting lately in the Kitchen, to be honest i have been cooking my lunch everyday for the past week and i don’t intend to stop. I enjoy it tremendously and i enjoy more shopping for groceries and coming up with ideas along the way. Here’s something that’s just faaaantastic!
- choose a piece of beef (steak) from your local butcher or grocery store, you don’t need an expensive piece of meat here you can use flank steak of a nice New York strip would be awesome.
- in a bowl mix half a cup of extra virgin olive oil (evoo), add a little chopped parsley, a finely sliced clove of garlic, juice of half a lemon, 2 very hot chilli’s sliced, 1 table soon of your best Dijon mustard, let the steak marinade for at least 2 to 3 hours.
-get your grill flaming hot on one side and cooler on the other, place steak on the hot side and let it sit (you don’t have to turn it every two seconds, let it be), the fibers of the meat will tell you when the steak is ready! basically when you go to pick it up and the steak has those lovely grill marks on them and it actually is not stuck to the grill, then flip. (once the steak has got a chance to brown on each side, turn your grill off, move the steak to the cooler side and close the lid allowing the steak to slowly cook while your preparing your salad)
-in a nice plate, cut thick slices of tomato and place at the bottom of the plate. On top add some rocca leaves, very thinly sliced white onion and red radish. toast a few pine nuts and also add those, to top it off, get your best Parmesan cheese and shave a few pieces of top.
(salad dressing is simple, you need a pesto and mortar, half a clove of garlic, a tea spoon of salt (once you’ve made it into a paste) add olive oil, lemon juice and sliced parsley)
after removing your steak from the grill and allowing it to rest for a few minutes so it doesn’t loose all it’s juices when you go to slice it, slice the steak in even parts, and place on and around your salad. Sprinkle that lovely dressing all over the steak & salad!
You’ve got yourself a healthy, tasty, and spicy meal! yumm.
CNN story “Parents try to sell baby on Ebay“
It is worth mention that Ebay was also used a couple of times for people to sell the privilege to someone to kill them, yes kill them. And, it is well known that a few young women tried selling their virginity on Ebay, amongst other things like a piece of bread that sold for more than 24,000 USD for being burned in a way that resembles Jesus.
I recently decided to buy a nice gas grill, so i took my nephew Yousef and we both headed towards shwaikh, and to be exact into Ace Hardware. I picked up a nice, affordable, gas grill that has since become my best friend.
I make it my point now to marinade the chicken and sometimes beef skewers, i have tried a couple of types of fish, including succulent salmon, but what is amazing is the convenience. I have decided to stop eating food at home, especially rice. The recent addition of pounds have really put me in a bad way, so now i come home from work, fire up my best friend, and I grill either a chicken, chicken breast, steak or fish. The vegetable are tasting yummy too which is just the icing on the cake.
There has been quiet some talk around the world about the benefit of eating anything grilled, it’s less fat, it’s clean, it’s healthier, and it certainly doesn’t involve any oil, which freaks me the hell out! I say pick up on those babies and make your way to the fish market, Sultan for some steaks, or Deux chicken hens my favorite!
Salute!
There are many thoughts that I have in my head floating around when it comes to this subject, maids.
Kuwait, and the Gulf, is known and notorious for hiring domestic workers, maids or nannies from the Far East. Counties like the Philippines, India, Bangladesh & Sri Lanka seem to be amongst the most to export people to the Gulf to work at households as maids, cooks, chauffeurs, garden & house boys/girls.
I personally have some resentment with regards to the issue. It seems like the more dependant we are on our house help the more complacent and lazy we become. And the problem seems to not only stop there but now a days moms don’t play the role of the mother but the maid is now the mother.
I know that when I do get married and I do live in my own house I will defiantly hire a maid or nanny; it’s just the culture here. I do need help around a villa, since we all do live in villas in Kuwait. But what I would not take, is this
A wife that doesn’t take care of the kids, take care of their homework and spend quality time with them.
I will defiantly do my part, play ball with the boys and take the girls out for ice cream, I defiantly will do whatever in my part I can to be an active and productive and a stand up role model for my children and will never opt to kick back and have “mary” do the job.
I need to vent, I need to voice my frustrations in seeing a wife and husband walking around the mall with their two children and the two nannies in blue costumes following them.
I need to vent, when I see the mom yelling from the top of her lungs at the maid when the child was going to drown and the maid, as per the mom’s loud voice at the Corniche, didn’t “watch her and do her job”
*I defiantly wanted to go up to the mother and say no honey instead of you kicking back and relaxing and sitting under the shade how about you go play or even watch your kid for a change, Queen B!
Yes, I’m pissed.
There are so many areas of this subject that plain and simply amaze me.
I guess my first area of interest is the “why” factor, why do you wear one? I have heard so many answers over the years that to make 1 explanation that is plausible for my dilemma would prove impossible.
My parents made me seems to be a common one, I’m doing it because it’s part of my religion is another one, and every now and then I hear it’s nicer, as it fashion wise.
You see the new trend of the hejab wearer is not what we have grown up to see, now there are different types of hejab, ones with crystals and beads, one that is different in color and texture and they now come in all shapes and sizes. Also, it’s uses have changed, I remember when the hejab was either on, half on or off. It wasn’t a matter of which yogurt cup do I use today to accentuate the shape of my skull, which you all know what I’m referring too.
What I also am curious about is the fashion trends that seems women seem to set. The skirt with a denim jean under, the multi layered dresses, the make up, the shoes and it really seems like a lot and a lot of times it’s the women wearing the hejab are the ones making the most noise when it comes to the man department.
So I ask, is it conceivable that now a days men actually prefer marrying a “methabja” women than they used too in the past? They now are fashionable, they now look good, they now have used the hejab as an accessory and not a deterrent, so can my question hold truth.
What I do hate however, and mind my detailed descriptions please. But what I do really hate seeing is the girl who is defiantly a methajba but dresses like a 2 dollar hooker from Brooklyn. The tight tops and bottoms and high heels with red lipstick and the enlarged membranes make me sick to my stomach, it’s one thing to be a hippocrat but it’s defiantly something else to be plain rude.
By the way I have no idea why I’m writing about this at 7:09 a.m. there is reason on earth why this popped in my head just now but if your wondering there is no way on earth I can marry someone who is, I enjoy my bikinis and long hair too much to go with that alternative.
I have not been paying very close attention to the presidential race taking place now in America, but one thing is for certain when it comes down to the three candidates, who might have a chance, I defiantly choose Barack Obama.
The reason is fairly simple actually, since I have not tuned in for all the speeches and rallies of all three candidates the one thing that, to me at least, seem to stand out is Barack’s charisma.
When it comes to John McCain, the guy is too old, he’s used his war hero story too many times and quiet frankly I’m sick and tired of it. He is not too conservative for his own party which might be a slight problem actually for him, and he’s a man who changes his mind with the direction of the weather, something I can’t stand.
When it comes to Hilary, I don’t think America is ready for a female president. I have no reservation against women, at all actually, but I just don’t think American is ready. But that’s really besides the point, when I see her talk I can feel her bullshit seeping through her neck, I can’t feel that almost 99% of what she says is carefully choreographed by professional deceivers, she makes me really uneasy about her running the most powerful nation in the world.
Barack, like I said no clue what he’s about, but the guy has character. He, at least for a change, seems genuine. He will be the new man to open the boundaries of racial segregation and openness in America, I think. I think he is charming, a great speaker, knows how to motivate and really can think on his feet.
George Bush Jr., for everything that your dad has done for my country, I praise you and the family. I, almost hate to admit it, but did like you and really wanted you to win the election. Right now I couldn’t regret it more. I think you’re a cowboy, I think you don’t think before you speak, I think that you believe you’re a great leader but we all know you really have done a terrible job at it, you are responsible for the economic demise of America, you are responsible for the agony that the future president will have to bear with regards to the financial might your nation, and I think that you personally have tainted the image and the purity of America to the whole world, you have brought the house that the fore fathers and the great presidents have built crashing down.
May god bless America, and its new President.
