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What Grind my Gears

Its Embarrassing to be kuwaiti these days

I mean just reading the news make feel down

http://www.alraialaam.com/07-02-2006/ie5/sports.htm#01 

 

المطيري يفتح رأس يعقوب الطاهر

عقب انتهاء التدريب الاخير لـ «الازرق» امس، تهجم لاعب نادي القادسية نواف المطيري على لاعب نادي الكويت يعقوب الطاهر واعتدى عليه غدرا من الخلف بحذائه في غرفة اللاعبين، ما احدث جرحا غائرا في رأسه، تطلب نقله الى المستشفى واجريت له جراحة عاجلة (8 قطبات)، وسيحرم اللاعب من المشاركة مع فريقه ومع المنتخب ربما الى نهاية الموسم.

Almutaree Open Yaqoob Altaher head

After the last training For the kuwaiti national Team yesterday , Nawaf Almutaree attacked Altaher

In the changing room from the back with a shoe , which wonded Altaher and he was taken to the hostpital and got 8 stitches

A Kuwaiti girl who some blogger defended  , Fled the case and went to kuwait

PHOENIX A second Kuwaiti woman charged with fleeing the scene of a fatal car accident in Mesa has been arrested before she could leave the country.

Twenty-year-old Reem Ahmad Bishara apparently was making plans to go to Kuwait when Mesa police took her into custody on a warrant.

 

She had notified an Ahwatukee Foothills apartment complex in writing last Saturday that she was vacating her apartment yesterday.

 

Prosecutors got a tip from a fellow resident at the apartment complex.

 

The tipster realized what was happening after seeing news reports about the flight of co-defendant, 23-year-old Munerrah Al-Tarrah.

 

A judge learned Monday that Al-Tarrah had left the country January 9th.

 

http://www.azcentral.com/news/reem0203-ON-CP.html

http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=58280

 

 

hoorah , we need more bad examples , who care about good examples !

damn bad luck

I ordered something for my home network that is not in kuwait

finaly i found a merchant that ship that item to kuwait , and now they sent me an e-mail ( after i payed and all ) that says

Thank you again for shopping
Your Order #XXXXXX has been SHIPPED today. You can find the tracking numbers below.

ORDER #XXXXXXXXX
ORDER CREATED: 1/21/2006 7:56:12 PM
ORDER SHIPPED: n/a
TRACKING NO: US Postal Service (CPXXXXXXXUS)

just my damn luck , UPS , now i’m going to pay extra charges and custom duty , why is UPS the only shipping company that i have to pay custom when they deliver ….

Time Waste

I wonder why some people compain they can’t waste time in kuwait

I went out to Clean my car , i went to the car wash , entered at 10:30 , exit at 12:10 …
Go around in Industrial Shuwaik trying to fix my damn car window , another hour

Back home at 1:20

And what have i done ? washed my car

Tomorow i’ll visit a government commision , that will take all the day mostly

It seem you can’t do more than one thing unless its in the same area , else the traffic would take care of the rest of your time

Going Out

I had to go out , went to IKEA shuwaik

What the hell with that place ? if i was the man in charge first thing i do , no more new building there , and no more shop licence
its cleary that the place is WAY WAY over crowded , its crazy that it took 39 minutes just to get to ikea , and that from shuwaik traffic light ( the one in front of the newspapers )

Of course cops came late ( as always ) then had no problem people were not going in the right way , our line was stuck the street is 2 way line , so at least 12 cars went into the other line and crowded at the intersection , the cops just followed them and then let them over take me …

OH and he was waving his hand as in go go ,, i don’t need you to tell me that , hell if you said to me stop at that time i may have ran you over , i waited for 32 minutes in a part of a street less than 300 meters which with no car you would cross in 1 minute or less

Then i entered IKEA , for some reason it was full today , i went to the furtheest parking spot and i found no one there ( because everyone like to double park near the entrance ) .

IKEA has a way in their store , you have to go from the entrance and follow the arrows , that way you view more stuff and maybe buy more
most of the time that method doesn’t work , i’m a commando in my shopping , go in , rescue item , go out

BUT its kuwait , so people were coming FROM THE EXIT , what can’t you see the freaking arrows on the ground ? doesn’t it look strange that you are pushing people at the coutner to enter ? DO WE HAVE A SHORTAGE OF LOGIC IN KUWAIT ?

News reporting in kuwait

We realy have some bad reporting in kuwait , i don’t know why , is it because they are lazy or because no one care

For example i read this today
AlWatan[Arabic]
I remmber i read about this before , but some stuff were strange
like this part

بعدما قامت والدته الموجودة في الولايات الامريكية بالاتصال بالخارجية الامريكية

After his mother in the USA called the Department of State

and this Line

وأشادت والدته بالسلطات الكويتية والتي منعت ابنها من دخول العراق

And the mother Praised the Kuwaiti authority that blocked her son from entering Iraq

And I was a bit shocked , that wasn’t what i Read …
So i go Back and Read the AP article

Check this part

As luck would have it, the teenager found himself at the Iraq-Kuwait line sometime on Dec. 13, and the border security was extra tight because of Iraq’s Dec. 15 parliamentary elections. The timing saved him from a dangerous trip.

Why the Date is important ? check the other post they claim they posted before AlWatan[Arabic]
It was posted on Dec 16 , but he was already Turned down at the border , not because his name was there , but because of the Election and the General Close down of the borders

And as Further proof that his name wasn’t on the list ( else he would have been delivered to the US embassy ) check this part from the AP article

He again called his father, who told him to come home. But the teen insisted on going to Baghdad. His father advised him to stay with family friends in Beirut, Lebanon, so he flew there, spending 10 days before flying to Baghdad on Christmas

That doesn’t Sound like someone his family wanted to be stoped … or the family thanks kuwait for stoping , because they helped him go in Iraq
and he went in Iraq , so why the hell would they thank kuwait ? a thank you is good , but we don’t need to fabricate one

OH and the Kid is an Asshole , they are trying to make his a hero somehow but to me he is a total asshole
Leaving your parents like that , going into a danger zone , bad mouthing poor people

“In one day I probably spent like $250 on taxis,” he said. “And they’re so evil too, because they ripped me off, and when I wouldn’t pay the ripped-off price they started threatening me. It was bad.”

Wow he took you on a Round Trip from the Airport to Abdili and back , and you think 80kd is a ripoff ? Last time i went to the airport they had Price list , i remmber it had Wafra ( south border of kuwait ) 30 kd one way .
try to take a NYC cap for the same trip and see how much he would charge you .