Really , bald Eagle fishing for salmon is your idea for an ad about a Kuwaiti investment company targeted toward a Kuwaiti audience ?
what no stock footage of an Eagle hunting in the desert ?
Category Archives: Rants
What Grind my Gears
Elitist concerns part Three , Parking at Kuawit Stock Exchange
Why is it so hard to find parking spot for KSE ? hell there is no parking at all for that spot
How did the municipality allow so much towers / malls to be built each next to each other and not consider parking ?
Each time i go there i need to park in either Souk Mubarikya parking lot or Grand mosque ( both are hell of a walk ) in the heat and sun.
Whats so hard of making sure that every building there has Parking , not for 10-20 people but if it is a commercial building make them build parking for it , each floor 50 cars ! because its commercial .
And whats with all the people at KSE ? the place is packed but there isn’t much movement financially !
Elitist concerns part Two , Facebooking
Face Book is one of the phenomenal hitting Kuwait , a hype if you could say
Well unfortunately i opened a Face book account not long time ago ( i blame Two Blog Friends , Tat The Don and EXzombiesm )
Anyway , after some time of trying it , one thing that keep pissing me about it is how some Kuwaitis use it .
Face book is for posting your Real Name , if you want to use a Nick name don’t use it . very easy .
Also whats with girls that post picture that I’m 110% sure its not them ? not posting a picture is better for your image , when you post a picture of an actress or a model that mean you don’t trust your look.
I would have deleted my account sometime ago but i have couple of friends on Face book that i use to Update with ( i don’t see them much these days , some of them work in demanding Jobs and some spend most of their time with family )
Pencil Stealer !
I’m coining a new term , pencil Stealer !
We all heard of pencil pusher , its a person, as an office clerk, whose job entails writing, keeping records, etc. ( aka my job at the governments )
Anyway , now you ask your self , what i mean by Pencel Stealer
If you have studied in any of Kuwait Fine Universities you would have noticed them , they are the guys ( i don’t know if this happen to girls ) that always come to class with no pen or pencil , and are always looking for one to lend them one
its always like this
they see me with a bag of books
” hey forzaq8 , got any extra pen in that bag ? ”
” hey dude could i have a pen , I’ll give it back after class”
” anyone with an extra pen”
And it doesn’t stop them that its a normal class or an exam , its the same they will be with no pen or pencil
and they always take it and never return it back , i start each course with 20 pens and end up maybe 5-7 and that counting the ones i keep in my car and do not take with me to university .
If you can’t be bothered to bring a Pen to an Exam , why the hell you do expect to graduate ? why should we have high hopes of this Generation ?
Kuwait racketeering
Back to gambling it seem
It make me feel sad that there is no anti-Racketeering Laws in Kuwait
Time and time again it show that companies and even couple of Government agency are involved in Racketeering activities
I’ll Give one example , a recent one that happened to me , I ordered couple of Books from Amazon ( i couldn’t find them in Kuwait ) so when they reached the airport some Custom guy Take notice of them , there is nothing wrong with them , hell no women picture is on any of the books and they aren’t religious
But then get transferred to the ministry of Information , now you may say so what ? you don’t have anything to worry about ,, well wrong
Because since they transferred it to the MOI , now i have to pay Fee’s for using Kuwait Airport ( i wouldn’t pay them if they didn’t transfer them )
and this from the e-mail i got
# Clearance charges
# Delivery order stamp
# Bayan
# Bank Commission
# Global and Stamp
# Custom Dues
# Airport charges
And again with the unexplainable Bayan fee , what in god name is that crap
I wouldn’t have any problem if everyone payed all the above crap , but its not all of us , the shipment before it ( a week before it ) which had books also ,passed and i didn’t have to pay all that extra stuff ( its around 20+ they didn’t give me an estimate yes )
which is another problem , because the part of the order is worth 70 dollars , so i would find it really hard to pay same the value of the order for fees
So Stuff like new signs make me uneasy really
What would stop the police from announcing a speed of 70 and then catching everyone unaware and tell him he was speeding ? ( not like they aren’t doing it without it , but a good tool for them )