Category Archives: Kuwait

kuwait , my great country ( at least in my eye ) it has its up and downs , but its still my country

Out with the old , in with the new

11/1/2009 Forzaq8 1 Comment

So its 2009 , wow its still hard to change the habit of writing 2008 all of a sudden

too many things changed for me in 2008 , back on the job
nearly done with most books i got from last book fair
I didn’t update the blog as much as i wished , maybe it would change this year , depending on workload

on another note

Stuff to do in 2009 ( aka buy )
– New Mobile ( last one here ) ,
– New Laptop ( i use a laptop for dewaniya viewing , the Eepc isn’t good for that because it has no S-video )

any advice on mobiles ?

Kuwait, Tech

Its Magic !

22/12/2008 Forzaq8 8 Comments

From AlRai Newspaper [Link][Arabic]

علمت «الراي» ان «وزارة الداخلية بصدد استقدام دوريات ذات رادار، قادرة على كشف المركبات المطلوبة والمركبات المنتهية التأمين دون الحاجة الى ايقاف سائق المركبة، وستستقدم هذا النوع من الدوريات من بريطانيا».
وقالت مصادر أمنية لـ «الراي» ان «ذلك النوع من الدوريات والتي يطلق عليها «الدوريات الرادارية» تحوي طبقا لاقطا على سطحها وباستطاعتها رصد المركبات التي لا تحمل تأمينا والمركبات المطلوبة المسجلة، واطلاق اشارة بذلك حال مرور المركبة بجانبها».

Alrai was informed that the Ministry of Interior are going to bring Patrol Cars with Radar that are able to detect Wanted Cars and Cars with expired insurance without the need to stop the car

Security sourced have informed Alrai that these kind of Patrol car which are Called Radar Cars
has a dish on top of it which can detect if a car is wanted or the insurance has expired and send a signal once it pass by it

A how would that work you may ask? MAGIC it seem, because I have no other idea how would it work, if we don’t install anything in the cars roaming the street, what would the dish pick up?

General, Kuwait, Political, Rants, Travel

Been a while ..

18/12/2008 Forzaq8 Leave a comment

It’s been a while since I wrote anything, two things make me less motivated to write

First thing work, I work in the government, and it’s getting depressing more and more lately,
between mistakes left and right , everyone trying to throw blame at others , work that delayed for some reason since 2007 and no one touched it ( and I’m suddenly supposed to do it now ) ..Etc

I did write couple of posts but didn’t post them, some may seem outdated and some maybe posted later

These are some of the posts titles

– Transparency protects us!
– Shia Bloggers, should we care?
– Elitist concerns part Four, Kuwait Stamps
– Rulers Sainthood

The other thing that making me less motivated to write is Kuwait , not the weather but the people , the more you read or interact with people the more you feel this country is like a bus driving to the cliff

And you can’t ignore them, if you don’t’ go to Dewaniya or read paper you will see them in blogs, switching off your TV wouldn’t work, you will see more idiots on your way to work, or at work

People you thought were rational speaking irrational stuff, people talking stupid

Stuff people say that I think is totally stupid

– If we remove National Assembly Kuwait will be back as the Perl of The Gulf

Wrong, 1986 – 1990 is a good proof, it was stable government with many veterans yet it failed to do anything

– We don’t need a Forth Refinery, we have Three

Wrong , we need it badly , the count of Refinery is Three , doesn’t mean they work as normal three , one of them is WAY outdated , and is slated to close at 2010 ( which was pushed back 3 times ) one keep on breaking , and the newest one isn’t in a better shape either

Not only we don’t’ have the capacity to produce Gas for Electricity (right now we are burning Crude for that) but they are having real problems fulfilling local needs right now
(Not to mention they do not meet environmental standard, if you are into that kind of stuff)

Where I know that? Friends working in the refinery, I don’t get news from newspapers, they are bad in Kuwait as I have said many times

– Dubai is brilliant they made everything without depending on oil

No , they didn’t , first they have oil ( abet limited but still ) also they depend on Abu Dhabi oil revenues as well ( and right now they will depend more on them for a bailout , read latest Newsweek )

I think a bit of Venting is good for the soul, I may vent more next week 🙂

Funny, Kuwait

Funny Cartoon

25/11/2008 Forzaq8 Leave a comment

Found this cartoon over at Calge’s

They had to joke about Kuwait :p

Funny, Kuwait, Political, Rants

Kuwait Book Fair 2008

22/11/2008 Forzaq8 7 Comments

So i went to Kuwait Book Fair 2008 , as every year

Of course there is always talks about Book Butchery , and that because of that only Children , Cooking and religious books are in there these days

While there was certainly an abundance of these type of books , you can find interesting books if you want

One thing some people never think of

That’s what most people in Kuwait want to buy these days , it may sound shocking to some , but really , a visit to the Book Fair and you notice that , sections with Children , Cooking & religious Books are full of buyers and onlookers , while Sections with Political & history books are empty with no one even checking them out

I want to give a big shout out to Diamond Books , while i don’t read any of their books anymore ( for other reasons ) they are going the extra mile to sell their books