kuwait , my great country ( at least in my eye ) it has its up and downs , but its still my country
So while cruising around Kuwait I saw this
And noticed its written ST short for street , while in Arabic it says ” طريق ” which should have been translated to Road
For example this
It says Road and in Arabic ” طريق ”
And just for comparison
It says ST as in short for Street and in Arabic ” شارع ”
Why can’t they have translation standards?!
People been talking a lot about strikes in Kuwait , but i noticed many false information , and since as always the government is the worst defense attorney
I would like to present some Information
الناس وايد يتكلمون هالايام عن الاضرابات بالكويت و لاحظت وايد معلومات مغلوطه حبيت اصحح بعض المعومات
* Reagan Fired all Air Controllers because they went on Strike why not do it in Kuwait
ريغان طرد المراقبين الجويين لانهم دخلو في اضراب ، ليش ما نطرد المضربين بالكويت
Reagan Did Fire ALL Air Controllers who went on strike , but before we brandish this as a way to solve the current strikes you need to remmber these thing
-They have a LAW called Taft-Hartley Act [Wiki Link] that does state that the president of the United States can stop a strike in case on national Emergency
-The Transportation Secretary established a plan that returned flights
نعم ريغان طرد كل المراقبيين الجويين المشاركين بالإضراب ، بس قبل ما نعتقد ان هذا هو الحل لمشاكلنا لنتذكر الاتي
– لديهم قانون تافت هارتلي و الذي يمنح رئيس الولايات المتحده الامريكية السلطة في انهاء الاضراب في حالة اضراره بالامن القومي
– وزير النقل الامريكي كان لدية خطة لمواجهه المضربين و تم تنفيذها و التي ادت الي جهوزية الطيران في وقت قياسي
* Why can’t we do that in Kuwait ?
– WE have no laws that deal with strikes ( either Banning or giving your the right to strike , very ambiguous)
– We never Have a backup Plan ( This is Kuwait after all )
* لماذا لا نستطيع ان نفعل نفش الشيء في الكويت ؟
– ” لا يوجد لدينا قوانين في الكويت تنضم الاضراب ” لا منعه و لا تقنينه
– ” لا يوجد لدينا اي خطة بديلة ” و الدليل الحالة البائسه التي مررنا بها لإضراب الجمارك
Kuwait is amazing with Wasting of resources
and our lovely candidates aren’t far away from it
Lets give an example here
Aseel AlAwadi اسيل العوضي
has a Twitter account with a huge following (100,000+ )
but does she use it for her campain ? no , she create another account ( which had less than 400 followers when i was writing this post )
Why make a new account ? use your account ! clearly more people check YOUR account to know about YOUR campaign
speaking of creating new when old was good and working
She made a new site ( with no content yet )
which is strange since her old site is still working aseel
( not updated much )
If the candidate ( ex-member ) can’t focus his resources why would i trust he can do the same to Kuwait ?
Its been reported that Angelina Jolie is going to be playing the part of Gertrude Bell [Gertrude Bell Archive][Wikepeida]
Now Gertrude Bell passed by Kuwait in her travels , she is more known for her work in Iraq , there are mentions of Kuwait in her diaries
Why i bring that up you may wonder , its just reminded me of the idea i had long time ago , of a movie based on another traveler , Alan Villiers book ” Sons Of Sindbad”
I think a movie based on this book would be more interesting that a story about a British archaeology lady ( since its not the other one with dual guns )
having read the book many times , the book has its share of action , drama , suspense and a little bit of comedy
hell it has its controversies also ( which the both the Arabic translator and Kuwait editor of the English version object to )
I hope one day someone do a movie based on this book ( or better yet , Me )
another item to add to long term projects
So AlQabas has this section with comments on Ramadan programs , during the last week of Ramadan they started using Tweets from Kuwaitis commenting on Ramadan programming
Some Tweeters were not amused that they just used the Tweets without Credits
So AlQabas just decided to write the name of the tweeter but no the link or the user name he use so you you will have to search and search to find him
for example today they have [Link][Arabic Pdf]
and here [Link][Arabic Pdf]
and i’m who is this Sara ? have you tried searching for just sara on Twitter ?
But hey , its Traditional newspaper in Kuwait , and for some reason they hate Internet
Then in today Issue today they list some comedy tweets about Qaddafi and what i see ? [link][Arabic PDF]
Wait a minute ? why every Twitter user is listed here and not just names and let search as you been doing for Kuwaiti users ?
Do the other Arabic Twitter User deserve recondition but Kuwaiti do not ?