Kuwait, Rants

Gambling and highway robbery or you could call it airport shipping

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Yes its gambling
you order some DVD and you gamble , it either just reach your house and you won , or it got stopped by customs and pay 10 KD ( official charges )

and its highway robbery , one of the payment was 1 KD to the ministry of finance and the bank charge you 2 KD for each payment !!

So i order 2 DVD , and 1 Book , youshopcustomhold call me

anyway i got to the airport , there are two buildings that were not there when i went there last time ( around 1997 ) and they seem to have doubled the paper work
pay a KD here , 3 there , 6 there , then to MOI office in customs , funny thing is i found some stuff there ( i’ll post pictures later)
anyway when i reached customs he tell me the paper says 3 DVD , there is 2 DVD and 1 book , and i nearly blow up in his face
and before i perform an uppercut on him he show me the manager officer , who was kind and understanding , he fliped the book ( most to check if it has some bad stuff mostly ) and stamped my paper and i was free to go

4.5 hours is the total time it took me to take out 2 DVD and 1 book from kuwait airport , if i one day own or run a company , i’m not going to get any stuff from airport , i’ll get a representative

General, Political

Pope Invites Muslims to Dialogue ..

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and then insults the prophet

In his lecture, the Pope quoted a 14th century Byzantine emperor who wrote in a dialogue with a Persian that Mohammad had brought things “only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”

yeah man , great way to start a dialogue

i should try it

” hey you asshole , lets talk about it ”

General

coincidence ? thats strange ..

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So i know two people , each i know only first and family name

lets guy first guy JIM , and second TIM
they shared the family name , but the family name is widely used , and there are at least 4 familes who use it and they aren’t related

I never met anyone one of them with the other , i met TIM while studying and JIM while going out with some people

Anyway , around last week , JIM was talking to me about his brother , how he is playing online games downstairs and not letting him download any TV show from the internet , normal thing to hear in house hold with shared internet connection

This week , i met Tim , and while i was talking with him , he said that his brother keep on downloading stuff , and screw his online playing , and that he keep downloading stuff upstairs

and i was thinking to my self ” wow ! could that be ? ” , and then he just drive the nail and says ” damn that Jim , too much downloading ”

Strange how they are related yet they aren’t alike ( they don’t look like each other )

so Tim and Jim were brothers , and i talked to them for a year and never know that …. what a coincidence

Rants, Travel

Stop Traveling on a whim !

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Why i do it , i don’t know , but this year i went outside kuwait on a trip with no plan what so ever

and now i’m doing it again , a plane in less than 6 hours , my bag is not ready , i’m not ready , i don’t have no currency of the place i’m going to , i didn’t reserve any hotel

this is crazy , and it make me lose sleep , i know others who do it , i’m sure i can’t , and hopefully this is the last one ..