are hamburgers really that greasy?

bored kuwaiti polls blog

just cuz i was bored i have gone and did a polls only blog. so if you find yourself bored and with nothing to do, go visit there, answer some questions or just suggest a poll you would like to see done and enshala i will do it. whenever am bored.

polls blog

bored kuwaiti goes to cba

this has been an easy week so far compared to the previous 2 months of hell i've been through bl dawam. basically all i have to do is go to the kuwait university job fair in cba for our company and sit there and answer peoples questions. we will take your applications and cv's 6ab3an bs you can forget about getting a job offer from us at this time. as a matter of fact, almost all of the companies who are participating in this job fair are not offering any jobs at the moment. hell, even Global has a booth there lol madre laish. yimkin el wa7eedeen ele ga3d ya3600n job offers are NBK for part time call center jobs or viva for i dont know exactly what. but i really felt bad for a lot of the graduating students, i mean where are they gonna go? seriously a7is radaina 3ala ayam awal ele the only 2 places you can aspire to work in blkuwait are the government or banks (not even that now) or get in the family business, if you have one. a7is it's a good time to start your own business now. anyways, too bad bacher is the last day, back to the office the day after.   

update:

Quit for a Day-Day

now for starters let me just say that while quiting smoking is simple, it is not easy, especially here in kuwait. simple? yes cuz all you really need to do in order to quit is stop, i mean really decide to stop and distract yourself from thinking about it. easy? not close. the reasons why it's not a walk in the park is because it is after all a medically proven addictive substance, and you know the thing about addictions, that they are hard as hell to get rid of. the problem with a cigarette is that it is both a physical and mental addiction. we all know about nicotine, but the mental addiction is what in my opinion the hardest to get rid of. 

i used to smoke for a couple of years before i had surgery to remove my tonsils which is the same time i decided to quite. medically, nicotine should have been completely out of my system and the addiction completely gone after 3 months, or so i read. i stayed cigarette free for almost 2 years. if you've guessed that this wasnt the end of it then you're right. i still remember the first cigarette i had in almost 2 years. i coughed, at first, as any first time smoker would have, but then slowly but surely my lungs adjusted to the smoke. i became what people would call a casual or social smoker in kuwait, ya3ni adakhin bs bildowaniya. that went on for a while gradually taken small steps moving away from the casual or social smoking till full on smoker. the final conversion occurred after i started my current job. we joke around in the office that it is a requirement to work here for you to be a smoker. i do admit, i met more than half the people i know in the office all from the "cigarette break". what more is it became an excuse for us to take short breaks, which we all loved so much. 

i had a wake up call about a month ago when for two days straight a simple act like breathing felt like someone was digging their knees into my chest and not easing up on it (this is the usual feeling smokers have after waking up in the morning) but this time it lasted more than the morning coffee, which i have to admit scared me. i went to the doctor afraid of what i might find out. it turned out to be some illness between bronchitis and asthma  brought upon mainly from direct smoking, second hand smoking and our beautiful yellow colored weather. it's not as serious as i first feared el7imdila bs never the less it was still bad enough. now i've had 28 smoke free days. technically, am one third the way to be completely rid of my nicotine addiction, it's just i wonder how long it would take for me to get rid of the mental addiction. so far i found that exercises and eating helps. i just hope i get to do one more than he other, the healthy one that is.  

blogger blind test

yesterday the same client with the good looking interior performed a cheesy blind test for some of it's employees to test which type of cheese they would like best (something tells me labna isnt considered cheese but more like yougert? i dont know you tell me). i wanted to be a part of the blind test bs unfortunatly i had to do my own work at that same time and couldnt get away, i wasnt even able to watch it either.

i've always wanted to be a part of a blind test, everyone does i think, i bet everyone who saw that coke vs pepsi or that starbucks vs jam3iya coffee blind tests has told themselves at one point or another hey i bet i can tell which is which, ashkara i would. well i wanted to test myself and see if i would know. hmmm...i wonder if there could be a kuwaiti blogger blind test. how? i dont know, i guess the way i would do it is for someone to to publish a set of 2 or 3 or 5 posts each from different bloggers and have the readers guess which is which, like safat but without the bloggers names, that is if they claim that they know their favourit bloggers all too well. i mean some people have a unique way of writing and telling a story or posting random things. what we post is what makes our blogs unique right? or is there another reason why we read who we read? i dont know, if you find this interesting then let me know and maybe a blogger blind test could tell us more.

unbelievable!

Woman arrested in Saudi Arabia for driving

Saudi men arrested for seeking female writer's autograph

Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling

the very best part of work is when we're not working

dont you agree?

what would you're dream job be? the one that makes you feel excited to get up at 7 in the morning for 5 days a week for the next 30 years? if you dont have a dream job, what would you change about your current job to make it perfect or something close to it? and if you're unemployed at all, then go ahead, tell us how it feels.

pics

here are a few pics i was able to sneak in, they suck i know, it's cuz they were taking with an iphone, which normaly takes pictures that suck. but it should give you some idea of what i was talking about in the last post

the right side of the entrance from the stair way

and the left side

this is the company's cafeteria with their own gourmet (almost) restaurant, today we had burgers n fries for lunch

the hallways

they have this cool thing that blows a huge amount of air into the toilets...now i dont know exactly why it's there but am sure your imagination can come up with a reason or two behind it.

the infamous interrogation room with all new black chairs, mine is the one on the right

the bulding from the outside, and if you look closely you can see my finger on the edge of the picture

so, tell me what do you think ?

bored kuwaiti goes to sabhan

i wasnt very much pleased when i found out 2 days ago that the company i had to work at for the next 2 weeks would be in sabhan. i've always had bad luck with the places i get, like meena 3bdla or amghara or in the middle of the desert (literally) somewhere off the 7th ring road, so when i heard that i  was going to sabhan i felt a little depressed. (for some reason i thought sabhan was very far away)

so today was the first day going to this certain company and i tell you i was very surprised at how close the place was, i mean it might not be that close but the road going there is against the morning traffic so it doesnt feel so far away. but the real surprise came when i actually got there. picture this, a huge huge block of a warehouse with almost no windows on 3 sides and covered with metal." damn" i thought to myself as i was trying to find a parking space, "this place is gonna suck". so after i parked my car and got out and walked towards the door i entered and suddenly found myself inside a modern new york  style interior design magazine. this place was, if am not too exaggerating here, the best looking interior of an office building i have ever seen in kuwait, and i have seen a plenty. i couldnt even imagine that kuwaiti companies cared enough to spend so much effort and money on the interior design. i imagined the owner must have an interior designer for a daughter who nagged him on doing this office building the way she wanted.  i was so pleased that i even asked for a tour of the building (of which i was ever so abruptly denied) no matters. but i have to admit, the way this place looked cheered me up, i even thought to myself,  this is the kinda place i could see myself working in. so after all that try to imagine my surprise, again, at seeing the room where we are going to spend the next 2 weeks in. 

GREY! bs. thats it. grey. grey walls, grey ceiling, grey door, grey floor, grey door, no windows, grey table and very uncomfortable grey chairs. me and my colleagues have decided to call it the "interrogation room". i swear bs nagi9 ena a couple of officers come in and start torturing us o yakmil el filim.   

now this horror of an image is a pic i found while googleimaging sabhan trying to find a pic that would go well with this post. this painting was done by a syrian artist aptly named "sabhan". so i just thought i would share it with you guys. apparently its art. 

just another BB Pin: 2465050C

do you ever get the feeling that we kuwaities sometimes take things just a little bit too far? as if there is a special gene in our kuwaiti blood that makes us feel good to over do things. i mean am not saying it's a bad thing, it's just a part of what makes us who we are, it's just sometimes i wonder about the reasonableness of certain things. lets take for example some of the crazy scenes i've seen over the national holiday weekend like a horse carriage turned into a water balloon tank parading up and down the streets of bnaider. what i really want to talk about today is the craze over the blackberry phone that has engulfed the kuwaiti mainstream life. let me be the first to admit that, while i dont own one, i did strongly consider buying one for a while. what can i say, the hype has gotten to me before (hence the iphone). but the main reason why i didnt buy it is because a lot of people complain about restarts and bad signals and i really didnt need any of those. anyways, nowadays you cant help but notice everyone is owning one, and i cant see an end to kuwait's love affair with that now famous BB pin. there's even a blog dedicated to blackberry in kuwait, people have started facebook groups and communities for kuwaiti blackberry owners, it is now obligatory to congratulate a new blackberry owner via status change, hell i wouldnt be surprised if sometime in the future girls will start having an "istiqbal" cuz she got a new blackberry, god knows they have one for almost anything these days.  

  i just have one question for everyone out there who has bought or knows someone who has bought a blackberry:

is it THAT good or is it just another case of a kuwaiti haba?