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?

fat footballers union of kuwait

it is a well know fact that if you are, like me,  a guy who loves football, but you happen to be on the wrong side of the scale, the only football you'll be playing is on the short end of a playstation joystick. kwaities have always had a competitive drive in them, they want to win even though there is nothing to win. like in playing regular weekend football. what used to be about playing with friends and having a good time turned to a "must win" game. this competitive drive has inevitably led to the downfall of the kuwaiti fat footballer. from a time when the bigger you are meant the scarier and tougher an opponent you would make has translated into "oh he's fat, his foot must be upside down" (not an actual quote). this, unfortunately has made the old saying true that, the fit keep getting fitter, while the overweight stay home and eat. but the time has come for us to say no more! we will no longer accept getting picked last, if at all. long gone are the days when we stand next to the opposing teams goalie and wait for when the ball falls to our feet by mistake. we will stand up, we will run the field, and we will be the captains of tomorrow.  

were you single on valentines? no worries, just go to...

Al Raya! hurry up cuz tommorow is the last day. almost any guy who has any doubt about wanting to get married needs only to go to this event and his point of view on this subject is certain to take a leap of faith. Just take my word for it.