Continuing the silly need for comedy mood in me, I am kindly requesting that everyone submit any good jokes you got through SMS recently, preferably in Arabic!

Yalla I want to laugh and I deleted 927 msgs from my phone including all jokes yestderday, so I need to recharge myself!

“I don’t want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.”

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“Every sperm is sacred” and all of the Grim Reaper scene

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The whole idea of the movie!!

“Suicide Squad Leader: We are the Judean People’s Front crack suicide squad! Suicide squad, attack!
[they all stab themselves]
Suicide Squad Leader: That showed ‘em, huh?”

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Im definitely gonna watch one of them this weekend!! Have a nice weekend

This is from today’s AlQabas…

U hear all kinds of ringtones in Kuwait, from a simple beep to 3aisha almar6a to heavy metal! The latest trend apparently is a recording of athaan (call to prayer)! The sound of athaan is a very relaxing one, but there’s nothing more disturbing than sitting at a restaurant, and all of a sudden you hear someone in the next table screaming as loud as they can calling for prayer! Its scary, and personally I dont think its appropriate at all!

Why use an athaaan as ur ringtone? Are u trying to tell everyone that you are religious? And why the hell is it that every person who has athaan as their ringtone apparently have it at the loudest possible volume? If you are against music, then use a simple beep!

The point of the ringing is to tell you that your phone is ringing, in Kuwait, its more of a statement!

Personally, I use the old fashion ring ring….

…..whats your ringtone of choice??

I wanted to post this a long time ago but then forgot about it, and just today it came back to me….

I’ll try to make it short. Remember MTC pre-vodafone? This used to be their logo, although im not sure about the colors on the side but thats the only I found.

Then, one day, MTC decided to change their logo. It turned into this -

Then there were rumors of MTC joining with Vodafone. That set off a logo war. Wataniya’s logo at the time was this -

As soon as news was out, they changed their logo to this -

which is eerily similar to vodafone’s logo -

and they started their “الأحمر يعبر” campaign, in which they wanted to take the red corporate identity away from Vodafone before it came to MTC.

Anyway, MTC gradually introduced the red line at the bottom untill they got to their current logo -

This logo shows the partnership and how MTC is the main partner with vodafone being a smaller part.

Anyway, all that story was just an intro for my point…..

We all heard about the new banking license, and how many banks are trying to enter the Kuwaiti market, and we heard so many rumours about banks merging, banks being taken over, and so on….

The most successful bank in Kuwait, in terms of business and I would say in terms of brand value has to be NBK. Their logo is nice and simple and, more importantly, very very strong!

So why would NBK play around with such a successful brand image and logo???? They changed it recently to this -

I think this one is hidious! Its ugly! You have something beautiful and you destroy it with one small line! red?! RED??! Since when does NBK have anything to do with red?? And adding that line at the bottom reminded me alot of what MTC did, so my first thoughts were that there are future plans for NBK to have some kind of partnership with a major bank! But that doesnt make sense, it already is one of the most successful banks in the region, and when I asked people in the marketing department of NBK they said that its nothing, just a new look!? Changing the brand identity is not just a new look! They added the red line to all their signage at the branches too if you noticed….

So, in conclusion, whats the secret behind the small red line? Is it preparing customers for a major change that will involve red in the future? Or is a defence mechanism like Wataniya to use the color before HSBC and Citibank come in?!

Any thoughts on the issue?

If Im right about this, then I deserve a Pulitzer!

Before anyone starts saying anything about this picture being 3aib or whatever, let me reassure you that this cartoon came from a Kuwaiti magazine, and there was no big fuss about something like this, because its a cartoon, and because people were mature enough to understand that it wont lead others into going crazy and start humping anything in sight!

Enjoy, this comes from مرآة الأمة (Mir’aat Al Umma) back in 1971.

زفت

Like I said in the previous post, I have been traveling ALOT recently! And im talking about those annoying one day overnight trips, which really are not much fun at all. Anyway, I went to Doha on Friday, and came back on Sunday after missing my Saturday flight bcz of a stupid accident on the way to airport that delayed everyone at least 30 mins bcz of traffic!

So anyway, in Doha, I stayed at the Sheraton. It is a pretty old hotel, around 25 years old or something. It was actually very comfortable, highspeed WiFi connection in rooms, great working area with fax and all that, and so on. The view from the room was very nice, looking down to the swimming pool and the beach area. This hotel would be considered the 3rd or even 4th best hotel in Qatar. I am very sad to announce that the 4th best hotel in Doha is better than our best hotel here in Kuwait.

How the hell do we want tourism to flourish when we dont even have the basic facilities for tourists?! What would you consider the best hotel here in Kuwait? For tourism I would argue that the Hilton is the best, not because of how good it is, but because its the only one available!!

Wallaaaa ya jima3a inna Doha was boring, there was absolutely nothing to do! We have sooo much more here in Kuwait, but for some reason there is no attention whatsoever at the potential this country has! We have culture, we have ancient history, we have modern history, we have great beaches, we have beautiful camping areas, we have museums and art galleries, we have good shopping, we have…we have…we have…but we dont have any vision!

I have a friend who tried to come to Kuwait 4 times in the past 2 years and she was never allowed or given a visa…why? Bcz she’s a female under 25!? Last month, a client was coming from Dubai for a meeting and going back, he wasnt allowed to get in the country bcz his South African passport isnt good enough to give him a visa while the other people from his company came…and so on! Many examples of shit management we have here!

Countries beg people and spend millions promoting themselves for others as a destination, and we think we’re God’s gift to earth, and that its a privilage to come in, so we might not even consider you?!

I know we discussed this tourism issue in this post, but it still pisses me off when I see how far behind we are when we have the potential to become leaders!!

The question I was asked most by people I met in Doha was “What do you think the reason is for Kuwait’s decline since the 60s & 70s?”

Walla galby ita3assar 3ala hal deera willy gaa3id isawoona feeha!