Browsing the blog archives for May, 2007

Thumbs up to PAAF webmaster

My last post was about another example of some sloppiness found in most Kuwaiti government organizations.
BUT …. thumbs up to whoever is in charge of the PAAF website, for actually fixing the problem in less than a day!

I would like to think that this blog had something to do with them changing it, since it [...]

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Tarzan makes work disgusting!

Yet again, another tarzanism strikes!! This time, thanks to Judy Abbott for emailing me this link with the following main title and this image -

I actually missed the spelling mistake the first time around …. but when I did, I couldn’t stop laughing!!

LOL!! Pubic Authority of Agriculture & Fish Resources!! How disgusting is that??
Just [...]

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Jewish holiday forced on us!

Its all a Jewish conspiracy! They OWN Saturdays! All banks and investment companies are on in the Jewish conspiracy!!  Who cares about economic reasons??? Islam is the way!
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A good divorce?

Well its not really a total divorce, more like a divorce but staying friends and still seeing each other!

Good links on the subject -
MarketWatch (Dow Jones)
FXStreet
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To Late

Tarzan make translate … again -

This time its from AlWatan yesterday.
The problem is that its a headline!!
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First day with Wataniya!

Yesterday I finally got myself a Wataniya line! After weeks of complaining, I finally did something about the shit service and ditched MTC after more than 10 years of being a loyal customer!!
VS. [...]

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Come and shit or shat with Ghiras!

A friend of mine sent me this by email earlier today, it was in yesterday’s AlQabas page 36 -

This is perfect because it comes right after my post about Ghiras’s translation problems, and the show is apparently on the new Ghiras TV!! I really hope they keep it that way and don’t fix it!
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A Killer Hug!

The Pakistani minister of tourism resigned yesterday.
She was in France and took a parachute jump to raise money for child victims of the earthquake that struck Pakistan in October 2005. After the jump, she was congratulated by her instructor and that included a hug.

What happened after those pictures??

Clerics at a mosque in Islamabad issued [...]

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Mohammed Bin Rashid Foundation

I saw this today in the newspaper.

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Mohammed Bin Rashid announced yesterday at the World Economic Forum a $10 Billion program to encourage and promote human development through education and supporting young leaders and so on in the region!!
How amazing is that?!
The website mbrfoundation.ae doesn’t really say much on how they [...]

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Books in Kuwaiti malls??

We have many many malls here in Kuwait.
The major ones are probably -

The Avenues
Souq Sharq
Marina Mall
AlFanar
AlMuhallab
AlKout

How many of them have proper book stores and libraries??
In all six malls, with their hundreds of stores, I can recall ZERO bookstores!!
Virgin is the closest thing we have, but as a bookstore it is very limited, and is not [...]

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