Browsing the blog archives for November, 2007

29 Nov 07

تحيا الأمة العربية

The latest example of why us Arabs and Muslims will always remain in the dark ages -
UK teacher goes to court in Sudan
A student in her class called Mohammed names a teddy bear after himself …. and now they want to give her 40 lashes and a jail sentence for blasphemy and insulting Islam!!
As usual, [...]

13 Comments Posted in News, Politics by Q
25 Nov 07

Kuwaiti Hospital – Part II

This is a picture from inside the hospital -

(click for better view)
They had 4 of these posters in one hallway.
I have three comments -

What if the patient was Buddhist or whatever?? Apparently there is no hope for him since the doctor can’t do anything!
جمعية إعانة المرضى is spending its money on this instead of helping [...]

30 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Social by Q
22 Nov 07

Kuwaiti Hospital – part 1

Picture from a hospital’s entrance -

Who cares about other people’s lives when it means that I can walk 30 seconds less to and from my car!?
Typical.
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16 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Social by Q
20 Nov 07

New Newspaper Designs

There have been several new newspapers in the market. A friend was commenting a couple of days ago about the lack of creativity in their production, basically they all followed each other, take a look -

Notice the smiliraties? The main thing I would guess is trying to go away from the old newspaper styles, and [...]

14 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Media, advertising by Q
18 Nov 07

Corporate Social Responsibility in Kuwait

In line with the environment issue in the past post, I want to discuss corporate social responsibility (CSR) in Kuwait.
One definition for CSR is -
concept whereby organizations consider the interests of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on customers, employees, shareholders, communities and the environment in all aspects of their operations.
The [...]

9 Comments Posted in Business, Kuwait, Social by Q
14 Nov 07

البيئة في السياسة الكويتية

موضوع البيئة حاليا هو الموضوع الأهم دوليا و متوقع أن يمثل دور كبير في انتخابات أمريكا السنة القادمة 
زيارة رئيسة الوزراء الألمانية ميركل لجورج بوش في مزرعته الأسبوع الماضي كان  من أهم أهدافها الاتفاق على ضوابط بيئية
الرئيس الفرنسي ساركوزي أعلن قبل أكثر من شهر عن بداية الثورة الخضراء لفرنسا 
رئيس الوزراء البريطاني يضع البيئة في مقدمة المواضيع [...]

18 Comments Posted in Kuwait, Politics, Social by Q
13 Nov 07

Zain and Wataniya logo ratings

For some reason, many people voted for in the Zain logo and not the Wataniya one! Anyway, the scores are as follows -
   1.8 / 10
5.6 / 10
I can’t say I’m surprised that Zain got a low score, but I realllyy didnt expect it to be that [...]

3 Comments Posted in Kuwait by Q
12 Nov 07

Rate the Logo

The other day I had a discussion with a friend following the Logo R.I.P post on logos in Kuwait in general. We were discussing which logos we liked and which we didn’t like. We agreed on most but had some disagreements on a few. So I decided to have a Rate the Logo post, where [...]

13 Comments Posted in Business, Kuwait, advertising by Q
7 Nov 07

Governmental Tarzan

Whoever did this card must have been drunk!
First of all, the name of the organization is wrong! I hope its just this card but I know I’m being overly optimistic on that.
The name of the organization is “Public Authority for Minors Affairs” according to the directory of the main e-government website (which is way better [...]

10 Comments Posted in Funny, Kuwait, Tarzan by Q
6 Nov 07

Logo R.I.P

I was working on a different post when I stumbled to this website – www.logorip.com , some sort of graveyard for old logos. They have some great ones such as the old Arsenal logo, the BP logo, Enron, PanAm, and even the swastika and interesting discussions about them.
Got me thinking about our dead logos here [...]

21 Comments Posted in Business, Kuwait by Q

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