الجو مو طبيعي! حاليا هو مطر مع غبار يعني الجو طين !!
الطريق من الدوام الى البيت تقريبا ١٠ دقائق و بالدوام السيارة في مبنى مواقف يعني طلعت من الدوام السيارة نظيفة …. وصلت البيت كأني توني خالص من رالي صارلي شهر
17 Nov 09
16 Nov 09
I had to dig up some info on Qirqai’an قرقيعان for someone for some research, and was asked to find some books with the info. One book with decent info was -
آلعابنا الشعبية الكويتية
تآليف آيوب حسين الآيوب<
الكتاب ممتع و فيه كمية معلومات مفيدة و حبيت أنقل لكم أكثر جزء عجبني من فقرة القرقيعان … ما توقعت تاريخ القرقيعان دموي و شيق!!
و قديما كان القرقيعان للكبار أكثر منه للصغار و حتى النساء (يقرقعن) و على إثر ذلك فقد وقعت مشاجرات حادة و مؤلمة بين صبيان بعض الأحياء عام 1946 تقريبا جرت وقائعها في فريج الزهاميل حيث استعمل فيها الضرب بالعصى و السكاكين و سقط الجرحى و عظمت المصيبة و تدخلت الحكومة آنذاك و فضت النزاع بين الطرفين و منعت كبار الصبيان من القرقيعان و ظل المنع ساريا إلى وقتنا هذا و أصبح الصغار هم أبطال القرقيعان و أصحاب الامتياز فيه.
سؤال – الكتاب يقول الحكومة منعت كبار الصبيان من القرقيعان و ظل المنع إلى وقتنا هذا … تهقون في قانون مكتوب يمنع هالشي؟؟
تذكرت هالمقطع من Gangs of New York لما قريت الوصف للـ”معركة”
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Posted in Kuwait
10 Nov 09
In my Do you Tweet? post, I said the following about AlQabas newspaper -
“On the media side, AlWatan is the only account that is active. Sadly, AlQabas is probably 20 years behind and I doubt they even know that it exists. AlJarida had an account which was active for 1 day and four tweets.”
As of a week or two ago, I started seeing this on their online site -
I have to give it to them. I was very wrong, and they beat AlWatan and the rest of the papers with this. I saw that it’s been used a few times on facebook too! I think this is an excellent way for a newspaper to get out there and especially to get their content spread.
I have to say I am very pleasantly surprised about this!
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Posted in Business, Kuwait, Media, Technology
4 Nov 09
في دراسة نشرت فبل يومين في تقرير “مؤشر الكوكب السعيد” أو
صنفت الكويت في المركز 128 من 142 دولة في مقياس “السعادة” و هي الدولة الأقل سعادة أو الأتعس على المستوى العربي. و المحزن أننا نقع بعد أثيوبيا و كينيا و الكاميرون و زامبيا و جميع الدول اللتي تقع بعدنا بالترتيب هي دول أفريقية فقيرة …. نحن و أستونيا الدولتين الوحيدتين من خارج القارة الأفريقية من الدول الـ20 الأخيرة.
يعتمد التقرير على 3 مؤشرات -
- مستوى الرضا على المعيشة (life satisfaction)
- معدل طول العمر (life expectancy)
- البصمة البيئية (ecological footprint)
الكويت في مركز جيد لمعدل طول العمر و متوسط في مستوى الرضا على المعيشة
و لكننا رابع أسوأ دولة في العالم بيئيا!!!
للعلم التقرير إلى الربع الأول من 2009 يعنى قبل كارثة مشرف
أتوقع تقرير 2010 الكويت تكون تحت زيمبابواي … و أيضا أتوقع النواب الأفاضل مثل هايف راح يتصدون للمشاكل المهمة هذي و يكملون مسيرة التطور
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Posted in Kuwait, News, Politics
2 Nov 09
Not really, but here you go … I received this from my friend earlier today.
KEMS ads up first, in papers today. Below that is Wataniya ads from two months ago!
They couldn’t wait a few months for people to forget the concept??
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Posted in Kuwait, advertising
1 Nov 09
While listening to the BBC the other day, the presenter was talking about the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (M.I.L.F).
LOL! I love how the presenter kept saying M.I.L.F instead of MILF, when in any other case it would be MILF, just like NATO, OPEC, NAFTA … etc.
I couldn’t resist posting this! Unfortunately their website isn’t that funny http://www.luwaran.com/ but I love that its titled “MILF Central Committee on Information Official Website”
If you don’t understand this post, watch American Pie.
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Posted in Funny, Random
29 Oct 09
This is seriously pissing me off!! If anyone can help me out, pleaaase do!! View my source, look at the last line, and tell me how the hell I can get rid of this!!!!!!
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Posted in Kuwait
27 Oct 09
This month marks the 5th year anniversary of Kuwaitism.
Basically this has lasted longer than any job I’ve had. There have been the ups and downs, the prolonged periods of inactivity for various reasons, but most importantly … it keeps my brain going.
Finding topics and discussing these topics with the readers is an excellent way of keeping the brain cells going and stimulated, which is EXTREMELY important here to keep someone sane!
The blog evolved in many ways during the years, either in the look of the site or the style of writing. Reading the old posts makes laugh sometimes at the immaturity of what I said or how I said it but at the same time sometimes I’m pleasantly surprised, which is good.
Its sad that for Kuwaitism’s birthday the whole thing goes crazy and I have to start from scratch look-wise (which will take some time), but as they say … c’est la vie.
I found a nice snapshot of what the site looked like back in 2004, it was http://kuwaitism.blogspot.com back then -
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Posted in Random
25 Oct 09
Ok so my website for the 3rd time in a year has gone off google and reported attack message comes on.
I am currently working on it, its pissing me off, I think I will do the whole thing over again. The template you see now (if you see it, which is only through IE) is temporary.
I hate this crap!
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Posted in Kuwait
23 Oct 09
I received this yesterday from the folks at the Scientific Center (follow them on twitter at scicenterkw) -
QVERT will be organizing a walkathon, along with the Scientific Center in Kuwait, MRC, British Industries, and many other environmental activists.
We will be gathering at the Scientific center, and then walk to Marina Mall (Marina Crescent). Throughout the walk and at Marina Crescent, participants will be provided with flyers to give out random people and explain our cause, 350′s cause. (www.350.org)
DATE: Saturday, October 24th, 2009!
TIME: 11am-1pm (Gathering starts 10am. A commencement speech 10:30am. Walk @ 11am)
PLACE: SCIENTIFIC CENTER – Salmiya, Arabian Gulf St.
DRESS CODE: Blue.. Anything Blue!
Don’t miss it, one planet, one chance..
For more information logon to www.350.org/kuwait
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THE STORY!
This is an invitation to build a movement—to take one day and use it to stop the climate crisis.
We are a group of people from around the planet—young and old, scientists and writers and activists—who have one thing in common. We know the most important number on earth: 350. And we know how to use that number to finally get global action on the worst crisis humans have ever faced. But we can only do it if you help.
A year ago, our greatest climatologist—NASA’s James Hansen—and his team produced a landmark series of studies. They showed that if we let the amount of carbon in the atmosphere top 350 parts per million, we can’t have a planet “similar to the one on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted.”
The bad news is we’re already past that number—we’re at 390 parts per million, which is why the Arctic is melting, why drought is spreading across the planet, why people are already dying from diseases like dengue fever and malaria occurring in places where they’ve never been seen before.
The good news: that number gives us a target to aim for. When the world’s leaders meet in Copenhagen in December to reach agreement on a new climate treaty, we need them to go farther than they’ve planned to go: we need to make sure they’ll pay attention to the latest science and put forward a plan that gets us back to safety.
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Posted in Kuwait, Social
