Egyptian Cheerleader

You have your run of the mill bouncy cheerleaders, and your one of a kind Egyptian cheerleader.

Ramadan Spirit

Top caption says "Going to Work"
Bottom caption says "Going Home"

How to go back in time on safat.kuwaitblogs.com

Most of the bloggers in Kuwait know about Safat, it is the aggregator that keeps all of us Kuwaiti bloggers together as one big happy family.

I use to remember there was a nice calendar on the side bar and you could see past posts. I cannot find it anymore, I thought it might be my Opera browser that did not display it correctly, so I tried IE, still no calendar.

Anyway, if you want to see past posts you can either wait until it is just before midnight Kuwait time and catch the last post, or if you don't feel like Cinderella, then you can use the following links:

http://safat.kuwaitblogs.com/page/2/     for yesterday
http://safat.kuwaitblogs.com/page/3/     for the day before yesterday
http://safat.kuwaitblogs.com/page/4/     before before yesterday
http://safat.kuwaitblogs.com/page/5/     before before before yesterday

I will not go on and cover the whole year, I think you can figure it out now.

Television Series Intro (My Favorite)

What happened to TV Series intros? These days the intros are a countdown clock beeping (24), or a bland pop song with someone saying "I will be there for you" (friends) or a funky guitar intro (Seinfeld).

Before, you waited for the TV show just to see the Intro. Some of my favorites are: (in no particular order)



Makes you want to ride in a super secret helicopter and pulverize the bad guys.


The car technology today appears old fashioned, but the intro still is great.


You can almost hear your bionic power sound effects when you do some heavy lifting after watching the 6,000,000 dollar man.


This video will self destruct.


Everyone's favorite intro.

Nabati Poetry

Nabati poetry is also known as “the people’s poetry” and “Bedouin poetry”. It is considered the richest form of popular literature, and seen to reflect the reality of everyday life.

Here is a sample of Nabati Poetry recited by an Indian expatriate, something you will not hear very often.

I bought some gold.

No, I did not go to the gold market, I did not even need to get out of my house. I bought gold from my online broker, ticker symbol GLD.

You know when the pundits speak about money on the sidelines, well I am part of that money. Yesterday I decided to get into the market again. I looked at the different indicators, and the only one that was outperforming all the others was Gold, so I went and bought GLD.

Have a look at the chart below from 2005 till today:





GLD outperformed all the major indexes.

The Single Red Rose

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The couple met on an online chat forum while he was at work and she in an internet cafe, and started chatting under the names Sweetie and Prince of Joy.
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"We arranged to meet outside a shop and both of us would be carrying a single rose so we would know the other.
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Now they are both filing for divorce
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Read the full story here.

Wallpaper for your Mobile

To entertain yourself before futoor, here are some cool wallpaper backgrounds for your mobile. A few samples are shown below, and the full collection is here.

Have fun.

Zain Cybersquatted

Cybersquatting is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else.

Someone set up a blog called Zain Kuwait on domain zain-kwt.com, they did not even get a good picture of the Zain Logo.

Looking up his whois info about the squatter, it seems he/she set up the blog on 13 September 2007, and his email is onasiss.11@hotmail.com. I doubt Zain would use a hotmail email for their registration. The telephone number he put is 9690969 which is MTC/Zain's voicemail number.

Very amateur but it could fool some people. The orginal Zain webpage for kuwait can be found here.



The Fake Zain






The Original Zain

The Cadbury Effect

Does this mean that you will turn into a gorilla, or be as talented as Phil Collins?

Put your mobiles on silent

Put your mobiles on silent, hide them in a box, and put that box far far away from you. Ramadan is near, and the message flood is starting, family, friends, acquaintances, people you don't know, people you don't want to know, companies, corporations, satellite TV channels, and even the local falafel shop will be bombarding you with SMS Ramadan greetings.

Ramadan Greetings to all. I will not be sending any messages to anyone this year.

Ri7na feeha

After reading this news about using sea water used as a source of fuel, found here, we can no longer behave like this anymore:

Visa Application for the United Kingdom

I needed to apply for a UK visa. I hate dealing with any sort of bureaucracy where you need to fill up forms, provide attachments, wait the next day, and then get a response.

Anyway, before I went to the UK Consulate in Kuwait, I checked out their website which told you exactly what you need to do to get a visa, and had a PDF file to download for the form.

The gist of the form is:

• Personal Information


• Are you a terrorist? Or a potential terrorist?


• Do you have money to pay for yourself or are you going to leech the British health and social welfare system?

The British embassy is particularly prompt in giving you a visa on the next day, but I propose a same day process.

My way would start by having you enter the first room at the consulate, it will have 2 rows of seats, each row facing a large television screen. One screen would be showing the BBC, and the other one would be showing Al Jazeera news. If you sit on the Jazeera side, you could be a potential terrorist and asked to leave after 5 minutes. If you watch the BBC, then you are invited to the next room.

In the next room, there would be two counters, one would be offering free tea and coffee from vending machines and the other would be one of those high priced coffee places like Starbucks or Costa, but the British version of it, possibly a Pret a Manger.

If you go for the free coffee, then you cannot afford to live in the UK. You are asked to leave after drinking your coffee. If you order a fancy coffee drink and pay 6 KD for that drink, then you are also given a pass to enter the last room.

Holding your paper Starbucks Latte cup, you are invited in the third and last room, you are asked a few questions in the Queen's English, if you understand what they are saying, then you submit your passport and get your visa promptly.


Quick, efficent and fast.

AIDS and Alzheimer Joke

Here is a joke I got in my email:


"Hello"
"Mrs. Ward, please."
"Speaking."
"Mrs. Ward, this is Doctor Jones at the Medical Testing Laboratory. When your doctor sent your husband's biopsy to the lab yesterday, a biopsy from another Mr. Ward arrived as well, and we are now uncertain which one is your husband's. Frankly the results are either bad, or terrible."
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Ward asks nervously.
"Well, one of the specimens tested positive for Alzheimer's and the other one tested positive for AIDS. We can't tell which is your husband's."
"That's dreadful! Can't you do the test again?" questioned Mrs. Ward.
"Normally we can, but Medicare will only pay for these expensive tests one time."
"Well, what am I supposed to do now?"
"The people at Medicare recommend that you drop your husband off somewhere in the middle of town. If he finds his way home, don't sleep with him again!

Kuwaiti Workers

The AFP news agency had a small article discussing the shift from a Thursday Friday weekend to a Friday Saturday weekend. It said that islamist did not like this shift. They showed a picture labelled, "Kuwaiti workers have their lunch at a marketplace in Kuwait City". shown here:





The article is accurate but my comment is about the picture, first these are not Kuwaiti Workers, they are Workers in Kuwait. A more appropriate picture of Kuwaiti workers having lunch would be a picture of them in Starbucks or any American restaurant on the Gulf Road, or with 10 kg bags of badyan butat and falafel sandwiches being delivered to their desks.

Symptom Checker from the Mayo Clinic

Here is a very good symptom checker from the Mayo Clinic, it can help you understand what could be wrong if you are not feeling too well. The symptom checker can be found here.


WARNING to Hypochondriacs, do not go near this site.