Dishdasha Dilemma

A problem that is perplexing one half of the Kuwaiti populace is what dishdasha to wear these days. I am not refering to the color but of the material. Should it be cotton meaning a summer dishdsha, or wool meaning a winter dishdasha?

You will really stand out and be odd looking and out of place if you make the mistake of wearing the wrong season's dishdasha. A few rules that you can follow to help you out in this dilemma follow:

1) Watch Kuwait TV, I know it has been ages since you last saw it but watch any way. Look at the Kuwaiti news reader, what dishdasha is he wearing ?

2) Look at the people in uniform, especially the police, did they switch to winter uniform?

3) My favorite rule, and one followed by all brown nosers loyal employees, is look at your superiors at work, the higher his position in the hierarchy the better, what season dishdasha is he wearing ? Follow the leader, as they say, you can't go wrong there because your boss is never wrong.

4) The most important rule is, if you decide to switch, you cannot go back to your old color. You will experience great shame if you do.

I am still wearing a white summer dishdasha for those who are interessted.

Weird Weather in Kuwait

I just came from Shuweikh and it was pouring, going down to 5th ring road and it was dry, and then onto South Surra and just a little drizzle. Extremly weird weather, only in Kuwait.

Just watch this video and get inspired

I hate bureaucracy

We all know how bureaucrats love forms, and sending you from one desk to another, or one building to another. Here is an actual letter from a Canadian about the bureaucracy in renewing his passport, maybe we should all follow his example and write similar letters and possibly have things done more efficiently.

Dear Mr. Minister,

I'm in the process of renewing my passport, and still cannot believe this. How is it that Radio Shack has my address and telephone number and knows that I bought a t.v. cable from them back in 1997, and yet, the Federal Government is still asking me where I was born and on what date. For ----- sakes, do you guys do this by hand?

My birth date you have on my social insurance card, and it is on all the income tax forms I've filed for the past 30 years. It is on my health insurance card, my driver's license, on the last eight goddamn passports I've had, on all those stupid customs declaration forms I've had to fill out before being allowed off the planes over the last 30 years, and all those insufferable census forms that are done at election times.

Would somebody please take note, once and for all, that my mother's name is Maryanne, my father's name is Robert and I'd be absolutely astounded if that ever changed between now and when I die!!!!!!

SHIT!

I apologize, Mr. Minister. I'm really pissed off this morning. Between you an' me, I've had enough of this bullshit! You send the application to my house, then you ask me for my fuckin' address. What is going on? You have a gang of Neanderthal assholes workin' there??!

Look at my damn picture. Do I look like Bin Laden? I don't want to dig up Yasser Arafat, for shit sakes. I just want to go and park my ass on a sandy beach.

And would someone please tell me, why would you give a shit whether I plan on visiting a farm in the next 15 days? If I ever got the urge to do something weird to a chicken or a goat, believe you me, I'd sure as hell not want to tell anyone!

Well, I have to go now, 'cause I have to go to the other end of the city and get another fuckin' copy of my birth certificate, to the tune of $60!!!

Would it be so complicated to have all the services in the same spot to assist in the issuance of a new passport the same day??

Nooooo, that'd be too damn easy and maybe make sense. You'd rather have us running all over the fuckin' place like chickens with our heads cut off, then find some asshole to confirm that it's really me on the goddamn picture - you know, the one where we're not allowed to smile?! (fuckin' morons)

Hey, you know why we can't smile? We're totally pissed off!

Signed - An Irate fucking Canadian Citizen.

P.S. Remember what I said above about the picture and getting someone to confirm that it's me? Well, my family has been in this country since 1776 when one of my forefathers took up arms against the Americans. I have served in the military for something over 30 years and have had security clearances up the yingyang.

I was aide de camp to the lieutenant governor of our province for ten years and I have been doing volunteer work for the RCMP for about five years.

However, I have to get someone 'important' to verify who I am - you know, someone like my doctor WHO WAS BORN AND RAISED IN COMMUNIST fucking CHINA !!!

Barack "Bollywood" Obama

3ash Bu7sen :-)

Gender Analyzer

Are you a man or a woman ? I am sure you know the answer to this question, and if you don't then you are very confused.

The real question is do you blog like a girl ? or like a guy ? Have no fear, gender analyzer will tell you. [link]

One Trillion

With the bail out of the banks, and the number one trillion dollars being quoted around, can you imagine how much a trillion represents? Well here is a chart to clarify it.