Fonzation

I saw this ad on the back of the bus and for a split second I was thinking "what the hell are they talking about?" I mean we all know what they use this quote for most of the time :) But for the yellow card?!?!?!?! Couldnt they think of another catch phrase, ok they did get my attention but I was disappointed knowing it was for the yellow pages! What a poor advertisement, if I wanted to get a copy of the yellow pages, now I changed my mind. I mean, they might as well wrote "size doesnt matter!"

Looking outside my window from my office on the 12th floor :P, I see some traffic building up and for the first time I could see the cause of the traffic. So following the traffic to its source, this is what I see:

A DAMN PEDESTRIAN!!!

Goes to show traffic in this country is due to the dumbest reasons!

Gotcha! :P

Nose Picker I

Finally, the move is over. For the past week, I've been very busy packing my stuff and closing cases for this day to come. Today wehn I came into work, I see my desk totally empty; there was nothing there, not even the chairs!! It turns out they finally made the move official and we are now located on the 12th floor and damn it is one hell of an incredible view!! :) I got an amazing sea view and I get to see the country from a perspective I have never seen before. Plus I got my own office, no longer a cubicle:) Thats a plus!! Also, it is all peace and quiet here so no worries about distractions and can now actually get some work done. The only problem is being seated on the glass and when the sun comes, it will hit me strong. Working on get some blinds for that! But, all in all, am happy with the move. These pics are what I see out my window!! Incredible:)

Dont wanna sound like some romantic frenzy, but the sky seriously looked incredible this morning. This is exactly the view I want to see when I look up. Reminds me of home.

Last night Steve and I went to Virgin, Marina Mall. I was surprised by how much the place changed. For starters, the panasonic section expanded and now has its own entrance and its own cashier. Now that got me wondering, why the hell is virgin renting out that space? I mean, its not like they got a huge area to be covered and they dont know what to do with it. This virgin is probably the smallest in the world and instead of making use of it, they decide that it will pour in more profit than if they use it efficiently. Moving on to the House/Trance CD section which I could get to blindly and what do I see? "Sorry for the Inconvenience"!!! Apparently, they are redecorating and shifted all the CDs to another area. I go to where they shifted the CDs and I find maximum 20 CDs!! I kept looking around thinking I missed something, but I didnt. Because of renovation issues and customs problems, they have not imported any new CDs during the past few weeks! My CD collection is bigger than the one they got displayed!! All I can say is that Virgin continues to dissapoint me, be it prices, meeting the worldwide known Virgin standards, and not being up-to-date on their products. And I hate where they put the new cashier stand, more wasted space. They gotta shape up, they have a lot to be sorry about!

Related post by Toxy on lack of DVDs.

Usually there is a road block next to my house cos it is one of those roads that once you are on, there is no where to run. But there was never some set schedule when they stop there. But ever since end of Ramadan, security has been intense. Almost everyday when I leave to work and when I come back home and when I go out, there must be at least one car parked checking for ID, car registration, or any other kinds of violations. I see cars parked on the right cos of a dented fender, underage kids driving, expired licenses, even suspicous drivers who have a girl with them in the car or just dont look right. Several times I saw little girls in the back seat of the police car waiting for their fathers to come pick them up. The way I see it, they are doing a great job in upholding the law and they are very polite to all until they discover they have committed a felony... basically innocent until proven guilty; now I hope they do the same with all those crazy drivers on the highways!

On my way back home from work yesterday afternoon, there was this pretty intense accident on the 4th ring road below the bridge that takes you into Hawally and Tunis street. The retard in the Mitsubisht was in a big hurry and ended up crashing into the car in front of him, who in turn ended up hitting a pickup Mazda in front of him getting injured in the process. You can tell how fast the Mitsubishi was going cos the trunk is literally in the back seat. Ambulance was there and he was rushed to the hospital. People I got one thing to say:

Question: Whats more dangerous than driving a bicycle on the streets?


Answer: Driving two bicycles!!!

Great morning. Drove to work on the empty roads without needing to speed or get pissed off at idiotic drivers. So I got my camera out and started clicking away taking random pics all the way from home to work.

This is where I park everyday! :)

This is the first time I look up at the sky during the day and dont get blinded. Dont mean to sound like the romantic guy who sheds a tear by a beautiful sunset but this was quite a view to look at!

Yesterday I saw the cutest cat and decided to take a picture. After clicking the camera and the flash going off, and the picture taken this is what I got. I freaked out when I saw the picture. Well I didnt really freak out, but it did get me thinking about how they say that cats are demon creatures and all that. Personally I think they are the funniest creatures and are fun to play with and I know it is all a reflection of the flash but this pic definitely stands out!

I dont think I left any insult that I didnt say this morning. I was cussing from the second I left the house. The traffic was incredible today. Reminded me of Ramadan days, and worse. Only difference was that it was not sunny; the weather was great. This is what I like, no sun and cool temperature. Recently the traffic police closed the road leading from Hawally to Kuwait Highway (I think its called Maghreb Motorway) so I am forced to make a lengthy turn to the 4th ring road and from there take the highway. There were cars everywhere, crazy people trying to make it to work, people standing waiting for the bus and most of them stand on the road until some speeding cars scares them off, half sleep people attempting to wake up, everyone playing bumping cars.... its a catastrophe! And on the way, I have to pass by 3 different schools!!! Each is more annoying than the other. It took me 45 minutes to get to work!

While at Souk Sharq yesterday I noticed this new device at display outside Starbucks at Souk Sharq. It didn't have any advertisements posted but from the pics you can figure out how it works. Basically, pictures are placed on the transparent area on top which rotates at varying speeds. It has slots for four pictures and I guess with the speed it could look like a short film. I called Fady from Impact BBDO when I saw this and as usual, he had me picture it since he is always on the look-out for new advertising innovations.

Felt great this morning to see this. Temperature below 30!! Been a while since I saw that. But it is forecasted to go back up during the next few days.

Last thursday I left a little early from work cos we had some relatives over for iftar and had to be there to greet them. So I am on the roads at around 4:30, and this was the first time I am out at that time. I expected the usual empty roads and smooth rides, but instead was faced with major traffic and many car accidents. The traffic is normal but the accidents were ridiculous. They are all because some people would be so hungry that their starvation makes them very stupid and blind and cant see others cars in front of them; all they think of is the delicous food awaiting them. One of the accidents was so ridiculous but the drivers from both cars decided to scream at each other and one thing led to another and they ended up beating the shit of each other; I couldnt picture the fight but you can see from the number of people standing and cars parked that there was something to look at.

Never expected to see a car this old in Kuwait. This station wagon is of the early 70's models I think. Dont know how it survived so long, dont know how the driver survived! If you notice, he has no rear window!! Its funny how the older models of cars were built to handle the roughest of environments and last the longest years.