I Love The Article

Now if I were any good at writing and expressing my feelings towards my beloved Kuwait I would definitely write an article just like the one published in bazaar magazine (September, 2006 issue) called ‘Motherland’ by Hind Al-Mazeedi.

Here’s an excerpt:

If you had the choice, would you leave? If you got a great job offer, with a high salary in a country where the temperature never exceeds 25°C, would you move? Again and again, my automatic “No way” is blurted every time I’m asked these questions. And it’s funny because I haven’t always felt this way...

I Love the Number

5

For more information on what this number means to the Kuwaiti Parliament please click [here]

I Love the Unity

I love the fact that in Kuwait we don't have official political parties (the Kuwaiti Constitution, article 43). Creating parties and sects will only lead to labeling people as liberals, islamists, conservatives, communists etc. I hate being labeled as such, I do believe that people's cumulative opinions are like a fingerprint, no two think alike. Therefore everyone should be free to pick whichever combination of thoughts they want and that's what makes us interesting as human beings.

Forming parties creates division instead of unity amongst Kuwaties, and since it's election times already, I'm deffinatley not going to vote for the pro-partisan people and hopefully many people won't.


update: check out the downfalls of partisanship in a democracy older than Kuwait's.

Here's an excerpt from an interesting study done by ABC News (a US TV channel):

The research yielded some startling information. "There's a steady trend line from '76 to 2004 of the country becoming, pulling apart, becoming more politically segregated. We began to see this pattern that we eventually end up calling "The Big Sort," said Bishop. (...more)

I just hope this doesn't happen in Kuwait.

I Love Q8 but lets say I didn’t….

Lets say I didn’t love Q8 (God forbid!), and loved another crappy country (naming no names)…

… and lets say because I didn’t love Q8 I hate everything that resembles Q8 including every Q80 person in Q8, every cultural aspect …etc.

… and lets say I would always complain (and yes maybe write a blog) about every single thing in Q8, in every biased way possible that is.

Wouldn’t it be easier to just renounce my Q80 citizenship and leave Q8? To go away and live in my dreamland, wherever that is?

I mean if I didn’t like Q8, it wouldn’t be healthy for me to keep living in a country that I loathe.

I say pack your bags and leave to the people who feel that way.

It’s a lot healthier for all parties involved!

This post was written by an angry I Love Q8!

I Love Hip People (Part 3)

Someone else loves Q8, here are some excerpts from an interesting perspective:

"Most people I know here came to Kuwait, the Promised Land, for maximum two years, or "to make enough money'" and go back home.

Countless Falafel and Shawerma sandwich years later, they are all still here, grayed quite a bit, but very much here."

"Kuwait like a sandy desert spirit becomes ingrained into you, and fourth and fifth ring roads become your best weekend hangouts" [link]

to read the full article click here.

I Love the Solidarity

We loved him;

• we never lived in terror in our own country
• we never felt like we can't express our selves freely
  
• the money from our country's resources did (and still does) reach the people (unlike other regimes that hog all the money to the higher-ups in the ruling ladder)
  
• when we (people of Kuwait) didn't have a country back in 1990, we chose Sheikh Jabir as our Emir. He was the Emir before the invasion, and we wanted him to be an Emir during the invasion and after when Kuwait was liberated.
• he respected all the Kuwaiti families and always established contact with his people, he used to visit them during their festivities and in sorrow.

Some people want him to be perfect, no ruler is! ... and we still LOVE him.

Sheikh Jaber AlAhmad AlSabah 1926 - 2006

I Love the Winter

I'm thankful that we have a change of seasons here, in my opinion it's a bit boring having the same weather all year round. Although winter in Kuwait is never too cold it is just cold enough to induce a change of wardrobe as well as a change of desert scenery, and THAT just makes it a little bit less-boring.

Lovely things that announce WINTER HAS ARRIVED in Kuwait:

• duwaa (a mobile charcoal stove)
• chestnuts
• heaters (all types)
• desert treks
• the loved ones abroad come back for their winter break
• the sweet smell of rain
• desert truffles
• others that I'll try to add.

I Love the Little Things that Matter

I was Looking around for a new laptop sleeve because my old, fancy one doesn't really fit the new laptop.

Since I'm not a big fan of the complimentary black bags that are given out whenever you buy a new laptop, sleeves help me use any bag I want as a laptop bag, it basically just adds padded protection, the high quality stitching and material is not that important in this case. So I shopped around many electronic stores in Kuwait, online (briefly) and in a few countries in Europe but I just couldn't find one that fits, (so here's the I love Q8 part) finally I found one* at one of those bargain stores that sell stuff mostly made in China.
It was exactly the same size I was looking for, nothing fancy just padded protection, and now I'm set to use it with any bag I want. The other amazing thing about it is that it was just 2.500 KD! Way below what I expected to pay for a sleeve.
I like it when I find things in unexpected places, and this is just one recent example of things that I only find in the Kuwaiti market.

(الله يعز الكويت)

*To be more specific my mom found it for me but that's another story. THANK YOU MOM, you're the greatest!