Crunch..Crunch October 6, 2008
Posted by jewaira in Humour, Life, Links, News, Relationships.5 comments
A joke I heard on the BBC’s Business Daily radio programme:
The wife of a CEO decides to surprise her husband by turning up at his office unannounced. She walks in only to find his secretary on his lap.
Without skipping a beat, the CEO continues with his dictation:
“And finally gentlemen, credit crunch or no credit crunch we can’t run this company with only one chair!“
Now watch them ban all concerts October 6, 2008
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, Kuwait, Life, Links, Men, Music, News.8 comments
Can I help it? Girls find me irresistable.
Sigh, no I wasn’t there unfortunately to give you a first hand account. I first read about the incident in the
International Herald Tribune and thereafter all over the Internet.
The video begins with singer Tamer Hosny talking to the audience of mostly families at the concert in the hotel ballroom, when a Kuwaiti boy jumps on stage with a rose and is quickly taken off. Suddenly, at 0:14 a fourteen year old Egyptian girl dashes onto stage accompanied by high pitched screams from fans in the audience. She rushes to embrace the supposedly surprised singer Tamer Hosny and showers him with kisses. He holds onto her lightly with his right arm as she is pulled away amidst a growing uproar from the audience. The camera pulls back and we see little else except for some curious concert goers and some commotion.
What happened after that? Well, the Ministry of Communications ordered the concert to be stopped.
What I found quite amusing was the organ playing a funny note as the girl was escorted off stage.
As one of the commenters on YouTube asks: Why wasn’t Nabil Sh3ayl (who sang before Tamer) accosted and kissed too?
Back to [Nightmarish] Reality October 6, 2008
Posted by jewaira in Kuwait, Life.7 comments
The summer holidays are over. Ramadan is over. Life in Kuwait starts in earnest now.
Back to the grind.
And oh, what a nightmare to go back on the streets! The students are back in full force in all government and private schools and colleges. The congestion was unbelievable this morning, and the mad driving made it worse. Cars before me spewed forth black smoke and sickening malodorous fumes and I wondered how they had even passed the traffic department license renewal.
I can just imagine myself driving with a perennial frown, hunched shoulders, and fist ready to shake at the slightest provocation. I have started talking to myself in the car in an effort to let off steam. No one can hear me being pedantic, being vulgar, or sounding like a horribly negative person.
Driving in Kuwait these days brings out the worst in me. You wouldn’t want to be in the passenger seat with me. No. You would emerge an emotional, psychological wreck, and no amount of soothing music could fix you.
I imagine you looking at me in exasperation and exclaiming:
“I’m not the Minister of Transportation! I’m not running this country. Neither are you. Deal with it. Stay home or get yourself a driver and wear blinders till you get to your destination. Stop complaining!”
“I most certainly shall not! No. I will invest in a helicopter.” I imagine myself replying.
And then I start again, complaining that is and offering solutions:
“Taxes! Impose taxes on those using the roads, on those owning more than two cars, on those driving decrepit old cars.
There used to be a time when the traffic department would fail learner drivers over and over again till they got it right. Now they will pass learner drivers with some halawa (bribery), whether they are competent drivers or not. And these drivers are unleashed onto the beautiful streets of Kuwait creating havoc.
And talking on the mobile phone while driving ban? Ha?
Shall I count the dozens of people, Kuwaitis and non-Kuwaitis, whom I have seen brazenly defying the ban? Not just talking, but texting while driving in very heavy traffic?”
You would look at me and then look away, saying quietly:
“If you feel so strongly, why didn’t you participate in the traffic survey you were given for that study? Why don’t you use mass transport? Why don’t you start a car pool? How many cars do you own?”
And I would be momentarily silenced.
Walking on Eggshells October 6, 2008
Posted by jewaira in Film & Ads, Life, Lifestyle, Links, News.5 comments
Harry Enfield banned from playing sex-crazed Muslim hoodie in Harry and Paul
“…..Comedian Harry Enfield has been banned from performing as a sex-crazed Muslim hoodie in his new BBC comedy show Harry and Paul.
[H]e was also warned not to play paedophile Catholic priest Father Paddy, another new character, for the same reason.
Enfield said: “I was told, ‘Don’t even go there’.“
I guess religion and comedy don’t mix well. Or perhaps they are coming too close to reality for a comfortable laugh?
Also:
“The BBC recently received complaints about two EastEnders story lines involving Muslims and paedophiles.
More than 100 viewers complained after a Muslim character was shown breaking his fast during the holy month of Ramadan, and more than 200 people complained about a paedophile grooming a 15-year-old girl.”
Why?
Are there no cases of Muslims ever breaking their fasts during Ramadan, for any number of reasons, valid or not?
And shouldn’t issues like paedophilia be brought out more in the open so that those who are unaware, can recognize or deal with it?
One of the purposes of the arts is to enlighten and inform the masses.
