I’ll be taking a blogging break for a while. Thank you for reading.
Wishing you all the best.
Aug30
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Aug29
Schweppes Delight
This is what’s making me smile this morning:
So typically English. We need some of that cold-blooded reaction back home.
And then Nicole Kidman in India:
Whatever you think, I love the ending. The smiles are infectious.
For people who want to relax and meditate.
Aug29
21 Questions (III)
Reader’s questions Part III
1) how to win a married man’s heart
I get this question all the time. Just don’t do it.
2) what to do in fog/dust storm
Read if you can. Sleep if you can. Do yoga. You get the picture.
3) how do arab girls do their eyebrows?
they do threading or they have them tattooed
4) how to change a gay teenager into straight?
I suppose the answer to this question depends on who is asking it
5) is unibrow ok for men?
Yes, it is sexy.
6) do you have to do ghusl after watching porn?
Well, if you release any bodily fluids then yes you do.
7) what to expect marrying a kuwaiti?
We’ve dealt with that question so many times. Look up marrying a Kuwaiti on this blog
8) how i can make muscles in my cock?
Exercise it.
9) how to get rid of a married man?
Also another question I get all the time. Get a hobby that engages you full-time and be incommunicado.
10) when is a man madly in love?
When he will do anything for the one he loves, risk everything, and forgive transgressions.
11) can a muslim woman leave the home without permission?
It is common courtesy to let your partner know where you are going and when you will be back. It’s mostly good manners and ensures a good relationship.
12) where can we get eyebrow tattoo in Jedda?
I don’t know
13) can i drink wife milk during intercourse
Why not? Just leave enough for the baby.
14) why can’t a woman propose to a man?
She can but most men like to do the chasing and most women enjoy being pursued.
15) does sex with Asians feel different?
I wouldn’t be able to answer that one
16) are arab women good in bed?
A woman is a woman. It depends on many things including who her partner is.
17) how to lock a man in a bra?
Why would you want to do a mean thing like that?
18) do obsessive people attract each other?
that’s an interesting question. I’ll have to ponder that one
19) mens #1 sexual fantasy
Being seduced by a woman
20) show photos of kuwaitian wealthy men
Hmm, someone has a plan here
21) Why do porn stars get tattooed eyebrows?
It’s “the look”
Aug25
Protected: the lotus flower ii
Aug24
Protected: the lotus flower
Aug23
Camelicious
I love cow milk but I’ve never been tempted to try camel milk despite the claims of its many health benefits.
Trust the Emiratis to come up with an idea to export camel milk under the brand name: Camelicious
The Camelicious camels are given dates, carrots, and hay to make their milk more acceptable to the Western palate (More details in the Huffington Post article
Even though Camelicious was the brainchild of a Westerner living in the U.A.E., still it is a local idea and one that is commendable. It makes a nice change from the monotonous globalized products that our local markets are being bombarded with.
Aug22
Eco-Muslimah
Inspired by Muhammed campaign launched by Kristiane Backer.
Aug22
She’s leaving
The movers were here. Two big men. One man was in his early twenties. The other middle-aged. They were both South African.
I sat down at the pine table to settle the bill.
How long have you been doing this? I asked with interest.
The air was close that day and he seemed to welcome the breeze from the fan on the window sill. His shirt was damp with sweat and beaded drops of perspiration rolled down his face.
Have some tissues.
I offered him the box conveniently placed on the wooden table.
He replied: About four and a half years. I came out here with my wife. I’m a skipper. But she wanted to move to London. So we came. I got into this business. And now she wants to leave me. What am I gonna do here?
I’m sorry to hear that, I said
He sounded desperate beneath his machismo.
But I’m not letting her go, he said. I’m not giving up. We’re working on it. Am not gonna let that girl get away.
I smiled.
That’s the right attitude. I hope things will get better for you. She’s lucky to have someone like you who wants to work on the marriage. I hope it works out.
Aug22
What a if the world were borderless?
Would you live somewhere else? Where would you migrate to and why?
Tonight I was watching a program about UK border control and the different ways in which people “sneak” into the U.K. primarily to work and improve their working conditions. Most of them were returned to their countries of origin after their fabrications were exposed.
One group of targeted individuals are Brazilians who enter the U.K. on forged Portuguese I.D. cards. Another group are foreign “students” on a study visa who pay the college money to report attendance when in fact these people are in the country doing something else. This puts the college under scrutiny as well.
I wondered about the reasons that would drive a person to undergo humiliation and stress to migrate to another country.
Is it morally right to control migration? I have mixed feelings about this issue.
I was quite interested to come across the results of a recent Gallup poll where people were asked about their migration preferences.
Questions on Gallup’s Potential Net Migration Index
“Ideally, if you had the opportunity, would you like to move permanently to another country, or would you prefer to continue living in this country?
(If “would like to move permanently to another country”) To which country would you like to move?
Open-ended, one response allowed] “
Both Kuwait and Saudi Arabia were high on the list of targeted migration destinations. While this is pleasing to know that we are a desired migration destination despite our hot weather, I also feel alarmed that such a potential migration would cause our country to burst at the seams.
Aug19
It gets even more complicated doesn’t it?
(I’ve just posted this comment on its own as I think there are several points that need to be discussed and they are from the subject matter of the Non-Kuwaiti will he marry me post:
It is too late. I’m already married to him,,
I am a second wife by the way. For the sake of my two kids from my first marriage, I wanted to keep it in secret and for the peace of mind for his first wife . My condition was to not divorce her since there are kids involved. I didn’t marry him to have Kuwaiti citizenship ‘Allah Shahd’.
My story is long and complicated. I know there is no future for me with him. I love him very much. He’s the one who pushed me to love him and he had kept trying almost 8 months for me to get feeling for him.
I was lonely and desperate but wasn’t looking for any sort of relationship for my kids’ sake (so they would not be taken away from me) but I became weak as a human being. I needed to be completed by my other half.
He gave me an impression of being the perfect Man; the dream of all women. I was a FOOL.
Now he has changed BIG TIME…..
He wanted to divorce his wife and God knows how much I have tried to stimulate his feelings toward his wife and let him to get rid of this idea of divorcing her.
But now he’s worried that she will ask for divorce. He says it’s for sake of his kids. I do agree and appreciate this but I have some rights as wife too. He wants me to be his wife without any conditions.
I wish I could get him out of my system but I he works in the same place I do. I need my job and can’t afford to change it now.
How can I stop loving him?
Aug19
What does he really want?
Hi
I want some advice
I met a Man from Kuwait online and we have been talking everyday….We have even had some phone conversation as well.
Here is the thing: I live in the US , and he wants me to go and see him.
I told him I have two very young children from a previous relationship I was in.
He said he does not care about that.
We have fallen quite hard for each other. Well, at least I have.
Anyway, he says his family does not have a say about who he is with.
He is Syrian living in Kuwait. I am so confused I don’t know what to think.
He even brought up marriage once!!
I have never dated a man from Kuwait before. However, I find men of Middle Eastern descent very handsome!!
Anyway, does anyone have advice that might help?
Please, anything would be appreciated.
I should also mention I am Latina.
Thanks guys.
Aug19
Um Mohammed
This is Um Mohammed.
She and her staff go around after big hotel weddings are over and take away the extra food and distribute it to needy people in Kuwait.
The amount of left over food is mind-boggling.
I would personally worry about food quality especially since it is hot food in huge quantities and transferred in the early hours of the morning after the wedding party is over.
Still, it is very charitable of this woman take on this task on her own and try to minimize the waste of perfectly good food.
Click on video
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Aug19
Speak Up for Park 51
or as it was known before the name change Cordoba House:
Keith Olbermann Special Comment: There is no “Ground Zero Mosque” (August 16th 2010)
And Masjid Manhattan referred to in the clip.
Why is there a disclaimer on their web site?
DISCLAIMER:
Please be advised that we are by no means affiliated with any other organization trying to build anything new in the area of downtown Manhattan.
Aug14
Bling-ionaires
(Invasion of the Bling-ionaires)
Throughout modern history, the Western world has been fascinated with the Near East and North Africa for a variety of reasons. Some Westerners love us. Others hate us. Many want to milk us for what we’ve got. Some milk us and then regret sharing our milk with us or discovering it for us. Others want to convert us to a host of ideologies – theological or sociological. Whatever the reasons, our area of the world has been a magnet to Westerners and despite this interest, we are often mysterious figures that whet the imagination. Funnily, sometimes we are pariahs even when we embrace popular Western values and culture.
Yes, Gulfites love coming to the U.K. in the summer, especially to London. It may be a time when Londoners are scampering off to sunny party destinations like Ibiza, the Greek isles or the like, but for Gulfites London is cooler than the hellish heats of our region. It may be horribly crowded with tourists but many Gulfites enjoy the sophisticated urban delights of a capital city like London and like to swarm with the crowds of other like-minded folk (other Gulfites especially). In addition, no matter how big and worldly the malls are like back home in the Gulf, well, London shopping is different and they shall shop till they drop – no exaggeration.
Gulfites find it hard not to love the cosmopolitan attraction of London. It’s what makes them come back despite the increased difficulties of obtaining a visa; the fingerprinting, the surveillance cameras, the x-ray security machines that expose a passenger’s body bulges to some unknowns; the tightening of the tax man’s noose on properties and any people wanting to spend longer than the normal time range.
Those problems mean nothing to the ultra-rich Arabs, however, who parade their fancy cars, get them clamped, have accidents, and instil awe in the rest of the common people with their show of wealth.
Wealthy Arabs in London have been getting a lot of exposure lately, especially the Qataris and those from the U.A. E. who love to show off the luxury cars they have shipped to London for the summer. Although the area around Knightsbridge is called Little Kuwait, I doubt Kuwaitis are as flamboyant as their Gulfite brethren.
The video here is an example: Arab Cars
While Arabs are expected to spend millions in London this summer, some people’s feathers are ruffled by this show of wealth and find it offensive.
It is amusing to me that while some people criticize the wealthy Arabs for their indulgences, they forget that they are the ones stoking the ailing economy and serving a tonic to capital businesses with their purchases. Even more amusing, the pleasures Arabs indulge in are a product of Western materialism and its influence.
It is not really invasion of the Bling-ionaires in London but rather Western cultural materialism has invaded our local cultures and steadily reset values.
More here : Clamping their style
Aug11
Ramadan Kareem
As we say here, Mubarak 3alaikom e shahar. Wishing you a blessed month of fasting.
The big surprise during this Ramadan is the beginning of the three-month trial service period for the Makkah Clock Tower.
In the Daily Mail here in London, there is no long spiel about the construction of the clock but a straightforward sensational: Will we soon set watches to Mecca Mean Time? Giant £500 million clock being built-in Islamic holy city
(photos from that article too)
Middle East Online reports that at 590 meters it will be the second tallest tower in the world. In addition:
“Big does not begin to describe the Abraj al-Bait complex just across the street from the south gate of the Grand Mosque, the Muslim world’s most sacred site.
Built by a government-controlled fund, the complex sits seven huge towers atop a massive podium. Six are between 42 and 48 stories, and in the middle is the clock tower, appearing nearly twice as tall as the others.
Moreover, the entire complex, with 3,000 hotel rooms and apartments, a five-story shopping centre and gigantic prayer and conference halls, will give it 1.5 million square metres (16.1 million square feet) of floor space, according to architects and construction industry reports.
….
The complex will sport three top-class hotels, the Fairmont, Raffles and Swiss Hotel. It will also have hundreds of luxury apartments, most of them designed to have a direct view of the Grand Mosque.” (Middle East Online)
Although many of the renovations and modernization of the holy areas around Makkah have improved the pilgrimage experience for worshippers, I wonder if all this fanfare and emphasis on luxury is acceptable around Islam’s holiest shrine? Is it necessary at all?Is it in line with the humility one should comply with at a place where all are considered by Allah equal and judged only by the sincerity of their piety and not by their material wealth or class?
I fear that the intrinsic, deeper values of making a pilgrimage to Makkah will be lost somewhere amongst the world-class accommodations and the divide between the rich and the poor will stand out in a way that is offensive to those who seek a spiritual experience.
Aug11
Should I stay or Should I go?
Hi,
I know that its been a while since anyone has commented on this blog [post] but I just wanted some advice and any comments would be really appreciated.
I am a young British girl who has fallen in love with the most amazing Kuwaiti guy.
We have always talked about the fact that he wants to move back to Kuwait at some point and spend the rest of his life there in the luxury that he is accustomed to and with his friends and family that he misses so much. But in the back of my mind I always thought that this relationship would never become that serious and have never worried about it.
But a couple of weeks ago he proposed to me and I accepted now he is making plans to go back and visit his family and he wants me to go with him.
I don’t know if I’m ready or if I want to ever move out there with him. But I want to spend the rest of my life with him.
Any help, suggestions, comments would be greatly appreciated
Thanks x
Aug9
Tech Savvy Wives
More entertainment from Arab Times. The mistress is referred to as “concubine”. How very harem like.
2-timing hubby : A Kuwaiti woman, in her 50s, has purportedly used spy gadgets and equipment for almost a month until she discovered the illicit affair of her 60-year-old husband with an Arab woman, in her 20s, who allegedly entered the country on a visit visa upon his invitation, reports Al-Anba daily.
In the complaint she filed at Da’iya Police Station Thursday, the Kuwaiti woman accused her husband of completely abandoning his family after receiving his retirement gratuity. She told police she got suspicious when her husband started leaving the house frequently for long periods, claiming he is at the farm, diwaniya or he went fishing. She purchased spy gadgets online after seeing them in newspaper advertisements to monitor the movements of her husband. She explained a mobile telephone, which looks like a pen, helped her in eavesdropping on her husband’s telephone conversations without him suspecting anything. She downloaded all the conversations on her computer to listen to them. She also installed the bug inside her husband’s car, through which she discovered the arrival of the young woman in August, but she could not verify the location and date of their meeting, since she did not hear the other side of the conversation.
This prompted the Kuwaiti woman to purchase a GPS online and planted it under the front seat of her husband’s car to monitor his movement. She then discovered when and where her husband would meet the young woman. She informed her daughter and son-in-law about her husband’s deceitful acts. They later accompanied her to a three-star hotel in Sharq where they found the husband with his concubine and reported the incident to police. The woman vowed to file a divorce and investigations are ongoing to determine the other part of the story.
Frederick Leighton Light of the Harem
Aug9
animate photocards
The young couple stood in the Taco Bell queue at the airport mulling over the menu. Their arms were wrapped around each other in a relaxed intimate stance. As they discussed the menu and the order, their hands groped each other in the impatient manner of saying I want you more than food. And then it appeared a decision was reached and she turned and leaned her body against him and they indulged in a very intimate loving kiss. Her headscarf stayed firmly in place as they moved apart slightly and proceeded to the cash register to place their order.
Aug9
Protected: Pinball Wizard
Aug9
the necessity of opportune insertion
Airline stewardess and pilot
embrace;
eager
intense kiss in the hotel elevator
as soon as they get inside;
in the heat,
forgetting
to insert the elevator card
and the doors
suddenly open
as a crowd of people push the button
calling the lift;
the surprised couple breaks apart
slightly embarrassed
somewhat ruffled
and we join them
unabashedly,
despite the scent of sexual intention
within
and he asks her
if she would like to go for a jog in the park tomorrow
if they get enough sleep, that is.
