General

South Asia Quake

My heartfelt condolences and thoughts go out to the victims of the South Asia earthquake and their families. This horrendous earthquake has claimed more than 18,000 lives with the number increasing as time goes by. The homeless number in the 10s of thousands. And this while people are most probably fasting. May Allah have mercy …

Weekend intersections

We can’t take a full two-day weekend off because some of our customers get Thu/Fri off, while others take Fri/Sat off, so we have to work 5½ days, having only Thursday afternoon and Friday off. A happy medium we think. We can’t touch Friday because it’s the “holy” day although I remember when I was …

Say NO to racism

I join my Kuwaiti friends Kuwaitism, Catch that Monkey and Kuwait Unplugged in registering my disgust at the stupid, infantile and wholly racist Ramadhan television show by Dawood Husain and Hassan Al-Ballam who attempt to be funny, but succeed in showing their true faces of racism. And that goes for their producers and for MBC, …