من السنة اللي طافت واحنا نعاني من أزمة الكهرباء بالكويت في وقت نتبرع لدول أخرى بالطاقة ! اقطعوا الكهربا واوعدوا بحل الموضوع وتفادي الأزمة ودارت السنة وما شفنا شي تغير وانطمينا لاموا الناس وقالوا السبب هو ارتفاع الاستهلاك وان إستهلاكنا يعادل ضعف استهلاك الموزمبيق مادري الواقواق !!! وطوفناها سووا حملة ترشيد وتوعية ماظل عوير وزوير ما حطوه لنا يحثنا على توفير الكهربا وسكتنا فضحونا بالاعلام

From what I have seen in Kuwait HOT pretty girls , marry ugly guys HOT handsome guys , marry ugly girls B!tches marry the best guys and most successful and richest from the best known families Good decent innocent girls , marry guys who did every sin possible

The long running saga continues...

Kuwaiti legal firm offers to help Bangladeshi cleaners; ‘Integrity being sacrificed for profit’

KUWAIT CITY: The stranded Bangladeshi cleaners have a reason to smile after weeks of gloom, as a local firm has offered them free legal assistance in an effort to help them secure their rights, including unpaid wages for eight months. Hashem Majed, the Chairman of Al-Huqooq International Company, accompanied by a team of lawyers visited the workers’ accommodation on Sunday and gave a patient hearing to the grievances of the cleaners before donating them food supplies. Expressing shock and outrage over the despicable living conditions of the workers, Majed went on to explain that he would make all-out efforts to resolve the problems of the workers in a speedy manner and that he has instructed his lawyers to immediately initiate the legal proceedings. Some 1,300 Bangladeshis employed with a local cleaning company are on an indefinite strike to protest non-payment of wages, inhumane living conditions in addition to their expired residencies. According to the workers, they will not call off the strike unless all their demands are met.

Majed told the Arab Times that integrity is being sacrificed by some at the altar of profit and that the authorities should be held accountable for having let things come to such a pass. Berating the mistreatment of the workers, Majed noted: “I am deeply disturbed to see the horrible living conditions of the workers, and it is equally disturbing to see a few unscrupulous local companies tarnishing the image of the country. These workers are being treated as if they are cattle.” “While we often brag about the rapid progress Kuwait is making in various fields...here are people who have no access to clean drinking water and living in quarters that are not even fit for animal habitation. How can some people be so cold-hearted?” Majed asked. Majed observed that during his meeting with some of the workers on Sunday he asked them to list their priorities. “I was touched when the workers told me that their most pressing need was legal assistance. I asked them to explain to me the logic behind this idea, and they said that the legal assistance was a priority because they wanted to put an end to this long-standing dispute as soon as possible and wanted to return home.” Majed said he has no magic wand to solve the dispute and that he would coordinate efforts with various authorities to address the problems of the workers in the shortest time possible. Al-Huqooq has been at the forefront in safeguarding rights of workers and has provided legal and other assistance to many stranded workers of various nationalities.

Responded
It may be noted that the Arab Times readers have responded positively to the food pleas of the workers published in the newspaper, and have been providing them food aid since then. Reverend Andy Thompson on Saturday accompanied by some volunteers visited the accommodation of the workers and delivered second batch of food aid. When the Arab Times contacted Majed to seek pro bono legal help for the workers, he immediately agreed to the proposal. Majed went on to explain that the Ministry of Social Affairs should establish courts wherein labour disputes involving large group of workers can be resolved in a quick fashion. He added that when a case is filed at the Ministry of Social Affairs by workers it often takes as many as two months to get a hearing date. “During this period, if a worker is arrested at a checkpoint, then he faces deportation. In short, it is very essential that both the ministry of social affairs and the interior ministry coordinate on this issue in order to help people who may be victims,” he added. According to Majed, domestic workers in the country are better off as compared to those employed as cleaners in the private sector. “The domestic workers have a minimum wage of KD 40, in addition to free food and accommodation, not to mention free air passage every two years,” he added.

He said often many cleaning companies stipulate higher salary in the work contract in order to secure contracts from the government and that when the worker arrives in the country he is only paid between KD 20 and KD 25 instead of KD 50 or KD 60 stipulated in the contract. Majed observed that the ministry of social affairs should step up efforts in order to stop such malpractices and take strong action against errant firms to set a precedent. He also went on to explain that the ministry of social affairs and labour should regularly inspect accommodation of workers to ensure that it is habitable. Noting that low-income workers were often being blamed for surge in crimes by the authorities, he said that this segment of workers cannot be blamed because factors such as poor salaries, unpaid wages, among others were turning them into criminals.

“I, for one, blame the government for not addressing the problems faced by cleaning workers. If workers are paid decent salaries and in a timely manner, then the crime graph will obviously witness a decline. How can you expect someone to survive with a monthly income of as low as KD 20?. The government should take concrete measures to tackle this issue at the grass root level.” To a question as to how long it would take for the Labour Court to issue a verdict in this particular case, Hashem said he cannot give a timeframe but would make efforts to secure the rights of the workers as soon as possible and that he has full faith the Kuwaiti legal system. He said that the company must pay the workers all their dues and renew their residencies or repatriate them at its own cost.

By Francis A. Clifford Cardozo
Arab Times Staff

Here, here! Kuwait could do with a few more Hashem Majeds.

I am me, I am you, I am what I shall be, I am what I am, Lost within the stilled motion of running to where I stand, You are my perfect lie, I am no longer the truth you demand, I shall be patient and shelter my purity beneath this cursed land. If each hair on me is a painful song I've led, If each hair on me is another burden I've bled, If each hair on me is a happy thought turned dead, Then

BOOM.............My microwave actually blew up the other day! I was being lazy and did not want to put the tea kettle on the stove. So, I filled a micro-safe mug with water..something I always do...and put it in my microwave. After a few seconds I heard a buzzing sound and then it just blew up. It actually jumped..and hit the top shelf above it. Luckily. the shelf was there or it might of catapulted across the room! Lol. It's funny now, but at the time I was really scared. I thought it would burst into flames.

It was about 9 years old so no wonder it blew up. It served me well. I went to Al-Ghanim Electronics and all the micros were +45KD. They had a couple for about 35 KD but they were small and ugly. Ugh!

A friend of mine is constantly telling me that Al-Ghanim is overpriced. She always recommends City Centre fr buying electronics. So, I took a chance and went. My friend was right. I got a big 25litre, silver microwave for 29 KD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It is awesome!

And hopefully I will have this one for another 9 years! Insha'Allah!

so u just installed the new Ubuntu feisty, thats good its the start of wisdom:)
so what next, first check this article:
13 Must Do things on new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn installation
then use this tips form PC world magazine :
Seven Post-Install Tips for Ubuntu 7.04
i personally benefit from both of them and i hope u two.

It's ma second day here... And I got no A/C!!!

I try to be creative in my posts, really I do. Problem is there's nothing vaguely interesting to speak of, let alone something to crank up whatever little creative juices I have. So until I have something interesting to say, I'll use this space to talk about the same old. I received an email from immigration this morning. Here goes: "At present according to our systems you medicals have not

» Boundless joy

» Abandoned hope

» A sleepy kiss

» Comfortable jeans

» A secret smile

» An inside joke

» A relieving pee

» A warm night

» An unspoken promise

» Sparkling conversation

» Wonderful eccentricities

» A heartwarming memory

» Dirty sex

» Unabashed laughter

» A familiar song

» A woody whiskey

» Clean towels

» Wordless companionship

» A quiet dance

» The perfect muffin

» Inconsolable grief

» A drunken smoke

» A tragic lie

» A longing ache

» Sticky fingers

» A cool bed

» Inexplicable restlessness

» An open mind

» Curious children

» Quiet desperation

» A farty cat

» Frustrated tears

» Happy feet

» Fury, unabated

» A breathtaking view

» Fuzzy socks

» Ignorant pride

» Inspiration

All of us Muskateers loooooooooooooooooooooove music so much, probably in other lives, we'd all be artists of some sort! Every where we go, they play the music that we love and is it just too hard for us to sit down quiet!

we're sitting in a coffeeshop and hear "Love Stoned" playing, how could you not react to that!? Or Rihanna's Umberella!?? One wrong body movement and all eyes stear towards us with their angry faces - probbly from the noise! - bas the point is, any other place on this planet, people would express that by getting up and just moving abit, doesn't make you bad, just in a trance!

It is pointless too when they have Hala February concerts and ban people from interacting and just make them sit down, it's a concert for God's sake!


If you heard the song that you really really really , I mean REALLY like at some place, would you interact, or you gonna be like one of those vegetables out there!!!?

Japanese stocks plunged nigh 3 percentage Friday, hurt by a discriminating worsen overnight on Wall Street, recent yen military strength and doubtfulness close to weekend elections.In mid-afternoon trading, the Nikkei 225 indicant was down 499.61 points, or 2.82 percent, to 7,202.48 points at mid afternoon. Exporters such as Honda motor Co. and Fujitsu Ltd were among the losers.Prices tumbled afterward Wall Street suffered one of its pip losings this year Thursday as investors succumbed to months of worry just about the U.S. mortgage and embodied loaning markets. Read more

ليست القضية وحش حولي متهم أو مدان أو توصلت هي لجرائم جديدة حاول المتهم اخفاؤها ، ولكن قضية جريدة الراى هي أن كلامنا هو الصح والعقيد خطأ احنا قابلنا الوحش والعقيد يحلف ان ما صار ، العقيد هو يحلف ان عم الوحش قابله وها احنا جبنا العم وحلف فوق حلف العقيد ، انه ما شاف ابن اخيه يعني صدقونا عقيد العراقيات والمخدرات كذاب

طبعا احنا كقراء نقول بالطقاق لكن مثل هذا الأسلوب في النقد مقزز بعدين اللي عنده هالمعلومات ليش ما يطلعها من زمان؟ والراى بالسوالف ما يهمها عينها قوية

اما في موضوع التعذيب فصحيح اذ ان كل قضايا الارهابيين انتهت بالبراءة والبركة بالأسود والفهود وطرقهم الحلوة

Myaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw !!!     other videos of Maz Jobrani    He is part of a stand up comedians group who are from THE AXIS OF EVIL countries   AXIS OF EVIL COMEDY TOUR videos

اذا احد فيكم اختربت سيارته و مافي ونش يشيلها
لا يزعل

و السبب:

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Girls, this is the “crimson tide” effect add to that a couple of Spasmomen pills and what ever drugs I could pop in my mouth to take this disgusting pain away, having said that; enjoy the post! *Heq*

1. I find it difficult being a woman nowadays with all the pressure we get – it’s the family from one side and trying to please each and every single person by doing the right thing, acting good, getting married, growing up, being independent…etc…

2. It is the pressure of trying to prove yourself at your job, while surround by Arab male chauvinist. It is difficult as a female to try to keep yourself together and strong while deep down inside you are still a “woman”, this tender sweet creature of God – who’s supposed to be the man’s pillar not keep a guy on a leash!

3. We seek rights in life but when we do, we just sit down talking, more talking and gossiping about who did what with who and eventually, nothing is done, men never take us seriously – well, except Margaret Thatcher of course! O Hayfa Wahbi too!


4. I hate the fact that as women we get jealous from each other, no matter what we have as individuals these insecurities that drive us carzy.

5. We all want babies! No woman hates babies no matter how evil she is! We see a cute baby we go like: “ohhhh” and this results in running after guys and trapping them for marriage before the biological clock ticks its last seconds away. My solution, artificial insemination! Walla… if there’s no man involved and a woman has a baby, does that make her a slut!?

6. Women never seem to have enough of anything- in fact, the more we get the more we crave.

7. We can’t do good calculations and suck at financial issues!

8. We fear people’s opinion even if it doesn’t really exist, like smoking; Smoke in public o don’t go behind the 7oosh for a fag….

9. Why do we whine & complain a lot?!

10. We act like men but when we get one tiny negative comment we shed tears like a baby in a tantrum..

11. We wanna have high positions in life but when we get cramps, we automatically assume that it is ok to leave everything hanging till it’s over.

12. I hate the fact that we imitate men, as if they are doing good a9lan!


I dunoo… it just doesn’t feel right to be a woman right now; I think it’s my condition speaking!

Sometimes it is hard to come on here and write as I used to, since I feel many people know who I am. But something is on my mind and I need to vent. This morning I woke up as I have been waking up everyday, thinking life is good. I have a lot to be thankful for. And I do. I am much better off than many. But at the back of my head, I know there is something missing, and I have been ignoring it.

How do I know?  My Syrian taxi driver told me the score in Arabic and I understood!  On top of that, we passed the Iraqi Embassy which was causing a huge traffic jam on the way home.  At first, I thought it was some sort of war demonstration.  As we got closer, you could see sparklers and hear music.  Iraq won the final game 1-0 against Saudi Arabia.

I only heard of the score because I started Arabic lessons today.  Twice a week I’ll be taking classes that are a bit above my level, but I think after all the languages I’ve tried to learn, Arabic will be easy!

This would be my helmet...The upper one with the cute star, mako fayda "a girl's a girl" !

hubby and his brother encountering whale shark

in Kuwaiti water

مازلت معتزلة السياسة

:)

جـَـسّ الطبيب خافقي

 

وقال َ لي:

 

هل ها هنا الألم؟

 

قلت ُ له نعمْ

 

فـَشـَقّ بالمشرط جيب معطفي

 

وأخْرَج القلم!

 

هزّ الطبيب رأسهُ .. ومال َ وابتسَمْ .. وقال َ لي:

 

ليس سوى قلم

 

فقلت له ُ: لا يا سيّدي

 

هذا يد ٌ .. وفم

 

رصاصة ٌ .. ودَم

 

وتهمة ٌ سافرة ٌ .. تمشي بلا قدم !

أحمد مطر

Tarek Madkour is one of the most talanted music producers in the Arab world. And today, I would like to share a very nice mix of Tarek’s projects for different Arabic artists done by DJ Rami Mohsen.

[Download here]

Anyone else is getting pissed everyday more by this issue!? It is becoming ridiculous as I hear it on the radio, see moppeis and banners in the streets, newspapers, flyers on cars and houses!!!! It’s practically begging! How the hell are we supposed to shut off major appliances between 1 to 5!? Can we really live without AC, or leave the stuff to rot in the fridge?! Come onnnnnnnn, that ain’t gonna fix it! They take money from us for kahraba and then tell us to cut down use! Yalla 3aaad!


In Kuwait, one of the richest countries in the world, wheree we are supposed to have the money to deploy most advanced resources to have and conserve electricity, it’s a shame I think. Makes you wonder where the money goes!? *hides from “Q80 FBI”!

With this sun, we can substitute electricity using solar energy, if you were the minister, what would you do? What kind of bill would you issue to solve this isuue?

داخل/داخْلة القوري

وتقال عندما يكون الشخص في مزاج سيء جدا وضيق

الخلق وما تقدر تطلعه من المود اللي هو داخل فيه

واذا كان وايد متعسر نقول متقلقص بالقوري

المزاج قرنبيطي

وتقال عندما يكون المزاج متعكر جدا جدا جدا

وما يعدله اي شي

أرجنتيني

وتقال لما واحد في الشارع يلف عليك خوش

لفة ويعر عليك ويمكن يركبك الرصيف

او انت تسوي هاللفة الملقبة باللفة الارجنتينيه

وجاء اللقب من اللاعب الارجنتيني مارادونا

أمأس من

وتقال لما تبي تبين ان الشي شديد القبح

اوغير جيد او غير متقن

مأساة المآسي

المتمأسة

ولها نفس الاستخدام السابق لكن اكثر قوة في الوصف والتعبير

مالج / مالك موديل

وتقال للانسان او الشي اللي لا يوصف من عدم التناسق والتبهذل

وخير مثال الصورة اعلاه هذي ملكة اللي مالهم موديل

مديرة/مدير

المدراء المديرين

وتقال للي يتشيحط بمركزه العالي في الشغل وانه الكل في الكل

شنو عندكم كلمات مفصوحة مثل كلماتي؟؟

يا ليت تشاركوني فيها علشان نحطها في القاموس

ولو سمحتوا تحطون معاها الشرح

اللي يبين حق شنو نستخدمها

Everybody needs Oxygen .. I have a rigorous breathing instinct .. sometimes one can breath air, I breath u ! I have hectic thoughts nowadays .. confused, mixed with every single emotional collapse ! Some of my thoughts, I love you whatever you say .. whenever .. and always, can't explain it sometimes, never succeeded ... when I defeat the moment of silence with my words, also never stopped

I simply love Hashi!

Artistic Picture .. isn't it? wainik ya Idip?

The Stupidest Buplic Beach ever!!!

وبما إن الموضوع بحري بحت

Check this out

Link

ماعندي شغل وبسوي مثل سارا
Tag my self :P

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1. Grab your phone: O.K.


2. What kind is your phone: SE P990i

3. Who’s the first name that comes up under letter M: my friend mshari


4. Last person you called: My cousin ya3qoob

5. Last missed call: LOL my cousin ya3qoob :P

6. 2nd name that comes up under letter D: My aunt :P

7. Speed dial 2: ART customer services :P

8. 3rd name that comes up under J: ma 3ndee J :(

9. Last received call: my friend sa3ad

10. Speed dial 4: one of my friends

11. What does your banner say: !? :\

12. Number of text msgs: 35

13. Background: balance stones

14. Speed dial 1: bo 3li :P

15. 5th sms says: what do u want ??

16. First name that comes up under B: Federer my brother :P (he really looks like him!)

17. How many bars of signal do you have: full

18. Last text msg from: sa3ad

19.Name all the persons you have text msgs from: wow too much :\

20. 9th person on recent calls: .my father

21. 6th msg says: Okidoki

22. First name in phonebook: ART

23. Last name in phonebook: my cousin yousef

24. Do you have a camera phone: yup

25. Last name under G: my barber :P

26. Last text msg says: zain walla

27. Most text msgs sent to: my cousin Abdulkareem

28: Ring tone: Avril - When you're gone (aaaaaaa5 ya glbey :P)
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الي فاضي وماعنده شغل يسويها حق نفسه :P

I Love chicken, I love Chicken. I Love chicken
I love chicken , I love chicken . I love chicken, I love chicken
I love Chicken, I love Chicken, I love Chicken
I love Chicken , I love chicken, I love chicken
I love Chicken, I love chicken , I love chicken,
I LOvE CHICKEN! *drools*

chained out Originally uploaded by Darwin Bell 3oqad 3oqad 3oqad What's so secret about hiding an email? Especially when you deal in real? Wallah I thought they were exchanging visa numbers. What is it with some people who act freely online, while in real they pretend they don't even know you. How come some men don't greet you in public or, when they are with their wives? I don't

 

 

تعلمون أنه ما عندنا سينما محلية والفن محصور ما بين المسرحيات اوالمسلسلات، وفي بعض التجارب السينمائية لكن برأيي فاشلة ..

انزين تخيلو معاي هالسيناريو …

محاولة جادة في عرض فيلم كويتي في السينما، يتمتع بالخصائص الآتية:

١. قصة متميزة ليست متكررة فيها قيمة مضافة (اخلاقية، اجتماعية ..الخ)

٢. جودة انتاج عالية - من حركات الكاميرات الى الإضاءة والصوتيات .. الخ

٣. تميز في أداء الممثلين

وكان التنفيذ عالي المستوى، والممثلين كويتين ومو بالضرورة معروفين

هل تتوقعون عمل مثل هذا ينجح في السينما أو لأ ؟ وليش ؟

ودي اسمع رايكم بكل صراحة.

 

Check this site, it’s a classified list in Kuwait. Currently it has 4 sections, starting from Real estate, For Sale items, Jobs and ending with the Forums. It’s still new, but I’m sure it has potential.

You only need to setup an account and then your ready to post.

Update: as one of the posters mentioned, posting to urood doesn’t require to open an account. You can press the “post to urood” like and start putting on ads. - thanks Al-Mughrabi !

Link

Refugees International
Bulletin
Kuwait: State of Exclusion
July 25, 2007

The estimated number of bidun in Kuwait ranges from 90,000 to 130,000, less than half the number who resided in the country prior to Iraq’s invasion in 1990. Those who remain are subject to systematic discrimination and their future is uncertain.

Many bidun are descendants of Bedouin tribes such as the Shammar and Aneza that roamed freely across the borders of present day Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Iraq. Either because their ancestors failed to understand the importance of citizenship or, given their centuries-old nomadic way of life, demurred at the idea of belonging to any one country, or because they were living outside the city walls, in the desert or “badiya,” and often illiterate, they could not fur­nish adequate proof that they were settled in the country and were consequently classified as stateless.

Denied the right to register officially a birth, marriage, or death, bidun are relegated to a bureaucratic no man’s land. In Kuwait, nationality is deemed a matter relating to sover­eignty and by law courts can not review sovereign actions of the state. Accordingly, the bidun can not petition the courts to have their citizenship claims adjudicated. Their children are barred from free education in public school. They are not permitted to own property, register a vehicle, obtain a telephone line or purchase a SIM card for a cellular tele­phone. Healthcare offered free of charge to citizens is with­held from them. On driving licenses they are characterized as “illegal residents.” Their passports, grey in color and valid for five years, must be renewed after only one journey.

The majority of the bidun live in virtual exile, in squalid housing projects in Sulaibiya and Jahra, in Ahmadi and the rundown neighborhood of Jilib ash-Shuyukh. They are nev­ertheless indistinguishable from citizens and for years enjoyed the same services and privileges. They share a com­mon language and culture. It is common that families com­prise members who are citizens and others who are bidun.

Bidun once made up the bulk of the armed forces and police and served their country loyally. They believed that eventually the government would extend them citizenship. After 1985, however, the government took a number of punitive steps to disabuse them of this belief. Bidun were dismissed from their jobs, children were barred from public and private schools, and driving licenses were revoked. They could no longer carry passports (known as Article 17 passports) unless they left the country and renounced the right to return.

Following the liberation of the country from Iraqi occupation in 1991, the government stepped up its efforts to strip the bidun of their rights. They were fired en masse from posi­tions in the military and police, and only a small fraction was rehired. Those dismissed could not collect their sever­ance pay unless they produced a passport, either Kuwaiti or foreign, or left the country. Tens of thousands of bidun who had fled the country or were forced to the leave subsequently were not allowed to return.

With a foreign passport, bidun would have been able to obtain five-year residence permits like other guest workers. In desperation, many bidun bought counterfeit passports from countries such as Somalia, Yemen, Eritrea and the Dominican Republic. There have been instances when bidun traveling with forged documents were forcibly returned to Kuwait, and the country was compelled to admit them. There are now 15 bidun in prison awaiting deportation. They can not be deported, however, because no country will take them in, and so they languish in jail.
The country’s 1959 Nationality Law defined Kuwaiti nationals as persons who were settled in Kuwait prior to 1920 and who maintained their normal residence there until the date of the publication of the law. Approximately one third of the population was recognized as bone fide citizens, the founding families of the country. Another third was naturalized and
granted partial citizenship rights. The remaining third was classified as “bidun jinsiya.” The law has been amended 14 times since and with almost every amendment, it has become more restrictive. For example, the 1959 law (Article 3) granted citizenship to children of a Kuwaiti mother when at least one of four circumstances existed: the father was unknown, paternity could not be proven, the father’s nationality was unknown, or he was stateless. When amended in 1980, the mention of unknown nationality and stateless­ness was omitted.

Citizenship in Kuwait is passed on to children through their fathers, not their mothers. Consequently, the children of a Kuwaiti woman and a bidun husband are also bidun. A child of a divorced Kuwaiti woman or widow can acquire citizenship, so that there is an incentive for couples to divorce to guarantee their children’s future.

Several legal experts in Kuwait are of the opinion that the country’s nationality law is in need of revision. More liberal nationality laws of other Arab countries, such as Saudi Arabia, where long-time residents can apply for citizenship, limit the problem of statelessness. Laws in Algeria and Tunisia, which grant mothers the right to pass on their nationality to their children, could serve as models for revisions in Kuwait’s law.

In June 2000, the National Assembly passed a law requiring the bidun to register with the government to begin a pro­cess that would allow some of them to be documented as citizens. The last step in this process entails DNA testing to prove that family members are in fact blood relatives. Those who failed to register would be considered illegal residents at risk of being deported. Many bidun are able to demon­strate convincingly their families’ presence in the country for several generations, and their applications for citizen­ship deserve consideration.
Feelings of distress, frustration, resentment, disappoint­ment and anger among the bidun are palpable. An older generation of bidun, who once served or still do in the mili­tary and police force, are reluctant to protest their plight too strenuously. Their children however are more impatient. Unable to afford the cost of tuition, they are prevented from accessing higher education. Barred from employment in the public sector, they have to accept work that is poorly paid and intermittent. Many are reluctant to marry, because they can not support a family and fear that their children would face the same hardships. The suicide rate among bidun is reportedly high.

There is perhaps greater interest in the plight of Kuwait’s stateless now than there has been in many years. In July 2006 Kuwait’s parliament created a committee to address the issue of the bidun and earlier this year the parliament approved a law granting citizenship to 2,000. A list of those to be granted citizenship will be approved in October. In January, the Ministry of Interior announced that it would issue driving licenses to bidun. Loath to be identified as illegal residents, however, many if not most refuse to apply for one. More constructively, the government recently announced that 100 places in Kuwaiti universities would be designated for bidun. The bidun themselves and sympa­thetic citizens have formed a Popular Committee for Support of the Bidun.

There is general agreement in Kuwait that the humanitarian consequences of statelessness should be addressed imme­diately, leaving the contentious issue of citizenship rights to a later date. At the same time, however, many Kuwaitis acknowledge that the problems associated with statelessness will escalate. There is concern that young disenfranchised bidun may resort to crime, turn to alcohol and drugs, and subscribe to extremist ideologies. It would therefore be in the best interests of the state to find a just and equitable solution to the plight of the stateless sooner rather than later.

Refugees International Recommends:

The government of Kuwait:

• Immediately undertake transparent evaluation of unresolved bidun cases, with intent to grant citi­zenship for qualifying individuals and families.
• Revise nationality law to bring it into conformity with more progressive legislation in the region, particularly regarding the equal right of women to pass on nationality to children.
  Become signatory to the 1954 Convention relating to the status of stateless persons and the 1961 Convention on the prevention of statelessness.
• Amend law barring nationality from court jurisdic­tion to allow bidun access to due process.
  Provide all civil registry and social services equitably and without discrimination.
• Refrain from arresting or detaining stateless per­sons solely on the basis of their being stateless.
• Include tuition fees for children of bidun in the national budget.
  

United nations High commissioner for Refugees:

• Translate and publish its previously completed survey of bidun in Kuwait.
• Actively support government efforts to end state­lessness in Kuwait.
  

United nations Human Rights Bodies:

• Appoint a special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Kuwait and address the issue in the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.
• Establish presence in Kuwait to assess and recom­mend resolution to the bidun situation.
  

Senior Advocate Maureen Lynch and Patrick Barbieri just returned from a two-week assessment of the situation of bidun in Kuwait

Contacts:
Maureen Lynch and Patrick Barbieri
1705 N Street, NW Washington, DC 20036
phone: [202] 828–0110 facsimile:
[202] 828–0819
e-mail: ri@refintl.org
www.refugeesinternational.org

my sleeping pattern is a complete mess but i really don't mind .. what i mind is this:
i was in bed 4:00pm someone keeps calling me .. i check the screen barely able to open my eyes and the light flashing in my face .. the caller is someone .. i don't know whats the relation title should be (supposed to be a friend - someone i know - an old woman i met - annoying person been trying to ditch)
so u pick! coz its all of the above .. long story bottom line is shes a a woman in her maybe late 40s or early 50s got kids and all .. got to know me apparently to help her out with shopping for her daughters ... or something else im still not sure .. very very annoying and never takes no for an answer. so i simply decide to press the silent button .. she calls again and again an again 5 missed calls all in like two mins!! so i start to worry thinking maybe its an emergency and i unfortunately pick up!

me: hellooo -very sleepy voice-
her: ooowww ur asleep when did u wake up
me: the phone was ringing and it woke me up.
her: ok i just wanted to ask .. where do u get ur fancy wedding dresses from?
-so i pause and think, theres no way I'm gonna say i got any of them from Kuwait coz shell want to drag me there with her.
me: well my recent dresses are from Italy and London nothing from Kuwait.
her: oh really!! well what can i do i need dresses for my daughter shes invited to a wedding and she needs to find something real quick and i like nothing here in Kuwait.
me: i have no idea im afraid i cant help ..
her: ok is it ok if i drop by today just to see ur clothes! I'm just gonna come to take a look thats all!
me: :S -wtf-
her: is it ok??
me: so u want to take a look at my clothes?
her: yess just a quick look ..
me: yeah sure 5alty 7ayach .. -weirdo-

i hang up go back to sleep was around 4:15 in ten minutes the bell is ringing :S my brother knocks the door and says "theres a woman with her daughter waiting for u outside"
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i jump out of the bed freshin up real quick wear what ever i found lying there on the couch pulled my hair up and went to her she was waiting for me in the living room!!

i say hi .. ask her if she needs something to drink she says no thanks I'm fasting!! -fasting and got here in 10 mins! wow!

anyways ill try and make it short some how .. as soon as we sit she asks where are ur dresses??
so i get up .. pissed as hell and ask her to wait.

i go to my closet room, and i start looking at my precious dresses all of them innocently hanging in there! who's gonna be the victim .. so i had to choose .. four dresses at least just to shut her up.. all so nice sleek and simple .. didn't want to give away anything special :p
but all my babies are special :`( anyways i go there
and then she starts examining them:

her: hmmmmm .. is this what u wear?!
me: yes
her: they're soooo simple!! they're soo plain nothing on them!
me: yes that's my style i like keeping it simple.
her: well they don't even show that their designers clothes!
me: well i don't like that either.
her: ok. -totally didn't like them-
me: -YES!- plan worked!

then she says : ok then go get me a big bag so i can take them with me...
me: @@ take them!!! u want to take them??
her: yes .. my daughter will need to see them so that she could choose what she likes best.
me: -look at her daughter- ok which one do u like best?
her daughter: oh no ... im not invited to the wedding its my other sister. shes back home.
me: -!!! omg - so u want all four?
her: yes all four .. shell just want to take alook at them, if she liked any of them i might do the same design for her :S
me: so u will take the design ..
i look down with nothing in mind to say i was speechless .. its too late now. so i walk to my room again and get the dress bags .. i put them all in and give her the bags. she then looks up with a smile on her face and says:

her: what about ur daywear .. whats the latest fashion what have u been wearing?
me: :S -is she fucking kidding me- what do u mean?
her: u know what do u wear when u go out? i want to see.
me: i don't wear anything special all casual and simple really .. some are sport .. nothing special.
her: yes yes bring them i want to see.
me: theres nothing to see .. I've been going with comfortable look lately all H&M style summer clothes plain and simple .. nothing worth showing.
her: ok .. its ok i just want to see ..

i then walk in again and look at my precious closet! i again took the simplest plainest thing i had! like long tank tops .. plaaaain plaaain cotton stuff .. again they were four pieces all the same design.

i come out and show her ... she of course frowned .. since the person i know she exaggerates with her clothes usually.

her: omg ... they're all the same! and they're very very plain!!! soo simple!! nothing really..
me: yes i told u ..
her: i remember i saw u in many occasions wearing very special beautiful designs .. where are they?
me: :s - quick quick think of something - well i don't have them anymore i gave them away
her: u gave them away!!
me: every year i recycle my closet and give away clothes to the poor and some to the maids .. so i don't have what ur talking about.
her: hmmmmm .. ok fine .. ill take these too .. just bring another bag.
me: @@ u want to take them too!! u just said u didn't like them!
her: no its fine .. im sure theyy look nice if worn. and dont worry by tomorrow this time i will send the driver over he will return all ur clothes back!

-F*CK- OK ,,,

so defeated i march in put all in bag and give it to her! she takes them and leave ...
i felt .. violated!! lol i don't know how to describe it .. but someone just came in woke me up took my clothes .. insulted my sense of fashion and took my clothes and left! not to mention lied to me bout the just take a look part!

so there u go .. best part of the story its been FIVE days so far and no driver came over to drop them! i called her three times so far her mobile is always switched off! AND someone else i know said something about her .. having a new tailor and that she plans to have an exhibition in her place!!! so now everything makes sense.
she needed designs to sell .. and i came to mind.

anyways i felt like i needed to share this incident .. since i don't know why these kinda awkward stuff keep happening to moi!

miss u all hope everyone is well.. tip of the day .. keep ur closets locked and when someone asks just say u lost the key :p

Isn't it cute!!

My brother and I took turns taking pictures and videos as this experience may never ever happen again

And because we had so much fun, we decided to go diving in the same place the next day too

It is strange how a fish that large is not only harmless but curious and playfull, the Whale Shark kept on swimming next to us for a very long time.

We finally decided to just ignore it and swim away... Now I am really regretting leaving it

Bye Bye

NO SHISHA CAMPAIGN !!!

Alright that was inspired by almost everyone around me .. I hate this thing and what it might do to you all .. at first people started out with smoking everyone was smoking .. okay for a while I admit I thought it was cool .. but then I hated it .. it could kill you literally ! my uncle had a heart attack once ; doctor told him he need to quit or he is dead man ooo he did he is better man now .. he used to smell funny whenever I hugged him , his lips were all dark and pale .. now he is all healthy ! wala !!

A while ago everyone started out their shisha obsession , my brother came home with a shisha and I was like GOD !! not you !!! he used to hate the smell of a cigarette and now he is an expert in both !! like father like son .. dady is a heavy smoker … tried to talk him outta of it since ever but he never listened !! a doctor once told him he need to quit right away .. he did good smoking only one cigarette a day but he got worst and started all over again .. I guess old habits die hard ! my uncle , my other uncle , my cousins they are all into shisha and smoking all together as a pack dammit ! when ever I started talking to them about it they goo YAP YAP YAP BLAH BLAH BLAH !!! I was like okay okay keeefkoom .. then even at work !!! people would smoke right in front of my face and blow their YUCKY GROSSY filthy smoke into my face to inhale it !! eww !! I had this fight with a friend of mine for umm maybe a whole week just cuz she never listen to me .. I was only worried about her its really bad for her , and then my brother had fight with him cuz he never stopped shisha .. will he promised he will stop but whenever he comes back home I hug him and I instantly find out he was shishing ! when it comes to dad I can tell by only holding his hands cuz it always smells like burned something ! everything you guys touch is damn smelly !!!!!!!!!!!!! even the can of water !!! I’m not bluffing !! ooo when I find this place I never thought I’ll face the same problem bs obviously there is SHISHA everywhere ! bloggers are shishaholic !! eee eee .. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE !! I suddenly get the shisha is cool kinda thing .. well guess what shisha is not cool and its even worst than cigarette and its killing you .. don’t give me the anything would kill me kinda talk cuz we all know better … so enough with this … NO MORE SHISHA MFHOOOOM !!!

Plz :D

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شباب بسوي استفتاء .. منو يشوف انه البنات هالايام بالكليه وايد يخزون ؟؟؟ ويتساسرون ؟؟
لوول
ومادري شيسوون ؟؟
وشغلات غريبه تصير وايد ؟؟ منو غيري ؟؟؟
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وليش ؟؟؟ واشحقه ؟؟ هل لانه شعري مو ممشطه الصبح وله سحابي ناسي اسكره ؟؟
:d لوووووووووووول
الصراحه مادري قامو يحسسوني اني توم كروز وله جاك بطل تايتانيك لوووووووووووول
هالكثر حلو يعني ؟؟ وله شالقصه ؟؟؟

If you think you are buying a toothbrush for your kids, think again... a toothbrush is defined by the brushes not by the grips, then why they make grips like this?

now i will show you some toothbrushes that are sold here in kuwait and that more than half of people i know here in kuwait are using it for other purposes :P

i know alot of you will be shoked, but hey, its way better then the real thing :P


the anal teaser




the clit vibrator




the g spot teaser




and last but not least, there are more than these kinds and in different sizes too.

I just spend my weekend at Kempinski Resort in Julai’a .. I will summarize my experience in bullet points Tanning Jet Skis DJ and Dancing at the pool ( boys and girls ) Lesbians Girls smoking Davidoffs and Sheesha Girls wearing Bikinis ( kuwaities ) Guys wearing speedos ( sleebat , and also kuwaities )  Teenagers with spiky hair , acting all cool Humidity