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Come Back!

Law n’ Order Man! EnviroGirl! Come back! Come to Kuwait! We’ll make it worth your while!

Actually, in Kuwait, “coming soon” does not actually mean coming soon. There was a restaurant “coming soon” at The Palms, and we waited. And waited. The sign was up for months, and the restaurant never came!

We’ve heard there is also a Borders Books coming to The Avenues Mall – but we aren’t holding our breaths!

April 22, 2008 Posted by | Community, Cross Cultural, Eating Out, ExPat Life, Family Issues, Health Issues, Humor, Kuwait, Living Conditions, Marketing, Shopping | 14 Comments

Hold Your Calls, Save Your Life

Actually – not a bad slogan. Pithy, personal, memorable.

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Found this in yesterday’s Kuwait Times. Was it also in the Arabic language newspapers? Doesn’t say anything about the fine . . . . the newspaper announcement leads us to believe they are serious. The fine of 5KD (about $20) remains laughable. Nonetheless – if you use a mobile phone while driving, you will become a CRIMINAL after May 1! šŸ˜‰

No one is going to hate this law more than AdventureMan. Sometimes he calls me when he is driving just to see if I will hang up on him. He tries to talk me into talking with him. I have always said I don’t want to hear his last words being “Oh ____!”

April 4, 2008 Posted by | Bureaucracy, Community, Crime, Entertainment, ExPat Life, Financial Issues, Health Issues, Humor, Living Conditions, Marketing, Social Issues | 11 Comments

Spam Comments

Before you go any further, this comment which I found in SPAM is a “fund-raising” SCAM. I am only printing it as an example of some of the “Nigerian” scams out there – this is a new one for me, clearly targeting Muslims. It is hard for me to believe that people act on these letters, and find themselves out of their life savings.

The moral: if it seems to good to be true, it IS too good to be true. Don’t let greed blind you. This is a SCAM:

Dear Sir,

I’m Ali Ahmed, from Gambia West Africa,I want to explain my problem to you as Muslim father.My biological father name is Mohamed Ahmed,my father was born in a christian home,but my father and I find Islamic religion as the only true religion,and my father and I started practising Islam for good two years before my father relatives poison him because he changed to Islam.Now they after me,trying by all means to terminate my life,so that they will wipe Islamic religion in the family, As am writing to you my life is in danger,I can no longer go to my fathers compound,I cannot move freely in the street because their running behind me, My father was a successfully international business man, he trade on mineral resurces all over Africa.My father deposited 20,000 000 Million united state dollars to the national security company Gambia,of which I am the next of kin.All the documents both the depositing certificate is in my possession, Pleas sir, I want you in the name of Allah to help me come to your country and invest this money. May Allah Bless you, You can call me through this number

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Thanks
Yours faithfuly
Ali Ahmed

March 29, 2008 Posted by | Africa, Blogging, Crime, Fund Raising, Lies, Marketing, Social Issues | 7 Comments

Packaging

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Look closely at these Reindeer. The chocolate ones look a lot like Easter Bunnies to me, if fact, I am betting they are pretty much the same except for the wrapping.

March 19, 2008 Posted by | Arts & Handicrafts, Easter, Humor, Marketing | 7 Comments