Came back to Kuwait around 20:30 last night. Really quick drive on the way back from bridge to border took us 2 and a half hours then it was a 40 minute ride to Kuwait City. I am still reeling from the trip, my brain was just broken today. Going to work I missed 4 exits. The traffic and turns just got to me. I was so used to just driving straight on without any cars around for so long it took me a while to adjust to Kuwait traffic.
The The Gulf Run was a great success. There were some little problems, but everyone came thru to help each other and work it out.
But it rained last night around 2-3am. Pretty hard in some areas, thats why everything is sparkling today.
Officially everyone is back in Kuwait now from their Eid holidays traffic today is just over the top. If people just flowed correctly and didn’t use the emergency lane!
I was thinknig of getting my camera and going to one of the bridges and take pictures of people violating the emergecy lane for their own purpose and just give it to the cops to fine them. If they can give tickets to people who speed via radar cameras I am sure they are able for this one.
Serisouly it is just disrespectful and causes more traffic on the road and there needs to be a fix.
Officially everyone is back in Kuwait now from their Eid holidays traffic today is just over the top. If people just flowed correctly and didn’t use the emergency lane!
I was thinknig of getting my camera and going to one of the bridges and take pictures of people violating the emergecy lane for their own purpose and just give it to the cops to fine them. If they can give tickets to people who speed via radar cameras I am sure they are able for this one.
Serisouly it is just disrespectful and causes more traffic on the road and there needs to be a fix.
Today is the most schizophrenic day for people who have to work.
I am sure most of us have seen or heard about Amazing Race coming to Kuwait. I have just seen it and it is pretty entertaining to watch in terms of the competion and drama going on and it is sight seeing in Kuwait. Some of the locations I could easily pick out some other I had a general idea where they were but not exactly.
Luckily Jaunted has created a Google Map with the locations and some pictures from the episode. Once you see it in the map and imagine some of those people who got lost and were really driving around in circles! They drove all around Kuwait.
Got an SMS last night needing blood donation so headed to blood bank in Jabriya. Took me like 30 minutes just to move down Tunis St. Those traffic lights are a mess and the people are idiots with their blocking traffic lights.
This is the second time I give blood, last time was in March 10 2005 and even then I said I would make a it a reoccuring thing.
Barrack and other Sony Ericsson retailers in Kuwait are currently charging 10kd for bad Arabic support on your P990i and M600 phones, when all they are doing it copying over some Window fonts and that you can do it at home for FREE.
So after reading this post change the system font for P990/M600 to find out where to place the fonts folder in the memory card like how it was on UIQ2/P910i.
You just take took the Tahoma.ttf font from Windows Fonts directory (or just search for tahoma.ttg) and copy it 4 times and then rename each file to:
Sans-Serif_Latin-Regular.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Italic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-BoldItalic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Bold.TTF
Then placed them in your memory card under the directory of Resource/Fonts (You may have to create it).
Restart
Tada
This will give you the ability to read Arabic. The only problem is that you lose Bold and Italic font styles and the font is bigger in the system.
It isn’t a perfect fix, but a quick one till I can find a font that has the 4 font styles and Arabic structure in it.
I been having this crazy craving for black coffee even since I been back from Bahrain. It is really strange. It really been bothering my brain and functions. It started on Saturday morning with just a little tinge when I saw the coffee pot at home. I was thinking “oh I’ll take a thermos cup of it with me so I can drink on the way to work”. Then of course I totally forgot with the push and rush to get to work and decided to brew me a pot when I get to work, and of course work takes over and I totally forget. Which led me to feel really angst and really out of it.
Then Sunday it started the same thing with me totally forgetting to get a cup when leaving to work and not making one at work, but I did go to Coffee Bean and get a mocha latte there, but that really didn’t work. It quieted the urge a bit, but didn’t quiet hit it.
This led to an icky headache that lasted most of the day, even with the Casper’s X-Presso Yourself in the afternoon didn’t even get close to that craving, and just made my head ache almost worse.
Even now at 2am I am thinking about it, my mouth is even salivating at the thought of it. I know if I go down to the kitchen and brew me a pot I might as well just shoot myself in the head rather than turn to a zombie tomorrow. Also it isn’t what I want. The more I been thinking about it the more I been wanting a certain type of coffee. It has to be either from the airport Cinnabon with their Seattle Best Coffee, or from Johnny Rockets.
Luckily my schedule tomorrow will have in Salmiya area where I can my coffee fix.
I found this article from Arab Times from July 22nd where the Energy Minister states
No cuts in power, water supply during August, say Minister
Scan of the page
