100 Days

My hundredth day in Kuwait.

Jogging

Jogging - People does it for fitness.But I...

I spend my evening at the track near by my camp. Its the only entertainment I have till date in Kuwait. Its always been a pleasure to jog in that track. I see new things every moment. I hear Arabi, Filipino, Malayalam, Hindhi, Urudu, Bengali, Telugu, kannada and some do speak Tamil and rarely people speaking English. I mostly see aged people of more than 30 years of age and 1 r 2 young ladies and few couples with their kids.

pic taken in winter season

In evenings, even after 1700 hrs it feels like being near a hot oven, that much of heat radiation is there from the desert sand. I never felt the flow of air along side. Only thing which I could see are the buildings on one side and the desert on the other side.

Satellite Pic of Abu Halifa Walking Street. Right side Buildings, Left side Desert.

Even in this environment I feel happy as I jog. The reason is the perfume that the joggers use. When I cross them, I feel the fragrance of some people whom I could remember. Some fragrance remembers me my brother and some fragrance remembers me my cousins. I get a feel that they are with me, walking by my side, crossing me, smiling at me, speaking to some one else, making new friends. I forget all the sorrows and feel better and get a confidence to face THE DAY NEXT with courage and with this feel I spend the evening hrs with the fragrance in my nose, monologues in my heart and joyful tears in my eyes.
Happy Evening...........................

Motta Rice

 I bought 10 Kg rice bag yesterday and drived home happily as I bought it in a good deal for 2.5 KD. Today morning I switched on the electric cooker and started my routine. I was happy that am going to have home made food for lunch for the first time and with that happiness I finished of things and came with the lunch box cleaned to pack up. To my surprise I found some thing went wrong in cooking procedure. I was frightened for a while on looking at the cooked rice. It was much much bigger like a house fly. Later I checked the rice bag and found out that I bought Kerala rice (Motta). Now donno what to do....? Every time I look at it, its scaring me....  With great difficulty I ate it with Butter Milk.

There are two basic types of rice available in Kuwait, Basmathi (Bariq) & Motta. Motta rice looks like ration rice.. like butter beans... Have to check carefully before buying. 

Chicken Curry

Today is Friday. I utilise this day to prepare food for the coming week. Todays menu is Chicken Gravy. I call it to be chicken gravy as its my preparation and I ve to name it. I got good feed back from my mates for my earlier preparations, So I thought I can post it as some one else who wants to give it a try can have their hands on and here its goes.

Requirements

Tomato, Onion, Garlic, Ginger, Coconut, Green Chilly, Chicken Drumstick, Chicken Masala, Curry Leaves, Mustard.

 

Preparation

 



 Chopped Onion, Chilly, Tomato, Coconut Milk, Ginger Garlic Paste, Chicken Skinless.

 Cooking

Two things I missed out in the requirement. Add salt and water as per your requirement. Keep in Low flame after 3 minutes and close with the lid. You make gravy are curry, all it depends on the amount of water you add to the preparation.

Dont bother about the quantity and the end result. Just put your hands on and you can master. Its not a big deal, Its only a matter of  need. Try This recipe and leave your comments.

Happy Cooking.

Fahaheel

Fahaheel a place that can be related to a city. A shopping destination for ppl of near by area like Mangaf, AbuHalifa, Ahmadi, Wafra, Sanaya. There is a mall called Ajial with cinescape that shows movies of different language.

http://webserver2.kncc.com/theaters.php .

Fahaheel

Al Manshar Rotana



Hotel at Fahaheel which is a part of shopping and entertainment complex

http://www.rotana.com/rotanahotelandresorts/kuwait/fahaheel/almansharrotana

Apart from these there is Centre Point, Lulu Hyper, Gulf Mart, Grand Hyper & Al Kout Mall. Al Kout has a fish market in it where you can get fresh fish.

http://www.alkoutmall.com/promotions/

Vegetation In Kuwait

Have been to Wafra which is in Kuwait Saudi border. Happy to see Kuwaits vegetation. Its the only green area, I saw in Google Maps. None of the natives works in farm I saw all foreign nationalities.

Ladys Finger Cultivation. U can c black tube structures on the ground which are used for water irrigation.

Its a farm in Wafra. U get Cabbage, Potato and some fruits.

Connectivity

One might have heard of net calls from their relations living in foreign, as I also heard from my uncle who is in Dubai. Whenever he contacts us over phone, we will be able to speak with some difficulty as there will be no proper connectivity. There will be a delay in relay of speech and we will have to repeat the same a number of times and atlast we get tierd of foreign calls and neglect attending the call. I had a thought that its an ISD call and so it happens to be like that and I never asked him about this as I also had a thought that they spent lot to make a call and why to ask useless things and it remaind a mystery. The Mystery solved when I came to Kuwait and here is the snapshot of one such net calls application. I use this (1 leg call) to make calls to India. Call rates are cheaper as its 0.004 KD/ Min. For this u need a Wifi or a 3G connection. 3G packages in Zain network is cheapest and costs 5.000 KD/ Gb/ Month. If you speak on poor conectivity you will have the same experience as I had above. To make a local call in Kuwait it costs 0.050 KD/ Min. You have net call centres also where u can pay 0.010 KD/ Min to India and charges varies for different countries.

For further details about net call. follow the link http://1legcall.wordpress.com/

The Avenues

I have been to The Avenues in Fifth Ring Road. Its one of the largest shopping mall in Kuwait.

There is a cineplex in The Avenues.

Atrium 1

U get Arabs stuffs here. Other nationals dont get these stuffs they only window shop.

I was tierd of shopping and found a place to sit, and was looking around The Mall. As my imaginations grew wilder & the richness of The Mall, took me to The Pandora :). Then some thing distracted me and I felt like I added some weight on my back and turn around immediately and found a Kuwaiti lady leaning on my back. I stood and hurried in search of the other place to sit, I was embrassed a bit and I found one and  rested there. There also came two kuwaiti ladys and sat comfortably close to me. Then I realised these ppl doesnt have courtesy and I sat with them for a while gazing at their kajal work, smelling their perfume, listening to their conversation and I get noticed by ppl around me.

Accident vehicles in Police Station

These are the vehicles met with accidents and are taken by the local police for clearance. I wonder how come insurance companys makes profit with this madness. It will be funny to see these vehicles as how can one get a hit like this but theres also a sad part that many r fatal.