Summer Season

woof fooo haa,,,,,
This pic I have taken from Mitsubishi Nativa. Temperature it shows 60. Min Max temperature ranges from 55 - 38.
This is how summer? is in Kuwait.
My vehice A/c sucks. All Nissan & Toyota Prado has good A/c in it.
Summer made pupil lazy and slowd down things.
Summer has also brought in major changes in work timings.
Some start early at 0300 - 1200, some at 0700 - 1500, some at 1700 to 0200.
All it depends on the nature of work like Open Site, Office, Workshop.

Summer... it some how affected pupil's day to day activities like, you cannot wash your hands during day time as water is so so SO HOT.... The horrible thing is, when you get a nature's call in the noon, you go mad at the end :) this is where toilet papers goes handy :) Hot water at times gives a burning sensation, you better forget washing your face for a while. If you missed your nature's call in the early morning then better not to make a call later. :)

Sand Storm

1,500 people hospitalized during the weekend sandstorm on 6/5/2012

At least 1,500 people needed medical attention for respiratory complications during the sandstorm that hit Kuwait Saturday and Sunday, According to the statistics collected from hospitals and polyclinics around the state, at least 1,500 people came to various hospitals and clinics across the country for medical help during the sandstorm that hit Kuwait Saturday and Sunday. Local daily reported quoting Dr Shujaa Al-Enizy, director of the Rashid Center for Allergies, that 414 patients stopped by on Sunday alone, compared to only 120 during the sandstorm on Thursday. All these patients suffer from chronic respiratory diseases who came for treatment for complications as a result of the bad weather, Al-Enizy added.

Read more at http://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowArticle.aspx?ID=17903&SECTION=0#ixzz1xIPSKm8w

Expats Opinion

Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it! Kuwait is also not different. The opening line of an article made me read it. The article is a promotion of a book written by a French woman Samah Oueslati titled “Why did I choose Kuwait..." I dint read that book as I have to pay for it but I read the comments for the article and I thought of posting it. Comments are both positive and negative some are bit rude. Its all about individuals, either like are dislike. Do read the comments and get some ideas.

 http://www.indiansinkuwait.com/ShowLifestyle.aspx?ID=16385&SECTION=31

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...........................

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/