* Underwears & Advertisements

I saw this picture while looking for some Bermuda Shorts.

I found these pictures interesting because at first i coudnt understand what was wrong in these pictures.....


I misunderstood his head to be a Swollen Scrotum/Hydrocele.....lol

Its an Advt for mens underwear/designs.......
Cool ideas to promote a product !

*Chocolate & Tea

How many of you enjoy eating Bounty? Thats my fav one from Childhood...

I still remember my dad buying those for me (when i was a kid) and my mom (my mom likes them too). i'm growing older dady by day but i think i can never stop eating chocolates!

So, today i just posted a pic of Bounty & my cup of tea.

* Ferrari Taxi in Southern India

Ferrari car running as a Taxi !!!! for a 5-star Hotel in Trivandrum , Kerala.

Look at the development that the State "KERALA" has achieved.
People in this world admire to have a ride on the Ferrari and see what India drives as a taxi in its state.

Indians, be proud …..
Note: In Kerala taxis must have Yellow number plates as per the motor vehicle act rules on all 4 sides of the vehicle.
(These pics are real ones)

* Innocent Farting

Today evening i was @ the Lulu Hypermarket when i noticed some naughty arab kids playing around in the apparel section upstairs.I was busy looking for some T-shits when a LAD just came behind me and gave it a LOUD fart..........geez oh my god gosh shit crap!!!!
and he then just yelled "yubbaaa.........yubbaaaaaaa!" and ran away.....

I saw some girls standing near by looking around in amazement and then laughing at the top of their lungs. They must have assumed it was me becz those kids were no where to be seen once they played their prank on me!

For a moment i wished i went invisible and just went down to HELL!!
I guess those kids ate too much of BEANS last night !

How do i explain it wasnt me ????

* Highway of Death

I have always wanted to see the Highway of Death in Kuwait.

I know its to the far end of Kuwait & near Basra (Iraq). I have always seen haunting pictures of dead/corroded vehicles over the internet. This road#80 was destroyed by the American attacks using aristrikes on Feb 26th 1991 when around 2000 iraqi people/soldiers were trying to flee kuwait.This place looks like a graveyard of civilian vehicles. I even checked the exact location of this place via google map.

Does anyone know how many people died during this war?

Thank God i was home in my country with my beloved ones.

I was a kid then and didnt think much about whats going on in this part of the world......

But i love Kuwait no mater what because this country has given me everything. I always dreamt to come back to Kuwait in those days......we had left back our apartment and all our belongings and travelled back to our country when this country became unstable & unsafe............i feel sorry for the disaster that happened here. i feel sorry i had to leave my beloved Kuwait when it was in trouble.........i was just a kid and didnt know whts happening.

Kuwait is a land of dream come true.......It has never dissapointed anyone......any expatriate who comes here with a dream to make money returns back happily. Our family was here in the early 70's onwards. I still remember the site of small roads and the construction work of bridges in Kuwait on my way to school. Kuwait had small houses and there were lots of Bedouin in the desert walking along with their cattle..........i still recall those old days....

We are all thankfull to the Kuwaiti people here and the Royal ruling family of Kuwait to be kind enough to let us live here.

I rememeber the Kuwait National Anthem which we heard everyday at school. I can still sing it without a mistake...

Kuwait, we are all proud of u to come back to ur glory even though u had the toughest part in ur history!

Over & all

...........i was born here !

* ego between Colleagues

i always hate my superior indian colleagues @ my office.


thats because they have a feeling that they are some kinda mighty power once they complete 2 years of service. They join the company as innocent human beings, but later on turn out to stab some one from behind. They even act superior and intelligent and they start commanding & taking over everyone. They never take anyone's word and consider themselves 'All Mighty'. They always boast about their strong relationship/connections with the bigger bosses

I remember what my dad's big boss (Mr.Alghanim) once told him :-

According to Mr.A, he feels an organization/company is like an Army

All staffs are its soldiers.

and all Soldiers are catagorized as

Front Soldiers (such as Managers, Engineers...etc)

Backward Soldiers (such as Supervisors, Secretaries, Clerks, Accountants, Sales Staff, ....etc)

The front soldiers might be the performers and might achieve the targets but they are never complete unless they have the proper support from the backward soldiers. I am saying this becz i work in my organization as a Backward soldier and long back i have had a tough time with an Engineer. Thank God he equit his job and went away.......becz its always survival of the fittest and i'm not gonna give up so easily......you hurt me & i'm gonna kick ur butt !

i'm writing this becz today i saw one of our young Engineer(working here for 2 years) rulling over our secretary (she's been working here for 15 years). His words were rude and i came to know abt this when i saw her sad. I wish she could fight back like i always do........Dont mess with me becz i got nothing to lose!

This post of today is for all the superior bosses who read my blog to know that if we (backward soldiers) wish, we can get you on ur knees.........so just back off! You big guys will have a day when ur bigger boss is gonna make u pee!
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Why we hate working for Indian bosses?........
There are a host of reasons why many professionals like to work for western bosses instead of Indian ones. Some of the reasons are perception based and some of the reasons definitely have some truth in them. Indian bosses tend to loose out big time when it comes to comparison of work style and work place culture followed by their western counterparts.Here are some reasons which are apparent in work places when the two are compared: Indian bosses like to monitor progress minute by minute. This may be because they lack confidence on the person executing the work. For an employee; it can be quite frustrating to have someone looking over your shoulder every minute. Little do Indian bosses realize that this reduces productivity by a large extent and can be discouraging for employees. Apart from that, constant hand holding or supervision also does not create thinkers or leaders. Western bosses on the other hand, give ample room and freedom for the person to perform and even make errors. It is from these errors that they expect the person to learn valuable lessons. This significant difference seems to come from the difference in cultures and is very noticeable in the work space. Western bosses tend to praise employees regularly whereas Indian chiefs are often miserly in their encouraging words. Somewhere there is concern that if you praise an employee too much, he might expect an increase in his pay package or get over-confident. Maybe there is little or no truth in this statement, but westerners are usually open about their praise irrespective of the status you belong to within the company. Apart from that, Western bosses tend to give credit where due. If a sub-ordinate has done a good job, the Western boss will give credit to him or her in front of the team and in front of senior management whereas the Indian counterpart might end up hogging all the limelight in this borrowed glory. An American or European boss has most likely seen a higher standard of working habits and will try and get that in his team. An Indian boss may not be familiar with a higher standard to make it common place in his environment. Setting standard by example is also something which westerners are more familiar with. Westerns do not resolve to emotional leadership, rather their responses are usually based on facts. Indian bosses tend to get far more emotional in the work space and sometimes may not react very rationally. An emotional boss is good for motivating and getting his team to perform, but display of too many emotions at the work place can result in mixed reaction from employees. Westerners are used to following all instructions in the booklet whereas Indian bosses tend to bend the rules to suit their requirements. This sets a poor example in front of the employees and also encourages them to be disorderly in circumstances. As employees, you are never sure of which way you are going with the boss! Indian bosses also tend to play favorites in the work space and promote an employee as they think fit. Western bosses tend not to play favorites or at least portray the impression that they don’t and that is another reason why employees would prefer working with them rather than their Indian counterparts. There might be still a number of reasons why Western bosses are better than Indian ones but there is no denying the fact that Westerners are preferred over Indian bosses and it will be a long time before that can be changed.

* 99.7 RK FM - DJ LINDA

i have been a regular listerer to the 99.7 RK FM.
I usually hear her over the air while driving to my office. She's a positive charged person who just gives us all a nice time when we are in traffic jams. She even informs Kuwait if any perticular road has a road accident/block. Sometimes she brings up the smallest thing that touched her heart...........i have always felt as if something like that has happened in my life too.....She's doing a good job every morning and i have always felt her manly husky laugh is very interesting.

I also like the weather guy "Hani" thought sometimes i feel Linda calls him 'honey'........She even asks him about the weather forecast for 1 week ahead sometimes lol......i really feel funny when he gets confused or gets out of words....

If ever u are reading this linda, i just wannted to say 'keep up the good work'

* Ganamela @ Kuwait

Today i had to go to my office at 10am even though it was a Friday OFFDAY. My boss had called me yesterday evening and asked me to prepare some documents (Points to discuss) for his meeting at Sharjah on Sunday.I was there in my office today morning at 10am for about 2 hours digging out the old files from 2004 to 2005 to track some important papers for him. I dropped those papers at his home and drove back all the way home. On my way i was thinking of the big smile of my boss and his words "vinz, u are the best" wasnt he just pampering me.

While driving my stomach gave me small cramps which meant its hungry......So,on my way back i decided to have Chicken Biryani for lunch. So i went to my fav small mallu hotel at Abbasiya (I have always enjoyed their spicy recipes and the warm hospitality extended). While munching on the chicken thighs i over heard someone's conversation about a Ganamela at the Marina Hall @ the Touristic Park.

So, after lunch i thought of sneaking into the Hall to see if i could get a glimpse of the artists. To my surprise the whole parking lot was tightly packed and the only place i got to park was the pavement.It was really hard to park my small sedan car on the pavement but i did it all for the sake of the Ganamela.....

This show was organized as an ONAM show for the Gulf Malayalees here.

Good news:

• The enterence was free
• It seems there was also an Onam sadhya...but i didnt wana check on that.
• The security guy at the door was nice to me.......maybe he could read my mind.He just let me in and said in a Bengladeshi hindi "Andhar jayiyee Bhai"

This Ganamela was organized by the Saradhi Group-Kuwait. The Hall was thickly crowded and as soon as i entered i saw Jyotsana & Biju Narayan singing (Famous Playback malayalee singers). To my surprise i never expected such a function or never even heard about this program from anywhere/anyone (not even from my office where most of the issues/topics are discussed)......

i really enjoyed the Ganamela and the small comedy skits by Sajan Palluruthy & Abbi (Aminathatha fame).The orchestra guys were superb.....i laughed a lot today....the comedy skits were genuine, i enjoyed my day, i forgot that i was in Kuwait.......today my heart & soul travelled 10 years backward.........to those days i was in my college......the days i went out late night on my motorbike to watched those latenight Ganamela's/mimicri/movies at theatres.

In between the Ganamela, the crowd got so uncontrolable that i had to quit watching this show and run back home. While i was there, i was slightly wheezing & sweating heavily. The whole hall was hot like an oven....seems the A/C couldnt keep the hall cool any longer...the whole crowd was dancing when Biju Narayanan sang the song from FANAA (Chandsifarish.....). Thats my fav hindi song.........i had this song in my head for maybe 6 months after this movie got released.In those days i saw this movie twice from Kuwait (Metro Theatre Farwaniya)......oww........that song is in my head again.......i cant stop humming it.....

I felt pity for the committee guys with those big round badges on their shirt..they were helpless when the crowd got exited after each & every song.....luckily there were no fights but i could smell the local alcohol everywhere(white label arrack = Vattu Charayam specially brewed in Q8)........i guess majority of guys were boozed........

This Friday was a very special day as it gave me a nostalgic feeling......
i enjoyed the Ganamela....
and YES i saw Jyotsna & Biju Narayanan.......
that was a big surprise.
& luckily i got no traffic violation tickets for parking on the payment today.

i am now home and exhausted. I took a shower and had my dinner, watched tv for about 3 hours and now i'm in front of my computer blogging & browsing for another 3 hours.......
i think i'm feeling sleepy...
ow yes i am.........i'm yawning.....that was a big one....
hahaha.........i wana sleep...
good night cyberspace !

* i am sick

i have this damn cold from yesterday. i have a running nose and its all red......

i am not in a mood to write on my blog today......so i spent the whole time looking/reading other blogs.....

i havent been in a good mood these days......

i'm a lil depressed from Saturday night

i'm not happy with the way things are going in my life.

sometimes when i feel that everything is under control there arises a problem/issue to stumble up my whole effort to keep things in balance.

I wish i had 20 fingers when i'm typing this........i feel lazy!

i'm not working today,
just sipping my coffee and browsing the whole day.

* My Grandma

I saw Grandma in my dreamz........

Is that an omen telling me that she's sick??? She's now 82 years old and she's thin and feeble.

In my dreamz i saw her making me my fav (rice payasam) poridge. When we were kids i always told my Grandma to make payasam as it was my fav dish (i always wanted her to make it becz her recipe was amazingly delicious).

i'll call her today evening and talk to her.....ow i miss her a lot!



Rice payasam recipe :-

Ingredients:Rice - 1/2 cup; soaked in water for 10 minutes

Milk - 2 cups

Coconut milk - 1/2 cup

Jaggery - 1 cup or added more to taste

Raisins - 1 tablespoon

Cashewnuts - 10

Pistachio nuts - 1 tablespoon

Cardamoms pods - 8, powdered

Ghee - 1 tablespoon


Method:

Bring the milk and coconut extract to boil. Add the soaked rice and cook it over low heat until rice is cooked very well and is mushy. Add the jaggery and mix it thoroughly. After the jaggery dissolves, allow the payasam to simmer for 5 minutes and remove from the heat. Fry the cashew nuts, pistachios, and raisins separately in the ghee and add these along with the cardamom powder to the payasam.

Serve lukewarm or cold. Enjoy!

* Falafel Sandwich

I started my day after calling my 'uhca' and then returned home.

I woke up at 10am (dont u think i woke up late?) I had my breakfast at around 12pm (oats+milk and a glass of black tea). Today's lunch was very simple (Iranian bread & dhaal fry). i watched tv the whole day and in between i kept reading a lot of blogs. I kept looking for the small kitten and its mom that lived in our corridor.I then asked our harris (watchman) and then came to know that some one conplained abt it and he had to get the kitten & its mom out of the building. I wonder how the mother & child would survive as it was so friendly. i felt sad and kept looking on the streets on my way to the Bakala to buy some Bounty(my fav chocolate).Yeah, u might feel i'm still a kid to eat candies but in fact i cant stop eating them and recently have started gaining more weight.

I have been thinking over to switch to a strict vegetarian diet and avoid over eating.I even thought of going to a gym to reduce the excess weight i have gained but i fear my neck pain would get worse by doing so.

I just went for a evening walk and returned home with some falafel sandwich. It looks yummy and smells good.

So, nothing much has been done today.......i was very very lazy and didnt even get the car cleaned (its like a dirty pig today). Maybe i'll get it cleaned tomorrow morning on my way to office, but will i wake up early????? now thats a question !!

* Tonight i'm going to bed with so many thougths

Today i spent a lot of time in the evening to chat to 'uhca', it seems google had problem and kept constantly saying 'unable to continue chatting'. In between I was running around in the Bakkala's for a dialup card to hook up to the internet.Atlast i found it from a shop beside the co-operative store nearby. Luckily i bought the last card he had.........

Weekend is coming (Fri/Sat), havent planned anything on what to do. The weather seems to be quite pleasant for an outing/picnic. But i gotta wait till 'uhca' comes to Q8, so this weather wont wait that long. Maybe next year i would be planning to go outing or maybe to the Wafra farm which belongs to my boss.
i've got lots of ideas in my small head but sometimes i go totally memory blank. Maybe becz i think/overload my small brains more than it could afford to. Or could be that i'm not younger anymore & its the symptom. (my Back/neckpain is there as usual & its time for me to go to bed). i'm just waiting for my soft curvical neck collar to arrive via mail. i'm expecting it anytime to reach me.

It seems recently my orkut ID gave me a lot of my old classmates. They contacted me via emails/phonecalls. I just got 10 years younger when i talked to them/read their emails.

Tonight i'm going to bed with so many thougths.......my school days in Salmiya, my college days of 1999 in NSS College, my life in kuwait.....my life before the Gulf War-1, after Gulf War-2, my life at present, whats for tomorrow..........who knows! But i'm more comfortable in this Country eventhough i know its not my motherland.....is it becz i lived here for 25years of my life??

Today evening Dad/Mom reached our home after visiting my sis 'vimz' and 'uhca' has also reached home after a long gap. 'uhca' sounds sick today, maybe its her cold or was it becz 'uhca's missing me?? i'm sure 'uhca's dissapointed becz the chat coudnt be continued today becz of the online problemz. The first thing in the morning tomorrow is to call 'uhca'......after all i have built a dream castle for 'uhca'

i guess its time to go to bed now.....oops i'm already late, the room is colder than yesterday. Today it seems the weather outside isnt anylonger hot at night so the A/C makes my room chill....

My things to do list for tomorrow:-
1) Get my clothes from Laundry : 8am
2) Call 'uhca'
3) Check out the Car horn/loose connection.
4) Visit my dad's friend and spend some time with him.
5) Watch all the movies possible on TV.
6) Sleep sleep and damage my brain cells to the extreme
7) Eat the mutton machboos (i've already cooked it in the evening today)

* my mind & heart kept travelling miles & miles from me.....

i'm still awake @ this time, dont know why but i cant make up myself to go to bed. i gotta go to work @ 7am in the morning.

i thought of looking out of my bedroom window......
Kuwait is calm & quite now. Hardly any cars speeding on the road....
There's a poor Bengali guy again digging in the trash @ this time.Thats a normal site to see here in Kuwait. After all he cant live with KD 18/-month.

I feel sad for him/them.......

Let me close my eyes and take a deep breath and try to sleep......I hope my neck pain doesnt bother me tonight.

Good night to everyone there in this cyberspace.......

* i see u wherever i go..........

I see you wherever i go.........
I know i'll see you soon.....maybe very soon

i'm couting my days to be with you....hope you are somewhere reading this.

* my 1st post

Today morning i woke up with my regular neck pain. I looked out of my window to see if Kuwait was dusty today,but the weather turned out to be pretty good and the soft cold wind touched my face.

On my way to my office i wonder what the traffic would be like.......
But i knew i have a great day ahead :)
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I somehow ended up building up my new blog http://kuwaitdreamz.blogspot.com
Long back I had quit blogging on my earlier forum/blog becz i felt i was out of words to write.....
This blog will be on all my thoughts and feelings.....I have no intention to hurt anyone while writing this blog. This is just going to be a diary on my experiences, observations, feelings, attitudes, etc.
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