Tuesday, September 21, 2004

A Tourist Story

Today's Al-Qabas has a stomach-turning feature about a hapless foreign visitor who arrived in Kuwait, and by a cruel twist of fate took a wrong turn somewhere in his taxi and ended up in the uncharted depths of Khaitan. The online version of the article only has the hysterical dialogue with the taxi driver, but for a "pictorial" version you have to see it in the paper itself.

A tragic situation in one of the world's richest countries!

12 comments:

  1. any brave soul out there care to translate? sadly my arabic is stuck at a second grade level

    example:
    ذهب احمد الئ البيت

    that took about 3 minutes to write so you can imagine how long it would tak me to read, let alone translate the article. you would think in a country as advanced as q8, we would have the websites in both arabic AND english...

    ReplyDelete
  2. OK i am very upset at this narration, even if it maybe fictional- it is very possible, and perhaps i will upset more people today. First, i want to call for the Emir to dissolve Parliament. The STD packed MPs are too busy fiddling with their testicles while waiting in Ministers' offices to blackmail them into employing their entire tribe or neighborhood in that given Ministry. I see them as traitors, simply. They have made a business out of their citizenship. And yes, I AM generalizing on purpose. The rich blue blooded MP is getting richer, and the minority MPs are very much in the lead of that road. Nigerian politicians look like virgins next to ours, and i am disgusted.

    Don't get me wrong, i am very proud of our quasi democracy, but i do believe it is doing us more harm than good. I do not need to prove my point, the evidence is all around you. The only advantage we have as citizens of our system in effect, is that we have damn good papers that portray things as they are most of the time (ie freedom of press), however this right was not given to us by MPs! So away with the leeches! I personally would rather see a solid government where intellectuals are not embarrassed to be called upon to be Ministers and where change can actually take place to the better, than a bunch of illiterate embiciles plundering my country.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Mishu, it's an Arabic newspaper with an Arabic website. If they do an English version of the website then they might as well start an English newspaper too, right? See if someone around you can read it out loud to you. It'll be worth it!

    Sheba, where is Khaitan's MP in all this? Thats what I want to know!

    ReplyDelete
  4. sadly there is no one around to read it to me, so i did the unthinkable: i read it to myself. Now what i understood is that the driver just took him to Khai6an and drove around and told him somehting about tomatoes that were made in kuwait and then they say some power lines and then after something about the cops, the passenger chocked the driver and demanded to be taken to the airport? am i anywhere near waht happend or was it a total miss?

    ReplyDelete
  5. You got parts of it, but there's more. There has to be somebody around to read it to you, unless you're not even in Kuwait or an Arab country..

    ReplyDelete
  6. I've just read it,it is so funny :)
    should we blame Khe6an or the taxi driver?! LOL

    ReplyDelete
  7. FCM, the pictures in Al-Qabas are what moved me to post this story. Again, the question is where is Khaitan's MP in all this? And what about his millionaire predecessor, the "engineer" brother of the "iqama merchant"??

    ReplyDelete
  8. Mishu, you lucky $%&@!!! Plenty of Arabs in Miami ;-)

    ReplyDelete
  9. Jambino, I live and grew up on the 4th ring road so I'm immune to its horrors

    And it's the engineer's SISTER who traded in iqamas/residencies!!

    ReplyDelete
  10. Jambino... come on, man.. get your blog up and running already. I'm sure you have lots to say, and quite eloquently too!

    ReplyDelete
  11. Well it's there isn't it? I even posted a comment on it. So come on, get cracking!!

    ReplyDelete

Keep it clean, people!