Kuwait Church

The Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Doggie Style

A dustbin at the Kuwait Zoo.

Villas in Kuwait

As I had mentioned in an old post, each villa belongs to just one family.
I wonder why the middle villa has those 3 huge funnels? Must have thought of creating a replica of the famous water tankers.

* Clicked whilst driving 100kms per hour!

Ikea

Needs no explaination. It's huge on the outside and inside.

Those men n their machines

Summer's upon us and those cool dudes and their mean machines are out on the roads.

Vive La Kuwait

The flags are out for Kuwait's National Day (Feb. 25th) and Liberation Day (from Iraq) (Feb. 26th). All the streets are decorated with the National flag and buildings, trees, lamp posts and even many homes have fancy lights on them. Public holidays, so it's a loooooong weekend for us. (Wed., Thur, Fri, Sat.) VIVE LA KUWAIT!

PIFSS underground parking

This is one part of the underground parking of the Public Institution for Social Security. On the right side of the wall you can see 63" Plasma telivisions. On the left and ahead on the right you can see the sliding walking path. Just stand and arrive! The parking has a Basement 2, Basement 1, Ground, First floor, Second Floor and Third floor. The way to the parking (underground) is really beautiful. (Solar energy is used for the lights)

http://www.pifss.gov.kw/

The base of the tower

This is the base of the Ministry of Communications tower, a picture of which I had posted previously.

Link (Please Right Click and "Open Link in new Tab or Window".)

Ol' brown eyes!

(The Blue Monkey at the Kuwait Zoo)
Beautiful, beautiful brown eyes; I'll never love blue eyes no moreeeeeeeeee!

Dust storm

Bad dust storm today. They left us an hour early at the office. Yippeee!

I clicked this pic from my 1st floor balcony at 2:45 p.m. Will try and click the same view another day, same time when it's clearer.

This a way, that a way!

How `bout dancing with the wolves?

India's national bird

The male is called a peacock, the female a peahen. The male peacock flares out its feathers when it is trying to get the female's attention. They are omnivorous and eat ticks, termites, ants, locusts, mice, plant parts, flower petals, seed heads, scorpions and other arthropods, reptiles, and amphibians.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacock

My long lost brother

It was a sentimental reunion!

Kuwait Zoo entrance

It was a pleasant morning!

Round Door

Loved that door! Cesare Paciotti luxury brand for shoes, bags, belts, eyewear, jewels.

Just a street

This is the pic of a street in a place called Abu Halifa. Abu means "Dad", so I guess that means Father of Halifa.

The Number Game

New design car plates have been introduced in Kuwait and these old ones were lying outside the Hawally Office (where we go to transfer our cars to a new owner or renew the car papers yearly after it has been passed by the inspectors.)

Peeping Toms??

Unfortunately, I was not in Kuwait and so couldn't add pics. Thank you all for your comments and best wishes.

These are the window cleaners outside my 9th floor office window. Not a job for you if you have Vertigo.

... And not related to the window cleaners, here's my poppet, all of 5 months old!


She's as cute as her Maama! Really! ;-)

The reason for my absence.

Welcome to this world Baby Olivia Dulcett, born on Jan 10th. I hope to get back to blogging, in serious, some time in April. Miss you all!

New Building

This is the building you can see from the other side of the Plane Bridge that I had posted on Jan 9th. Kerri thought it's the air traffic controller building :-). It's just a building with shops on the ground floor and offices above.

Port Building

The Shuwaikh Sea Port building. Although it was just 4:30 p.m., it was getting dark pretty fast. Had to cut short our walk as it started raining too. The rainy season in Kuwait is December, January and February.

Goodbye old building

Many buildings in the city are being demolished to make way for new, fancy sky scrapers. This is one building I chanced upon. Can still see clothes drying in a couple of flats which means the entire building is not empty yet.

Plane Bridge

On my way to work, there's this footbridge that looks like the body of an airplane. (Stretched airplane) :-) Looks that way to me atleast. What do you think?

Sale

I didn't see a single customer in the shop!!

Kd.20

Kuwait's money is the Kuwaiti Dinar. (KD). The small change is called, "Fils". (Pronounced, "Fills".) Notes come in denominations of Quarter Kd., Half Kd., One Kd., Five Kd., 10 Kd. and 20 Kd.

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Kd.1 = US$3.66 / GBP 1.86 / Indian Rs. 144

Kuwait is one of the few major capital-exporting countries. i.e. The State has more income at its disposal than it spends, and this surplus money is invested overseas or lent to the international banking sector. (Source : National Economics Encyclopedia)

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My Kuwaiti friend tells me that there is no restriction to the amount of money you bring into Kuwait or take out (even if it's filled in suitcases!!!) Before you try it, please check with official authorities!

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Yes! Yes! We do get our money's worth in Kuwait!!!

Dinner anyone?

It surprised me that a fancy restaurant would advertise with such a basic lamp post ad.

No barbacue

A sign at the beach which states, "No barbacueing". Doesn't stop people from doing it though!

Bread Talk

Bread talk has different types of flavoured bread ... cinnamon, sesame, mango etc. It also sells pastries, cakes, donuts etc. The building houses mostly Westerners and there's 24 hour strict security for this building.

So close

A close-up of one of the spheres of the Kuwait Tower.

Wishing you all a Very Happy & Blessed New Year.

Kuwait Scene

Here's another painting done on a box like room. I had posted one before in October. My Kuwaiti friend tells me, these indeed house Electricity Metres. Like the water dispensers of Kuwait, these paintings too are a standard feature in Kuwait.

Ship at sea

This is the place we go to for our evening walk. It's near the Shuwaikh Port. Chanced upon a cargo ship passing by and clicked a pic with my cousins cell phone.

Learn English

Arabic is the national language and most Arabs don't speak English very well. The Government too works in Arabic. Many offer English learning classes to Arabs and people of all communities who want to learn English.

At the Petrol Pump

Stopped to fill Petrol/Gas. Rarely will you find pumps that are too crowded. Petrol is 0.60 fils per litre. That comes to US$. 0.219 / UK GBP 0.109 / Indian Rs.8.70. Yup! It's pretty cheap in the land of black gold!

Chicken Shop

This is the outside of the Chicken Shop that I had posted yesterday.

Chicken & Duck

The Chicken seller was delighted when I requested he pose for the pic. I also saw a lonely duck among the chickens.

Happy B'day, Baby Jesus

This is the crib of the Holy Family Cathedral, Kuwait.
Happy Christmas to you and your loved ones.

Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday, dear Baby Jesus,
Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Christmas ~ 2007

HAPPY CHRISTMAS, ALL MY ONLINE FRIENDS


Baby Nikita, enjoying her first Christmas Eve

Happy Eid Al-Adhaa

We have 6 days holidays for Eid Al-Adhaa. In India, we call this Eid the, "Bakri Eid", literally meaning, "Goat Eid".

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Celebrated yesterday in Kuwait, this Eid is for the memory of prophet Ibrahim (Abraham to the Christians) who, for the love of God, was willing to sacrifice his son when a voice from heaven stopped him and permitted him to sacrifice a ram instead.

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The feast re-enacts Ibrahim's obedience by sacrificing, usually sheep, but also camels, cows, and goats. The family eats about a third of the meal and donates the rest to the poor.

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Needless to say, Mutton costs a BOMB this week!

Fruit Sellers

This is a summer photograph. Fruit sellers selling mangoes from India in the city. If they see cops coming, they pack up in record time and disappear. This photograph wasn't clicked by me. It was clicked by a visiting consultant in the office. (I've forgotten his name!) If you, Mr. Kuwait-Visitor-who's-name-I-have-forgotten sees this, please email me and I'll credit you for the pic.