Eleven must-do whacky things for an expat before leaving Q8
1) Insist on doing daily school runs for your kids and all of their friends in a humvee stretch limo, dressed as a muhajabah babe .
2) Flirt with the traffic police ( if you are female) as you wait your turn at the lights.
3) Go on a hunger strike in front of the NA to protest against a blanket ban on all good books, red wine , Western music concerts and world cinema in Kuwait.
4) Make passionate love to your partner, al fresco in what remains of Souk Mubarakiya.
5)Ask your friendly neighborhood Islamist for directionss to the nearest underground fire temple or synagogue in Kuwait.
6) Organize unregulated workforce in Kuwait into labour unions on the lines of Kuwait Airways Workers union.
7) Fly Kuwait Airways, at least once in your life, to experience first hand what others mean by 'SABENA' ( Such A Bloody Experience Never Again).
8)Gate crash in on the merriment and all the fun activities happening at Camp Doha over the weekend :)
9) Bungee jump from Arraya or Dar Al Awadi towers after lunch or dinner at Ashas.
10) Walk your Great Dane at Getty Beach at 4 in the morning
11) Move base to Dubai, create a blog from there whose only raison d' etre is to bitch about life in the Emirates and how great it used to be living in Kuwait. Either that, or fly in to Kuwait on weekends and public holidays as atonement for exiting Kuwait.
posted by Men Who Do Cleavages at 12:58 pm
10 Comments:
This will only spite people. What you want to do is to leave behind a foot print in the sands of Kuwait; something to make them remember you by and of the time you spent with them.
For starters, how about inviting your neighbors most of whom you've only ever seen through a peep hole, for coffee and cigars full stop. Or inquire after your caretaker and his family or even,just a warm cheery hello to your own or your neighbor's maid. It's always the small little things that will matter in the long run.
And another thing - I wouldn't dare rub a muhajabah babe the wrong way - well, some of them are...err, muhajabah dudes in disguise, if you know what I mean. You can expect a pasting almost as a knee jerk response. I remember going to school in the 80s and having a muhajabah babe for a bus driver although I always knew somewhere beneath that veil was an osteoporotic man at the wheels.
The rest, I suppose, are practical tips which most of us could use when our time is come.
Mubarakiyya??? You'd totally get arrested!
Ho-ho-ho :
I agree - every once in a while you have to let your hair down and do something totally out of character( wild albeit imaginative).
I remember my mathematician friend who used to like people watching alot at the Scientific Centre Corniche after hours; one fine day deciding to chat up Western johns and their mostly, Filipino Lolitas there and inviting them over for a night cap to pop the question that's on everybody's mind : Is it lust or just plain lust? The fun thing is you don't need to be an expat to try this out. Kuwaitis can also participate.
Pants!! You r having a laugh. Embracing your own spouse in the public domain is still not acceptable here; it is very very "Dubai," for mass consumption in Q8.
It's re-assuring you only speak of what to do with your own partner and not with someone else's partner, which could spell several serious there-afters.
Kuwait being Kuwait, all luxury goods over here have to be ridiculously over- priced.
You might find then an innovative tack to follow when out shopping for that emerald necklace at Romulus & Remus, Al Fanar - threaten to take off your kit in store, unless they offer you a whopping 79% off the marked price. Or you could just threaten to take your custom to the neighboring Tiffany & CO.but that would be so vanilla that you don't want others thinking you are a wimp.
I thank y'all for your sage inputs but the piece that really took the cake for me was this filly who wrote in to say she once applied for a personal loan with a local bank to help finance her expensive sartorial tastes in Villa Moda and Al Ostoura clothes.
You know you are in Kuwait when you start to see high ranking officials put their hands together after playing of the national anthem. I think that's kind of quirky and must definitely be tried out once in step with local tradition.
Do Great-danes survive in Kuwait? I have a huge liking for them!
I've flied with Kuwait airways (and feel semi-honored to do that)
ROFL @ Camp Doha! If Doha is entertaining compared to Kuwait, Kuwait must be pretty boring!
Joel : Ahlan wa sahlan!People in Q8 are huge on man's best friend -the dog. Before I left Kuwait for Iran there used to be several air conditioned kennels for Great Danes in the country. Also, the PAWS movement is pretty vocal here.
Qatari cat : Welcome back once more. Camp Doha isn't at all boring : you only need to know the right people. As for Kuwait being boring there are those who think the party scene here rivals that of Ibiza.
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