I noticed this Mercedes parked in the middle of the cloverleaf interchange between the 5th Ring Road and the 55. It’s been there for about a week now!

Could this be a new long term parking spot? Or maybe we are just running out of ways to decorate the highway interchanges of Kuwait.

While driving around Ahmadi the other day, I suddenly realized that all the lamp posts were paired. Looks like they are putting up new lamp posts. Probably easier than just changing the bulb!

Yes, the title is a little misleading. But I had to!
I was at the Sultan Center parking lot around 4pm yesterday and happened to park right next to this Prado. The guy left his “kid” in there all alone for about half an hour! I guess no one cared, since this “kid” was a little goat.

It was amusing to watch it jump between the front and rear seats and “baah baah” away to glory.

Personally, I would be more concerned about droppings on the drivers seat!

I wonder how Al Mulla would feel, if I stuck a big ugly calendar on their front door! Probably a calendar from one of the other exchange companies.

It’s bad enough that every supermarket and restaurant in Kuwait throws their promotional catalogs on my door mat. Now, Al Mulla took the liberty to stick this big ugly 2012 calendar on every door in my building! I’m guessing they did this in every building in Salmiya.

And why would I need a calendar on my front door? I could use it to share my availability, appointments and other important dates with all those people who dump their catalogs on my door mat!

The new road extension on the 50 just before the 5th ring road exit is nice. But someone got real confused while putting up the road signs. The ones on the left indicate you can turn right to exit and the ones on the right indicate that you can turn left to join the 50. However, there is no right hand exit and you need to drive down to the 4th ring road before you can exist anywhere.

I kept driving down the 50 assuming I’d get an exit to the 5th, but it never happened. And it seems I wasn’t the only one. So as we all kept driving down but all the exits from the 4th to the 2nd had traffic jams with what looked like people who missed the 5th ring road!

Anyway, was a nice long drive home.

I saw these boxes lying around in a corridor at the office. Seems someone from the Metal and Recycling Company came by the office and dumped these 6 recycling  cartons. They are part of a New Air program from that company. Hope we start using them soon.

I guess there is a huge scope for recycling in Kuwait with the amount of plastic and metal garbage that goes out. Maybe should should provide these bins on every floor in residential areas.

I came across this cost of living graph on Kuwait and the expenditure on Restaurants really sticks out. 33% on eating out!!! I tell most people there are only two things to do in Kuwait… shopping and eating. Now there is graph to go with that.

In Dajeej, you can test drive sofa’s too. Don’t just sit on it in our showroom. Take it on the road and go for a spin.

I was on my way home around 4 and the funny sight of this sofa unit lying there in the middle of the road took my mind of my growling and very hungry stomach. Either some guy forgot to load that onto the back of his truck or the chaps in that area are  preparing for a road side Iftar party later in the evening!

Recently I’ve noticed that a lot of trucks leave 1 door open while driving down the highways. This includes container trucks. And not all of them are empty. Any idea if this is some new rule? Or does it get too hot in there during summer?

Check out this documentary by AlJazeera on the Sharks of Kuwait. I didn’t think there were many, at least not any big ones that could real do damage.