Well Thabit who brought you everything to do with sheep is back for the 2nd season.
This season is officially called “The Thabit Show” and his first episode is about maslaha (using people).
I personally met Thabit (an honor) in Dubai and I must say this guy is a natural comedian. It’s good to know that his hair is still attached :p.
When I read this article today, I wasn’t really surprised. Wasta will always be part of our life. I would like to look at what the Minister of Health said in the article.
I always hated our governmental hospitals, always hated their systems, many of their doctors. Losing my mother last year fed this hatred even more thanks to the lovely MOH. My mother was denied treatment abroad because “her treatment is available here”. Of course we tried more than once and at the end we were told to find a wasta. Secondly when my mother was in her death bed, we wanted her to rest alone because she was in pain. Of course we needed wasta to get her own room. Both we couldn’t get because “we didn’t have the wasta”. Finally, the doctor who treated her for her final year and messed up everything is mainly who I blame in the death of my mother. A reason why I stopped believing that a Dr before your name really means anything.
The problem we do have good doctors, our problem is with the facilites and system. When I go into a doctors room while he is using his iPhone. It’s not the doctors fault, it who hired him.
Now let me cover some of what the Minister Said
25 MPs stopped him from firing a doctor who did a medical wrong doing
First, why don’t you say the name of these 25 MPs? let the people know who they are. Let the people know that they have voted for the wrong people. Let the people know you are honest at your work. Corruption is not about money only, corruption can be not giving what people deserve, or being paid your salary when you are not going to work. We know there are bad MPs and these MPs should be exposed.
Segregating Kuwaitis and Expats in Hospitals
He said if this will help then he will do it. Now I can tell Kuwaitis do not blame anyone calling us racist and show offs. Sadly, doctors made an oath when they entered the medical school. The Oath goes something like this:
• I solemnly pledge myself to consecrate my life to the service of humanity;
• I will give to my teachers the respect and gratitude which is their due;
• I will practice my profession with conscience and dignity;
• The health of my patient will be my first consideration;
• I will respect the secrets which are confided in me;
• I will maintain by all the means in my power, the honour and the noble traditions of the medical profession;
• My colleagues will be my brothers and sisters;
• I will not permit considerations of religion, nationality, race, gender, politics, socioeconomic standing, or sexual orientation to intervene between my duty and my patient;
• I will maintain the utmost respect for human life; even under threat, I will not use my medical knowledge contrary to the laws of humanity;
• I make these promises solemnly, freely and upon my honour.[6]
Notice the point in red? Ah yes…So Doctor, where did your Oath go?
If this happens, we will be officially racist and I hope that Kuwaiti doctors stand up to this.
Every Minister Is Corrupt
He said that people will call anyone in the government corrupt. I do agree with him, this is something wrong and sadly we label any government minister as corrupt (of course without any proof). Sadly this thinking has been fed to us that governments are the demons. That our problem.
Health is one of the most important aspects of any countries life. If this fails, everything else fails. We have the worst systems and we live in denial. I have seen the worst when it comes to the hospitals and healthcare. I hope this gets fixed soon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwPIXheX_8I
Chris just released the video from his hand cam and Go Pro on Youtube. See the jump from his point of view.
This one is by BelMokhba Team.
Camp Arifijan At It again
Do you know that Harlem Shake videos are still in the top charts on Youtube?
Well I guess the Harlem shake trend is going on, I found out two more videos shot in Kuwait. One by TJC Films and the other by a friend of mine. Enjoy.
It has been 22 years since the invasion ended and this invasion has showed us how people change and not the country.
In the documentary above (in Arabic), people who witnessed the invasion personally talked about different things they did and felt during that period. I wouldn’t believe anyone except the people who were in Kuwait and witnessed all the torture to our land. I wouldn’t believe anyone was more patriotic than the ones who felt the invasion during that time.
See our patriotism now is where to travel during the national day holidays. Where should we spend time having fun not remembering what others went through to bring back the Kuwait we know now.
One thing we forgot is how Kuwaitis got close during that period inside Kuwait. Regardless what your background was, the invasion changed people and it let out the true patriotism that we do not see anymore.
With the political situation we are in right now, we live in a “masked” patriotism where we believe we are right and everyone else is wrong. Where we accuse a whole family of corruption and wrong doings because one member committed a crime. Where we stick to our sect and tribe and family and be hypocrites that we are against discrimination. We attack the ones who accuse people falsely, yet we accuse others without proof. We shout and shout and keep shouting, not finding better civilised/legal ways to end a problem. We stick to people just because they are on my side in one point, yet with all the other points they would walk all over you.
Yes, Kuwaitis love and togetherness was at it best during the invasion. While it got worse in the years after that. In celebration of the 22nd year of the liberation, the question is: Do we need another invasion to bring us all back together?
Well I had the oppertunity to pass by the Blackberry Z10 launch event before travelling. I didn’t have the opportunity to check it out except two days ago.
As I am not a Blackberry expert and I really wanted to compare it with previous blackberries. As I know that the Z10 is a big jump from older versions. I had requested from my friend Bu3amra to help me with this review as he is more of a BB expert.
Hardware:
• Front looks good
• Back looks and feels so cheap. It lost the bb luxury touch, where previous top line models had ! Like the back leather chromy parts and the carbon fibre
• Speakers are great, loud and nice sounds
• Screen colours are good
• Battery is fine
• Very loud headphones as usual on BB
• The swipe upwards gets annoying by time. The sleep and wake buttons are more than enough.
• By default it uses 4 Gb out of the 16 GB built in. At the same time it supports up to 64 Gb memory card.
The Camera:
• Great camera
• Amazing built in photo editor
• Brilliant flash for night pics
Apps:
• Still lacks the main apps like Instagram ad Whatsapp
• Maps keeps saying your country map is not available yet
• Typing -wide enough- easy to type and the auto correct is very smart
• Emailing and attachments are very straight forward
• App store apps double or even triple the prices you find on the apple app store
• Love the built-in weather app
• Too much hand geatures to remember
• Screen Shot is finally built in instead of an app (click the volume up and down together at the same time)
BlackBerry Messenger:
• Easy to use
• Contact list interface changed to a gallery like interface
• Broadcast you can only select one-by-one. There is no option to select all
• Recent updates can’t be deleted. Used to have the option to delete in older versions
Overall we rated the Blackberry Z10 7/10. It does need some future updates to fixes some of the issues above.
