Road Scenes: Lamborghini Towed

At the 5th Ring Road 

Parking Issues Part 2

I talked about some parking issues in my previous post. Later in the same day, we went to X-Cite in The Avenues to buy Cianna's Wii. I chose to park at the basement next to IKEA because it's nearer X-Cite. That time, even the parking areas reserved for families were full so I just parked on the side of the driveway, like the other cars did. Anyway, we won't be staying for long or so I thought.

When we came back just a few minutes later, we found this:

The mall guard manning the parking areas put No Parking Stickers on my car *hides head in shame* and all other cars in front of me..Thank goodness that it was the mall guard only. Had it happened somewhere else, I could be holding a yellow parking ticket already and shaking my head with regrets..

Moral of the story: PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH..

Road Scenes: Parking Issues

I was at the Dai'ya Coop area the other day when I noticed this Jeep parked in the middle of the parking entrance/exit. As a result, cars going in and out had to drive around it. Now if you'd notice the white markings next to the two cars on the left, that's supposed to be the end of the demarcation lines. Ridiculous huh?

What's more ridiculous is when another car came in a few minutes later and parked next to it.

Ridiculous because just a few steps away is a large open parking area with a lot of vacant spaces! Tsk tsk, sometimes I really can't understand the mentality of these people.

SUV burns near Champions Gym, Jabriya

After lunch today, while driving along 4th Ring Road on my way back to the office, I saw a thick, black smoke rising from the direction of Champions Gym in Jabriya. There’s a good number of people already gathered at the overpass and around the area. While cars in front of me were all slowing down to have a look, I turned my phone camera on and start shooting towards the direction...As my car moved closer to the scene, I saw this black SUV (not sure if it was a GMC or Chevrolet) in the middle of the road with its front end already engulfed in flame..I often see burnt cars here and there but that was my first time to actually see a car still on fire..I don't know what may have caused the car to burn but that was quite a scary sight..


UPDATE:


After work, I passed by the same road to see what happened to the vehicle (a GMC Envoy). It was already towed to the side of the road. I took some pictures, here:

I'm sure I saw firefighters in the video but I guess the fire might have burned this car up too fast before they can even do something about it.

Kuwait's Numbers Game

Kuwait is changing numbers...

First they changed the Car Plate numbers.

from


to this:




now they're changing the phone numbers..actually they already did, effective last 17th October:

All COMMERCIAL/SERVICE NUMBERS ( beginning with 8 eg. 801801, 811811) will add "1" before the number., so that will be 1-801-801, 1-811-811 etc.

All landlines will add "2" before the number, eg. 2421234 will be 2-2421234.

All Wataniya ( mobile network) will add "6" to their existing numbers, thats 6-666-1234.

and

All MTC-Zain ( my mobile network) will add "9" before the number..so my number will now become 9-938xxxx...weeeeeeeee!..

I got a ticket..damn!!

I got a ticket driving on a ONE-WAY STREET!..damn...for as long as I can remember, I've been driving on the same street everyday..just a small portion of a street leading to the Expressway.. It used to be a two-way street, but thanks ( or no thanks) to a newly constructed street, they decided to make this one way..



I've been aware of the signs ( NO ENTRY) posted at the beginning of the street but nobody seems to care about that anyway. I am not the only one using that short way out...I used to think the No Entry signs is in effect only during School Days (this is a common practice here) because there's a lot of schools around the area..

But luck is not on my side today..tsk tsk..I was happily driving down the street to the tune of BREATHLESS and lo and behold..as I turn the corner, there it was, a police mobile parked right there, waiting for unsuspecting and clueless drivers like me..I can only shake my head...phew!

Now I have to wait for a week or 10 days to go to the Traffic Dept and pay my penalties, which I just learned, was now raised to a whooping KD 250..Thats around 40 thousand pesos Ladies and Gentlemen...waaaaaaaaaah..............#%%^(^(&()*)(

Magda-drive ako..

Last weekend I drove 90 kms south of Kuwait for a visit to the site of a new Power Generation Plant in AzZour. It's about an hour-long drive along an Expressway, first 25 minutes of which will pass through the suburbs and residential areas and the rest is a long, lonely road in the middle of wide,desert land.

I didn't have time to eat lunch because I have to reach the site before it gets dark..So imagine my happiness seeing a McDonald's midway...it's like finding an oasis in the desert yesss!!

After a quick lunch of McRoyale and fries, on to the never ending lonely road..

Where camels reside.....

and I can drive as free as I can be....weeeeeee!!!..that's 150 km/h...

what a trip hehehe...