Mister Ian's Weblog

Category: Kuwait

  • Kuwait Ministry Safety Advice

    The English translations are interesting!

    Entertainers should not Baltiarat paper side of the towers bearing electrical wires because Flyer had engaged in those wires and lead to the person who stunned by Merrymake

  • Sarrayat Season is Starting

    SARRAYAT (9thApril – 13 th May )

    This is the season of sarrayat ( Local thunderstorms),they usually develop in the afternoon or during night and are occasionally accompanied with severe dust storms during which visibility may fall to zero. The resulted rain may be very heavy and usually occur during a few minutes (maximum intensity of 38.4 mm during 20 minutes was recorded on 4th April 1967 at Kuwait International Airport ). The south – easterly winds during this peroid become hot and humid . Air temperature is characterized by sudden changes and may drop to 10C within one minute . Temperatures from one day to another are changeble by particularly during the period 11th-30th April;they may rise to the summer mean level for a few days then drop to a noticable degree due to the influence of the north – westerly winds . Seabreeze is predominant during May, shifting the north -westerly winds of the morning to easterly in the afternoon, tremperature mean ranges between 30C at the beginning of this period and 40 C at the end .

    Thunderstorms are likely to occur during the intervals : 8 th – 12th , 16th, 22nd, 26th, April and 7th – 10th May.

    More on the climate on the KT Agrifood site.

    And if you don’t believe it check out the weather forecast.

  • The Unseen Gulf War

    Here are the photos of The Unseen Gulf War, by Peter Turnley.
    From the Online Photographer where there is more on Peter Turnley.

  • BSK 2009 Performance of Evita Slideshow

  • We finally got rain in Kuwait

    It hasn’t rained properly in two years. This is more what the annual rain should be.

  • Kuwait Credit Card Troubles

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    From the official website of the State of Kuwait, Pictures from Kuwait’s Past

    My wife got a phone call earlier this month that her NBK credit card was used at a Walmart in California. Well, she’s never been to California with her NBK credit card. So they issued a new card and canceled it and said they would credit her account.

    But the credit card account still has charges dated November 6 from Walmart California for nearly $2600!

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    I just phoned NBK and they told me to go into any NBK location and make a claim. With all the chips and pins now on the cards how can this happen? My guess is somewhere here in Kuwait they have a little card copier machine under the counter to swipe the card. Where I wonder?

    And this isn’t just NBK. I had a similar thing happen to me with my Gulf Bank
    card a couple of years ago here. It was for telecommunication charges in Australia for over $1000. I got a new card, filed a claim and it took more than a month to get credited back.

    And you pay a fee for having these cards! Don’t believe the banks that they are free. At the most they will say free when you sign up but after a year they charge you. And if you ever want to cancel a card they try every kind of persuasion for you not to cancel it.