I’m allergic to cats. We found this stray at the school. Very friendly and curious now.
Category: Kuwait
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Kuwait Men’s World Open 2009 squash
Kuwait World Open 2009 Semifinal James Willstrop vs. Amr Shabana Last week was the Kuwait Men’s World Open 2009 squash championships held on Green Island.
Sheikha Fadyah Al-Sabah was Chairman of the Higher Organising Committee. She was seated at the front along with the other dignitaries.
All the top squash players were there with Egypt being dominant. There is a Kuwaiti in the top also. The Pakistanis used to dominate including Jahangir Khan who dominated the game in the 80’s. In this time he won 555 matches consecutively, the longest winning streak in squash history and one of the longest unbeaten runs by any athlete in top-level professional sports.
He was at the tournament as the President of the World Squash Federation since 2002.
This is the first semi-final match. The Egyptian winner of this match went on to win the final.
Some of my coworkers are squash aficionados – I’ve only played a few times as a kid. They told me that if this was in the UK it would be sold out months before. In the case of Kuwait, we just showed up and it was free to watch. The stadium filled up near the end of the first match but still was not to capacity.
The game is fun to watch but it would have been cool to watch from the far end where the cameras are but I was afraid if I tried to go there I would be kicked out as I don’t have a press pass.
These players are incredibly quick on their feet and able to unbelievabley dig the ball out of the back corners. The rallies go on for dozens of shots and they made very few errors.
Also there is a lot of input from the referee when there are lets. It is a referees judgment whether one player was able to get out the was fast enough in order to allow the other person to reach the shot and have room to swing his racquet. If they were not and the blockage wasn’t deliberate then the shot is replayed. And if the shot was well played whether or not they were impeded the point would be awarded.
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Lean On Me – Kuwait International Youth Choir
Kuwait International Youth Choir under the direction of Richard Bushman sings Lean on Me at the first Concert of Hope in the Al Hashemi II ballroom on Oct. 31, 2009. The Al Hashemi has the Guinness World Record for the worlds largest wooden ship.
A first yesterday, all four kids performing in the same choir. I never thought that would happen.
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Autumn is Starting in Kuwait
The Kuwait Agriculture and Food Directory has some climate information. We seem to be right on track with their climate information which might mean we will get rain as in a normal year instead of none like the last two years.
TRANSITIONAL INTERVALS
(1 st Sep. 4thNov .)
Drop in temperature.Continuous humidity calm-winds .Humid intervals continue to predominate during this period particularly during the intervals : 15 th – 29th September and from 12th – 26th October , No more (simoom ) .
winds prevail and heat starts decreasing rapidly after 11th September . Maximum temperature ranges between 42C at the beginning of this Period and 30 C at the end . Land and sea-breeze are remarkable and clouds start forming noticeably. It is noticable,that the weather is tiring if the winds are humid south – easterly mean -while It is mild if the winds are north westerly .
Autumn
(5 th November -5th December )Moderate in temperature-clouds and rain cold nights .
The hot season ends mostly on the 5th of November. Hot and humid south-easterly wind usually precede this date then it shifts to cold north- westerly winds accompanied with thunderstorms. The Mean maximum temperature is ranging between 20 -30C It is noteworthy south – easterly winds prevail for a week during this period Particularly at the beginning of November .
Then cold north – westerly winds prevail for nearly five days; and the clouds gradually dissipate . Later the warm south – easterly winds prevail again for nearly four days, and the clouds are sometimes thunderous, gradually cover the sky.Calm prevail winds are frequent especially at night
In other words, it has been very humid without too much wind. This weekend which is the beginning of November the wind is starting. We had a few drops of rain last week also.
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Cost of eating healthy in Kuwait
Some fruits and vegetables are not too expensive but it is too expensive for good whole wheat flour to make bread. Here is costs 2.5 KD at The Sultan Centre which is approximately 5.3 UK Pounds at today’s rate. Other more exotic flours like their spelt and rye mix are even more expensive.
