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I agree with Musharraf what he says quoted below. The problem now is that what people think is freedom is just doing what you formerly were not allowed to do. Common sense is gone.

This world issue on the good side, if there is any, is that a very necessary dialogue has been put to the forefront in Europe and the rest of the world about how religion and freedom can coexist with the everpresent politics overshadowing it all.

In Islamabad, President Pervez Musharraf said newspapers that printed the cartoons were “oblivious” to the consequences for peace and harmony in the world.

“I don’t see how any civilised person can take the issue of freedom of press to hurt the feelings of such a large population of the world,” he told visiting journalists.

“Whether an extremist or a moderate or an ultra-moderate, we will condemn it.”

Here is the full article:
BBC NEWS | South Asia | Pakistanis rampage over cartoons

I commented on this from a previous visit alone here. On Friday we all went and also saw the Imax movie Sharks in 3D. Great movie and the aquarium was fun for all.

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Above you can almost see the small lemon trees in the top and on the right are lots of oregano plants.

Both pictures are taken from the roof. I want to make the roof into a sort of patio for the warm evenings under the stars, maybe with a barbeque also. That will come, it isn’t warm enough yet.

We went to the Wholesale Center which is also owned by the Sultan Center. I see the Wholesale Centre as like the Superstore of Kuwait.

Huge range of vegetables. A bit chaotic but this is the busiest day. We had some fatayers from the back, meat and cheese.

Marja thinks she may not want to see that chaos again. But they have way more selection, particularly vegetables than the other Sultan Centers. They have really nice lettuce locally, hydroponically grown.

Now it is time to go the pool again…

In answer to this question:

It was cold, we’ve added heaters. It seems we are at the end of the cold season and it is warming up.

The house is large and everyone is happy that way. Surya got a room with a small balcony that I didn’t know we have.

Let’s see.

Shopping can be lots of work. Navigation is a challenge as the map doesn’t show all the streets. It took some driving around until we found the mattress shops we were looking for.

We were looking for 90 x 200 cm spring mattresses for kids. That is the Ikea size — the standard is 100 x 200 cm. Then we found the American Mattress shop where the clerk spoke no english only to see that they were too expensive about 120 KD each. But a couple of shops down they had good ones that were Kuwait made for 42 KD each so we bought three for delivery on Sunday. We also checked out a couple of rug shops. Anything reasonable is synthetic, from Turkey, China, Iran and Belgium!

Then we continued the journey to near the sixth ring road and the 60 to look at furniture and rugs. The rugs are about 70 KD for 2 x 3 size. I wasn’t ready to buy though. Then we popped into Sears nearby. It looked not very posh and we didn’t buy anything. There is a lot of clothes. They have some Craftsman tools though.