Janaki made cookies today along with her weekend buddy, Ringo.
She got Ringo from Mr. Mike her guitar playing, singing teacher. Ringo is given to a student who worked hard for the week and they than have Ringo for the weekend to do everything with. Ringo comes with a book where all the children write a story of what they did with him and also put in photographs.
Here are the first SCUBA videos. Well, they are only from the top as I don’t have a waterproof housing, lights, etc. etc.
Click here for the file. You’ll need Windows Media player and make sure your speakers are on.
If you want to see some cool ones, look here. Particularly the Nanaimo one. They are Quicktime and take a while to load.
That is all I can do now, is watch the videos. It is too windy for diving this weekend 🙁
And, I’m actually working the whole weekend anyhow to catch up on work.
Two guys from Toronto die and wake up in hell. The devil stops in to check on them and sees them dressed in parkas, mittens and toques warming themselves around the fire.
The devil asks them, “What are you doing? Isn’t it hot enough for you?”
The two guys reply, “Well, you know, we’re from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We’re just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh.”
The devil decides that these two aren’t miserable enough and turns up the heat. The next morning he stops in again and there they are, still dressed in parkas, toques and mittens. The devil asks them again, “It’s awfully hot down here, can’t you guys feel it?”
Again the two guys reply, “Well, like we told ya yesterday, we’re from Canada, the land of snow and ice and cold. We’re just happy for a chance to warm up a little bit, eh.”
This gets the devil a little steamed and he decides to fix these two guys. He cranks the heat up as high as it will go. People are wailing and screaming everywhere. He stops by the room with the two guys from Canada and finds them in light jackets and bucket hats, grilling sausages and drinking beer. The devil is astonished, “Everyone down here is in absolute misery, yet you two seem to be enjoying yourselves.”
The two Canadians reply, “Well, ya know, we don’t get too much warm weather up there in Toronto so we’ve just got to have a cook-out when the weather’s THIS nice.”
The devil is absolutely furious, he can hardly see straight.
Finally he comes up with the answer. The two guys love the heat because they have been cold all their lives. The devil decides to turn all the heat off in hell.
The next morning, the temperature is below zero, icicles are hanging everywhere; people are shivering so bad that they are unable to do anything but wail, moan and gnash their teeth. The devil smiles and heads for the room with the two Canadians. He gets there and finds them back in their parkas, toques, and mittens. Except now they are jumping up and down, cheering, yelling and screaming like mad men!!!
The devil is dumbfounded, “I don’t understand, when I turn up the heat you’re happy. Now it’s freezing cold and you’re still happy.
What is wrong with you two???”
The Torontonians look at the devil in surprise, “Well, don’t you know? If Hell’s frozen over, it must mean the Leafs have won the Stanley Cup.”
Well, today we turned it on. During the day it isn’t really fully needed but more in the night so we can close the windows for quiet and have a bit of fresh air flowing. The daily highs are near 30 now, nights go down to the teens. 🙂
One of the janitors came by this morning into my office in shock with tears in his eyes. His expression of pure grief is something I will never forget.
My first thought was that he’d been fired but that didn’t really match his expression. But he said with his limited english that his son had been hit by a car.
The Bangladeshis that work here are paid very little. That is why at Eid we all gave a janitorial donation in the office and also why they do extra like cleaning the cars to make extra money.
So, he said his son was hit by a car and badly hurt in the legs. After speaking with someone else here for more details he needs the money for blood and I think also to pay for the public hostpital costs as he has no insurance at all. There are private hospitals that you pay for but from what I know even if you go to a Kuwai public hospital you pay, just much less. Unless you are a Kuwaiti, then you don’t pay at all.
I have a health card from KOC, in Arabic which says KOC insures me.
And apparently for bureaucratic and legal reasons here you admission from an accident in a crash is always first into the public hospital then if you need surgery or further treatment you have the option of going to a private facility.
In my case that would mean KOC’s Ahmadi hospital.
If I find out more I’ll post it.
Finally today we found the Kuwait Finance House, where in fact we had been previously on our own. We had trouble finding it this time because I didn’t remember tha the name of the place we were at was Kuwait Finance House and also our directions were not to the right street.
Anyhow we are getting a Chevrolet Trailblazer on a two year lease. It is a two wheel drive seven passenger with a V6, silver colour. They had a bit nicer looking twin vehicle, the Envoy in extended but this model of the Envoy is not available on a lease. So we were treated well there by the Egyptian sales person and should have the vehicle within a week. Then we all fit comfortably and safely with no squished complaints.
It isn’t what I originally was looking at. It is the KOC standard four wheel drive. I did try to get one as the company vehicle instead of the Caprice but can’t as I don’t have a clear job need for it.