Once again we witnessed names being written in history. For the first time in Kuwait, four women fought their way in a political heated battle and won their parliamentary seats. Their names will be taught in social studies lessons in the near future when they change the current books (if they change them that is). But is this a step forward, or backward?

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Ever since I started writing these articles, and the readers' comments were mainly consisting of "LOLs" and "Haha". Today, I have a strong feeling that this will change. Because I will be breaking the principal of: We'll laugh at everything sarcastic you say, as long as it's not about us. My senses are predicting that the Everyone-Laughed-Ever-After feeling that comes after reading these articles will be replaced with fierce bloody wars (Probably against me). The emails I get from readers about "I loved what you said." Or "I love your work." will be… Read More

Finally, my name was called. After waiting for two hours and twelve minutes, it's finally my turn. The girl who has just called my name had been doing paper work ever since I came here. Person after person, she was trying to finish all their papers. The worker next to her has been talking (read: laughing) on the phone the whole time. I wonder if there was a person on the other side of the phone. I can't accept the fact that there is someone who could actually endure her laughter for two whole hours (other than me, of course). She's the only person… Read More

A while ago, I was roaming around Facebook on my free time reading comments on my favorite authors' pages. One of the comments belonged to a Canadian woman living in Kuwait. She was describing Kuwait in her profile saying, "I hate living in this Gucci society."

What the woman said there hurts, but we have to admit that fact. … Read More