Last night we were at the Avenues, Daphne was on a shopping spree. Now that my boy’s all grown up, we are not taking the trolley anymore. He’s like a free bird, running everywhere, so happy to be in the crowd as most of the days he’s at home. During weekends he’s like a prisoner out on parole, and I watch him very carefully as he’s never put up at one place. I am VERY CAREFUL.
Well ! i guess i was over confidant about my carefulness. We were at the ‘Express’ which is having a bumper sale, its Saturday and as usual Avenues is packed. So my boy does what he does the best, i.e RUN!, and every time i bring him back not allowing him to get away too far. Then there is that moment, Daphne comes out of the changing room and is asking for my opinion, so i turn around, It must be less than 30 seconds and just when i turned around AJ’s gone missing. Assuming that he must be inside the showroom itself, I just casually search behind the stands.. could not find him. Now ‘Express’ shop has two sections men and women, since we were in Womens section, I thought he must have gone to the men’s section… But… I can not find AJ… Now it’s Panic time… I must make sure he’s not inside the shop.. so i search both the sections while trying to call my wife on the cellphone (as she’s gone back in again)… Time’s running out… I know i must find him… if it’s one more minute he could go out of my reach .. then it will be impossible to find him in that crowd.. DAMN! the phone is saying .. ‘You have Zero Dinar and fuckty fuck fills…. Damn you Zain!! …
Now I’m sure that AJ is not inside ‘Express’ but has stepped out … OMG !! Now I’m sweating !!
Then a thought .. as a salesman We are thought when a customer enters a shop usually turns to the right … So i turn right… clinging on hope that AJ turned right !. I hear so many kids screaming and running but AJ is not there… OMG! think I’m going to faint …. My wife picks up the phone… just when I am about to tell her to search every corner of ‘Express’ .. I find AJ in the next shop holding some kind of face cream… I AM SO LUCKY he was standing near the entrance .. and had not gone deeper inside the shop which would have made it difficult to locate him and it would have been a mess.
Something I did, which I regret, i spanked him real hard… He starts to cry.. But I gave him a bear hug and thousands of Kisses and I’m sure he must have wondered what’s wrong with this IDIOT !!!..
All this happened in less than 4 minutes … Boy ! i learnt a valuable lesson… When you go to the mall … Take the trolley! and never take eyes of your child…. and make an ID tag for the baby (since he doesn’t speak yet) with my phone number… and think clear… Shit Happens !
This is my boy
Remember Mark’s Post (That was Close) about the guy who missed fatal accident by an Inch (or less!) … well .. this one beats that incident … This Guy gets moshed by an SUV … you gotta watch what happens next 
Wishing everyone a Happy Diwali, the festival of Lights . If you are in Salmiya today, Please do visit the ‘Titanic’ Building at Bloc 10(NO! it’s not Sinking). Specially if you are an Indian in Kuwait, it’s going to be home away from home with all that fire works and crowd. I just shot this video today, Kids firing crackers n some Hindi kids playing ‘rough n tough’ with each other (petty fight-Hindi Style). One kid that wasn’t scared of all the fight or the fire works was my son AJ, he seemed to have a blast. Hope to see you there !!!
WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY DIWALI ..
Stay Safe, Do not allow your kids to play with fire works un attended.
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This is one of the craziest vids of Russell Peters i have seen ever.. watch it , as he takes on ‘Bollywood’ movies.. man this is hilarious and TRUE 
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I thought of writing this the other day, anyways its never too late, Just read an Article on Intlxpats blog.. its about Bed Bugs… Just in case you have never come
This is not a cockroach
across one here’s the picture.. take a good look at it because when you done reading this probably you will need to check the corner of your mattress to see if you can find one.. and if you are staying in one of those ‘flats’ .. i bet you know it already ..
Untill 2005 i had no idea of bed bugs other than my grand mother used to say how bed bugs were ‘Daridra’ which litterally means ‘bad luck’. I used to stay among bachelores before the marriage. With 6 of packed in one tiny room, 8 in other and 10 in the hall and 1 in the maids room, i.e 25 people in one ‘Flat’. After a many weeks of sleepless nights finally ’someone’ told me it was the bedbugs.. and i realised that since all of us were bachelors and no one kept cleanliness the bed bugs merried on our blood. One of my room mate used to say that bed bugs never bit him because he had ‘bitter’ blood. Other room mate recommended that ‘cockraoches’ eat bed bugs.. so went to the filthy kitchen ( imagine 25 people using the same kitchen) and got hold of some roaches and spread it around the room anticipating them to eat the bed bugs.. Now we had two problems 1. Bed bugs which bit us even during the day time and 2.Room/house full of cockroaches.
Finally one day just when every one was at work , i bought two cans of ‘baygon’ and sprayed like a mad man, needless to say everyone was upset when they came back as the room was stinking with baygon smell.. Surprisingly the dude who said he had ‘bitter’ blood had highest number of bed bugs under his bed , anyways i could not take this crap anymore so i left the place.
That was one incident, the other day i was at the grocery store downstairs , and i saw this bed bug moving on the grocer, I pointed out, he was terribly embarassed. Finally to make things better, i said ‘these bed bugs are everywhere’ and he nodded in agreement…
The reason I am writing this is because, In Kuwait specially in expat residential area’s the bed bugs have become ‘PANDEMIC”. People are in denial, or may be are ignorant about it. But bed bugs are everywhere, EVERYWHERE . When we had a maid work for us (to take care my son) she bought bed bugs along with her. Finally we got rid of the maid, then we got rid of the bed bugs… but it wasn’t that easy.
So peeps.. if you are not getting sleep at night becasuse ’something is biting you’ check the corner of the bed/mattress, if you see black spots (which is bed bugs poop) .. Go get a baygon spray ASAP!!.. Spray like a maniac, open windows, put the mattresses/bed/ sofa in the sun for a day or two..Please Take bath before you sleep, change/wash the bedsheet every week. Lots of sunlight .. lots of sunlight… lots of sunlight.. May the force be with you !!
Warm wishes of the season and Wishing every one a Very Blessed Eid . EID MUBARAK
GreY.
We were running late, after trying to make it in time (read speeding), reached the church area at 11.10am. Now! usually I’m a early riser and attend the 8am service, due to hectice Ramadan schedule we opted for 11am service despite of the simmering heat. Huge traffic block ahead of us, which is normal because all the people from previous service trying to ‘get out’.. So I looked to my right saw couple of cars moving out of the ‘Shaded parking’ .. (now note the word shade as the temperature was above 45*C and we have a toddler).. My wife goes like this..
Wife: Shall I get down and stand in the parking to ‘reserve’ the spot?
Me: That would be the most retarded thing ever.. 
, I don’t think any one does that
Wife: what ever.. hope we get parking in the shade, because car will be ‘boiling’ when we get out of Church..
So the traffic clears out, I move towards the parking, and I see a woman calling some one, At First .. I assumed, Must be a church Volunteer, who is being kind to people.. I was wrong, she was in fact reserving the spot to the car BEHIND ME..
Since she had blocked the way, I see another empty spot adjacent to this one and pull my car in reverse… ONLY TO FIND THIS LADY STANDING IN THIS PARKING SPACE AS WELL!!!
I was like, WTF??.. So I honk! She says.. Go GO!!
I’m really clueless, as I am not sure if this is REALLY HAPPENING!!
I lower the window ‘ Excuse me Madam’..
She KNOCKS on my car .. Shoo.. Shoo.. Go GO!!
I couldn’t belive i was getting ’shoo’d like a crow’ but then usually I would kick her spanish ass any time, I would in fact crush her between two cars… no no cancel that, that was my imagination ,
I just simply parked my car somewhere in the sun watching this White couple parks his car in the ’shade’ with triumph!!,
And my wife got out of the car with AJ. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOK IN THIER FACE!!… Shame was dripping on the floor .. or was it fear??
I asked my wife in Hindi ‘Should I give them piece of my Mind??’ .
She said .. ‘then What is the difference between You and her‘??
She was right.. So I walked towards the church..
great conflict in my mind.. I saw these people attend the same service..
I some how want to give them a ‘WORD’..
but I had to let go.. forgiveness.. etc etc.. you don’t want to know the details..
I thought I over came, i won over wickedness,
but then…
after the service…
while taking out my car..
some idiot was honking as if his mother was on fire..
I lowered the window and yelled..
‘Yeah yeah! i hear you, We are all Christians … ‘Asshole’ ..
if you were there and heard it..
that was me… hypocrite me…
