Reading Club

I am back :) hopefully will post everyday as long as I can.

Something I've realized that enthusiasm is not found in Kuwait, well if its something you have to earn then definitely I can't earn it here.

Recently I'm establishing a reading club, hope this will add more excitement to my schedule. If you ask me why reading club ?

It all started when I first joined Kuwait University as an academic staff. I usually have several basic goals for my students. I want to make sure that as many students as possible are able to correctly learn material for any given class, but that’s just the beginning. I want to do my best to make my students curious people who will become lifelong learners as well as make sure all of my students improved in general. To reach this end, I tried to start an advanced reading club for the most advanced third year students. The experience was really fantastic and amazing.

Long story short, now I'm thinking of doing this as a social club started with my friends and we are now expanding the membership to the public. The club is really fun, we will meet regularly (once or twice a month) in fave cafes and discuss the book of the month in a different angels depending on the nature of the book and our interests by covering discussions including: art, psychology, romance, socialism ...etc.

I'm very excited for the idea along with my beloved friends. For more details, or if you wanna join please do not hesitate to email me on: inspiration.vida@gmail.com.

Note: this club is for girls only!

Discrimination !!

The amount of discrimination towards students in the Middle East varies from one region to another, however discrimination is a recurring motif amongst private schools in the Middle East; specifically in the oil-wealthy Arabian Gulf regions.

Those discriminated are the silent, a teacher can freely publicly harass a student, the result is often the teacher is left unscathed while the student suffers years of internal insecurity.

GES is one example that claims to prioritize morality in a hugely high extent, however that is proven to be an utter lie used to deceive parents into enrolling their students at the school. You see, the school does not prioritize morality in any degree, the school supports the system of prejudice and discrimination. The truth cannot be seen on the outside looking in, however in the inside looking in it becomes evident. The schools of Kuwait are controlled by amoral, insensitive humans. A teacher often mentally abuse their students. Morality is conforming to a standard of right behavior, it becomes clear after spending a few months at the school that the teachers lack a huge sense of conscience.

إبتهــــــــال .. الفقاعة راح تنبط

لدينا العديد من الشخصيات الأكاديمية التي تقحم نفسها في مجالات عدة و تتحدث عن كل شي بغرض إثبات أنها تعلم كل شي. من هي إبتهال لخطيب .. هي واحده من هؤلاء الباحثين عن الشهرة فهي تريد تسلق سلم الشهرة بأن تسلط عليها الأضواء من خلال إثارة مواضيع تخالف الفكرالعقلائي
عندما تتحدث عن الشذوذو الجنسي وتطلق عليه كما يسمى بين أوساط المحبين له ( المثلية الجنسية ) فإنها تعمد هي وغيرها إلى جعل الأمر وكأنه أمرا طبيعيا غير خارجا عن المألوف فهو فقط (مثليا) ولكن ليش شاذا في نظرها !! ولكن الأمر لا يحتاج لتعريف ، فأي فعل مخالف للطبيعة و الفطرة أو لفعل العوام يعتبر فعل شاذ، و الفعل الشاذ له أسبابه لكونه شاذاَ, بل الأخت تصرح: أنا مع اعطاء المثليين جنسيا حقوقهم !!
علمياً : الدراسات الموجودة حول الشذوذ الجنسي نسبت هذا الشذوذ في بادئ الأمر إلى كونه مرض نفسي و آفة لا بد منمعالجتها و نبذ أصحابها وعدم الاعتراف به كنوع من العلاقات الجنسية الطبيعية والسوية.

للأسف الأخت تخربط و لست هنا بغرض الرد على تفاهاتها فابتهال كغيرها من الفقاعات التي سوف تنفجر وتذهب هباءا .. فلم يعهد تاريخ الفكرالإنساني لأي فكر منحل بأن تبقى بصماته في أذهان الناس ..
وأنما ما ينفع الناس فيبقى
فأما الزبد فيذهب جفاء وأما ما ينفع الناس فيمكث في الأرض

المشاكل (الفضائح) العالقة في حقيبة الفساد

أقرأ بين الحين والآخر مدونات لها صوت اصلاحي ثائر.
جميــــــل جدا أن تجد في هذا البلد الطيب صوتا يريد الإصلاح ويرفض الظلم والفساد والبغي بكل أشكاله.

مختصر قضايا الفساد السياسي في الكويت ما يلي

- غياب النزاهة والشفافية في طرح وارساء المناقصات الحكومية وتفصيل مواصفات تتطابق مع امكانات شركة محددة من دون اتاحة الفرصة لتنافس حقيقي
- منح تراخيص تجارية أو استغلال اراضي الدولة لاصحاب النفوذ وفق اطار تبادل المصالح أو مقابل رشوة أو تبادل المنافع السياسية.
- اسناد المناصب الحكومية على اساس المحاباة والواسطة والمحسوبية والقرابة والولاء السياسي
واهدار مبدأ الكفاءة في ظل غياب مبدأ المساواة وتكافؤ الفرص
- تعقيد الاجراءات الادارية وبطء انجاز المعاملات ما ادى الى تنامي الحاجة للواسطة أو الرشوة ليس فقط من اجل مخالفة القانون بل حتى من اجل تطبيقه.
- استغلال المنصب العام لتحقيق مصالح سياسية ومحاولة التأثير في الاحكام القضائية وشراء الولاءات والتحالف بين اصحاب المناصب واصحاب المصالح الخاصة بما يسبب استنزاف المال العام

مثــــال حي : عربدة في المؤسسة العامة للتأمينات الاجتماعية

مهما علت أصوات الاجتجاج والاستنكار والرفض, هل هنالك من حلول منطقية و مجدية لتلك التجاوزات ؟
لم أجد إلى الآن أي مدونة تناولت مبدأ الٌصلاح من منطلق تغيير النموذج الشعبي المتمثل بعقلية الشارع الكويتي
الجميع يلقي باللائمة على الحكومة والهيئة التنفيذية, و لكن الشعب يمثل طرفا لا يستهان به في هذه القضية

علينا اولا وضع حلول عملية للإصلاح تستند على سياسة حكيمة لا تثير البلبلة والانقسامات بين جميع التوجهات
هل هنالك من برنامج عملي للإصلاح ؟؟!!!
بخلاف برامج مجلس الأمة التي لا تسمن ولا تغني من جوع- سوى بالتسويف وتعطيل الأمور

Killing us (women) softly !!

In commercial adds feild, there is controversy regarding women. The psychology of the image that is portrayed of women in commercial ads is multifaceted. We are shown images of women who are confident, sexy and sometimes a little intimidating and poor in their treatment of the humble male.

Jean Kilbourne is an author, speaker, and filmmaker who is internationally recognized for her groundbreaking work on the image of women in advertising and her critical studies of alcohol and tobacco advertising. In the late 1960s she began her exploration of the connection between advertising and several public health issues, including violence against women. Her pioneering work helped develop and popularize the study of gender representation in advertising. Her award-winning "Killing us Softly" films have influenced millions of college and high school students across two generations and on an international scale. In this important new film, Kilbourne reviews if and how the image of women in advertising has changed over the last 20 years.

With wit and warmth, Kilbourne uses over 160 ads and TV commercials to critique advertising's image of women. By fostering creative and productive dialogue, she invites viewers to look at familiar images in a new way, that moves and empowers them to take action.


CAUTION: The film is too offensive to our conservative viewers
PLS DO NOT watch unless you are a woman.

Killing us Softly 3

Finally, yet another way of offending women, although it's a product of Kuwait!

Zain backup ads


Sources: wikipedia
Media Education Foundation

Can we live longer ?!

Scientific evidences showed that humans have the capacity to lengthen their average life span by hundreds of years. Follow these instructions to live longer than expected:


1. Mental health : keep your life free of stress, depression, sadness and keep a circle of family and friends (i.e. maintain happiness).

2. Vitamin C as a key anti-aging agent.


3. Immediately remove the following from your life style: (smoking, alcohol, drugs, cholesterol increasing diet and chemicals in food (e.g. preservatives, colors, sodium glutamate, aspartame, salt, etc..). Completely remove junk food and soft drinks from your diet.

4. Do exercises regularly (30-60 min. a day)

5. Eat more fruits and vegetables, decrease calories.

6. Maintain healthy weight, avoid saturated fats and cut out of meat.

7. Be faithful (religious).

8. Avoid too much sun.

9. Get your vitamins and maintain your health (visit the doctors regularly).

10. Practice safe sex.

11. Be optimistic, and build a secure-stable social life.

12. Involve in activities especially brainstorming type (keep using your mind regularly, and compare it with the car battery, if its unused, it will vanish !).

13. Brush your teeth and floss regularly.

In the next blog I will explain each point in detail.

Compassion/kindness and feminism

The relationship between feminism and motherhood is problematic. Is it this issue which makes some females more compassionate than others ? I've always been compassionate, and I'm becoming more and more compassionate over time. I suppose it's a matter of putting yourself in the shoes of others, and doing your best to remember that we all deserve to be treated with the same basic human respect. I don't know if that's easier said than done, as I don't know how you think. But how about females who lack any sense of kindness/compassion ?

Feminist theorists question issues such as the relationship between sex, sexuality, love, emotional satisfaction and the psychological status of women. If you are dealing with feminism world, you would expect most old single unhappy females to lack any sense of compassion/kindness simply because they are lonely ! Okey, being lonely shouldn't always be a depressive matter.

According to a study by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the University of Pennsylvania published in May 2009 women are feeling less good about themselves and their lives. The title of the study is “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.” The authors of the research, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers write: “By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men.” The researchers carried out their study across cultural, socioeconomic, and ethnic groups in several industrialized countries. Similar research was carried out in the 1970s and women were cheerier back then. Women used to be generally happier than men, now a “new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men.”

Well, in my opinion, its all related with the propaganda, media and new life style of our society. The world is expecting everything from a woman, to act as a work and sex machine, ignoring the capability of each person.

We all do live in society, society has had an effect on us all (like it or not), and with that I wonder how people perceive/deal with or have been challenged by it. I see how gender is or can be irrelevant for some, especially the people who are way beyond the scope of my understanding ... but let's face it, even when a parent intentionally tries to raise their kids as psychologically androgynous as possible, they are still subjected to outside influences/societal "norms"...

How has societies conditioning of what is typically feminine or masculine affected the way you practice and/or what have the challenges been, specifically based on what was taught to you vs what you know ? This is still a matter of debate.