Everyday we come across hundreds of products that have glass as a component or are made of glass. It could be the dial cover of your watch, or screen of your mobile phone, television screens, beverage bottles etc etc…
As far as I know the basic ingredient for manufacturing glass is sand, and we have that in much abundance in Kuwait, and of course more accessible than oil, so how come there are no major manufacturers of glass and related products in Kuwait? So far I have heard of a company called Rifai Glass which is based in Shuwaikh, behind the City Center, I believe they are into manufacturing glass.
I am sure glass manufacturing can be a lucrative business since, for example, there is huge demand for glass as construction material, in construction industry of Kuwait and Gulf region. And raising capital in Kuwait wouldn’t be a problem for an enterprising businessman.
How do we put this delicately? The director [Anurag Kashyap] of No Smoking must have been eternally stoned while writing and directing this movie. Watching this movie is once in a lifetime opportunity to redeem yourself of all your sins that you might have committed by watching all the B-category C-Class movies.
The movie revolves around a guy [John Abraham] who is a chain smoker, to put it more bluntly, this guy could beat the steam/coal powered train riding from Bombay to Calcutta when it comes to huffin’n puffin the smoke. Around 8 packs a day, smokin in the loo to elevators to amore to sleep to dinner table to…watchama-callit. Anyways the story now centers around how his wife [Ayesha Takia] tries to get him to quit smoking by taking him to a tantra-mantra quack [Paresh Rawal], and this quack then offers him guidelines to quit smoking. The catch is the hefty fee and some conditions.
The viewer is taken through the labyrinth of quackdom and Europe and Serbia and dont know where else..and the movie ends up trying to give a smoker a lesson in No Smoking or else face the consequences.
The movie is projected as an abstract…an experimental venture. I believe the movie is a dream sequence of the director after getting stoned on every possible substance abuse at one go. See this movie to disbelieve in reality. And the big question, would you quit smoking? Well my friends if you watch this movie twice…you might end up partnering the director in getting stoned.
Someone forwarded this link to me, which has forums dedicated to people working in oil industry in Kuwait. And it seems that the Oil Companies in Kuwait have blocked the site’s access from within the corporate network. The site is forum based and is in Arabic. Since my arabic is not that good, so I have no idea what the fuss is all about. Maybe some of you can go through the site and make sense out of it.
While the poor people of Zimbabwe fight for a days meal, this is how the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe lives.
Arab artists spent a year decorating the ceilings
3 acres of accommodation
Estimated 26 million USD to build
25 en-suite bathrooms
Neighbours in Borrowdale, Harare, have been told to sell up and leave to protect Mugabe’s security
China has donated the glazed blue tiles that cover the roof.
Malaysia has donated the timber
there are underground rooms reinforced with concrete
It is 3 times the size of the State House.
has 44 acres of landscaped grounds
A Serbian construction company built it - Energoproject - to a Chinese design. Mugabe said in interview that the Serbian company donated their material and labour
50 crack riot response police guard it on a 24 hour watch
DA is a technology analyst working in the energy sector of Kuwait. DA has interests in technology, gadgets, art & design, offbeat news, regional commentary, food and lifestyle topics.
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