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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-189805762019-03-10T14:18:50.551+03:00Life In BahrainWe are a group of young Bahrainis dedicated to expose the dark side of life in Bahrain from a Bahraini national's perspective. Our approach is both informative and humorous. Our topics range from the major issues to mild annoyances. THIS MIGHT BE A GOVERNMENT BASHING BLOG. We focus on the motherfucking idiots who give Bahrain a bad image to the citizens, residents and visitors. ALL YOUR BLOG ARE BELONG TO US!!!LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-24682627841387634162010-09-06T10:35:00.005+03:002010-09-06T11:00:22.149+03:00LiB @ Work #3: I DEMAND Work... NOW!
Okay so you went through hard years at school then college and after enduring sweat, tears and sleepless nights, you finally graduate with flying colors. Great! Now it's time to find that dream job...

You prepare a resume and make a few printouts, and then you go on a job hunt. You go to every single prestigious establishment you know and after a few weeks of no replies, you start applying at medium companies and distribute that resume through email. Finally you get desperate and start applying at ANY company for ANY opening. But that's not our subject today. See we all go through the painful process above, unless you were born with a silver spoon up your ass or you know someone who was then your ride would be much easier, and since you have a spoon up your ass then you're used to and lubed up to take anything else entering there just to get things in life for next to nothing...

We will be talking about those who FORCEFULLY demand jobs that they are not entitled to or just think it is for them and them only and how people nowadays make it a politically rich material for their campaigning and lobbying...

Take for example a simple lady who graduated and started selling water in the streets in order to feed her kid and family. There are mixed feelings and opinions about why this lady did what she did in order to be able to support her family. I for one see nothing wrong with that except for the facts that surround this case and how others used it for their own benefit. Of course a lot of "activists" saw this as a golden opportunity to concentrate on politicizing the issue. Damn hippies pouncing on everything they see and twist shit for their own gains. Thus ruining any chances that might have existed to resolve those issues and making the case lose credibility almost instantly.

This lady, according to an interview with her, has a husband and an 18-month old child. Her husband makes BD 525 a month, which is not bad, I'm not saying that it's perfect but for a small family they can very well manage. I mean bigger families live on a much less monthly income. Again am not saying that it's ideal or that the lady shouldn't do that. Everyone has the right to an income and if there is room for additional income "ethically" i.e. working part-time in a second job or doing some small business on the side AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T CLASH WITH THE PRIMARY JOB. The point here is the attitude that came with the lady's demand and the hippies who promoted her.

Again, the lady was heavily portrayed in the media as some authorities saw this as a "begging on the streets" case and others highlighted her case either online or through papers etc...

Some companies actually sympathized with her and offered her jobs within their organizations. This must be good right? Only thing is, the idiot refused all that and DEMANDED that she is to be employed in a governmental ministry or entity and ONLY in the government, OR ELSE!

And here comes the shitty attitude. I know that government work is easy, laid back and secure for life. And that's why many people want to work for the government. Other than security, underachievers always want to work for the government because they know there are NO real performance appraisal systems there and ratings are only to fill blank sheets of paper at the end of the year. I am not saying that no one in the government works hard. There are a lot who work hard but in the end, they all get the same ratings and so on...

Again, there is nothing wrong with this lady asking to work for the government, provided there are openings that match her qualifications. Refusing to work for any company other than the government, however, is plain wrong. I mean there is nothing wrong with starting with a private company and building up that resume. It's very good to have any kind of experience and adding it to a resume which will be of good use in the future whilst applying for any vacancy that comes up within the desired sector or company. What's wrong is DEMANDING that "I MUST be employed at that company and THAT COMPANY ONLY".

Now there are other idiots who lose their jobs because they are very bad performers then they go out on the streets, protesting and DEMANDING that they be reinstated in their jobs immediately, OR ELSE! Take this moron for example...

Attention, ANYTHING for attention. I won't go looking for a job, the job MUST come to me!

Yes, everyone has the right to a good standard of living, and that comes through fighting in life by getting a good education then progressing through the ranks and getting good jobs with good pay along the way… What sickens me though, is how some refuse to do anything to change their situations and sit on their asses all day and demanding for jobs without bothering to look. Or those who have no proper qualifications and asking to be hired as managers or getting salaries no less than BD 600 a month. There are graduates who work for much less but they work hard and try their best to prove themselves and then get rewarded accordingly... Get a life you idiots.

Again like we said before. People have become very demanding without the willingness to give back. And the hippies backing them up will fight for them with total disregard to others who will fight for themselves and strive hard to make a good living whilst others are sitting on their butts all day and demanding only...

Fuck this, where's the KY? I'm late for a sit-in on a pole in front of the Ministry of Housing to DEMAND a house!
LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-16432014137063435482010-08-24T13:49:00.006+03:002010-08-24T14:02:00.499+03:00Vote... OR ELSE...
So, the parliamentary and municipal elections are once again upon us. I can't see anything good that was produced over the past 8 years. They managed, however, to fuck a lot of things up but the two things that pissed me off the most were:

Ninjas were allowed to drive on the chaotic streets of Bahrain. They bring nothing but idiocy in driving as the ninja masks they wear limits their visibility and flow of necessary oxygen into their thick brains.

Approval of fat payments to outgoing parliamentarians as a pension, receiving 50% if they serve one 4-year term and 80% for serving 2+ terms. So become an MP for 8 years and you get 80% of your BD 4,000 salary for life. Whereas we peasants must slave our asses off for 30+ years to be eligible for that 80% otherwise it's much less than that.

What's even worse is that people are still like sheep. They say that they "will never elect anyone ever again" only to go and vote again for the same fucker. Don't make fun of Americans for re-electing G W Bush (Dubya) even though they made fun of him from day one, went ahead and re-elected him even though he managed to ruin his country's financial status. We in Bahrain make fun and wonder how idiots in the western world get re-elected while we do the same by going and re-electing the same baboons who failed us in the previous terms.

So based on all of the above, we can only expect to see the same happy shiny people who plagued the pages of our newspapers and media for the past 8 years. They will continue to get huge payments while turning their backs on the people. They will keep on pulling off a "Street Fighter II Alpha Turbo Super EX-3 Mega Limited Edition" in the parliament building by landing punches and kicks and even "Hadukens" onto each other's faces. They will continue to promote hate and sectarianism throughout the country while sitting back and sipping on some Carrot Juice (which is apparently only reserved for council members and journalists only get water or cheap juice) and sucking on that Miswak , and watching the country burn to the ground, still getting paid thousands every month and driving around in their latest Mercs and Beamers. One of them didn't know how to drive his 7-series because he was used to driving a shit-ass manual transmission pick-up for 50+ years while others were used to khar-gaari's their whole lives (if you wanna know what a khar-gaari is, go and ask an Ajam or Persian speaking dude).

You see articles like this in the papers more frequently nowadays and they're all about awareness of not falling into the same shit-pit as the ones before did still you will see people even youth going for the same towel-headed, bushy-bearded, short-thobed mongrels.

Or demands like this that MPs must do more blah blah blah. My friends, those MPs who promised you the world, well not the world, but one of them DID promise to move the airport out of Muharraq! Some of them might have lied to themselves about bettering the lives of Bahrainis but all of that doesn't make any difference once, just once, that first shiny paycheck arrives; we will all be flipped off.

We will continue to criticize and blame the MPs while there is no one to blame but ourselves for making them what they are in the first place.

I will be selling books like this to those interested. Hey I gotta make some money out of the rest too. It's not just the MPs that should capitalize on the sheepish attitude of the masses. We have to exploit them to the max too.

One more thing. If these MPs had the least required amount of brain cells for their brains to start functioning, they wouldn't wait for four years until it's two months before the elections for them to appear or, in case of re-election, re-appear and start preaching and promising and backstabbing this and tarnishing the image of that to get to the chair. If they were smart they would plan for it ahead and actually make the plan last for four years. It's just like the World Cup, teams start planning for it as soon as the previous tournament is over. That's how the civilized world operates. In here, it's all up to the LMB Syndrome and leave things until the last minute to get things done. And it's done in all aspects of life. No one does ANY planning at ANY level be it governmental or individual then they blame everyone else but themselves for their misfortune. Like the lady who goes to have her Eid dress sewn at the tailor's, two fucking days before Eid itself and then starts DEMANDING the tailor to finish it although he has orders pending for Eid for people who actually came in weeks ago. To hell with the rest, do my shit OR ELSE...

I really hate this "OR ELSE..." attitude and I think that unless the people change that. We will as a country continue to travel down the sewer and end up at the dumpster one day. That's what Bahrainis unfortunately have become, demanding without giving. Every person has rights. But with rights, come duties and obligations towards society and not acting in the manner of fulfilling personal interest. Yes we all have personal interests and needs but our rights should not mean ending others' rights. The sooner we realize this, the better we will be off on the long run. It will take generations to undo the damage that has already been done…

Vote for this *points at crotch*, biatches. I'll go work on my elections campaign for 2014...
LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-28465478072123770902010-08-22T12:37:00.010+03:002010-08-22T13:34:40.868+03:00Prison Sex...

Please give me a moment to catch my breath... *sigh* Okay that was a good laugh...

So... Problems at Jaw Prison, where prisoners are going on a hunger strike... why? Because the prisoners have a list of demands and they want them NOW! (and I'm not making this shit up, just look at what this douchebag wrote in his letter to the GDN http://m.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?newsid=283970 ):

They want Razors to shave... they want to look nice n' clean… (Why? date night
with your cellmate??).

They want lights out at midnight... so they would have more time for gossip n pillow fights…

They want the big bad security guys to stop yelling... it scares them... (awww ain't you a cutie!)

They want more play time…more exercise and pumping iron… (So by the time they are out, they would have turned from child rapist, to buffed-up unstoppable child rapist!).

They want to be able to order food from outside… (When you get the munchies, nothing hits the spot like a bucket of KFC!).

Some actually demanded BlackBerry's… they need to be updated with the BBM world of 3azeezi n the em-7ashish jokes… of course!

A prisoners day out to a shopping mall…(ok I think I had about enough…)

Well, while you're at it, why not go all the way? How about demanding the government to send you a weekly selection of Moroccan prostitutes for your pleasure? How about a manicurist available on-site? Why not a foot massage? Or better yet.. Why don't the guards just perform oral pleasure on you and get it all over with...

Seriously, I want someone to explain what the fuck is going on with these people? And by these people I mean the criminals (I actually prefer to call them criminals, but they seem to use the word prisoner a lot, makes them sound more innocent, wrongfully accused and more "politcally correct") and these good for nothing humanitarians... What's with the sudden rise of hippies in Bahrain? Human rights this... human rights that...

Now tell me Mr. Human Rights activist hippie wannabe, is it considered a human right to kill another human? Is it a humanly right to rape another human? Well you apparently think it is... I had about enough of this "free our prisoners" crap... most of these "activists" are related to these criminals anyway...

Let me give you an insight before I go deeper into this…

This is how Bahrain's prison looks like...

This is how it should fuckin' be!

Now the issue here is that the prisoners are asking for what's humanely deserved, like shaving blades and shit... Look, before asking for your rights, have you considered the public's rights when you did what you did and ended up in that (not so) shit hole? And why the fuck are you complaining anyways? You know that you will be out in a matter of weeks, heck even days!

From what we see in newspaper articles regarding sentences in Bahrain we come to the following conclusion:

• Murder: 5 years in prison.
• Rape: 2 weeks!!! And a pat on the back!
• Burglary: depends on the amount, if it's:

o 100k+ then nothing
o 1000s: for each 1k = 1 year
o A mobile phone: 5 years!
• Drugs: Life (or 2 years)?! Ha?

Anyways, even if you WERE sentenced, you will be let go once Eid, National Day, Labor Day or any other meaningless celebration comes up, they will let you all free to roam the streets once more, to rape and pillage as your heart desires...

And as for those on the other side, these so called "activists" who happen to be the prisoners' relatives, and have nothing better to do than scribble graffiti on the walls with slogans such as "Free our innocent brothers... Blah blah blah", why the hell is your son/brother/uncle/pimp in prison? Was he burning tyres instead of going to school, getting himself a degree and looking for a job like the rest of us? Most likely.

I'm sure we have discussed the legal system in Bahrain in a previous article, but if you ask me, I think they should simply apply an "eye for an eye" method. It's simple and effective, if you kill, you get killed (many countries apply this, why don't we? Why do we keep these scum living amongst us?). If you rape someone.. you get raped! And so on! (so those wondering what to do with a tyre burner, simple, stick them in a room with a burning tyre for a few hours)...

Hunger strike my ass... You know what? LET THEM! If they die, good riddance!

Don't do the crime if you can't do the fucking time!

Doing the crime then pleading to be innocent and claiming to be wrongfully accused of shit you haven't done, while you family are causing anarchy and riots to let your ass out of prison in which you live comfortably in, and demand to have equal human rights just like everyone else who are on the outside, *breath* is the plot of a shitty TV movie that used to get aired on Friday evenings on channel 55.

Fuck this shit, I'll go rape everyone that pissed me off today... see you in 2 weeks!
LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-2846953299633146942010-08-16T12:22:00.007+03:002010-08-16T12:43:46.444+03:00LiB @ the Traffic Department #1: The New License Plates…
So after all these years of writing articles about the bad driving habits of Bahrainis, it has been long overdue to write about those mongrels that regulate and enforce traffic laws. Being the sissies that they are, they apply NO fairness whatsoever in applying rules and bend them, hell even bastardize them, to the extreme and make sure that they are enforced on a selected group of people only. Yes, my friends, we will be taking on the Traffic Directorate today in addition to dissing our regular stupid drivers. Being Ramadhan and the timing to talk about moronic drivers and the douchebags who enforce rules on some only couldn't be any better…

I will be talking about real-life situations I have encountered with the traffic police in different situations and how those were resolved…

Okay so we got new license plates. To me personally, I thought they look okay. I mean not everyone liked them and I didn't love them. But the fact that a lot of people who didn't like them is owed to the numbers being much bigger and easily identifiable. Of course those who speed and run people over then escape from the scene won't like them. I mean, come on, how would you get away with killing people when your numbers can be easily spotted?

Our new license plates (sample)

So I was at the traffic department the other day and thought "hey since I am here, why not try and go for those new plates?" thinking they were made there and then on the spot according to newspaper reports on the first few days of the launch of the plates. Boy I was wrong!

First of all, the press conference and their PowerPoint press release which is available on their website mentioned that you can get and fill the application form for the new plates at three different locations at the site, the car licensing and registration section in the main building, the vehicle inspection section and the traffic operations (accidents) section in the outside building. The last one, being the closest, was a good option so I parked my car and walked into that operations building ( by the way, that's the main center for 199 hotline which they NEVER answer). I walk in to see a bunch of traffic policemen sitting there and I went to the reception and asked him about the form and process to obtain those new plates so he told me to check with one of the officers at the desk. And our trip with bureaucracy at its best begins… So I go to one of those pieces of chalk and ask him about the plates. He said that this wasn't the right place and that I have to go to the vehicle inspection section in the other building outside. What a way to flush press releases and official statements down the fucking toilet.

I start walking in the humid July air which was one of the hottest months since Bahrain started officially recording temperatures since 19-fucking-02. I arrived at the other building half-drenched and ask for the form so was given one and I filled it. Then I thought (hmmm why not do the same for my other car which my wife uses since it's in my name and will get this over with). So I fill a second form and thought that I will bring the other car later on tonight as they are open till 10pm –or so the newspaper said, which I started doubting since nothing mentioned in the papers made any sense- and went to pay the fees, of course that's all what the traffic department will ever make you do, PAY PAY PAY. What, you want a new driver's license? FUCK YOU, PAY ME! You want a new license plate? FUCK YOU, PAY ME! Oh you got involved in an accident even if it wasn't your fault and want a report? FUCK YOU, PAY ME!

After paying, I was given a couple of receipts and was told to go to this demented building right outside the inspection place... Take a good look for one day you WILL go there and WILL suffer like a dog…

The Zombie House

Went in, a bunch of anorexic girls sitting at the counter, this place looked like a zombie house, a zombie house that produced number plates. I handed the traffic police receipt to one of the she-zombies and entered a few details into the computer and just as I was expecting here to tell me to bring my car for installation, she stamps the receipt with an appointment one week from that day between 4-8pm. What? I thought it was being done within minutes. Apparently, every single person in Bahrain thought of "getting it over with ahead of the rush later on" which caused all this mayhem.

One week later I left work and arrived at the zombie town within the traffic department and of course no one tells you anything so went into the zombie house again and asked the lady where to have my plates installed. Without looking at me she just said: "Go outside". I mean what is outside and who to talk to? No answer, just another: "Go outside they will help you there". Of course the zombie bitch failed to mention that my car had to actually be inside their designated parking lot, apparently that's where the zombies get their power from feeding off our brains otherwise they would be powerless if they left the boundaries. Magic! So anyways I go outside and find a guy walking with a bunch of plates around and people following him like zombies. I told you it was a zombie place but you just laughed at the first lines I wrote about this place! I go to the guy and give him my receipt and he said that there was another guy collecting those receipts and pointed at someone else. I went to that idiot and he said go stand by your car and I'll collect the thing. I told him that my car is on the other side of the building and he said they wouldn't serve me unless I was within the confines of their boundary! So I walk back, take my car towards the parking lot only to find that there was a huge line of cars waiting to get in as the lot was full and they were letting ppl in on a car-by-car basis. After an hour and a half of lining up I finally made it into the lot and parked my car. Got down and the receipt guy was there so gave him my receipt. The suffering doesn't end there. Here is how they work:

1. Guy comes by your car you have to be standing next to it otherwise he won't collect the thing off of you.
2. Guy collects everyone's receipts and that gets fucking delayed because of the moronic zombies following him and obstructing him from collecting papers from people who are actually human and naïve enough to abide by the rules.
3. The guy goes into zombie central (the house) and comes back out to collect more receipts from people who just entered the lot.
4. Another person goes in as soon as he's done with distributing the batch of plates in his hands.
5. The dude brings the new plates and another set of suffering starts, he starts calling out names according to the plates and the receipts attached to them.
6. Once the owner confirms his presence, the dude does NOT hand him the plates (yaza3am security, go fuck yourselves), he calls for a laborer to hand him the plates and install them on the car. Of course, if all laborers are occupied then everything will be on hold until one frees up then gives him the plates and that's why it gets even more delayed.
7. The laborer goes to your car with his toolkit (and sometimes an assistant! Dunno why!) and removes the old plates, installs the new one. Oh and it is worthy mentioning here that if your car does not conform to the holes on the plates (yes YOUR car MUST conform to the holes and not the other way round), then drilling of your bumper/car body would be required and they will make you new unwanted holes in your car to install the fucking plates.
8. You drive out with the new plates and a few cells blown up from your brain.
That whole process took me around 3 hours. 3 FUCKING HOURS. And the worst part is that ALL of their employees do NOT give a fuck about your complaints or concerns. The traffic police however were open to suggestions. It was the first time I see a public sector entity especially one as arrogant as the traffic police become more caring than a private company who does NOT give a flying fuck about you. Laa and on top of all that, you are a fucking paying customer. Basically the way they talk to you is that they're telling you to go fuck yourself in an indirect way.

What also pissed me off is the lack of coordination and organization with those mongrels. I mean some people who came 30 minutes after you got their plates immediately after processing the batch, after the dude walks in he comes out only for you to find out that your plates aren't with him and some people here after you got theirs! I don't know for the life of me how they work. Completely unorganized.

Does it all end there? NO! I have a second car remember? So I decided to leave it till Thursday morning as the plates are already done and it's a matter of installing and I know what to do this time. I was wrong AGAIN!

I go there Thursday morning thinking that the line would be much less and that day the car had a problem with the AC the car kept heating up so I had to turn the AC on and off again and again and again as it was fucking hot and it felt like a sauna. Pardon me, it felt like a fucking giant hair dryer coz a sauna doesn't blow hot air at you! After one hour I make it into the zombie parking lot and gave the receipt to the guy and I waited for two fucking hours this time until my plates arrived. I was there from 9:30 am and a lot of batches came and went and my plates weren't with them. They close down at noon and there were only 30 mins left until they closed for midday break as the Ministry of Labor imposed a regulation banning laborers from working under the sun from 12-4pm. Anyways I was happy to see my plates with that last batch as they announced that they will not be bringing any more batches. My plates were before last. What luck! Anyways we waited in agony as laborers' availability was crippled do to them being slow under the sun and being two short after getting sun-stroked. As my plates came up only thing remaining was for one fucking laborer to free up and have mine installed. Their baboon supervisor came and halted the whole thing announcing they will not be installing any more plates. I got furious and told the guy that only two of us were remaining and pleaded him to just finish us and then stop. He wouldn't listen and gave me his back as he walked towards the air-conditioned zombie house. I tried telling him that I was there since 9:30 am and I was no less than the laborers in standing under the sun for that long but he didn't even look at me. The Zanzibarian bushy-bearded son of a bitch just went in so I went right behind him and told him that this was the only opportunity I had and I was working abroad. He said "shekho9ny feek ennek teshteghel barra3?" I told him that this was the only chance but to no avail. Here I started contemplating burning tires to get what I want but that's just not me! Maybe if someone else was in my shoes he would have started talking about this as a government plot and conspiracy but am no conspiracy theorist, not extensively anyways! I shouted and screamed at the guy and everyone looked at me and still he wouldn't give a fuck. Then their manager came (judging by the tie he was wearing and started bossing everyone around) and I tried explaining to him that only two of us were left and still nothing. They asked if I was willing to take the responsibility should anything happen to those laborers and when I said "Yes I am" they got shocked and saw how determined I was to get my transaction done. Needless to say I still got refused.

I didn't want my car to leave that parking lot otherwise when I came back at 4pm I would have to line up like a bitch again. So I called my brother and asked him to come pick me up. I went back at 4, thing is, the receipt was with them and so were my plates. I tried to talk to the guy to let him know that I had no receipt and what happened to me at noon but he said "Sorry no receipt, no service" just like that! So I go into zombie central for one last time and this time I was really nearly gonna murder someone and when the anorexic ho' saw me she remembered me from shouting earlier on and I told her where my numbers were she said that they would be out with the first batch. I told her that I should be served first and since my numbers were put aside anyways bring them out as laborers were there and available. No use, she said to go outside and wait until the first batch came. Went outside and waited for a whole fucking hour to get the first batch out then ppl started following the guy again like a zombie wanting to feed on their victim. No my plates weren't the first ones but they were there with the batch. Waited another half an hour until they got installed.

Seriously, what the FUCK is up those idiots' asses? They don't give a fuck about you, mistreat you and your voice does NOT make a difference whatsoever.

The whole experience was shambolic and I wouldn't want to go through it again. A couple of weeks later I saw this in the newspaper and it talks about the same situations I have been through.

Then this happened on the first of August:

Good! But what about us who got humiliated and degraded? If it were people who burnt tires, they would get locked up then released on a pardon. No one else damaged would get compensated. It is always people like us who are ALWAYS stuck in the middle and have to put up with both the government and the dissidents and it is always us who pay the ultimate price because our voices don't matter to anyone.

It seems that the new trend for Bahraini service provision is to degrade and humiliate their paying customers. You are making them a living yet they will make you feel like shit. Forgetting that the customer is king! Just like that VIVA fiasco (don't get me started on that shit! Standing for 4 hours to get an already pre-booked number is NOT cool! But that's for another LiBbie!).

Screw this shit, I'll go play GTA, at least there I can run people over, one day I will do it in real life…
LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-17762950252873266052010-08-10T11:03:00.011+03:002010-08-10T11:49:43.977+03:00Khaleeji Soap… So ClichéSo once again Ramadhan is upon us all. We would like to take this opportunity to wish you all a spiritual and pleasant Ramadhan. You can have a great month by steering clear from morons who apparently increase during the holy month because every single motherfucker out there gets cranky. But that's not our topic for today as we have spoken about it before and although "التكرار يعلم الحمار", it doesn't teach ignorant people who are below animals, even brainwashing doesn't work with these lowlifes.

<--- Shooji… dyke

We will be talking about the Khaleeji soap operas that flood our screens and TV stations throughout the month, coupled with other idiotic shows such as real bad comedy series or stupid quiz shows such as Shooji and other crap that fills the screen. Only a few shows are actually worthy of watching while the rest lacks any kind of creativity and you tend to watch a series of repeated shit. Just watch one Khaleeji soap opera which means that all the other crap shown follow the same storyline but with different pattern, different ugly characters and different timing. Therefore there would be no need to be torn apart by switching channels whenever you hear "إحنا هنا هنا يابن الحلال، محمصة الجزيرة آخر جمال...".

On with the show…

LiB's Top 10 Khaleeji Soap Opera Clichés (in no particular order):

10. The mansion: Seems like everyone lives in a mansion, not just any mansion, I'm talking about the works, MTV Cribs style, with marble flooring, big ass rooms, imperial furniture, 10 car garages and swimming pools, and surprisingly, they are meant to be the "middle class" family in the series (WTF!)… On the other hand, you might have the poor side of the community shown, which they are usually seen living in one of those crappy old skool houses used for shows like "ferjan lawal", they've been using that same studio since 1879!

A "middle-class" Khaleeji home according to our soap operas!

9. The bad seed: Every family seems to have a bad son, that loves nothing more than to party, get drunk and hook up with prostitutes, or/and a bad daughter that happens to be the prostitute! The family members are never aware of their children's actions, not until somehow by the end of the series, someone discovers it, and thus we get...

8. The heart attack: Usually the father is the one that ends up with it, and it usually occurs after they tell him he's either broke… or his daughter is a prostitute! This scene usually is the climax of the series, where everyone tries to put their shit together and stick together during the hospital scenes…

7. The will: There's always a rich dad that's either already dead or dying (refer to #8) and the fathers will is what his children will fight over during the series, and thus comes the infamous line "Babee3 3iqaraat el walid…", don't these fathers invest in anything else other than properties? I would love to see a show where their dad turns out to be a pimp!

6. The date: Every lover in Khaleeji soaps has to end up on the same date, wither it was a secret date or they were engaged, they always end up in some hotel like restaurant with crappy "Kenny G" music playing in the background, and of course, we cannot forget the HUGE fruit drinks in front of them, topped with everything but the kitchen sink; and a tiny umbrella of course.

5. The thought: No Khaleeji soap is complete without an "inner thought" moment, that's where the camera focuses on the actors face, sad violin music played in the background, and you hear the actor's voice echoed "as if he's thinking"… all of course without moving his mouth, but sometimes you see him lifting his finger up when he just thought of an idea, or with his palm on his face when he's worried (… and the Oscar goes to…)

4. The comic relief: No matter how serious the soap is, there has to be the idiotic character(s) that whenever they show up, you hear the Pink Panther theme song playing, the scenes where they appear usually involves some sort of scheme planning, but since they are idiots, they end up in a (not so) funny scene… gosh I didn't see that one coming!

3. The Makeup: No Khaleeji soap is complete without the Halloween make up, every girl has to look like either a Goth or a drag queen, tons of eyeliner and whitening crap, long dark fake looking hair (in most cases, they are!), and the disgusting puffed up lips… I know… no amount of make up or any makeup artist around the world could change the fact that these bitches are fugly, but could you make it a bit more realistic? I mean seriously, who the fuck wakes up, gets out of bed with a face full of makeup and a dress that looks fit for a wedding? Even if the bitch is dying… on a hospital bed… full makeup!!

2. The wedding: Someone somewhere at some point of the series has to get married, if it's the lead role its usually a happy wedding, and its somewhere near the end, everyone's happy blah blah blah, but sometimes it could be the wedding that changes the course of the series, that's when the father decides to marry a 2nd wife, a much younger, pain in the ass bitch kinda wife that everyone has to hate, which usually leads to #8 again, but this time with the 1st wife as the one being hospitalized… The weddings are usually very tacky with the most disgusting outfits and make up you have seen in your life (if you thought #3 was too much, then I wouldn't watch this with a mouth full), and these weddings usually have like 2-3 guests in them (obviously due to the budget, as most of it went to create the bride's face).

And of course… the mother of all clichés… we cannot forget:

1. The Slap: ahhh the infamous dramatic soap slap, you have waited 28 episodes to see that bitch eat palm…you heart is filled with joy and satisfaction as you hear the echoes of the slap bounce across your living room… justice is served.

Fuck this shit; I'll go watch me some Will & Grace… oh waitLiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-24273997258181349632010-08-07T09:11:00.007+03:002010-08-07T09:22:10.271+03:00Burn Baby Burn!
So a lot of people have been arguing in regards to the statement by one of the long bearded no brains MPs which suggested using "live ammunition" on protestors, Either for or against. Well, as much as I hate MPs and I think they are a complete waste of time and space (not to mention money with their fat salaries, fancy cars and the recent fat pension which guarantees them being secured for the rest of their miserable lives while other Bahrainis who elected them scrape for breadcrumbs until the end of the month… but that's another blog article), he could be getting somewhere with that…

I know, I know… everyone of you turned to a bunch of hippy humanitarians and human rights activists that think this is inhumane. Look at this image below…
THAT'S how it's fucking done!

Once upon a time in Bahrain it used to about the Shiaa sect groups in Bahrain who were causing trouble and rioting, burning tires and blowing up gas cylinders. But that's not really the case anymore… EVEN THEY ARE SICK OF IT!

Now I have asked many people that belong to the Shiaa sect, regarding the incidents that are occurring, all responded with "I can't sleep at night..." or "I'm tired of this shit" or even as simple and meaningful as "FUCK THEM BASTARDS!"…

Now imagine going home every day and seeing graffiti on every wall in your neighborhood... Remains of burnt tires from the night before… garbage dumpsters set on fire in broad daylight… Aren't you going to be worried about the safety of your family? Your home? Your wife? Your children? Anyone with a heart would not want their families jeopardized or in the face of danger, which is why I sleep with one eye open and a cricket bat next to my bed… (True story). Time to upgrade the cricket bat to that baseball bat!

Solving these people's problems is indeed the perfect solution to all of this, but that would be difficult if they can only express themselves by burning shit up… they have reached a level of mentality which turns them from humans to wild animals… now tell me, is it wrong to shoot a wild rabid animal? HELL NO!

They themselves don't know what they want! Some asshole is brain washing a bunch of kids (yes they are kids, I chased a few of them before plus look at the picture below) to go and burn shit and destroy property... I mean seriously, who in the right mind would go and blow up an electrical generator, just so that the electricity in the neighborhood would get cut off, and they end up sleeping in our lovely 45-degree, 100%-humidity weather??? I tell you who… DOUCHEBAGS!

Or lets burn down a store that belongs to some poor Bahraini guy that's trying to make a living… that lives in the same neighborhood! Seriously… What the fuck!

Plus, and please bear with me, how on God's green earth would a 12-16 year old complain about housing and unemployment? Go and study hard first and get your fucking degrees THEN maybe, just maybe, you would be able to justify all these unjustifiable acts because a sane person would keep on fighting for their rights in legit and credible ways rather than "twisting arms" or "gimme this OR ELSE" or burning shit up. Only then they would have credibility to gain the support of all people and not just a bunch of loafers. Oh and those who entice these kids, are always on planes out to London where they preach their hatred on the streets, business class, baby!

Let me give you a better solution, Mr. MP: Give me a shotgun with unlimited ammunition, and a license to kill, I will volunteer to patrol the streets of my neighborhood and rid the world from tire-burning scum forever… and I bet I can bring a lot of "Call of Duty" fans along to help me out…

Fuck this shit… I wanna play some real life FPS!LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-83484845726859889192010-07-27T09:27:00.011+03:002010-08-16T14:19:59.462+03:00Hands of Fate?Hey all, it's been a loooong while since I last wrote here, but will try to be a better contributor to this blog and I appreciate the support I get from the LiB Team Leader...

The world is full of stupid dickheads. In fact, I can't ever underestimate the general population's ability to amaze me with their idiocy. Every time I think I've seen the stupidest thing I will ever live to see, some one else comes along and redefines the standard, setting the stupidity bar even higher.

Here is an example:

They say, "How come it takes extensive training and strict tests to acquire a driving license, while any two idiots are allowed to have children?"

Some would say it's not the same thing, but if you think about it for a second, you'll figure out why they're exactly the same.

Why aren't you allowed to drive without a license?
Because by driving without proper knowledge & training, you'll endanger your life and the life of others.

On the other hand, why shouldn't you have a child without a license?
Because through parental negligence you could endanger the child's life. Furthermore, through bad parenting you could raise a future set of underachievers, morons and/or potential criminals.

Some people fail the driver's test several times, while others are failing way-easier tests like stupid IQ tests and profiling questionnaires. I was in a test lately where some candidates were so stupid they were cheating/copying "what field they wanted to work in". That's the kind of morons our educational system produces nowadays, they can't fill any fucking blank space on a sheet of paper unless they cheat it off someone else, even their names!

Think about it. There are morons who are too stupid to drive a car, to learn how to use a PC, put mail in your mailbox, or even speak English (Arabic in some cases). But they can have as many stupid kids as they want. In fact, idiots are having more kids than smart people, because smart people can do the fucking math to know they can't afford to raise ten fucking kids with the amount of salaries they make.

Couples should have to pass a test before they're allowed to have a child. Like having medical tests nowadays to determine the parents-to-be's compatibility and prevention of hereditary diseases, they should also be able prove that they're extremely committed, mentally competent, fully dependable, financially capable and emotionally stable enough to have and raise children. Of course, the question at hand "what is the criteria for this test, and who enforces it?"

Those questions will never be answered in Bahrain, and moronic parents will continue to pop out legions of stupid babies who in turn will produce more scum, and life goes on and on and on…

The recurring incidents of innocent children drowning (3 incidents in less than 6 weeks) because of their parents' negligence, means that parents are not really learning any lessons from others' mistakes. Maybe, to those parents, the loss of their innocent child isn't compelling enough to take extra care of her/him.

People never seem to learn from others' mistakes, it's like all those fucking horrific fatal car accidents, people always think that this happens to anyone and everyone but themselves because in their own eyes, they are fucking invincible. Do they have to die in a car crash to understand that they are not? By then it's too late but serves them right I guess.

What if Criminal Justice throws the loss of freedom into the mix? For parents who think of children as furniture, maybe the only way to save these children is by threatening the freedom (jail time) of their careless parents. Children are not properties; they are the cornerstones of future societies' development. Therefore, endangering the lives of children is a public offence, and the public bodies should step in and protect the next generations.

Come to think of it, jail time might not do proper justice to the torture the child endured right before taking his/her last breath. Proper justice is – and always has been – eye for an eye: nothing fucking less and nothing fucking more.

The careless father/mother should be drowned to near death everyday for the whole length of her/his sentence. They should fully experiment how it feels to know that this might be their last breath, and feel the water actually filling their lungs. Then a medical team must revive them back using every mean possible (e.g. CPR, defibrillator).

I think that would be true justice to what they did to their own flesh and blood. Some assholes would say isn't it enough that the parents just lost their own child? The answer is: NO! Since there are parents with no emotional links whatsoever to their children, or those who treat children as easy-to-replace properties, how is the pain of losing a child enough punishment?

Some parents bring dozens of children to this world and let the street raise them, then they complain that they can't spend good amount of money on them and can't support them bla bla bla. They then turn to the government for a handout and DEMAND that the government finds them schools, jobs and whatnots. And in turn, those children who look up to their parents, think that this is the way to act and behave so they in turn become carbon copies of their idiot parents and do the same and have children in the same fucking manner…

People who say it was fate and that it was meant to be are ought to be gathered and drowned one-by-one in a very big pool. And we'll tell them it was fated for them to drown! This was not fate. The drowning of your own child is pure negligence. I assure you God doesn't kill little babies, stupid parents do.

Another example of bad parenting would be by walking in the streets ahead or behind their children by a considerable distance without holding their hands, making them prone to being run over by an 18-wheeler or even worse, get snatched by a kidnapper or a pedophile where the child will be scarred for life, a fate worse than death IMHO and the criminal getting away with it with minimum fine and 5-star prison time, only to get out and prey on more productions of idiot parents. No wonder we read about child rape cases almost every day in the fucking papers.

And what about those moron parents who "forget" their children in the car to leave them boil and grill in the heat? A lot of children died or almost died that way because the idiot who is called their parent forgot them in the car.

That's why the attitude of children nowadays in general sucks. Children do whatever the fuck they want and the parents simply either don't give a rat's ass to their behavior or are too lazy or ignorant to do anything about it. Then those little demons grow up to see them destroying public AND private property such as destroying lamp posts, public phones, bus stations, burning tyres or trash in the street and the list NEVER ends… A lot of things were put there to serve other people in need of those services and by destroying that shit. You are doing the whole community harm. Be considerate. But these days it's all about "me" and "fuck the rest, I'm the best!"

The educational system is not perfect. Far from it, but the point I want to make is that when some good teachers try and discipline the child. Their idiotic parents come and unleash hell at that teacher and his administration. They also escalate the matter to the Ministry of Education, who in turn penalize the good teacher just to shut those parents up. That's why our whole society is a joke and everyone knows it but no one likes to admit it. Bad parents think that they are the perfect family and the rest are trash. Now count every other family that thinks like that and you have a society that the majority are lowlifes but THINK they are superior. Gimme a fucking break, mongrels.

Watch your children, and provide maximum care for them. Then -and only then-, if something bad happened to them, you can call it fate. However, leaving your child (when you know he can't swim) alone near a swimming pool, or in a locked car or open to snatching and raping by criminals, has nothing to do with fate, but has everything to do with negligence and pure ignorance.

Don't blame fate for your irresponsibility!The Cynichttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-50787950462248274902010-07-21T10:58:00.008+03:002010-07-21T15:09:22.911+03:00LiB @ Work #2: The Alpha Male SyndromeNow in our previous "LiB @ Work" article we talked about female managers and why they are not cut out to be leaders at work. This doesn't mean that men are any better and also a lot of them are not fit to lead even their own shadows. Having worked in an all-male setting at one point in my career was an enlightening and a funny experience as I got to experience first-hand what is referred to as the "Alpha Male Syndrome".

In an animal pack, like a wolf pack, a lion pack etc…, you will find that the strongest male controls and leads the pack and the rest follow his lead, this male stays in power until another strong male steps up to the challenge and ousts him from his leadership position by killing him or defeating him in a fight and banishes him from the pack. The same can be applied at work, where an alpha type will try to "kill" or "banish" those whom he deems as a threat to him and his god-forsaken existence.

To have alpha males at work is a double edged sword. On one end, it's good to have them as they are leaders by nature and know what they want and what their goals are and strive to achieve what they have planned for. On the other hand, being persistent fuckers, it makes it difficult for others to work with them because they are aggressive, intolerant most of the time, can be arrogant at times and can easily tell you to go fuck yourself if they think your ideas outshine theirs or you tend to disagree with their views.

Most of them can get defensive and will refuse to listen to what you have to say or offer as they think they are divine creatures and they know best and everyone else is a pitiful idiot who are good for nothing but work like sheep, nod your head and say "yes your lordship" all the fucking time.

Some of them are highly productive at work and some of them just leech off of others. In the Middle East region, 97.6245624% of alpha males are actually assholes, leeches and hyenas who will climb on others' backs to reach that high chair. They are drama queens who bullshit all the time and seek attention at any cost, even if it meant selling his parents to get into top management. And being as insecure as they are, they like to label others what they see in themselves such as framing others for forgery, giving bad performance appraisals to honest and hard-working people because they know that once allowed to shine, these poor bastards can strip them of their title and send them out the back door with the door whopping their asses on their way out. But the alphas know better, they take the pre-emptive step and send those condemned souls out the window.

What's the next step? So step one: getting rid of high performers… CHECK! Step two: replace them with idiots who have lower IQs than parameciums to make themselves look superior. And when it's time for them to go, those sad excuses for human beings will replace them in the end. And that, my friends, is technically EXCELLENT succession planning methodology. The steps are correct: "Time for me to go and someone will replace me and take my place" but it will be someone who is a carbon copy or worse than his predecessor. And the cycle goes on and on...

It's not to say that ALL companies follow the same trend and ALL alpha males are like that. But the general feel is that most of the companies in this damn region are actually like this and very few are ones who care about rewarding employees for actual work or performance rather than proficiency in bullshitting and ass-kissing.

In my previous company, our General Manager, whom everybody knows and acknowledges as being the alpha male because he likes shoving his schlong in every project even minor ones just to say: "You better do what I tell you to do you ignorant idiots who don't know jack shit", once said something that was technically wrong, and me, being the naïve "professional" and "subject matter expert", wanted to bring this mistake to his attention. I was wrong; he did not directly call me if he wanted something afterwards and started questioning every single thing I did thereafter. He basically made my life miserable because I told him that it was wrong doing it this way while we should do it the other way.

I can't put my professionalism and ethics aside and be quiet when I see something wrong and not pointing it out because that's what I am paid to do. If it's wrong it's wrong. End of story. But others who just shook their heads like cows and praised his holy greatness got good ratings because despite being wrong, they all said that he has bestowed his knowledge on them!

That's why the west will always be better than us. They reward actual hard work and promote quality people. Again, not all companies in the west are like that but a lot are actually opposite what companies practice here in the Middle East. It's because their legal rights for employees and acts are designed to minimize corruption and acknowledge performance and that's what trade unions there strived for. Unlike our trade unions here who politicize every single thing and threatens management teams and board members to adhere to their demands, OR ELSE! But trade unions are a totally different subject that we will cover in our "Lib @ Work" series in the future.

Screw this, am late for a showdown with an alpha male, maybe I'll manage to kill him and rip his heart out and become the next alpha male in the office ;) Yeah… Rip his heart out, MORTAL KOMBAT STYLE!!!

Side Note: This was in today's GDN, coincides with our article! "You must use Gulf Air despite them being incompetent, OR ELSE!"

Side Note #2: Sorry about the comment moderation, folx. It seems that there are a lot of those chinese spammers around and managed to flood our comments pages with useless bullshit. They manage to ruin everything even online games, spammers by nature. They even go as far as ruin gamers' fun by camping and getting all the rare monsters for rare gold and drops and sell it for REAL cash! Anyways that's why we turned comment moderation on but we will not stop or edit any comments and post them as they are. Thanks.LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-86729533832553635982009-10-27T19:53:00.006+03:002009-10-27T19:59:56.114+03:00Just a Quick Thought...To ensure continuity....

"People don't look at all the good things you have done through the years.... Just screw up once and you will know why..."

A personal experience throughout the years...

Regards,
LiB Team Leader.LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-29108940261720131792009-08-16T18:42:00.007+03:002009-08-16T18:56:58.965+03:00LiB @ Work #1: Why Females are the Worst Managers
Since we've been away for a long time, we think it's time to come up with new series of articles that will talk about the shit-ass situations we face from time to time. We are working on a number of mini series that will talk about situations at work for example, an official LiB food guide, etc… So please excuse the long absence and be prepared for more regular updates... On with the show!

Now before all of you fucking feminists and female defenders jump to conclusions and start bashing at me, I know that NOT ALL female workers or managers are like that. But approximately 98.142394% of female managers ARE indeed the worst anyone can work with due to the following reasons:

1. PMS

It's that time of the month, AGAIN. You are doing your job when suddenly your manager turns into a she-demon and starts screaming at you for no apparent reason. She keeps shouting that you screwed up this and that when you have spent a lot of your time and energy towards achieving that tight deadline. Suddenly your morale goes down and you feel like you wanna torch the office with EVERY single person in it so that you get it over with and stop her fucking whining and unbearable ear-piercing sharp voice.

2. Mood-Swings

Now those can be related to the above point, but in general, females are moody the whole fucking time and have no time of month to be moody. They will switch their mood just like that and will treat you the way they want whenever they fucking want to. One day she will be all smiles with you praising you for being that great employee! 14 seconds later she will start obliterating at you telling you to go fuck yourself because you are nothing but a screw-up and you should be fired or even shot. Gimme a fucking break!
When she doesn't like something that's going on in the office she will act like a hero and start talking about how she is going to change that. The next day, she will deny that she had said anything about what's going on and will refuse to acknowledge it! Fucking moody people…

3. Procreation & Reproduction

Okay, now this is a minor point compared to the first two, very minor but still could cause disruption to the business by those few months of maternity leaves and then the feeding hours. And with the law changed to TWO hours instead of one, as if one hour of any female working not being there to provide support to her internal and external clients wasn't enough, they go ahead and double that. Hey it's ok. But SOME female workers aren't worthy of that because as soon as that time to leave comes, she will leave even if she needed to stay just 5 extra minutes to get that thing over with which means your transaction would get delayed for another day because of this. Now imagine someone in a managerial position had to leave two hours early for two years. What if an approval or signature is needed? Go figure…

4. Trying to Act Like Their Male Counterparts

Some female managers will try to act like their male peers and will act to be tough with their employees whereas they are doing nothing but fucking the poor employee up THINKING they are being tough on them. Being a bitch at work isn't tough. Tough is when someone actually does a mistake and penalize him/her for it. Being a bitch on the other hand is just making life miserable for a hardworking employee.

5. Their Love for Spying Employees

Women in their nature are gossipers. They love spreading news, rumors and whatnots around. So having said that, they love to have a person who spies on other employees and bring her any updates that she can use against them. Of course there are male managers who do the same but it's more evident in the case of she-demons, errr, female managers.

6. Insecurity

With that feeling of insecurity she will consider any hardworking employee be them male or female as a threat to her career and that's why she will wage war against this type of employees. She will surround herself with idiots so that she will look the best and smartest amongst them. She would never delegate important tasks to those high-flyers so that they don't steal the lights from her and expose her stupidity.

Now, there are more reasons but these are the major ones. Please note that again... I am not saying that ALL female managers are like that but the majority of them are actually good rising up the ranks and do very well until they hit that high chair and the sudden shift in attitude happens.

Additionally, I wanna say that I have worked with some great bosses during my career; two of them were actually females. One of them was truly the best. The second one was good as a junior manager until she hit a higher management role when a slight change in attitude occurred. But one of my ex-bosses captures the she-demon with a lot of points mentioned above. And two, actually three of my friends had to quit their jobs because of facing similar situations. So statistically, the percentage mentioned above is actually correct! I could go into more details and mention names to you but that's not the point of this article!

Screw this shit. I'll go open a consultancy firm urging companies not to promote a lot of females...
LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-2325825337106987312008-08-18T12:34:00.004+03:002008-08-18T12:42:01.147+03:00"Daddy's House is Awesome!"After spending a few months out of the country focusing on my new job and furnishing my new apartment and organizing my shit out there, I decided to come home for a short break since my employer gives me two return tickets every year which is great news!

I come home, only to find frustration creeping back to me a few minutes after landing, starting with the arrogant passport control fuckers to the idiots that are blocking the road outside the airport to the maniacs driving cars on the streets. My mind was clear for a few months and was never stressed out even though my job is overloaded and I am busy all the time. It's the shitty environment of Bahrain I guess but hey, it's home after all and I was more than glad to be back.

On one of the many jammed streets, this caught my attention which I decided to analyze and share with you my observations and conclusions...

The idiot kid who doesn't know the value of money (which I don't expect him to at this stage of his life, but will probably will continue not to know based on how his parents will keep on spoiling him and giving him what he needs), the kid keeps wondering how beautiful his dad's house is. Oh you have no idea that your dad has to go through and pay with his blood for the next 25 years. That means until you grow up and get married and have a family of your own, your dad would still be paying for the house and still wouldn't be able to call it his own.

Now to the second point, which is the house itself, there is no way even if hell freezes over that you will find an isolated house like that in Bahrain. It would look more like this:

And of course the houses are stuck wall-to-wall so even in your "own" house you can't properly listen to some music on a moderately loud volume or enjoy full boom 5.1 near-cinema sound effects on an action movie without having the dickwad next door wanting to come over and kick the living shit out of you.

And for such shitty houses, they would set you back around 90-100 thousand dinars which you would have to get 20% of first as downpayment then the rest would be broken down to 300 equal installments @ BD 822 a month (I asked Bahrain Credit for a BD 100,000 house and how much it would cost and that's the figures they provided). So I have to pay 822 Dinars a month for 300 fucking months then the house will be mine. Oh and the Bahrain Central Bank have that shit-ass rule that you cannot have more than half your salary in deductions. That means with those figures I would be paying 82.2% of my salary which they won't allow due to that rule. So my salary would have to be around 1650 Dinars a month provided I have NO deductions NO bank loans and even NO GOSI deductions, which would take the total salary if I only had GOSI deductions to 1700 Dinars a month. So even some people on management jobs wouldn't be able to afford such tin can-sized houses.

You want a fucking solution? Stop foreigners and other GCC fuckers from owning land and restrict them to only commercial lands, not let them own residential plots as well. They do the same for us so why should we be the kind species and allow them to despite our island being small?

The ministry of housing are also shit with regards to this case. They consider me rich and the guy on the other end of the phone told me in these exact words "You have NO RIGHT applying to a ministry of housing loan of ANY type with us". Can you fucking imagine? I have no rights in my own fucking country. I am already enjoying my work abroad and being respected for the value I am adding. Unlike the fuckers in Bahrain who drove me out. It wasn't just the housing, even at work I was being treated like shit so that the whore bitch who used to be my manager could bring one of her "own people" in. With such mentalities, nothing will ever be solved in Bahrain.

If there are no REAL solutions to tackle those problems, I will never think of coming back and not only that, these issues are driving more and more frustrated youth to leave the country in search of better lives for themselves and their families. And yet the part of community who think that all is well and life is rosy in Bahrain have the Audacity to question those poor youths' loyalty. If they had a good life, do you think they would have even thought of leaving?

One final thought. The current situation tells me that only bulshitters and asskissers and those with strong was6as, not any was6as but strong ones, in addition to some expats are the ones who will continue to enjoy the best of Bahrain while the rest will struggle to make ends meet in light of the ever-increasing prices of consumer goods while salaries remain the same. Government gives some handouts or salary increases? No problem! Merchants are ready to increase the prices even further. When the government "thinks" to give any increases through announcing in the newspapers that they will study the feasibility of increasing wages, the merchants bump up the prices and when those increases are physically given after months of torture and degrading the dignity of people by announcing their names in the newspapers like some paupers, the merchants add more increases, they have to make a living too, right? Bite me, motherfuckers.

Fucking mongrels are shitting all over the country and the good ones are leaving. One day it will turn into a big turd dumpster unless we change it.

Fuck this shit, I'll go set up my own business to exploit others too...LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-87689517453989408032008-05-12T08:54:00.004+03:002008-05-12T09:19:18.973+03:00Thank You Very Much, My Country!I came across this in today's Akhbar Al-Khaleej:

And all I have for words is : Wayed 3ala Omkom.

Now my absence for such a long time was that I was looking around for another job, preferrably abroad and, well, I got one and moving there soon! I won't tell you where or when but I will still be talking about all the bullshit that goes on in Bahrain, such as the one above.

Yes 60k is better than 40, but is still nowhere near, with the cheapest lands (lands only) costing around 55k for a 55x60ft plot. Oh and with their shit-ass rule that families earning more than 1,200 Dinars a month "have no right to apply for ANY Ministry of Housing services" as was said to me by one of their esteemed employees. I have NO rights can you imagine because to the government, I am a millionaire despite the constitution stating that EVERY national has the right to a proper house with decent lving conditions or a certain someone promising EVERY Bahraini a land and a house. I guess he can't keep that promise now with the sudden jump of population from 721,394 to 1,002,345. Don't worry man, you got one less now so you have 1,002,344 lands to give out. Well thank God Almighty for finding an opportunity abroad. Until things change in this shithole, it will always be a shithole. Can you believe that I can own and build a house abroad and live in it a decent life while in my own country I can't and am forced to either rent or live with my parents although I have a family of my own to cater for? And the government and people are well aware of such issues but they want the good people to leave the country. You know why? I'll tell you why.. Because they want to look the smartest. See, government officials are nothing but dumbshits. So they always promote people and give incentives to people with less IQs than them so that they ALWAYS look good and smarter than the rest. That's why a lot of Bahraini youth are thinking of migrating. Then those officials themselves have the fucking nerves to question those exasperated people's loyalty. Loyalty will always be there but if living conditions are shit then don't expect the good people to stay and watch their lives go to waste. Just look at the immmigrants abroad, even though a lot of them became citizens of the countries they moved to, they still can proudly say where they are originally from. Here, no, you have to shut the fuck up.

It's like Imam Ali (RAA) said:"Poverty in the homeland is an alienation, while richness in a foreign land is a home". No matter how much we love our land, if there are other opportunities abroad, we shouldn't let them pass by and then regret it years later.

My head is clearer now, the anger is lesser and can't wait till I finish my notice period with my shitass company that caused me to leave in the first place because my pig of a boss turned me into a slave so that she can bring one of her own "people" in. I guess she will get what she wants now, but I will be on the greener other side by then. Until then, I shouldn't use any baseball bats or fire extinguishers to smash someone's head so that I don't delay my plans of moving out.LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-46152190854264246752007-09-03T10:42:00.000+03:002007-09-03T14:12:47.475+03:00Life in Bahrain is One Big Endurance Test...Scanning through yesterday's newspaper when a few interesting subjects caught my attention which I would like to share with the rest of you people, it has been a while since we've been here so let the slaughter begin...

All the things that you read about nowadays in the newspapers is a test for us to endure different kinds of nerve-wrecking tests and makes you wonder: "How on Earth is this country running?"

First thing that I noticed of course was the main headline on the front page:

All I can say is HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH WHAT A BUNCH OF BULLCRAP AND HORSESHIT.

Moving on next to this column which reflects a personal experience:

To our non-Arabic readers, basically this guy is talking about a letter he received from an exasperated customer to an "Islamic" bank where they charged him 1 Dinar for every month his bank account was below 20 BD. Now, I understand that banks do charge service charges for maintaining accounts which have no cash in them, I have endured that during my student years abroad and I know it's a common practice internationally. The point, though, is that the bank in this case did NOT make it clear to the customer that they were going to charge them 1 BD for every month their balances are below 20 Dinars. The customer went to the Bahrain Central Bank and told them about this. The BCB told the customer to fuck off as it had nothing to do with them and it's not a rule that they enforced. We all thought that you motherfucking mongrels did. It became common practice for banks around this country to charge this 1 Dinar. Now let me get this, so you don't care if banks do that? Okay it's their right to pretend that they are "losing" money from such accounts while on the other hand announce humongous profits at the end of the year and they pay their arrogant employees some 20-40 salaries bonuses. Gimme a fucking break you motherfucking thieves. Hey I am not against whatever policies you decide to enforce. Just don't fucking rip me off by NOT telling me that you are going to start enforcing some charges and keep charging me whilst not knowing about them. The Bahrainis are broke enough to start worrying about their accounts going in the minus balance.

This also happened to me but not by an "Islamic" bank but our very own "national" NBB. Now these thieves are so good at it that they don't give a flying fuck about anyone or anything. I went the other day to the branch with a friend so I remembered "Hey I had an account a LONG time ago. If it's still open why not deposit some money and forget about it? But hey no I am sure that it has been closed down by now". So I go up to the teller and give him my CPR Number asking him whether an account in my name exists or not. To my surprise and joy it did! Great! No need to reopen an account, just deposit some cash there and forget about it again. All that went down the drain faster than a dumped piece of crap travelling down the flush when the guy told me that the account existed but it has MINUS 47 Dinars in it. WHAT? WHAT THE FUCK? And I asked the donkey why was I in the minus, and not by a small amount but 47 fucking Dinars. He told me that was because I was being charged 1 Dinar every month since they started enforcing that rule. I asked him but my account was inactive for a LONG time why wasn't it closed? He said that they don't close the accounts. Elsewhere, now correct me if I'm wrong but an idle account gets closed down after a few months or years of inactivity if it had ZERO balance. But no, these asswipes kept the account open and kept charging me a Dinar a month until it reached this silly number. I asked the fucker why I wasn't told about this before they started charging me, to which he didn't have any answers, and I didn't expect such a low level creature to do. Thanks a bunch, fucking NBB, I already hate you enough but this made me swear not to deal with you or let a member of my family do, EVER. Fucking thieves just like the rest of the thieves in the country.

And what's with "Islamic" banking anyways? They just found the right tool to lure religious extremists who think interest is forbidden in Islam to make them take loans using words like "Moraba7a" and "Ajara". This -In my humble opinion- is also interest and daylight robbery but they are more appealing to the bushy bearded and their ninja wives. "Ooooh looky I have a loan from an Islamic Bank. I will not pay Ribba. All you dealing with commercial banks are doomed to eternity of hellfire and endless anguish". Islamic banking my ass.

Okay so we are done with the appetizer, moved on to entrée and now onto the dessert...

The situation on this damned causeway is getting from bad to worse. In the days long ago, the Bahraini side was much more competent than that of the Saudi. Nowadays it's the exact opposite. Saudis have become much more efficient and speedy while Bahrainis are deteriorating and getting worse and worse. The reasons? One main reason is that the employed a whole new generation of morons. Shitty kids with such a shitty attitude that you just wanna hold a giant chainsaw and go through that artificial border island and cut it in half. They are careless, slow and dumb. And God forbid should you say anything that displeases them. They will make you wait even longer and make you wish you hadn't been born.

What's with all the bureaucratic bullshit? Why don't you allow people use their personal ID cards (an ID card is different from the dumb smart card)? Now that's one document which was useful when I last went to Dubai, no passport, no hassle, plus, in the GCC all they do is enter the passport number and they do not stamp any exit or entry stamps in the passport so why bother carrying one when you can use the useful card to go and come as you please?

Furthermore, why not eliminate that border island and keep everything on the mainland? At least traffic will be eliminated on the causeway itself. Let the fee collection booth, the customs and immigration part on the Saudi side and once you reach the Bahraini side in mainland Bahrain, you go through the other process of immigration, customs and inspection and vice-versa, use the toll booth, customs and immigration on the Bahraini side and once you cross the bridge, you arrive at mainland Saudi and go through immigration, customs and inspection. You can use the artificial island as a service island containing petrol stations and it already has restaurants. Sort of a last minute errand running place in case you forget to complete them before leaving your country. Check out the crappy illustration as a reference.

Get rid of those shitty kids or properly train them and actually punish them if they screw up instead of giving them a power trip. Such people will shit on other people's heads thinking they are the highest of the high. You are high alright, crack-high, that is.

I have another experience with the traffic police of the causeway but I'll leave that to another post when I bash at those pieces of chalk. Fucking mongrels.

Screw this shit, I'll go shop for Ramadhan before prices get bumped up again. Then they say all prices are under close control and observation, yaah riiight.LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-60068645727312236982007-09-02T13:20:00.000+03:002007-09-02T13:40:17.587+03:00Smart Card... Dumb Issuer?
Okay first of all let me tell all of you what a refreshing vacation that was! After a couple of years of no proper full vacation, only a day or two every couple of months and that's it. Boy this was refreshing.

Despite the heat in Bahrain, I didn't travel this year and stayed here the whole time but decided to take a full time off computers, relax and do absolutely nothing except for a few dinners out here 'n' there, a couple of shopping/food trips to Saudi and that was it. I just wanted to relax and think nothing of work or anything else for that matter.

One of my experiences during this vacation was that my CPR card has expired and that they only replace it with the new "smart" ID card. So I said what the heck, whether we like it or not we have to go with the flow. Thanks to the advice on Ammar's blog... I went there well prepared with all the documentation required. I booked an appointment on their retarded website and finally was set for the day of reckoning!

The day arrived and I went to the CIO in Isa Town and was actually 20 minutes earlier than my appointment. So I decided to go to the information desk anyways and told the guy I had an appointment 20 mins later and he asked for my CPR, he entered the data and gave me a waiting number. Once I took the number I saw it flashing at one of the many counters open. I thought "well hey, they have improved a lot, many counters, huge waiting areas, you know what? Maybe these government entities aren't that retarded after all and that they are changing for the better". That was going on in my mind as I was walking towards that counter. All was well and I suddenly got that fresh breeze of optimism inside me as I was excited to get the card. The counter was empty but my number was there so I sat down and waited for the person to attend to me. Suddenly that breeze of optimism flew away like a tornado faster than the hurricanes you hear about in the Caribbean. There you go, typical government entity, no one is there! I waited for a couple of minutes until a lady showed up who looked like "Um Hilal*"; she was an exact replica of her. So I gave her all my documents and told her that my CPR was expired and that I need to have it replaced. She typed in my details and this happened:

Um Hilal Wannabe: "Are you still studying in the University of Bahrain?"
Me: "Huh? No! I work and here's the letter from my employer"
UHW: "But you are listed here as a UoB student"
Me: "Yeah but now I work, and for the record, I completed my studies abroad and just was in the registration phase at UoB, anyways, isn't it your job to replace my details with my work details?"
UHW: "No I can't remove it from the system unless you bring me a letter from the UoB that you are no longer studying there"
Me: "But I didn't study there, I only registered and went abroad"
UHW: "In that case bring a copy of your degree from abroad"
Me: "But now I have to go back to work and get the copy and this will take even longer to process instead of finishing the whole thing today"
UHW: "I can't do anything else, I can't remove the details without either a statement from the UoB or your certificate"
Me: "But I work now and it is not relevant anyways whether I study in the UoB or not. It doesn't matter cuz I work and that should be listed as my occupation. You guys just love to make our time harder don't you? You just love to see us beg like dogs to get permission to leave our job to come here and take it from you? (Which of course I was on leave and it didn't matter!)"
UHW: "Sorry I can't do anything else... NEXT!"

I sat and waited for my friend who was there too, and I went to vent some steam out when I talked about what happened to me loudly in front of the other lady who was serving my friend. That proved to be good because she heard my case and asked me if I had stopped studying with UoB before 2004 to which I answered that I didn't go there at all but yeah to answer her question yes it was way before 2004, much before that! So she went to UHW and told her that she could change my occupation details without any paperwork.

Everything else went smoothly afterwards and a few minutes later, I walked out with a shiny new smart card but also with a few burnt brain cells because of getting angry at UHW. Smart card, dumb dumb dumb employees issuing it.

And what the fuck is up with these stupid cards anyways? I mean they don't have the address printed on them unlike the old CPR card and the Identity (Personal) Card which can also be used as a travel document to some GCC States like Qatar, UAE and Oman, but not KSA which is closer to us, what dumbfucks, instead of introducing electronic passport/ID card scanners on the causeway, they make it more difficult to get through.

They say that with card readers you can get the address and other details about the cardholder, but not everyone has the reader yet. So how can I prove my address to anyone requiring it? Smart card my ass, yes smart on paper but dumb in reality.

Overall, my view still hasn't changed about how laid back most of the government workers are, there ARE some who are hard workers but the majority isn't. Don't pretend they are and that all life is perfect in these workplaces.

Fuck this shit, I'll go sort all the pics I took during the holiday and articles I dug out the newspapers to prepare them to be grilled here on LiB...

*Um Hilal: A popular fat black Bahraini actress who had popular series in the 80s during Ramadhan.
LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-86773215682124500022007-06-17T09:23:00.000+03:002007-06-17T09:29:11.997+03:00Oh...My...God !!Okay before everyone starts bashing at us, please note that this is not against females, but then again there are a lot of females who don't know jack shit about driving. And this is the perfect example on PURE IDIOCY...

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This video isn't ours but we sure as hell loved it. It deserves to be highlighted by us...LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-28747998445911946322007-05-22T11:05:00.000+03:002007-05-22T12:06:13.269+03:00Video Game Ignorance is Bliss?Once again, the retarded people at our local newspapers strike again. With crappy retarded articles that were obviously written at 11:35pm because the bastard journalist had to submit before his fucking dead-line. So he doesn't give a shit if he's spreading lies or some crap he made out of his ass...

This time our moron is an asshole journalist with no obvious intelligence or journalism background, probably a high school drop out.

Anyways, here's the article:

I'm not going to go through the whole article, but roughly translated, it entitles "Parents Warn of Heretical Video Game". The game they refer to is "God of War", which is the best PS2 game released, Period!

Now, obviously because the game's title is suspicious to the small-minded majorities that infest this island, everything with the word "GOD" in it has to be so disrespectful that it must be banned!

Who is the God of War? For people who haven't played the game, and by people I'm referring to people with slight intelligence, nothing above average, they can just take a glimpse at the picture, and tell you what the game is about. For example the Spartan warrior, the Greek style architectural background, the big Omega sign in the title, the Medusa head??? Need we say more? For idiots like this reporter, their brains seem to function at an entirely different level, they seem to forget everything they see in the picture, and in this case, listen to the idiot masses that don't know jack shit about the game and focus on the word "GOD"! Sad, but true.

God of War is an action-adventure video game. Based on Greek mythology, where a Spartan warrior named Kratos, has somehow ended on a quest to rid the world from Ares, the god of war, with the help from the other gods, Zeus, Aphrodite and even Hades himself!

The asshole that wrote the article obviously never played the game, nor has time because his boss is butt-fucking him to come up with crap articles to fit the deadlines, no wonder you see him writing about whatever the fuck he can, sports, politics, religion, you name it, you'd think he's a jack of all trades. But as he says in the article, the game starts with a battle with "Allah". NO IT DOESN'T you piece of SHIT! If you don't know the difference between Greek mythological gods like Zeus and Allah, then you obviously need some serious religious education, you dumb fuck.

The word mythology comes from "myth", which is translated as: "a traditional or legendary story, usually concerning some being or hero or event, with or without a determinable basis of fact or a natural explanation, esp. one that is concerned with deities or demigods and explains some practice, rite, or phenomenon of nature. – Source: www.Dictionary.com".

Simply putting it for retarded minds, this stuff is pure make believe, stories, fairytales you cock-sucking ignoramus dick-wads. They teach this shit at the shitty University of Bahrain! This is well-known crap that everyone knows about, you closed minded shit! I'm not telling you to believe in that stuff, 'cause then you should be awarded the dumb-ass of the century award. I'm just saying learn your shit. Do a bit of fucking research before publishing crap on papers and get your facts straight before listening to a bunch of morons and becoming one yourself.

Let's say you are right. If that's the case, then here are a few things that you should "Ban" as well:

Retarded fucks...

OK, I know you're gonna say: "But kids are exposed to this and can't help it, it corrupts their little brains... blah blah blah". NO, if your kids are exposed to this then you are UNFIT as a parent! This game contains Violence, language, sexual themes, nudity, and other ADULT material. It is not made for kids. Just because you get your kids any fucking thing they want just to shut them up, then you are unfit as a parent. If you don't know what the hell your kids are exposed to from crap on TV to video games and the internet to smoking weed, then you are UNFIT as a fucking parent. Send those bastards to the nearest orphanage so they can hopefully take better care of them. As explained on our previous article "But Daddy Told Me It's OK to Kill Cops!" the game comes with a big M rating.

This reminds me of another piece of crap published on the newspaper a few months ago, where searches were made around shops in Manama to confiscate T-shirts that were considered offensive, for example this one shown below:

Yeah that's right, let's rid Bahrain of all offensive t-shirts. That will solve all the problems we have… NO IT DOESN'T you fucks! Banning and confiscating offensive t-shirts will get you nowhere. Getting rid of all the ACTUAL causes of these offenses will. But that's not gonna happen 'cause apparently everyone in the government sector is smoking up, or they would take it as an excuse for their lack of intelligence. However, wanna get rid of some offensive shirts? Then get the fuck rid of those fucking FCUK shirts. That's something worthwhile of getting rid of. Fucking good for nothing FCUKers.

Fuck the kids... I'll go sacrifice one for Hades...LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-33490931366920406772007-04-17T09:40:00.000+03:002007-04-17T09:55:07.344+03:00Do the Crime...Cuz the Time's EasyFor those of you reading the title, you'll probably get the idea that we are actually trying to support crime in this country, well actually we are not, but the country sure is!

Let's look at some of the examples from the previous year or so:

 7 people kidnap and rape 2 underage boys.

 Shakhoory murder at BJs.

Saar Murderer.

2 Asians murdering and mutilating an elderly Bahraini woman.

Bahraini thief murder of elderly woman in Riffa.

Bahraini kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 13 year-old British girl.

Bahraini man rapes 8 year-old boy.

Murder of Bahraini male in Muharraq by an ex-military junkie.

19 year-old selling 1.5kg of drugs.

BD10k stolen from Ashrafs.

Murder of hundred something people as crappy ship drowns.

Countless money laundering and counterfeit banknote incidents.

Hundreds of cars stolen.

Hundreds of abuse and theft charges.

BD Millions stolen by government officials and MPs and high corporate officials.

Now... look at the list above, these are just some of the examples from crimes committed in the last few months. Now in most of these cases, the suspects were caught and some cases they were sentenced, and that's where the problem is, the sentence itself.

Most of these people got a few months (if not weeks) of jail time, where they get to play PS2 and watch TV all day, have 3 meals a day, smoke and sit together with a group of friends. So basically they are sitting at a Gahwa for a few months until it's time for the country national day, where most of these people will be released in the streets again, to enjoy the freedom that they deserve. And maybe if they get bored, commit the same crimes one time around.

Sounds like a sweet deal doesn't it? I mean the only really bad crimes that end with you rotting up in jail are:

 Tearing up a traffic ticket.

Insulting a police officer or high member of society.

Saying something bad about your country on the internet.

Going into restricted areas.

So if you basically avoided the short list above, you can get away with anything! So what the fuck are you waiting for??? Just like that fucking kid who took a knife with him to school to stab his classmate, and he's only a first grader, a fucking 6 year-old idiot. Now where would a child learn such shit if it weren't for his parents in the FIRST place THEN TV, we watched action and violent movies when we were kids but it was made clear to us that these things are acts and not real. If the parents endorse what you are watching without regulation, then you will think that it's okay to actually carry a fucking knife with you and stab anyone just cuz you don't like their face!

Go out and kidnap an entire family. Rape them all. Film them being raped. Publish footage on the net. Get high. Kill them all. Burn them and then throw the bodies somewhere. Very entertaining indeed and for only a few weeks in a luxury, minimum security hotel/prison for a few weeks before you're out on the streets again. Hmmmm another idea, get yourself a baseball bat and start swinging at anyone in front of you! Amazing! All the pleasure with minimum pain. Then pay a fine of BD50 and do it all over again, genius!

Here's an idea for all the morons responsible for this, apply this in the streets of Adliya...

And I'll chop my dick and use it as a straw if people didn't think twice before committing any crime...

And what's this shit about the police not wanting to work? I mean, isn't it their job to protect and enforce laws? And by that I mean just laws, not the ones where they force people to close down their restaurants after midnight. Oh and get this, they ask them to close down their joints after midnight in civilian clothes and without having to ID themselves or show them official documentation. Then in the newspapers you see different police officials dumping their shit on each other, stating that it's not their jurisdiction.

You force people to shut down their businesses so that you won't have to get tired when a crime happens? Is that how officials fix problems? It's just like any other "quick fixes" they come up with in this country, plain dumb. Fucking low IQed motherfuckers. Even baboons are way smarter than you dipshits are.

Imagine you finishing work between 12-2 am and even later, and you just finished your shift and are tired as hell and all you wanna do is have something to eat, you barely survive that shit shift where you sit alone fearing ghosts/serial murderers might come and decapitate you or some shit like that, now you wanna reward yourself and treat yourself to that scrumptious meal. Only to find that everywhere is closed, even barraadas* are closed and you can't get even a can of Pepsi or a bottle of water to quench your thirst, let alone getting a full meal to fill yourself up. What the fuck is up the police's ass? Just like N.W.A said... Fuck Da Po-leece.

What the hell is this society coming to? It's not just the police, it's also the people, criminals are increasing by the day and something needs to be done, I suggest we have neighborhood watches cuz the police are just inefficient, too damn lazy and useless. Bahrainis were never like this. And don't give me that bullcrap about Syrians who work for the army n shit like that, I KNOW that they are one of the causes and that this shit exists. But some Bahrainis are in it too. The fix must be collective and we all must admit that these problems have to be acknowledged at first and then we all work together to fix them instead of blaming it on the Syrians, army fuckers and other non-Bahraini people.

Fuck this shit, I'll go live in Harlem where it's safe...

*Barrada: Cold Store or SupermarketLiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-16505472253641584482007-04-16T08:34:00.000+03:002007-04-16T08:45:20.088+03:00Now This HAS to be Good News...The highlight of news for today, this really made my day, Gulf Air total pwnage. FUCK YOU GF.

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=179309&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=30027

Airline plans Bahrain hub

By SOMAN BABY

MALAYSIA-based Air Asia Group, which owns the world's largest budget airline, is considering Bahrain as the hub for its new airline's Middle East operations, it was revealed yesterday.The new airline, Air Asia X, will operate on long-haul routes including Europe, India, China and Australia, with stops in the Gulf, group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes said yesterday.

"We find Bahrain, which is the gateway to the larger Middle East markets, including Saudi Arabia, an excellent location for our hub in the region," he told the GDN.

Mr Fernandes is in Bahrain along with Air Asia group deputy chief executive officer Kamarudin Meranun, to attend the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix. Air Asia has sponsored the Williams F1 team.

"We hope to come back to Bahrain within two months and hold talks with the Civil Aviation Affairs to discuss our plans to fly to Bahrain," said Mr Fernandes.

"The initial feedback we received here has been very encouraging."

Air Asia, launched five years ago with two aircraft, now has 54 aircraft, which operate to 80 destinations in South East Asia.

"We have placed orders for 150 brand new Airbus 320 aircraft," Mr Fernandes revealed.

"We carried 11 million passengers last year and our forecast for this year is 18m.

"Since the launch we have carried 32m passengers and we offer the lowest fares in the world at $30 (BD11.3) for a 90 minute flight ."

The phenomenal success of Air Asia and its low cost, no frills customers philosophy has seen the airline expand its horizons both throughout the Asia Pacific region, said Mr Fernandes.

Air Asia currently operates narrow-bodied aircraft of a type which cannot fly long distances, he added.

"We have therefore decided to launch the new airline, Air Asia X, to operate wide-bodied aircraft to longer routes," said Mr Fernandes.

"We shall operate to many points in the Gulf, including Bahrain. Once in operation, we are confident of offering Bahrain-Malaysia return tickets at fares as low as $100-$200 (BD37.8- BD75.6).

The return fare from Kuala Lumpur to London will be only $250 (BD94.5), said Mr Fernandes.

"Air Asia's mission is to create new markets and to connect to points which were not connected before", he noted.

"We want to stimulate someone who never plans to fly by offering seats on our flights at an affordable cost."

Mr Fernandes said he was highly impressed with the marketing campaign undertaken by the Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix organisers.

I can imagine Gulf Air sitting in a corner crying... You fucking deserve it for being the corrupt evil corporation that you are.. God bless the likes of Jazeera Airways, Air Arabia, and now with Air Asia joining in we will be able to travel on long hauls for cheap. When I was in Malaysia they were flying to other south-east Asian countries for the equivalent of 9 Dinars or so. Of course it will mean that even shitty people will reach the far ends of the earth, but I don't give a fuck. Let these countries worry about such mongrels, at least they enforce their laws on EVERYone regardless of who they are, if you break the rules, you get punished, it's as simple as that.

Fuck this... Time to get my simsim passport refilled, oops I mean renewed.

LiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-50288585815504204932007-03-25T11:15:00.000+03:002007-03-25T11:18:51.325+03:00Nicely Said...I came across this article by Ali Al-Saeed who is a famous blogger in the Bahraini blogosphere and this was an article in his column in the Gulf Daily News.. All I can say is amen to what you said, nicely put...

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=174216&Sn=COMM&IssueID=30005

Facing the music over creativity...

By Ali Al Saeed

Rock music is the Devil's music. That's what I kept hearing as a teenager. I thought it was absurd back then and I still do now.

A couple of weeks ago, I was standing amidst hundreds of wild rock fans enjoying their favourite bands playing live in front of their eyes in Dubai.

I saw no devils around, only happy, smiley faces - including yours truly - having the time of their lives!

At the age of 16-17, I was your typical angry boy with an attitude problem - and I wanted to be in a band.

But, for any self-respecting Bahraini family, to hear their son wanting to play the devil's music, well, back then that was a big no-no, as you can imagine.

My cousin and I used to "smuggle" our guitars into our homes secretly, behind our parents' backs and try to practise as quietly as rock music can possibly be played.

I must admit though, we were terrible. But let's not go there.

We feared our parents' wrath if they were to find out about our newly discovered passion.

I, as a person, am one of those who honestly cannot live without music in their lives. My bedroom had posters of all shapes and sizes of rock stars and heavy-metal bands on every inch of its walls and I would spend my weekly savings on buying records of my favourite bands.

Even now, there is nothing like those moments when I sit at home and listen to the newest CD, fresh out of its plastic case.

We'd wait for the day that everyone in either of our households had gone out so that we could let our guard down and "jam" without having to worry about getting caught. We were often told that rock music would be the end of us, that it would lead us to alcohol and drugs and into a world of chaos.

As a child, that seemed to me as far-fetched as man landing on the sun. I knew that it existed, I wasn't that naïve, but I also knew that wasn't all there was to it.

People seem to have these myths about rock music and they cringe at the sight of an electric guitar.

Twelve years ago, it felt as if I was living that 40s/50s period when rock 'n' roll was witnessing its majestic birth in America.

What frightens people about the music is that it is daring, original and highly evocative. It is bound by no rules.

Rock music is arguably the most innovative, creative and musically satisfying genre of music out there - starting with the likes of Woody Guthrie, Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan, to Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Lynyrd Skynyrd, to today's Ryan Adams, Idlewild and Muse.

The transformation over the years of the music scene in general has always been led and influenced by such bands and musicians.

That is the reality of it. And I wish more people would see the benefits of musical creativity, rather than focusing on the negative myths they associate it with.

My parents didn't grasp it at the beginning, but now they see it as it is - another outlet for talent and creativity. If you disapprove of something, it doesn't mean that there is no value to it.

Fast-forward to the present and my 16-year-old brother sits upstairs in his room blasting the solo from Hotel California all through the afternoon.

He wants to be in a band.

Fuck all extremists and their dinosaurish mentalities...LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-63318095826190399392007-03-20T10:24:00.000+03:002007-03-20T10:53:29.054+03:00LiB Team at the Dubai Desert Rock Festival 2007Coming back after a successful trip to Dubai, where the LiB team attended the Desert Rock Festival in Dubai, and boy what a hectic trip it was!

First of all, the airlines, and man it was PERFECT!!! And NO I did NOT fly on fucking Gulf Air this time. I used Al-Jazeera Airlines which was not only cheaper, but had comfier seats, get this, they were leather seats! It's true that for such budget airlines you have to pay for snacks but I don't mind, I mean, count with me:

Airline return ticket incl. taxes: BD 32
Snacks: BD 1.5
Total: BD 33.5
Gulf Air getting owned by such airliners: PRICELESS!

Gulf fucking Air charges a whopping BD 100 for the same return flight with a snack worse than gruel and prison food. Yet they whine about fuel prices and madree sheno* and operating costs. FUCK YOU GULF AIR. Jazeera owns you any day of the year and I am definitely flying with them again. I paid one-third of what I would have paid for a fucked up flight which will probably be delayed by a couple of hours and cost THREE times more and TEN times shittier attitude.

50 minutes later I arrived at Dubai Airport. After going through the customs and other crappy procedures that you have to go through, I was one meter away from the door when I heard a voice shouting "Hey you!". I turned around and it was a local Bedouin-ass customs officer. I gave him a strange look when he approached me with an angry face as if I just raped his mother, and said to me with a shitty tone "where passport?". I said "na3am?"**, and he got shocked for some reason, asking me if I spoke Arabic. I said of course I do, and that was after he saw my Bahraini passport! Now I know that a lot of foreign fucks got Bahraini passports, but is it that bad that people have to ask you whether you can speak Arabic or not? Answer: YES it is. Apparently the "speaking Arabic language" part is not a must to get a Bahraini passport nowadays, sad but true.

Anyhow back to the story. So this fucker pulls me to the side and I follow him to a counter at the opposite side of the customs area, where he opens my backpack and starts taking out my stuff, and me of course staring at him with a big smile on my face, telling him to do whatever the fuck he wants just to get it over with. 10 minutes have passed and the guy was shocked to see so much crap stuffed into a small backpack. I told him "It took me an hour to pack all this, now when you're done you're going to put everything the way it was". He gave me a grin and continued. I asked him why he stopped me and let all those fucking foreigners pass by. He said it was just a random procedure where they pick a random person and start searching him. Hmmm now that's good, I mean it's his job after all, and I was more than cooperative, but think about it, he's taking 30 minutes of his time to search me. And I'm looking at all the other suspicious looking mother fuckers pass by. What makes him sure that none of those guys carry anything suspicious or illegal (drugs, weapons, dildos etc)? I guess he would've left me alone if I was a white guy with blonde hair, god damn white worshipping fuck. Maybe they should hire people with a better judge of character, instead of just looking at skin color, fucking fags.

So with me waiting patiently and continuing to smile just to piss him off even more, and him not being able to find anything in my bag, he decided to take me to a small room at the back, where he strip-searched me, and yet again, I had a big fucking smile just to get on his nerves for wasting my fucking time.

After searching every inch of my body (literally), and sniffing my underwear (procedure or kinky fucker? You decide), I put my pants back on and looked at him. I asked him if there was anything else. He said "NO" with a fucked up face and just left the room, slamming the door behind him. So basically, if I was an ass to him, he would've given me a hell of an attitude. And if you're nice, they still give you shit for it? I mean what the fuck? Don't I deserve a "thank you for your time or cooperation" or whatever? Fucking good for nothing dumb-ass Bedouin. I guess spending all that time 6a33ising*** in your Land Cruiser with your friends rather than staying in school is probably what got you here, sniffing my stinky underwear. I guess that's enough and fair punishment after all.

Anyhow, with that out of the way, I left the Airport looking for a taxi, where I started calling several hotels looking for available rooms, guess it was dumb not to confirm the reservations before, but I managed to find a hotel that wasn't half bad. All I needed was a bed and a toilet, so I wasn't really bothered about which hotel I stayed at, but BD 40 a night? For a 3-star hotel? Prices were much cheaper before. Apparently as the friendly taxi driver explained; prices are going up each year, so probably it would cost you BD 60 to stay at the same hotel in 2 years time! So I arrive at the hotel and go through the check in process, and the guy behind the counter asks where I'm from. I said Bahrain. And he goes "this is a family hotel, no girls allowed", oooookaaaaay, so I'm guessing other Bahrainis come to Dubai to raise hell and go back to the shit hole they came from (probably riffa3), kinda like the reputation Saudis have in our country!

A few hours later the rest of the LiB team members reached the hotel, with a rental van to take us around. They checked in their rooms and then we all got into the van and went to grab a quick meal to eat while we were driving to the event. We were already late as their flight arrived at 2 pm and the doors for the thing opened at 3 pm, until everyone was checked in it was already 3 pm. We stopped at a Burger King near the hotel and got a ton of food in order to satisfy the hunger of all 7 of us! We were starving. We took the food and were now on our way while massacring the poor burgers and chicken burgers. Even the poor fried potatoes were screaming for mercy! But nothing escaped the ruthlessness of the guys where only the paper wrappings were short from being devoured as can be seen below.

We stopped for a quick petrol filling session and we were well on our way after that, at the petrol station we saw the amazing Dubai skyline. It's amazing to see all the development that goes on in there while we sit and watch them become something they weren't when we were something in the past and now it's totally the other way round. Then all we do is sit and whine and bitch about how we WERE something in the past. Yes we WERE, now we are NOT, instead of whining we should do something about it. Still though there are a lot of people in Bahrain who care about their own well being, so instead of uniting to work for a better Bahrain, everyone works for their own people. Baba if you work together everyone will achieve prosperity, dumbasses. Well until then, this is what we have to compete with:

It was now 4 pm and we were heading on the Hatta-Al Ain road where the map said we should be heading and took the turn where it was shown on the map and then continued to follow the arrows on the shitty map (a shit ass map on the back of the ticket which looks like something drawn by hand, kinda like the ones you find on kids birthday invitation cards). The road sign said that Al Ain was about 120 km away and we went on and on until the sign read 50 km to Al Ain! WTF! We were like half way to Al Ain and still haven't reached our damn destination? We went all the way back and took another turn thinking that it was the turn we missed; we went on and on until we reached the same place. What the fuck was that? So we called some damn fucking number they have for tourist information and you tell them where you are and guide you on the phone telling you which turns to take and what signs you will be seeing ahead. That they were accurate at, I mean we were actually seeing which signs they said we would see, only thing is, we still haven't reached the fucking place and were actually going in circles. So finally we took a turn using our instinct and then we told the shitty services to guide us from there which they have also failed at. Finally it's 5:30 pm and we arrive at the damn venue where we only reached at the end of In Flames' performance and we only got to see them play 2 and a half songs! Needless to say that we told the tourist info services to go fuck themselves for the shit ass service they provided and cursed the Dubai Country Club -where the event was being held- for putting such shitty maps on their tickets.

The event itself was great and we all had fun. There were a lot of people there and it was noticed that a lot of shitty Indians were there. I mean we're not like racist or something but these people had the shittiest attitudes we had ever seen. One wanted to pick a fight with my brother just cause he wanted to get past him to get a bit to the front where he ended up (the Indian of course) getting a punch in the face. I mean it was crowded and people were sweating from moshing. Hell I know I was, but I didn't smell half as bad as those guys from Bangladesh. I mean talk about B.O.! Don't they sell deodorant in their country? I mean I know it's a poor country and shit, but if they can afford a plane ticket to Dubai and tickets to the concert, you think they can't spare half a dinar on a small can of deodorant? Guess not. Goddamn didoogh**** smell makes you high man!!! And what's worse, at the end of the concert when Iron Maiden were done, they were throwing the drums' sticks for audience to collect, pretty normal, it happens in every rock concert. What happened here was that the stick landed right on one of our team's shoulders and he grabbed it. What we didn't realize is the 1000 other subcontinental fuckers who immediately came to our guy trying to get the stick from his hands! I mean get over it you misers! The guy got it, but no, our poor teammate got pulled right inside a vortex of stench and he had to let go in order to stop being pulled away from us, it was not worth it being crushed and by whom? However, as he let go he was still being pulled then those black assholes realized that the stick is in their gang's grip they let go of our guy. That's what they always do, gang up on people until they get something. Like the fucking lottery, they gather half a Dinar each to buy a BD 10 lottery ticket, then you realize that they won a fucking Jaguar. Go figure. For them it will be worth it cuz after splitting the prize money they will build a palace in the shithole where they came from. Good for nothing asswipes.

We managed to get our signature on the board where it had the bands' names on and people would write all sorts of shit.

All the bands came and went, Stone Sour were cool. The Prodigy also had a nice performance. Just watch the "Firestarter" video below.

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Then came Iron Maiden. They performed incredibly and rocked the whole house with their exhilarating songs and great crowd-pumping tunes. Everyone was happy and people were enjoying themselves to the fullest.

I had to take a quick toilet break when I saw a Scottish dude talking to me, just being friendly and I told him that I was in Scotland just a month back and before that as a student, when suddenly a guy came from behind and started telling the Scottish person "Why you kick my ass?" and I was like "Huh?" and then this guys started throwing punches at the Scottish person with me in the middle, I could have ended up being stuck between these two people and their fight where I was holding them apart and shouting "KNOCK IT OFF GUYS!" and then a couple of people came and took the Scottish guy and I took the other guy aside. I asked him what was up and he said "This guy kicked my ass" and other shit which I couldn't understand then I asked him where he was from and he said "Bahrain". Okay so el akh Ba7raini? He was like yeah! And I told him I was Bahraini too and whatever the reasons were it was wrong for him to act like that, and I asked him how he got his ass kicked by the Scottish person, thinking he might have hit him hard in the mosh pit or something like that. Then the guy told me that the Scottish guy pinched him in the toilet! Oh so that was his ass kicking adventure! I told him that he still was wrong cause even if he complains, no one would believe him cause Emaratis as well as the rest of the Khaleejis are white skin and blond hair worshippers. I also told him that it was NOT worth it to get the boot because of such lowlife people and just walk away and I pushed him towards the crowd telling him to go find his friends and have fun and not bother with worthless people. Finally he was convinced, thanked me and went on to enjoy the rest of the show.

By now the place was packed and that toilet break cost me my place deep inside the crowd. I tried to push myself in to get to where I was but I reached a point where I couldn't get any further, but hey no complaints and the view was great. But wait! What's that flying over our heads? Oh no! They are flying beer cans and people were throwing them all over the place and everyone standing in the range of these flying cans got drenched! I smelled like a brewery by the end of the concert but that didn't stop me from taking the following shots!

Here are other pics from the Iron Maiden performance shot by the other LiB Team members who were on the other side of the stage. Again, enjoy!

In all, it was an unforgettable outing and we will definitely do it again next year.

I met some Arabs who, when I told them I was from Bahrain, asked me "But a lot of Bahrainis like rock music more than Emaratis, why don't you hold such events?" To which I answered with a grin: "As long as we have those bushy bearded extremists, we will only go backwards". What do you expect from a bunch of backwarded fucks who attack a normal Spring of Culture event? What do you expect from a bunch of dickwads who label local rock bands as Satanists? Do you expect those to allow Rock and Metal bands to perform peacefully in Bahrain? I suspect that. I mean seriously, I was sitting there and imagining the possibility of having such bands perform in our country. This reminded me of an outing I had a few months ago, where I met this lovely lady that works for a local company called "8th wonder". We started talking about her job and apparently they are responsible for organizing events of all kind, sports, music, cultural whatever. And I asked her why they never organize anything like the desert rock festival, and I explained to her how a lot of locals would attend, and people from abroad as well. She clearly answered: "We can't deal with rock music because of the image it has in our country". THANK YOU VERY FUCKING MUCH YOU KHAR KOSSA BUSHY WAHABI FUCKS!

I mean I read the goddamn newspaper and its all about some good for nothing Mulla MPs attacking the damn cultural events, I mean the whole reason behind these events is to introduce close minded fucks like them to other countries' cultures. But noooo, just because the ballerina is wearing tight clothes, that makes them INFIDELS!!! Go back to your fucking camels you retarded fucks, even Saudi Arabia is going forward, and we are aiming for the Stone Age.

It's ok for these Mulla MPs to own bars and night clubs (I know, shocking! But yes some of them do). Then they talk out of their asses as if they know everything and they are god's messengers to spread peace across Bahrain. Kiss my hairy ass! Islam is not a religion of force, it is a religion of choice. If you find these events offensive then stay in your goddamn caves. No one is forcing your ugly beardy ass to attend (seriously I wonder everyday how these fuckers fuck their wives every night with a face like that and a beard full of fleas, no wonder most their wives are looking for dick). I swear one day I'll run over one of these mulla fuckers, then I'll reverse on him, and then I'll get out of the car and get the bat out of the trunk and tenderize his ass. Man I hate them so much it brings tears to my eyes.

Fuck these retards, I'll go get high, someone get me a dildoogh!

* Madree sheno = Don't know what – Watchamacallit
** Na3am? = Yes?
*** 6a33ising = Driving Huge SUVs on Sand Dunes
**** Dildoogh = ArmpitLiB Teamhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-447060618633876162007-02-21T10:56:00.000+03:002007-02-21T13:06:51.189+03:00It's Good to be Back... Or is it?
Well First of all I apologize for not being able to write for a while. We had a hiatus and then I went to the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region> on a leisure trip. Yes in the bloody freezing winter! But it was really great and I enjoyed it. It was good to be back to see that the country is the same as it was when I left it as a student some 8 years back. It's not like <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Dubai</st1:place></st1:city> where if you go every 2 months, you don't recognize it. <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Dubai</st1:place></st1:city> is like Nancy Ajram, fakely beautiful.

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Of course when I came back, I got pissed off immediately because there, in the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">UK</st1:place></st1:country-region>, they respect you for who you are, even if they give you that "you are an Arab terrorist" look, they might make you take your clothes off for inspection, all that is still overruled by their codes of ethics and behaviors. At least you still are treated equally with the rest of the people.

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What pissed me off? Okay, first it was fucking Gulf Air. No no no it wasn't the delay. For one of the rarest moment in their fucked up history, the bloody plane was actually on time! It was one of their flight attendants. Whatever happened to the term "steward"? Is it so demeaning that they replaced it with this "politically correct" bullshit term? Hell if there was a term more demeaning than steward I would have used it to describe this piece of inbred shit who was supposedly to serve me with a smile. Here is what happened, well let me start from their staff at fucking <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Heathrow</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Airport</st1:placetype></st1:place>:

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At check-in they assigned me a different seat from my wife, and get this, the plane had 100 EMPTY seats! Seriously, are you guys high or something? You have 100 empty seats and still you manage to assign me and my wife seats apart from each other? Nice work, dumbasses. I asked the lady nicely if the first row economy seats were taken or not, she checked and told me that they are not taken, great! Gimme those seats! She said gladly and tried to allocate the seats for us, but couldn't. She said that they were "blocked" or something and that sometimes such seats are blocked until the very last moment and then if they are not assigned to someone who pre-booked them or something then they would be available. She told me that she will be at the gate at the time of boarding and that I have to remind her so she gives me those seats. Great! Lovely! I was impressed by that nice promise with a smile and thought "Maybe Gulf Air are not that evil after all!". Anyways, we went through all that bullshit security measures of LHR and all that, where they confiscated a bottle of contact lenses solution which belonged to my wife, claiming it was "too big to carry on the plane", WHAT? What the hell was that for? How is she supposed to keep her eyes from drying up? Suck my dick, asswipes.

We went to the gate and sat there waiting to board. At the time we were required to hand in our boarding passes and the lady wasn't there. So I explained the situation to the guy who was there at the desk and how I was supposed to get those seats. This is where he went all-knowing and decided to talk out of his ass and crap out of his mouth. All that just because I greeted him in Bahraini as clearly he was Bahraini too and decided he wanted to show me how he can tell me to go fuck myself in an indirect way, which he did basically, the cocksucker. He started raving about how these seats are not allocated at all to anyone and that since this plane had over 100 seats empty these are already booked for emergencies and watchacallit blah blah blah and how they use something called "trimming". What is this, a fucking barber shop? I still went "fair enough" but to my shock I discovered that these seats were given to two English fuckers. And how do I know they weren't pre-booked? Cuz I asked them and they said that it was given to them at the gate. Nice going Gulf Air fuckers. So this is how you treat a fellow Bahraini who just wants those seats as long as they're not someone else's? I guess Gulf Air as always and always will be white and blond worshippers.

With that out of the way and I decided to leave it in the past cuz Gulf Air will never learn and never change no matter what. Take British Airways for example, where I took a local flight from <st1:city st="on">London</st1:city> to <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Glasgow</st1:place></st1:city> and then back a few days later. Boy how they treat a human being with respect and make him feel like a human being. Unlike those Gulf Air fuckers. I know it's good to show people that you are a hospitable species n shit like that but treat everyone EQUALLY… Don't over do it for others just because they were the "masters" at one point of time, oops sorry they are still the masters I guess.

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We took our shitty seats which even 7-year-olds wouldn't be comfortable in and sat like the normal couple we are. My wife found out that her seat was a bit tilted back and she tried pressing the button to bring it back to the upright position but it didn't work, another nice going, assholes, your seats don't work and your fucking planes aren't properly maintained, all you're good at is how to treat the business and first class cabins like royalty while others should be thankful that they even are flying with you losers. Now it's normal to treat other cabins differently but take Emirates for example, fly their flights on economy and tell me how they treat a person. Anyways there were a couple of British WHORES (yes they ARE whores cuz they never shut up about how they were going to have fun in <st1:city st="on">Dubai</st1:city> and what a shithole <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bahrain</st1:place></st1:country-region> was). I know my country isn't as impressive as the Nancy Ajramic Dubai but it's my home and I know what kind of good and smart and hardworking people live in it, unlike the dumb Bedouins and scores of expatriates that infest that hellhole. Oh and they kept on raving about Kevin's kiss or Roger's nice one-nighter. Tell me they are not fucking whores. So this bitch that was behind my wife told her to take her seat to the upright position and we nicely explained that we couldn't. Before I realized it she had called the whore stewardess who was flirting with a young Bahraini guy who kept talking to her about that night they had in BJs n shit, NO I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP! The stewardess also tried to bring the seat back up but couldn't and the English ho' acted she was all enraged and upset. WHAT THE FUCK DID WE DO TO YOU SKANK? She told her that the seat isn't working and then looked at us and said we had to change the seat. WHAT THE FUCK? Why us? My wife said she will never change her seat and I told her to basically go shove a dildo up her ass (in a nice way of course!). That skanky ho behind us kept puffing and kicking our chair until another stewardess came and told her that they will change them. Damn right, it wasn't us who will be changing our places, not after you denied me the seats that were not assigned to anyone. I told them that we weren't changing our place after what their inefficient ground staff did to me and even if it were against IATA regulations I wouldn't change. Then they called a third stewardess who somehow resolved it and the seat actually went back to its place. A few minutes later I saw their head-asshole steward. A fucking bald asshole with little hair that is white, isn't it about time you kicked these dinosaurs out? Why am I being so harsh about him? Cuz here's what happened next… He came and asked about "the nervous girl" and the bitch stewardess pointed at the skanky ho behind us. Come on, what about me? Was I not shouting at them? Didn't I have needs and was mistreated? He slipped something into her hands (must have been a dildo or a vibrator) and told her how sorry they were. WHAT THE FUCK? Oh by the way, the fucker looks like a damn meenawee*, most probably IS meenawee, bald and has white hair, most likely the service manager of the economy class cabin. If you run into him, make sure you will get the most service out of him cuz he's one discriminating fucker. And that didn't end there, he kept on coming every 30 minutes or so and asking her "are you still nervous?" and that pissed me off even more.

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That's why the west will always own us, and by own I mean they will be way ahead of us, not control us cuz that is a well-known fact which I don't have to even go there. They have a good system and EVERY one abides by the rules, there is no was6a** or bullshit like that. Everyone is disciplined and if you do something wrong, you get punished for it, end of story. And fuck you Gulf Air. This time I am venting it here and not sending an email to your esteemed Chief Executive as last time I did that, all I got was a measly 3000 miles compensation into my frequent flyer mileage while others got business class tickets for two persons n shit like that. Fuck you and Fuck you min galb***.

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Other than that, here are a couple of shots from my trip to the Scottish Highlands, <st1:city st="on">Edinburgh</st1:city> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:city st="on">London</st1:city></st1:place>.

The Highlands (Scotland)

The Highlands (Scotland)

Edinburgh Castle

A view of the City of Edinburgh from the Castle's cannon point

Ben Al-Kabeer**** in London

The Eye of London

I came across this article in Akhbar Al-Khaleej today and all I can say is, "duck my sick", Fahmi.

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And what the fuck is this rule about the 900 BD bullshit? So households who make more than 900 BD a month are rich? Oh and you want them to make a purchase application cuz they won't be entitled for a government house? Oh and there is another rule by the way. If your household income is more than BD 1200 you are NOT entitled to ANY Ministry of Housing services. So let me get this straight, first for those who make more than 900 they have no right whatsoever to have a government home and they should apply for a purchase loan? And if they make more than 1200 they have NO right whatsoever? Oh so those who make 1200 are extremely rich and have no loans, deductions or any other commitments? Before we go there, the loan maximum amount is BD 40,000. What the fuck does that bring you? This BARELY brings you a land the size of a toilet, let alone having a ready-made house with that price. Now, if those who make more than 900 or 1200 BD a month go to banks to get mortgage loans, the first thing they do is not look at the basic salary, they look at the whole shebang, from basic, to deductions and anything else. Then they determine what the amount is. And when you go to the fucking MoH, they tell you that your basic is more than 900 or 1200 a month and that you are not entitled. When you tell them about your deductions, they tell you to fuck off and that they only look at the base salary. So if I go to these incompetent bastards, they won't give me anything cuz I am "rich" in their eyes. And if I go to the bank, they tell me to go shove a baseball bat up my ass cuz after deductions, nothing is left from my salary and another idiot organization, the BMA, has issued a rule of that no one's deductions should exceed 50% of his monthly salary. This is how Bahraini officials always fix problems. So a fucker takes out loans to play and travel and buy a shitty car to load it with shitloads of utter crap which in the end turns out more expensive than a Mercedes or a Beamer, then he realizes he can't make any payments cuz his salary doesn't cover shit but the banks give him lonas and extensions anyways so they suck him and other Bahrainis dry, be them needy or not. So after all that the BMA comes and punishes EVERY one by making this rule which won't allow people to take out other sorts of loans such as housing loans n shit like that. This whole country is going downhill.

<o:p></o:p>This is bad, is it my fault to be born in such a generation that unless I am born into a family who will shove a golden spoon up my ass, I can't buy even a small piece of land to build a tiny house to keep me an my family safe? But my pay is good enough to make me stay at an apartment which even recently went up in rent value due to exploiting sons of bitches? So that way, the rich gets richer and the poor gets poorer, no more middle class. There is a lot of shit that's going on in this regards that even thinking about it makes me so angry and can't do anything about it. So just read the article and smile, for you live in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Bahrain</st1:place></st1:country-region>. See, all of this is interlinked, the banks, the BMA, the MoH and others are conspiring to deny a lot of people their right to a basic house. I am not asking for a fucking palace, but I also don't want your government housing so you can make me live next to shitty Syrians and Baathists? I make good money, I should be given a good amount to be able to either build a decent home or get a ready made decent house. And what's with lands? They say there is a shortage in lands while clearly there isn't just look at Google Earth (God bless them for that genius piece of software!) and see for yourself. The MoH tells you that if you need a land grant, go to the <st1:street st="on"><st1:address st="on">Royal Court</st1:address></st1:street>, nice, so I go to the RC and they tell me to check with the MoH. Oh so you fancy a game of ping pong or tennis don't you? But then someone else tells me to go shove my own dick into my own ass, cuz that will be more possible than getting a land. Then I come to know that someone else got a land cuz, even with the waas6az I use, his was stronger and although he already has a few properties here n there, he doesn't like where they are and wants something closer to his parents. And just look at the empty lands in <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Hamad</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">Town</st1:placetype></st1:place> which haven't been built in 20 years although the neighborhood is filled up. What the fuck is this? I didn't come and ask you to make me a property tycoon, all I want is a piece of land so I build my own damn fucking house you flesh-eating fuckers.

* Meenawee: A Persian person whose origins are from the town of "Meenaw" or "Minab" in Farsi, usually dark-skinned.
** Was6a = wasta = To use your influence and/or contacts to get shit done
*** Min Galb: From deep in my heart
**** Ben Al-Kabeer: Big Ben :PLiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-1167673167466955142007-01-01T20:35:00.000+03:002007-01-01T20:39:27.483+03:00Happy Festive Season...First of all, happy Eid, then happy new year to everyone...

2006 left us with a few memorable events and it had its ups and downs. But here's to an upcoming year of morons, ninjas, assholes, ignorant and inconsiderate fucks, jackasses, slack-off government entities, idiotic new parliament, whiners, thieving banks, burglars and murderers etc...

Hope you have a nice and eventful 2007...

From all LiB Team members.LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-1166354320251257192006-12-17T14:10:00.000+03:002006-12-17T14:18:40.276+03:00Happy National Day...To all Bahrainis, Happy National Day...

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This was taken in Bukuwara Road, highlights how many useless people are there. If you want to celebrate the God damn national day then fine, show your pride... But don't do it in this ill-mannered way. Go take part in events, go watch the fucking fireworks which are really dull by the way. We went to the 24-hour Bahrain race at the BIC which was interesing although some of us are not that into cars and racing and some are. But the first-timers appreciated what an astonishing achievement this venue was. The construction, the facilities, the organizing of the event itself etc... Despite the weather being pouring wet, it was a very nice event nevertheless. It was much better than loitering around roads going back and forth doing nothing but letting their shitty kids hang out windows. Heaven forbid there would be an accident then they will come to kill the driver who accidentally killed their shitty hang-out-the window kid instead of questioning their own ignorance and negligence. What a bunch of good-for-nothing fucks.

Thought for the day: I called the ministry of housing to ask about whether I can switch my application from a purchasing loan to a land. They told me lands are limited and impossible to get. Well how come "some" people still get them? Fucking waasta bastards. "Happy" National Day indeed.LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-1166075910277756582006-12-14T08:56:00.000+03:002006-12-14T08:58:30.300+03:00Look at Our Silly Youth...I have received this via email and the first thing that came to my mind was "WHAT THE FUCK?"
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I think they're trying to act "cool" or hip or something. With more and more guys like this in our communities, I say let's say our prayers from now on bcause our good youth will be overshadowed by the likes of those good for nothing idiots.

Then they wonder why are our guys running out of fuel and brain cells hanging around Bukuwara roads looking for "Chicks" while there are nothing but DFNs (Damn Fucking Ninja) infesting Riffa.LiB Teamhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-18980576.post-1163490050220360652006-11-14T10:18:00.000+03:002006-11-14T12:50:45.726+03:00How LiB Came to be...On the eve of our first anniversary -Yes it's been one year already and we can't believe it here, time really does fly- we will be telling you a hopefully interesting story on how LiB started. So sit back, get your fave drink ready and some popcorn, and here we go...

Once upon a time, there was a ninja in an SUV. The ninja drove a huge ass Land Cruiser but with her ninja mask on. She was very happy that she could drive because the parliament has fought so hard for her rights that they neglected everyone else's. Suddenly, ninjas were all over the place and caused mayhem on the roads.

Unfortunately, "ninja-ism" is a very bad cult in Bahrain. Ninjas think they are sent from heaven. They think that they are "the shit" in Bahrain and that no one has any right to say anything to them. I was never against ninjas and I always respected their choice in what they wear. But I was against them driving due to them being a fucking life-threatening factor in driving on Bahraini roads, as well as them having really fucked up mentalities where they want to impose their shit on others instead of either leaving people be or using civilized discussions.

So back to the ninja with the SUV, I was driving one day when I passed a GREEN traffic light. This ninja in the SUV suddenly cut the red light and came in front of me which made me hit the brakes as hard as I could. I didn't do anything but the fucking ninja honked the horn at me. WHAT THE FUCK? So you are the one who ran a red light and nearly hit me and then you honk the horn at me? What the hell was that? Oh God how I wished I had a baseball bat to show her who's boss. Check out this crappy illustration...

This whole ninja incident was the last straw in a series of incidents caused by ninjas and other assholes on the road, banks and ministries. People cutting lines, people being harsh and rude without having the right to do so, people thinking that only they have the right to do whatever the fuck they could like they have special priviliges, etc...

Complaining to the authorities who actually have no balls by the way did nothing. This is where I decided to expose them online and spread awareness about them and what social implications they cause. If society is morally corrupt to this extent, how are we supposed to build a healthy society where everyone helps one another?

And that was when LiB was born, the idea was introduced to a couple of close friends and they were in immediately. We decided to keep everything documented and take pics of incidents that we face or when we see things that piss us off about the bad people in our country which we love so dearly that having parasites like these makes us wanna fucking puke.

So thank you damn fucking ninja (DFN) for making it finally happen as it was something I wanted to do since 2001. The idea started as a traffic offenses website where offenders would have their pictures taken and uploaded to shame them.

We at LiB would like to thank everyone who contributed to our success. Either by being one of the assholes causing us to write about them or being our fans and supporters who made us go ahead as we discovered more and more frustrated people like us. Or to those who inspired us and sent us pics to write about.

We leave you with what we think ninjas will do next in Bahrain… So watch out and be careful... Because when you see a ninja, you should duck and hide, or else say your prayers for you will DIEEEEEE.
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