Ankur and Genny’s Meandering Tour

I love fire!
I love gadgets!
I love explosions!
I love fire! (I may have mentioned this already)

So when the phone I gave my brother exploded, you might be able to understand why I was a little happy and a little sad. The HTC Typhoon is no more. Apparently, the phone was overcharging the battery and causing it to expand until it popped. He put another battery in and the same thing started to happed. Cingular, with their seconds of wisdom, decided that they didn't knowwhat was happening. Since there wasn't any record of the purchase, they would replace the phone with the latest model. Their futility is apparently my brother's gain. So they gave him a shiny new Cingular 2125 (HTC Faraday).

Anyhow, Alok - you need to send me a picture of the exploding battery.

Everyday there are bloody faces on the cover of the paper. I'm surprised at the gore they publish and it makes me cringe and want to cry. The articles about the Israeli/Hezb fighting are generally the same each day. Although some days they are about protests against Israel and the U.S. and how much they hate them both. Other days they wonder why the Arab nations cannot unite and help Lebanon. Today they are all for stopping Hezb, Iran, and Syria and moving towards a "new Middle East". Mostly though they want a ceasefire...permanently. These are the English paper stories...I wish I could read the Arabic ones.
After the first few pages though I find some entertaining blurbs:

• An Asian man was arrested for being drunk in a semi-naked state in public.
• A Bedouin man is being investigated for getting a Kuwaiti woman pregnant- 12 Asian men were arrested for playing cards and gambling in a park
• A Bangladeshi man was arrested for selling porn CD's to teenagers
• 47% of the population in Kuwait are Asian, only 31% are Kuwaiti
• 94% of Kuwaitis are "employed" by the government (this was from theLonely Planet)
• All Kuwaitis were given 200 KD last week just because and there are still articles complaining that the salary increase for gov't employees has not been approved
• Wanted: Dedicated and hardworking Indian female with 3 years secretarial experience
• 2 furnished rooms available for Bachelors from Goa