Only three things to report, they may not be that interesting, but its all i got.
I experienced my first kuwaiti sandstorm this weekend. while a very mild one on the local scale, not being able to see beyond 100 yards due to sand is a storm to me.
as i mentioned a few weeks ago, im working on loosing the small gut i grew when i first got here. While pretty crappy, there is a bench press and some dumbbells downstairs and i've been taking advantage of them. I haven't maxed out since high school, but im gonna boast a little and say i can still press 255 lbs, which i think is really close to my max back then. i might have been able to lift 5 or 10 more pounds, but that didn't feel too safe considering i was lifting by myself at 3:30am.
I also saw some goats on the side of the road. I have noticed one guy and about 20 goats a few times on the side of the road near the base, but considering we were really out of town and there was at least 30 yards between the road and fence of a sand field, i didn't seem to weird. this time was really wierd because he wasnt on the side of the road. i was driving under an overpass using the uturn lane, and saw the guy between the uturn lane and the raised freeway. there was a 30 ft wide and maybe 70 ft long patch of sand and grass for the goats to enjoy. This just caught my attention because it was in the city at 5pm, and those goats had to cross a road at some point. i also talked to a guy one day who had a friend who hit a camel in Saudi Arabia. not only did he have to pay a few thousand for the camel, but he had to pay thousands more to compensate for the camels that the hit camel would have made. just thought that was crazy considering in Texas we just worry about how much its gonna cost to fix the truck.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Avatar and watching a movie in an islamic country
I made a run north tonight to run some errands, and ended up checking out the 360 Mall in kuwait. Overall I was disappointed, not only did it not have any resturaunts i was interested in, there were no starbucks. The Avenues Mall has 8 starbucks. While im not a huge fan of starbucks, there seems to be a correlation between how many starbucks a mall has and how much i like it. The Avenues Mall also has an Ikea, and a Super Walmart like grocery/electronics store, and another huge electronics store. Oh yea, and a dip-n-dots, but the 360 Mall has a Marble Slab Creamery, so i'll call it a tie on frozen treats.
Anyways, I also ended up watching Avatar in 3D, which was pretty cool, i had already seen the movie, but it has great special effects and great special effects look even better on a 60 ft screen. Not sure if i've mentioned this before, but if you watch a movie with anything more than a boy and girl sharing a quick kiss, and you happen to be in an islamic country, be prepared for editing. I watched Sherlock Holmes with greg and becca a while ago and i remember them cutting out a couple of minutes during a scene involving Rachel McAdams in lingerie, and ending with holmes on the bed in cuffs. No warning, no blackout, just like that the picture changed, the dialog is different and you're thinking, man, that conversation didn't really have an ending.
It was funny to be that they cut out a couple of scenes from Avatar. Luckily i have already seen it so i didn't miss anything, and i noticed every edit. Jake and the blue chick 'mating' -cut Jake and the blue chick laying in hammocks talking - gone. What was weird, and i dont know if this was for islamic reasoning, or trying to shorten the movie, but there was also a few dialogs cut out. Like when the soon to be chief first meets Jake, the second half of that meeting was cut. As were a few other conversations. It was weird to me. Oh yea, the first scene i mentioned was cut, the second was actually blacked out. When i say black out, i mean a black shadow rose up from the bottom of the screen because it was obvious someone in front of the projector was putting his hand in front of the lens. I had to laugh out loud during that one, as did a few other people there. It happened once more but i forget during what scene.
Anyways, I also ended up watching Avatar in 3D, which was pretty cool, i had already seen the movie, but it has great special effects and great special effects look even better on a 60 ft screen. Not sure if i've mentioned this before, but if you watch a movie with anything more than a boy and girl sharing a quick kiss, and you happen to be in an islamic country, be prepared for editing. I watched Sherlock Holmes with greg and becca a while ago and i remember them cutting out a couple of minutes during a scene involving Rachel McAdams in lingerie, and ending with holmes on the bed in cuffs. No warning, no blackout, just like that the picture changed, the dialog is different and you're thinking, man, that conversation didn't really have an ending.
It was funny to be that they cut out a couple of scenes from Avatar. Luckily i have already seen it so i didn't miss anything, and i noticed every edit. Jake and the blue chick 'mating' -cut Jake and the blue chick laying in hammocks talking - gone. What was weird, and i dont know if this was for islamic reasoning, or trying to shorten the movie, but there was also a few dialogs cut out. Like when the soon to be chief first meets Jake, the second half of that meeting was cut. As were a few other conversations. It was weird to me. Oh yea, the first scene i mentioned was cut, the second was actually blacked out. When i say black out, i mean a black shadow rose up from the bottom of the screen because it was obvious someone in front of the projector was putting his hand in front of the lens. I had to laugh out loud during that one, as did a few other people there. It happened once more but i forget during what scene.
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