Saturday, May 19, 2007

Kuwait , Between Dust and the Sand…

Musim panas di Kuwait tahun ini di prediksikan untuk lebih kering, lebih panas dan lebih lama. Accepted, fine, nothing I can do anyway. Looking forward to the upcoming 55-56 Celsius degrees

But the thing that missed in the preliminary forecast is that, they didn’t mention how bad is the sand storm and the Dust!

One night, I was just roaming around my flat accompanying my friend who is looking for a used car. And it was so happened, that there’s a park space near my apartment which people are used to park their car for sale. It is usually cheaper to get a car that way. So we went for a check. It was nice and the weather was not that hot. Then suddenly, the wind just got stronger, a small rain start to drops, and in the next minute we couldn’t see a thing!!! The sand was all over mixed with the rain drops and the wind which got stronger every second. And to make it worst, I was wearing my big “Gypsy’ skirt!! I almost say, “I’m flying …I ‘m flying” in the Titanic node if I don’t have sands all over my lips!hahaha. I guess it was kind of cute scene, having two Asians got trapped in the sand storm during the night and helplessly trying to escape.

And this turns out to be the beginning only. The following day, I already got suspicious when I wake up early morning (well, apparently not that early lah …). Sun usually already high and shining bright as if the mid afternoon around 7 am. But when I looked at the window, it’s kind of cloudy….wait … the color doesn’t seem right….it’s kind of grey..nope.. a bit orange… a light brown… and voila… the air just cover by the finest dust… all you can see is a brown greyest fog…dust fog.. !! Buildings were went missing till you’re in 10 m distance. That bad…, and it’s just make you sick, the air was so thick and hard to breathe. The next morning, I heard on radio that hospitals were full of people with breathing problem, i.e. asthma, bronchitis. It was unfortunate that I didn’t document the cars covered in the dust and sand as if abandoned in the dessert for months.

Anyway, we’ve managed to live with it. And yet, a nice French dinner and one multinational birthday party has cheer me up during the week end. Not to mention the cooking session in the afternoon which was just nice! May be I’ll write about it later. I have one desperate guy who wants to be published as a nice handsome, smart and a good cooker in this blog as a free advertisement. Hahaha ( u wish !!)

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Siapa tuh cowo yg ganteng n jago masak itu..??
Kenalin donk ;).... kekekeke