{"id":543,"date":"2008-12-18T11:55:41","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T08:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/2008\/12\/18\/been-a-while\/"},"modified":"2008-12-18T11:55:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T08:55:41","slug":"been-a-while","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=543","title":{"rendered":"Been a while .."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I wrote anything, two things make me less motivated to write <\/p>\n<p>First thing work, I work in the government, and it\u2019s getting depressing more and more lately,<br \/>\nbetween mistakes left and right , everyone trying to throw blame at others , work that delayed for some reason since 2007 and no one touched it ( and I\u2019m suddenly supposed to do it now ) ..Etc<\/p>\n<p>I did write couple of posts but didn&#8217;t post them, some may seem outdated and some maybe posted later <\/p>\n<p>These are some of the posts titles <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Transparency protects us!<br \/>\n&#8211; Shia Bloggers, should we care?<br \/>\n&#8211; Elitist concerns part Four, Kuwait Stamps<br \/>\n&#8211; Rulers Sainthood<\/p>\n<p>The other thing that making me less motivated to write is Kuwait , not the weather but the people , the more you read or interact with people the more you feel this country is like a bus driving to the cliff <\/p>\n<p>And you can&#8217;t ignore them, if you don\u2019t&#8217; go to Dewaniya or read paper you will see them in blogs, switching off your TV wouldn&#8217;t work, you will see more idiots on your way to work, or at work <\/p>\n<p>People you thought were rational speaking irrational stuff, people talking stupid <\/p>\n<p><strong>Stuff people say that I think is totally stupid<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If we remove National Assembly Kuwait will be back as the Perl of The Gulf<\/p>\n<p>Wrong, 1986 &#8211; 1990 is a good proof, it was stable government with many veterans yet it failed to do anything<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; We don&#8217;t need a Forth Refinery, we have Three<\/p>\n<p>Wrong , we need it badly , the count of Refinery is Three , doesn&#8217;t mean they work as normal three , one of them is WAY outdated , and is slated to close at 2010 ( which was pushed back 3 times ) one keep on breaking , and the newest one isn&#8217;t in a better shape either <\/p>\n<p>Not only we don\u2019t&#8217; have the capacity to produce Gas for Electricity (right now we are burning Crude for that) but they are having real problems fulfilling local needs right now<br \/>\n(Not to mention they do not meet environmental standard, if you are into that kind of stuff) <\/p>\n<p>Where I know that? Friends working in the refinery, I don&#8217;t get news from newspapers, they are bad in Kuwait as I have said many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/category\/press\/\">times<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Dubai is brilliant they made everything without depending on oil <\/p>\n<p>No , they didn\u2019t , first they have oil (  abet limited but still )  also they depend on Abu Dhabi oil revenues as well ( and right now they will depend more on them for a bailout , read latest Newsweek )<\/p>\n<p>I think a bit of Venting is good for the soul, I may vent more next week \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been a while since I wrote anything, two things make me less motivated to write First thing work, I work in the government, and it\u2019s getting depressing more and more lately, between mistakes left and right , everyone trying to throw blame at others , work that delayed for some reason since 2007 and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/?p=543\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Been a while ..<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7,2,14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.forzaq8.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}