Venting

This post is probably going to be pretty useless. I've receieved some bad news today morning which got me kinda depressed at first. A few hours later the depression has gone, and now i'm plain angry, so instead of breaking something here in the office and getting the replacement cost deducted from my salary at month end, i'm going to vent, rant, scream and shout about everything (not necessarily the thing i'm angry about, but just whatever comes to mind). Some of it might not make sense, i'm just screaming here. I'll try not to be vulgar.

So we started this Smart Card concept and we're full blast trying to get everyone to carry one. FOR WHAT?! No one has a reader yet, and the card is useless to anyone NOT carrying one; there's no address or anything on the front, and even the driving license part of it is not acknowledged by the traffic police. WTF?! Second of all, the process to actually get it is SO GODDAMN ANNOYING, AND the people working there are total IDIOTS! No, i'm not exaggerating; TOTAL FRICKIN' IDIOTS! And finally, can we really trust THESE PEOPLE with our data?! Keeping it private and safe? We are seriously screwed guys. And shouldn't we be thinking of fixing the other parts of the country still left in the dark ages before trying to advance? Go into the Ministry of Health and you'll see people still writing things down on pieces of paper. WHERE IS THE BLOODY TECHNOLOGY?! I wouldn't mind a 1985 IBM system at least, but NO! They don't even have that! WORK ON FIXING YOUR BLOODY PROBLEMS BEFORE TRYING TO ADVANCE; you can't run before you crawl, and shit, we're still on the verge of crawling. This is going to end up as such a HUGE disaster, I can feel it!

What's with this stupid country anyway? I mean, i'm trying to love it, i'm trying to be the kind of person who wants to help this country out, but what's the point? I'm pretty damn clever (not showing off here, but I am a damn genius, deal with it), why the hell can't I find a job working in some sort of entity that can actually benefit the big picture in Bahrain (ie, Economic Development Board, etc)? Why do lazy useless people get the job? I really want to make a difference but the stupid concept of wasta states that you don't have to be good to actually get a job, you only have to know someone. I AM NOT SUBMITTING TO THIS STUPID CONCEPT. This whole system is the reason we will never advance; you keep putting the idiots in the wrong places just because they have a friend or a cousin or whatever. HOW THE HELL IS THE COUNTRY EVER GOING TO ADVANCE if you don't take people based on how well they can perform a job? We have hundereds if not thousands of people stuck doing jobs where they're not being put to best use, and i'm not talking just about specific companies, i'm talking about almost everywhere, even the big guns like Batelco, NBB, the CIO, and so on. This country is going to the shits.

And the ROADS?! DAAMIIIITTT DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED! For a country of our size you would expect it not to be so difficult for one directorate to organize things, but again, this is BAHRAIN, EVERYTHING GETS F#$%ED UP! Does anyone notice the roads where the huge trailers/lorries drive on? Do you notice how unsmooth they are? They feel like they've got bumps in the actual roads; that's because the SHEER WEIGHT of HUGE trucks, mixed in with this UNBELIEVABLY RIDICULOUS WEATHER equals one thing; the trucks drive over them like they were butter. I almost had a bloody accident two days ago driving on a lane that's gotten totally screwed up; the steering wheel seemed like it had a mind of its own. And this is just on the cheap materials used, don't even get me started on organizing the traffic flow.

I read a line today on someone else's blog; about how Bahraini's have GREAT OPPORTUNITIES, but only OUTSIDE Bahrain. Yes, true. WHY THE HELL ARE WE SCREWED IN OUR OWN COUNTRY? Is it this shitty-ass political system that doesn't know how to represent its own people and the problems they have? SCREW TURNING INTO AN ISLAMIC STATE before you fix our problems! We need housing, we need money to cope with inflation and rising prices, we need transparancy to see where the funds we are supposed to have are going, we need corruption to be killed off. BUT THEY FOCUS ON SPRING OF SEX AND MANNEQUINS?! KISS MY ASS! We need to wipe out the entire slate of MP's bar one or two, and bring in REAL POLITICIANS, DOCTORS, ENGINEERS, ECONOMISTS, PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND the different sectors of our country and will KNOW how to contribute. DONT VOTE SOMEONE IN BECAUSE THEY PRAY 5 TIMES A DAY! You ask them how to improve our economy and they'll tell you to pray to God and INshalla it will happen. Yeah, that's exactly what we need.

That's it. I don't even wanna talk anymore. I need to leave this crappy country.