Jewelery Exhibit
I passed by the jewelery exhibit tonight at the Mishref fair ground to check it out since my cousin who recently came in from Thailand had a display there (ZoRaB). On the way in to the exhibit I found a huge shawerma stand outside so I went up to a guy there and ordered myself two shawermas. The guy turns to me and tells me these shawermas are not for sale, they are for management upstairs! I found that strange, actually not really that strange since this is Kuwait but still, a fancy jewelery exhibition and the management upstairs have their own shawerma stand right outside?
So I walked in to the exhibit hall and right at the entrance the Kuwait Customs had a display. Again this felt out of place but I figured I would get closer and check it out. I have to say, its one really strange display. The backdrop of the display had a collage of pictures from their most famous drug busts I think. There were also a couple of pictures of alcohol busts, you know the very cliche 200 bottles of red label on the floor and 3 Bangladeshis posing behind them. Now the cool part was the magic section. They had a display of magical items they had caught, its seriously the silliest stuff. There was a horse shoe, some rings, a few rocks and a lot of handwritten notes. I think those were curses or something. On the far left they also had some pharmaceutical items (they looked like adrenalin shots) and three fake DVDs. I still don’t understand why they had a display set up at a jewelery exhibition, maybe for comical relief.
The jewelery exhibit itself was kind of dull but I am also not really a jewelery person. The exhibition ends today (Monday) so if it is your kind of thing maybe you should check it out, the customs stand itself is worth the trip.
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10 Comments, add your own...
1. Marzouq | May 7th, 2007 at 7:19 am
For exhibits to work they have to make it very easy for people to come to Kuwait, and they should promote them. There is no promotion what so ever about exhibitions! And Mishref fairgrounds is in really sad shape
2. N. | May 7th, 2007 at 7:35 am
We asked them about the Magic display. They said these were confiscated items at the airport, and were placed on display to help travelers identify them. Still, I don’t see the relevance.
3. A E R O | May 7th, 2007 at 7:52 am
Magic works busts??? Guys, we really live in the twilight zone… On the other hand, i now have tons of stories to entertain friends abroad.
4. Naser M | May 7th, 2007 at 8:39 am
so y not just display the hokas pokas somewhere more controversial? what would a jewelry exhibition have to with a drug bust or ..? the only purpose the stand serves is it freak people out, it helps promote less sales :)
5. Armani_Exchange | May 7th, 2007 at 8:58 am
Our blames goes to those who manage this event of letting the customs shows their Rated R stuff!
6. 6afran | May 7th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
hahahahahahahahahahaha
7. TweeZ | May 7th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
9ij fashla!
8. rampurple | May 8th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Just a minor correction “Zorab” and not ZoRaE”
9. Cars | May 8th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
ay shy el customs
10. Flam | May 9th, 2007 at 2:05 pm
Kuwait Customs display is there all year.
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