Min 25º Max 43º FREE www.kuwaittimes.net NO: 17342 - Friday, September 29, 2017 Red Arrows in Kuwait See Page 3 — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Local FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 PHOTO OF THE DAY Local Spotlight Message from the grave By Muna Al-Fuzai [email protected] he news of the death of the Egyptian lady Eman Abdul Ati occupied all headlines. She was known as the lady Tof half a ton. She passed away last Monday morning at a hospital in the United Arab Emirates after suffering for a long time. Her death sent us all a message from the grave. Eman, 36, weighing half a ton, arrived in the UAE last April for treatment from Mumbai, India at the request of her family. The Egyptian Foreign Ministry transferred Eman to the UAE and although she seemed to improve and had lost some weight, the overall decline in health was too much for her heart and kidney. What a loss!. She was only 26 years of age. The World Health Organization (WHO) often issues warn- ings about the dangers of obesity, but I wonder if anyone is really listening? Kuwait’s National Assembly Building was designed by Danish architect Jorn Utzon in 1972 under the direction of his son Jan The majority of the world’s population lives in countries and was opened in 1986. — Photo by Sami Alkhulaifi/KUNA that are overweight and obese. Kuwait ranks among the first of the world’s obese nations. According to estimates by UNICEF, the percentage of obesity among children under IN MY VIEW the age of five years in Kuwait is 10 percent, while among adolescents is 50 percent!!!! This high percentage means more deaths, diseases and eventually death at a young age. It is known that everyone Balancing the ‘Triangle’ agrees that the wrong eating habits and lack of exercise are ple of days because that is what they usually do? A nerd By Salman Al Mutawa would ditch his or her friends to study for the quiz. A smart She passed away nerd would promise them to make it next time, and study [email protected] for the quiz. Be a smart nerd, always put yourself first, and if your friends are good friends they will understand, but last Monday morning remember, putting yourself first also means that you must ne of the more vital realizations most students do what your friends want you to do sometimes, because at a hospital in the undergo is the Work-Play-Sleep balance. Common investing in your relationships is equally important, if not Oknowledge dictates that you can only have two of more important, than investing in your studies alone. these at a time, sacrificing the third. Well, I’m here to tell If you leave your home country only to come back with a United Arab Emirates you that that is not true, and here is how: degree, then you have wasted four golden years of your life. One of the first things you learn as an Industrial This may sound harsh, but many would agree that it is true. Engineer is to isolate the value-added choices vs non-val- You must also define what exactly your work-play-sleep after suffering for a ue-added choices. categories include. How much sleep is too much? If eight hours is a perfect night, then you can clearly gauge balanc- long time. What do I mean by this? ing your sleep cycle. Let’s say you have a quiz on Monday, and your friends want you to go out with them Sunday night to watch a Is studying work? movie or a football match. You know that if you go out For most of us, yes, but for others it may be a little tricky. with them you will either 1) oversleep and miss class, or 2) Take the following billionaire dropouts for example. We go to class drowsily and underperform in the quiz. Now know of tech billionaires who never finished their degree’s the cause of weight gain for everyone but, it is strange that based on your personality, you can do one of two things: and went on to become some of the most influential peo- the same people spend much of their evenings and week- go out with friends, or don’t. ple on the planet. Didn’t these people break the triangle? ends eating in one of Kuwait’s thousands of restaurants or But let’s add a third factor, weight. Well, not really. Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Bill Gates ordering delivery. No, not your weight. The weight missing a quiz has on are prime examples of people who saw the true weight of We are also subject to nearly six months of horrific heat your grade. Say a professor weighs the grades such that all both “work” options they were facing. where exercising outdoors is a near impossibility. quizzes you take combined are 5 percent of your grade. Sometimes we hear people joking about how these I know that obesity is not associated with a certain coun- Another professor weighs quizzes as 50 percent of your individuals dropped out of school and made it big, which try, but today’s media makes people live in a strange grades, with a total of five quizzes per semester per each romanticizes being lazy or even dropping out. These peo- ambivalence. Many children do not even know where food respective professor. A nerd would go to the quiz and ditch ple fail to mention however, that all of these successful come from, how its grown or the relationship between food his or her friends regardless of the tradeoff. A smart nerd dropouts faced a choice: finish studying and risk someone and weight gain. would ditch his or her friends if the quiz is more than 5 per- else beating you to your entrepreneurial goal, or drop out I hope that the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of cent of their grade, say 10 or 15 percent. and give your undivided attention to your goal. They Health in Kuwait will work towards greater awareness with Are you a nerd? Or a smart nerd? If you train yourself to understood that the work it took to make their ideas into direct intervention and media campaigns to stress the categorize your options based on their value, you can have reality weighed more and had more value than the work it importance of healthy food and a healthy lifestyle for us all the benefits of all three sides of the triangle without the took to get the degree, and as a result decided to shift their work-play-sleep triangles in another direction. but especially for children. We need to get the snacks, sugar stress of sacrificing one. Let’s do another exercise. Take the time to write down where your balance is, and excess processed food out of school cafeterias, where Say the quizzes are worth 15 percent of your grade. This think about what isn’t really worth doing, and how you many sugary and salty meals are sold. It may be time to means that missing a quiz could either hurt you in the long run or not hurt you at all based on your future perform- can balance that energy with something else that is review the introduction of good school meals and revive ance in the class. more productive, and finally, please do not drop out of school restaurants. We shouldn’t accept Eman’s death as just Now you look at your Play option, are your friends really school unless you are 95 percent sure you can become a news. It is a message from the grave for us all. worth hanging out with? Or will they go out again in a cou- millionaire. Local FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2017 Red Arrows perform airshow in Kuwait By Nawara Fattahova Great Britain wherever they fly. In addition to demon- strating the UK’s commitment to regional security and KUWAIT: The Royal Air Force (RAF) aerobatic team defense, the RAF team also support UK industry by the Red Arrows presented a spectacular show yester- showcasing the capabilities of British equipment and day on the Gulf Road near the Kuwait Towers. The expertise. Inspiring millions of people every year, the show started with a 15 minutes show of the Kuwait Air world’s premier aerobatic team, the Red Arrows repre- Force planes, followed by a 20-minute-long show by sent excellence both at home and overseas through the Red Arrows team, which colored the sky with blue, their display of speed, agility and teamwork. The show red and white. will be broadcasted today at 2.00 pm on KTV 1. The attendees enjoyed watching the show and tak- ing photos. It was attended by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Mohammad Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, Sheikh Mohammed State Minister for Cabinet Affairs, Sheikh Salman Al-Homoud General Director of Civil Aviation, British Ambassador to Kuwait, other officers and public. Major General Abdullah Al-Fodari noted that this show came after huge preparations. “This show aims to enhance the performance of the Kuwaiti air forces and to encourage the students of the Ahmad Al-Jaber Air-force College. Three Kuwait F18 airplanes, one hel- icopter, and nine British Hawk T1 airplanes participat- ed in this show,” he pointed out. Major Adam Collins representing the Red Arrows said that the team presented different aerobatic moves such as the concord, diamond, and different maneuvers by seven airplanes, and then by two air- planes, concluded by collective maneuvers by the complete team.