Mahmood's Den

Double Oleander, originally uploaded by malyousif.

The oleanders are starting to bloom all over the garden, I’ve got 5 of them. Their lovely scent in the early evening is truly magnificent.
This is the only “double” oleander I have and now I think I should have gotten all of them in this variety.
Very beautiful.
Have a lovely evening!

I love la vache qui rit, don’t you?

I don’t particularly care about the recently concluded summit in Riyadh in which all but one Arab leader attended. 21 of 22 is not bad, but anyway, I don’t care about what they discussed nor any grandiose declarations they emitted; the betting is that it’s nothing earth-shatteringly-new.
What I [...]

In the early hours of this morning in Al-Bustan hotel in Manama a scuffle broke out between drunks, purportedly American, and hotel security guards. It is reported that one of the servicemen drew his pistol and shot the Bahraini night-shift guard Abbas Ali Salman Al-Shakhoori in the head.
Al-Shakhoori has been taken to Salmaniya Medical Centre [...]

White Cheeked Bulbul, originally uploaded by malyousif.

The bulbul is disappearing fast from Bahrain due to not only the disappearance of its natural habitat, the palm groves, but the encroachment of new predators like the crow as well as it being sought as a song bird.
The environmental agencies in Bahrain are trying to eradicate those threats [...]

Happy Prophet’s birthday! May it return to us with health, happiness and remembrance of a great man.
Bahrain, once again is celebrating this auspicious day by announcing it as a holiday, but as this time it will fall on Saturday and as Saturday is already the second day of the normal weekend, public sector employees will [...]

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The 27th bloggers gathering is coming up next week. It will be held at 7pm at Al-Bareh Cafe. Everyone is welcome. Please give yourself plenty of time to arrive at the venue as the roads will be busy (judging by the last time) and you need to start making tracks at least at 6.30 to [...]

Heads up: in order to improve the performance of the site, the good people at Rackspace’s technical support and I are looking into some problems the site has experienced off and on in the hope that we will identify the problem and enact a fix.
The first step is upgrading some components on the server, which [...]

Elham, in cooperation with Al-Riwaq Art Gallery, announces a series on Language, Culture, and Expression to coincide with the University of Cairo book fair: tonight, it’s some of Bahrain’s finest bloggers are going to participate where they will read from their blogs, showing the world that we also have a literary aspect to Bahrain Blogging [...]

If you wish to see anyone in Bahrain having an immediate epileptic fit, just mention the numbers 8/1970 and stand back and watch the antics! Feel free to laugh or cry with them.
What you have done is infer that the poor mug has lost a parcel of land.
A parcel of land probably bought on a [...]

Frances’ car is about crapped out and she needs a new one. So out we went this morning to test drive a few and visit the various car showrooms in the island, but although we have almost decided, we still are unsure on what it would be.
Requirements:
1. Family car with space for 3 kids, a [...]