Eid Mubarak
Have a wonderful Eid
enjoyed among your loved ones and thinking of those less fortunate
On Sabbatical
Guys, I’ll be taking a break from blogging for a while.
I don’t know for how long that while is.
Thanks all for your support.
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend.
Excuse the silence
It's been blissfully busy at work over the last few weeks, and it doesn't seem like it's going to ebb any time soon. Me very happy!
To put you in the picture, I have 8 productions all happening at the same time; one must be finished before the 20th of this month, another before the 27th and then two more in October, one in November with another in December an the pipeline is not finished! I’ve got more in the stream and I am sure that we will have to slot a few more productions before the year is out.
I loved this theme, I even called it Athari, but I reconise now that maybe the 'regular' way of displaying posts on a blog is what most people want. Enjoy Athari2!
That is, if the other bits in between allows me to with at least 2 shoot and a final edit scheduled for this week.
Enough of the boring whining. I just hope you understand as I am sure you will.
But as a parting present to all of those who complained about the theme and wanted the regular chronological full article display on the home page, well, I had a couple of hours in the weekend to tinker with the theme a bit and here it is…. I hope you like it.
Love ya!
No Plastic Bags at Al-Osra
They’re certainly not the first supermarket in Bahrain to try to get rid of plastic bags and wrappings and I hope it won’t be the last either, but my friend Muneera – who is no stranger to health and healthy lifestyle herself – informed me that yesterday Al-Osra started their environmental experiment in earnest by replacing the packing plastic bags with paper ones. She thought – as I do – that this is a good thing to explore, so off I went with my trusty Flip video camera (thanks again go to my brother Jamal for allowing me to steal it!) and investigated.
You could view the results yourself of course, but what I came out with in the end is that much more than these “anti plastic bags” campaign, educational campaigns about environmental responsibility and education are very much needed for both adults and children in this country.
Only in Arabia
You know that you are a Gulf Arab (or a long term resident) if a story like this doesn’t even make you stop and contemplate life for a while:
This form of transport happens in every single country in the Gulf, seen as pretty normal.
Baby camel still missing after crash
MYSTERY surrounds the whereabouts of a baby camel, which fled after being involved in a road accident in which two people were injured.
The accident happened near the Al Jazira Supermarket, Budaiya, when the camel reportedly fell off a pick-up truck, into the path of an oncoming car, on Saturday.
It is understood the camel shattered the car windscreen, slightly injuring its Indian driver and a passenger.
The camel was last seen running into bushes near Bushehri Gardens, but there has been no trace of it since.
Traffic police called an ambulance and the injured car occupants were treated on the spot, but not taken to hospital.
“We made sure the two men were treated but we are not aware of what happened to the camel,” said a traffic official.
A witness, who was at a nearby cold store, said the camel fell off a pick-up but the vehicle did not stop.
“Seconds later, the animal was hit by a car,” he said.
GDN – 8 Sept 08
Picture credit: The Telegraph