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Bahrain Personal Data Protection Law coming into effect
Some of you may know that I have been on a campaign to protect data, personal data specifically, from misuse and my demands for legislation to strenuously protect that data to prevent its misuse, and to enact stern penalties on those who do misuse personal information.On August 1, 2019, the ...
Estoy disfrutando español
I started Spanish lessons about a year ago and am really enjoying it. Our class is small, just about 7 people so we have almost a one-to-one relationship with our teacher Niurka who is a Cuban married to a Bahraini. We take the lessons every Saturday morning at the Hiraf ...
Childhood memories via Tuc biscuits
How many of you remember these?If you do, do you also remember the taste of these salty biscuits dipped into sweet milky tea for breakfast? Or the extra salty taste of them sandwiching Kraft cheese out of glasses which are invariably upcycled into defacto tea glasses?I do. And I the ...
Stoked! The cycad is alive :)
Gardening is not something I thought of for most of my life. I enjoyed seeing plants, but beyond taking pleasure in that, I was just like anyone else I suppose. Revel in the moment, and move on to other things.This changed when I bought my first house. It welcomed hands-on ...
Is this thing on?
Quite a number of things changed in my life over the past few years. The last year or so has been especially eventful, so much that looking at a few of the most recent posts in the Den, it begged the question of whether I should delete everything and start ...
شكراً زايد
لم ألتقي بأحد في البحرين الذي فعلاً يجسد قصد #فريق_البحرين مثل زايد الزياني. التواصل معه سهل و رده حازم وسريع. لأسرد لكم قصة حدثت معي هذا الأسبوع لأوضح سبب إعجابي بهذا الشخص... عندي شركتين، واحدة مؤسسه والثانية محدودة المسؤلية. في أثناء تقديم معاملة لواحدة منهما، اتضح ان هناك مخالفة على الأخرى لتأخرنا ...
Outliers. How Success is a Community Sport
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell is an interesting read. It provides a different interpretation on the reasons for success and emphasises the fact of how wrong the adage "self made man/woman" is.Gladwell argues that success is never overnight but is deeply dependent on several factors from culture, society, education, and even ...
Uncommon Type by Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks doesn't much act in his movies and is not type-cast. He is just a naturally good human being! That's the simple fact, and his writing completely confirms this too.As I read his stories in Uncommon Type, I was almost urging him to put in some drama at this ...
Timely Serendipity, the Book of Joy
The Book of Joy is a life changing book.Do you believe in serendipity? I certainly do after picking up this book. It was like the universe was aligning just at the right time, and presenting me with this book because I needed its teachings most. This book was bought by ...
Stoked! The cycad is alive :)
Stoked! The cycad is alive :)
Is this thing on?
Is this thing on?
Is this thing on?