Month: July 2006

Grooming the palms

Date Palm Grooming, originally uploaded by malyousif. Every year summer brings its bounty, but to get it you need to take care of your palm tree otherwise either the birds will take all of the crop, or worse, it will just go bad. I had three guys grooming my palm trees yesterday afternoon and they …

100 Days

Let’s assume that we actually do have only 100 days left to elect a new parliament in Bahrain; yes, I know that as the talk at the moment is toward the combined session of the Shura Council (appointed) and Chamber of Representatives (elected) around the end of the month might be a signal that the …

Blended!

I got this in the mail today, and I thought it was a practical joke. Who the hell would send me this stuff? Then I remembered, I was interviewed by Blender for an article about Michael Jackson a few months ago! It was a good interview actually, very well written and encompassing, not one that …

13

Arif astride a Harley Davidson motorcycle, originally uploaded by malyousif. Blink! And they’ve left the house! Arif, our youngest, has turned 13 today. So we officially have THREE teenagers in the house! How the hell did that happen? It was only yesterday that we were changing their nappies, and today we have three teenagers? Time …