The New Border Project, originally uploaded by malyousif. The infrastructure is now complete, and the new border is awaiting plants! Arif and I put the stones to delineate the border (of the border!) and laid down all the pipes and put the drip heads in, about a foot apart on about 120 feet of pipe! …
Month: February 2007
Prepairing the new flower bed, originally uploaded by malyousif. This is the second step in preparing the bed; my gardener and a helper did the initial work of removing the grass and cutting the shape I laid down and moving the sprinklers. This morning, Arif and I tilled the earth, mixed in some peat-moss and …
UPDATE: 9feb07@09:28 It seems that this story is coming to an amicable conclusion due to sincere efforts of intermediaries in the next couple of days, where the plaintiff is said to have accepted to drop the case against Mahmood Al-Yousif in return for removing certain words from the original post published on Dec 22nd, 2006. …
I was a guest of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) in Adliya this morning. I was called yesterday and asked – very politely – to present myself at the CID’s Anti-Economic Crimes Unit “for a chat and some tea” which I accepted with alacrity and with not a little trepidation. The fear; however, was unfounded. …
Congratulations Maysa’a! You make us all proud in your achievements. I know how hard it is to get to that right seat, but you made it and all power to you. I would be honoured to have you in the driving seat any time I fly. We need more like you and I am sure …