Al-Wasat‘s cartoon today is rather appropriate and indicative of what a large part of society is feeling: Two supposed journalists are asking the person in the middle for a statement, and you can see what the poor guy in the middle (society?) is thinking of if they do dare open his mouth. Has treading carefully …
Year: 2007
More wildlife than I care to have, originally uploaded by malyousif. During my regular morning garden inspection this morning, I came across this thing that stopped me in my tracks! I don’t know what manner of uninvited wildlife it is that came into my garden and dug this hole under on of the oleanders… I …
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! …
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. …