It’s 4:20pm and I feel like I have achieved nothing today. Contacted a few people – those who were good enough to take my calls – and did a bit of work for the bank, prepared to place an order with one of my suppliers, re-negotiated a contract with one of my customers, and tried …
That was long. A couple of nights ago Frances and I also attended Hanan’s class concert (years 7 and 8) and that went for more than 2 hours as well. A lot of the kids on both nights were clearly very talented and worked hard at getting to the excellent levels they achieved with their …
On June 2nd, 1932 Major Frank Holmes, a New Zealand engineer, strikes oil for the first time in Bahrain. I guess we can also peg this date as the start of the Modern Era in Bahrain. It’s worth noting that oil was discovered in Bahrain quite a few years before any other Arabian Gulf state …
Who is Mahmood? It’s very hard to summarize your life isn’t it? What can you really say about yourself other than born on whatever date and in wherever country or town? What schools, college or university you went to? So what? Just about everybody on the planet does the same – give or take. I …
As if it was ever dead? It might by necessity hide for a while but never dies, even in the most hostile environments you will find art flourishing. Look at Iraq: intermittent electricity, untreated water, medical services on the blink, people without jobs, without steady income, but with all of these predicaments we have a …