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I like farking. Primarily because I read a lot. And then I have an opinion about it. And then by the grace of the interwebs, someone is there is disagree wholeheartedly. And then I start pushing my point down his/her throat. Just because! I have fark
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Mutawwa-ing Second Life
As reported by Al-Watan newspaper on the 17th, the mutawwas and the PVCV of Saudi Arabia are growing in the virtual world of Second Life. Apparently, there are going to be lectures and “methods to excite the young people” on the virtues o...
H1N1: Schools, Ruwi & Lulu
Really brief. After the case of an Indian School student falling ill and passing away due to swine flu, the Indian Schools have closed for an extended holiday. That comes after an annoouncement that they would not close. But they are now closing. The...
The Bottom Half Divided by 2
I’m kinda sorta having trouble with work nowadays. Not with the authorities/company policy, but with a couple of “elements” that take the concept of CYA a bit too far. The general mentality of the ‘little black workers’ ...
Vegetables, Steam and In-laws
As I departed in the immortal words of Arnold, with a resolution of “I’ll be back”, little did I know that my solid confidence and regards for the Queen to uphold my blog and keep the visitors coming would be brought crashing on by ...
Who me?
I was supposed to write here? wtf? Oh, hiya all. My name is the Queen of Tarts and I’m quite Tarty in that respect. I was checkin’ out my old stuff and discovered a finely honed talent of mine that is the inability to throw away old stuff...
Kill ‘em Infidels!! The Fatwas
(from Part 1) The prevalent attitude of the Saudi ruling family pertain to something like “do what you want to do, just let us do what we want to do. If you interfere in what we want to do, you get snapped”. Consider it a zero-tolerance, ...
Pricey Nike…
Our beloved TSC has recently revamped its non-foodstuff floor. Whilst being one of the few peaceful & better places left to shop, I’ve noticed the steadily stealthily hiking prices of sports items and clothing. I’m sure these pair of ...
Mixing it up…
… at the ROP traffic police office in Qurum. The window, for women only, being ‘manned’ by women, had 2 male customers! OTOH, he ‘did’ have his wife/a female with him, I suppose. Lately, I’ve noticed that seeing th...
Michael Jackson – Too Good, Too Soon?
So, seems like MJ really is dead. Cardiac arrest, followed by an hour of resuscitation, but to no avail. Again, Muslims/Islam managed to tick some people off when a news channel censored Jermain Jackson’s press conference’s ending stateme...
“To be Pissed or not to be Pissed”
That’s what I get paid. Obviously, I’m generalizing. And then again, it might not be true, but still. My current dilemma/pissed-offness stems from a query whether I’m being paid by my company (company 47) for the time I spend on my ...
ICC T20:We Have a Winner!
In more ways than one. Having an all-winning team winning something is just continuation. Having an all-losing team winning something is just a coincidence. Having Pakistan win the T20 World Cup is just astounding! There are many tiny elements that s...
(Ir+Om)an
Yup, it’s official. Following my previous posts there was a pending visit, I was waiting for our Deputy Prime Minister to visit but it seems as if I have been upstaged by the govt. and now it is His Majesty himself who is going to pay the newly...
Its Only Words…
No paraphrasing this time! Anyway, what is so scrumptiously intriguing as to make you cachinnate and have all onygophagists forget their obsession and instead treat themselves to it? Dunno? Neither do I. But instead of finding such things, what amoun...
Emot-Iran
Take a horse. Should be dead. No, kill him, just arrange to obtain a dead horse. Lay him down (or if you can, make him stand up)….. and then beat him. Beat him and Beat him to death! Just what did you achieve? The same as I’ll achieve by ...
ICC T20 WC
Busy in life. Yup, that’s what I have decided to blame my laziness to. I have not been on vacation, I have not been busy in work (infact, lately I have been working hours more and more like a govt. officer rather than a private-sector employee)...
Railway – More Oil – More Undersea Land
MUSCAT – Gulf Arab finance ministers have asked Price Waterhouse Coopers to study how the region should share common customs revenues, the last step in implementing a regional customs union, officials said on Saturday. Whilst this is a long-pen...
Pigeon-headedness
Seems that in their astoundingly successful quest to achieve the lowest form of distorted truths and moral values possible, people living across the mountainous borders have once again numbed my senses and rendered me speechless, hapless, unable to m...
Arabia without the bling!
Our land of Oh-man is stealthily coming into notice. The fallout from Dubai has left eh westerners craving for more of Alladin and Sindbad and the Prince of Persia (but sadly Iran is off-limits to them), but the images of Ferraris and Porsches and ...
IR Scan @ Muscat Airport
So, we have IR scanners at our airport. I knew that there was ‘increased security’ and that ‘it takes longer to exit’ after departing the plane, but, as usual, details on what was happening were scarce. Now, KT has this suit...
Oye, I’ll jum…..AAaaahhhhh!!!
Hahha! One of those news items which divides the discussions wherein the participants immediately take one of the two available sides and a good talk ensues. Some people go, “ROFL! Cool move dude” and others go “Tch Tch, he shouldn&...
How many Gulfs?
That is an assumption of course. Since the Europeans created the Euro, the Gulfians should create the Gulf; and maybe have its symbol to be a stylized G (okay, maybe not a G with a strikethrough!) But still, what would it be named?* What would it l...
A Pulitzer & a Peabody…
C’mon. Bring on the honors and the awards. Journalism cannot go any higher! Times of Oman says: ROP Extradites thief from EU Royal Oman Police has managed to extradite a thief from an EU country, who was convicted in a criminal case he committe...
(Ir+Om)an
My algebra’s a bit rusty. However I think this works. It equates to Iran + Oman. And that’s what’s going on. Oman and Iran are pretty much becoming an item! There are many news articles on this appearing. Mostly low-key. As if the a...
Read and Pass it On
No, I’m not forwarding a chain mail, nor am I promising 20 days of evil if you don’t do it (but I will wish for 200 days of goodness to fall on you). If y’all remember my previous post has excerpts from a newspaper that caught my e...
The Car will Simulate a Car!
Chief Reporter of Gulf News reports that “Learner Drivers to be Trained on Simulator”. Wow! I think. I gotta see this one. I had an image of the X-drive ride thingy (that was in Wadi Kabir garden some eons ago). A cocoon completely on wei...
Growing Water
“Supplier of Illegal Stuff Warned” Ooooo.. What a headline! Now that’s a novel concept! Warning someone for Illegal “Stuff”. Not illegal alcohol, illegal marijuana but illegal “stuff”. Has a james bond-styl...
H1N1 Lab in Oman
Folks over in the UAE are worried about the fact that the nearest WHO-recognized H1N1 identifying lab to theirs is in Oman. That would be the Central Public Health Lab in the Ministry of Health (I presume in the Muscat Area, right next to the Muscat ...
Facilitating Facilities!
The Tribune reports (through its ‘Special Correspondent’. What’s the deal with these Special Correspondents anyway? What makes them so special!!?) that “Major tourism destinations are going to get ‘facilities’̶...
By The Order of Zion
Undercover Dragon from Suburban from Muscati has a nice piece on the Zionist Conspiracy uncovered by Essa Zajdali in the Times of Oman. According to Essa, This whole Piracy nonsense was set up by the Jews to shut down the shipping lanes through the S...
