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“I’ll Be Back!”
Real Life has a way with things. It looks at you, finds you, stops you, pushes you, sneaks up on you, bashed you on the head and then drags you away to where it wants you to be. And currently, Real Life (RL) does NOT want me to blog. I’ve plead...
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...
So, there’s this dude…
… whose name is Steve Oman! Oman! His name is Oman! How, what, why?! What does that even mean!? How did his parents come up with that name?? Apparently, there are 2500-odd unique last-name-Oman people in the USA. That’s pretty rare and pr...
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...
H1N1: Respawn
Amazing what a couple of well-placed headlines and the bottomless-gossip-pit of school staff rooms can do. With the arrival of August and the return of snot-nosed children to school, the seemingly common statement of “… she caught it from...
Rembrandt Visits Oman
Gulf News has an article titled “Rembrandt show to draw Omanis and Dutch closer”. Basically, it is about a month-long (Ramadhan long) exhibition of Rembrandt’s original paintings at the Grand Hyatt from 10 am to 12 midnight, non-sto...
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, ...
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...
MJ dead
Seeing notices of Michael Jackson’s death on the BBC website, nothing on CNN for now. Paramedics were called to the singer’s Beverly Hills home at about midday on Thursday after he stopped breathing. He was pronounced dead two hours later...
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...
10 Grand – Below the belt!
Thanks to Queen of Tarts for sending this. Now, I’m starting off with a disclaimer that this stinks. In fact, I’m all ready to dismiss it as outlandish, but then again, the URL seems legit, & Mozilla had a scheme somewhat like this so...
(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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Dodge the Dodge
I’m impressed. Not that such a thing exists, it sure does, but that Kuwait is actually going to use it! Basically the idea is to have two number-plate-recognizing cameras on a police car. The cameras scan number plates, query the head office da...
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...
Shipping Company Ships Ship to Shipping Lines
That would be better read as Oman Shipping Company ships a new oil tanker to Mitsui Shipping Lines “. Makes sense, but be honest, you wouldn’t have clicked here if I’d written that, would you!? =P MoI says: Oman Shipping Company (OS...
No Bottom Feeding
Bottom Trawling is a technique where in a trawler (obviously) lets its nets (kinda) scrape the bottom (obviously) of the seabed. This “scoops” up the fishes we eat and the things they discard. As a side issue, metal or wooden beam is used...
Blame McDonalds…
… however, on second thoughts, I think that is too harsh of a headline! This article takes a report from here and discusses the central reason for the downfall of the Tamil Tigers (LTTE) in Sri Lanka. Basically, consider a fighting force of reb...
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’̶...
