Monthly Archives: August 2014

Inspired by food!

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NCFC-Food-ImageDear fellow bloggers.
I have started a new blog, http://www.cookwithsingh.com, which is inspired by some of the blogs I follow here and at http://www.expatsnews.com.
After I started blogging here a little more than a year ago primarily to give vent to my passion for writing and photography, I was pleasantly surprised how beautiful an experience that was. Soon, around six months ago, I started posting on issues about expatriates all over the world (expatsnews.com) and trying to highlight their issues and problems. Being an expat myself in Bahrain, I could feel more on what they go through.
Throughout my journey as a blogger, some very prolific writers and amateur cooks followed me here and at expatsnews.com and, reading them, I was quite fascinated how much interest they generated on the world wide web and, finally, decided it was time for me to give it a go as well.
Hopefully, I will be able to do justice to this side of my personality as well.
I have always loved to cook, having been ‘coached’ by my mother at a very early age and having experimented in the kitchen endlessly, causing several mishaps in the bargain! But it has all been a learning process.
Through this blog, I will try to detail some of the food I cook – but it’s food with a difference – since I have no specific recipes and no particular style. All that matters is that the food tastes good and looks appetising. Do check out the new venture.
As I have said, I am INSPIRED BY FOOD!

Sunscape

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DSC_8107The beautiful Bahrain sunset pictured from the Muharraq Suq. It is rare to get a shot with the clouds at this time of the year but when that does happen, it provides some unusual patterns. This photograph appears to show a ‘mountain range’ on the ‘brightest star’ in the solar system.

It’s been framed

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DSC_0485The Shaikh Isa bin Salman Causeway and part of the Bahrain Bay development seen framed through a park bench structure on the Muharraq coast. A fishing boat, the high tide and the orange glow of the sunset complete the picture.

‘I just want to say, I love you’

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DSC_0461This duo, spotted at the Muharraq Municipal Park this evening, were taking pictures of each other, possibly to send back to loved ones in their home country. The men, who looked like workers from Bangladesh, were happily posing, making sure the right background of the Manama skyline and the high tide are captured. Interesting to note was the writing on one man’s t-shirt, which read: “To Say ‘I Love You’, one must be able to say the ‘I’.” The scenario made the state of mind of expatriates who stay away from their families abundantly clear – how they fight loneliness and take solace in one another’s company to pass their time!

The Tyson saga!

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Screen Shot 2014-08-26 at 11.09.19 PMThis is a column I wrote at the Gulf Daily News back in the beginning of 2010 when our pet Tyson returned home after having gone missing for three days.
I was reminded of those times by a blog I wrote yesterday (Mutt on the coast) and a comment that followed saying how humans insist on getting animals to comply with their “silly endeavors.”

Tyson gets a clean-up job, courtesy Yours Truly!

Tyson gets a clean-up job, courtesy Yours Truly!

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Tyson with the love of his life, Asveen, just before she travelled to attend college.

unnamedI totally agree! Why should pets, particularly dogs, who are known to carry the same emotions and feelings as humans, follow man’s every whim when man does not himself do so for the dog?
So we have let Tyson be and take him for his “walk” only for him to do his thing and come right back in, sometimes taking only a few minutes. He’s petrified of traffic, people, machines, in fact, any noise whatsoever. He will not go out for hours on end if there are road works going on or there are people on the porch outside. He will certainly not move out if there is any kind of noise and that could be the imam at the mosque saying the evening prayer!
He was always like that, ever since we brought him home as a few days old pup. He was somewhat improving when “disaster” struck and he disappeared. And, ever since we got him back, he’s been what he’s today!
So, now, he eats, and sleeps, eats again, and sleeps some more. He’s happy that way, and so are we!