Comments on cupcakes do think pink: My summer island hopping (Bahrain is an archipelag...

I've been living in London and working in Soho for...

2007-09-19T20:41:00.000Z

I've been living in London and working in Soho for the past 14 years now and still love it. Embankment, Tate Modern, Serpentine, Brick Lane... so much to see in London.

Still, being a true Bahraini I ache for the land. I have to come back home once a year at least to be with the family.

thanks for the offer, but the doner alone should b...

2007-09-13T08:08:00.000Z

thanks for the offer, but the doner alone should be sufficient

how about a side of turkish hepatitis C with that,...

2007-09-12T20:00:00.000Z

how about a side of turkish hepatitis C with that, eh?

i want a doner kebab...

2007-09-12T09:43:00.000Z

i want a doner kebab...

lunar, you rock. how's about a coffee saturday af...

2007-09-11T16:39:00.000Z

lunar, you rock. how's about a coffee saturday afternoon, hmm? :)

I totally agree with you about the whole possessiv...

2007-09-11T12:30:00.000Z

I totally agree with you about the whole possessive feeling - I always feel like that. It's MY city, go get your own place to call home!!!

Christine , come to Bahrain and I'll show you wha...

2007-09-09T20:21:00.000Z

Christine , come to Bahrain and I'll show you what Dubai didn't have to offer and much, much more. Bahrain's got the culture you needed during your stay in the Gulf. I hope India's treating you well my dearest xxx

Evil , alf layla o layla, if only I could tell you stories as entertaining about Bahrain as you did to me when you were last here... Unfortunately, mine are limited to boring blue collar jokes so I'll leave it at that - you were always the cynical one and I was always the optimist and I'd hate for things to change... it would be a shame xxx

BB , the ping pong is actually on the corner of Goodge and Newman street. It used to be a dirty pub with a tunisian chain smoking chelsea fan and no seats to sit on to watch a game. The DimT off london bridge is pretty much opposite my office building - Charlotte Street used to have one as well but it's still not as good as the little place off Baker Street with the pictures of Tony Blair eating there. Now that is the best place to have dim sum in London. Oh, and the promise of eating 4 giant kebabs and good company took me to Harrow Road :) x

Mo , I'm waiting for your visit babe - I'll even save the Star Wars exhibition for you *gasp* :) xxx

I took her all the way down harrow road, and it wa...

2007-09-09T14:55:00.000Z

I took her all the way down harrow road, and it was well worth it (it being 4 giant kebabs)!

Going to miss having you here. Enjoy your time in London, go back and do all the things I wish we could be doing together (and we will, when I come to visit!).

I'll be right here counting the days. Give Ireland a wave for me.

kebab at behesht...i wonder what took you all the ...

2007-09-09T14:45:00.000Z

kebab at behesht...i wonder what took you all the way down harrow road...

The best dim-sum; hakkasan, dimT london bridge, ping-pong on charlotte street (which is halal too).

"no intellectual stimulation, no anything new and no character to anything around me" That's a bit harsh. The question is, what are you going to do to change your surroundings and to enrich your environment?

Did you say something to the effect of "friends le...

2007-09-08T02:42:00.000Z

Did you say something to the effect of "friends leave me messages about how nice and sunny it is here"? I for one say, "may I be eaten by a giant panda before my 'keen' sweats in Bahrain's humid hot air ever again!"

Why? Why do this to yourself? Why strip yourself of all the freedom for the sake of make-believe-comfort?

Bahrain is boring, but it is mesmerising. Everyone gets deceived and falls for its evil ways. Food, comfort, ease-of-living. They get you all disillusioned and once you get stuck there, you don't really want to get out, but you feel like you're missing something. Bahrain deceives you like Schehrezade entertained Shahrayar, but in our case, our Scherezade is one fat, ugly, polluted, brain-dead thing that some refer to as an island.

Oops, that was me ^~ Christine

2007-09-06T13:33:00.000Z

Oops, that was me ^
~ Christine

I really missed being able to enjoy the outdoors w...

2007-09-06T13:32:00.000Z

I really missed being able to enjoy the outdoors when I was in the Gulf. I just couldn't live without being able to walk comfortably for hours, and doing it surrounded by green things.

hahaa, KFA! I was in a regular british school for ...

2007-09-05T06:00:00.000Z

hahaa, KFA!

I was in a regular british school for a year then went to KFA for about 4 years. Damn, I miss London. I'm definately going soon.

Cradle - thanks honey, I wrote this over a coupl...

2007-09-04T13:54:00.000Z

Cradle - thanks honey, I wrote this over a couple of days with a paragraph here and there whenever I had the time... I was generally trying not to complain about the way things are because I'm blessed in so many ways... I just got a bit of a panic that I haven't done and seen enough out of here so I'm glad to be going back... A lot of friends have given me the same advice you have, it's tough but everyone's got to do it I suppose...

Ammar - All of that stuff is still there and so's the rest of it... I just can't wait to go back... and I can safely assume you were a KFA kid then...

that was beautiful... Whenever someone talks about...

2007-09-04T09:21:00.000Z

that was beautiful... Whenever someone talks about London I always consider it mine; I lived there when I was around 2 for a few years, then again when I was 10 till around 15... and even though I haven't been there since 98 (life got in the way), whenever someone mentions it, I feel like you do; the possesiveness, it's my city, its mine..

Beautiful; I love it, I love the energy, the liveliness, the life.. I miss the salty fish and chips next corner of a pub on a cold wet afternoon, I miss getting on the underground train as "Mind The Gap" is announced (do they still do that?), I miss Oxford Street, I miss Picaddily circus, I miss shopping at Marks & Spencers (the supermarket part), oh how I miss London, take me with you!

That was one beautiful piece Sara!I'm speechless, ...

2007-09-03T18:54:00.000Z

That was one beautiful piece Sara!

I'm speechless, but from someone who's been here for almost a year now, I think the way I got around it was by breaking the routine. It's hard, but when you dig real deep sometimes you find some stuff beneath the thick layer of coffee shops.

Problem is, in some other place that would be the normal flow of life. In Bahrain, though, you have to swim against the tide, and try real hard to live the same lifestyle you are used to, especially if you didn't like to stroll along a shopping mall.