Saturday, May 30, 2009

What Is The Mucus A Day Befor Period

children's museum, I experience, therefore I am!

Besides the city of La Villette, it seems that it is less modern, less strongly, more old-fashioned.
The place is less crowded, with some Omani schoolchildren who do not stay long, and tourists who come looking for the lost fees.
is also very affordable (head, misery as 1 € for me, half for children over 5 years ... a ruin!)

Boys (8 and 6 years) were in the battery slot. Minette 3 years 1 / 2 needed a little help. Baby to suck all the playground closed. He loved it.
Mom, more than 30 years, has entertained. If I can find a moment to drag their children before my return, I will be satisfied ... (it serious doctor??)
A small regret, however, the lack of explanations, and lack of leaders passionate ...
From left to right: an explanation of how a Minitel (a what?), A magnetic field, and speed centrifugal


So? We go back?? Next year, I promise, we will go to Science City to compare. (Will there be a blog?)

Friday, May 29, 2009

Masterbation Methoeds




vast subject.
The woman wears the urban black abaya chic and sober, but the details are important. The abaya is actually a coat, which is supposed to hide the forms too suggestive. Often it does. After one or two children, the Omani widens this seems to be inevitable. But on several occasions, we met some girls whose wiry abaya was so bent that alone, it became an instrument of seduction.

(mister nevertheless noted that the young woman in the photo is flat as a breadboard, so my picture is far from perfectly illustrate the topic. Mr. Parsley has only to provide articles on the blog, he has the pen so sharp, so we'll talk about the relevance of the pictures ... I remind the attentive reader that it is very difficult to take Oman, they are fierce with cameras)
short. The abaya has not always been paid in Oman. She comes from Saudi Arabia and UAE. In Muscat, it is of uniform. The longer it is, the more it drags on the ground, the more it shows the richness of the woman who is carrying it as I see how I wear an abaya, which picks up dust, and I can change it at the first sign of wear. Other snobbery: the bun under a headscarf: it is more imposing, more daring and it denotes wealth. This sometimes gives the impressions of tumors rather unsightly ...
the shell (the famous scarf) is installed on the front, and covers the hair and down his chin, and neck. Some young women bring to the modern fashion UAE, most cowardly, revealing the first locks of hair. The two towers are still de rigueur, but we feel the rebellion of the lock of hair ...
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Returning to the abaya. It has several forms. Completely closed, open at the bottom or top up the sleeves straight or flared (leg sleeves eph). In this photo (blurry!) Abayas open, folded, or misty, silky scarves and ordinary bound to the holding below, but more relaxed the black scarf ... (instead of picnic Sunday finally Friday!)
(look at the pant leg that comes out of the abaya pleated Mazette, what heresy!)
But the real novelty lies in the choice of decoration. Gold braid, or colored crystals arranged in various patterns, the notions are the temples of creativity, where you get lost. The handle of the abaya is decorated with the same pattern as the right side of the shell that is in the back. Supreme shame? have the same abaya another woman. My classmate of English poses to us. His favorite pastime? Shopping!
Certainly, there is a challenge to win the prize for coquetry. Here, bag, shoes, clothes, makeup and follow the color dictated by the turquoise stripe. So Chic!
The woman freed from the ultra modern abaya. it is rare and bold, often quite heavily westernized. Just like the Barbie doll local, we can also find clothing much more strict, I assure you. Photo advertising mobile: (implausible though!) In the countryside, it is different, we give in color. A large square scarf (size make it a perfect choice sarong original!) Covers an ugly polyester dress, custom made by the tailor on the corner, all the girls of the same family are entitled to the same, c ' is lovely!
The elderly ladies wear a dress every day that stops at mid calf, with calf pants embroidered and embellished with sequins.


Another small detail chic and shock caused a sensation among the Bedouin woman who wanders in the hot desert sands of Wahiba, or in the remote provinces of Mussandam: The mask, called here "Burka" .. like yours, it reminds me kekchose ... This lady has agreed to pose for the photographer. it becoming friends with tourists, it used to. Because otherwise, when they see more than a goal, they disappear, or show their disapproval.
She wears a transparent sort of abaya, typical of this corner of the country. The dromedary (one hump!) Is a lovely scarf, which avoids having to apply a handkerchief every 5 seconds. Anne Parsley has tested the mask for you: (Photo taken during the festival in Muscat ... I must speak to you in the next post in 4 years if I find Finally some time, and if I can find a connection worthy of the name in France.The Muscat Festival is in January, is to see and at night, you do not spit on a small scarf !)
And for the holiday season is the arch-spangled! You'll notice
indispensable accessory, the mobile phone. it's a drug. Even when you get home, the French, they exchange conversations and text messages as in Grandma ...


The highlight of the show is completely stolen this picture, at a wedding. The girl came from a wealthy family, the celebration took place in The Ballroom of the most prestigious hotel in the country. Women closest to the bride wore glittering outfits (kitchissime), a parade of sequins and rhinestones, turned giddy and makeup competition. Not a single man in sight. Nor tellemennt of the West. Just a friend and me.
For the photo, we were about to start. The meeting had given women scarf and abaya, the groom coming to pick her up like a doll car veiled, and bent in a diamond-studded bra terrible bag as wide as high (custom, of course!)
Incidentally, note also the decor, with ease.
And finally (because I'm working on that message over 15 days, and I want to move on) small town girls are often more Western clothes, jeans, a skirt over it, and a t-shirt with long sleeves, veil at puberty. The abaya comes later.
So now that you know everything, how can one not be shocked to encounter tourists freshly unloaded from the boat cruise in mini-shorts-tank? Or expatriate in short dresses and low-cut?
Out of respect for those women who show only hands and face, can not we cover shoulders and knees? At least?
Attention Anne Parsley gets mad ...

Sunday, May 10, 2009

How To Tighten Loose Weaves

Omani Omani women fashion

It took me a long time before laying this message ...
Because I wanted pictures representative, and here, the people who resent being photographed. And also because I had lost much of my data, and I just get them back after trephination of my ex-laptop.
Today, talking about men's fashion, it will be time to delve into the feminine styles ...

Daily, the Omanis wearing a long robe, the dishdashah , often white, but whose color varies according to personal taste: this is where we discover the infinite variety of white ( green, vanilla, ocher, blue, sand, purple ...)

Here in Nizwa souk animals:



A Barka in fighting bulls (on a Friday, 2 the western exit of Barka in Arenas, 16 hours, until sunset prayers). For more details, and beautiful pictures, elp speaks

They wear a loincloth underneath cotton, mostly white, trimmed with lace fringe tracking colored white, sometimes Spain is a plaid in shades of blue. When it is discovered sit on a dirty or foul (the souk of fish, for example!): didache 'in the air, butt down. Why raise the bottom of the dress? Because dischdacha must be clean and well ironed. There, right, the young Omani just doing his laundry in a fallaj (irrigation channel). We are far from cities where his clothes are entrusted to a "laundry" that makes dishdasha clean and ironed, for a kiss (the cents here). (No nasty comments on porting baby baba-cool, thank you ;-))))

The head is covered. Always. (Well, almost ... young people ... in the country ... we will talk again!)

The turban is reserved for holidays, important people, and guys who drive 4x4 towers -operators, it's more "local", it pleases the tourists. Here, carried by the Sultan, with the ceremonial coat , and khandjar (curved knife Oman) is the class. (Mosaic at the entrance to the CCC)
The coumarin is the alternative to the turban, the beret of everyday life, that hides the lock of hair in front, cut either horizontally (we tested for our boys, barbers do not know what else to do ...). Women who have the courage to embroider the coumarin themselves for their children. Others make do with the tailor, or buy everything at a souk, such as tourists. (We are, ouiiiiiiiiii!) So? Who will win? Turban? Couma?
The essential accessory that completes the bookkeeping: the phone. For the feet, tatane leather. The must: ostrich leather, white pearl.

Youth who are kicking the anthill adopt social conventions a kind of long shirt Scottish rest days, s'affublent but the most rebellious of U.S. style clothing or warm suburb ... not even scared! The clash of generations (posture and style ...) Note the cane the old Baba. Bye bye!

Saturday, May 9, 2009

Asking For Money For A Birthday Gift

Dubai Ouch ouch ouch!

Title zero, ok!
To schedule a weekend in Dubai requires:
  • or buy travel guides, and cramming for hours
  • or chat out of school, and to sort information, impressions, and anecdotes.
  • be relying upon a tour operator, or similar, who knows, and who will make the choice for you.

We opted for the number 3, but I have not shunned the option 2, talkative witness.

So L and S our guides had to difficult task of showing us things up in less than four hours, including lunch. But as L and S are friends, they gave the best of themselves.

're off on a highway to 14 lanes (as in the song are Poppys !)

Seen like that, the Burgh Dubai looks tiny ... smaller than a streetlight. Who is lying? Or is it a perverse effect of this crazy city? Yet overwhelming evidence : The Skytrain, opening in 2010: trip to the beach?
I sew the "Timeless"
When the kite-surfer becoming poet
Under sail and steam:



A bit of freshness and freedom in this artificial world:
A playmobil-city tour with?
Atlantis has just been inaugurated hyper much fanfare. I have not received the invitation, she had to lose ... strange!
The Catholic Mobile dubaïotte:
To clear his head, nothing beats a little shopping:

Especially for the to drool with envy

We'll have them back ... we are bewitched by this city unique, magical vortex, the chaotic border crossings, and mac'do ... not exotic!