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Archive | February, 2009

Tough Bikers Wearing Pink, Bullying… and Me!

The Bahrain Bayan School and Ibn Khuldoon are holding a unique event this Friday, at Bayan School.  You may have heard that wearing pink has become a symbol against bullying.  Well, the Harley Owners Group (HOG) Bahrain Chapter is holding a mini-rally at Bayan school to show their support for the cause of eradicating [...] [...more]

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Protecting Disabled Children From Abuse

I attended the official launch of the “Protection of children with disabilities from abuse” programme at the Be Free Centre  yesterday .  The launch was under the patronage of HH Shaika Hessa bint Khalifa Al-Thani, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Disability. In case you don’t know who they are, Be Free is the organisation that virtually [...] [...more]

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Memories of King Saud

You may have heard that the Bahrain National Museum is holding a special exhibition on the late King Saud Ibn Abdulaziz Al-Saud of Saudi Arabia.  There are lots of billboards in Bahrain advertising the exhibit. Well, I was interested in seeing it this weekend.  I thought I’d take the kids too to make it a family [...] [...more]

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Black Belt Grading Video Highlights

As you may be aware, we had a Black Belt test at Zen-Do recently. Here’s a short video of some of the highlights. Hope you like it! [...more]

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How To Stop Cancer (The Email)

I got an email forward from my sister recently.  It’s one of those emails with lots of ‘>>>>’ in them.  The topic of the email was a cancer update from John Hopkins, the famous medical university in the US. To be honest when I saw the email I had my doubts that it was real.  There [...] [...more]

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Meeting The Recycling Lady

Jameela walked into Zen-Do this morning.  She came in during our Sunday morning instructor’s training session.  She said she wanted some information, when I asked Saba, our Membership Advisor to help her she said “no, I need to speak to you,” while pointing at me. “Hmmm…” I thought, as a general rule, I never see anyone [...] [...more]

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Conversations with the Master, Tortured Animals and Other Anecdotes

As you probably know, my instructor Master Rafael Nieto was here recently.  We spent a lot of time together during the 48 hours that he was here. I admire him a lot.  “Raf” as he likes to be called, comes from a Spanish immigrant family who moved to the UK in the 1950’s.  He probably worked [...] [...more]

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Announcing Our New Black Belt Holders!

As I write this post, my heart is filled with joy and pride.  On Thursday 5th of February we had our latest Black Belt grading at Zen-Do. Congratulations to Hussain Al-Fardan, Thomas Blake and Yasmeen Fakhro on attaining their Black Belts.  The grading was almost two hours long.  It consisted of lots and lots of basic [...] [...more]

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The Seven Books That Changed My Life – Part 5 of 7

Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki Welcome to the fifth (and slightly delayed) installment of the seven books that changed my life.  Hope you like it [...more]

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