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]
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]
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]
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!
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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]
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]
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]
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]
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
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