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EID GIFT GUIDE: guest in a green mountain village
Tradition reigns supreme here. Women will wear their gold and have their henna done, and it is polite to immitate that. Visiting friends and relatives is the mainstay of the Eid, so wearing shoes that...
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EID GIFT GUIDE: your little Omani princess
1.) Omani traditional girl's dress tailored from Mutrah souq, around12-16.000 OMR depending on if you bring your own fabric or not.2.) Small traditional silver necklace, 28.000 OMR Mutrah Souq3.) Small...
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MY OWN PHOTOS: Eid al Fitr day two, a rainy day in the Hajar Mountains
We woke up on the second day of Eid-al-Fitr to a breakfast of Omani bread and cheese with hot milk tea, seeing pomegranite bloom, banana leaves, papaya trees...surrounded by a swarm of black flies...
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A Few Lovely Links: all things wild in Oman
AT WORK: I have been loving the new trend in office-decor of using antique tea trays to hold keyboards. I am also loving this leopard print mouse pad from www.cafepress.com for 6.000 OMR. Omani women...
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RESTAURANTS IN OMAN: Zad, in the Bank Muscat Headquarters Building near the...
Zad was one little restaurant that I had been meaning to check out for a while, ever since my husband and I wound up in the Bank Muscat headquarters building to use the CDM machine since every other...
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OOTD & a OPNO'S GUIDE: to planning a wedding in Muscat in 3 days time for...
What I wore: hot pink Khaleeji dress, costume Turkish gems, and my own attempt at hennaLast week we bid goodbye and mabruk to a long time on-and-off OPNO girl. I can't wait to read about where her next...
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random laziness on the part of these Oman-based bloggers
Sorry for the long time and lack of posts. OPNO girls have been coming and going, or are overworked to the point of dropping dead (probably figuratively but possibly not since they refuse to go in for...
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Am I being a drama queen... Or are some of my anger outbursts in Oman...
People tend to classify me as one of two things: a. sweetest nicest most compassionate person you've ever met, and b. the crazy angry lady. I swear, Oman made me into the latter, and I say that with...
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REPLY TO SASHA: to do or not do, date an Omani guy
This post is written in reply to a comment left on another blog post. Here is Sasha's comment: Hello! I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and I love it! [...---may I interupt to say I am...
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MOSQUES OF OMAN: Asma Bint Alawi in Al Qurum, Muscat
One of the very first [nice--not border station] Mosques I ever prayed in, in Oman, was the Masjid Asma Bint Alawi, along Al Sarooj street in Al Qurum district of Muscat, you know right near Bareeq Al...
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RESTAURANTS IN OMAN: Shakespeare & Co.
So the day began long planned goodbye brunch for an OPNO girl you all know. She'd been wanting to try out Shakespeare & Co. since she, with Omani gal pals, had wound up in Al Mouj Marina by...
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MY OWN PHOTOS: my love affair with mornings spent in Mutrah, and the...
In case you are new to reading this blog, I used to live in Mutrah. Every morning, and every sunset, I would walk the corniche. I became a local in the back alleys behind the souq and shops. I miss...
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Today many Omani teachers and students have gone to work, but the teachers are refusing to teach in protest of many issues that have not been addressed by the Ministry of Education.One major concern of...
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shades of gold and emerald for an October in Oman
"Gold is intrinsic to the Middleeast. So is scarf-collecting." -anonymous expat woman;). So here is my random post of gold and jewel-tone eye-candy for October. Stained-glass, bartering in the souq,...
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Eid Al Adha wishes, before the weekend, from the girls at OPNO
Eid Mubarak, for this Eid Al Adha, to all our readers, wherever in the world they may be, or whatever they believe. To Muslims, this holiday marks the sacrfice, for truth, and right, of even those...
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EID DAY ONE: my Eid outfit, Omani shuwa in Muscat, and sunset in Shatti al Qurum
This Eid I decided to stay in Muscat. Partially due rebellion... I longed to punish those obscure family members who isolate me due to me not originating from their tribe and family---by depriving them...
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RESTAURANT REVIEW: Fauchon in Muscat at the Opera Galleria
If this blog handed out assignments to the OPNO girls, a review of the recently opened Fauchon at the Opera Galleria would be one I'd fight for. Of course, we don't do anything so pathetic as hand out...
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Did you know the macaron is actually MiddleEastern, not French in origin?
Myself, always having figured macarons only came from Paris, was surprised to learn via the internet sleuthing of Pomegranate Bitter that macarons actually have a middleEastern origin. Facinating,...
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