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Sunday, 9 October 2011

Justin Bieber From Meet and Greet,Rio de Janiero(October 6)

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Happy Canadian Thanksgiving, and some other stuff.

Well first up, it's Canadian Thanksgiving today - so for all of you Canadians out there - Happy Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great day, and for those of you reading from Canada itself - enjoy the long weekend!

Such a pretty flag

It created quite the stir last week, but all you lushes out there ~~can breathe a sigh of relief~~ will have to keep waiting - Pavo's ~~got it's license renewed~~ still not had it's license renewed. PK has got some juice it seems ;) So the margaritas are back on the menu, phew! I'm not sure I could handle that band sober. Actually I'm being mean, that band is actually pretty good, if not a little (a lot) too loud - its a shame live dancing is still off the menu, nothing better than watching people shit faced on Karaoke night belting out late 80's classics. Sniff, such amusing memories.

Cafe G

I've recently discovered Cafe G, thanks to a very nice new friend of mine for introducing me to Cafe G, you know who you are! Now a lot of people ramble on about the cakes and whatever from Cafe G - I wouldn't have a clue, I just know that their coffee is really good, so if you are in MQ (or the Bank Muscat HQ), try them out for their coffee instead of your usual Starbucks/Costa/Dunkin Donughts coffee. Rather excitingly, they have a Twitter account here and a facebook page here which has all their menu and things. Their Coffee is great :) No I didnt get paid to write about them! But yes I'll take a free coffee if one's being offered!

Yanni

Local free paper, Black & White, with support from Merge 104.8 are hosting a concert here in town on October 26th at the SQU Cultural Center. Just a few observations on this now though. Nowhere on the Black & White Website or Facebook pag e is there any information about the Yanni concert, and the same story is with Merge 104.8 - albeit there is a mention in their Merge Guide, there is no ticketing information or even information on how to get tickets. Emails sent in to B&W anonymously have gone unanswered so one assumes that they've sold all their tickets, except they have not. And, as the story was originally broken by fellow local blogger Rummy back in August, the concert is actually for a very good cause - the proceeds go to the Al Noor Association for the Blind. I finally found some information by reading through the September issue of B&W (the "current issue" on their website) and cut an advert out of the e-zine..... they do make it hard don't they? Anyway, if you want some tickets, you can email (good luck!) them on yanniconcert@blackandwhiteoman.com or call on 2456 5697 / 9867 5976 for more information on how to get them.

According to Yanni's website, tickets are not available for purchase online, but can be bought in, "leading restaurants and shopping malls" - that solves that then... I guess? Perhaps the good people at Merge can try actually adding some information to their website/facebook rather than just keep giving the tickets away so people interested could actually purchase them. Upon further googling, I understand you can purchase tickets at these locations: Pizza Hut outlets, La Mer, Abala Cafe and The Sultan Center (Qurum).

Many thanks to @lasiaf who pointed out the rather helpful website: http://www.yannioman.com//index.aspx

Dont forget to put your name down for 2 free tickets to the 80s party hosted by Pat Sharp on the 19th October at the InterCon Jabrin ballroom from 9pm... either email me or leave your comment on this thread for a chance to win 2 tickets to the event.

Muscat Rugby have their 3rd game of the season tonight, against HMS Oceans with a KO at 7:00pm. MRFC have been unbeaten so far this season and will be looking to keep that record intact when they play the Royal Navy this evening, and Doha who will be visiting Muscat this Friday (KO at 3:00pm). Post match celebrations will be held in the new home for MRFC - The Hyatt Habanna Bar.

More soon.

le fin.

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Justin Bieber From Meet and Greet,Rio de Janiero

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Tickets on sale for The Script and Jay Sean / Shontelle gigs

Tickets for Jay Sean and Shontelle are RO 20 or RO 40 for VIP on the 9th November.

Tickets for The Script are RO 25 or RO 50 for VIP for the 16th November.

Tickets for both events can be purchased at all the usual spots: OUA MQ, Bose QCC and the Al Ghazal pub at the InterCon. I have 2 VIP tickets to each event to give away, and will run the competitions in the coming weeks. You can get more information from the Alive Oman facebook page.

Also, on the 19th October there is the big 80's party which is a limited ticket event - only 1000 tickets available and many of them have already been sold - I'm giving away 2 tickets to this event and all you have to do is email me or leave a comment on this linked blog post.

More soon!

le fin.

Sneak Peek - First images of The Spa at The Chedi

The Long Pool

Now some of you may know that The Chedi has been building a new spa facility for the last year or two, but it's nearly finished, and here are some pictures of the new 103m long outdoor pool and the relaxation lounge.

The spa is slated to open later this month, and features a 400-square-metre health club, eight new private spa treatment rooms, separate mens & womens steam and sauna areas and a relaxation lounge. On top of that there is also the existing hotel facilities to compliment what I understand is now the Sultanate's largest outdoor swimming pool.


The relaxation lounge

I do have to say that the Long Pool does look very nice - I can see myself enjoying a nice hard work-out on a sun lounger by that pool sipping cocktails in the late afternoon! The press release I saw tells me that there will be 38 members of staff, including 4 physical trainers on hand to operate the gym and spa, so there should be no shortage of help should you wish to use the facilities that are on offer.

More soon!

le fin.