Saturday evening entertainment

The fabulous new deal at the Mumtaz Mahal, Saturday Night Madness, continues this Saturday, along with some extra contributions from the Left bank underneath it.

For RO 15 + the taxes, you can have all you can eat (from a selected menu) curry along with beer, wine or house spirits, it's, as far as I know, the cheapest "all inclusive" alcohol included deal in the country. And the curries are lurvely.

And if Curry is not your particular cup of tea, you can always pop your head in downstairs at the Left Bank, where they appear to be competing directly with Mumtaz with this particular offer:

3 free drinks for the ladies, discounts on selected cocktails and 15% off main course meals. I'm not really too sure why Left Bank are deciding to compete with Mumtaz on a Saturday night, but we as customers end up the winners!

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Remembrance Sunday

The Remembrance Day Service in Muscat this year will be held on Sunday 11 November at PDO Cemetery.  Anyone wishing to attend should arrive by 10:30.  Remember there is LIMITED seating, no shade and no water.

The Service in Salalah will be held on Monday 12 November late afternoon.  Anyone wishing to attend the service in Salalah should seek further information from the Oasis Club or call the Defence Section at the British Embassy.

You can purchase a Poppy to support the charity at these places:

The Embassy
British School Muscat
ABA
Womens Guild
St Georges Society
MAM Camp (4 Mess)
Medident in MQ

For those that don't know, Remembrance Day is is a memorial day observed in Commonwealth countries since the end of World War I to remember the members of their armed forces who have died in the line of duty.

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Weekend bits and pieces.

Tonight, of course is the Sean Paul concert over at the InterCon gardens. There are a number of tickets that are available on the door - RO 20 or 40 depending on how close you want to be to the stage.

Also tonight & tomorrow are the last nights of Oktoberfest over at the Hyatt. It's RO 34 including the taxes and the Paulaner flows cold all night long. I highly recommend the Pork Knuckle! Also, if you are feeling up for it, on Friday morning there is a Bavarian Brunch at the Mokha cafe, prices are RO 18 plus taxes.

Tonight there is also the Kailash Kher concert being held in the Qurum Amphitheatre, tickets range from RO 5 to RO 45, here's the facebook event page for more information.

And finally for tonight, the Royal Opera House is hosting the music of Oman: Orient and Occident. More information on the event is available here, and tickets are available from RO 5 to RO 35. The show is also on tomorrow (Thursday) night as well.

Tomorrow between 9 & 11:15am there is a yardsale in Azaiba. I understand the sellers stalls are all taken, so it should be a very well attended sale.

Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30pm Oman is taking on Estonia in the Bousher stadium... so make sure you avoid that area around 5pm, especially if Oman win!

Up in Sohar, Oman Sail are running another Try Sailing event - basically turn up on the day and have a crack at sailing for free. There is a facebook event page here and ‘Try Sailing’ Sohar will be held on the public beach opposite the Silver Jubilee Park. Activities will start at 10.30am and finish at 5.30pm each day.

Also, for those of you in Sohar, the Sohar Expat community is issuing a SoharCalling Newsletter. To register and get an update about what is happening in Sohar and other neighboring cities (twice a month or so) just send an e-mail to soharcalling@gmail.com

Have a great weekend!

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Classy clothing at Lulu's

Just a small one this morning. A facebook fan, Jules, of the MM group posted these 2 pictures this morning that she took while shopping for girls clothing (girls, not women) in Lulu's recently.

According to the Manager it's perfectly acceptable because the o in mother is actually an a. I'm sure the owners of the Angry Birds trademarks are happy about that too. Well I'm glad thats ok then!

Also, totally unrelated.... if you happen to be a fan of Sean Paul, he'll be at the Hi FM studios in the MGM today at 4pm.

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The St Andrews Ball 2012

Coming up later this month is the annual St Andrews Ball held by the Caledonian Society of Oman. It's outside this year in the InterCon gardens on 22nd November at 7pm. Tickets are RO 55/60 depending on whether your a member of the sweaty jock club (that's the Caledonian Society of Oman).

The band this year is A Whiskey Kiss, who recently performed at Prince Williams 30th birthday amongst other things.

If your keen to go to the party, you can email for tickets or for more information, caledoniansocietyofoman@hotmail.co.uk or call Marjorie on 95632379.

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Celebrating 100 years of British Landscape Art at Bait al Zubair

Starting next week on the 12th of November at the Bait al Zubair museum in collaboration with the British Council, are showing over 50 "valuable artworks" from some British artists. There will be paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures which represent British landscape art from the last 100 years.

The show will be housed at Bait Al Zubair Museum in Muscat within ground floor halls of both Bait Al Oud and Bait Al Nahdhah.  Tickets can be obtained upon arrival and admission to the exhibition is free! The Museum is open from Saturdays to Thursdays from 9.30am-6.00pm.

If you are interested in art and would like to volunteer to assist with this show send an email to museum@baitalzubairmuseum.com and the Museum team will contact you.

You can get more information on Bait al Zubair musem by following them on Social networks:

Facebook: www.facebook.com/bait.alzbair.museum
Twitter: @Bait_AlZubair

Abdul-Kareem Al Maimani

Also, for fans of local artworks, local Omani artist Abdul-Kareem Al Maimani has an exhibition at the art gallery in the ground floor of the Shangri-La hotel Al Bandar, it runs until the end of January 2013.


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Sean Paul - The winners

Well record numbers of you put your names into the hat for the chance to win 1 of 2 pairs of VIP tickets to see Sean Paul live in Muscat this coming weekend on Wednesday November 7th the InterCon gardens. Yet another gig here in the capital produced by Alive Entertainment and Hi FM. Tickets are RO 20 and RO 40, and on sale in all the usual locations.

There is also a Facebook event page here with all the latest information.

However, for some lucky readers, it won't matter how much the tickets are or where they on sale, because I've got 2 pairs of VIP tickets to give away and now it's time to announce the winnners:

Congratulations to "regien" and "m.o.n.d" you have both won a pair of tickets to the event, an email has been sent to you with instructions on how to claim your tickets :)

For the rest of you, thanks for entering... stay tuned for more ticket giveaways soon!

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