August 26, 2004
kaffers and sinner muslims
On a break from an Linguistics project that's due on the seventh, I write. A sample answer: "In a tamil speaker’s meta-linguistic conceptualisation of language the syllable ‘ka, ku, and ki are unitary sounds which cannot be broken down into k + a vowel if speech was actually a system of individual sounds, then it would be quite natural for him to separate out k from the following vowel sound even though his Tamil writing system is a syllabic one." Sometimes you just need a break.
Um al Quain is one of the smaller Emirates, between Sharjah and Ajman. Even after three years of living here I still don't know much about Umm Al Qwain apart from these few things. It houses Hamriya port free zone. It has an excellent beach resort called the Barracuda, located next to Umm Al Qwain Sport Aviation club and airport. The Barracuda's main attraction is it's well stocked Alcohol Shoppe.
It’s the only place that stocks Starry Melnik, a prefect brew that costs fifty Dirhams a two/four as opposed to 110 Dirhams for a twofour of Molsen Canadian, Labbatt Ice, or Bud, which all by the way they stock in big amounts here. They have a large wine cellar attached to the alcohol shoppe. People like us – non-Muslim Kaffers and all the SINNER Muslims come to Barracuda because booze is a few Dirhams cheaper here than in the Ajman Marina, or ‘hole in the wall’ as many of the KAFFERS like to call it.
On the other hand, Ajman Marina is much closer to home and convenient for this reason. My wife and I imbibe rather infrequently actually, despite all the rumours, and even less so now (read never), since she’s four months along. Last night was one of the rare occasions where wifey wanted to drive somewhere just to take in some fresh sea breeze. So we headed out Umm Al Qwain way down a long beach road and as we approached the Barracuda turn off we decided to turn in and buy 2 twofours of Russian-imported Starry Melnik beer. Good stuff. Canada has its many microbreweries, yes. The desert’s answer is a Russian imported brew that certainly measures up – in my unschooled opinion. Ok. Break is over. Later then.
Um al Quain is one of the smaller Emirates, between Sharjah and Ajman. Even after three years of living here I still don't know much about Umm Al Qwain apart from these few things. It houses Hamriya port free zone. It has an excellent beach resort called the Barracuda, located next to Umm Al Qwain Sport Aviation club and airport. The Barracuda's main attraction is it's well stocked Alcohol Shoppe.
It’s the only place that stocks Starry Melnik, a prefect brew that costs fifty Dirhams a two/four as opposed to 110 Dirhams for a twofour of Molsen Canadian, Labbatt Ice, or Bud, which all by the way they stock in big amounts here. They have a large wine cellar attached to the alcohol shoppe. People like us – non-Muslim Kaffers and all the SINNER Muslims come to Barracuda because booze is a few Dirhams cheaper here than in the Ajman Marina, or ‘hole in the wall’ as many of the KAFFERS like to call it.
On the other hand, Ajman Marina is much closer to home and convenient for this reason. My wife and I imbibe rather infrequently actually, despite all the rumours, and even less so now (read never), since she’s four months along. Last night was one of the rare occasions where wifey wanted to drive somewhere just to take in some fresh sea breeze. So we headed out Umm Al Qwain way down a long beach road and as we approached the Barracuda turn off we decided to turn in and buy 2 twofours of Russian-imported Starry Melnik beer. Good stuff. Canada has its many microbreweries, yes. The desert’s answer is a Russian imported brew that certainly measures up – in my unschooled opinion. Ok. Break is over. Later then.
