JM Kayne's Life
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Dubai – Abra, Gold Suoq, Spices and more!
This blog post is a short photo blog of our recent visit to Dubai Creek’s GRAND SOUQ DIERA (the OLD DUBAI City Centre). It is where we ride the abra (at 1 AED per ride), a boat going to the other end of the souq and been greeted with a big tourist crowd also exploring the market. We found the Gold souq, souvenirs of all sorts, a pretty porcelain and hand crafted design plates, colorful spices, shawls, magnets and all other crafts plus more! It’s actually my second time here, and yet this time, I feel like I belong more than just a tourist from Abu Dhabi. This time I…
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#KusinaNiKayne: Squash and Kale Salad
#KusinaNiKayne: Squash and Kale Salad * * * We’ve visited a cool cafe that offers this type of salad and we loved it so much that we recreated our version of this hearty ♥ autumn feels salad. You will need: Squash (1/4 cut of a large size squash – cut into cubes) Kale (2-3 stalks of leaves) Pie nuts (a handful) 4-5 Sun-dried tomatoes sliced Peta cheese How to prepare it: Cut squash into cubes, you have two options in cooking it: you can either boil it till it becomes tender then fry it without oil. Alternatively, you may bake it in 15-20 minutes in 180 degrees celsius.…
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What Causes Creativity
I’m a big believer that everyone is creative! “Everyone Can be Creative”…therefore in this blog post I’d like to share what causes creativity. Creativity stems in each one of us, into our very being. God has given us gifts in various forms for us to make the people around us happy, inspired and blossom as well to the kind of person they are destined to become. We give inspiration and we feed our souls (and the others) to do their own too. 1. CONFIDENCE The ability to question without fear, the ability to care for your art and what you bring out of it. 2. OBSERVATION Seeing problems and…
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Team Outside for Pope Francis visit in the UAE
A history made. Three weeks ago, people in the UAE and nearby countries have converged in Abu Dhabi. 180,000 People attended the Papal Mass 4000 – Muslims brothers and sisters were in attendance 2000 – Free bus rides 1500 – Volunteers, Police and service men 100 – Emirati Police Officers (Who greeted us with a smile and a good morning @ 1 am. 120 – Choir/Musicians 800 years ago, St. Francis of Asisi visited and met the Sultan of Egypt. Today (written this on 5th Feb) comes another Francis, The Pope who is the first Pope to visit the Arabian Peninsula. In lieu to the UAE’s Year Tolerance, Abu…
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#KusinaNiKayne: Escabeche
#KusinaNiKayne: Escabeche First published on THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2018 *** You will need: 1 large fish (or can be 2- 3 small/medium size) cleaned and salted 1 medium red bell pepper, sliced into strips 1 onion, sliced 1 medium size carrots, sliced into strips 1 medium size ginger, sliced into stips 1 cup white vinegar 3-5 cloves garlic, crushed peppercorn salt sugar cooking oil Instructions Fry the fish in a pan. Set aside. On a pan, pour in the vinegar, let it boil. Add sugar, whole peppercorn, and garlic. Let it boil up to 1 minute Add onion, red bell pepper, carrots & ginger. Stir and cook until the vegetables…
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#KusinaNiKayne: Chocolate & Strawberry Cake
#KusinaNiKayne: Chocolate & Strawberry Cake *** *UPDATE/Feb2019: Starting this month, I have decided to move all my #KusinaNiKayne entries from https://kusinanikayne.blogspot.com/ to this blog now in order for me to put all of the things #inmyheart be in one place. So, expect a series of #KusinaNiKayne being published continuously for the next few days. I’ll be re-publishing the old entries then. I am keeping the old post there though until it’s still free. Basically, I’d like to maintain and focus on this page now. Now, let’s talk about my first cake baking attempt. So, let’s do my Chocolate & Strawberry Cake. You will need: The Dry ingredients: 1 1/2…
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22 Feb 2019 | Dubai So Far . . .
It’s been a year. Well, technically, 9 months (not counting my 5 months in Cebu)… In this 8 months, our Fridays have always been booked for the community activities and Kokobear’s day off falls on the same day. Thus, it means our time to explore the new city is limited but it hasn’t stop us from enjoying some of its views. We’ve visited a couple of parks, toured the malls: IBN Battuta, Dubai Marina Mall, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai Mall. I’ve toured 3 Day-to-Day shops in Rigga, Burjuman and Union. hehehe – that “kuripot” (stingy) in me still love going to this type of shop. And of course, we’ve…
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Patient Brave Courageous
Thursday night was a little emotional night for me. Every thing was doing well, a nice dinner with Kokobear and a few discussions and then something (I can’t totally recall what) led me to be a little off. So I went to bed earlier than the usual. Of course I didn’t sleep right away, still battling that sleepless/insomnia every single night. So I took myself into prayer mode while lying down and suddenly I caught my tears drenching on my face. I wasn’t sad about what happened right before I lie down. I was emotional because somehow for a while I haven’t actually dig deeper into what has been happening…
