Wall ad for a bespoke tailory ...

Found this advertisement near the SinaMalé flats.
Heard that many women are setting up their own businesses these days.
Am told there are loan schemes targeted only at businesswomen.
I think this is great. The days of stay home wives are over?
Maybe not, but things are looking better.

Malé.
Maldives.

Good bye 2011! Hello 2012 ...

"What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That's not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that's the burden of a year."

May happy times and warm memories brighten your new year.
Have a great year. Happy New Year.

Before the walls came down ...

This is the entrance to Maafannu ward cemetery.
The walls came down to about halfway earlier this year.
They said our youngsters were using the compound for doing illegal stuff.
And that they were disturbing the dead. And not showing respect.
Well, now that the walls have come down, lets see how that goes.
I'm skeptical, but I do hope it goes better.

Malé,
Maldives!