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it’s thursday night. i’m at the kanmathee shop to fuel myself up on some coffee, and get a can of hundred plus for later, to take the edge off. the…3 MIN READ
@shaari_ comes to pick me up for our lunch date. i have to consult google maps to guide us because i’m not a hundred percent on the location and shaari even…3 MIN READ
‘never should you assume that any of this matters – even in the shallowest sense,’ says my friend moosaalhu. we’re at don’s fiery chicken on the recommendation of a fellow…3 MIN READ
it’s just me this time, braving a new frontier – sauced up by lucies – on my own. a late dinner, i felt like pasta and someone close had suggested…3 MIN READ
it’s always a thrill to go places with moosaalhu, if you recall my companion on the mission to procure leatherwood honey from fantasy. you have to admire his readiness for…3 MIN READ
the new oishii near the port in male is one of extremes. tonight, it is extremely crowded – the servers are on the verge of a major panic attack, but…4 MIN READ
sometimes the universe conspires to usher you along a path that you wish you’d thought of on your own, and you WOULD have if you’d known better but the universe…3 MIN READ
we’re at aminadhi’s, the restaurant that’s trying, quite obviously, to give the maldive kitchen a run for its money. though it was established earlier, aminadhi is coughing in the dust…3 MIN READ
we’re at cafeier, hulhumale – THE place for steak if my man bakurube is to be believed. i think he bought into that old economic narrative – the consumption of…3 MIN READ
‘doctors must be the sickest people on earth,’ thakuru says. ‘hmm?’ it’s a blustery day, the trees rustled furiously on our way to zeeba’s. umbrella’d parents ushered their young into…3 MIN READ
we’re putting away scraps of roshi with mashuni at food male – that small, unpretentious cafe in the shell beans goalhi. their mashuni is beyond reproach, these guys have found…3 MIN READ
“Now that you have sufficient alienation, you can romanticise it.” so said Zubair, my friend from childhood – who had been sitting beside me in the ferry – as he…4 MIN READ
i get a call from my man bakurube, a guy who’s spent half his life in security but he’s the least secure man i know when it comes to secrets.…3 MIN READ
it’s about midday when thakuru and i walk up to comfood’s counter. the iced coffee is 45 rufiyaa and i’ve had it before. it’s not bad at all and reminds…2 MIN READ
it seems we have two species of amphibians in our fair islands, a toad, and a frog. this i learned from a forthcoming book about architecture. isn’t that something? and…3 MIN READ
tree beard cultivation ‘i’d like a “sweet turmeric”, please,’ i tell the owner of aboo ayn cuisine, the small cafe on chaandhanee magu near iskandhar school. as he explains the…3 MIN READ
saththaaru and i walk in the dampened night towards our destination just beyond KAM hotel. it’s right after ishaa and male is hushed. we’re getting some cookies, a milestone in…3 MIN READ
you can barely hear the drilling from huravee building here on the tenth floor at solite – there’s some disagreement between thakuru and myself as to how the name should…3 MIN READ
i’m burning, not just because of the sun but also cos i’m ravenous – my brain has relinquished control to the neurons in my belly. i can only think in…4 MIN READ
we’re walking towards ‘taste me’, a breakfast institution that’s nourished us since we started earning our own monies. it’s a hot friday morning and as we pass by maagiri hotel,…3 MIN READ
i’m on my way to symphony to meet alibe, aisaadhi and a special guest. yes readers, a SPECIAL guest. now many of you may not recall the days of mvblogs,…4 MIN READ
