Merry Christmas!

Shishcoteque

Independence Day celebrations continued for me and some colleagues at our local 'shishcoteque' - a heady mix of Kazakh water pipes (kalyan), disco music, and garish lights.

Happy Kazakh Independence Day!

The Independence Monument: The Golden Man rides a winged snow leopard.

Black smokers

Out of context, a bewildering question from an English test.

(Gold star to the first person who can tell me what "black smokers" refers to here!)

Black Hat White Hat

Conflict was inevitable.

No sugar bowls were smashed in the making of this movie.