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Creativity • Social Consciousness • Inspired CREATIVITY • SOCIAL CONSCIOUSNESS • INSPIRED THINKING DECEMBER 2013 pg 16 NIGHTIME SHOOTING Capturing that ideal night time shot >pg 09 ‘FIRE’ A LA ‘SFUMATO’ Using smoke and gold leaf in art >pg 13 NATIONAL NOVEL WRITING MONTH Probably the world's greatest fiction writing challenge >pg 20 www. tempoplanet.com d’s smoke of the note burning candle creates a delicate effect and contributes to CONGRATULATIONS UAE! a dreamy and fluid December is a time of great presence... celebration and this month is an especially fortuitous one for READ MORE the UAE, with so much going on, and so many grand plans ON PAGE 13 rolling out. The end of the year also serves as a mental marker; a time for the coming together of family and friends, and a time to hunker down and prepare for the start of a new year. Tempo's staff in editorial, design, production and distribution take this opportunity to thank everyone who has reached out to us, to share ideas, inspire us and spur us on. On behalf of our entire team, I’d like to wish everyone happy holidays and a fabulous new year. See you all in 2014! Sana Bagersh Managing Editor [email protected] Twitter @bagersh ontents 04 notes / uspace / dhabi dames 05 talking books / the blog 06 what’s hot / people calendar 07 rejig it ADDRESS: To reach editorial at Abu Dhabi Tempo email: [email protected]. If you need to find out where you can pick up your copy call: 02 491 8624/25 or check 08 phototripping out the list of Tempo distribution points on our website. 09 shutterbug adp NOTE TO ADVERTISERS: Advertisers can request brand tagging with all advertisements. 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It’s a decreasing gender discrimination. has been inspired by parents with lovely short story and I cannot Also the topic is well chosen and a passion to incorporate massage, swimming and socializing. wait to see the published book I’m sure the name intrigued others with the entire collection! as much as it intrigued me. The course is tailored to parents’ -Tara Waller -Reema coherent training and kids’ gradual acceptance of massage, gymnastics ExcaliburKZ @ExcaliburKZ and swimming. Each class adds new Loving the NEW #TEMPOSWAG knowledge and skills of Massage @AbuDhabiTempo ON ANGELIQUE GOLDSWORTHY’S “LIFE’S STAGED” techniques, Gymnastics and Basics of Swimming. Within the classes parents learn massage strokes and Brilliant article Angelique- lots of insight to life in the “desert” Download the gymnastics sets according their baby’s in a real, fun way. -Taryn Shuttleworth Tempo app for free development. A magical bonding from the Google happens between mom and her baby. Android Playstore: Enjoyed reading your article “Life’s Staged”. It’s interesting to “Tempo Planet” For more information check know about your life and your feelings. -Henry Wun Tempo Planet www.InfantMassageCourse.com whisking her off into the desert sunset vain to look for the familiar. Her first Introductions were made at the dhabi dames on his stallion. encounter with the unpredictable event, and it could have ended AN “ARRANGED” LOVE STORY British weather was frozen raindrops there, but God had bigger plans. By Samara MW Larday While she was in her early teens, -hail stones- bigger than grains of rice! her maternal grandmother (on her Luckily for her, the all-female hostel During the next summer break, deathbed) told her she would be going she was staying at was at the city the young lady was shopping with off to England for further education, centre, close to her place of study. her mother in Oxford Street when A long time ago in a faraway and for a very long time... that she they bumped into the young man. tropical land in Africa, a young would leave the land of her birth to join Did she finally meet her knight of the She introduced him to her mother. girl, not yet in puberty, had her dad who was in the UK at the time. desert? Only when their paths crossed It turned out that his dad was a visions of miles and miles of at the university they were both long lost friend of both her parents. golden sand. Stories like ‘The Several years later she took the big step studying. Was it an arranged marriage? Coincidence? Divine intervention? Little Mermaid,’ exotic Arabian continue her education in the UK. She Yes, but not by their parents. You see tales and African stories like had always known in her heart that their first encounter was a backward Today, the couple calls Abu Dhabi ‘Anansi and the Spider’ read her knight was not in the town she was glance as they walked past each other home. You will see her sitting aloud by older cousins during the leaving behind. Was the UK the land of in the corridor leading to the balcony sometimes on the Corniche sipping evenings set her imagination on the ‘forever sands’ she had always seen of the college refractory. Little did a drink with a book in hand fire. She had daydreams about in her mind’s eye? Far from it! Dressed she know that the invitation to visit waiting for her knight to take a knight in shining armour in her tropical clothes, she tried in a young couple was from his cousin. her home. www. tempoplanet.com 05 TALKING BOOKS THE BLOG A book review by Azza El Masri By Seumas Gallacher Savage Writing …I wonder how often and how many of yeez have the same thoughts that bang around in my little grey cells from time to time… today’s epiphany jumped in a wee while ago… ‘…God save us from those that want to save us from ourselves…’ …it starts when ye’re still an infant, still in yer short trousers… the ‘savers’ raise the alarm about how much violence gets peddled in the movie theatre cartoons… ‘…it’ll warp their minds… create monsters out of them… psychologically damage them forever…’ …well, I don’t know about how yeez all handled that stuff, but watching the likes of Tom and Jerry and the Road Racer invent thirty thousand different ways of bodily annihilation never ever put me off my mince… fast forward to the modern day and the birth of the eBook phenomenon…
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