Order your own Tea-house!

Khujand, Tajikistan 18:19 p.m. 23 August 2006.


New forms and ways of architectural expressiveness are used in the construction of houses of culture so called “tea-houses” as well as public buildings widely spread in Tajikistan over the last years. Special attention is being paid to the problem of national color in architecture, the perfection being attained in close and creative cooperation of architects, builders, engravers, painters and skilled craftsmen. The Tajik people's traditions in architecture and decorative art are most carefully preserved in the construction of national tea-houses which have been the place of leisure and rest, meetings and talks since old days. The elements of decor — engraving, stucco molding, wall painting — in the architecture of such teahouses can be found in “Farogat”, “Rohat”, “Dilafruz” (in Dushanbe) tea-houses and «Orom» (in Isfara) indicate to their creators' refined taste.

Now, a new private company located in Tajikistan is changing the old fashion way of building and selling Tajik – tea houses. They are promising in the near future to operate a website where users from around the world would be able to place their own orders directly with them. Among other products visitors would be able to order ceilings, tables and ready made tea-houses from any corner of the world. So if you are building a restaurant don’t rush with your projects. You could have that wonderful Tajik ceiling you have always wanted.

They say picture worth a thousand words. I received a special permission to publish these pictures on Blogger.com from the company. We agreed that it would not be considered advertisement and that they own the rights to their pictures and products!

See picture above.

Until next time. God bless. !!!

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Life is a Movie...

(The name of the picture: Tea house drawings)

15 August 2006

Today, I received an e-mail from a fellow who had visited the blog created. This motivated me to write couple of words for my memory and for good visitors from Blogger.com; Moreover, I had to tell the remaining story about our police...

Very quickly, we were in a rush this afternoon. For the first time in 14 years of my driving record I had been stopped by a police officer who told me that I had run a RED light and that I must pay the fee to the government some 40 Somoni. (Somoni is a Tajik national currency); directly to him!

I asked if 5 Somoni would do for the first time as I had left my wallet at home. He smiled and gave back my licence and registration that he had confiscated earlier. Immagine bribing a police officer with less then US$ 2 in the States or Europe...

I came to a conclusion today! Why pay the government when you can pay the employee and get the job done! I must tell you that, recently we have been blessed by repairing of the roads in here... so we are looking forward in paying more road taxes.

On the subject of "bribing", I can offcourse for my memory write the good officers tag number which I noted down while leaving, but he probably has 6 kids to feed so I will pass on this time. However, I will agree fully that I should not have done what I did. It's just a bad example....

I think a person who would create a webpage for counting number of bribes people pay every day to get their jobs done, he/she would make a quick million. I must stop here. If I continue, then you would very quickly become a billionair as well.

A note for my self and others: Until next time, please take care of yourself and your family...END

Tajikzone

(Name of the picture: A surprise look) Masrurjon 2 Years old at Honey Festival in Khujand, Tajikistan 05 August 2006;

Khujand, Tajikistan 21:01 p.m. 06 August 2006.

Thanks to Blogger.com, people from poor economies like Tajikistan have a chance to publish something and perhaps create some discussions which would lead to a better life for poor nations. We hope to have our own website in the future. However, at least for the beginning this small place can serve as a memory for our friends who are abroad. We hope they will visit and know our thoughts and remember us!

Yesterday we had a honey festival in Khujand, Tajikistan. It was also my Son's 2nd birthday. We went to learn about bee and you can see the surprise in the picture above! By the way one Kg natural honey was selling at a price of US$ 2.51 cents. I wish we had a buyer from the west....

Today went as usual, my friend Mirzorahim and I went to swim at Kairakum river. At return we had about 5 minutes stop to discuss with our police if we were drinking while swimming! The good swim almost went to waste, but we passed. I will tell you about our law inforcement tricks sometimes later.

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