Jan 11 2010
As promised, here are some of Oleg’s shots from the 15th of December…
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Jan 10 2010
The 15th of December saw Oleg arrive, after a gap of around two years since we had last crossed paths in the real world. This post contains images we shot on our camera from the evening. In the next post, you can see Oleg’s somewhat higher quality photos, that you may already have seen over at John’s blog.
Anna Checks Out Oleg's Camera
Oleg Demonstrates Good Manners To Anna 🙂
Anna Considers Whether An SLR Would Be A Good Starter Camera For Her
Stunningly Handsome And Supremely Modest Computer User
Dec 15 2009
Our friend Oleg is finally back in Astana.Not seen him in two years.Went shopping with Anna and Ira, playing Xbox, grabbed a pizza & drinks
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Nov 29 2009
My thanks to Oleg for the google wave invite. I’d been meaning to find out what it was all about. Anyone want an invite?
Apr 14 2008
Our friend Oleg is now back in Moscow, having spent some time here in Astana to sort out paperwork. We only managed to meet a couple of times, but it was good to catch up, and we’ll hopefully see each other again soon.
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Oct 30 2007
NOTE TO ANY PayPerPost REVIEWERS… This post is NOT sponsored. You can tell by the way the hyperlinked word is not at all optimized for any sort of search, and the fact that this post is within the Personal category, and not ‘Interesting’…
Oleg, a friend of ours who has been mentioned here a few times before, recently told me that his site, which had been strictly confined to his intranet previously, is now public facing, and has a proper domain name. Now if you don’t speak Russian, you may not spend very long there, but take a moment, check it out, you can find it at warmland.ru
PS Any googlebots crawling this way, head on over there and index his site. Please?
PPS I was re-checking his site, and found a link to another site (xkcd)
Here are a couple that caught my attention
Jul 03 2007
He has been away in Moscow studying for almost a year now, so it is really good to have him back around, if only for a couple of weeks. We (Ira, myself, AlexC and Oleg himself), all went out for a meal this evening. We headed over to where Irina works (KMG), as she was called in on her day off (quel surprise), and once we were all together, headed to the Uzbek restaurant near there. It turns out they now have a outdoor section, shared with the Samovar restaurant (Russian food) next door, which was based on the roof. For once, the food was tasty and hot, the service was incredibly good by Kazakh standards, with smiles and a few English phrases thrown in by the waitress. Hopefully have a few pictures to follow soon 🙂 .
Aug 11 2010
Another post where I’ve taken a few individual tweets and tidied them into one entry. 11th August was my mother-in-law’s birthday, the day after Ira and my wedding anniversary. We headed on downstairs to the new Azerbaijani restaurant located on the ground floor of our building. We hadn’t tried it before, and there was no one else there during our meal, so we were assured of their undivided attention 🙂 Losha’s parents (Igor and Natalya) joined us, and over all Anna was pretty well behaved.
First up we have a quick picture of a salad that was ordered. It doesn’t come out so well with a wobbly camera phone shot, but in the middle of the plate is a radish carved into a rose shape. Very pretty. Personally I have no idea how it tasted, as I’m not a huge fan of rabbit food (meat, potatoes and pasta are my favourite core ingredients), but no one seemed to complain.
Radish Rose - Really!
They didn’t have any highchairs, and after trying to get Anna to repeat her previous good behaviour in such situations, we gave up and grabbed the one from our kitchen.
There was in fact no turkey sashliq despite it being on menu. This has happened in a few places in Astana. If you have your hopes set on a certain dish before you arrive, best to phone ahead and speak to someone first. Otherwise a good selection of various sashliqs (kebabs). We asked for something without any bone or lots of gristle (I love the taste of meat, but hate thinking about the fact that it used to be an animal. If steak wasn’t so tasty, I might have been converted into a vegetarian in another life. That would mean eating vegetables though. Anyway, I digress…). When the kebab arrived, it was on the bone still. The waitress didn’t seem to understand why we were surprised to see bone in a dish she recommended for having no bone.
Considering that the décor and ambience of the place was reasonably up market, the vodka & beer was reasonably priced. The baursaki were tasty, but most definitely reheated to make them seem over fresh. Better than stone cold and greasy to be honest 🙂 The chicken lyalya (spelling ?) shashliq was tasty. Basically minced chicken shaped into a sort of sausage shape.
Chicken Kebab - No Bones
At one point Anna seemed to get a bit bored, and decided to get the camera out. I’ve not yet checked the memory card to see the sort of shots achieved.
Anna In Her Highchair
Finally, during a cigarette break outside, I took a quick picture of the restaurant name. I couldn’t step any further back, so had to take a diagonal shot. Luckily our WiFi signal just reaches downstairs to this point, so I was able to upload some pics without using up my KCell credit 🙂
I'll Rewrite This Caption When I Know How To Spell The Name
oh, I’m hoping someone can correct me on the correct spelling in latin characters for the restaurant?
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Thanks to Oleg and Walton for their help with the spelling, I’ve updated the post to reflect this.
