It's the hump of the week!!

 

Happy hump day everyone!

Today is the 10th of Ramadhan - the 10th day of fasting and another 20 days before Eid celebration. Time sure flies!

I don't have much physical activities in this fasting month. Most of the time after work and over the weekend I'll be reading the Qur'an and other books. I have just finished reading 'Places Between' by Rory Stewart and have started 'The Cave of the Yellow Dog'. As I said before in one of my blog entry, when I picked a book I just follow my hunch. Normally there will be something that attract me to the book, I am not sure what it is. I was looking for "Ghosts in Spain" last weekend and found this book 'The Cave of the Yellow Dog'. Picture of the girl on the cover was the first thing that caught my attention.

This book is about the life of the last Mongolian nomads. I started reading it on the train this morning and enjoying it very much. It is about a young girl finding a cute dog which she takes under her wing, to the strong objections of her father, who is worried that the dog has lived with wolves and will encourage attacks on his herd of sheep. When the girl loses the dog while her father is away she encounters an old nomad woman who tells her the legend of the cave of the yellow dog, based very much on the belief that dogs are always reborn as humans.

There are several pictures in the book, which I kept go back while reading the story. Pictures of the mountains, the valleys, drinking milk tea beside the stream ...... ahhhh, Mongolia shall be my next holiday destinations

Nansaa (6 years old) , the main character in this book with her little sister Nansalmaa (4 years old)

Family photo - Batchuluun (father), Buena (mother) and the kids Batbayar, Nansaa and Nansalmaa.

It was first a movie/film with the same title, made by two young film graduates from a German film Hochschule, whose breakthrough film, The Weeping Camel (2004) also celebrated the life of Mongolian. Here's the trailer on Youtube . I just love watching Nansaa collecting dung!

I have not seen the movie but will be placing my order for the DVD on Amazon shortly