Dubai public scene

Ship wreck in Dubai Creek

February 16, 2011

We were out in Dubai Creek today and I saw this: What do you think it is? It’s actually one of those traditional wooden boats called dhows that sunk in the water. I don’t know how or why but it was just there, 3/4 of its body submerged.

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Happy 39th National Day, UAE!

December 2, 2010

Pristine has a little gift to the her adoptive country in celebration of its 39th National Day – she painted her nails with the UAE flag. And she isn’t the only one showing the love. Cars are painted the UAE flag, taxis carrying small fabric flags and buildings lit up in national colors. December 2nd [...]

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Predict Dubai’s first rain of the season 2010!

November 8, 2010

UPDATE: This is the part where I’m allowed to say, OH SHIT! It’s 5:30 pm in Dubai, November 8 and? it RAINED. I love you rain but you were not supposed to pour on the day I post the predict-the-Dubai-rain contest! Such a kill joy! Sorry friends, I have to close this. It rained on [...]

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It’s Free Public Transport Day!

November 1, 2010

It’s November! We’ve got only two more months to go before we say goodbye to 2010. I can’t believe it, it’s just too fast. I’ll be adding another year to my age in three weeks. Speaking of birthdays, it’s Dubai Roads and Transport Authority’s 5th birthday today and to celebrate that, the UAE public is [...]

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Case of bad timing, bad phone signal

October 28, 2010

I hope you had a great day yesterday. There was no email, blog or news reading for me yesterday as I went for corporate training and did not have internet access. The training program would start at 9:00 am but I was already there at 8:30 am. I was the only trainee so far so [...]

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Rude customer service that unusually helps

October 25, 2010

The quality of customer service here in Dubai is not the best in the world, most especially if I have to compare it with how customers are treated in Japan. I’ve been quite used to the rude attitude and comments from sales persons – “used to” means hearing it regularly. It doesn’t mean that I [...]

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It’s still summer

October 19, 2010

There’s something about the skies lately and it’s good. The dusty, hazy gray have cleared up making way to beautiful azure sky with some clouds! I know this type of Dubai sky so well now – winter is definitely around the corner. Winter, yeah. I am not kidding. We do have winters here but it not [...]

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Dubai Mall food court open during Ramadan

September 8, 2010

I had an impromptu trip to the Dubai Mall yesterday. Despite the fact that I LOVE this mall, probably the best mall in Dubai – there are two things that sometimes prevent me from going there: (1) I need to drive through a big, scary roundabout at Clock Tower, Deira and (2) when I am [...]

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