Chaos

Traffic is tiresome, frustrating

February 9, 2009

Life is a little bit crazy here in the Emirates for two consecutive days now. The dreadful choke o’ block traffic is back. It was ok for the past few weeks but since yesterday, I had been spending more than an hour driving and surviving through heavy traffic. Normally, it just takes 15 minutes to [...]

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Internet cables being munched again

December 21, 2008

Last Friday night, we were having trouble accessing websites with secure https in the address like bank sites. Web pages using secure ports takes hours to load or not opening at all. We just bought a new router to replace the old one we were using as Etisalat (the internet provider here in the UAE) [...]

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honest people still walk in the streets of Dubai

April 14, 2008

I got a call from a local bank saying, “Madam, can you please check if you have your ATM card with you?” My ATM card is not with me. It’s always not with me because my husband, our house accountant is managing our finances and holds all the cards. He could not have lost the [...]

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I hate my prophetic tongue

April 8, 2008

Our car is parked in our apartment building basement. In the basement ceiling, there are big plastic pipes with gushing water sound in them. Pristine would always ask, almost every morning, “what’s that sound, mom?” or “What’s inside those, mom?” “Oh, It’s from the toilets. Your morning xxx is being flushed and going through those [...]

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reason why I should always be shutter ready

March 26, 2008

Just when I thought what to write, a large explosion that shook windows and the ground occurred in Al Quoz Industrial area producing a massive black mushroom cloud in the sky this morning. ~ smoke as seen from Al Nahda Road ~ We did not hear the explosion as we are not living near Al [...]

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just a quick note while I can still post

February 1, 2008

We’ve been experiencing disturbances in the internet connection and interrupted mail services for the past two days here in the UAE and given the track record of my company’s history of faulty servers, I did not give it much thought. I just tried to keep up with blogging by getting up as early as 5 am [...]

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we had a 999 situation

December 3, 2007

Remember about me talking about having a long weekend some days back? Well, I was actually talking about the weekend that just passed. We got three days off from work and school and although we actually thought of visiting some random neighboring country, we actually didn’t and would you believe, we, particularly, I, just stayed [...]

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we have been attacked!

October 23, 2007

Last night, we had a terrible attack in our territory. Our territory, our home, our balcony, specifically. According to my mother who was at home the whole day yesterday, bees/wasps came hovering at 1 pm and she simply ignored it, thinking the insects were after our flowering plumeria tree in the balcony. When she woke up [...]

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