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How did you celebrate the New year?

January 2, 2012

My family and I, as family tradition, spend every new year’s eve at home. We don’t go out to party, to a concert or spend it in another house. We believe that we all have to stick together in our own home as the new year rolls in as it signifies unity. Also? we wear [...]

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High-rise building accidents rise

December 1, 2011

It’s not a rare scenario: parents judging other parents just because judging is too easy compared to understanding the whole story. It is easy to point fingers and say, “bad parents!”. Lately there had been many times I have thought of those words. Here in the UAE, we are shocked at the recent spate of [...]

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Fine for falling asleep on Dubai trains!?

November 17, 2011

Have you slept on a train? I have and I am sure plenty of other people have too. Who doesn’t love taking cat naps or even hour long naps on long train journeys? I think of Japan whenever I hear the words, “sleeping on train” because they take sleeping in a whole new different level, [...]

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More education needed in Dubai Metro’s Priority Seat

October 3, 2011

I was traveling by train a few days back with Pristine. She had a heavy back pack, was tired from an activity she attended and me, well, I am pregnant which immediately, automatically equals fatigued. We chose the ladies only car in the train though it was full because I was hopeful someone would give [...]

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Dubai Metro Green Line opens

September 13, 2011

Four years ago, the nearby street where I work looked like this: and the workers, toiled day and night, braving the fierce Dubai summer during the day. It was dust, noise, a lot of detours and traffic this past four years. But now, it is done. (Below photo taken September 12, 2011) The construction of [...]

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Another day, another abandoned pet

August 24, 2011

Yesterday as we were heading out for dinner, we saw a cat lying outside our building door, conveniently positioning herself near the small gap between the floor and the glass door. What a smart kitty. In this  hot weather, she found respite from that small gap where cool air from inside of the building ‘leaks’. [...]

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Modhesh and Dubai Summer Surprises is back

June 21, 2011

I was in Deira City Center a couple of days ago to pick up a prize I won from a Twitter contest sponsored by Virgin Megastore. There I saw Modhesh – that yellow clad character in the photo. Four years ago when we were new to Dubai, I could not answer my daughter when she [...]

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Bakugan House

April 6, 2011

There’s this unique house near where we live that resembles a Bakugan toy. In case you don’t know, Bakugan toys are round pieces of plastic that transform into something else. It comes originally from Japan. It looks like this: Photo credit Then it transforms into robot-like stuff like this: Photo credit So back to the [...]

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