Family

We’re moving (again)

January 29, 2012

Call us crazy – this is the 4th time we’ve moved in our  five years in Dubai. First, we lived in a room inside my company’s guest house for three months after arriving in 2007. It was tough. We weren’t allowed to cook so we ate outside all the time. Pristine got a terrible stomach [...]

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Welcome our new angel, Benjamin Kazuki

November 6, 2011

It was a difficult delivery but my new son compensated me so much after by being such a good baby who lets me sleep for three hours straight and allows me long fifteen minute showers. He only cries when he is wet or hungry. Each pregnancy and child birth is truly different and I know [...]

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Weekend at Jumeirah Emirates Towers

July 19, 2011

We stayed at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers Hotel, one of Dubai’s soaring symbols last weekend to celebrate our 8th wedding anniversary. After relocating to Dubai, we decided to save up and make it a tradition to stay at a city hotel every year on our anniversary to take a break from our monotonous day to [...]

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Night person, morning person couple

July 14, 2011

For the past couple of weeks, Pristine had been sleeping with us in a day bed connected to ours because for some strange reason, she gets blocked nose in the middle of the night at the other room. We don’t mind because it even has benefits – we are ‘forced’ to sleep earlier and thus [...]

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Update on Papa’s traffic case

May 2, 2011

An update regarding my father’s accident case… I got a call from Rashidiya Police Station regarding the status of my father’s case. He was a victim of hit and run while in Dubai for a visit last February. “We have finished the investigation. Take your file number: xxxx/xxxx.” “When can your father appear in court?” [...]

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Flight delay turned to bliss

April 12, 2011

I got a call from a local number last week and I answered the phone thinking it would be the bank or my insurance company or some random credit card sales person. Little did I know I was in for a very big surprise! It was my brother stationed in Norway who’s now in Dubai [...]

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To my sister, well done on your graduation!

March 26, 2011

Photo credit My sister, youngest of six will be graduating from university today. Alongside my parents, I feel so proud. Was it just yesterday when I held her for the first time when she and mom came home from the hospital? Wasn’t I the happiest when mom finally brought home a pink bundle after four [...]

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Papa leaves Dubai

March 15, 2011

I just got home from the airport where I sent off my father. He is leaving Dubai today to the Philippines, physically well and able to travel 18 days after his accident. While I am very happy that he is still with us, alive and without any disability and I am deeply frustrated and angry [...]

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