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The hotter the better

July 9, 2010

There are but only a few ways where hotter is better: pizza, coffee, soups, fireplace on a cold winter night…hmmm what else, soccer players? How about temperature? It’s the peak of summer in Dubai right now and the restaurants at Crowne Plaza Hotel invented a way for residents and visitors to love the hot weather..indoors however. [...]

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Beating the heat at Crowne Plaza Hotel

July 8, 2010

Just before I go back to work next week, we decided to have a little R & R at a city hotel, a tradition we started last year and hope to continue each year to celebrate our wedding anniversary. This is the view from outside our room: Whoops, sorry wrong camera angle. THIS is the better [...]

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It’s raining…HP

June 4, 2010

It was Pristine’s school’s year end program last week before they got serious with the exams and wrap up the school year by the end of this month. The school said the program will start at 4:15 pm but I thought, like the previous programs where we were made to wait for at least 30 minutes, [...]

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Too close yet still far

June 3, 2010

Oh lookie, there’s a photo of a guy in my blog! And it’s not my husband but I love and miss him so much. Brother #2 of mine (I have 4 brothers) was in Dubai today – for only 2 hours. We didn’t get to see each other which really sucks because the last time [...]

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No more, no more

May 21, 2010

Photo credit My grandfather was laid to rest just a few hours ago. For me, that meant he is totally, completely, physically gone forever. He won’t be there anymore if ever I visit my his house in the province. I won’t see him tend to his cows, his plants, smoke his coiled, dried tobacco leaves, cook [...]

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Color me black

May 12, 2010

I was going out for work two days ago, my mom looked at me head to foot and said, “are you going to a funeral?” I was dressed in black – from head band, blouse, trousers, belt and shoes. I wear black but it must be the first time I was in full solid black [...]

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The old kitchen, revisited

February 22, 2010
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My bloggy friend Melany aka as Supermom from South Africa left a comment on my “We’re moving!” post a couple of days back saying, Yay for bigger kitchen! but now you will have to post a photo of your current kitchen!! Well, we have cleared the old apartment and ready to hand-over the keys to [...]

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We’re moving!

February 12, 2010

After three years of living in a very small 2-bedroom apartment, we are moving to a bigger one today, finally. The living room is very spacious (for us), about 40 sq. m. that the first thing we did when we signed the contract was take Pristine’s plasma car and drove it around the empty room. [...]

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