Dubai

Annual leave is great if it’s your own

May 23, 2012

One of the best things about working in Dubai, if you ask me is the annual leave (free trip home, baby!). Companies give employees 30 days of paid leave every year* + airplane tickets to their home country. Wonderful, isn’t it? While an expat in Japan, I didn’t have that luxury (as expats in most [...]

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The buzz with UAE dress code

May 21, 2012

The UAE dress code debate has resurfaced again – how short is short? It’s liberating enough that even the UAE is a Muslim country, it’s not like Saudi Arabia or Iran – women are NOT required to wear a black robe to cover up yet so many people push the boundaries here. There are too [...]

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First underwater hotel in Dubai

May 14, 2012

Back then, it was to be called Hydropolis, an ambitious hotel under the sea project in Dubai. We first heard about it in 2007/2008, before the economic downturn that knocked off several glittery Dubai projects back to the sand (or slowly back into the sea, as in the case of The World Islands and Palm [...]

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Dubai’s bucketful of weird

May 10, 2012

Well, I’ve not been out of the house for long distance trips since the pregnancy last year and now with a small baby. Not counting the sponsored trip to Thailand last February 2011 (it was a pleasure trip but not 100% since it was ‘work’), I have not had a proper vacation to Japan for [...]

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No nudity in gym changing rooms

May 7, 2012

So I was back to my usual routine at the gym (toned down intensity, however) last week. It feels good to be back and I feel a surge of energy…right after the grueling muscle pain that lasted for days, of course. Not much has changed except that the weights have increased in number but it’s [...]

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Trouble: Pregnant and unmarried in Dubai

April 26, 2012

A follow up on yesterday’s post about a baby thrown from a ninth floor garbage chute by his own mother: reports say the baby is in critical condition right now with a fractured skull. Doctors aren’t sure if he is going to recover fully. Those last two sentences – aren’t they one of the saddest [...]

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Abandoned babies on the rise

April 25, 2012

Another day, another baby abandoned: Mother threw baby down garbage chute. (Miraculously, the baby survived with minor cuts and is now in stable condition in critical condition with a fractured skull (updated 24 hours after). The mom is a Filipino.) I know I shouldn’t have clicked the link but I did and my heart was [...]

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Persimmon in Dubai

April 22, 2012

One of things I love living in Dubai is being able to eat so many kinds of fruits, no matter what the season is. Pretty neat considering we live in the desert. Look what I found at the grocery store: Persimmons! It goes by the name “Kaka” here, just a wee bit different to what [...]

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