Dubai expat life

The uniform saga continues

October 6, 2011

It was too early for me to celebrate the fact that Pristine’s school didn’t require us to buy new uniforms for the new school year. On the first day of school, she was wearing her old uniform in Grade 2. And everything was well. …until we received a newsletter saying that while there is no [...]

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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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Moving and the office boy mentality

July 25, 2011

Sorry for the absence. It has been hectic in my world lately due to shifting of office – same building, different floor. It’s amazing to see how much documents have accumulated and dust behind my PC monitor! Also, I found a small Lindt chocolate bar in the depths of my desk drawer, within expiry date [...]

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The life of an expat blogger

April 13, 2011

A title like I’m going to write a serious business type of blog post. Right. Just want to emphasize that because I do blog during my spare time at work (lunch break, a few minutes after work or when the boss in not looking ssshhh) there will be time that blogging will take a back [...]

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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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And we’re one week into the new house

February 18, 2010

So, it’s been a week since we moved into the new apartment and so far? I’ve been sleeping really comfortably. Due to fatigue and a bad back, I was able to sleep without problems despite the room not very dark with the lack of curtains. We asked someone to drill through the cement wall 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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The things you can’t get without drama

January 28, 2010

After a cortisol-enriched week, the apartment problem that we had has been solved. For those of you who were praying or thinking of donating a tent for my family to live in, you can take a break now. Thank you very much for all the kind words. They have paid up – I got the [...]

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