sharjah

Al Qasba, Sharjah Silhouettes

January 5, 2011

There’s a place in Sharjah, the neighboring Emirate of Dubai (just a few minutes away from where we live) called Al Qasba, a quite popular waterside development of offices, shops, restaurants and a big ferris wheel named Eye of the Emirates. (not that big compared to the London Eye) We got into this ferris wheel [...]

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Traffic is tiresome, frustrating

February 9, 2009

Life is a little bit crazy here in the Emirates for two consecutive days now. The dreadful choke o’ block traffic is back. It was ok for the past few weeks but since yesterday, I had been spending more than an hour driving and surviving through heavy traffic. Normally, it just takes 15 minutes to [...]

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traffic is unhealthy

January 29, 2008

Lately traffic in Dubai had evolved from heavy to depressing gridlocks. Going home from work tired and hungry and having to spend time on the road for more than an hour is not fun. Plus, it is interfering with my one and only New Year’s resolution that is to lose weight. No, I am not [...]

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