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No more online naming and shaming in Dubai

August 8, 2011

First there was that grocery store that refused entry of grocers if they are men, shopping alone (and allegedly, with brown skin!). Now to continue the saga of news here in Dubai land that makes you say, “What the @$(%^!#&^!?”, it has been reported on local newspaper The National that, naming and shaming bad drivers [...]

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Driving in Dubai – wrong turns

December 9, 2010

I was in Dubai Mall yesterday during my lunch break and I called up the husband, Me: “Guess what, I am in Dubai Mall!” Hubs: *silence* Me: “By car silly! I drove all the way here!” Hubs: “Wow! Congratulations! You did it!…but wait, why are you sounding so dull?” Me: “Dude, you don’t wanna know…” [...]

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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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Today, I broke a record

October 5, 2008

It’s back to work and school for us and the other UAE creatures today. We left home at 7:20 pm and faced terrible traffic. The much anticipated traffic was worse than what I had expected. I arrived in the office 30 minutes late, for the first time in 22 months, I got late. My workplace [...]

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and I told myself never to live in New York

September 29, 2008

I thought the streets of New York has the most cars in the world. No, I haven’t been there but isn’t it like that in the movies? Meg Ryan was stuck in New York traffic in the movie Kate and Leopold, then there were traffic scenes in Coming to America, Ghostbusters II, Home Alone 2: Lost [...]

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Did you leave your car at home?

September 22, 2008

Today, September 22, Monday is World Car-Free Day. Ever heard of that? Not on this side of the world. I’ve never heard of such day and it’s not like anything different is going to happen even if people were aware that today is World Car-Free Day. This is Dubai, the city with inefficient, insufficient public [...]

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It’s raining cars in Dubai

September 21, 2008

It’s Sunday, the start of work and school here in Dubai (and in other Gulf countries, I presume) and it only means one single thing in the morning: traffic. Rough, heavy, crazy traffic. My work starts at 9:00 while Pristine’s school starts at 8:30 during Ramadan period. Her school is 10 minutes away from where [...]

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We’ve been saliked

April 22, 2008

In July last year, Dubai introduced a new electronic toll system popularly known as Salik – which means “open” or “clear” in effort to curb heavy gridlocks in this rapidly growing city. Great use of technology, though - it is a free flow tolling system without toll gates, barriers or booths, no toll collectors and allows [...]

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