Archive for the ‘Life in the UAE’ Category
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
So it was a day when Pakistan was facing West Indies in the final ODI of the series held at Abu Dhabi (read Abu Dubai by the pakhtoon taxi drivers...). Also, the Lahore Baadshahs were facing the Hyderabad Heroes in the rebel version of IPL, ICL. Guess which one got ...
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Sunday, October 19th, 2008
If you have heard of UAE which you would have probably, you couldnt have done without hearing the miseries of traffic.
In the absence of a useful transport system, most people who work here travel by cars. Since Dubai is so expensive to live most people come from neighbouring Emirates like ...
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Monday, October 13th, 2008
With the financial turmoil and recession effecting everyone from rich to poor, it is amazing to see how everybody manages to bring out the survival instinct out from within and somehow manages to make the now much more difficult extra buck that was flowing like anything early this year.
All industries ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Just heard the news that the Dubai Visit Visa costs have been raised starting 1st June'08. There is a short visit (1 month) visa costing 500AED as compared to 110 I think earlier and a long term visit costing 1000AED. This is crazy...
Obviously, they are unable to manage the high ...
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008
This is not for people who actually like YELLOW as a SHIRT Colour.
I do have 1 yellow shirt which I never bought. In fact I would never buy a Yellow Shirt. I got it from...now I dont even remember. It must have been a gift.
I think the only way a ...
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Sunday, February 17th, 2008
I just wanted to write that out to see how big it sounds. OK no wait...let me put it in figures. 50,000,000 AED. WHOOSH!!!!
That's the big number of the day today. Some 25 year old Shaikh in Abu Dhabi bought a NUMBER PLATE...yes guys a NUMBER PLATE....with "1" written on ...
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