UAE so far...

Hi,

How have you all been? How is Soccer and Outing?

Anyway, it has been really good here in UAE. I have already been to 3 out of the 7 Emirates. They are Sharjah (working here but nothing to do), Dubai (freaking everything is here. Shisha, Nightclubs, Alcohol whatever you want that is not Arabia is here. Haha) and Abu Dhabi (Just went for a convention there. Does not seem as developed.)

Basically, I am having fun here. Other than to be able to visit the above stated places, there are many more reasons, like…

1. Since I left Singapore, I have a stopover at Thailand, a stopover at Chennai and then reaching UAE. Only being here for 4 days, I have already visited 3 states.
2. Working here is good. All goes the ASIAN CULTURE. It’s a very friendly environment. Very open. Job has been good as well. I meant it’s different from what I did before and I enjoyed it. I even can state my views to certain extend.
3. As for the fun, they have SKI DUBAI. I’ll be going there someday. It is like half of Suntec. The whole mall is like a smaller genting. I will also be going for some desert trip soon before it gets too hot in june/july. It has camel riding, sand skiing and even that jeep thing where you drive around the desert.
4. Okay, this is something I guess almost everyone wants to here. Its like on MSN, what the clique ask me is, “how are the Kip Hui here?” Guys, for your info, I am working here and the ratio of girls is to guy is about 1 to 3. You don’t even get to see girls working around the street. And apparently, the arabs here only occupy 19% of the population. It’s like another multi-racial country here (Just maybe lesser Chinese.) However, the girls here if you get to see them, are very pretty. At least those in the companies are. I will also say most of them kept themselves in shape. BUT they are generally taller. Haha..

So far those are the nice stuff.

As for complains, there are definitely some.

1. Like it’s really hot. There is this day when it gets till 45 degree. Luckily, I am in perpetual aircon.
2. Public transport is bad. So its like taxi from place to place. And its expansive if you need to travel from Sharjah to Dubai. Its like 25 Sing for a trip.
3. And for all the fun things I said above, if you have no money don’t even come. The stuff here are expansive. The cheap stuff in Singapore is like expansive here. But HPs and Cars which are expansive in Singapore are cheap here. For food, an advice is bring more Maggie mee.
4. As for hotel, I have complimentary breakfast everyday but they don’t change menu. Furthermore, my hotel bathroom keep flooding when I bathe, the drainage sucks.
5. Almost all channels is in Arabic. And No wireless in hotel room.
6. As for movies it is like S$15 here. Pple here normally goes for pirated DVD. They go from house to house. Quite interesting and cost like 3 or 4 sing dollars.

That’s all.

Will update pictures when I load some of them. Have to work now.

Blackburn