Dubai sunrise

Traffic is too much here in Dubai that normally the time it takes for me to go my work (which is about 10 minutes) takes about an hour and a half, and that's if you've been able to catch a bus...

Public transport here is so irregular, and that's the only I hate about this place. I just hope something can be done. And knowing Dubai, I'm sure they'll find solutions and deliver results immediately.

Here is a shot of the sun just about to rise on the City of Dubai. It's a relaxing sight, amidst all of the traffic that crawl all through the city.

And yes, I leave that early. My work starts at 9am... and I leave my place at 6am, just to evade the traffic. It seems that they've gotten obsessed in developing this city that its turning into one big construction site. Are they that excited? What can I do, I'm just an expat here trying to make a living...

In general

This quotation is one of those funny lines made my friends. He was actually meaning to start his sentence with “In general” but somehow ended up writing “Imburnal (Sewage canal)”. Ah, those were the college days.

However, I asked myself the question; “In general”… what do I feel right now? It’s like answering a better part of an interview. Well, working here was a blast. I had fun meeting a WHOLE lot of wonderful people. But besides that, I still miss home. I know some of you may say that I have a wonderful opportunity here. But it seems for the last 4 months I’ve been missing home so terribly. I guess it’s too early to tell right now what I feel. Probably I’ll just spend these next few months looking blankly at my computer screen and decide if all of these would ultimately be worth it. Others may say that you really have to sacrifice everything but I guess I’m really not that patient. “Blame it on the milkman” as they say.

What a week!

I know it’s not yet the weekend but I am now actually very tired and can’t wait for Friday! Last week my grandparents came here in Dubai for a short vacation before going on a 3-month stay at the UK. It was great seeing them again.

For the past week we’ve been constantly on the move, going to malls and eating out, treating ‘tatay’ and ’nanay’ for a quick trip around the city. But it was tiring. Now that everything seems to be back to normal, I am now feeling tired and sleepy due to last week’s hectic ‘agenda’…

I wanna sleep… (Insert yawning emoticon here…)

GITEX Technology Week 2007

GITEX, or Gulf Technology Exhibition 2007, was held in the Dubai World Trade Centre last September 8-12, 2007 in the heart of the city. It was my first time to attend such conferences/exhibitions. The thing that got me excited is that all of the top manufacturers will be showcasing their newest products. It was actually very tiring, but what I discovered (as I am part of the media and has to interview people for the magazine), I got to meet a lot of people. It was really fun, at first you would think that these people (some of them were General Managers and Managing Directors) were all about serious… but no, every one of them was fun and upbeat in their interviews. I was really glad I met them. And I saw a whole lot of new LCDs, PDAs, and mobile phones. And the best part of being a media? Freebies! I got a whole lot of stuff from GITEX 2007… Wow, I think I’ll definitely be coming back next year. Here are a couple of shots:

The Main Hall

The Dubai World Trade Centre

Sony's Largest Projector

Sony's VAIO Tablet PC

Samsung's ultra sleek mobile phone

See that 108" plasma at the background?

Samsung's Blu-ray and HD-DVD combo player

Samsung's Blu-ray theater

Sony's 'thin' Vaio

Hummer H2!

Panasonic's 108" plasma screens

Harry Potter in High Definition

Marvel at the world's largest home projector

Giorgio Armani - Attitude

It Armani’s new scent. I was actually settling between CKIN2U and this one. But this one won me over. It has a definite smell that really encompasses the Armani brand. Why make such a big deal about this perfume? This is actually the first time I ever bought a perfume (those body sprays from Bench doesn’t count). I even got a free Hugo Boss deospray from my purchase. Now I’m deciding whether I’ll open it or not. Hehe. Visit website here.