Sunday, 9 December 2007

Patsy's Hen Night

My friend Tara's friend Patsy is getting married and I was invited to attend her hen night on Friday. We had a dinner party at Ellen's place and moved on to Boston Bar at Rotana Hotel. After one too many drinks, we proceeded to our next stop, karaoke bar in the Emirates Tower. Here are some photos in the K-lounge.
There was a birthday party going on apparently and the lounge was fully packed.
There was a birthday cake on the table.
The small screen TV for Karaoke.
The bride-to-be, Patsy
My friends, Monica and Angela
Monica
A very drunk Tara
Yours truly, aka the total retard
Our friends.

Sleazy Emirate men. I saw them as hypocrites because they were wearing religious clothes and yet drinking beers and wines, touching and hugging strangers.
I found the one on the right extremely creepy as he was buying us beers, hugging total strangers, claiming he was looking for a wife. If he had been an average guy, it would not have bothered me that much. But he was in his religious costumes and in my opinion, he was a total disgrace to his religion.
Overall, we had a great night. We went home at 3 in the morning and I had a severe headache the day after.

Saturday, 8 December 2007

Dubai Creek Park

Dubai Creek Park is located near Dubai Health Care City. It is right next to the Dubai Creek. Unfortunately, it is not a park for all as entrance fee is 5 Dhm for each entry. To me this is weird because the only park that I know imposes an entrance fee is the Hong Kong Ocean Park.

Sunny weather in the winter
The Children's Centre
The beach
The trees
The harbour view
The Dubai cable car. Wanted to give it a try, but....
after looking at the connection parts, and comparing them with NP360, I decided not to. :p
The Sign
Locals having a good time. BBQ pit
Picnic in veils....

Dubai International Cat Show

Went to Dubai Creek Park to check out the Dubai cat show. Not exactly my kind of event as I expected something like a fun fair with stores, selling cat toys and food. In the end it turned out to be a very fancy event with people showing off their pedigree cats.

The Dubai Creek Park turned out to be a lot more interesting than the International Cat Show.

The Park
The poster for the event
The resting area for cats
Cute kitten
The runner up for the cat show. Obviously she did not like paparazzi. Look at how she looked at me with her evil eyes.

Monday, 3 December 2007

Happy Belated Birthday, Dubai!

It was Dubai's National Day yesterday. I celebrated it by joining my colleagues on a road trip to a beach in Fujiarah, another state in the UAE.

My colleague and his wife went for a dive. It was not the scenary type of dive. They were doing volunteer work and the dive were meant to collect rubbish on the ocean floor.


I, on the other hand, soaked up the sun and enjoyed my sister's book. It's a great book, by the way.

Monday, 26 November 2007

Poems Overloaded

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

--even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

I carry your heart with me
EE Cummings

I carry your heart with me (I carry it in
my heart) I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go, my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing, my darling)
I fear
no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want
no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you

Here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)

When we two parted
Lord Byron

When we two parted
in silence and tears,
half broken-hearted
to sever for years,
pale grew thy cheek and cold,
colder thy kiss;
truly that hour foretold
sorrow to this.

The dew of the morning
sunk chill on my brow—
It felt like the warming
of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
and light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
and share in its shame.

They name thee before me,
a knell to mine ear;
a shudder comes o'er me-
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
who knew thee too well-
Long, long shall I rue thee,
too deeply to tell.

In secret we met-
in silence I grieve,
that thy heart could forget,
thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
after long years,
how should I greet thee?-
With silence and tears.

碧血劍
金庸

從南來了一群雁,
也有成雙也有孤單。
成雙的歡天喜地聲嘹亮,
孤單的落在後頭飛不上。
不看成雙,
只看孤單,
細思量你的淒涼,
和我是一般樣!
細思量你的淒涼,
和我是一般樣。

Sunday, 25 November 2007

Fried Bee Hoon


I like fried bee hoon. I never need to make it because it is always available everywhere in Singapore. Sadly it isn't the case in Dubai.

I tried to make it at home twice but failed. Determined to succeed, I chose a different type of bee hoon this round and studied various recipes I could find on the Internet. I finally succeeded in my third attempt. It does not taste perfect but I am already very happy. At least I managed to swallow all of it instead of trashing it like the previous two trials.

Foggy Dubai 2




It has been foggy in Dubai for the past few days. I feel like driving in the mountain range with such low visibility.

One weird thing in Dubai is that most drivers switch on their hazard lights while driving at 120km/h on highway. It is extremely dangerous as the indicator lights are doomed with the hazard lights being turned on.

In my honest opinion, driving with the headlights turned on is the safest and the right thing to do in such foggy situation. Of course, driving at a reasonable speed helps too.