So it's 4:44 a.m. now and I decide to update my lovely blog... Thanks everyone for the comments and replies, really appreciate it :)
Been a great day and week in general... Thanks to all the people I met and hanged out with for making it so good!
OK, where to start, hmm, OK should start with what is still fresh in my memory, was at Peppermint again, season-closing gig and what a party it was! Fortunately it was on a weeknight, thus, it wasn’t as packed as it usually is when held on Friday nights. That meant less posers and losers and MORE space to dance! Was at the front with the ‘ravers’ most of the time and I think I will appear in one or two of the videos that they post on their website. Not bad!
What is bad is that the Municipality has not given any licenses for clubs to have DJs this weekend, Peppermint had a great line-up for Thursday and Friday which is now cancelled, but heck, Marco V. dropped a stunning set, looked like a very friendly guy as well! Smoked quite a bit today and last night (Darren Emerson @ The Apartment, was the 5th birthday party for Time Out Dubai magazine), but I don’t think I will smoke cigarettes that much for a while as no parties are taking place during Ramadan… Bye bye fags, welcome to even more sheeshas ;)
Football-wise, thanks to my lovely sister and ‘that’ SMS buddy for keeping me updated today regarding the game while I was warming-up for the gig, Liverpool have FINALLY won, and we actually played well. We played against Newcastle United, a team where we usually have no major headaches beating; we had enough scares at the back and Newcastle had 3 penalty appeals, but overall they didn’t threaten much and we wasted chance after chance, our new Dutch dude Kuyt finally broke his duck and scored, although he should’ve come out of the game with a couple or even three but heck, he works his damn ass off every game, fighting for every ball, etc. but the highlight of the match was a moment of utter brilliance by our midfield maestro Xabi Alonso, who has been struggling with form since the start of the season but he’s been one of our best players in the last 3 games. He neatly won possession back in our half, took a few steps, looked up twice before unleashing a beast of a shot from his own half which went in despite Newcastle’s goalie desperate attempt to save it. We didn’t play THAT good but overall we are going in the right direction thankfully :).
By the way, the valet parking service at the Mina A’Salam hotel is horrible. Had to wait for my car for 15 – 20 minutes, and when it FINALLY came an idiot driving behind my car it (Another one of the valet parking staff) touched the rear bumper of my car, I mean how retarded can one be to do such thing? Thankfully nothing was damaged in either car but it was pretty stupid. I know that they sometimes have to park the cars on the other side of the road but heck, why do they have 20 men literally standing there doing nothing? When I was looking for someone to give my parking ticket to one of them three bored-looking parkers rushed my way! Why don’t they provide better service by having a few of them stay in the massive parking lot across the road and phoning them or something whenever a guest gives them the ticket? Anyway, I heard worse stories happening with stupid valet parking staff, if only extra parking spaces are created, a place like Madinat Jumeirah for instance or Mercato definitely needs bigger parking facilities, too late though to do anything about it.
Also since we are talking about service and quality, what is it with Japengo at Madinat Jumeirah?! I went there with S & S before heading to Peppermint with yet another S, but Japengo wasn’t even in our original plans. We arrived at Madinat at around 9, and after getting lost for some time we decided to head to the Meat Company only to be told that we’d have to wait for an hour, went to Trader Vic’s and was told that it is full until at least 11 pm, we went to the very casual and laid-back Italian restaurant (Tuscana) and it was the same case… We went to Japengo and were surprised about how empty it compared to the other outlets that are all situated within 50 years of Japengo. But we learned the hard way why the place is aweful! The service is bad, the music is bad, there are way too many waiters around the restaurant, much more than needed. There is no back-of house area so we saw waiters polishing glasses in front of us and some other bored ones chatting for quite a while. Also something which pisses me off, I worked as a waiter before and I know that if it is the same waiter who takes and serves the order then he or she should know which order goes to whom when they’re serving, or at least ASK before placing anything on the table, when our drinks came the waiter just put them randomly without asking, we quickly changed the glasses but even when it came to the last glass which was obvious to whom it would go he served it to the wrong person… Hmm! A place called Japengo which has Japanese & Chinese food (And some Mediterranean as well) should have some music reflecting the former two, but I don’t think that Mariah Carey, Ragheb Alama and Kelly Rowland do that! The guy doing the juices kept on blabbing on the phone while working, a couple sat on a table nearby and they decided to leave for some reason, the manager was standing around talking and God knows how many waiters, did anyone bother to ask them why they left or if they want to change tables or whatever? NO! To be fair though we feared the worst for our food but it seems that the food made up for the service. It wasn’t perfect of the highest quality but it was good enough, at least way better than the abysmal service staff!
I guess I will sign off… Can barely see infront of me anymore and I am kaputt as our fellow German friends say… Guess I will have more to talk about tomorrow…
Take care everyone :)
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Last few days...
If one ignores the crap going online, this week has been going quite well and it was amazing... My team (Liverpool) somehow ost against Chelsea although we ruled the whole game and created shitloads of goalscoring chances... Well, our next game is against Newcastle so it should be good :).Was satisfied with the performance overall but our finishing MUST improve. So, some things I did over the past three or so days:
Went swimming, bowling, wacthed football, shishaing God knows how many times!, ripped, burned and listened to some awesome music (As usual ;)), listened to Trance Around the World by my fav. DJs: Above & Beyond (Listening to it now again, they are so bloody amazing. Here is the link!), been hanging out at cafes most of the time, for you folks in Dubai I think you should try Momo Almaza by Harvey Nicholas at Mall of the Emirates and the nearby Armani Cafe :). Both classy and, trendy & nice
Some messages:
To SB: I owe you BIG TIME. All what you say is 110% true, too bad it falls on dead ears like mine... One day, one day I will learn that lesson
Another S: I love you despite everything, and you know that :)
L & S: OK, I've been a jerk, I promise I will make it up for you two :)
A few others: If you don't care about me, why should I give a flying fuck about you? ;)
Went swimming, bowling, wacthed football, shishaing God knows how many times!, ripped, burned and listened to some awesome music (As usual ;)), listened to Trance Around the World by my fav. DJs: Above & Beyond (Listening to it now again, they are so bloody amazing. Here is the link!), been hanging out at cafes most of the time, for you folks in Dubai I think you should try Momo Almaza by Harvey Nicholas at Mall of the Emirates and the nearby Armani Cafe :). Both classy and, trendy & nice
Some messages:
To SB: I owe you BIG TIME. All what you say is 110% true, too bad it falls on dead ears like mine... One day, one day I will learn that lesson
Another S: I love you despite everything, and you know that :)
L & S: OK, I've been a jerk, I promise I will make it up for you two :)
A few others: If you don't care about me, why should I give a flying fuck about you? ;)
Monday, September 18, 2006
You have your normal people, and you have your sick and retarded forumers
If you thought the previous post was long, then this is MASSIVE… But it is massive for a reason :)
Hmm, this will be one fucked up post, to some it will be shocking that this is how some sites on the internet are, for others it will be normal as the virtual world is full of morons like it's not that I care much now about the whole thing but people are asking what happened and stories were made up and such.
OK, here goes:
Since I am an internet geek who spends at least 4 hours daily glued in front of the pc/laptop screen, I ended up registering at shitloads of forums and online communities. I lost count of the number of football forums, photo gallery websites, newsletters, etc. that I have registered at or signed up for. One of those sites is what used to be a very respectable Jordanian-based forum called Mahjoob.
The current problem with this website is that things are mixed up between what happens publicly ON the forum, via Private Messages, via e-mails and via instant messaging. If you -for instance- abuse a girl that is registered at the forum via msn, you get banned or at at least you would receive a warning on Mahjoob (The FORUM!!). MSN and Mahjoob are two whole different identities, if some idiot is stalking or bothering you on msn or e-mail you can just ignore him/HER by using the amazing feature of MSN of blocking and deleting someone or in case of e-mails treating whatever shit is sent as spam/junk. Easy, isn't it? But there are some sick, sick people in this world, and unfortunately it seems that the majority of the sick and pathetic Palestinian/Jordanian people were fortunate enough to have internet connections and register at Mahjoob (An amazing place, until a year or so go).
I won’t really bother much about the sensitivity of people in this issue, it’s not like I ever did that and it’s not like people involved really did either. In the early hours of Saturday morning I had one of those sickos of Mahjoob online, I was characteristically hyper having came back from a fantastic gig at Peppermint Club, they had the number 4 DJ in the world Ferry Corsten spinning and mixing for almost 3 hours, so I found a certain Mahjoobian called SherryBerry, now more known as the whining, moaning, lying, two-faced BerrySherry, for one week at least as her former username was banned. We started having a conversation and I brought up the topic of the party and the amazing parties and the world class DJs that come down here to club nights like Peppermint. Gave her the link to the club’s website which had videos, she checked one or two of them and then went mad starting saying retarded stuff like the ladies are almost nude and the guys look more like gays and such, and blabbing shit… Anyway, the conversation is posted online here. She started accusing my sisters of being whores and me being a fag just because we go clubbing together every once in a blue moon.
After stating that she DOES go clubbing herself and after saying that Mahjoob is for losers like me who worry too much (According to HER) and saying that she won’t bother gossiping or talking about pathetic people like me online or anywhere else for that matter. I think this girl thinks that birthday parties and proms are considered clubbing… LOL!
Hmm, yeah, she is a typical conservative person who minds her OWN fucking business and is shocked about such things are happening in the world. A few hours (Or even less than hours) passed before I found this thread posted online by SherryB****h:
Clubbing Thread
Now we can see how ‘religious’ she is and how she is really not into taking the piss and gossiping and discussing other people’s lives. My name (Or nickname for that matter, which is Forlorn on that site) wasn’t brought up. When I noticed that thread I sent her a PM asking her with my typical dose of sarcasm about the reason she posted that.
Received a reply via a PM around 24 hours later from her saying that I should mind MY OWN BUSINESS! What own business? She’s the one who interfered in my bloody personal life not me! And she ‘advised’ me to be peaceful and quiet in order to avoid any more revelations, or so she thought she was blackmailing me. Called her a whore (Sharmoota bint Kalb, literally translated into: A bitch and daughter of a dog, see guys? I am useful, I teach you useful Arabic terms to use with some pathetic Arab ladies that you might come across in your life:)) and after I was threatened by her that she would forward the MSN conversations and the PMs that had the insults to the site’s forum administrator I just couldn’t bother or give a flying fuck anymore and I told her that she’s the administrator’s little whore anyway. So, this is the probably the 30th time I talked about this in the last 48 or so hours, I sent an e-mail with the fellow formers I know and it seems I had some backing by the Moderators as it wasn’t the first time that girl was involved in such fracas. Eventually after explaining my case to the site’s administrator (Banihani), both me and her got a 1 week ban… So, if I go now and say on msn to another guy I never met and I barely know that his sister is a whore I would probably be banned forever. She does just that, starts a huge ridiculous thread that she has nothing to do with and blackmails me and gets one week, fair enough (NOT!). Even worse, her advocates were out in full force immediately after finding out the tragic news that she was banned asking for full explanations about the scandal
Objection!
Back to the thread and the point being discussed about girls going clubbing with their brothers, well, I am into clubbing and I enjoy it a lot especially if the music was EDM (Electronic Digital Music, i.e. Trance, House, Techno, Vocal House, etc.). My sister tags along sometimes, she is NOT a drinker, not a flirty type of person and she does not even know how to dance even if her life depended on it (Trust me on that last bit). And even if she was doing all of the above and more for instance, it is none of anyone’s God dam fucking business!! She is MY sister, not yours! Thankfully she does none and she is amazing but also, what is it with the majority of us bloody Arabs and night clubs? (Or as some still call them, discos *bangs head against nearest wall*) Once they hear the word night club thoughts of people getting totally wasted and trashed, flirting, dirty dancing, etc. spring up to mind, they would think that khalas whoever goes clubbing is supposed to do all of the above in addition to getting laid perhaps at the end of a night full of sins, well, I’ve been going clubbing for over a year now and trust me, I never did any of the above and I AM A GUY!! Anyway, it’s something in the people and their culture, how can you explain that to some nutcase living in the 17th century? I think the answer to that has been perfectly made by my fellow blogger, Forexia:
“I learned in life that there is NO use arguing with someone who only and will only see thier side of the coin no matter what.
I tried and tried but especially in matters of right and wrong that has something to do with culture and religion regardless of psychology, sociology, platonic or familial love especially if it is unthinkable to be an argument in the first place by the outside 'evil and dirty' western world.......futile.
accept it. Like i said to a friend yesterday its in the bloood and total type blood change is impossible.”
And anyway, if your sister/wife/whatever was to go out ANYWHERE, regardless of place, wouldn’t you want to go with her? Don’t you ask your sister a thousand times where you are going, with whom, etc.? Then if you are going to a club the best person to actually be with is your brother or a direct relative because you know that this will decrease the potential of guys trying to hit on her, and because she will (should actually) be safe with you rather than with some random guy who might take advantage of her God forbid.
OK, I guess this is my side of the story, will anyone read it? Hell yeah, it’s about SherryBerry, the most innocent, lovely, religious and respectful on the planet! People want to know who is the wanker, the garen (don’t ask), the idiot who got her banned although she didn’t do anything. YOU CAN FUCK OFF IF YOU LIKE SUCH A LYING TWO-FACED BITCH WHO LOVES DOUBLE-STANDARDS AND LIVES A LIE. People I met and talked to from that site said that we have some really sick and fucked-up people and girls on it and I kept on denying that thinking everyone is so perfect on it... Thankfully this happened to prove me wrong. I am happy now, I was proven wrong :)
Will my ban be removed after one week as promised after me writing all this crap?! Maybe yes, maybe not. Will it change anything in the mentalities of the people? No! Clubbing will still be a major thing for the people who replied against it and SherryBerry is still Shareefet Macce (Meaning very innocent, yada yada yada).
You know guys what’s the best part about this all? It’s so ironic that my sister that night (Peppermint on Friday, Ferry Corsten gig) stayed with me for not more than 30 minutes, her reasons for leaving so early were:
1. Didn’t enjoy the music (No offence MadJam, your warm-up set was amazing as usual but she just isn’t into house or trance)
2. Got bored
3. The ladies were indeed wearing skimpy clothes and she didn’t feel comfortable with that since she was not.
My regards to *Glamour* and Forexia *hugs!*
Hmm, this will be one fucked up post, to some it will be shocking that this is how some sites on the internet are, for others it will be normal as the virtual world is full of morons like it's not that I care much now about the whole thing but people are asking what happened and stories were made up and such.
OK, here goes:
Since I am an internet geek who spends at least 4 hours daily glued in front of the pc/laptop screen, I ended up registering at shitloads of forums and online communities. I lost count of the number of football forums, photo gallery websites, newsletters, etc. that I have registered at or signed up for. One of those sites is what used to be a very respectable Jordanian-based forum called Mahjoob.
The current problem with this website is that things are mixed up between what happens publicly ON the forum, via Private Messages, via e-mails and via instant messaging. If you -for instance- abuse a girl that is registered at the forum via msn, you get banned or at at least you would receive a warning on Mahjoob (The FORUM!!). MSN and Mahjoob are two whole different identities, if some idiot is stalking or bothering you on msn or e-mail you can just ignore him/HER by using the amazing feature of MSN of blocking and deleting someone or in case of e-mails treating whatever shit is sent as spam/junk. Easy, isn't it? But there are some sick, sick people in this world, and unfortunately it seems that the majority of the sick and pathetic Palestinian/Jordanian people were fortunate enough to have internet connections and register at Mahjoob (An amazing place, until a year or so go).
I won’t really bother much about the sensitivity of people in this issue, it’s not like I ever did that and it’s not like people involved really did either. In the early hours of Saturday morning I had one of those sickos of Mahjoob online, I was characteristically hyper having came back from a fantastic gig at Peppermint Club, they had the number 4 DJ in the world Ferry Corsten spinning and mixing for almost 3 hours, so I found a certain Mahjoobian called SherryBerry, now more known as the whining, moaning, lying, two-faced BerrySherry, for one week at least as her former username was banned. We started having a conversation and I brought up the topic of the party and the amazing parties and the world class DJs that come down here to club nights like Peppermint. Gave her the link to the club’s website which had videos, she checked one or two of them and then went mad starting saying retarded stuff like the ladies are almost nude and the guys look more like gays and such, and blabbing shit… Anyway, the conversation is posted online here. She started accusing my sisters of being whores and me being a fag just because we go clubbing together every once in a blue moon.
After stating that she DOES go clubbing herself and after saying that Mahjoob is for losers like me who worry too much (According to HER) and saying that she won’t bother gossiping or talking about pathetic people like me online or anywhere else for that matter. I think this girl thinks that birthday parties and proms are considered clubbing… LOL!
Hmm, yeah, she is a typical conservative person who minds her OWN fucking business and is shocked about such things are happening in the world. A few hours (Or even less than hours) passed before I found this thread posted online by SherryB****h:
Clubbing Thread
Now we can see how ‘religious’ she is and how she is really not into taking the piss and gossiping and discussing other people’s lives. My name (Or nickname for that matter, which is Forlorn on that site) wasn’t brought up. When I noticed that thread I sent her a PM asking her with my typical dose of sarcasm about the reason she posted that.
Received a reply via a PM around 24 hours later from her saying that I should mind MY OWN BUSINESS! What own business? She’s the one who interfered in my bloody personal life not me! And she ‘advised’ me to be peaceful and quiet in order to avoid any more revelations, or so she thought she was blackmailing me. Called her a whore (Sharmoota bint Kalb, literally translated into: A bitch and daughter of a dog, see guys? I am useful, I teach you useful Arabic terms to use with some pathetic Arab ladies that you might come across in your life:)) and after I was threatened by her that she would forward the MSN conversations and the PMs that had the insults to the site’s forum administrator I just couldn’t bother or give a flying fuck anymore and I told her that she’s the administrator’s little whore anyway. So, this is the probably the 30th time I talked about this in the last 48 or so hours, I sent an e-mail with the fellow formers I know and it seems I had some backing by the Moderators as it wasn’t the first time that girl was involved in such fracas. Eventually after explaining my case to the site’s administrator (Banihani), both me and her got a 1 week ban… So, if I go now and say on msn to another guy I never met and I barely know that his sister is a whore I would probably be banned forever. She does just that, starts a huge ridiculous thread that she has nothing to do with and blackmails me and gets one week, fair enough (NOT!). Even worse, her advocates were out in full force immediately after finding out the tragic news that she was banned asking for full explanations about the scandal
Objection!
Back to the thread and the point being discussed about girls going clubbing with their brothers, well, I am into clubbing and I enjoy it a lot especially if the music was EDM (Electronic Digital Music, i.e. Trance, House, Techno, Vocal House, etc.). My sister tags along sometimes, she is NOT a drinker, not a flirty type of person and she does not even know how to dance even if her life depended on it (Trust me on that last bit). And even if she was doing all of the above and more for instance, it is none of anyone’s God dam fucking business!! She is MY sister, not yours! Thankfully she does none and she is amazing but also, what is it with the majority of us bloody Arabs and night clubs? (Or as some still call them, discos *bangs head against nearest wall*) Once they hear the word night club thoughts of people getting totally wasted and trashed, flirting, dirty dancing, etc. spring up to mind, they would think that khalas whoever goes clubbing is supposed to do all of the above in addition to getting laid perhaps at the end of a night full of sins, well, I’ve been going clubbing for over a year now and trust me, I never did any of the above and I AM A GUY!! Anyway, it’s something in the people and their culture, how can you explain that to some nutcase living in the 17th century? I think the answer to that has been perfectly made by my fellow blogger, Forexia:
“I learned in life that there is NO use arguing with someone who only and will only see thier side of the coin no matter what.
I tried and tried but especially in matters of right and wrong that has something to do with culture and religion regardless of psychology, sociology, platonic or familial love especially if it is unthinkable to be an argument in the first place by the outside 'evil and dirty' western world.......futile.
accept it. Like i said to a friend yesterday its in the bloood and total type blood change is impossible.”
And anyway, if your sister/wife/whatever was to go out ANYWHERE, regardless of place, wouldn’t you want to go with her? Don’t you ask your sister a thousand times where you are going, with whom, etc.? Then if you are going to a club the best person to actually be with is your brother or a direct relative because you know that this will decrease the potential of guys trying to hit on her, and because she will (should actually) be safe with you rather than with some random guy who might take advantage of her God forbid.
OK, I guess this is my side of the story, will anyone read it? Hell yeah, it’s about SherryBerry, the most innocent, lovely, religious and respectful on the planet! People want to know who is the wanker, the garen (don’t ask), the idiot who got her banned although she didn’t do anything. YOU CAN FUCK OFF IF YOU LIKE SUCH A LYING TWO-FACED BITCH WHO LOVES DOUBLE-STANDARDS AND LIVES A LIE. People I met and talked to from that site said that we have some really sick and fucked-up people and girls on it and I kept on denying that thinking everyone is so perfect on it... Thankfully this happened to prove me wrong. I am happy now, I was proven wrong :)
Will my ban be removed after one week as promised after me writing all this crap?! Maybe yes, maybe not. Will it change anything in the mentalities of the people? No! Clubbing will still be a major thing for the people who replied against it and SherryBerry is still Shareefet Macce (Meaning very innocent, yada yada yada).
You know guys what’s the best part about this all? It’s so ironic that my sister that night (Peppermint on Friday, Ferry Corsten gig) stayed with me for not more than 30 minutes, her reasons for leaving so early were:
1. Didn’t enjoy the music (No offence MadJam, your warm-up set was amazing as usual but she just isn’t into house or trance)
2. Got bored
3. The ladies were indeed wearing skimpy clothes and she didn’t feel comfortable with that since she was not.
My regards to *Glamour* and Forexia *hugs!*
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
Hmm
Didn't update my blog for a long time (As usual), I always feel like ranting and blogging but when I finally sit in front of the PC I just go blank and decide to do something else... This might be long.
Had a good and quieter week than the last one, last one was unbelievable… Can’t recall much but what I remember is going partying four times, smoking a LOT and driving all over town (And outside town as well to Ghantout, Awir Road and Sharjah... This week smoking has been less, average of 2 – 3 ciggies a day, calmer, no clubbing yet and not feeling really like it anyway but the driving is still there! To be honest with you Sharjah is an adorable city late at night, very peaceful and quiet.
Football wise this start to the season was horrible, my team (Liverpool) has conceded in every single game we’ve played so far (Apart from tonight’s 0-0 draw with PSV in the Champions League), we’ve lost the derby vs. Everton 3-0 on Saturday, OK, I can argue that they were lucky and all that (And they were, we had 20+ chances while they only had 4, we had three penalty appeals turned down by the dickhead ref G. Poll and hit the post twice. You can also add having 8 or 9 corners and controlling most of the possession. Hope we get back on track ASAP, we have a tough game vs. Chelsea this weekend, fingers crossed!
Hmm, what else…Haven’t been sleeping or eating properly in the last few days, not a big issue though as I find something to keep me busy. Oh yeah, I just remembered something, what is it with people and mobile phones? Once you take it out of your pocket they ask to have a look, being the naïve and stupid person that I am I always assume that they are just looking at the phone and checking it out its features and design but 99% of the time they tend to check out whatever pictures, sound clips, messages, and everything else you can imagine that is on your mobile. I had a Sony Ericsson K800i with its OVERRATED 3.2 mega pixel Sony Cybershot camera and being into photography I used to take pictures of everything and keep them on the mobile, some people were arguing that what I have on it is “Not suitable to have on a mobile”! Does everything have to be new, cool and fancy on the mobile? Do I have to put pictures of celebrities, silly java games and annoying ringtones on it to satisfy you? Hell, why do I have to bloody make you happy it’s my mobile! It’s up to me whether to put Elissa’s crappy tracks or Nancy’s pointless giggles or to put my favorite tracks! Anyway, thankfully a couple of days back a friend dropped a whole glass of lemon and mint juice on it, the thing was functioning normally but it ‘squeaked’ whenever I used the keypad, was sticky and had an ‘interesting’ smell to it, sold it off yesterday and supposed to get my new Sony Ericsson M600i tomorrow. For the time being, my good ol’ Nokia 9300 is perfectly fine ;)
Weather’s hot and humid, it improved a BIT for a couple of days but it’s back to the normal crappy heat. Also, traffic has been HORRIBLE… The new weekend here (Friday and Saturday) hasn’t only affected traffic negatively on Thursdays and Saturdays but for some reason it’s been ridiculously awful every day of the week… There are these new road projects on the way:
- Two new crossings on the creek (I think they’re the floating bridge and the new bigger Garhoud bridge. There might be even a 3rd one on the way)
- Widening of Al Wahda road in sharjah, the bottleneck basically
- Double-decker roads near my house: Defence Round About/Al Doha Road (Coincidently next to Al Murooj Rotana which has the Double Decker bar)
- The behind schedule and awaited for Dubai Metro
- All the road construction in the Dubai Marina and The Palm area
Many smaller projects being taken care of now, but it won’t be before 2010 when all of those are up and running, by that time the city’s population will increase and the number of cars will probably double and these projects will be obsolete and we will literally have to go back to the drawing board!!!
The brother of a former classmate works for the RTA (Road & Transportation Authority) in Dubai, and he told me that a new system will be in place in which cars will be charged when commuting between Dubai and Sharjah, and other certain routes, for instance for crossing the bridge. I don’t see that happening anytime soon as the concept of charging the cars automatically (Chips, readers on the roads, etc.) would take ages to implement.
Anyway, enough ranting for now, I probably will post this, read it again tom and remember 10 other things which I wanted to talk about but forgot… Anyway, for the time being, the above rants are more than enough me thinks :)
Had a good and quieter week than the last one, last one was unbelievable… Can’t recall much but what I remember is going partying four times, smoking a LOT and driving all over town (And outside town as well to Ghantout, Awir Road and Sharjah... This week smoking has been less, average of 2 – 3 ciggies a day, calmer, no clubbing yet and not feeling really like it anyway but the driving is still there! To be honest with you Sharjah is an adorable city late at night, very peaceful and quiet.
Football wise this start to the season was horrible, my team (Liverpool) has conceded in every single game we’ve played so far (Apart from tonight’s 0-0 draw with PSV in the Champions League), we’ve lost the derby vs. Everton 3-0 on Saturday, OK, I can argue that they were lucky and all that (And they were, we had 20+ chances while they only had 4, we had three penalty appeals turned down by the dickhead ref G. Poll and hit the post twice. You can also add having 8 or 9 corners and controlling most of the possession. Hope we get back on track ASAP, we have a tough game vs. Chelsea this weekend, fingers crossed!
Hmm, what else…Haven’t been sleeping or eating properly in the last few days, not a big issue though as I find something to keep me busy. Oh yeah, I just remembered something, what is it with people and mobile phones? Once you take it out of your pocket they ask to have a look, being the naïve and stupid person that I am I always assume that they are just looking at the phone and checking it out its features and design but 99% of the time they tend to check out whatever pictures, sound clips, messages, and everything else you can imagine that is on your mobile. I had a Sony Ericsson K800i with its OVERRATED 3.2 mega pixel Sony Cybershot camera and being into photography I used to take pictures of everything and keep them on the mobile, some people were arguing that what I have on it is “Not suitable to have on a mobile”! Does everything have to be new, cool and fancy on the mobile? Do I have to put pictures of celebrities, silly java games and annoying ringtones on it to satisfy you? Hell, why do I have to bloody make you happy it’s my mobile! It’s up to me whether to put Elissa’s crappy tracks or Nancy’s pointless giggles or to put my favorite tracks! Anyway, thankfully a couple of days back a friend dropped a whole glass of lemon and mint juice on it, the thing was functioning normally but it ‘squeaked’ whenever I used the keypad, was sticky and had an ‘interesting’ smell to it, sold it off yesterday and supposed to get my new Sony Ericsson M600i tomorrow. For the time being, my good ol’ Nokia 9300 is perfectly fine ;)
Weather’s hot and humid, it improved a BIT for a couple of days but it’s back to the normal crappy heat. Also, traffic has been HORRIBLE… The new weekend here (Friday and Saturday) hasn’t only affected traffic negatively on Thursdays and Saturdays but for some reason it’s been ridiculously awful every day of the week… There are these new road projects on the way:
- Two new crossings on the creek (I think they’re the floating bridge and the new bigger Garhoud bridge. There might be even a 3rd one on the way)
- Widening of Al Wahda road in sharjah, the bottleneck basically
- Double-decker roads near my house: Defence Round About/Al Doha Road (Coincidently next to Al Murooj Rotana which has the Double Decker bar)
- The behind schedule and awaited for Dubai Metro
- All the road construction in the Dubai Marina and The Palm area
Many smaller projects being taken care of now, but it won’t be before 2010 when all of those are up and running, by that time the city’s population will increase and the number of cars will probably double and these projects will be obsolete and we will literally have to go back to the drawing board!!!
The brother of a former classmate works for the RTA (Road & Transportation Authority) in Dubai, and he told me that a new system will be in place in which cars will be charged when commuting between Dubai and Sharjah, and other certain routes, for instance for crossing the bridge. I don’t see that happening anytime soon as the concept of charging the cars automatically (Chips, readers on the roads, etc.) would take ages to implement.
Anyway, enough ranting for now, I probably will post this, read it again tom and remember 10 other things which I wanted to talk about but forgot… Anyway, for the time being, the above rants are more than enough me thinks :)
Sunday, September 03, 2006
Back in hot & humid DXB
Arrived in Dubai on Friday night.
Last couple or so days were better, I got enough trance albums to keep me entertained for a month I guess and did some shopping. Hanged around with some people from the 'Hara', wasn't bad and played with a tiny cat that was a bit tooo playful (But cute!).
Not very interesting when compared to Dubai, as soon as we arrived back home from the airport I was advised NOT to drive or stay out late, ended up doing both! Partied with a couple of friends and had to sleep for more than half a day yesterday due to the fatigue. Back in DXB, and loving it!
*Still waiting for a SMS*
Last couple or so days were better, I got enough trance albums to keep me entertained for a month I guess and did some shopping. Hanged around with some people from the 'Hara', wasn't bad and played with a tiny cat that was a bit tooo playful (But cute!).
Not very interesting when compared to Dubai, as soon as we arrived back home from the airport I was advised NOT to drive or stay out late, ended up doing both! Partied with a couple of friends and had to sleep for more than half a day yesterday due to the fatigue. Back in DXB, and loving it!
*Still waiting for a SMS*
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