Know you, no pain. No you, know pain

Abu Dhabi, the land where your cigarettes burn brighter.

I think i'm gradually settling into the culture quite well. After 1 week, and the prospect of spending the next 7 weeks here, I think maybe i'm progressing through this adapting phase quite well. I do miss home though, well, actually i miss my staple diet of fried seehams and wanton noodles the most. And the loklok truck.

Its really hard to find good cheap food here by the way. Rephrase that, you cant find good cheap food here. I went to shisha last night and just to have 2 shishas, a glass of juice, a can of pepsi and a morroccan tea set would set you back at 145 dhm, equivalent to RM 145. Including a gratituity fee of 16% or 20 dhm, in other words, service tax. Really, your conventional fries from kfc would cost you at least 20 dhm, just the fries alone. Dim sum in Dubai was almost 300 dhm and i could go on and on about this food price thing.

I visited the grand mosque the other day. A monolith of a structure sitting in between a web of highways. Wholly made of white marble, it holds 3 world records for the biggest dome, largest chandelier, and largest carpet. For me, i've never been too fond about Islamic architecture, so i couldn't really catch the beauty concept of its interior, the exterior is captivating, but the flowery motives on the walls inside, and not to mention the world's largest chandelier looks like the world's largest infected penis. Coated in gold and weighs 9 tons. One hell of a dick.

Oh i just remembered, back to the food topic, lunch yesterday at the noodle house cost 175 dhm for 2 small bowls of tom yum and curry laksa no larger than a little plastic rice bowl, and a large (hardly large) laksa.

Went to the skating rink today and had the biggest culture shock so far. Emirati school kids. They are bastards i tell you. Uncivilised bastards. They yell and spit everywhere, they bring plastic chairs onto the rink and slide them around like wheelchairs, they fling rubbish i every direction. The only cool thing to this, is that even 10 year old kids on a school trip can bring their pipes and their little stash of tobacco, light up and be the bastards they are. Seriously, they all have their own pipes. While we're still smoking cigarettes and shisha and having paranoia and trust issues. I mean, come on.

Malaysia's best export here, is Super Ring.

I think i'm putting on the pounds here. The last time i weighed i was 78kg when i weighed my luggage before i left. So happy because i lost 5 kgs in my 2 months of working at topman. Okay, i'm going to jog and play some balls.

Jinny

Dubai, UAE hello

Dubai is a shopper's mecca.

If you are oblivious to the little tinges of favouritism amongst the races. As an asian asian, you're at the bottom. Without a doubt. The philipinos are supposed to be there with you, but maybe over-time they've cultivated the arab mentality to be the more superior of all the inferiors. The arabs, are well, basicly they think they're at the top of everything, arrogant and fat and all that shit. But the truth is, its like a george bush administration here. But then again, isn't it the same adminisration everywhere else in our asiatic world?

The caucasians are THE MOST superior of us all. We bow to their every need, we're afraid of incuring their wrath, we force a non-existant slang towards them, we always smile an extra smile while serving them as customers.

We make ourselves look small beside them.

But anyway, like i said, Dubai is a fantastic place. The mall of emirates is as big as 3 mid valleys back home while its still not the biggest mall yet. I saw the Burj-al-Arab too.

Pictures soon, while my phone refuses to connect to the laptop now.

Its boring being alone here. Everyone's out and the pool looks inviting. Bye guys.

Jinny

Hold it,i stumbled upon this on wikipedia. Haha. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Girl%27s_Pussy

Download it, try singing to it. It'll be fun. :)

Abu Dhabi, UAE hello

Hi, its dark and 8.30 back home while the mosquitoes are flying about trying to sneak into rooms and its sunny and rather dry here at 4.30. But we have mosquitoes here too.

The flight was rather turbulent from the beginning but what was more turbulent mid-flight were stupid toddlers. Thank god the earphones where noise-cancelling. Still, i didnt get any sleep because the in-flight entertainment was kickass. Minus the 1 minute long arabic advertisements at the start of every program you watch, plus my audio player had an error.

Its quite foggy in the mornings and night due to the temperature changes (which signals that winter is coming!), and the air is dry yet dense, thus harder to inhale. Oh, and the sun seems like its 12983213414483km nearer to the earth surface.

I also acquired some first hand experiences of the so-called "welcoming travellers with open arms" culture. The money-changers are arrogant, the phillipino workers at the mall think they're more superior than asians from asia, and the arabs are the more obnoxious, lazy and rude than all the obnoxious, lazy, and rude people you can think of. Everybody owns a porsche here, and a mercedes/bmw/toyota is like your conventional myvi back home. Maybe cheaper. Nonetheless, petrol and piss-smelling arabic perfume seems to be the best-sellers here.

Maybe piss-smelling arabic perfume IS petrol.

The girlfriend's family house is probably the most beautiful house i've ever slept in. Very mediterranean, high walls, circular architectural design with an open garden in he center of the house, big yard and an elongated pool. My room comes with a huge balcony and a nice cozy queen sized bed. The only things i really need.

However the outskirts where i am now does look like an iraqi post-war zone. The barren land seems neverending. And the highways are straighter and longer than.. okay, shouldn't think out loud.

Okay, am watching Big Stan on dvd now and i'm going to miss the sunset.

Laters guys. :)

Jinny

Don't be so grouchy

I got Rainn Wilson's The Rocker and i'm wondering why Teddy Geiger finally decides to do movies.

By the way, i'm getting another tattoo at least before i leave on wednesday. To be done once i find out what year my maiden grandmother was born in. I want to do her name in hebrew but no one's capable enough to translate.

Yea, so i'm leaving this wednesday if i hadn't mentioned it. It been almost a month now since i last saw thegirlfriend. Only to compensate with the next 2 months of seeing her face everywhere i will be. Haha. Its a good thing. Right?

Sisters went back to S'pore the other day not without leaving me a note that says "Don't be so grouchy". Maybe i have been all these while. Well, if someone writes it down, it would be confirming it right? So maybe I have been all these while.

And albeit inspiring chikhan to revert back to the pariah hippie style with my hair. I have gotten rid of the mane in exchange for a nice clean cut. And then brad came into to topman today and started calling me Petey Wentz.

I couldn't say i'm not flattered. Somehow.

Jinny