Blogs from United Arab Emirates, Middle East - page 159

Well hello all, I am back in the land of desert and never ending heat!!! Have been busy at work since I came back from Oz, but did make time to enjoy the visit of one of our favourite sons, Dan the son. It was great to finally meet him and to see how similar he is to his brother. (For those of you who are scratching your heads, I am talking about Matt's brother Dan). I am pretty sure that he managed to have a great time here, although I was not lucky enough to play him, and beat him at pool!! That will have to wait until August. I am off to work again tomorrow, and this time off to the lovely Athens in Greece. Till my next installment....... ... read more

Suprise, Sorry we are late for our first entry, we were playing in traffic. Well our journey started last tuesday May 1st, with enough tears to fill drought ravaged (haha ravaged) dams. We flew out at 7:20pm and on our way through customs Matt was kindly asked to step aside to check his rather sexy body for explosives, those of you who placed bets on this should collect now. Luckily the all clear was given and our trip was allowed to proceed. A stop in Singapore airport for about 20 mins after our 7 hour flight was enough to find the best beer garden (so far) in the world with a humidty of around nine million and passing cops with heavily armed machine guns. (Matt was again slightly nervous) Once we got back onto our ... read more

Can you believe that it's been 13 years since the film Stargate was released? The subtext of a right wing imperialist government wanting to control a powerful global resource by use of gung-ho force, superior fire power and technology while completely misunderstanding a culture with thousands of years of history in the wake of the first Gulf War wasn't exactly subtle, but the blend of science fiction and history made it an unusually enjoyable Hollywood flick. Plus it had the hot tranny from The Crying Game in it. Alas, as so often happens with any half decent concept (apart from Firefly) the vultures get in there and the low budget TV spin-offs kick in. Stargate SG-1 (the same plot as the film every week), Stargate Alantis (the same as SG-1 but underwater and with a ... read more

Thankfully a couple of weeks ago the time came to leave the joys of the Golden Sands No 5. This being the delightful place that TTI had put us up in whilst we looked for somewhere to stay. The fact that this was only a studio apartment, and that Jeremy was stuck in it almost 24/7 was enough to drive him nearly completly mad (the curtains in the corner of the room were looking a little frayed at the end of the stay, and if there had been carpet available I am sure that he would have been chewing that as well :) We have now found ourselves a delightful little apartment in a place called the Burj Residences which is situated just behind Burj Dubai. We have a view that overlooks the pool and we ... read more

A prelude to belly dancing Early in the morning, Lee gets me up because the Shakira in Dubai concert is on TV. I’m a huge fan and have gone to two of her concerts, but the Oral Fixation tour is the newest and I was not able to go last time (I was on my sub-internship at the time and was working hard to impress). I love watching her and singing along to her Spanish songs, and of course, I always love her belly dancing. I took up belly dancing after my first Shakira concert, but with classes and rotations, I could not keep it up. It was fun though. I’d like to do it again. Shakira’s moves would prove to be a prelude for the belly dancing we would see later. I had to work ... read more