Crap!

Mum put a Ecard.exe virus into my lap top. It died. Plus I didn't have the recovery disc!! It's all back in Melbourne. Anyway... on the bright side, I got a new Sony Vaio Laptop. Windows vista is crap. so slow! Manage to save part of my documents... sigh.

Anyway... Mum and Dad has just left Dubai... and for the first time, I'm in Dubai by myself. Before that, I was crashing in with Danny, David and Mona. Now, I've moved in to my apartment. Ahh... feels so different.

home... finally!

Finally, after almost 2 months in Dubai, I've moved into my new home. It's a small little 1 bedroom apartment @ the marina. After getting all my furniture (some of which are second hand), I had to figure a way to arrange them. I have this small tiny space, and in my excitement, I bought too many furniture. Sometimes I couldn't let a good deal slip by, so I had to get it (even though I didn't quite need it.

That's the living room. I like the coffee table. It's this 2 blobs - one red and one black. Can't explain, so here's the picture.

Couldn't really fit my 3+2+1 Sofa. So i put 3+2 in a row. Looks ugly, but it's the best I could do to squeeze it in! I like my carpet! Big red "E"!

Got a huge King Size bed. Still have not bought some sheets and pillows yet... Shopping for all the smaller items can be quite a headache. You don't realise what you need until you want to use it!

And my Kitchen... Nothing fancy. Still quite empty at the moment! All I needed was the basic essentials of a microwave, oven and stove! Food comes later!

The only mismatching colour to the whole house - the toilet. Everything else is red cream and brown. With a strong clash of Blue and purple. Who cares. It's my bathroom!

Anyone is of course most welcome to crash over!! No worries... I have sufficient sleeping area.

Happy Birthday Lawrence!

Wishing you a Happy Birthday!! When are you leaving for London? Catch you around hopefully, and whenever and wherever - Dubai, Singapore, Melbourne!

Best Wishes to my 2 friends...

Congrats to my 2 friends - Jeff & Shirlin - on your wedding day. Sorry I couldn't make it.

It's a good 07.07.07 day. Once in a century! God Bless... and may you 2 have little ones running around soon! Catch up soon!

Highly Stressful Week

This week has been a nightmare. Been goin to meeting at work, with clients threatening to fire you. Not like some small client, but one of our larger ones. Never in my life has anyone said something like that to me! It is so hard picking up from someone. Urgh..

My shifting in date has been postponed from the 6th July to the 9th. Had to ring all the places to get my furniture deliver dates changed. Missed a couple, and had people screaming at me. What's wrong with this place!!!

This is just the beginning... life in a developed place with underdeveloped people.

I'm glad Mum and Dad are here. They just got in last night... At least I get some help with all the moving.

And yes... to you know who... happy birthday if you're reading this.

Celebrations

Was invited to Boon Huat's birthday dinner last weekend @ Prime Ribs at the Le Meridian in Dubai Marina. Boon Huat is Danny & Mona's schoolmate from younger days - so he's having his big 50th bash.

We were scratching our heads thinking of what to get him for his birthday. This guy has everything. So we thought a funny gift would suffice. Went to a little mall near Stephanie's place at the Meadows. Got him a mug that read "Brain Dead from Mon to Fri 9am - 5pm", and a big huge bean bag with a big "MACHO" word across. Good gift for a 50 year old.

Check the presents out!

Shooting

I fired a real gun with live rounds. Yeah yeah, I know it's cheap thrill for those who has been in the army... but yes I was really excited.

All started because I was stressed and needed to shoot to relief stress. Haha. Not really. I was about an hour early for my meeting at the shooting club - working on the infrastructure and building expansion... So I went to the range with Felipe. I shot with a .22!

Pretty pleased.... Check this out! - Not too bad for a first timer! *pat on the head*

Frustration

Dubai's first toll has been introduced and it kicked in today.
The hot topic on the radio, papers and in the office was the traffic diversion and chaos caused by the infamous SALIK tolls.

Being kiasu, and wanting to avoid the tolls, I became one of the suckers that added to the jam. It wasn't too bad in the morning. (of course - I left home at 6:15am). But it still took me a little longer. 45 mins, instead of 30 mins.

This afternoon, traffic was crazy. Maktoum bridge was so congested. Took me over an hour and a half to get home! This was at 3pm, not peak hour at 5pm. Can't imagine what it would have been like otherwise.

I attempted getting the SALIK card, but it was all sold out!!! So even if I wanted to pay and drive through, I couldn't!!! Stupid system. They are so unprepared. Introduce some stupid tolls without proper planning.

It's bad traffic for the next few weeks!