Rain, thunder and lightning

Rain, thunder and lightning were all over d0bye skies this morning.

The Dubai International Airport’s Meteorological Services Department’s website put the outside temperature at 21.4 C with humidity at 61%.

Rain is no big deal in most part of the world but in d0bye it is. The more it rain, the more it remind me of home. I miss those times when I can sleep like a baby inhaling super cool air resulted from the rain.

Super....

Finishing work at 3pm today because there is a Desert Safari event organized by my team, a so called team social.

Kekeke!

UAE National Breakfast

This morning there was a national day celebration breakfast in the client office... the breakfast were all arabic breakfast so.... b0leh la... free mah! BUT This wasnt any ordinary breakfast, it was the national breakfast!
Got a rare chance to write on the national flag... LOL! Wish to write *idup tuanku* but scare kena hantam by those ninja putih!

I should have wrote REFORMASI... REFORMASI... but that didnt come to mind at that moment...

Fireworks: D0bye to Abu Dhabi

On December 2, the world’s largest and record breaking fireworks will light up Abu Dhabi’s night sky to celebrate the 37th National Day of the UAE. The fireworks will begin at 8.30pm lasting for 45 minutes but not all UAE residences are going to enjoy the show, some are without jobs and most uncertain about their future in d0bye.

In time of economy crisis, d0bye spend 10 million USD on fireworks 2weeks ago during the opening ceremony of Atlantis and now Abu Dhabi gonna show the world Abu Dhabi is bigger than d0bye. Abu Dhabi don’t care how much the fireworks cost, as long as its bigger than d0bye’s one, they will pay for it.

Although there were large scale retrenchment exercise happening in d0bye, there isn’t a single case of retrenchment heard yet from Abu Dhabi.

Taiko Abu Dhabi aint gonna let Sai-Lol d0bye to take the lead. Most frens said, Abu Dhabi is the way forward but for me Abu Dhabi just got a slower reaction.

Burning Money… that’s what I call fireworks!

D0bye Crying

D0bye cried last night, d0bye cried loudly and tears flows like river. It was as if d0bye was crying for all her inhabitants that lost their jobs. The heaviest rain I have seen in d0bye so far but doesn’t matter if its rain heavy or not, it always flood in UAE because nothing here were build to resist the rain. Roofs always leak and there are no irrigation systems, to be fair they don’t need one, no point making something that will only be in use 3 out of 365 days a year.

When d0bye cries, my first worry is safety on the roads. Most drivers here don’t have the experience to drive in the rain and they tend to speed as usual. After spending two years of my life here, I myself have also speeded up. It’s not easy to do 60Kmh when I have been doing 120kmh regularly.

The timing of the thunderstorm really makes me wonder if it was a reminder of the hardship the world is facing from the Mass Sacking of employees in d0bye to Mumbai's Terrorist attack, the world seems to be coming from bad to worst since Mr.0bama won.

Her0 come in the time of crisis, is mr.0bama a hero or a villain?

Only time will tell...

A pix says a thousand words

Pix that best describe D0bye

Construction Safety in D0bye

I have to pass through this crane’s weight at least once a day as it located right above the driveway to my apartment parking. Will it fall down right one me?

Dubai Mall Aquarium

Dubai mall located less than a kilometre from my home but I have no intention what so ever to visit it since it official opening a month ago. For me it will just be another Shopping Mall.

By chance I visited Dubai Mall and actually there wasn’t much to see, most shops were still under renovation but it major attraction The Mall’s Dubai Aquarium and Discovery Centre was magnificent.

It officially earned the Guinness World Record for the world's "Largest Acrylic Panel" (32.88 metres wide x 8.3 metres high x 750mm thick and weighing 245,614kg).

From certain angles the connecting line between panels are actually visible. I doubt any vehicles could have loaded the 33x8m2 panel; it has be manufactured on site or assembled there. I believe the latter hypothesis shall be correct since there were visible connecting line.

Equiped with only K810i, this is the best I could have done... Althought their Aquarium is the bigest I have seen but their fishes were small. Their two Giant Groupe (Loong tun) were babies compare to what I seen in our Sandakan "Hoi siong wong" wakakakaka...

But the Stingrays' tail were really looooooooong, at least 3times the length of its body. The one that killed Crocodile hunter...

Money makes Wonderss!