13 Things I Still Need For My Apartment
 
It’s been 5 months since I’ve relocated from New York to Dubai (7 months for my husband) and there are still major pieces of furniture and other house stuff that we don’t have either because we haven’t gotten around to buying it or we haven’t found anything [...]

This past Saturday, DB and I met up with a co-worker of his to play squash. Well, they played squash, I don’t like racket sports so I just hit the trusty old treadmill. Unfortunately, I was hungry-hungry-hippo as I hadn’t had dinner the night before. Unless you consider 7 little dumplings dinner. [...]

I went to Smiling BKK by Al Wasl road for some Thai food last week. The food was disgusting so don’t even think of going there unless you are a glutton for punishment or do not care about eating good food. Consider yourself warned.
I did however enjoy the Thai iced tea. It reminded [...]

13 Things Banned / Illegal in Dubai
1. Porn
2. Sex Toys
3. Codeine
4. Poppy seeds (A Swiss national is serving a four-year jail term after three poppy seeds from a bread roll he ate at Heathrow airport were found on his clothes.)
5. Secret Dubai Diary (Etisalat customers cannot access the site [...]

Last night over dinner, a friend alerted me to the story in the local paper about dead fish being found on the public beach by the Burj al Arab. Gulf News reported on this story yesterday and opened the article with “Dozens of beachgoers enjoyed a free seafood dinner on Monday.”
Lifeguards reported that people were [...]

Last week, I got into a discussion (yet again) about bad driving in Dubai. It is inevitable that this topic will come up on any given night. Because bad driving is just that bad here.
So I was talking to a friend and I mentioned how Dubai doesn’t immediately punish bad drivers so the offenders [...]