Out and About in Dubai

Last Saturday, DB and I celebrated our first wedding anniversary. We decided to get married when we found out that DB was getting transferred to Dubai for work. Getting married meant that my residence visa, health insurance, etc wouldn’t be an issue if I decided not to work.

We chose the 5th anniversary of our first date as the special day. Sad to say that we haven’t printed a single wedding photo yet for framing. I’ll get around to it…eventually.

To celebrate our 1st wedding anniversary, we went to Vu’s at Emirates Towers. Of course, we started of with some bubbly
 

Here are photos of our meal:
 

“CRAB” - My starter of snow crab cannellone, caramelized chicken wings, orange flavored bisque, morels foam:
 

 

“TUNA & SCAMPI” - DB’s starter of butter poached scampi and toro roulade, avocado bavarois, yuzu jelly, oriental dressing:
 

 

DB ordered his favorite wine - a Barolo:
 

 

“WAGYU ASSIETTE” - My entree of seared tenderloin, braised cheek and herbs pastilla, mash potato, asian rataouille:
 

 

“LAMB LOIN” - DB’s entree of soy marinated lamb, apple compote, caramelized baby onions, apple puree porcini mushrooms and lamb jus:
 

 

We were given a free dessert in honor of our anniversary and I have to say that it was very very good! Which is saying a lot because I don’t like dessert (other than creme brulee and chocolate soufles). It was just the right balance of sweet and bitter:
 

 

 

The food was all excellent! And in case you think I have a photgraphic memory to be able to remember what we ate, word-for-word, I better dispel that thought right now by saying that I asked for a menu to take home. Maybe I’ll get around to framing it one day.

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I don’t normally write movie reviews but since I cannot sleep due to my long 3-hour nap at mid-day and also because I feel that I have been delinquent at blogging due to the new job, I thought I’d write a few words about the new Batman movie.

DB and I just saw The Dark Knight at Ibn Battuta - it was a small crowd, the popcorn was good, the diet Pepsi not-so-good. Whatever possessed us to get diet??

How was the movie? Fantastic! I have hated every Batman movie until Christian Bale took over the role in Batman Begins. And I love director Chris Nolan’s take on the darker side of Batman and Heath Ledger was amazing as the Joker - a character I never cared much for in both the TV series and in Jack Nicholson’s performance but Health Ledger’s take on him was wonderful to watch.

Am also glad Katie Holmes decided not to reprise her role as I find her voice annoying and thought that she was the one disappointing thing in Batman Begins.

I enjoyed the storyline and I hope that Bale will come back in a third Batman movie as The Dark Knight ends on an even darker note…

This is one movie that I will be buying the real DVD (instead of Chinese knock-offs) so that I can add it to my movie collection.

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