Desert Safari

好友汕汕来迪拜公干和旅游，当然多忙也得放下工作，不能错过和她把臂同游，（阿汕，感动吧！）花了半天的时间去了再去的沙漠之旅。天气凉凉的，还真好玩！

Desert Safari 沙漠之旅

Desert Safari 的Camp

性感舞娘 - Belly Dance

Abu Dhabi Sunset

If someone ask me what is the nicest in Abu Dhabi? I would probably answer, SUNSET. Yes, its sunset...

The pictures was taken in between 4:45p.m. - 5:30p.m. in different days... beautiful, isn't it?

夕阳无限好，可惜近黄昏

Lebanon Food in Khalidiya

I just discover two very busy Lebanon restaurant in Khalidiya.

The Lebanese Flowers
I have tried the kebab but I love the vegetable wrap the most.
Fried cauliflower, grilled eggplant, tomato, spinach with mayonnaise in the wrap – Lebanon bread. Less than AED 6. NICE!

Caracas Pastries
Traditional Lebanon pastries shop – something like pizza, but it is soften than Italian pizza and thicker than American pizza. There are a lot of favor and they make it immediately when you order. There is a fired place to fire the pastries. Less than AED 25 for a normal size pastry. NICE!

Suria Brasserie

Hunger for Malaysian food!!

And we found the Suria Brasserie - the only Malaysian Restaurant in Abu Dhabi. It is located at the penthouse of the Eclipse hotel apartment, Liwa Street. Quickly browse through the menu and wow, everything looks good. The waiter told us that there are 5 Malaysian chefs in the kitchen. Ray and I have ordered a Nyonya curry laksa and Char Kuey Teow.. and teh tarik.

Don't ask me how i rate the food. to be frank, it's OK only. I think we have not ordered the right food. We should not order the Malaysian Chinese food. Anyway, i will go back to the restaurant again, and I will order the Malay food, nasi lemak and rendang...

Sevilo’s

We dine out very frequent recently. We went to Sevilo’s – the authentic Italian food in Millennium hotel last week. It wasn’t our 1st choice but it’s the only restaurant that I manage to get the table on the weekend eve (it was a Thursday)

The food is nice, the prawn is good, the beef is good, and the atmosphere is the best. A live band with nice Italian and oldies..
Ray and I will definitely will go again, next year. (when we get the 2009 entertainer coupon :P)

Ray’s Hand made Bolster

Ray was complaining I am not a nice bolster for him. @#$%^& (sorry for my impoliteness, hehe).. we have been looking for bolster in most of the furniture + bed room shop e.g. ikea, home centre, Liwa centre, Zara home etc but we could not find any. Wait, I actually found something similar for him in Ikea but he doesn’t want it.. see below..

So, i decided to modify from the pillows.
It took the whole morning for me to modify this. It is not very nice quality but OK la. Better than nothing lor. Ray is happy with this surprise. I do not know how long I didn’t sew for a project since my KH (Kemahiran Hidup) in school. (maybe 13 year ago).. opps, I did make a Bear last year. So, not that long lar..

2 become 1

sew it to 1/4 smaller

Ready!

Careless Whisper

There is a page of advertisement that attracted me in Time Out Abu Dhabi this month..

GEORGEMICHAEL and Alicia Keys Live in Abu Dhabi.

George Michael  Careless Whisper! My most favorite song! I do not remember when I started to love this song; it probably during U time.

Quickly log into http://www.georgeandalicia.ae/; the ticket price is from Dhs 195 to Dhs 995.
Mmm, I would only afford for Dhs 195 ticket which is the Coral Standing. I have been to many concerts but I have never tried the Standing area.

Well, it means,
1) I have to go super early to get a nice stand (kiasu mind - maybe 2pm? I will have to stand there for 4 hours as the stadium doors will only open at 6pm)
2) I have to stand in the crowd with multinational people, so maybe I will be blocked by the taller and bigger people. (I don’t care if I am in Asia but not here. I think I am pretty tall and big among the Asian)


Sigh, I think most probably I won’t go for this concert, although I wish I will be there..
You would probably curious why I love this 24-year old song so much. Well, it just a… feeling… so so so romantic but sad feeling.
Listening to Careless Whisper… and I just never want to turn it off whenever i listen to it….
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Costa VS Starbucks

VS

I am sitting in Costa café when I writing this. Escape from home because the power termination – someone didn’t pay the bill!! I need power supply to on my pc, check and reply emails. Ordered my favorite drink and start work.. Guess what? I don’t drink coffee in this popular coffee franchise. I have my Mango ice-blended. Miss tropical fruit ma. Costa café is just so popular in this country, besides the American brand – Starbucks.
They have the same history – they are both founded in year 1971.
The original Starbucks was opened in Pike Place Market in Seattle, Washington, in 1971 by three partners by Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegel, and Gordon Bowker while the Costa coffee was first founded in 1971 at 9 Newport Street, London, by the Italian brothers, Sergio and Bruno Costa.
Of coz, Starbucks is the biggest coffee chain in the world nowadays; you will see his logo worldwide. They have an excellent CEO - Howard Schultz which has ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 354th richest person in the United States in 2006.
It’s always good to know the history and story of something and somebody. But, who cares, I would be happy as long as I can find a cozy café with nice atmosphere and good service.
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Continue my Chicken Caesar salad in Costa…

Cruise dinner along Abu Dhabi Corchine

Shuja Yatch

Before I start writing, I would say thousand Thanks to FB which get me and my old friends reunion in this cyber world.
So so so surprise when I receive a message from a uni mate, sometime in Oct…
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Hi cw,
How r u? heard from AN that u r working in d UAE.
Well, i'm in AD this week.
Maybe we can meet up=)
nl,
skp
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hi nl, how r u? i am fine here.
sure MUST meet up!!! i can meet you up anytime tomorrow.
which hotel are u in?
we can go lunch, yamcha, dinner, beer, anything will do..
let me know.
0509268XXX
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after a few messages in FB, I decided to bring her to a cruise dinner along the Corchine! The dinner cruise is under Hotel Le Royal Meridien management. They served nice food. We had fun!

有朋自远方来，不亦乐乎！

Madinat Jumeirah, Dubai

Nice arabic lamp in Old Souq, want to get one home...

Madinat Jumeirah water transportation -
there are restaurant + cafe @ the left and hotel villa @ the right.

Photo shooting spot :)

We’ve visited the Madinat Jumeirah weeks ago. It is a super nice place with a combination of old souq shopping area, restaurant, café and resort. The most interesting is the buildings are surrounded by the channel, which you can travel via a boat from hotel room to restaurant, café etc. It’s a cool place with excellent view. You will want to visit again if you have been there once… superb.

Busy busy…

It has been awhile that I do not update my blog.
Well, I just recover from flu (still sore throat though) and I was getting busier and busier in my works recently, with tones of tender, feasibility study etc.
The ADIPEC (Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference) 2008 has just over. It’s a huge oil and gas show in this region. I have been standing at the stall and talk to too much people during the show. Hopefully the business can grow here.
Besides works, another thing that I busy with is my wedding ceremony. It is from pre-wedding shooting, wedding dinner reservation, invitation cards, door gift and most important thing – the gown. I have tried to get more information online and do a lot of price comparison and preference before decide.
Now I have to start plan for my flight (try to get a good price ticket) and domestic flight KL-PNG.
Wow, still a lot in my To Do List!!
Well, I hope I would be OK to clear these items, after awhile.

p/s: so excited to go home although there is still 2.5 months to go!