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!

Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque

1. The Grand Mosque in Abu Dhabi
2. It named after His Highness Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late President of the UAE.
3. It is third largest mosque in the world
4. The structure covers an area of more than 22,000 square metres
5. It was built by 210,000 cubic metres of concrete and 33,000 tonnes of steel reinforcement was used in its construction.
6. It able to accommodate more than 30,000 worshipers
7. The carpet is the "World's Largest Carpet" imported from Iran. This carpet measures 5,627 square meters. It was made by around 1,200 weavers 20 technicians and 30 workers. The carpet weighted 47 tons (which is 35 tons of wool and 12 tons of cotton) with 2,268,000 knots within the carpet.
8. This mosque holds the largest chandelier made from Swarovski crystal. There are seven imported chandeliers from Germany and are copper and gold-plated. The largest chandelier has a 10 meter diameter and a 15 meter height

Babe in Abaya.
- The Abaya is a large, black cloak, worn either loose and flowing or wrapped around the body. The Abaya is generally made of silk or synthetic cloth.

Luxury Interior - Swarosvki Chandelier

Angel’s Birthday

My housemate, little Angel’s 1st birthday.

My little model

She is cute, isn’t she?
(Long sleeve purple blouse by Tape A Loeil AED22 with legging AED35)

Eid Mubarak – Selamat Hari Raya Aidifitri

30th Sept 08 is the first day of Eid Mubarak in the middle East. I do not know why its one day earlier than our Hari Raya Aidifitri holidays in KL. Probably the people here manage to see the moon one day earlier. Woohoo, its public holidays! Two days!
Ray and his colleague have planned to go to the Atlantis @ the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai. I have seen many emails, pictures for the Palm Jumeirah but I have never step on this artificial island. Well, there are three Palm projects in Dubai; The Palm Jumeirah, The Palm Jebel Ali and The Palm Deira. http://www.thepalm.ae. The famous one is the Palm Jumeirah because everybody wanted to be the neighbor of David Beckham!
Atlantis the Palm was built based on the architecture of the Atlantis resort in Bahamas. There are hotel, shopping area, restaurant, Aquarium – The lost Chambers, Water Theme Park – Aquaventure and the most impressive Dophin Bay in the resort. We have only visited The Lost Chambers this time. It is nice, but I think the Aquarium in the Siam Paragon is still nicer. http://www.atlantisthepalm.com

Big Aquarium!

白须公

龙趸

Ikan bakar?

My fav NEMO!

Oboh-oboh

Dont knw what name - cute fish

Colourful - wish to put one @ home..

Sex.. City..

Today is Friday. It is a weekend in this Arabian country. Ray is still on his business trip. My housemate’s 11 months baby was crying the whole day, with no reason. Ergg.. should I go out to the mall? NO, most of the shops were closed in this Ramadan month. They will open during iftar time – 6pm. Boring boring.. I was so boring at home. Again, on my pc, finished some proposals, browsed through some news and at last I have found that I still haven’t watch the movie Sex and the city. It has been downloaded for a few weeks but I have not watched it.
I know the series and the movie has a very good comment from the audience but I have never watched the series before. Well, you may think that I am a bit ‘out’. So, I do not have any idea what the exact story is. The only thing that I know about this show is 4 women in New York City.
Finished the movie, it’s not too bad but it’s not my favorite story. But I totally agreed with Carrie’s say, people go to New York City for 2 ‘L’; Label and Love! After all, it’s a materialistic world! The only thing that warmed my heart is the women’s friendship in this movie.
I don’t recommend this movie to guys, and I think Ray won’t like it too.
Hehe. It’s a LADY’s movie!

跑步-瘦身

最近很勤劳瘦身，因为skinny jeans越穿越窄了，很怕有一天会拉不上；至少这三天都没偷懒，有去跑步。我的跑步朋友SK先生又放飞机，原因：很累，唉，还不是每天晚上和女友msn倾到很夜，所以‘很累’。嘻。
天气越来越好，大概冬天要到了吧。一个人跑步，戴上mp3 ， 海风吹来，很爽哩！这边其实很安全，犯罪率比祖国低很多，只要穿着不‘太’爆露，是没事的。（穿着 ‘太’爆露，听说会被警告，严重会被关进牢）。唯一一点我不太喜欢是这里有很多猫—野猫。我室友的小孩和邻居小孩都喜欢和野猫玩。所以我时常带着恐吓的口吻灌输‘野猫很肮脏，会咬人，有细菌，中细菌会生病，要住院，一个人住院很可怕，爸妈不可以陪你，可能会死掉’的教育给他们。两个星期前，我使过被一只猫追，然后我从2公尺高的墙跳下来，没什么，手脚擦伤，洗澡时痛了几天而已。然后那只逼我跳墙的猫还跟踪我几天。讨厌！！！没办法，我今天只好兜路走。
在这异乡跑步的另一个个好处是，你可以边听mp3边唱歌，不需要理别人的眼光，因为不管你唱得多难听都很少人听得懂。

下图为我常跑的路程Check Point 1：1.19 mile per way


下图为我常跑的路程Check Point 2：1.22 miles per way


这里车牌很难考，排期很久也比较难，据说他们不吃duit kopi，所以不容易。所以我们很常坐taxi。但，有时也刻意走走，当散步。

下图为我们走最远的路程-spinney supermarket：2.06 miles per way


下图为我们常去的pub-3rd avenue, Sheraton Khalidiya：0.62 miles per way


下图为我们常去的supermarket, Khalidiya Mall：0.96 miles per way


下图为我每个月都会去的电讯局- AD Etisalat HQ：0.53 miles per way


怎么样，劲吧。每天都走很多路，不过还是不会瘦。再走下去，可以去参加马拉松赛了。

Mc Arabia Chicken

I don’t eat fast food quite often. The fast food franchise that I visited the most is McD. Sometime I just eat the RM1.05 sundae ice-cream. I went jogging and had my dinner @ McD Khalidiya today – I should not have the hi-calorie food but it’s the best place to have dinner by myself, fast food ma. It was my first McDonald meal at the Abu Dhabi McDonald Restaurant (I went there for ice-cream before)

In the restaurant
Cashier : Welcome Mam, can I help you?
Me : Thanks, erm.. (looking at the menu).. erm.. what is the best menu here which is different with the McD restaurant in Asia?
Cashier : Mam, everything is good here. You want to have beef or chicken?
Me : Erm.. (I was thinking to eat fillet-o-fish, that’s the burger that I order most of the time)
Cashier : You can try Mc Arabia, it’s the specialty here..
Me : Oh. Mc Arabia. Oh.. ok.. sounds special.. is it nice? (still looking at the picture, not believe the cashier)
Cashier : Sure. It is very good.
Me : Oh Ok, gimme a Mc Arabian Chicken and an Orange juice. I don’t want set menu, I don’t eat the fries.
Cashier : Sure. Do you want chicken or beef?
Me : Chicken la.
Cashier : Large orange juice?
Me : Erm. Medium please.
Cashier : Take away?
Me : Having here.
Cashier : AED 16 please
(I paid and wait for 4 minutes)



Me : (Looking at the receipt : 1 Large OJ cost AED 4) Is this Orange Juice LARGE? (pointing at the small cup in the tray)
Cashier : Yes, Mam.
Me : Oh ok. It looks small.
Cashier : Thank you mam. (passing me my Arabian sandwich + LARGE orange juice.














Nice Mc Arabian chicken sandwich, there is 2 chicken fillet that wrap by the Arabic flatbread with some tomato, onion and mayonnaise. – DIE. HI calorie.
It make me think about RAMLY BURGER – isi with lots of cabbage, onion, tomato and mayonnaise…