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Moving back to Dubai after 22 years has been an experience! Back then we didn't have the internet or blogs. Now we do I can jot down my thoughts on daily life, things we come up against, things we enjoy, the multi-national society, the laws, the weather...plus other things in general which catch my attention.
About Me
- Seabee
- We lived in Dubai from 1977 to 1984, visited on a couple of holidays, then moved back again in 2005. We came because we wanted to watch the incredible development as it happened and we moved back to Oz in 2011. I now blog on Life in Oz and the link is on my last post here. I welcome comments & debate on the blog, but insults are unnecessary and inappropriate. I will delete any which are libel, racist, obscene, advertising or which are simply to make a point but are completely off-subject. If you want to do that, create your own blog. Oh, and I've decided to add a new category to the delete list because there are too many of them left on blogs - stupid comments. If you want to use my photos or quote from my posts you may do so - but only if you credit the source and give a link back to my original post.
Blog Archive
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2009
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November
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- Impact from the DW issue
- A PR disaster
- Shock at Dubai World announcement
- Courts, organised crime.
- Dubai's road deaths down
- Meanwhile, back home...
- Top Secret Kit Kats
- To old Dubai
- It's here again
- Changing times
- A different pace Pt. 2
- Shhh. Keep it secret.
- Interesting weather...
- Thumbs up for the Metro
- Here they go again
- Money wasted by lack of planning
- Oz, land of extremes
- Worthy Thingamy safely installed.
- Dubai's demise
- A different pace
- They never learn
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November
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Links
- GENERAL
- UAE Community Blog
- Dubai As It Used To Be
- Alltop Dubai
- Souq Watch
- Expat Forum
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- Expat Blog
- Expat Focus
- Expatriate life in Dubai
- Global Voices Online
- ISRIA
- BLOGS WHICH HAVE KINDLY LINKED TO ME - UAE
- Abu Dhabi Dispatches
- Abu Dhabi/UAE Daily Photo
- A Canadian in Abu Dhabi
- Aga in the UAE
- An Englishman in Dubai
- Big Fat Ego
- Corriveau Chronicles
- Desperate Princess in Dubai
- Diary of an MGB
- Dubai Guy 2.0
- Dubai Photo Story
- Dubai Sunshine
- Get Out Of My Way
- ginger and scotch
- Global Muse
- Here in Dubai
- He Said She Said
- idee fixe
- JadAoun
- Jason On The RAK
- Jimmy's House
- Lilleypad-Oasis
- Manodrama
- Mundane Musings
- Muscat X Dubai
- Nameless Blog
- Off The Farm
- One Big Construction Site
- Papyrus
- Pickled Thingses
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- SandCat
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- The Mute Herald
- The Sandbox
- Umar in Dubai
- USA2UAE.COM
- - INTERNATIONAL
- a mind is a delightful thing to waste
- Brasil & Jordania
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- Forever Tainted
- From Abu Dhabi with Love
- IWWWRITE
- Kiara
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- Mean Green Cougar Red
- Mikapoka
- MOZnews
- Naher und Mittlerer Osten
- Probably Madrid
- SamzPlanet
- Skins & Flavours
- The Emirates Economist
- The Grumpy Goat
- The Inner Workings Of A Media Junkie
- The Mupersan's Australian Adventure
- The Peripatetic Engineer
- The Road to the Horizon
- The Sahely Family
- Waiting for Skopelos
- The Weekend Blogger
- White Girl...Arab World
3 comments:
I have noticed it as well while shopping at Ikea and Home Centre.
It may be already Christmas time in Dubai's shops but taking a closer look you may see it will be a sad one: tons of discounted offers and so many vacancies. E.g. last saturday DFC was almost jilted: an utterly decadent Xmas indeed.
The impression that I get is one of Christmas becoming ever more prominent as Ramadan precesses further and further away in accordance with the lunar calendar.
A decade or so ago when Ramadan and Christmas were more-or-less coincident, and OK this was in Qatar and not the UAE, Christmas was as banned as a Forbidden Thing, to the extent of CID turning up and confiscating all Festive Trees [sic] from The Centre (then the only shopping mall in town).
Who can remember how much Christmas was prominently displayed (if at all) in Dubai , way back in 1996?
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