Friday, February 29, 2008

Inspiration

I personally recognize it by glittery eyes and the urge to move my ass and do something.
There are a lot of things that inspire me, but I think mostly they are people who have courage and inspire others. It's not actually that often that I feel inspired and when I do, I don't think I take full advantage of it. That's when I'm supposed to act and do those stuff that I'm alway postponing and procrastinating about. I think inspiration is a chance and it is up to us to take it because on those rare ocasions that I did take it, I've done some amazing stuff. So it pays off to quit being lazy or scared and just go with that flow at least once in a while.

Talking of inspiration, I just want to share the things that inspired me today. One of the best places to find inspiration for me is Aljazeera. I feel they are presenting more than the news all the other similar TV stations are showing - they do stories, they cut the surface and show details to add substance and emotion to facts. I was watching today and two things got my attention and glittery eyes - Karim Rashid and the movie Captain Abu Raeed.

Karim is an industrial designer who has worked in this field for 25 years and has done some outstanding work. I feel in love with his vision of beautificating the world, something that I have always dreamed of myself. And Captain Abu Raeed is a Jordanian movie about a janitor who gives hope to a group of poor neighborhood kids by telling them fantastical stories of his imaginary pilot career. The director/ screenwriter Amin Matalqa and the lead actor - Nadim Sawalha were absolutely adorable and loved their vision as well.

So yup, that is about inspiration for now. Going out now to find some more! :)

PS: I know some people are waiting for new stories and pictures from Dubai. Don't have that many though, but some pictures will be up soon. Byeeee

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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Global Village in Dubai



So this weekend we finally made it to Global Village - this place where you can experience a little bit of almost every part of the world. Those who are familiar with AIESEC would instantly have a visual image to work with. All the others, imagine a huge place where each county has a pavilion inside which you can buy all the traditional stuff - from clothes, to jewellery, to foods and many many more other things. Yes, you can BUY....why else would you go there? :) But actually there are some traditional shows as well and a lot of wheels and machines to make your fears decrease and your blood pressure increase. I'm fine with my own blood pressure, thank you very much :) No, I'm not a fan of things that shake your body, keep you upside down and scare the hell out of you. Anyways, the entire place takes a lot of time to be seen completely and that is why I'm planning to go back again before it closes, but I will try week days cause in the weekend is crazy.


Romanian dinner

Few weeks ago we had the traditional Romanian dinner so the pics should have been up a while ago, but well... I could not have missed posting about this always amazing Romanian dinner. It was a success and it was yummy :) You can only catch me cooking again if you are really really lucky. Until then, enjoy your KFC :P !

Saturday, February 09, 2008

The sun

Last weekend we had a sand storm here in Dubai. It reminded me of the Harmattan in Ghana last year.
This is how it looked the third day when the storm slowly when away and the sun found a way out of the clouds.

The best view

This is the view from my office window. Awesome, right?
The tall building on the left it's Burj Dubai - the 850m building that is going to hold the record as the tallest building in the world.

UFOs in Dubai


Frequent flying objects

Teodora and I had a good laugh when we saw this announcement somewhere near Burjuman Mall.
Maybe they were talking of pigs, eh? :)

Fluffy


This is my fish - he is a blue fighter fish. Yes, it's a he and his name is Fluffy Blue Wing, but we just call him Fluffy.
I know, the bowl is kinda small, but the fish is small too, isn't he? I'm actually planning on a bigger bowl soon.
Fluffy came into my life a week after I arrived in Dubai and I hope for him to die of old age and not of unfriendly environment or bad care. :)

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