By Grace on Oct 25, 2007 in Thursday Thirteen | 45 Comments
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13 QUOTES ABOUT MOTHERS/MOTHERHOOD
1. “A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.” ~Tenneva Jordan
I know this very well; I have other 5 siblings, 4 of them males so a piece of pie is [...]
By Grace on Oct 24, 2007 in blogging | 9 Comments
Thanks to everyone who surprised me with blog awards. Sorry it took me so long to post this here!
From Kailani at An Island Life:
Kailani awarded me with the I’m Fabulous Award because she thinks I’m fab (wow, people rarely say that to me these days!) and also because I am one of the frequent commenters on [...]
By Grace on Oct 24, 2007 in Pristine | 10 Comments
My daughter feels like a model since we came to Dubai early this year. People in the malls, beach or in the streets would comment on how cute she is, how lovely her curly locks are, some of them would even take snaps of her. Clearly, the people here don’t know what to do with [...]
By Grace on Oct 23, 2007 in Chaos | 4 Comments
Last night, we had a terrible attack in our territory.
Our territory, our home, our balcony, specifically. According to my mother who was at home the whole day yesterday, bees/wasps came hovering at 1 pm and she simply ignored it, thinking the insects were after our flowering plumeria tree in the balcony.
When she woke up from her [...]
By Grace on Oct 23, 2007 in life teasers | 3 Comments
The office boy didn’t get my point.
After a very unfortunate incident that had an ala once beaten twice shy impact on me, I decided to tell him I had to part ways with the milk tea he serves twice everyday, no matter how extra-special it is.
I told him, “No tea after Ramadan. No tea for me [...]
By Grace on Oct 22, 2007 in Recreation | 9 Comments
Have you ever wondered which portion of your brain is the dominant one?
Experiments show how Hemispheric Dominance i.e., left or right brain dominance influences our learning styles. Of course there is no such thing that it is better to be left brain dominated or right brain dominated. We need both kinds of thinking to function [...]
By Grace on Oct 22, 2007 in Only in Dubai | 8 Comments
I was at the bank this morning, sitting comfortably on the couch in that over air conditioned part of the building. My turn is not yet up so I have to wait, maybe a couple of customers after, I will be called.
A voice over echoed the customer service department. No one stood up. I did [...]
By Grace on Oct 21, 2007 in celebs | 0 Comments
I have heard about the rumors for months. Finally there is a truth about it. Mr. Sexy Back is coming to the UAE for a concert for one night only!
Justin Timberlake, whose current tour is taking him to more than 60 cities worldwide, will bring his tour to an amazing close when he takes the [...]
By Grace on Oct 21, 2007 in Wordpress stuff | 33 Comments
I found another way to give link love to commenters of this site. I have installed a plugin that will display the latest post of the commenter within their comment. Isn’t it cool?
The CommentLuv plugin written by Andy Bailey will visit the feed of the comment author and attempt to get the last post they made [...]
By Grace on Oct 20, 2007 in p-review | 0 Comments
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