Lokum (Turkish delight) and Baklava are the first things that come to mind when Turkish sweets are mentioned. We got loads of it yesterday at home from my husband’s office. Delegates from their Turkey office came and brought the sweets and with much curiosity and our love for desserts, the sweets were very much welcomed [...]

Notice the change? Jump out from your feed reader and on to my site. I am experimenting with yet another theme. Zeke theme from Solostream is I think a very neat theme and I absolutely love the colors. The layout is unique with one area for a feature post and two sidebars. One problem though, [...]

From Mexico last week to Dubai, welcome to this week’s edition of The Carnival of Cities, a collection of stories from all over the world.

As for the city where I live, it has been raining hard last week leaving the city of Dubai underwater for a couple of days (photos here), creating lots of chaos [...]

To celebrate the great bloggy move and the new look, Michelle of Bleeding Espresso is having a contest! Bleeding Espresso is an intriguing name for a blog and you will know the reason behind it in one of her favorite posts: A blog by any other name. I think her blog name is cool and something [...]

This week’s theme: Important

The completion of Dubai’s first railway system, the Dubai Metro is an important milestone of Dubai’s growth as a city.
As any Dubai resident knows, travelling from A to B can be a mission - the traffic is getting worse. That’s set to change when a driverless, fully automated urban rail network is [...]

I found this at The New Parent. I think it’s a fun meme.
Rules:
Answer all the questions (only 10) with what describes you best, add up all your Points (which are next to the answer that you choose) at the end and look for your results. Do not cheat by looking at the end of the [...]

 
13 FACTS THAT AMUSED ME  
1. There are square watermelons in Japan - they stack better. I have seen this!

2. A ten year old mattress weighs double what it did when it was new, because of the -ahem- debris which is absorbed through the years. That debris includes dust mites (their droppings and their decaying bodies), mold, [...]

While I am happy that my request for rain had been answered, too much of it is bad enough. It was nice to sleep with the sound of pitter-patter in the background, something that I was missing for more than a year now but the scene we woke up to was scary. There is a newly [...]

Sorry this has taken a little bit long but I am not going to postpone it like the Golden Globes so…
Thanks to my friend Zen for giving me this award:

Zen and I had been friends for more than 15 years and have seen the best and worst of each other. I have spent one Christmas [...]

When it rains, it pours! Global warming of sorts must be sending dangerous signals because it is still raining mad here in the UAE, resulting in floods, congested roads and lots of accidents this morning. The normal journey that would usually take 20 minutes from home to work became more than 2.5 hours.

~ pump trucks will [...]