By Grace on Feb 29, 2008 in Friday fillers | 1 Comment
Claudia tagged me with this cool (Technorati score enhancing) meme.
Rule #1: Copy all the links below and replace a single link under the appropriate letter of the alphabet. If your domain name, or even the title of your blog, starts with an “A,” you’d replace the link under that letter and put the replaced link […]
By Grace on Feb 28, 2008 in Thursday Thirteen | 19 Comments
13 THINGS THAT HAPPEN IF YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED ACCESS TO THE INTERNET WHILE AT WORK, EVEN ON LUNCH BREAK
1. You become restless.
2. You wonder what is happening in the outside world. I’m an information junkie and not seeing the news for the whole day makes me really weary, not to mention terribly bored during lunch […]
By Grace on Feb 27, 2008 in personal thoughts | 2 Comments
This is not a birthing story.
Almost all the restaurants here in Dubai offer home delivery service saying they’ll deliver ANYWHERE and by anywhere I am not sure if they really thought about traffic and freshness of food as it arrives on the customer’s doorsteps.
I do not prefer home delivery because of only one reason: safety. […]
By Grace on Feb 26, 2008 in biggest-tallest-longest | 11 Comments
My mother saw an article featured in Yahoo News regarding the new arch bridge to be built in Dubai starting this March. The article had some new images of the what would be longest arch bridge in the world:
Looks really fantastic, don’t you think?
My mom looked at the photo with knitted eyebrows and said, “That is […]
By Grace on Feb 25, 2008 in blogging perks | 14 Comments
It’s that time again to thank some bloggers who showered me with some blog blings recently. You all make blogging more inspiring!
Kailani of An Island Life has given me this:
Kailani lives in another side of the world, in one of the beautiful islands of Hawaii. If not for blogging, I would not have met her. […]
By Grace on Feb 24, 2008 in blogging perks | 5 Comments
It was just another day at the office. It’s Saturday and I am back working with minimal things to do and with very limited (I can only check mails; this post is written at home) internet access, I was terribly bored thinking of lots of (bloggy) things but could not post any.
The mailman came and tapped my shoulders. […]
By Grace on Feb 23, 2008 in Saturday Photo Hunters | 22 Comments
This week’s theme: Wooden
Dutch dike and garden wooden shoes at Keukenhof Gardens, Lisse, The Netherlands.
See them in fancy colors!
By Grace on Feb 22, 2008 in books | 9 Comments
Author: Felicia C. Sullivan
Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: Algonquin Books (February 5, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1565125150
ISBN-13: 978-1565125155
Even without Mother Talk asking me to review this book, I was inspired to write a review as soon as I finished the last page.
The Sky Isn’t Visible from Here: Scenes from a Life is author Felicia Sullivan’s first book. It is […]
By Grace on Feb 21, 2008 in Thursday Thirteen | 18 Comments
13 MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT DUBAI
1. Alcohol- While so many tourists think that they’ll dry up in Dubai, alcohol is widely available at many bars, restaurants, hotels and leisure clubs. You can also purchase alcohol by applying for a liquor license (takes less than 10 mins to do so).
2. Dress Code - Contrary to other Islamic cities/countries, […]
By Grace on Feb 20, 2008 in Only in Dubai | 10 Comments
They did it again. License plate No 1 broke the world record as the most expensive car number plate, with a price tag of Dh52.2 million (US$14.5 million) in an intense bidding in Abu Dhabi last week.The buyer broke the record by paying more than twice the previous record which went to plate No 5 […]