This week’s theme: Part of me

My daughter took this photo, with focus on my arm, cutting my face/head in the picture so you can see only a part of me.
I was curious so I tried henna body painting (for free during our desert safari) - - women in Dubai have this on the palms of their hands […]

I found this meme at Are We There Yet Mom and I tagged myself.  
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. from Wendy Walker’s Four Wives,
“She slept in short segments, dreaming then waking, dreaming again.”
2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
I can touch […]

Julian Beever is an English artist famous for his art on the pavements of England, France, Germany, USA, Australia and Belgium. What makes his talent and his work extra special? Beever gives his drawings and anmorphosis view, meaning, the images are drawn is such a way that it looks like 3D when viewed from the […]

… and telling me to rent, buy, get hold of it, whatever means I can. I told her I’ll try and on the first day, she never asked me about it. On the second day, she asked me again and days after that.
Today, she’ll be happy because I’m bringing it home. Finally we can have […]

Dubai Municipality is cracking down on families sharing living quarters in villas across the city. The news says villas (single detached houses or compounds) housing more families than legally allowed will have water and electricity cut at the end of the notice period. Notices have been given to these families to vacate.
But where will they […]

Last weekend, we went to Fujairah, one of the seven Emirates of the UAE. The UAE is composed of seven (7) Emirates namely: Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah, Umm Al Quwain and Fujairah. Of these seven Emirates, only Fujairah is situated in the east coast, fronting the Indian Ocean so the color […]

I saw Indy on screen again! I saw Indy on screen again!
We squeezed ourselves into the pack of moviegoers on a Thursday night - somewhat like catching the first available flight in the middle of a holiday season. Friday is dayoff for most working people in Dubai so Thursdays are usually mall shopping and movie flocking […]

This week’s theme: Shoes

It’s overwhelming to count all the shoes a toddler will have in her feet-growing-years - - these are just some of the shoes that she outgrew. I took a picture before giving them away to children who needed it.

ZAM tagged me to do this meme, which is called the Kind Fives and you have to list five kind things you do for yourself; five kind things you do for your closest friend, partner or child and five kind things you have done for a stranger. You then have to tag five people.
Five kind […]

Not the bespectacled boy with a wand and a broomstick. I’m talking about the real guy, Harrison Ford, the guy with the whip!
The 4th Indiana Jones movie is out and today is the movie premier here in Dubai and since I am a huge Harrison Ford fan, I’m not going to miss it for the […]