I got a call from a local bank saying, “Madam, can you please check if you have your ATM card with you?”
My ATM card is not with me. It’s always not with me because my husband, our house accountant is managing our finances and holds all the cards. He could not have lost the card, [...]

Our car is parked in our apartment building basement. In the basement ceiling, there are big plastic pipes with gushing water sound in them.
Pristine would always ask, almost every morning, “what’s that sound, mom?” or “What’s inside those, mom?”
“Oh, It’s from the toilets. Your morning xxx is being flushed and going through those pipes right [...]

Just when I thought what to write, a large explosion that shook windows and the ground occurred in Al Quoz Industrial area producing a massive black mushroom cloud in the sky this morning.

~ smoke as seen from Al Nahda Road ~
We did not hear the explosion as we are not living near Al Quoz but [...]

Remember about me talking about having a long weekend some days back? Well, I was actually talking about the weekend that just passed. We got three days off from work and school and although we actually thought of visiting some random neighboring country, we actually didn’t and would you believe, we, particularly, I, just stayed [...]

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 [...]

I have just transferred to my own domain and having a lot of thoughts about my big leap. I say big because I have not done this before and although there are lots of forums and information available in the internet, whatever I’ll do with the resources I find is all up to me. If anything works and looks great, [...]

So that explained the gloomy weather, dark clouds and sun not showing up this morning. Funny I hoped it would bring on rain.
In a fire in Jebel Ali chemical depot, “There were explosions, sending debris up to 300 meters in the air,” according to a report in GulfNews.  However, there were no casualties.
The Jebel Ali [...]

In a country with a gigantic construction boom, harboring thousands and thousands of construction workers without the right to create a labor union, this is so evident.
About 600 workers marched from their labour accommodation in Jebel Ali to Sheikh Zayed Road protesting against the deductions of food allowance from their meager salaries.
Their current wage is 1Dhs 470 a month [...]

The time was 3pm, the party was in full swing. There were so many children, faces all lit up and happy. The moms were also there, in beautifully colored summer sun dresses. I do not know all of them and they seemed to look at me in a strange way but I did not care, [...]

Cathay Pacific flight CX900 bound for Hong Kong with connecting flight CX731 to Dubai left Manila at the expected time of departure, without delay, without hesitation and without my mother.
This is going to be a long rant so sit back, relax and get angry. (The amount of anger I poured into this entry is not [...]