So it's been 3 months now in dubai and I'm still going strong. Although I really miss my family back home, I know that I can't live in India again. But I'm also not sure if I can live here forever.
So where do I see myself settling down? Well I got just 3 words for you - London, Paris and NewYork :) I see myself living in London and working in Paris and New York.
I am after all the metro City girl. Life in the fast lane is all I can see. I lovely job in fashion in London with travels to Other places for fashion shows, donning the latest fashion with a nice fur coat and knee high boots. That's the life I see for myself and I am pretty sure I'm closer to it now.
How do I know this? Well coz I belive in it.
I believe that life has great things in store for me. Look at me now working in dubai by myself, living by myself and just 4 months ago I was crying in a stuck up job with a boss from hell and a crappy pay check. And now I live in dubai, in a posh locality like marina , earning 3 times my salary in India. Life is good I say and it definitely is moving towards better :)
The only thing missing now is LOVE and I know that is just round the corner too, just hidden from view. All I have to do is just believe that it is there and that I will see it soon enough. :)
Until then enjoying Singledom till it lasts.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Just belive
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Dubai :)
Wow! I am posting again almost a year later. Been caught up with life i guess.
Life has changed and how! I now live in Dubai! Dubai Marina. The life line of Dubai.
Life is very different and yet better. Ofcourse i miss India no doubt but i am not ready to go back yet.
I had so many apprehensions before coming here. All the obvious misconceptions that Indian women have about an Arab country. Things like you can wear what you like, you will have to wear a hijab, women are treated in a lowly manner, women dont have any freedom etc etc.. But it is exactly the opposite here. Women here are highly respected, getting preferential treatment even. They have equal rights as men although a certain level of modestly is expected. Obviously. Cant really expect a women to roam topless, except for in a nude beach, which, by the way does not exist in Dubai.
So what have my experiences been like in the past 1.5months that i have been here? Well to say my 1st disappointment was that my workplace feels like a cross between Kerela and Phillipines. If i use my statistics then 33% are filipinos, 33% are Kerellites and the 33% is represented by the rest of the world. I always keep grumbling that the 66% of the population are gonna take over the world soon.
My first real celebration of Dubai was a free dinner by Janhavi's cousin at Souk Al Bahar. The lovely Bice Mare which stands right at the egde of the fountain lake of Dubai mall and Bhurj Khalifa. Sitting there watching the fountain and going through a 3 course meal with coctails and wine is what life in dubai is all about. We sat there for a whole 4hrs just talking and laughing and enjoying delicious food and wine. The very close 2nd celebration was with another close friend-Moiz who is also the only other person i knew in Dubai. The amazing hot pot that he cooks and along with rounds of LIT that i make... bliss.
My first couple of weeks were pretty stressful as it is like a full time job trying to find a habitable apartment here. I got to see places that resembled watering holes to downright caves. Smelling all the time of some South Indian chutney. No offence to south Indians really, its just that if you are not used to smelling sambars and chutneys 24hrs a day then this can really get to you. Now was the time to set your priorities. You either lived in a hole or you let a hole burn in your pocket and live it up in Dubai. And it took me three weeks of contemplating to get this straight. Always hunting on dubizzle to find a cheap yet "not hole in wall" kind of place to live in. Then 3 weeks later, lady luck smiled and i found the right place and just loved it right when i saw it. I partied hard that night ;)
So my new apt is the huge Horizon Towers which is a whooping 44floors high and can be seen form mostly anywhere in Marina. I live on the 7th floor, any higher and im sure i would have had vertigo problems. MOE as they call it aka Mall of the Emirates is my fav hangout i think.I am in there 3 days out of 7. And when i am not at MOE or at work, then i am at the pool which is a great respite after a long 9.5hrs shift at work. My roomates are nice mixture of Irish, Scottish/Pakistani, Ukranian, Egyptian, German and British/Filipino. They are a fun bunch and we generally do a lot of things together, like swimming, cooking, dinner, super markets, outings and partying ;)
Somehow out here, i havnt cooked much Indian food. Living mostly on salads and sanwiches. And i realise now that it has become more difficult to digest rice products, if and when i do eat it. I am moving to healthy eating i guess. Getting more of yoghurts and milks. Have given away with sodas. I still love chocolates, never gonna give them up.
I miss my car the most and i fear that i might either forget driving or might get a downright phobia of driving on Mumbai roads. The roads are as smooth as silk here. No bumps, no potholes. And yet somehow the Emiratis somehow manage to crash their cars, inspite of such a long list of rules. I thought that you'd be scared to break rules in the middle east, considering otherwise. The European road rules apply with left hand drive.
Night life of dubai rocks!. And Dubai Marina is the place to be. Clubs here are mainly dominated by the expat crowds. Then again the entire Dubai marina is dominated by expats. And since i am an expat too for UAE, i live here too ;) And if your are a woman, you are showered by women's nights which generally have free booze and free food. Unlike mumbai where women's nights are generally wednesdays, here different clubs have their's on different days of the week. Barasti i learnt is a very popular hangout which is right on the beach. I love my night trip here.
Well thats most of the updates from my 1st 6 weeks of stay in Dubai. I hope that i will add more updates here sooner.
psst...my boss is not at work today and i am updating this from office ;)
cheers
Life has changed and how! I now live in Dubai! Dubai Marina. The life line of Dubai.
Life is very different and yet better. Ofcourse i miss India no doubt but i am not ready to go back yet.
I had so many apprehensions before coming here. All the obvious misconceptions that Indian women have about an Arab country. Things like you can wear what you like, you will have to wear a hijab, women are treated in a lowly manner, women dont have any freedom etc etc.. But it is exactly the opposite here. Women here are highly respected, getting preferential treatment even. They have equal rights as men although a certain level of modestly is expected. Obviously. Cant really expect a women to roam topless, except for in a nude beach, which, by the way does not exist in Dubai.
So what have my experiences been like in the past 1.5months that i have been here? Well to say my 1st disappointment was that my workplace feels like a cross between Kerela and Phillipines. If i use my statistics then 33% are filipinos, 33% are Kerellites and the 33% is represented by the rest of the world. I always keep grumbling that the 66% of the population are gonna take over the world soon.
My first real celebration of Dubai was a free dinner by Janhavi's cousin at Souk Al Bahar. The lovely Bice Mare which stands right at the egde of the fountain lake of Dubai mall and Bhurj Khalifa. Sitting there watching the fountain and going through a 3 course meal with coctails and wine is what life in dubai is all about. We sat there for a whole 4hrs just talking and laughing and enjoying delicious food and wine. The very close 2nd celebration was with another close friend-Moiz who is also the only other person i knew in Dubai. The amazing hot pot that he cooks and along with rounds of LIT that i make... bliss.
My first couple of weeks were pretty stressful as it is like a full time job trying to find a habitable apartment here. I got to see places that resembled watering holes to downright caves. Smelling all the time of some South Indian chutney. No offence to south Indians really, its just that if you are not used to smelling sambars and chutneys 24hrs a day then this can really get to you. Now was the time to set your priorities. You either lived in a hole or you let a hole burn in your pocket and live it up in Dubai. And it took me three weeks of contemplating to get this straight. Always hunting on dubizzle to find a cheap yet "not hole in wall" kind of place to live in. Then 3 weeks later, lady luck smiled and i found the right place and just loved it right when i saw it. I partied hard that night ;)
So my new apt is the huge Horizon Towers which is a whooping 44floors high and can be seen form mostly anywhere in Marina. I live on the 7th floor, any higher and im sure i would have had vertigo problems. MOE as they call it aka Mall of the Emirates is my fav hangout i think.I am in there 3 days out of 7. And when i am not at MOE or at work, then i am at the pool which is a great respite after a long 9.5hrs shift at work. My roomates are nice mixture of Irish, Scottish/Pakistani, Ukranian, Egyptian, German and British/Filipino. They are a fun bunch and we generally do a lot of things together, like swimming, cooking, dinner, super markets, outings and partying ;)
Somehow out here, i havnt cooked much Indian food. Living mostly on salads and sanwiches. And i realise now that it has become more difficult to digest rice products, if and when i do eat it. I am moving to healthy eating i guess. Getting more of yoghurts and milks. Have given away with sodas. I still love chocolates, never gonna give them up.
I miss my car the most and i fear that i might either forget driving or might get a downright phobia of driving on Mumbai roads. The roads are as smooth as silk here. No bumps, no potholes. And yet somehow the Emiratis somehow manage to crash their cars, inspite of such a long list of rules. I thought that you'd be scared to break rules in the middle east, considering otherwise. The European road rules apply with left hand drive.
Night life of dubai rocks!. And Dubai Marina is the place to be. Clubs here are mainly dominated by the expat crowds. Then again the entire Dubai marina is dominated by expats. And since i am an expat too for UAE, i live here too ;) And if your are a woman, you are showered by women's nights which generally have free booze and free food. Unlike mumbai where women's nights are generally wednesdays, here different clubs have their's on different days of the week. Barasti i learnt is a very popular hangout which is right on the beach. I love my night trip here.
Well thats most of the updates from my 1st 6 weeks of stay in Dubai. I hope that i will add more updates here sooner.
psst...my boss is not at work today and i am updating this from office ;)
cheers
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