Cold

I feel a terrible cold on its way...I woke up with soar threat, but I feel worse now, as if I'm about to get a fever, great!
You can't live with the AC and you certainly can't live without it!

Oh Damn!

Shit!!! Shit! Shit! Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit!!!

Ok, today my sister was discussing how UAE has changed the rules for visitors. You could before stay 60 days here without a visa or anything, now they've changed it to 30 days.
Anyhow, all this time, we thought I had 60 days here, but we checked my passport, and guess what! It's 30 days!!! I have to be out of the country by 9 October if I don't get a job and a working visa!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Paniiiiiic!!!!!

All this time, I've just been relaxing here and thinking I have time, maaaaaaaaaaan, I am on a hunt now!
You want more bad news?? It's Eid tomorrow, which means it's closed E V E R Y W H E R E! Which means, the job applications I've sent won't be reviewed for god knows how long!!
Damn!

Atlantis Pics

I promised pics from Atlantis and here they are ;) Inside was all filled with details from the sea (not actual stuff from the sea, but you get the picture).


A ceiling there


Another ceiling, lol












LOL




The game area


I wonder if it's only for children, I wanted to go too!

Some of the areas outside






Where you could smoke and smoke "shisha" (as they say in Arabic)


The view, Dubai Marina


Levantine restaurant where we dined

Ok, here comes the best part (of what we saw that night). In the middle they had a HUGE (like 3 stories big) aquarium with lots and lots of fishes.






See the big fishi, imagine the other fishes around it are around 50 cm if not more, now can you imagine how big that one is?? In this pic it doesn't do it justice either!

Now I have to go to sleep, very tired, we were at the course again, took the test around 12, lol. Hopefully I pass and don't get a phonecall from them in about 4 days (they only call you if you didn't pass the test).

Good night

Quick Update

I'll try to write a post about Atlantis and show the pics from there and see if I have other pics from these days I haven't put up yet.
But just a quick update in case my sister comes and we have to go.

The kids are off school for a week, it's Eid (the end of the ramadan for muslims, and they celebrate this), which means they are home, which means we hardly get any time for anything else! LOL

Anyway, yesterday me and Jaleh started this RERA course, it's a course for real estate, if you want to work with real estate you have had taken this course. The laws are changing here, and you can't work as a free-lanser anymore. If you do work as a real estator without this certificate you can get a fine for around 100 000 Dhs!!
We're taking the evening course, and it should be for 3 nights, but monday is a public holiday here, so it's even more crambed for us since we are only going for 2 nights. Oh, did I mention there's a test?? Yup, and you have to pass it to get the certificate.
Tonight is the last night for us, and I think around 1 am we are taking the exam, I hope the coffe machine works today!!!
Jaleh already knew just about everything they taught last night, but for me, who has never worked and doesn't know anything it was a little bit harder, so I have to study harder too (Yeah, and I thought I had the left the stuying in Malmo!!!)!!

Ok...Jaleh is home, we are off to training, yay, not! I have to get back to the Atlantis post later, see ya.

Atlantis

We are on our way out, first stop will be Mall of Emirates (I'll from now on short this to MOE ;) ). We are meeting some friends there and just stroll around, or run after the kids, we'll see, most likely run after the kids, LOL.
The plan after that is to go to Atlantis, here check it out:

Atlantis

That's the plan for tonight, but here you just never know! Hopefully we'll make it to Atlantis, I really want to go there and see the place from inside ;)

Camels

After Al Bustan and mummy having a manicure and pedicure (yes it looked and apparently felt as good! LOL), me, my mum, sister and her children went to Marina beach. As always it was very hot day, and I thought, yes, I'll get into the water and just cool off! YEAH RIGHT! I wish! The water was very warm so there was no chance to get cooled off, lol. Don't expect any pics of me in bikini anytime soon! LOL
But I saw camels there! Hihi, I've been yearning for seeing camels here, haha.




Aren't they cute??? haha

Now I have to get ready, we are going out to dinner. Later ;)

Today

Wow, I'm writing something about today, not yesterday! LOL.

Me and my mum are going to Al Bustan, a small shopping mall here beside my sister's place. I'm finally going to fix my eyebrows! Just hope they have time now.
Today I'm not really in such a good mood, but I'm trying my best! My dizzyness is a lot better but I'm still very tired, more than ever. I slept more than 3 hours yesterday but around 10 pm I was exhausted. I know now that it's most likely lack of iron since I've gotten better with the iron pills I've started taking.

I've started applying for jobs, hopefully I'll get one soon! I really need a job, not only for the money but to have something to do here.

Ok, got to run now, until later...

Old Town

So, as usual I'll tell you about yesterday.

We went to Burj Dubai, AGAIN! LOL. This time with my mother, my sister wanted to show her an area in Burj Dubai called Old Town, a residency area, nice place. We went for a walk around the area and it was soooooooooo hot! All three were all wet, luckily me and my sister wore black so it didn't show, my mum wasn't so lucky! LOL, a proof comes later ;)


Some of the houses in Old Town




A shopping mall there which I don't remember the name of




Inside the mall








My mother's back, lol

Later, we went to Buddha Bar, unfortunately I couldn't take so good pics in there since it was so dark, but I managed to take 2 pics to put up here


Me inside


I had dumplings, yuuuuuuuuummie!

This was all for tonight, take care all ;)

Palm Jumeria

I wrote this yesterday, but the damn internet was down, so here it is, a day later ;)

We started the day with training, as always it felt just as difficult when we started but as bad as it felt as good did it feel in the end, so I'm glad I went.
Last night I felt very very dizzy and thought all the time the house was shaking, I was going to go to the doctor today, but there wasn't any time so I'm going tomorrow. Hopefully they will figure out what's wrong with me, if it's physical or psychological, or maybe both.
But I got some great tips from 2 loved ones, thank you! They were VERY helpful!

So, we went to register ourselves for the real estate course, but as always we didn't find the place but drove around Mall of Emirates 3-4 times. We eventually found out that it wasn't even there! LOL

Later we took a tour around Palm Jumeira, me and my sister had been there once before. But we went now with the rest of the family, and we got to see Atlantis again, it's apparently supposed to have the opening on Saturday, but they are still working on it since there was a fire there some weeks ago.
Here are some pics


Atlantis


We were discussing what will be up there, a restaurant, a suite or what! We'll see ;)


Me at the end of the palm


This is my sister's big car, it's hard to go in and out I'll tell you! LOL

All Roads Leads to Burj Dubai? The Sequal

And we did it!! We found THE road! THE road to Burj Dubai!!! Not only did we found ther area where everyone goes, we actually drove TO Burj Dubai (since it's not ready it's not for public)! LOL. But I'll start with yesterday, because we tried to find Burj Dubai then too. With 2 kids in the car we set the course to Burj Dubai. BUT, we ended on the wrong side of the wall, a very important wall, as on one side it will lead to Burj Dubai, at the other, it's sand and construction ONLY. And would you really needed to guess which side we ended up on? No, didn't think so ;) LOL. We'll, I hope no one else will end up on that road, you could not even see where the road was since there really wasn't any real road, only sand. And, I say this only here in Dubai, thank god my sister has a big SUV that can drive on the desert as well, we might as well could have been there. After a long drive, back and forth we found our way out.

However, today, today...By this time we had a pretty good guess on where to drive and especially where NOT to drive. A little mistake on the way, but quickly back on track and we found the area and Burj Dubai. My sister was very proud! And she should be since you can't really trust the signs nor the roads here, you'll never know where you end up in the end.

Here are some pics of our journey


This is the wall I was talking about, only this time we were on the right side ;)


YAY, Burj Dubai!!


It's so big so there's no chance I could take a pic of all of it with my camera

Today was a good day, my mummy came too! I'm so happy to have her here, haven't seen her in a long time since she travelled to Iran more than a month ago and I've really missed her.
Now I just have to take care of the dizzyness, I'm still very dizzy, have to see a doctor or a shrink ;)

Anyway, my mummy had this package with her, guess what's in it!




Pomegranate from mu aunties yard! Yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum

Tired

I thought I would write about yesterday and today and put up some pics. But I am just so tired right now and dizzy that I just don't have the energy.
So forgive me, my two readers ;) I have to do it tomorrow.

God night

Another Earthquake!

Last night, I was lying beside my nephew and my sister beside her daughter. As I was lying in bed, I felt some shaking, very little, but as I have become paranoid since the earthquake I just thought it was in my mind and kept telling myself, don't be an idiot, it's just in your head.
Today, my sister came and said that while we were lying beside the kids she had felt some shaking and she had thought as well that in was in her head, but she spoke to our mother today, and it had turned out that there had been another earthquake in Bandar Abbas.
Apparently there are small earthquakes coming all the time these days around Bandar Abbas, hm...don't really know what to think about that...All I know is that I just want my sister and them to MOVE AWAY as quickly as possible!!!
Until then, I will probably not be able to relax here!

Damn....

Yesterday

We never got to trying to find Burj Dubai yesterday, which was probably for the best, otherwise we would have ended up driving around it several times, again! But we however got to drive to Springs and later Mall of Emirates.
The Springs is an area where there are villas, not big ones, they were rather small, but it was al right (not that I could afford any of it anyways, lol).

But I'll start with pictures from on the way to Marina...it was such a crazy weather yesterday as you can see, don't know whether it was sand, fog or whatever.



Do you see the buildings? I could hardly see them...



Business Bay



In Business Bay

See the crazy weather?


Here are some pictures from MOA, it's a veryyyyy big mall and fancy pancy, lol.











One of the food courts.



Finally me, outside of the ski place.