3rd December 2009, Thursday. I still remember very well a poem by Robert Frost, THE ROAD NOT TAKEN. The poem is very meaningful and I think it is very true....
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Our life is full of making decisions. Everyday, we have to make decision; small, big, serious or important decision. Every decision that you make will eventually change your life. Today, I have made another decision. I am sure after this decision, the path of my road will be changed again. I hope that I have made the correct decision although I know, there's always no right and wrong in our life...
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
My Dubai Biz Trip - Day 8
29th November 2009, Sunday. Finally it was the last day already. Ai Lee and I felt tired and started missing home after so many days in Dubai. We also spent a lot of money throughout the days in Dubai.....----> It's time to get home! Hahahaha... We checked out from the hotel at 12.00pm and took a taxi to Wafi Mall. It was the last place we visited before leaving Dubai. In my opinion, I think that there's nothing much special in Wafi Mall. It was older and smaller than Mall of Emirates and Dubai Mall. We were just walking and hanging around to let the time pass. The x-mas decors were already set up. Looked okay only and not impressive enough hehehe....
Look at Ai Lee.... Not the decor hahahahaha.. She's much prettier than the decor!
We ended up sitting and chatting at the Wafi Gourmet. This cafe was quite expensive. I did not order any drinks as I was still full. Mr Song ordered Arabic Coffee and Ai Lee ordered Mint Tea. I guess the drinks were quite good...:-) We ordered Arabic Sweet Dessert. It was very sweet... We could not really able to finish it. Since we were really too free that time, and we played the game so called 'Truth or Dare'. Truth = Say out the truth + eating the Arabic sweets. Same went for Dare hahahaha..... Ai Lee was a bit unlucky and she was asked numerous questions by Mr Song. Anyway, it was a good chat and I think everyone enjoyed it.
The end of my Dubai's Trip~~~
Look at Ai Lee.... Not the decor hahahahaha.. She's much prettier than the decor!
We ended up sitting and chatting at the Wafi Gourmet. This cafe was quite expensive. I did not order any drinks as I was still full. Mr Song ordered Arabic Coffee and Ai Lee ordered Mint Tea. I guess the drinks were quite good...:-) We ordered Arabic Sweet Dessert. It was very sweet... We could not really able to finish it. Since we were really too free that time, and we played the game so called 'Truth or Dare'. Truth = Say out the truth + eating the Arabic sweets. Same went for Dare hahahaha..... Ai Lee was a bit unlucky and she was asked numerous questions by Mr Song. Anyway, it was a good chat and I think everyone enjoyed it.
The end of my Dubai's Trip~~~
My Dubai Biz Trip - Day 7
28th November 2009, Saturday. The time flew very fast. I started to miss my home, Malaysia. I love Malaysia. Malaysia is still the best place after all... LOL... Well... we had nothing much to do on that day but to shop for some souvenirs. We took a taxi to the Clock Tower. Other exhibitors from Malaysia told us that we could get a cheaper price souvenir from the shop nearby Clock Tower.
Somehow, we could not find the place. Finally, I sms Siu Yong from Evershine (Bins manufacturer). Luckily she replied to me and told me that the shop was Gift Gallery and it was located nearby the Sun Shine Hotel. Thanks god. We found it finally. We managed to get some souvenirs such as t-shirts, ashtrays, keychains, shot glass etc.
After that, we took a taxi to the Water Taxi Terminal at Dubai Creek I guess. I could not really remember the place name, but I just remember that place has a lower living expenses. The streets and the shops nearby were very crowded with foreigners from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indians, Indonesians etc. It was very crowded. I felt a bit uneasy as there were just a few ladies there. They looked at us differently. The t-shirts sold were not cheap as well. We thought the price should be quite reasonable, hence Mr Song had bought 2 t-shirts at AED17 each if not mistaken.
A lot of people were queuing for water taxi. Somehow, it was quite fast as there were quite many water taxis at the terminal. Each trip only costs AED1 per person. This transportation was specially established to help the poor I guess.
It just took about 5 minutes to reach the other terminal (the opposite side) I guess. I did not look at the watch as we were busy taking pictures hahahaa....
The market/shop at the this side was better. The price was so much cheaper. Guess what?! The t-shirt was just sold at AED10!!! It was a bad deal for Mr Song as he had bought so much more expensive. Somehow, he still grabbed a few more t-shirts at AED10. I just bought one for myself but Mr Song and Ai Lee had bought 4-5 t-shirts each.
Then, we took a taxi back to hotel just to drop the things and went to the one of the biggest mall (I guess should be the biggest) in Dubai directly. It was really huge and crowded. A lot of people were visiting the mall. The food court was very big too. There were variety of food from various countries. I just love it. We did not have much time to walk around. It was really too big.
We thought of visiting the Sega Republic but it was too expensive to enter.
Food ordered by Ai Lee....
So, we just went to watch the Musical Fountains. It was really cool!!! The performance was amazing and I love it so much. How romantic it would be if you hold your wedding besides the fountain! Hahahahaha... This was what I kept telling Ai Lee during the performance.
We also managed to take some of the pictures at the side of fountains. Nice buildings and nice views..:-P
Somehow, we could not find the place. Finally, I sms Siu Yong from Evershine (Bins manufacturer). Luckily she replied to me and told me that the shop was Gift Gallery and it was located nearby the Sun Shine Hotel. Thanks god. We found it finally. We managed to get some souvenirs such as t-shirts, ashtrays, keychains, shot glass etc.
After that, we took a taxi to the Water Taxi Terminal at Dubai Creek I guess. I could not really remember the place name, but I just remember that place has a lower living expenses. The streets and the shops nearby were very crowded with foreigners from Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indians, Indonesians etc. It was very crowded. I felt a bit uneasy as there were just a few ladies there. They looked at us differently. The t-shirts sold were not cheap as well. We thought the price should be quite reasonable, hence Mr Song had bought 2 t-shirts at AED17 each if not mistaken.
A lot of people were queuing for water taxi. Somehow, it was quite fast as there were quite many water taxis at the terminal. Each trip only costs AED1 per person. This transportation was specially established to help the poor I guess.
It just took about 5 minutes to reach the other terminal (the opposite side) I guess. I did not look at the watch as we were busy taking pictures hahahaa....
The market/shop at the this side was better. The price was so much cheaper. Guess what?! The t-shirt was just sold at AED10!!! It was a bad deal for Mr Song as he had bought so much more expensive. Somehow, he still grabbed a few more t-shirts at AED10. I just bought one for myself but Mr Song and Ai Lee had bought 4-5 t-shirts each.
Then, we took a taxi back to hotel just to drop the things and went to the one of the biggest mall (I guess should be the biggest) in Dubai directly. It was really huge and crowded. A lot of people were visiting the mall. The food court was very big too. There were variety of food from various countries. I just love it. We did not have much time to walk around. It was really too big.
We thought of visiting the Sega Republic but it was too expensive to enter.
Food ordered by Ai Lee....
So, we just went to watch the Musical Fountains. It was really cool!!! The performance was amazing and I love it so much. How romantic it would be if you hold your wedding besides the fountain! Hahahahaha... This was what I kept telling Ai Lee during the performance.
We also managed to take some of the pictures at the side of fountains. Nice buildings and nice views..:-P
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
My Dubai Biz Trip - Day 6
27th December 2009, Friday. It was the best day in Dubai. We joined the Desert Safari Tour and City Tour with some other exhibitors from Malaysia. The Safari Desert Tour + City Tour was AED200 per person. I would consider this as a good bargain as we have asked several other tours which we have to pay for at least AED 165 for Safari Desert Tour only. Early in the morning we woke up and got ready to Safari. Erm... it was not too early too as we slept until 9 something...LOL. Ai Lee was the chef of the morning but I did not eat as I was afraid I would be too full and vomit during the tour. She said I did not want to give her face and try her food. LOL. Well, this was the breakfast she cooked for Mr Song and herself. The appearance looked quite good and I suppose the taste should be okay too..:-)
The trip was started with City Tour which we had to gather at Deira City Centre. The cheapest way to get there was Metro Train; AED4.50 per person. Cheap right? It was cheap if compared to taxi...:-) Since the Metro station was just 150m away from our apartment hotel, we took a Metro to Deira. Here are some of the pictures taken during the journey to Deira City Centre.
Well, along the whole journey of the city tour, our tour guide who was a Filipino kept explaining the places that we passed through. I could not really remember what he said. The very first place that we had visited was the Dubai Creek. We stopped there for about 10 minutes to take some pictures.
Then we visited the Dubai Museum. We supposed to go in to the museum but guess what happened? Our weird tourist did not know that the museum would only be opened after 2.30pm on Friday!! Doesn't it sound funny? He was the tour guide and I suppose he should know all the timing right? We just managed to take some pictures at outside of the museum only.
Then we visited a building that I did not what is the name. There were some expensive antiques and shawls to be sold. We also stopped nearby at the Jumeirah Mosque to take some picture. Mr Song was saying that Dubai have a lot of Muslim but their mosques were not as big as ours. Our government really had spent a lot of money in building mosques in Malaysia.
After that, we dropped by at the beach side. From there, we could see Burj Al Arab, the award winning and the only seven star hotel in the world.
The next destination was Atlantis the Palm. Atlantis, the Palm is a resort at Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a joint venture between Kerzner International Limited and Istithmar PSJC and was opened on 24 September 2008. The resort is modelled after the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in Nassau, Bahamas.
The city tour then ended by stopping at the Mall of Emirates to drop the tour guide and picked up some other people for the desert safari. It took about 40 minutes to reach the desert. It was a boring journey to there as everyone was sleeping. I did not sleep but just looking around. By right, we should reach the desert on time to watch the sun set, but we were quite unlucky as we could only see the sunset for 2-3 minutes only. May be we have wasted to much time on picking up people at the Mall of Emirates. Somehow, we still managed to take few pictures of the sunset the road side of desert. The weather was cold and nice.
Then we took a jeep for Dune Sand Driving. It was fun and exciting. I just love it. You could feel the excitement. Everyone should try it if go to Dubai.
During the Dune Driving, one of the jeep was stucked in the sand. Other jeeps were helping it to get out of the sand. And guess what? Ai Lee and I were busy taking pictures.:-P
After the Dune Driving, the jeep drove us to the campsite for the dinner party. The party was very fun as we could ride on a camel, enjoy the Henna Painting, smoke the Sheesha, enjoy the Belly dancing and some other performances. We were also served by BBQ dinner. In conclusion, I would say that the Dessert Safari was worthwhile.
The very first food was served. I did not know what is the name of the food but it was something like pita bread... It was quite tasty. May be I was to hungry at that time but Ai Lee said the taste was a bit weird.
Here are some of the pictures that we took during Henna Painting.....
Here were the pictures of Camel Rides...
We were enjoying the sand while waiting for camel ride. The was real cold... It's cool!
Here are the pictures of Sheesha smoking. Mr Song and I
Pictures of the dinner and performances.
THE END......
The trip was started with City Tour which we had to gather at Deira City Centre. The cheapest way to get there was Metro Train; AED4.50 per person. Cheap right? It was cheap if compared to taxi...:-) Since the Metro station was just 150m away from our apartment hotel, we took a Metro to Deira. Here are some of the pictures taken during the journey to Deira City Centre.
Well, along the whole journey of the city tour, our tour guide who was a Filipino kept explaining the places that we passed through. I could not really remember what he said. The very first place that we had visited was the Dubai Creek. We stopped there for about 10 minutes to take some pictures.
Then we visited the Dubai Museum. We supposed to go in to the museum but guess what happened? Our weird tourist did not know that the museum would only be opened after 2.30pm on Friday!! Doesn't it sound funny? He was the tour guide and I suppose he should know all the timing right? We just managed to take some pictures at outside of the museum only.
Then we visited a building that I did not what is the name. There were some expensive antiques and shawls to be sold. We also stopped nearby at the Jumeirah Mosque to take some picture. Mr Song was saying that Dubai have a lot of Muslim but their mosques were not as big as ours. Our government really had spent a lot of money in building mosques in Malaysia.
After that, we dropped by at the beach side. From there, we could see Burj Al Arab, the award winning and the only seven star hotel in the world.
The next destination was Atlantis the Palm. Atlantis, the Palm is a resort at Palm Jumeirah in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It is a joint venture between Kerzner International Limited and Istithmar PSJC and was opened on 24 September 2008. The resort is modelled after the Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in Nassau, Bahamas.
The city tour then ended by stopping at the Mall of Emirates to drop the tour guide and picked up some other people for the desert safari. It took about 40 minutes to reach the desert. It was a boring journey to there as everyone was sleeping. I did not sleep but just looking around. By right, we should reach the desert on time to watch the sun set, but we were quite unlucky as we could only see the sunset for 2-3 minutes only. May be we have wasted to much time on picking up people at the Mall of Emirates. Somehow, we still managed to take few pictures of the sunset the road side of desert. The weather was cold and nice.
Then we took a jeep for Dune Sand Driving. It was fun and exciting. I just love it. You could feel the excitement. Everyone should try it if go to Dubai.
During the Dune Driving, one of the jeep was stucked in the sand. Other jeeps were helping it to get out of the sand. And guess what? Ai Lee and I were busy taking pictures.:-P
After the Dune Driving, the jeep drove us to the campsite for the dinner party. The party was very fun as we could ride on a camel, enjoy the Henna Painting, smoke the Sheesha, enjoy the Belly dancing and some other performances. We were also served by BBQ dinner. In conclusion, I would say that the Dessert Safari was worthwhile.
The very first food was served. I did not know what is the name of the food but it was something like pita bread... It was quite tasty. May be I was to hungry at that time but Ai Lee said the taste was a bit weird.
Here are some of the pictures that we took during Henna Painting.....
Here were the pictures of Camel Rides...
We were enjoying the sand while waiting for camel ride. The was real cold... It's cool!
Here are the pictures of Sheesha smoking. Mr Song and I
Pictures of the dinner and performances.
THE END......
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