UAE Community Blog

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

2012-04-21T01:02:32.867+04:00

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

accompanied by his husband ?

2012-04-09T12:40:17.102+04:00

accompanied by his husband ?

"It's not a conspiracy that UAE, a Muslim...

2012-04-02T04:48:49.010+04:00

"It's not a conspiracy that UAE, a Muslim country had Thursday and Friday off. Friday is the Sabbath for Muslims, and preparation for the Sabbath begins Thursday afternoon."

Friday is not the Muslim equivalent of Sabbath. It's not an obligatory rest day, rather it is a day on which there is obligatory Salah in mosque. Hence it is enough for a Muslim to pray a congregational prayer, they can work on Friday if they wish.

The reason Friday is a weekend in Muslim countries is because it is more convenient and reasonable than other days. Also they are no "preparations" for Fridays.

...thought it was dull as dishwater....

2012-03-30T23:16:04.386+04:00

...thought it was dull as dishwater....

Nothing but the burdain remains for the Greek ...

2012-03-18T08:48:48.881+04:00
Nothing but the burdain remains for the Greek people

Ah! The benefit(s) -- oops! that was to read repercussions -- of joining the Euro bandwagon.

Be indie, that's my motto.

Sam: It's good to see a post from you. To ex...

2012-03-12T19:50:54.941+04:00
Sam:

It's good to see a post from you.

To expand on your opening statement, I partially blame the RTA for not having bothered to train their drivers on such facilities on their vehicles. Had they done so, not much time would have been wasted on this particular journey.

As for people parking in wrong places, especially allotted to those with special needs, they need to be fined at the highest level or even have their cars quarantined. That should learn 'em.

With respect to these drivers not knowing Arabic or English, I don't know about that because most of the (public transport) drivers we've come across do speak English, if not Arabic. So that part about drivers not speaking English sounds a bit of an understatement & prejudiced.

All said and done, I wish the RTA while investing in such sophisticated modes of transport also invests in educating their drivers so that incidents of such nature are easily avoided and schedules met!

My 2 cents.

What a shame. No words can express my frustration ...

2012-03-12T09:50:27.250+04:00
What a shame. No words can express my frustration with this situation.

sam, you still sound like a faggot from 6 years ag...

2012-03-02T09:06:12.643+04:00
sam, you still sound like a faggot from 6 years ago

where's your british prostitute partner ? back to uk enjoying reading the horrid paper back home ?

Today or tomorrow....everything will be back to no...

2012-02-21T15:52:56.403+04:00
Today or tomorrow....everything will be back to normal.

the road to recovery has always been long and pain...

2012-02-15T16:18:44.687+04:00
the road to recovery has always been long and painful...what was created in few months will need at least few years to be worth inhabiting. Money spent, money wasted, marvels achieved, jobs created and lost and ultimately lessons learnt..

I still think there is a level of uncertainty crea...

2012-02-11T07:33:10.498+04:00
I still think there is a level of uncertainty created by the arrest of a couple of bloggers and uni profs.

Hi All, I've been unable to access my Google ...

2012-02-10T21:46:41.535+04:00
Hi All,

I've been unable to access my Google account for a while due to them forcing me off my old account for some retarded reason.

The bottom line of inactivity is people aren't bothered to post shit and then they get surprised when it dies off.

Sadly I have very little free time at the moment and for the foreseeable future and given the amount of bitching that goes on here regarding everything except actual posting I have no inclination to get off my ass and do anything on here.

We were always bombarded with the "if you don...

2012-02-09T06:26:34.794+04:00
We were always bombarded with the "if you don't like it leave" and what happened is that we literally left

Hai friends...its really sad to know that this com...

2012-02-08T10:55:27.212+04:00
Hai friends...its really sad to know that this community is no more active here...Im new to uae and just came to know its pulse over the web directories....

Anyways have fun in fb...

Nice time!!!

nice...

2012-02-07T19:32:37.875+04:00
nice...

question is, if the admin of this blog is still in...

2012-02-05T17:17:22.348+04:00
question is, if the admin of this blog is still in the uae? cause we've tried to contact him several times over the past 2 months...no reply!

doesnt anyone want to talk about the syrians threa...

2012-02-04T01:32:20.227+04:00
doesnt anyone want to talk about the syrians threatening to send over missiles or the iranian threat..

Very nice logo. I can see 7 rulers.The perfect log...

2012-02-03T17:56:53.972+04:00
Very nice logo. I can see 7 rulers.The perfect logo for the perfect event.

Yes we left .....

2012-01-29T02:30:14.520+04:00
Yes we left .....

@grumpy goat - you're right I think facebook a...

2012-01-26T18:16:44.873+04:00
@grumpy goat - you're right I think facebook and twitter has taken over now! Everyone's on facebook all the time!

I followed this blog a bit late, but based on the ...

2012-01-26T11:16:09.041+04:00
I followed this blog a bit late, but based on the previous posts I can see that this place was a great reservoir of thoughts and ideas on issues in the UAE. It's a shame that its slowly sinking into the ground.

There are links in the left-hand side panel to act...

2012-01-24T00:00:44.671+04:00
There are links in the left-hand side panel to active UAE Community bloggers. Unfortunately, the likes of Twitter and Facebook may have sucked away the writership into the direction of very short microblogging. And as Keefieboy notes, some of us are no longer in the UAE.

That doesn't mean to say that there is no place for a couple of hundred coherent words about something of UAE community interest.

Most of us left!

2012-01-23T22:09:30.557+04:00
Most of us left!

They all got laid off and have gone home!

2012-01-23T21:13:12.482+04:00
They all got laid off and have gone home!

They all got laid off and have gone home!

2012-01-23T21:12:52.028+04:00
They all got laid off and have gone home!