Day 1 in Dubai
Well, this has been somewhat delayed because of the lack of an internet access on my first wk and photos sorta piled up in the 3 cameras and not to mention the multiple handphones my family brought along to United Arab Emirates (U.A.E) so here are the shots frm my first day and night in Dubai. :)
The neighbours were really nice to offer us a lift to the airport and our luggage ended up needing 2 cars to ferry. LOL!
Lunch was at Sakae Teppanyaki... Cute chawamushi steamed in a yellow onion! ^^
Yummy teppanyaki platter. :D
Me and my chio pink luggages!
The lovebirds say bye bye! :P
Christmas deco at the airport...
Guess what?! These are little marshmallow snowmen with sour candy scarf and cardboard snowboards!! *cute cute cute*
Off we fly~
First sight of the land of oil......
Our hotel apartment for the first wk.. Hotels are really ex (more than $800 per night for a single room and we had to hv 3 rooms!) Even this hotel appartment cost like $1.5k per night?! But at least its a 3 bedroom "house".
At least quite got standard lah...
Rooftop swimming pool!
The nxt day, we set off to find Dubai Mall and ended up getting lost, accidently driving out of Dubai and all the way to Sharjah!!! *faints*
We got quite impressed by a 100% Halal Macdonald when we realised all Macdonalds are actually Halal. So yeah...
Learning the currency... Everything in U.A.E has to be multiplied by 4 and divided by 10 to be in SGD. So mafan! And everything is really really ex here so haven't been shopping much. Poo!
An example of how freaking costly things are here is one fast food meal costing S$15 and tt is considered cheap by lunch standards. Zzzz!
But its still cool coz they give you little remote controls at the food court which buzzes when your food is done and really to be collected.
Briyani rice is well, their usual and this plate costs S$20!
Ice-cream dessert which I proceeded to fall in love with. :P
Sharjah was more conservative then Dubai so we didn't hang around long and soon we were trying to read the map back to Burjuman Mall (largest mall in Bur Dubai).
Fountain sprays above us...
And the light through the water casts a rainbow on the ground. :)
Brian cleary impressed by the world's largest plasma.
But coz everything was too expensive for us to hv much fun shopping, we settled for juice.
The extent of how rich the ppl are here, are LV and Prada shops in practically every, single mall and their doors are not even closed like the boutique shops in Paragon or Taka coz ppl were walking in and out all the time! *envious*
The weather here is between 10-25 degrees. Colder at night and when there is wind.. But the sun is still glaring hot and the air really dry. :( But it is such temperature tt allow such pretty blooms.
And outdoor dining in the middle of the afternoon.
Went on a tour of Bur Dubai on a Wonder Bus which cld travel on both land and sea! :)
Lots of boats to ferry ppl and cargo to and fro Bur Dubai and Deira.
Deira is the CBD area of Dubai and is only accessible frm the residential side by boat (40 cents per trip) and 2 roads. But bcoz the 2 roads are jammed all the time, most workers rely on these boats. But despite high traffic, the water was NOT polluted at all.
U.A.E's 37th birthday!!!!
Brian: TAKE THIS!!! Its Dubai's Twin Towers!!!
Totally mirrored building. Can see the river reflection and sunset? I think this is the National Bank or something...
Quite cool hur?
Singapore's Duck Tours cld learn and serve juice too! :P
90 minutes later, the sun had set.
So it was back to Burjuman for cam-whoring and dinner. :)
The neighbours were really nice to offer us a lift to the airport and our luggage ended up needing 2 cars to ferry. LOL!
Lunch was at Sakae Teppanyaki... Cute chawamushi steamed in a yellow onion! ^^
Yummy teppanyaki platter. :D
Me and my chio pink luggages!
The lovebirds say bye bye! :P
Christmas deco at the airport...
Guess what?! These are little marshmallow snowmen with sour candy scarf and cardboard snowboards!! *cute cute cute*
Off we fly~
First sight of the land of oil......
Our hotel apartment for the first wk.. Hotels are really ex (more than $800 per night for a single room and we had to hv 3 rooms!) Even this hotel appartment cost like $1.5k per night?! But at least its a 3 bedroom "house".
At least quite got standard lah...
Rooftop swimming pool!
The nxt day, we set off to find Dubai Mall and ended up getting lost, accidently driving out of Dubai and all the way to Sharjah!!! *faints*
We got quite impressed by a 100% Halal Macdonald when we realised all Macdonalds are actually Halal. So yeah...
Learning the currency... Everything in U.A.E has to be multiplied by 4 and divided by 10 to be in SGD. So mafan! And everything is really really ex here so haven't been shopping much. Poo!
An example of how freaking costly things are here is one fast food meal costing S$15 and tt is considered cheap by lunch standards. Zzzz!
But its still cool coz they give you little remote controls at the food court which buzzes when your food is done and really to be collected.
Briyani rice is well, their usual and this plate costs S$20!
Ice-cream dessert which I proceeded to fall in love with. :P
Sharjah was more conservative then Dubai so we didn't hang around long and soon we were trying to read the map back to Burjuman Mall (largest mall in Bur Dubai).
Fountain sprays above us...
And the light through the water casts a rainbow on the ground. :)
Brian cleary impressed by the world's largest plasma.
But coz everything was too expensive for us to hv much fun shopping, we settled for juice.
The extent of how rich the ppl are here, are LV and Prada shops in practically every, single mall and their doors are not even closed like the boutique shops in Paragon or Taka coz ppl were walking in and out all the time! *envious*
The weather here is between 10-25 degrees. Colder at night and when there is wind.. But the sun is still glaring hot and the air really dry. :( But it is such temperature tt allow such pretty blooms.
And outdoor dining in the middle of the afternoon.
Went on a tour of Bur Dubai on a Wonder Bus which cld travel on both land and sea! :)
Lots of boats to ferry ppl and cargo to and fro Bur Dubai and Deira.
Deira is the CBD area of Dubai and is only accessible frm the residential side by boat (40 cents per trip) and 2 roads. But bcoz the 2 roads are jammed all the time, most workers rely on these boats. But despite high traffic, the water was NOT polluted at all.
U.A.E's 37th birthday!!!!
Brian: TAKE THIS!!! Its Dubai's Twin Towers!!!
Totally mirrored building. Can see the river reflection and sunset? I think this is the National Bank or something...
Quite cool hur?
Singapore's Duck Tours cld learn and serve juice too! :P
90 minutes later, the sun had set.
So it was back to Burjuman for cam-whoring and dinner. :)
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