Ten Things I Am Learning About Dubai
6 Sep
- It’s expensive. Rent is crazy (40% of your pay!), but there are always bed-spaces.
- If you don’t drive, you’re dead meat.
- 6 gallons of petrol will pay for one hour of belly dance lessons.
- If you’re a woman, don’t kiss or grope other women in public. (Note to self) Don’t kiss or grope anything at all.
- Flickr, Twitter, Skype, StumbleUpon are inconsistent with the religious, cultural, political and moral values of the UAE thus they are all banned, though there are… ways.
- From the above we can extrapolate. The Internet – Photo Sharing – Cheap/Almost Free Phone Calls – Telling People What You Are Having for Lunch – Stumbling Upon New Things = religious, cultural, political and moral values = Death. International companies in the free zones + their VPNs = Life.
- You can buy anything and have it delivered to you in one hour. I bet Indians run it.
- The book, Dubai Red Tape Explorer, is your Bible.
- They serve Ice Kachang at the Grand Hyatt.
- That rumour about a Malay woman selling nasi lemak had better be true, because I’ll be wanting it.
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