Dubai Cares -- Way too Much!

Friday - 9 in the morning, and instead of being curled up in my comfy bed, here I was at Zabeel Park volunteering for the Step Up Festival. Being all hyper and enthused about my good deed for the day, I proudly marched up to the volunteer registration lady and signed up for the event. At this point I feel like million bucks, and THEN my self-loving bubble very abruptly burst. This is so because apparently everyone in Dubai had the same idea - there was a volunteer overload, making the volunteer and participant ratio 3 - 1. Thats when I volunteered to step back.

Slightly frustrated but still upbeat, I grabbed my bro's camera and started taking random shots of the volunteers and the crowd, thats when i noticed Him. Red t-shirt, blue denims and a killer smile. There was something about this fellow - was it the tatoo on his bulging biceps or was it his cute french beard? Mayby it was just the amazing way he interacted with the children that held my attention. Well the mystery to his magnetic persona was instantly solved when he removed his shades. IT WAS THE RAY BANS! The minute he removed them, this hot attractive young man was transferred to an ordinary looking fellow!

So this is where I came with up the SHADES THEORY - "Branded Sunglasses which cover more than 20% of the face automatically makes the wearer, especially a guy, HOT." 


At lunch, I had more evidence to support this theory. I was in my car, outside Jabal Al Noor in Satwa, minding my own business, eating my filafil, when suddenly - BAM BAM BAM BAM - this guy wearing expensive Versaches gives me the shock of  my life, by banging the bonnet of my car with both his hands. At this point I should have been pissed, but then i thought "hmm the bonnets broken, hes probably trying to fix it, how niice." Then he removed those shades to reveal those crazy to God eyes and a heavy dose of eyeliner, thats when my defense mechanism kicked in and I rudely exclaimed "Dude its broken!!!". Got the hell out of there and promised myself never to even check out guys who wear shades.

Anyways the moral of the story:

1) Dubai cares waaay too much.
2) Never trust a guy until he removes those branded shades.
3) Fix the bonnet of your car before a creep scares the life out of you.

Giving in to Temptations

I thought I knew me. Nop --- spying into another person's life through social networking sites, is not me! Fake fb friends, small talk, the pressure of "status updates," selecting the perfect profile picture --- who wants that kind of stress?? I mean I am more than satisfied in keeping in touch with 2-3 people who I can have a good long chat with and be ME, rather than having 200 non - friends on facebook.

Soooo here I was the lone anti facebook warrior who had the audacity to delete her account. Trust me, i got a lot of heat from EVERYONE: friends - family - random ppl in uni and the metro! Didnt think a facebook ban can be a real conversation starter - at the mere mention of not having a fb account, you get a "are u mad look", accompanied by a painful smile and in some instances a high pitched voice going : 

FB Addict: OMG, you are not on faceboook?? Whhhhyyyy..... did u have a bad break up? is da guy stalking you.... honeey da guy can stop ur whole social liiifeee!

Me: Yaaa me not on fb.... No i jus believe in the 'face to face' conversation concept or the 'phone to phone' conversation more than a 'profile to profile' chat.

FBA: oooooooh -- i c, but how do u keep in touch wid far of frnds who ull neva see again.

Me: hmmm true true, but fb was the means for a small, polite, uncomfortable chat lasting for a couple of days which would, after the chat period, bring back ur orginal friendship status to --- "not so much in touch now".

FBA: Lollllzzz ur jus weird, i mean dont u wanna upload pictures and show off who u partied with in which weekend ????

Me: ummmmmm superficial muccch????

FBA: eeeerrrr i got to go update my status ---- nice talking to u... BYE!

By this time, you would have identified how shallow or deep the person is --- i mean wht attracts a person to FB, genuine concerns abt picture uploading (mayby the self obessed kind??) or taking an effort to reconnect with friends and family?"

Anyways, my self imposed hiatus of facebook has come to a sad end. why u may wonder, well the answer is curiosity - im done being condescending to all facebookers, thanks to a very close personal friend (whose a renowned fb addict), i have found new found happiness in stalking poor unsuspecting facebook friends..... Hopefully my addiction with facebook would be based on a genuine effort to connect with the people who really matter and of course to be in da "gossip loop" again :) Well u knw wht they say --- "If u cant beat em --- join em :P"