Hmmm.....
No sure what to title this one, got lots to write about....
Last night I decided I would be brave and try something new.. (no it's not being responsible..lol) so I went to the Dubai World Trade Centre for the Jagjit Singh show... but of course with my luck, I get there and the damn thing is sold out.. very nice venue, stuck around there for about an hour to see if anybody was scalping or selling their extra tickets...there was one idiot who wanted 250 Dhs for 500 dhs seats.. but he got the tix for free... moron.. like anybody is that stupid.
Came back to the hotel, and decided to go see my "Friend" at the Mujjrah... I gave her a call (with the help of my translator...thanks Tasha) and was informed that she now suddenly had a boyfriend.. oh well.. :( so I figure I'm a sucker for punishment, headed over there with one of the guys that hangs out at the hotel Raja... got there, had dinner while looking at all the celebs (Indian) that Raja has met, Hema Malini, Salman Khan and Preity Zinta to name a few... not a bad collection of pics... saw the "boyfriend" dude's old and like 40! WTF? anywayz, left there and back to the hotel for some masala chai and then headed off to bed.
thought I would wake up early and get a headstart on shizzy.. didn't happen, woke up, watched smallville, dragged my ass out of bed and had a shower... by the time I got out it was already 1pm.. oh well.. headed over to the bus station to get the bus to this new mall called Ibn Butata mall ... waiting for the bus, some guy walks up to me and asks if I want to share a cab.. Sure.. no problem I say.. so he finds another guy and we left, dropped him off, picked up 3 more people at a bus stop down the way, dropped them off and finally made it to the mall, paid the guy 25Dhs and he said he'd come back at 6 to get me...
Now this mall.. the damn thing is HUGE!!! has 6 malls all in one, lots of stores, got the opportunity to get the autographs of the Bombay Rockets.. umm.. I mean the Bombay Rockers... didn't do it tho... don't know who they are.. not that it stopped me from getting a picture taken with one of Nairobi's stars.. a fella named Nameless and his girlfriend (can't remember her name).. eh... whatever.
Did some window shopping, things are expensive in the mall.. but I did find this really cool jukebox thingy .. Called the Elio Damn this thing rocks... 20gb storage, right form the card, FM Radio, voice recorder direct copy MP3, JPG storage... OMG!!! I think I am a little too much of a computer geek. So I wanted to know if the price was a good price... went into another one of the stores and covertly used one of their display laptops (that had Wifi enabled) to surf google and find the price.. 260 Pounds, so about 650 Canadian, their price worked out to be about 420 Canadian.. not a bad deal at all for what it gets me... then I don't have to keep burning CD's everywhere I go... I guess I don't really need it... but I wanna... :( we'll see if I get the chance to get it again.. the reason I didn't get it, is that I thought that it was missing a part (box was open) now that I'm at the Internet Cafe (shared a laugh with Madeleine from Australia over one guy who was making really annoying smooching noises into the microphone, to another guy that was singing along to the BlackStreet boys.. 'Backstreets back aaiigt', I said if someone starts dancing, I'm gettin the F@#K out of here) I find out that the part that was missing, is an optional part... DOH!
Get out to the entrance and wait until 6:10 for my good friend Vincent (the "cabbie" ) of course my luck dictates that he doesn't show up... great... so I had to grab a cab to get back in time to go to Khane... Thanks Rafiq for the ride...sorry for being late... and the cab costs me 55 DHS... DOH! and I was late, and the damn cab had a governor.. 120kph...any faster and the damn thing beeps at you...BEEP! came back from khane, headed back to the hotel only to find out that they didn't fix the leaky floor in the bathroom... eh, I don't feel like moving rooms tonite, so I'll leave it for tomorrow, already moved rooms once this trip... if they can get it fixed while I am in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, then YAY, if not, I guess I get a new room. Left the hotel, went to look for cell phones... figure I should get one that's unlocked and cheap here. Pop in a Sim card there and Voila..SMS and cheap LD calls... lets see how it works out...
I had a good chicken curry and chapati and paratha (bit spicy) but good, I forgot how yummy the food here is...mmm... and hit the Internet Cafe...
I still have some more stories from Nairobi that are pending, will get them up as soon as I can (maybe on my 13 HOUR NON-STOP FLIGHT TO SYDNEY (how the hell did I agree to that?!?!?!?) ) [had to close both open brackets.. Feisal=Geek]
:)
Last night I decided I would be brave and try something new.. (no it's not being responsible..lol) so I went to the Dubai World Trade Centre for the Jagjit Singh show... but of course with my luck, I get there and the damn thing is sold out.. very nice venue, stuck around there for about an hour to see if anybody was scalping or selling their extra tickets...there was one idiot who wanted 250 Dhs for 500 dhs seats.. but he got the tix for free... moron.. like anybody is that stupid.
Came back to the hotel, and decided to go see my "Friend" at the Mujjrah... I gave her a call (with the help of my translator...thanks Tasha) and was informed that she now suddenly had a boyfriend.. oh well.. :( so I figure I'm a sucker for punishment, headed over there with one of the guys that hangs out at the hotel Raja... got there, had dinner while looking at all the celebs (Indian) that Raja has met, Hema Malini, Salman Khan and Preity Zinta to name a few... not a bad collection of pics... saw the "boyfriend" dude's old and like 40! WTF? anywayz, left there and back to the hotel for some masala chai and then headed off to bed.
thought I would wake up early and get a headstart on shizzy.. didn't happen, woke up, watched smallville, dragged my ass out of bed and had a shower... by the time I got out it was already 1pm.. oh well.. headed over to the bus station to get the bus to this new mall called Ibn Butata mall ... waiting for the bus, some guy walks up to me and asks if I want to share a cab.. Sure.. no problem I say.. so he finds another guy and we left, dropped him off, picked up 3 more people at a bus stop down the way, dropped them off and finally made it to the mall, paid the guy 25Dhs and he said he'd come back at 6 to get me...
Now this mall.. the damn thing is HUGE!!! has 6 malls all in one, lots of stores, got the opportunity to get the autographs of the Bombay Rockets.. umm.. I mean the Bombay Rockers... didn't do it tho... don't know who they are.. not that it stopped me from getting a picture taken with one of Nairobi's stars.. a fella named Nameless and his girlfriend (can't remember her name).. eh... whatever.
Did some window shopping, things are expensive in the mall.. but I did find this really cool jukebox thingy .. Called the Elio Damn this thing rocks... 20gb storage, right form the card, FM Radio, voice recorder direct copy MP3, JPG storage... OMG!!! I think I am a little too much of a computer geek. So I wanted to know if the price was a good price... went into another one of the stores and covertly used one of their display laptops (that had Wifi enabled) to surf google and find the price.. 260 Pounds, so about 650 Canadian, their price worked out to be about 420 Canadian.. not a bad deal at all for what it gets me... then I don't have to keep burning CD's everywhere I go... I guess I don't really need it... but I wanna... :( we'll see if I get the chance to get it again.. the reason I didn't get it, is that I thought that it was missing a part (box was open) now that I'm at the Internet Cafe (shared a laugh with Madeleine from Australia over one guy who was making really annoying smooching noises into the microphone, to another guy that was singing along to the BlackStreet boys.. 'Backstreets back aaiigt', I said if someone starts dancing, I'm gettin the F@#K out of here) I find out that the part that was missing, is an optional part... DOH!
Get out to the entrance and wait until 6:10 for my good friend Vincent (the "cabbie" ) of course my luck dictates that he doesn't show up... great... so I had to grab a cab to get back in time to go to Khane... Thanks Rafiq for the ride...sorry for being late... and the cab costs me 55 DHS... DOH! and I was late, and the damn cab had a governor.. 120kph...any faster and the damn thing beeps at you...BEEP! came back from khane, headed back to the hotel only to find out that they didn't fix the leaky floor in the bathroom... eh, I don't feel like moving rooms tonite, so I'll leave it for tomorrow, already moved rooms once this trip... if they can get it fixed while I am in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, then YAY, if not, I guess I get a new room. Left the hotel, went to look for cell phones... figure I should get one that's unlocked and cheap here. Pop in a Sim card there and Voila..SMS and cheap LD calls... lets see how it works out...
I had a good chicken curry and chapati and paratha (bit spicy) but good, I forgot how yummy the food here is...mmm... and hit the Internet Cafe...
I still have some more stories from Nairobi that are pending, will get them up as soon as I can (maybe on my 13 HOUR NON-STOP FLIGHT TO SYDNEY (how the hell did I agree to that?!?!?!?) ) [had to close both open brackets.. Feisal=Geek]
:)
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