OMG! Usher Live in Dubai! Yeah! He’ll Get You Fallin’ in Love, definitely. So just let it Burn. He is set to perform in Dubai Media City Amphitheatre on March 10, 2011 Thursday. Tickets are priced as:
For motorists, oh man, it took us 3 hours to get out of the jam and reach home. People were also crossing Sheikh Zayed Road, climbing fences and the traffic was totally on halt. The Police were visible, only that they gave favor more on the crowd, than the motorists. Let my photos tell you the rest of the story. More photos on this link to my album.
The Galaxy Tab’s 7-inch little frame transforms the way you communicate, socialize and organize. Just imagine having your laptop, mobile phone, entertainment room and an entire office in one slim pack. It definitely is more of a usable gadget than just a pure-fancy one.
MULTI-INPUT FEATURE
I love that the Galaxy Tab doesn’t have the annoying auto-correct feature. For text inputs, it has a virtual QWERTY keyboard (which has a more convenient symbol switching) and SWYPE™ – I can do my emails or SMS easily either by using my thumbs or by using the SWYPE input technology. See my video on how to use SWYPE.
There’s also a Voice Input feature for web browsing. Just clear up your throat, speak legibly on the mic and you’ll get what you’re searching for.
STORAGE DISK
I can store any files in it via its proprietary USB or via Bluetooth. It comes along with its own program to browse files (Kies), but there’s an option to skip that and use it just like any other external disk.
This is how Christmassy Dubai has become. As if malls are in a competition to outshine each other with the most elegantly decorated tree. I almost forgot I am in a Muslim country. A big thanks to the leader of this nation in also acknowledging the festivities of other culture and religion. UAE is the best example of a community living in an interfaith unity.
Happy 39th UAE National Day!
The country is in its festive mood once again. The National Day is one of the most, if not the most, joyfully celebrated holiday in the UAE. Today marks its 39th. It’s the time to express love, appreciation and respect to the nation that cares not only about its citizens, but about everyone who lives here. The holiday is usually celebrated with street parades of cars and floats patriotically pimped with the UAE national colors of red, green, white and black. There are also traditional and modern concerts scheduled across the nation. There are also a lot of activities scheduled by museums, parks, malls and communities. Schedule.
In commemoration and tribute to the fastest developing nation in the world today, Google created and is using this logo for today:
Here are some photos depicting how people in the country celebrate the holiday:
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| Photo by The Schwartz Family Blog |
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| Photo by Global Arab Network |
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| Photo by Time Out Abu Dhabi |
Gulf News has listed the itineraries for the weekend. Click here to view the jampacked schedule.
A newborn dolphin at the Dubai Dolphinarium needs a name. The metre-long, 10-kilo baby dolphin was born on October 10, 2010. You have all the right to suggest a name. Gulf News and Dubai Dolphinarium have teamed up for the ‘Name the Baby Dolphin’ campaign.
You can email your suggestions to readers@gulfnews.com or log on to http://gulfnews.com/in-focus/babydolphin. to learn more.
On Christmas, December 25, the Dolphinarium will shortlist the five most unique names and people can vote online.
The results will be announced on January 1, 2011 and the winner will meet the calf and receive a one-year family membership to the Dolphinarium. Additionally, he or she will receive 2 ‘swimming with the dolphins’ passes. The four runners-up will also get a chance to meet the dolphin.
Read the full article on Gulfnews here.
Here are some tips:
Be sure to elaborate your reasons when you email your suggestions to Gulf News. Be creative but don’t write a novel.
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| Fujairah Open Beach at a glance |
The family went to Fujairah for the first time, Wednesday 17th of November, to spend the Eid holiday (it’s the last ‘official’ day) on the beach. Man, we spent more hours on the road than on the beach. It was totally packed come lunch time.
I had a little commotion actually with ‘an official in civilian’ (I bet not a police) on the beach. While we were on waters, he kept knocking on our tent – and he didn’t stopped til about 5 minutes so we decided to approach him. He asked us to remove the tent as it is prohibited in the beach PARK. I argued with him about that ‘lousy’ PARK policy, but my wife interfere to pacify before things heat up. We’ve got all our things inside – and – it’s in an open park so I believe that having a tent is a must so we can peacefully leave our cameras, cellphones and wallet, and go swimming. Without any valid reasons. we submitted to what that official wanted. Whew.
You know what, we drove to another area in Fujairah, Al Aqqa and actually found lots of tents. Anyway, here are some pictures I’ve taken.
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| The other side |
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| And the port nearby |
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| On the way to Al Aqah Beach |
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| The other campers |
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| Others just settled on the rocks |
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| Into the deep. It was a rocky shore before reaching this part. We literally have to swim right from there til about 15m to enjoy the water. |
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| And since it’s an open beach… everybody’s welcome. |
I stumbled on Louise’s profile on Facebook and shocked to read the above wall post from someone. How bitter could one get for only not winning in a game of ‘chances?’ This lowly racial slur is totally out of context and unacceptable. Now that’s ridiculous for you. I feel for Louise.
Virgin Radio and Nahel.com had a radio-cum-facebook competition, “Show the Love” that ran in the last 3-4 weeks. To qualify to win an iPhone 4 or a Dell Vostro Laptop, one has to register on Virgin Radio’s website and change their Facebook or Twitter’s profile picture into a ‘Show The Love Photo’ (downloadable from their website).
Radio hosts call the winner’s name on-air and give them some 40 minutes to call the station to win the prize.
I also listen to Virgin and I could attest that there were far more other nationalities winning than Filipinos. Mr. Bitter could have just only spotted on a Filipino in times he tune in the radio. Check Virgin Radio Dubai’s Facebook page and you’ll see some random names of the winners.
Louise Da Costa is doing the show Mak and Da Costa with Ali Mak, a non-Filipino, weeknights from 8pm to 12midnight.
Mr. Bitter… move on dude!
