A Local Expatriate

I am not sure. Should I start writing again? OR Should I shut down this blog once and for all?

My blog has not been updated in a long time. It's pretty much dead. Sort of like how I feel some days. In July it will be exactly 4...

The recession is the best thing that could have ever happened to Dubai..... It's like this big, brash egoistic drama queen who thought h...

2008 has been an absolute roller coaster ride. One of the toughest, most demanding and challenging year in my life. Its great to revel in t...

Dubai oh Dubai... My oh my have you changed. There is not a single aspect of you that has remained the same. You have mushroomed from a litt...

Is it me or has Ramadan become too commercialised this year?

Thought I'd repost something I wrote about Ramadan last year, as it is applicable to ever Ramadan I have been through. The chill out mon...

'The Black Dog' is what Winston Churchill called. It is dark, hollow, tragic, mysterious, crippling but worst of all its soulless. D...

STOP IT! STOP! STOP!! STOP destroying the very soul of the city. STOP tearing down all my memories STOP demolishing all my past Why do you h...

Why is it so hard to find a job in a boom town? Is it because of my education, personality, nationality, skin colour, age or is it just that...

It is really strange how time changes so many things. I look back at my life upon returning to the UAE and fast forward almost 2 years to t...

I’m tired. I’m tired of being treated like an illegal alien. Unwanted and unappreciated. Put through shit just to sort out my vi...

I am an atheist and ‘my god’ does it feel so good to finally say it. ;-)

"Fitna is a film by Dutch politician Geert Wilders , leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV) in the Dutch parliament . The movie offe...

" What has made Dubai into such a major Arab and international city ?" That is a question that I am asked quite frequently by peop...

A few lines left as an anonymous comment to this post A little poetry ? “Where are you from?” I come from a place so hypocritical but mine A...

The public education system is an aspect of the UAE society that I have always said needs immediate attention and a drastic overhaul that ha...

I should have written this during Ramadan but for some reason I never got around to doing so. When I was too young to fast my mother/aunt/gr...

"So you've been here your whole life. WOW! I didn't think people came out here twenty five years ago" LOL ;-) That is pret...

Dubai has, what I think, the highest concentration of half-castes anywhere in the world. I do apologise if any of you got offended by the ...