Location: Outside Kinokuniya, The Dubai Mall. Time: Now (give or take 5 minutes)
I’m sitting outside Kinokuniya, on the couches there… using the mall’s free wifi.
I arrived in Dubai this morning… I’m staying at a hotel called Copthrone… It’s an isalmic hotel, where women at the reception wear veils and it has no alcohol or anything… My father chose that one. Why? No idea. It’s probably because of my 2 sisters, he wants to make sure they are safe. But I have nothing against the hotel… It’s just I never thought it existed…
Ok. the guy that sat next to me when I started writing this just moved to another couch, I think he was reading what I was writing… he sat normally and when I started writing he leaned back… like really back, and I felt that his breath became nearer… anyways, the hotel is ok I mean… who am I to complain, right? I’m staying here for 4 days for free…
I think I spent 1 hour and a half in Kinokuniya… I got 3 books… 2 for me, 1 for a friend… I wanted to get more but I left my money at the hotel’s room… because I knew I was gonna go berserk here… which I am tomorrow or the day after…
My sisters went to something called “The Dragon Mall”? where they sell cheap chinese slaves… Not! they have all kind of cheap stuff… like really cheap… like beyond cheapness… anyways…
I’m meeting a facebook friend in an hour or so… chat over coffee… we never met before… and she’s paying for it! that was my condition because I’m here for free right? but I’m gonna pay for my coffee and her’s… I don’t pretend to be a gentleman because I am one!
My other Emarati friends are all busy today and I’ll probably meet some of them on Saturday… Tomorrow I’m taking my sister’s to the ice-thingy-thingy in The Mall of Emirates and then have lunch and not go for shopping with them!
My iPod shuffled to “The Christmas Wish” John Denver and The Muppets… nice song…
What I like about being in Dubai, and I probably said that before is that I lose my identity here… people don’t have an idea where am I from… for them I’m just someone who can speak english and that’s it… In Kuwait whenever you go somewhere you are treated as a Kuwaiti… not that’s a good or a bad thing… They just know you are from Kuwait and treat you with a certain judgment in mind, again it could be positive or negative… I haven’t traveled a lot really so it might be a normal feeling whenever I go anywhere… cuz I think I look international baybay!!
Yesterday was the last day of shooting the tv ad… I finally slept 13 hours… after sleeping a total of 6 hours in 4 days… it was hectic but I’m glad it went really good… I already miss it… got used to seeing everyone 14 hours a day for 10 days… hopefully you’ll see the commercial in Ramadhan… I’ll post it here if it gets on youtube or something…
Anyone wants anything from here? other than those who already asked for things? : - )
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My little sister got 97.1% at school and got me locked in a 3 minutes hug… I’m gonna get her something really nice from here…
I was watching the last episode of “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” a few weeks ago… I teared towards the end… Do you think that’s too much dedication to comedy? hmmm……
I’m growing my beard again, did I say that before?
When I go back to Kuwait, I’m gonna lose 10 Kgs. … not on the same day! but gonna work on it…
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This goes to my lovely white rose…