Bye Bye Dubai

This is it.. time to leave. I'll really miss Dubai, it has been a great experience. Over the past few years it seems like we've grown together. Here's my ode to Dubai ... it had to be in sentimental (albeit rickety) verse.

Ode to Dubai

I covet this glittering jewel in the sand

No task or milestone too big for this land

Tallest tower, Longest marina,

Man made palm seen from the moon.

No mirage this, rather a calculated plan

For the oil may be over soon.

Willingly did I let it seduce

And flashed my wallet to the flimsiest excuse

Flashy red car, oversized IT bag,

Bling bling sunglasses and the latest Jimmy Choos

Little did I care for the blistering heat

So taken was I with the sea view

From my loft apartment, so painstakingly built

By men with mouths to feed and means too few

If Dubai is mine, then a nomad I must be

To follow shifting sands and changing reality

True to its traditions therefore I must be

And move to the next big thing I see

We meet again then, Inshallah

You have been a good and trusted friend

For all journeys pass through the centre of the world

Even if they are to world’s end.

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Confusions of a new world woman in love

Nobody said anything about falling in love and landing yourself in an existential dilemma. I thought you met someone, fell in love, held hands and looked happily thereafter into the sunset.

Instead here I am, moving countries for the second time in 3 years, setting up from scratch, wondering if I'll ever be able to build the kind of career I imagined, and desperately trying to ignore that rational voice in my constantly asking me if this is indeed what I want to do.

Larger issues aside however, moving is fun. In the last few weeks, I've bought furniture with gay abandon, stocked up on insane amounts of food, shopped delightedly for summer clothes and winter clothes, shoes, bags.... the list goes on. I also get to learn a new language, discover this new place and its way of life.

I've also decided to keep a blog of my journeys, as a traveller and a human being. Let's see where the new world lifestyle takes me.

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