Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi was where my test was to be held, fairly a two hours drive from the hotel where I was stayin in Dubai(I could not get a free hotel because of the arms fair that was taking place in Abu Dhabi and all the hotels (at least the good ones) were booked one month in advance :). Anyway Dubai was a great place to stay.

Got to stay in a hotel named Avari(Its supposed to be some high end hotel(4 star) with branches in Pakistan and other countries(Source: office collegue). The hotel was booked for the 22nd and I reached Dubai at 12am 22nd early morning(Courtesy:Jazeera Airways). Then the blunder, I forgot that hotel's usually have a check in time and Avari Hotel had a checkin time for 22nd at 12pm!!! Well since I thought money was not a problem I told them go ahead and book me another room. Turned out that there was no other room left..blahhhh. With nowhere to go, I did what I thought I was good at ..thats finding a solution! well the only solution that came out was that I had to take up the last SUITE room which costed like 3 times my booked room pay. Thats when i realised I did have a money problem hehe. Then the magic of the CREDIT CARD. :) But just about then I thought why not call up my friends instead of paying up for a suite for which I really would'nt need, and try my luck, If not then, no choice but an oversized suite for me.

Luckly got a friend whose parent's had shifted back to India a long time back. He was more than willing to let me stay at his place for the nite. The nite went chatting and the next mornign went with the playstation games. Suddenly got back my interest in video games. this is after my last game console being the SEGA(Oh how I loved the machine)

Well then remembered I had an exam the next day so had to get back to the hotel and proberly start studing, yah I said "proberly" because the time I reached the hotel, I was on the TV glued to the Satellite Movies (Maybe more coz I actually dont have satellite at home, Funny nah! but I have only Mallu channels back in Kuwait). Actually thinking about it, I neva had much time to watch TV since I started working and more like since I got my driver's licence(Freedom licence for me) :)

Well I ended up reaching the exam late the next morning, traffic was something new. Now i realised where the word traffic came from, yah its from Dubai's congested roads. Till then I thought okie Dubai to Abu dhabi is the worst(Yah that's then). But after my exam and coming back from Abu Dhabi to Dubai I knew what could be worser!!! 3.5 hours!!!!! and thinking it would be a nice rather than catching the bus and come in these private seven seaters proved to be an idea from the wrong side of the brain. Not only was the vehicle cramped up but the AC was switched off just before the vehicle started moving(very smart move by driver). Well the only consoling fact was that I would have reached much later or proberly missed my flight if I had caught the bus back to Dubai. The fact that the seven seater van driven by a Patan as they were called were cheap which was 10 Dhirams compared to the 50 Dhirams I paid for a private taxi(Camry model) from Dubai to Abu Dhabi (included wasting 45 minutes waiting for co-passengers).

Well the building's alongside King Zayed road was amazing, nothing in comparison to that from Kuwait, got to saw Burj Dubai tower under construction . It's supposed to be the tallest building in the world once its completed :)

Once I made it to Dubai, made a quick stopover at the hotel freshened up and taxied to the airport and met up with a friend of my sisters who was in the airport waitin for my sister's arrival. YESS my sister was coming when I was leaving. Considering the 5 days of holidays would be boring in the country she hopped into Dubai to meet up with her friends.

Well soon after my sister arrived, I was dropped off to my terminal by the top Dubai Driver Awardee (my award) i.e. my sister's friend. Well and I was back to my Jazeera flight and in no time back to Kuwait. Reaching Kwuait I realised something.... I was gona be 4 days at home all ALONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Yipeeeeeee

and so starts my 4 days of Bachelorhood(I refer it to independence)....