Force Vacation

Force vacation is common in the middle east specially if you are working in the hospitality industry. This is because of summer or we called off peak season. Usually hospitality industry in middle east is not busy during this season.
During this times most company are sending some of their employee for a month or so vacation. usually occur in the month of may, June, July, to august and when September its very rare that a company sends their employee for vacation because this start the busy days and Ramadan.

Because of this I am now searching for a possible place to go for my vacation. Last year I went to Thailand and maybe next time is Singapore since its easy for a Filipino to get there. I want to go somewhere in Europe coz the ticket from Dubai is affordable but my problem is I heard its quit difficult to get a tourist visa specially for me. I checked for the requirements and its too much . Bank accounts, insurance etc etc. and I do not have those things. How can I possibly go to Europe?
Anyway I am still hoping.
There are some countries in US, Europe which no need visa for Filipino but the ticket is expensive coz there is no direct flight to go there.
Well maybe Ill just go somewhere in Asia or better I go to Philippines to see my family even though the ticket is expensive.

Perfect day. almost

Almost perfect. I woke up nicely at 7 am, I fold my clothes, I change my bed sheet, I prepare my self to go to work. I had a nice sit on the bus, I fell sleep and suddenly woke up because the bus tire get flat. One of the staff help the driver to fix it then we reach the hotel for almost 1 hour which is sopposed to be 30 minutes only.
Today is my first day in this kitchen, I move here coz the othey chef was terminated and they need someone to replace them. The menu is easy and I think it will be easy for me to do it. After almost 8 hour we finished and we go.
When I come home my friend is cooking nice food and we eat.
Now I am sitting here, doing this while watching TV,
LIFE IS EASY today.

First taste of STARBUCKS

After more than 10 years of tempting to drink Starbucks coffee finally I did it last night, 11 pm, May 21 2010 Dubai.
When I was in manila I was always curious to know and taste at least one of their so called COZY coffee in manila. As we all know Starbucks is very popular in the world, and because of that coffee in here was expensive for me. Because of this I never tried to look and check how much is it really. Based on what I have heard from others its around P100.oo the small cup where in I can drink coffee outside for only P5.oo to P20.oo the nice one. Starbucks coffee is all over the street of manila specially in the part makati and ortigas center. how you will not temp to go sit, relax drink coffee and enjoy the view. A lot of nice looking people are sitting there like promulgating we are here...some are just trying hard drinking one coffee for almost 1 hour..lol.. yes there are some people like that. people have this in mind that if you are there having a coffee they will think you're cozy.
Just because i found it expensive i am just practical not to go there. But last night it was good..My First Time In Starbucks. Well The coffee is good I do not know how they do that... i hope I can do the same in the house...i drink coffee and cinnamon. its not expensive here just okay but if you convert to peso very expensive.
to experience these things makes THE GOOD LIFE.

Education is "not" important

Now that I am here working.. lets say my not so ideal job. I realized that education is very important. Yes what our parent are saying is true. We need to study hard for our good future. Because with EDUCATION we have a knowledge and if we have knowledge we have a courage's to face everything.
If we finished college we have the courage's to choose the job we want, we can design our future, and more that we can do, we can have almost everything we want.
As compare if you didn't finished college you might be working in a job which you didn't like, You might be force to do the things you do not like for you to earn not so good money.
Maybe there are some lucky people there who do not need to study but have a good life , good future, but they are only some. you may not be one of them. it better to be sure so for you guys out there this is your chance to start for a good life specially the young people.

I do not want to argue.

Life for me is easy. I do not want any misunderstanding. I'll do what you want as long as it will not hurt me, others and is according to the standards.
Because I do not want to argue Ill just write it here. I have friend he don't want to lose whenever we are discussing something, but its different this time coz I enjoy to argue with him. coz i know his attitude.. so end the end of our discussion I always tell him " you know what I enjoy to argue with you" and he said so you're making me stupid? no no no. I just enjoy it.
But you know some people like my boss, he always starting to have an arguments since I know him already i just say yes. sure. why not. things like that and he will stop. sometimes he is contiously talking to me where he heard only yes from me. he is always saying nonsense things. like you need to do that, you should not do that as if I am doing it. I felt that if i continue arguing with him will be bad and feel sorry for him as a boss coz of his nonsense reasoning. and i do not like it to happened. and it hurts me if i argue to the people. coz i do not want to hurt people. They can hurt me but I cannot hurt them.

Khaosan Road, The open secret.

I have been in Khaosan road, The BACKPACKERS HEAVEN, In bangkok and stay there for 15days, i enjoy going out and see the the bangkok has to offer.
Just from the airport I go directly to the city, I ask the driver where is the best place to stay for a tourist like me. he referred me to khaosan road,and we get there. When I see it its just a normal view the same like what i always see in manila, The people on the street, vendors, shops etc etc. I walk around and look for a nice place to sleep at least for the night. I was surprise there are so many guest house in there ranging from 100 baht(3USD) 300 baht per night, this one is a single room some with air con and some just have fan. If you want the nice one you can have it as there are also a hotels around kahosan. In the afternoon you'll see a lot of vendors around selling things like pirated Cd's, magazines, street food, clothing, services like tattoos, ear piercing almost everything you want kahosan road has it. In the night the street is very live and loud, the bars are open and people are enjoyng to party. you can drink and be drunk on the street. Diffierent nationalities from white to black, asian and arabic are there to enjoy, drink and be drunk. The food are cheap as 10 baht for one phad thai, There are also 24 hours open 7 eleven where in you can also buy alcoholic beverages etc. I was thinking these people really are enjoying there life in bangkok. They can have everything they want in bangkok. no to much restriction s on almost eveything. But of course the place are safe as the police station is just around the corner, but it doesnt stop the people to party and be what they want.
Around 2 am as the people are drunk ansd some are sleeping on the sidewalk, people are less and this is the time the ladies are out for their business. Yea prostitution is all over the place, and you know what some of them are not really a ladies they are LADY BOY. You will not notice it,coz they are more beautiful than the real lady. They will just approaches you in the steet touches you etc til they convince you to go with them. And they have room somewhere out there.

It's nice that I've been there. I learned things. Bangkok is a nice place to live the GOOD LIFE.

Dubai marina beach

Today I woke up 6 oclock in the morning.. ah I am day off today. My plan is to read and study about so many things about blogging. but then i felt lazy to read and decided to go to the beach.
Dubai Marina beach is the closest in my place so I went there by taxi, it cost 18 aed. Then I take a breakfast in Chowking it cost 17 aed, it was nice coz its a Filipino Chinese restaurant, way back in manila I always eat in chowking.
Its summer now in dubai, even its 7 am in the morning the humidity is very hot that is why swimming is the best thing to do. as early as 7 am the beach is crowded already. Different people, mix nationality. I enjoy watching these people some wearing thong and some wearing abaya while swimming, some are really funny. The beach is open with a huge car park, hotels and restaurant, but the only problem is there is no public changing and shower room.
Dubai Marina is a nice place to walk, to eat , to relax and to met new friends. Some of the establishement here are open 24 hours.
Around 11 am when i go home, I take a shower and then I sleep after. I woke up around 2 pm, I eat then I clean the house , I check my facebook computer things etc. and now 1 am early morning I am writing this while eating instant noodles and orange juice.

Lemon Dressing

Lemon dressing is a very popular dressing of mix green leaves,or leafy salad. All the hotels and restaurant are serving salad with this dressing.
I remember when I was new in the kitchen, I do not have any idea about this salad dressing. But the chefs are very much willing to teach me and I want to learn of course.
There are different ways but I am going to teach you what I've learned from my chef.
We need the following:
1/2 cup Lemon juice
1 tsp Dijon Mustard
1/4 cup olive oil
1 cup corn oil
1 tbsp honey or sugar syrup.
salt
pepper

1.In a blender put the lemon juice, mustard, sugar syrup or honey and blend it.
2.While blending add the olive oil and corn oil little by little or slowlyb slowly or gradually.(lol..how come i do not know the correct grammar)
3.Add salt and peper or more lemon etc depending on your taste.

Through times you will learn different techniques on making lemon dressing. why it separates from oil and how not to separate. the thickness of the dressing, the taste of course.

Some chef they add some grilled shallots, lemon zest, thyme etc.
And these is the job of the chefs. To get the maximum taste of their salad.

Around the world

Everybody wants to travel and backpacked the world, easy to say but very difficult to do if you do not have TIME and MONEY.
When i was in the Philippines all I want is to travel and see all the beautiful and natural wonders of the Philippines, But I do not have money to do that. If I have money I cannot because I do not have time. TIME and MONEY is very important.
Life is still the same but At least I've been in Thailand for 15 days and i enjoyed it. Thailand is good, has a lot of nice beaches, people are friendly but very difficult to communicate most people do not speak english.
I want to see the castles in romania, the pyramid in egypt, the mountains in himalaya, the opera house in australia, beautiful people in venezuela, the green environment in new zealand, the technolgy in japan, the nightlife in ibiza, the busy life in new york. china, singafore, hongkong etc. and of course The Philippines.

European in Dubai

Well This is life.
A lot of people wants to go to europe coz they think they will have a good life in there. but did you know that there are so many europeans who really love to work, stay and live a good life here in Dubai. Some of them work as a food server, bartender, salesman and the most are profesionals.
Here are some of the reasons why these people wants to works and live a good life in here.
Lot's of mix beautiful lady. lol
Tax free income
Limited crime
Mix nationalities
Opportunity to travel to some interesting close by destinations
Lot's of holiday
Kids playing with other kids from all over the world
Cheap house cleaning
Cheap cars
Cheap petrol
Cheap babysitting
No drunken yobs/youths lining the streets
Swim on the beach in 2 piece/trunks/thong
opportunity to learn about different cultures, languages and religions
Fast documents processing.
Disco, bars and restaurant selling alcohol.
24 hours establishments
Open City.

And you know what? There are some european who like Dubai because of the heat of Summer.

And they want to erase what they posted on facebook.

A lot of people are using Facebook these days. as we all know this is really a big help to connect to the people who are really a matter to us, these also help us to find new friends and learn what they are doing in life. These also help us to be updated for what is going on around us, around the world.
As we all know with facebook we can post and broadcast anything we have in mind, things like "i am very happy today" and its not always like that. as we are all emotional and sometimes do not have control on what we are posting. We should be careful in everything we post, its much worst than we just say it. because we are writing it and everybody who matter to us can see it. and for sure some of them will be ofended if in case you post something bad like "I hate my boss". careful this might be a cause for you get terminated in your job.

This facebook issue is now botherings some of my collegue here in my new job. some of them deleted their previous posted messages and now starting to apologize for what they posted.

Yesterday morning all department head recieved an email from the General Manager giving a warning to all the employees not to post something bad related to the job or to the company coz this might be a cause of their termination.

What happened is, the headquarter in Italy has seen this posted messages in facebook " after working staright for 1 month without day off and working more than 10 hours each day and they called me while I am sleeping to say i need to come to work at 6 am. f__k mangement" and then the headquarter email the GM and the GM emailed to all the department regarding the warning.

And i heard a lot of news regarding termination with regards to posting messages in facebook. like the staffs of one airline company when one flight stewards says "we have a lot of monkey passengers" accompany by a picture.
So be careful..
Lets just live the goodlife.

Means of Transportation in Dubai

Dubai Transportation is using a NOL card, its a prepaid card that you can use as a ticket to use public transportation in Dubai and soon you can use the prepaid card to shop in most groceries in Dubai. This Dubai NOL prepaid card is reloadable of up to 500AED and is valid for 5 years. This card can be buy at any Dubai Metro stations for only 20 AED with 14 aed value that you can use to travel. I suggest for the tourist who will stay in Dubai for a couple of days to have this Prepaid card instead of one time travel ticket. You can see the details if you want to know more about the prepaid card and more of the means of transportation in Dubai click here to go to Dubai transport.

As we all know Dubai is the fastest ever growing city in the world today. When it comes to infrstructure, technology and transportation Dubai has everything to offer


Taxi : dubai taxi is all over the city. they chrages plug down of 3 aed and minimum fare of 10 aed. Inside is clean, with music, gps, meter, some has magazine for you to read, comments and they have a reciept in case you need it. The driver is wearing Uniform and they speak english. they are friendly actually, but you'll hate it coz some to most of them has body odor.

Carlift: this is another means of transpo here in Dubai. You will find them ussually in the mall approaching you asking Carlift sir. they ussually charges the same like the metered taxi only its negotiable. but be careful for security reason its not advisable to take this coz its not legitimate in dubai.

Dubai Bus: The only thing i hate is the smell of the other passenger who are not aware of their bad smell. The rest is good. iside there is monitor a Gps like where in you will know the next bus stop. buzzer if you want to go down, the seats are comportable, you can see the view outside good for sight seeing, the ticket is a reloadable prepaid card which you can also use for the metro train. they chrages 1 aed + minimum, therse is no music, special seats for ladies and family.

Dubai Metro: Dubai metro is cool. but then again the smell of the other will make you vomit the food you just ear before taking  the metro. Dubai metro is nice for long travel. nice view outside. when you use the metro its like your see the whole dubai. Inside is a clean and comportable seats, a little bit boring coz they have only one music, no print ads no Tv commercial etc. they have purely regulations of using the metro.They have nice airconditioned metro station. loading machine for prepaid ticket card, friendly passengers assistants. youll enjoy your travel.

Dubai abra and Water bus : Its really nice, it will be one of a good experience if you take abra when travelling to other side of the creek.

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Shawarma

Shawarma is a middle eastern food, sandwich like wrap of chicken beef or a mixture of halal meat that is grilled in a special shawarma machine or griller. This sandwich is popular all over the world. Here in Dubai you will see it along the streets cafe and restaurants and in the hotels.
It cost from 1 aed from street cafeteria and around 75 aed in Armani Hotel and burj al Arab.

This is usually marinated with yougurt and some spices to get the maximum taste. sided with arabic picles, garlic mayo or tahina sauce.

You can do it at home the easy way. you do not need the shwarma grilling mchine. most hotel do this way.
sample recipe:
1. marinated the chicken with plain yogurt,salt pepper, coriander powder any spices put some herbs if you want. at least 1 hour of marinating to taste.
2. Cooked it in a pan add some seasoning to satisfy your taste.
3. prepare tortilla wraper and put some slice tomato, onion and slice gerkins and the cooked shawarma and wrap it in your desired size.
4. Its ready to eat
5.But if you have panini machine it will be good coz you can make the shawarma roll really crispy and good tasting.

Enjoy your Shawarma.

Facial Tissues

 

I was on the mall running on my way going to the toilet. I really need to use this toilet bowl and deposit some shit. The bad thing this mall do not have ass washer.  I end up removing my underwear and used it to wipe the shit on my ass.

 

Since then I always have tissue paper with me, on my pocket or on my bag.

Tissue paper is really a big help. you know what I mean.

 

Do you know that

Facial tissue has been used for centuries in Japan, in the form of washi or Japanese tissues. They are using it

"They blow their noses in soft silky papers the size of a hand, which they never use twice, so that they throw them on the ground after usage, and they were delighted to see our people around them precipitate themselves to pick them up.

Then on 1924 facial tissues has been commercialized and huge success in the business.

Dubai Facts

Lifestyle:

People in here really has a nice lifestyle. Its actually depends on what and how you want it.

Yes there are lots of disco in here you can dance until 3 am as you like, and you'll enjoy and get drunk also with different varieties of alcoholic beverages available in the licensed to sell alcoholic beverages bars, restaurant, hotel and some alcoholic beverages seller. You just need to be careful not go out and be obvious as drunk coz for sure they will put you in jail. and do you know what will happen to you in jail? prepare your ass. lol.

Employment:

Mixed nationalities people are working here in dubai. so its good that you will meet and learn the culture of different people. The minimum salary is ranging from 1000 aed depending on the positions and the company. Most company usually provides everything for you ie: food transpo accommodation insurance etc, all you need to do is do your job. You do not need to worry about electricity bill, house rental etc. and you can have your full salary without any deductions.

Some good company treasures their employees so they are providing them a really nice accommodation with gym, swimming poll even free Internet and cable connection. But of course there are some unlucky employees who didn't get these privileges and some employees have even worst.

Environment:

Most part of Dubai is still a desert, but you will not noticed it coz you will be amaze with the nice buildings, elevated roads and flyover, high tech Hotel, prepaid card transportation, huge shopping mall, nice parks and beaches, luxury cars on the street, sexy and beautiful people (of course also lot of ugly and bad smell people).

Very hot on summer as you will see people sweating their body walking on the street, and nice cool on winter where people are walking, relaxing and watching the nice landscape along the parks and the street.

Security

Dubai is one of the safe place. Government of UAE, dubai is very strict so people are careful not to do bad, if they do and they cought thel will put on jail, and what will happen to you in jail?....prepare your ass. lol..

Life is good