Mission Impossible? Not in Dubai

If you watch the latest instalment of the action packed movie Mission Impossible where Tom Cruise aka Ethan Hunt with his few sidekicks catching the bad guys and stopped the world from nuclear destruction (rather kicking @**), you will see this sky scrapper which I believe is (or was) the tallest building in the world, the Burj Al arab.

This is one of the prides of Dubai, the small kingdom that is part of the Emirates that is now on the world map as one of the best tourism spots in the world. With the sea of people that I see from every part of the world that thronged the Dubai Mall now, I am really seeing that life is returning to normal after its recent financial troubles.

If there is a will there is always a way and in Dubai, no mission is definitely impossible.

Final Day

Qatar National Convention Centre

The jaw dropping conference hall of the Qatar National Convention Centre. The sheer size and beauty of the Convention Centre is breathtaking. It has the latest technological wizardry that any convention centre should have like state of the art lighting and projection equipments, screen lcds etc. The centre is so huge, any first time visitor coming here for a visit will be struck with awe with its sheer size alone.

I will be here for a week attending a UN meeting.

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Garden Paradise (not exactly)

On the first sign of spring, I was so eager to start my first attempt on growing the garden strawberry. Today after work, I rushed to the little plot of land at the back of the house armed with my garden kit and started digging up the soil and adding up some compost in the hope of creating a small nursery for the strawberry seedlings. I must admit I don't have the "green hands", the dexterity of a master gardener like my Indonesian driver who could turn my backyard into a botanical paradise. But I was so keen on trying to see if I could give this one a shot. I got the help of my two kids, Ameerah and Nizam who were just as excited as I to see if we could turn this little plot into a garden paradise. Ameerah had her hands full of tabby's poop as it turned out the plot she was working out was our cat's favourite pit stop to answer the call of nature. I was laughing so hard when I saw her face cringing in disgust. I told her if she wanted to be a gardener then touching animal's poop would have to be second nature.
Strawberries are known to bear fruits very quickly. Hopefully by June or July, we could reap the fruits of our labour. We are keeping our fingers crossed on this one.

A visit to Paris won't be complete without this photo shoot with that famous tower as a backdrop..

Easter break

We managed to have a stop over in Paris city centre on the way back yesterday. As it was sunday, not all the shops were open except the ones along the busy street of champs elysees. As this year we also happened to celebrate our 20th wedding anniversary, I promised mrs to get her a present and what better way than let her roamed along the shopping street of Paris and asked herself to choose her own fancy. True to a woman's heart, she chose the LV store (women and their handbags!)

We only managed to spend time at Champs elysees as I wanted to get home early when there was still daylight. Although it was a very short break for us, the kids enjoyed it the most as it was the first family break that we had this year. We only wished our eldest was there. That would have been a whole family break.