Yay! Looks like I’ve blogged for 10 straight years now! Not bad, a milestone of sorts for me. Longest time I’ve ever maintained a diary. Must thank the digital age for it. I’d never have gone far doing one on a traditional diary (tried many times, never succeeded).
For a celebration, I think I’ll put some photos of family gatherings here in Dubai. …Not that there’s much of it, since Dubai is seldom in any of our family’s list of places to visit… sigh!
We, at Creek Park, Dubai - 2013
With Hazel at Creek Park
Justin, with his granddad
Cactus at Creek Park, …just about the most exciting thing in Creek Park, in my opinion
OK, I’ll also take the opportunity to explain a few things about some common names I call myself or use in the digital world, for example, the title of the blog.
Cows, Pigs and Human Dung – the title is an extract from an earlier email to family and friends, on my initial shock of seeing the amazing variety of animals roaming freely on the streets and a humongous amount of umm …shit! in my daily site visits when I first started working in India. (“What animal made this?” I remember asking my Indian colleague. He looked down and said, “…animals like you and I”.) Like I always say, Incredible India! Love it and hate it. See my first picture post of India here.
Furient – no, it doesn’t mean friends. It’s a name I coined for my ship, in a computer game about the age of discovery (by Koei if I’m not mistaken) in the 80’s or 90’s, …ya, it’s that long ago. Yeah, I was a seafaring explorer and badass colonial overlord! Furient comes from Fury, which I tried to make to sound powerful. Its sister ship was Rageance, from Rage.
Prahnago – is the name of my country, if I ever become king, heheheh. It’s a corruption of the word Peranakan, straits-born Chinese (i.e. Chinese born in Malaya and Singapore who had more or less adopted Malay customs, in food, clothes and language to some extent).
More photos: -
Justin with his granny and aunt, near the Meydan Racecourse, Dubai
Cousin sis Emily, and her husband Martin, near the Burj Khalifa, on their one night stop in Dubai, en route to Sydney from London
Our niece Karishma, posing with the Burj Khalifa
Justin & Karishma at the Souq Madinat Jumeirah, with the Burj Al Arab in the background
Justin with his other aunt, Kim, at the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai
And I think it’s about time I improve my outdated blog, …as lazy as I am, ahem. But don’t expect much. I’ll have to do this by stealing a bit of office time (shhhh…) and my IT skills suck, so if nothing happens, it’s just because I don’t have the friggin time to do it, or I have no clue on how to go about doing it.
Till then, here’re some photos of places outside Dubai…
Justin & Hazel, at the Abu Dhabi Corniche
Justin & his granddad, Abu Dhabi Corniche Beach – it sez photography not allowed for some reason, but why make a beautiful beach and not allow photography?
Anu & Kim at the Abu Dhabi Heritage Village
Finally, how can we have family photos, without a photo of our newest addition? Little Jayden, at the Khor Fakkan Beach, Eastern UAE
For a celebration, I think I’ll put some photos of family gatherings here in Dubai. …Not that there’s much of it, since Dubai is seldom in any of our family’s list of places to visit… sigh!
We, at Creek Park, Dubai - 2013
With Hazel at Creek Park
Justin, with his granddad
Cactus at Creek Park, …just about the most exciting thing in Creek Park, in my opinion
OK, I’ll also take the opportunity to explain a few things about some common names I call myself or use in the digital world, for example, the title of the blog.
Cows, Pigs and Human Dung – the title is an extract from an earlier email to family and friends, on my initial shock of seeing the amazing variety of animals roaming freely on the streets and a humongous amount of umm …shit! in my daily site visits when I first started working in India. (“What animal made this?” I remember asking my Indian colleague. He looked down and said, “…animals like you and I”.) Like I always say, Incredible India! Love it and hate it. See my first picture post of India here.
Furient – no, it doesn’t mean friends. It’s a name I coined for my ship, in a computer game about the age of discovery (by Koei if I’m not mistaken) in the 80’s or 90’s, …ya, it’s that long ago. Yeah, I was a seafaring explorer and badass colonial overlord! Furient comes from Fury, which I tried to make to sound powerful. Its sister ship was Rageance, from Rage.
Prahnago – is the name of my country, if I ever become king, heheheh. It’s a corruption of the word Peranakan, straits-born Chinese (i.e. Chinese born in Malaya and Singapore who had more or less adopted Malay customs, in food, clothes and language to some extent).
More photos: -
Justin with his granny and aunt, near the Meydan Racecourse, Dubai
Cousin sis Emily, and her husband Martin, near the Burj Khalifa, on their one night stop in Dubai, en route to Sydney from London
Our niece Karishma, posing with the Burj Khalifa
Justin & Karishma at the Souq Madinat Jumeirah, with the Burj Al Arab in the background
Justin with his other aunt, Kim, at the Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai
And I think it’s about time I improve my outdated blog, …as lazy as I am, ahem. But don’t expect much. I’ll have to do this by stealing a bit of office time (shhhh…) and my IT skills suck, so if nothing happens, it’s just because I don’t have the friggin time to do it, or I have no clue on how to go about doing it.
Till then, here’re some photos of places outside Dubai…
Justin & Hazel, at the Abu Dhabi Corniche
Justin & his granddad, Abu Dhabi Corniche Beach – it sez photography not allowed for some reason, but why make a beautiful beach and not allow photography?
Anu & Kim at the Abu Dhabi Heritage Village
Finally, how can we have family photos, without a photo of our newest addition? Little Jayden, at the Khor Fakkan Beach, Eastern UAE
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