Fun in the Sand

Family Handprints – Dubai, International City, June 2018

Hmmm… I’m gonna continue on International City. Haven’t found time to write anything new. Yeah, even though I’m doing project close-outs now, it is still pretty busy. (More so after I moved myself back to the head office. Am enjoying alternate Saturdays off now, …shhhh. Enjoy it while it lasts. Never know when I’ll be moved back to site!)

Anyway, here’s a little more from our times in International City. Here’s how we made the best out of an Arabian summer. Wake up reeeeaall early in the morning (like 5am), and go for a walk, a jog, whatever, in the desert of a site, next to where we stay. See for yourself.


Tyre tracks in the sand – Looks like we’re deep in the desert, huh?


Not really… The kids, drawing in the sand!


And there we are. England Cluster is just down the road


Justin in his brother’s little trike. Justin was actually riding his go-kart but parked it near the access road to the site, to go jogging with mommy. When we went to retrieve it, it was missing! Some scumbag of a bus driver ferrying workers to work, took it! But, thank God, we asked some workers and they contacted some people and later called us to return it to us, on the same day. Bless their souls!


The mosque at England Cluster, International City, Dubai


Another sunrise picture from our England Cluster apartment – we have a ton of these. Our apartment windows face the east, and we had to wake up real early to get the kids ready for school (and yours truly ready for work, ahem)


France Cluster, International City, Dubai


The mosque in France Cluster – The buildings behind are part of the CBD (Central Business District), International City – Mosques are popping up in International City only recently. Wonder what took the authorities (or more likely the developer, Nakheel) so long. International City has been around since 2005 I think. And they only started constructing the mosques in err… 2015? Yup, after we moved into the area! A far contrast from Malaysia. The first thing you’d see in a housing development in Malaysia, would be a mosque!


The mosque at Dragon Mart, the oldest mosque in the area (I think, completed together with DragonMart 1 in the mid 2000’s) - seen from the roof of the Annex Car Park Building of DragonMart 2. Behind is Dubai Textile City and International City


The empty unused car park of the Annex Car Park Building of DragonMart 2. I dunno how long it’ll survive. Shops are closing left, right and centre in DragonMart 2. Is this a sign of things to come?!?? Some worrisome thoughts for us to ponder…