Our Favourite Dubai Hangout

Anu at Carrefour, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai

Here're more photos of Dubai. This is of the Mall of the Emirates (MOE in short), where we spent most of our weekends. Heck, it's the nearest shopping mall near where we stay hehe...


Le Pain Quotidien, a restaurant in MOE, Dubai


Papa & son, Le Pain Quotidien, MOE


Mommy, Le Pain Quotidien


Justin, with the waiters of Karam Beirut, a Lebanese Restaurant, MOE


Mommy, with Ski Dubai in the background, Karam Beirut, MOE


Papa & son, MOE

In Search of Ice

Yours truly ala Snowy Mountain Flying Fox (Shued San Fey Woo), Thajiwas Glazier, Sonamarg, Kashmir

There was no snow during our visit to Kashmir in Autumn of 2007, much to the disappointment of Anu, so off we went in search of ice.


Thajiwas Glacier trail, Sonamarg, Kashmir


Anu cooking a pot of Maggi noodles... yeah, no food is available up here, but Maggi, but at double the price. And a hot bowl of Maggi does wonders in a chilly place like this


Our pony man

Meadow of Gold

Sonamarg, Kashmir in Autumn. Sonamarg means Gold Meadow and is located on the road to Ladakh

It’s bloody freezing in India currently, North India is like below zero, which is rare. Pune itself in Western India near Mumbai, where we’re at now, is I think about 10 in the morning. Kashmir, will well be below freezing, all white and snowing. Just 2 weeks ago, many were stranded in Kashmir due to snowfall blocking the highway connecting it to the rest of India.

Anyway, here’s Kashmir in gentler times (Autumn 2007)


Thajiwas glacier trail, Sonamarg, Kashmir


A typical Kashmiri mosque on the road to Sonamarg


Anu on the main road between Srinagar and Zoji La, the pass crossing the Himalayas to Ladakh. The pass is cut off in winter.


Somewhere between Srinagar & Sonamarg

Helen in Dubai 2 – In the footsteps of Ibn Battuta

Jiko in the Indian Court, Ibn Battuta Mall, Dubai

This is to proof that not only movies can have sequels. Helen can have one too. Anyway, Happy New Year! We don’t have photos of our recent adventures yet, so I’m putting past photos for viewing. These were taken exactly one year ago, when she was baby sitting little Justin.

Ibn Battuta, by the way, was a famous adventurer from the Middle East in the 12th century, in the likes of Marco Polo. He travelled further than Marco Polo.


Persian Court, Ibn Battuta Mall


Tunisian Court


In the Chinese Court with Anu


Jiko and Admiral Zheng He (Laksamana Cheng Ho) - This mall in Dubai pays tribute to the well-known seafarer although he had never set foot in Dubai. Compare this to some of us in Malaysia, who'd prefer to remove him altogether from our history books. ...Sad


Jiko and the pink camels of Dubai

Happy Birthday Chaubabi

Justin 6 months old, Dubai

Our little monster is one year old now. Time moves so fast. Too bad I can't be with him and his mommy to celebrate his first year birthday thanks to the foggy weather in Silchar. They were supposed to fly out to join me on 29th Nov, but the flight was cancelled due to bad weather... Just my luck.

I'm leaving some pictures here for the benefit of my family in Malaysia who're wondering how he's grown.


6 months


6.5 months


Enjoying his bath, 7 months old






7 months old, Dubai


8.5 months old, a nice warm bath, ...he hates cold water




In his walker, Daund, 8.5 months old




9 month's old, full of energy


9.5 months old, Hyderabad


10.5 months old

Our fabulous Dubai life

The Kings of the UAE, in a shop, Dubai Mall

Unfortunately, all good things come to an end... Not to say that we're not good now, but it's different here, in Daund, ...very different, but that is another story. For the time being here's a glimpse of our life in Dubai.


A cafe scene, Dubai Mall


Cheap watch on display ...only AED 166,500/- (about the cost of my entire friggin condo in friggin KL)


The parking lot, Mall of the Emirates


Papa & son, Mall of the Emirates, Dubai


Mommy, Mall of the Emirates


Family picture, Dubai Mall


Our apartment - The Crescent, International Media Production Zone (IMPZ), Dubai


The pool at The Crescent


A bird's eye view of The Crescent


Lifts at Terminal 3, Dubai Airport


Bye-bye Dubai, Dubai Airport Terminal 3

For the sake of a post

Lord Krishna using a hill as an umbrella - seen at one of the hundreds of temples in Vrindavan, Uttar Pradesh state, India

This new job is killing. I've switched from having about an hour or more of internet surfing, to err... about 2 minutes per day, and that is if the friggin internet is working. The rest of the day is just work. The most hardworking I've been since the first job after graduation, I think.

OK, I've decided to leave some photos of Mathura / Vrindavan taken donkey years ago in conjunction with Janmashtami, Krishna's Birthday which'll fall on the 1st or 2nd of Sept this year. Mathura is the birth place of the Hindu god Krishna, and the Mathura-Vrindavan area is where he spent his childhood frolicking with the milk maids (he's quite a lady-killer as a boy) and performing his early miracles.


The Birla Temple dedicated to the Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism's holy scripture, on the outskirts of Mathura






Birla Temple, Mathura


The Pagal Baba (Mad Papa) Temple, Vrindavan


The Hare Krishna Movement Temple in Vrindavan