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