weekends in the 'bai

went out to the desert with an Egyptian group this weekend and had fun bbq-ing/guitar playing/dune-bashing/and nice-weather-enjoying. i work with only two of the dudes, and they invited me to join them ( and 30 other Egyptians ) to hang in the desert with them. we had a good time!




The next night I went with some roommates to go check out Arrested Development out at one of the golf courses... It was a funky good time. They have a 75-year old dood in the band!




also a few fotos we took after a long night of Wii Boxing

saw iv

saw saw iv last night... wasn't as good as the others, but it had one of my favorites death-machines yet! click here for a graphic foto of the knife-mask!

disclaimer: don't click if you don't like knife-masks.

for those of you that don't know the 'saw' series... it's about a guy that puts bad people into bad situations ( re: deadly ), and tries to teach them a lesson. usually this involves some really crazy home-made-bodily-harm machines that leave lasting visuals in the viewers mind. he then sends the cops on a wild goose chase to find him, where at the end they all meet in one room where a big bloody climax happens.

it's not your normal type of horror cheesy movie - so check 'em out if you dare!

al manara villa

I snapped a few fotos today of the new crib, here's some highlights:

We have decent little yard with lots of greenery... well for now it's green. If we don't pay a gardener, it might not stay this way. He wants something like 300dhs a month... it's much cheaper to lay a hose down and flip on/off the water once in a while.


Here's our grilling setup.. the table is 100% recycled - strait from the 'rubbish-skip'(UK English) or 'dumpster'(US English). The handy-man Tonie managed to drill some holes in the top for some 'tiki-torches'(UK ) or 'tiki-torches(US ).


Mewsuf the kitten is mighty-cute, and it takes all I got to not lean down and play with the little thing. I did find a way to manage somehow, turns out she really likes a good kick!


To step inside a bit, you can see our porch from the sliding-door of our living room, and quite the mis-match of furniture lining the entire place.


And lastly, here's our room. You can see Liz packing, as she leaves tomorrow night for the states. She gets to hang in KC for about 12 days... lucky her!

roomate: nick

Since I've apparently been too busy to post anything recently, I'll send you a link to my roommate Nick's blog. He has a few pictures on there of all of us at the new place... including fotos of Liz and Nick's cat 'Mewsuf'. Here's the link: ramblingdreves.blogspot.com

dubaiween

Carlos and I managed to make it to the Irish Village on All Hallows Eve this year, but it wasn't easy. We first plummeted through construction sites, crossed multiple lane highways, scared multiple taxi drivers, and wandered clue-lessly through Sharjah before we even made it to the bar.

Our fresh-to-Dubai cabbie had no clue how to get to the pubs, and I ended up giving a wrong direction that threw us into who-knows-where. After a few failed attempts, we found a cab-driver who knew where the pub was, but that was after getting dropped of in the middle of nowhere.

Well we made it, and had a couple good hours of fun at the nicest-weather-Halloween ever! There were loads of people dressed up... every nationality was up for the fun... Carlos entered the best costume competition, and placed high up only because he's so flamboyant... I wish I could have video'd that performance! Here's a couple of foto's:









I've spent most of today moving all sorts of crap to the new villa... pics to come later inshallah...