Food Good....

29th Dec

The meals here can range from really expensive to super cheap, NOW! back home
for like $60 bucks at a fine dining restaurant u can get something nice, small, not filling but nice. Over here... the fast food is super delicious (selected ones), the price of a normal set is like (cheapest) $10 plus n its not exactly filling unless u order a side n den u wanna hurl cus its too much

Somewhere near our house we have officially found our favourite spot to eat, now imagine 2 plates of rice, 2 small bowls 1 fish curry, 1 vege curry, 1 fried fish, 1 plate of chopped long beans. 1 plate small salad fresh vege, and 1 fried chicken drumstick/wing.... how much would u be looking at?? i'd say prob a good 25 plus in spore filling but not how u say 'stuffed but not satisfied'.

NOW! we had all the above for only 14 dhs..... converted to spore is about................$7
Filling and satisfied.



Gopi with Falah....

Moo,
ben

singaporeans ahoy!!!

28th Dec

Today we launch our first morning show!!! crowd was good i mean no adverts at all and the stadium was half full so can u believe it?? the birds flew well and i'm starting to pick up...slowly.... i'm working on tat part so i'll try till i get it.

Went to the mall for lunch and guess wat! we bumped into this singaporean couple!!!! GOD its good to see someone back home!!! they're nice ppl and really warm, know how some ppl use the term break bread? well we broke fried onions haha.





Fart,
moo hee hee oops

Clouds Clouds Clouds.....

27th dec

getting colder....colder...colder......





and here we have MR gopi manning a peregrine/gyr....... see how happy he is?? ;)




i still got lots to learn......
Moo...

frozen bugger

26th dec

morning went pretty frosty n there was no show but the practice went well..... below u see the first egg yolk (which lasted like a good 10 mins b4 it was in ur face) next we got the moon still up haha den the guys n me during practice, i got falah today sweet kid super love him 3/4 gyr, 1/4 saker the last pic is Mr Bakar....super nice chap......always a smiley 'anybody angry??' hahaha


frickkin freezing in here.....
popsicle moo....

christmas morning!

25th dec

the morning show went well and now its christmas....frosty morning man....super.... its better now judging from the fact tat since 11 plus it started getting warmer.... during the show today one of our stars decided to give haji a little present look below n see if u can spot one of our stars. hee hee it was hilarious but sweet.. little lulu.....




MOO merry christmas everyone,
ben

HEADLINE NEWS

23rd dec

the clouds gathered and formed like huge curtains,the cold winds blew and bashed upon my arms and chest,shivers down my spine and teeth clashed upon each other like plates on a truck.
before the big show my knuckles and finger joints felt frosty. Man lucky gopi did the show or else i'd be chattering away n stopping at odd pauses going brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr................. THANKS GOPI!!! :)

The RAIN WAS COMING!!!! or so we were expecting but it didn't btw if it rains here it might actually hit the news papers as headline news cus it only rains like 3-4 times a year and each signals the coming of a season....... below are a few shots i took i think they're pretty good... hope u like em i know i did.

Oh ya tat last picture is the breakfast prepared by Ibrahim's wife it was really interesting
bee hoon with spices and fried egg (its sweet....i dun mean the gesture but its really sugar sweet)

pancakes with ikan bilis omlette (zoom in for a closer look) very nice. oh ya ARABIAN COFFEE!!! so breakfast was done arabian style....THANKS IBRAHIM!!!! breakfast ROCKED.





Below are the pictures of how it looks like and the size of the coffee cup with regards to yesterdays lesson on coffee the last pic jus looked really cool cus of the light.




Brrrrrrrr................cold

family zoo day....

22th Dec

yeah you heard it right no typo errors.....family zoo day........ its eih mubarak day n it last for a good i dunno 3-4 days.... so well the locals brought their families down.......man the overflowing crowd was back man did it feel good to host the show hahaha below are some photos of the locals who brought the kids down and dinner was fantastic we had arabic briyani and arabic macroni on the floor after work...fantastic.... the highlight was the arabic coffee....minty,herby, small portions and its from tat i learnt some traditions.....

1. The small cup ur holding must never touch the table.

2.Its always served by servants back then.

3.Back then they never washed it after use.

4.The cup is never filled to the brim, for stronger coffee sometimes they serve it like a coin puddle

5.Wiggling the cup means u want another round, holding it still means ur done...












the enviroment brought back some old memories where my dad's company had family day and the uncles would come n disturb me as a kid.....today jeet,gopi n me were disturbing haji's little boy u know, he was wearing a cap n jeet took the cap n we were like 'put it up high n see how he gets to it' haha kinda dejavou cus when i was young i do recall my uncles doing tat....

Den haji's son and his cousin was running along and they both were wearing hats...
so they were teasing 'uncle' jeet to get em and so jeet did... haji's son was laughing and all den haji's son pointed at his cousin signalling jeet to disturb him, so he did and before the laughs he started crying hahaha man we were like 'OOOOORRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr' hahaha den it turned out the culprit was haji's son ahaha we were all like 'imagine when haji was young....prob like tat ' haha




Rafique with our long legged buzzard.... poor baby had feet problems.... i do hope he recovers soon, really nice darling...




nighty,

moo

The hugest show so far

20th dec

today we did a show in front of 2000 ppl..... an international crowd with an international crew.... as the audience clapped n cheered the sound was deafening.......but it felt like maximus in an arena in 'gladiator'. SO many ppl today i mean its not like tour buses alot i mean they come down by themselves, the roundabout took about a good 10 min to manoeuvre the sidewalks were packed with cars and vans n trucks. Man ppl started to climb the walls.... so u can imagine the crowd...

jeet celebrated his birthday today with the crew.... water spraying here n there from plastic bottles and everyone had to at least get a mist of it hahaha







after the show mohammad's family was around and his son came to find his dad... my first reaction was 'CBA!!!' (cute baby alert) below is an attached picture, u'll get wat i mean

3 men & a bb gun

19th DEC


ok.... here's the story......i bought a bb gun a while back n today for some apparent reason the neighbours son was runnin around n shooting us with a noise maker (jus a bb gun with some firecrackers no projectiles) gopi was like' u should go get urself one' den we were like we do have one!! took it out the hall n fired a fewshots at a styraform cover....

den we decided to expeiment on the big ass toilet roll.... den we had a shoot out hahaha 3 rounds each hahaaha
so below is the pistol, the target board and the bonous picture is the one jeet got experimental n used me for target practice hahaha enjoy haha

15th -16th dec

Here's the pics on the 15th.... after work haji's wife was cooking n made extra so we technically had a free lunch n MAN did it ROCK!!!! we had lassi,curried pumpkins,curry sauce,fish gravy(milk fish lotsa bones but the curry with the thick coconut milk rocked),something tat looked like coconut shavings (ikan bilis pounded to small bits) with rice n tandoori fish......
took a short trip to his house the 'HAJ MAHAL' hahaha guess who was the welcoming party?? u guessed it the little boy minus the small water gun n the clothes... hahaha we were like AHHHHH!!! naked boy n he started hiding hahaha later on he popped his head out with his little sister n his mom to say goodbye.... lunch rocked


Small snippets of the little tike,the Haj mahal and his family.






The man himself MR HAJ, the roads of al-ain and the towers n towers of clouds passing by.






16th Dec after the show,

I was like pls pls pls let me take pictures of baby ball python n Khalif said ok....... so here's the little darling.....

STEPP EAGLE!!!!

picture from a calender hahaha, the little baby slithering round my hand


Mr Khalif the nice guy who took baby out jus so i could share him(the python haha) with u n me spending time with my current favourite snake (till he grows up)...

breakfast n a sunset from the roof

work went well with the evening show being the most stressful we've been hoggin on it since las week on how impt ppl are gonna show up n cross out fingers we dun screw up too badly n as jeet said 'funny thing bout this place is if u say somethings gonna happen.....it will' hahaha so it did n we didn't really screw it up the first pic is our breakfast in case eveyone back there wants to know wat we eat... the next one is the one where i dashed to the roof esp for this shot (sorry ah not professional photographer so bear with me.
















bonus video of a baby giraffe running thru the exhibit during the night,welcome dinner for the V.I.Ps.... nice folks from the states