This post is a continuation to my Intro to Dubai trip in which I talked about arriving on late Saturday evening. (Yes, the post I was supposed to publish about 5 Fridays ago )
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Sunday morning, after breakfast, we took a cab to the textile souk.

We walked around the [Read more.]

Good morning all… I started writing this post last night, but since it started getting much longer than I had anticipated, I decided to have a fresh look at it today and publish only its start (next parts to follow soon!).
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If you ever find yourself in a situation where it is Tuesday night, 11:30pm, and one of the few items left to be crossed off your to do list is a blog post, you’d better be baking… [Read more.]

I wrote this post “yesterday” during the flight. To be honest though, I’ve lost a complete sense of time. There are exactly 12 hours of time zone difference between San Fran and Dubai, and I no longer know whether I’m craving breakfast or dinner, nor whether I should consider it’s the 3rd or the 4th.

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March 3^rd, 2012…

It is 5:10 a.m. in San Francisco.

5:10 p.m. at our destination.

As to the local time in which we are… [Read more.]

Tonight, I am in the mood for something Cuban.
Chan Chan is one of those songs you’ve known all your life, but don’t quite know where you’ve heard it first.

Not that it matters really, because when I listen to this song, my thoughts drift to the beach and late summer evenings.

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I’ve got to say, I’m pretty proud of myself for getting this post in before the end of January. Getting a second update this month seemed a slight stretch, especially with so much going on due to the new business, my in-laws visit, and the MBA.

Having to switch between monophasic (end of year holidays, in-laws visit) and polyphasic (the rest of the time) every fortnight for the past two months didn’t help much either: I felt like a zombie… [Read more.]

I suspect I should feel guilty for having abandoned my blog for so long. No posts, no training logs, no reading list updates. Perhaps, I should blame my absence on the broken cappuccino machine which left me to rehabilitate from my foamy caffeine addiction. But, considering my daily abuse of the French press and that in December I managed to get through a 5lb bag of Brazilian coffee beans all by myself, I doubt it’d be any excuse at all.

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Hello and Happy Tuesday!!

I hope the week has been treating you well so far…

Just when I considered myself recovered from the double jetlag that hit me a few days after coming back from France, the daylight savings hit me. My body apparently refuses to accept it’s an hour earlier than it should be. But I’m actually rejoicing at this as it gives me the impression that time passes more slowly and that I’m able to complete more tasks.

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Before I continue with my recount of the Chicago trip, one word of friendly advice: if you are to write a blog post, do not spend the three days before that reading about California tax and corporation laws. It will literally drain you of any inspiration or desire for anything involving even a minimal amount of creativity.

But back to Part 2:

As you might recall from my last post, my hubby and I had managed to get… [Read more.]

It’s been exactly a month since my last post, but certainly not because I haven’t had anything to tell. In fact, it’s been just the opposite.
Since my last post, I’ve traveled to Puerto Rico and twice to Chicago. I celebrated my second anniversary with my husband. I started three new Arabic classes. I created a new website for a small French business. I received some extremely crucial paperwork which will make my life much easier and which will… [Read more.]

There are days when everything is under control. When the sun seems to be waiting for your foot to show up out of the bed sheets and onto the bedroom floor in order to rise. When the birds are waiting for your house door to open in order to sing a mesmerizing symphony.

And then, there are the days when nothing is under control. In fact, everything is so out of control, that even the thought of attempting to put… [Read more.]