Back in the Habit.
This is my first post since leaving on my journey through finding myself and my way to I don’t know where, but I do know I have to move forward. Whether to the next city or the next continent. It’s time to change and change with things which are always changing because I just cannot sit still anymore…
From the last post till now, I did the Garden Route (Durban to Cape Town and Back), I got the Sunburn, experience and everything. Week later had to leave with Work to cover Dubai and Egypt. You know… Team building, Consumer Understanding and all that Jazz. (I’ll post pictures later). It was rush, my first trip overseas with my wife and it was a Freakin Awesome Time :)
The learning which is most important from this trip is above all “Gratefulness”. I realised I have so much to be a fucking nag or complain about my current situation because I am in a place most people only dream of, especially in today’s world.
I have far too much to not be grateful.
On the trip: Dubai is a shopper’s paradise. Women will love it, and they do. It didn’t impress me though, it seems exactly what people with a lot of money should do. Well they over do it, but it does take a lot of money anyway. The mindset is very weird though, like a mesh of the bad stuff between Arabs and Americans. I have to admit though you can have a lot of fun there. Especially if you have a lot of money… or sponsorship :P and you do get some stuff very very value-for-money… you just need to know where to look!
Egypt was awesome, I realised that this was becuase of the company though. I really really loved it. the Pyramids seem to humble you because its only when you get there that you realise how freakin huge they are and “How the hell did they build that 4000 years ago?” and the Sphinx and the Temple as well.. the construction was immaculate. The people are mostly poor, but down to Earth and very Friendly. the pollution in Cairo is Crazy. it seems to line your whole oesophagus after a while… the air is thick with it. Also the place really isn’t that clean, any good clean imaginations of the Nile, should be washed away from your head.
What was funny though was that even though they’re poor… EVERYONE has satellite TV. word.
Soundtrack at the moment: My Chemical Romance, Saul Williams and Paris. (No, Not Paris Hilton… Paris)
Peace,
M.
Technorati Tags: Egypt, Dubai, Trip, Gratefulness
Was wondering where you disappeared to!
interesting juxtaposition between dubai’s “sprung from the desert” constructions and egypt’s almost tactile history.
awesome.
I agree about the juxtaposition. Dubai is ridiculous with Construction… I saw 10 High-rise buildings within a kilometre radius being developed and they’re more elsewhere. I heard the Burj Dubai (Soon-to-be Tallest Building in the world) was at 90 storeys while I was there and they were going at one storey per week.
Egypt’s in need of a constant revamp, they should start from one end of the nile and go to the other. tis nost very scenic sometimes :P
I’m a woman – I hated Dubai:)
A woman who doesn’t like shopping? GASP! very rare. :P
I hated Dubai too, every minute of it. Can’t handle shopping.