Woke up late partly from sleeping in the 'Movie Room' that my son had constructed for himself so he can watch all his favorite movies in comfort together with whoever happens to be visiting him. The room is really like a mini theater which has reclining lazy boys chairs and staged in terrace just like in the regular theaters. Theres also a drum set and guitar for a music game which is kinda exciting to play especially if you have an enthusiastic group of people who loves to have good times. The room like all movie theater is totally dark and sound proof which was why I kept on sleeping everytime I woke up thinking that it was still dark out.
Took a drive to the Mall of The Emerates which can be seen from where I am sitting and typing this blog entry and had a sushi lunch at the Tea House Restaurant aka 'Chop Chop'. The Mall was like a Mecca for shoppers and most of the shops were world class outlets that catered to the rich Dubai citizen who drives fancy cars that the liscence numbers alone were known to cost alot if they were shorter than average. I have yet to be confronted by a typical Dubai locals but from what I hear and observe so far I sense the arrogance and superiority complex that the native have towards all foreigners. I am beginning to believe that this is becoming a common factor wherever I am and not something exclusive to any one given nation. The Japanese were aloof towards foreigners and so were the British and the Jews or the Chinese when in their own countries. The Malays in Malaysia are just as arrogant about their their so called Bumi Putra or Sons of the Earth status which sometimes gets to become overly boring in the light of so called day and age of Globalization. One the one hand everyone seems to want to become a universal being a part of a whole, unified in a collective conciousness of Being while on the other hand everyone thinks in terms of tribalism, of groupies of sectarianism or racial and religious creed they belong to, we as humans will never see eye to eye so long as we have not come to a reconciliation of who we really are on this planet.
We have advanced into the New Millionium with the hope that we could come to a better understanding of and thus become connected to who we are as humans, however from what is transpiring around us the fate of humans as a whole hangs in a precarious balance. Wars and devastations those caused by man and those that are a part of the natural phenomena are still haunting us to our graves and it seems as though there is no end or solution in sight. On the one hand cities are being built left and right and on the other there is nothing but rubbles and vengeance in the streets where gunfires is the familiar sound one hears day in day out. As humans it seems we are short of compassion and understanding toward our fellow beings and Love is a word in danger of becoming extinct even between parents and loved ones. Drug and sexual abuse has become a matter of fact in most societies and yet on looking at how much is being spent in creating new and better soocieties it boggles my mind. The amount of construction work going on in and around Dubai alone is phenominal not to say beyond imagination but one cant help but wonders at who would fill up all the living spaces beign constructed. As my son pointed out in relation to the Emerates Airlines, it is without doubt that the Emerates has the best of everything to offer even compared American Airlines , however thus far it is just in the appearences but looking deeper below the surface one starts to discover the lack of professionalism, the quality or integrity o
f a good service provided.
Took a drive to the Mall of The Emerates which can be seen from where I am sitting and typing this blog entry and had a sushi lunch at the Tea House Restaurant aka 'Chop Chop'. The Mall was like a Mecca for shoppers and most of the shops were world class outlets that catered to the rich Dubai citizen who drives fancy cars that the liscence numbers alone were known to cost alot if they were shorter than average. I have yet to be confronted by a typical Dubai locals but from what I hear and observe so far I sense the arrogance and superiority complex that the native have towards all foreigners. I am beginning to believe that this is becoming a common factor wherever I am and not something exclusive to any one given nation. The Japanese were aloof towards foreigners and so were the British and the Jews or the Chinese when in their own countries. The Malays in Malaysia are just as arrogant about their their so called Bumi Putra or Sons of the Earth status which sometimes gets to become overly boring in the light of so called day and age of Globalization. One the one hand everyone seems to want to become a universal being a part of a whole, unified in a collective conciousness of Being while on the other hand everyone thinks in terms of tribalism, of groupies of sectarianism or racial and religious creed they belong to, we as humans will never see eye to eye so long as we have not come to a reconciliation of who we really are on this planet.
We have advanced into the New Millionium with the hope that we could come to a better understanding of and thus become connected to who we are as humans, however from what is transpiring around us the fate of humans as a whole hangs in a precarious balance. Wars and devastations those caused by man and those that are a part of the natural phenomena are still haunting us to our graves and it seems as though there is no end or solution in sight. On the one hand cities are being built left and right and on the other there is nothing but rubbles and vengeance in the streets where gunfires is the familiar sound one hears day in day out. As humans it seems we are short of compassion and understanding toward our fellow beings and Love is a word in danger of becoming extinct even between parents and loved ones. Drug and sexual abuse has become a matter of fact in most societies and yet on looking at how much is being spent in creating new and better soocieties it boggles my mind. The amount of construction work going on in and around Dubai alone is phenominal not to say beyond imagination but one cant help but wonders at who would fill up all the living spaces beign constructed. As my son pointed out in relation to the Emerates Airlines, it is without doubt that the Emerates has the best of everything to offer even compared American Airlines , however thus far it is just in the appearences but looking deeper below the surface one starts to discover the lack of professionalism, the quality or integrity o
f a good service provided.
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