Dubai The New Born City.

Presently the skies of Dubai is being filled with her 'National Bird', the Crane. As constructions are everywhere all over th city one cannot help but take it with a sense of humor.

Mall of The Emerates is right across the highway from where I am sitting and writing this blog and the Ski Ramp for the Dubai 'Snow Mountain" can be seen looking like some alien spaceship that crash landed and part of its tail sticking out from the ground. Took a trip there yesterday and had lunch with my son and his girlfriend Eli where we had Sushi, just what the doctor prescribed! The rest of the Mall was occupied by brand names outlets and the locals in their traditional white jubah and head gear or kifayah mostly overweighed men and women alike. The women in their black hijab with only the eyes looking at you possibly smiling or maybe not while the men sat around counting their beeds and stroking their beards looking contented with life.

One thing worth noting about Dubai while driving around is the fact that there are all kinds of expensive vehicles on the road American, Japanese and European made and there is even a Harley Davidson motoercycles outlet next to the Wal-Mart. Yes this is the land of plenty allright and at tpresent there is plenty of new building mushrooming all around who and what for is yet to be discerened by the next generation of Emerates residents. Perhaps this will be the center of the Muslim World where all commerce and industries will be centered and administrative bodies will commence from. The Emerates is is spending money in developing their major cities like Doha and Qatar building not only Malls, hotels and offices but Institutions of higher learning museums and art galleries, public recreational facilities that is out of this world. The Emerates have the means and the will to create a whole new world for their population to experience and enjoy the twenty first century before it is all gone up in smokes for one reason or another.

While the city is being built Dubai is inundated by foreign workers just like Malaysia, however being a strictly Muslim country 0ne sees less Orientals and Vietnamese but instead there are alot more Indians and Pakistanis as well as Bangladeshis. In the shops however one sees a greater number of Philipinos and some Malaysians, the later are alot less in number so far.