-when someone who is very angry wants to type the word b*tch but actually types BATCH (laugh)
-when a man twice or three times as old as me offers to pay for my meal (horrified)
-when i am trying to give instructions to my driver and end up speaking a sentence containing Arabic, Urdu and English (laugh)
-when the cleaner boy who is supposed to be minding his business whispers at me "hot!!!" (horrified)
-when i see a woman who allows the maid to carry her newborn because "that's their job" (hmmm)
-when there is a female dressed in a local man's kandoura with her chopped hair shown beneath a matching hamdaniyya. and then she is staring right at you and you can't look away because it's just so WEIRD. (horrified)
-when people type on the Net "oh Sister i love you but they never call you IRL (hmmm)
-when i have to put on a fake Indian accent just so the shop-keeper understands what the hell i am trying to order (laugh)
-when some random dude who doesn't even know me suddenly says "fadaiiiitich anaaaaaa" (laugh)
-when my son tries to pronounce the driver's name and calls him "star-war" (laugh)
-when i am working at the Reception and trying to explain to the local woman who works there that it's not my job to do this/do that (hmmm)
-when a local says "komistika!! are you Filipina?" (laugh)
-when the same man with a Bollywood-villian style mustache walks by 10 times repeating his mobile number to his very absent-minded friend (hmmm)
-when i have to apologize to a local because Arabic is not my first language -- but they still get irritated and keep demanding "why she doesn't speak Arabic?!" to my Supervisor (laugh)
-when i can switch the roles of being a stuck-up Khaleeji woman to a newbie-tourist in "traditional local dress" (laugh)
-when i realize that the waiter dude who just served me my bread is picking his nose (horrified)
-when i am being charged something three times what it's worth because the salesman thinks i have thousand-dhiram bills in my purse (hmmm)
-when someone tells me that Mahmoud Ahmedinajad resembles their ex (horrified)
22 And you thought...:
LOL those were hilarious! And they SO prove that you live in the UAE. It brought back memories to my trips there :)
LMAO! thanks for this post, made my day!
:) <3
Lolll, by the way I never understand why in abu dhabi there is some woman wearing kandoora !!! that's sooo weirddd
LOL
What's IRL by the way ?
I once saw a local teenager wearing dark kohl and something like the niqab but made out of sheer net material and the regular kandoura.It was near the Lebanese Flower restaurant.I later on realized he was trying to look like a girl :~ Weird really
oh and I heard that the lebanese flower area is like a pick up point for call girls.I have seen weird stuff happening there.
You're such a good writer mashallah :)
-when some random dude who doesn't even know me suddenly says "fadaiiiitich anaaaaaa" (laugh)
LOOOL HILARIOUS!
ah fun on the right path
gotta be like you
pray for moi...
am taking painting, french, accounting 2, chemistry, archery, world religion sis at college for the spring semester. now i like it. i think if u accept Allah's will then things go smooth, sis.
Rubber
(hmmmm and laugh)
Urdu
???
yknow it?
Rubber
LOLLLLL
Aisha and AFAQ, I am glad u found it funny ;-)
Hehehheehe oh really Traveller? OMG i wish I was making some of this stuff up!!
Nizsha, "IRL" means like "in real life". I use it a lot :P And about the Lebanese Flower -- never been there but once joked about to my husband and he got all serious like "you went there??"
Hmm...
You're most welcome, Mon vie <3
Malizea, they are called "boya" or "boyaat" -- wear a girl dresses and acts like a boy and the way it's different than our Western term "tom boy" is because these girls have GIRLfriends :/
Rubber, I know some words :P
LOL Mosha XD
Thnx for the advice Rubber. Inshaa'Allah we can all keep accepting Allah's will and continue to worship Him!!
I once saw a local teenager wearing dark kohl and something like the niqab but made out of sheer net material and the regular kandoura.It was near the Lebanese Flower restaurant.I later on realized he was trying to look like a girl :~ Weird really
oh dear!
thanks for making laugh!
uhh it wasnt advice sis..a reflection.
Rubber
i just want to know who has an ex who looks like ahmedinajad?!!!
What does Faidaitich Ana or whatever mean - someone said that to me before but i had no idea what it meant
LOL @ when my son tries to pronounce the driver's name and calls him "star-war" :-P. And I'm guessing the driver's name is Sarwar? :-)
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