Woke up early and headed down to the Vietnam embassy to get our visa's sorted. We were told that at 7.00 it would be dry because of Mohammed's assention into heaven (or something) so we headed to Fiber's for a liquid lunch. At 5 we found out that the dates had been mixed up so it wasn't dry at all. We headed to Mall of Emirates to watch the new Simpsons movie which for me, as not the greatest fan, did not live up to expectation. Although saying this, you can never judge a film in Dubai since you don't know how much they censor out. Heading back to the apartment we convinced Liz and Natasha to come out with us, so we had a few drinks before heading to Rock Bottom. The bouncers told me the next time I come I should dress more appropriately. Of all places to hear that! We introduced Rich to Bullfrogs and he drank 5 of them. The record! We met some Emirates crowd and they came back to the apartment for a bit of a party. Tame enough. One of the girls introduced herself like this:
Emirates girl: Hi, I work for Emirates, what's your name?
Me: I am not going to buy you a drink.
Emirates girl: Well, I'll find someone who will! Emirates girls never have to buy a drink!
Me: ..........ok........
In fairness to the girl, she was right. Someone did buy her a drink. A bit sad though that you have to introduce yourself as your job to get someone to talk to you.
Hi, I'm a Mechanical Engineer.......want to talk.....
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Hahaaaa.......that is so lame..!! Have noticed that a lot in Dubai...people tend to throw in big names and associate themselves to it..like that would make them look really special..!!
if someone came up to me and introduced themselves as a mechanical engineer i would talk to them, probably buy them a drink, might make them feel a bit better about your life.
A tip for you, you should turn on word verification for the comments or else you will get bots spamming your blog, tis easy enough to do.
Now if i came up to some one and said...hi im a wood scientist....they simply go? am...what now... a what? a food scientist is it, what do they do....do food taste tests and stuff is it?!!!!
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