So over the past fews days I have experienced the following in the evenings:
Sun - watched Slumdog Millionaire, what a film, it truly deserved the numerous accolades and showering of Oscars, its a very moving story which reminded me of the rich tapestry of India's makeup.
Mon - we went to meet one of my housemate's Emirati friends in a really amazing furniture store, I had to take a couple of snaps as it was so beautiful. Aparantly itwas set up by someone who used to work for IKEA but its so much nicer, the cafe won "Best Cafe of the Year" and serves the nicest smoothies I've ever had. The Emirati is on the case to find us Emirati boyfriends - now that would be a good story, I'm determined to infiltrate the Secret World of Emiratis.....
Really great store website:
http://www.theoneplanet.com/
Tues - went to visit a villa as we need to move out of our lovely Shangri La apartments, totally gutted as we have become quite accustomed to the life of a princess. Apt was nice but very far out, not close to ameneties and still seems like a ghost town due to constuction all around the complex. We then played tennis at a gold course made out of sand, very cool in that they have "browns" instead of greens! The tennis courts are pretty good although I had to borrow a 1980's style racquet which weighed a ton and has given me blisters but it was great to exercise outdoors again.
Weds - We went to an art gallery opening - all very lovely except most pieces seemed to cost aroun £20, 000, we felt slightly under dressed and are definetly not part of the art set in Abu Dhabi yet, although we did see a sheik looking important and schmoozing around with the gallery owner, we managed to get snapped by the photographer a couple of times so might end up in a local mag yet....
Favourite artist: http://www.carmenpombo.es/eng/index.html
Gallery: http://acentogallery.com/
Tonight - we are off to a house party in Dubai - no doubt there will be some more random stories to follow.....
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