Michael Jackson spotted in Bahrain

There are just too many things to say about this picture. So for once I will refrain. I give you MJ, dressed in a woman's abaya in Bahrain with his son. Words just fail.

Fancy a ride on the Freij Wheel?

You don't see enough Freij Wheels these days (not to be mistaken for the Ferris Wheel, invented by George W. Ferris). I spotted this one at a parking lot in Deira - part of the cancelled shopping festival activities, no doubt. Mr. Freij, wherever you are, thank you.

Happy New Year Happy New Year

It's that time of year, around Christmas and New Year when a familiar sound fills the air. Not xmas tunes in shopping malls, nor fireworks or champagne bottles exploding - but that all too repeated sound of 'beep beep' signalling yet another SMS.

I have never received as many SMS's as I have in the span of the last 1.5 weeks. I've got nothing against a nice warm message from friends, mind you, but when it's the typical mindless blurb of a corny holiday card that appears on my phone...then I really start getting annoyed. It's amazing that people have become so lazy and uninspired that they end up just forwarding the same cheesy lines to the rest of the people on their address book. So do us all a favour, for next December - try to be a little more creative, a lot more personal and a lot less lazy. That should be number 1 on all our New Year's resolutions. Write a card, phone your friends/family, and at the very least write your own darned SMS message instead of relying on someone else's cheesy uninspired lines.

I leave you with an SMS message I received from a total of 5 different people, who all took time out to forward it to me - personalizing it of course with their name at the end - so heartfelt it brings tears to my eyes.

'may the coming new year bring all the happiness and peace to the world'