Do - Buy

Putting this up after a lil while as i was off to dubai., waited long for this break and finally made it. I owe a lot to this place, it has taught me quite a lot about life during the 3 yrs i spent over there, most important of all PATIENCE!

Dubai is famed for it’s visitors the many thousands of people that flirt with the damsel that is Dubai for a few brief days or hours. Dubai being the mistress that it is, will inevitably leave a mark on all that encounter her. Some will fall in love with her and forever yearn to come back and see her again, others will just be smitten by her and end up staying for good. There are some who will for the rest of their lives rue the day they ever laid eyes on Dubai, for them she is nothing but an unfaithful temptress.

Dubai is like a massive melting pot of every possible and impossible thing in the world. And melting it is, with temperatures settling comfortably in mid forties. I so far refused to melt and spend most of my free time indoors and at shopping malls. The only recent and quite memorable outdoor event that will take me a while to get over was the trip to Palm Jumeirah, Indeed was spellbound after witnessing the way it had shaped up. And at the Jumeirah Beach Residences, the sight was awesome at the beachfront with a lot of tourists getting a neat tan out of sun. Just the right temperature, and only a little rougher than I would prefer. The Area i was put up, 'Mirdiff'was so quiet that it deserves a note!. Dubai to me is a strange land, a lil bit fascinating and welcoming, but still a strange land and controversial too.

If u ask me to phrase Dubai in an one liner it wud b something like this 'Dubai is like once beautiful woman, thats had too much plastic surgery and has lost her soul to selling herself'

Its raining cats and dogs !!!

I will come to that phrase later but today its rained like never before in my city since last night which made me cancel my trip last night n stick to home. Way to the office has been journey down the flooded path and here i am , writing my blog from the office, ON A WEEKEND. Sad is that i work saturdays but its something i am getting accustomed to.

why do they say its raining cats and dogs?

A friend of mine told me that this refers to the old english homes. You've heard of thatch roofs, well that's all they were. Thick straw, piled high, with no wood underneath. They were the only place for the little animals to get warm. So all the pets; dogs, cats and other small animals, mice, rats, bugs, all lived in the roof. When it rained it became slippery so sometimes the animals would slip and fall off the roof. Thus the saying, "it's raining cats and dogs."

This is nonsense of course. It hardly needs debunking but, lest there be any doubt, let's do that anyway. In order to believe this tale we would have to accept that dogs lived in thatched roofs, which, of course, they didn't. Even accepting that bizarre idea, for dogs to have slipped off when it rained they would have needed to be sitting on the outside of the thatch - hardly the place an animal would head for as shelter in bad weather.

After some research i found out that this is an interesting phrase in that, although there's no definitive origin, there is a likely derivation.

The much more probable source of 'raining cats and dogs' is the prosaic fact that, in the filthy streets of 17th/18th century England, heavy rain would occasionally carry along dead animals and other debris. The animals didn't fall from the sky, but the sight of dead cats and dogs floating by in storms could well have caused the coining of this colourful phrase. Jonathan Swift described such an event in his satirical poem 'A Description of a City Shower', first published in the 1710 collection of the Tatler magazine. The poem was a denunciation of contemporary London society and its meaning has been much debated.

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FRIENDZZZ

It's just one of those days...A day when I feel like the entire world is caving in on me. Why ? Frankly I don't know.. I just feel this way sometimes. Its depressing ...really ..depressing . Its at times like these that i really miss having a "FRIEND". Now dont get me wrong.. I have oodles of friends ...(200+ on facebook, HI5 and orkut when i last checked) ..But then ..there are friends ..and there are "friends"...!!

I'm the type of person who needs someone to talk to. I need someone to tell me that its all right , I need the love ..the attention ..the words of solace when i'm feeling down and low. I need someone to tell me that they have faith in me ...Someone who'll trust me unconditionally. I need a friend who I know will never ever spill out my deepest darkest secrets .. I need a friend who'll take a bullet for me . And if you think I'm being selfish here...you are wrong !! I'd do the same for my best friend too. I'd do every single thing and much more..!! I'd gladly give up all ny friends just for one person who truly understands the sea of randomness that is me. If only I had a true friend... If only.... :(

p.s : I do have someone to confide in...

I DONT MEAN TO SOUND LIKE A SAD , GLOOMY PERSON HERE. ITS JUST BEEN ONE OF THOSE DAYS

The Beginning !!!

This is my first BLOG entry. Always pondered may be i should come up with a blog n then wasn't sure if im into this sorta thing, finally making it a reality here. Since i really stick to my thoughts n believe in them, i have called it 'sid-ology'. (Although i am open to opinions n suggestions from everyone out there but i would like make it clear 'U R WRONG' ..lolz)

I'll b putting down random musings of mine


So this is the world of blogging! seems pretty straight forward.