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Useful links:
Information:
World Time Clock
Exchange Rates
Journalism:
Nationsonline.org
Project Syndicate
Amnesty International
Reporters w/o borders
The Guardian - UK
BBC World News
CNN Asia
Bangkok Post
Daylife.com - news
Gulf News
Arabian Business
Good causes:
Sister
Joan - Bangkok
Regional Info:
BKK Magazine
HK Magazine
In
Singapore Magazine
TimeOut Dubai
Travel:
Circle of Asia
Tales of Asia
Smart Travel Asia
Finance:
FinanceAsia
Aviation:
Amadeus (airline
schedules)
Airliners
- aviation forum
Thailand Info
thailand.com
learningthai.com
sawadee.com
bangkok a-z
Back in the UK:
Newton Ferrers
Government:
The
"new" White House
And for fun:
Lin Ping live panda tv
EarthCam
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An Occasional Blog
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Thailand Blogs Bangkok Pundit - politics Bangkok Metblogs - city life Thai-blogs.com - rather serious
2bangkok.com
- not really a blog but always up to date
on Bangkok news
BKKOK.com
Thai Girl The exotic
adventures of a literary sexagenarian.
Thai Films
Al - Emarati - English language
UAE blog In China Danwei - media and advertising news from China
Shanghai Diaries - self
explanatory My Olive Tree - Macau blog In Singapore: Xiaxue - self-confessed mean, bitchy, sex goddess who says "wah" a lot!
Mr Brown
- colourful commentary from Singapore Aviation Amadeus (airline schedules) Airline meals - see it b4 you eat it !
Airliners
- aviation forum, trip reports and pix
archive Planenation - commercial aviation news Airchive - a web museum of commercial aviation.
CrankyFlier - mainly US
commentary
Sharjah - 1937 News The Guardian - UK
Arabian Business China sites Bangkok info sites Worthy Sites Niall Ferguson - my favorite modern historian
Rconversation - from Rebecca MacKinnon, ex-TV
reporter-turned-blogger. Fun Sites
Penguin baseball Technology Ideas
Stuff -
gadgets
Author
Robert Scott lives and works in Dubai; born in England I have since lived in Canada, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bangkok. I am very happily married to Tai.
If you want to know more you only need to ask! ask.
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10 March 2010 EK's new routes summary - for Tai's upgrade course:
Tokyo - 28 March
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Do you hear the people sing?
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Former Indian captain and all-rounder Kapildev was inducted
into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in Dubai on March 9, 2010 for his
contribution to world cricket with the bat and the ball.
Apart from his bowling, he had also scored 5248 Test runs,
including eight centuries and 27 fifties, at an average of 31.05 and 3783
ODI runs.
************************************** So some 10 weeks after moving in there are 2 guys who will clean, polish and repair the door frames. They wont do the doors. They wont do the wardrobe doors. They wont to the window sills. All of which have the same wood finish. Someone else sir. I guess something is better than nothing. 8 March 2010 Here is the woman who should have gotten best actress - but Ms Bullock has been around rather longer and Hollywood likes her ! Carey Mulligan-
***************************** I watched The Hurt Locker on Emirates. Every swear word had been edited out....the worst word used was "flip". This is not a kindergarden movie. This is a movie about an army bomb disposal team in Iraq. I think they are allowed the occasional fuck and shit and jesus christ........ Emirates over censors its movies - to the point where they sometimes make no sense. I am sure many other airlines do the same thing. Yet a bit of blood gore and violence is not an issue. Strange. 6 March 2010 The reds are coming to BKK. It wont be a million. It probably wont be 500,000. But it is enough to have the government and army in apoplexy. The scare mongering being undertaken on their behalf by the media is predictable. 5 March 2010 A bit of history - this was Blue Rodeo's first ever TV appearance - probably 1985. The voices have not changed so much. But streuth, they look young !
******************************* How does he take himself seriously. The people that put him in power closed the international airport for 8 days ! Meanwhile the government has instructed relevant departments to follow up the Thaksin court ruling with more prosecutions but continues to ignore the airport closure and government house damage issues. Judicial credibility. Hardly ! ************************************ This is the airlines’ 41st base across Europe. There will be six new routes, bring the number of total routes to/from Malta to 19. New routes are: ****************************** "There is not yet any determination on a bonus or salary rise for the next financial year as the financial year does not end until March 31st. Final profit or loss figures can only be established at that time. Additionally, the world-wide economy is yet to show a sustained period of economic robustness and that fact may weigh heavily on the eventual decision as to whether any profit, should there be one, is to be shared with employees or retained to provide for operational integrity in the case of a further delay to the global economic recovery. No management person or any employee for that matter received any type of additional payment, bonus or extra salary for the holidays or at any point this past year." I am sorry - but by 6 March the company knows full well whether there will be a profit for the year ended 31 March - and can pretty well tell you what that profit will be. How dumb do they think people are !
**************************** From Fly Girls - premiering in the USA on 24 March. That Rochard Branson does enjoy his work !
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******************************* I think the maid may get fired. 4 March 2010 Really fed up today - so the best I can do is a really old joke- "I went on a trip to a postcard factory last week. It was OK. Nothing to write home about." You can read on the Executive Towers update about the latest fiasco with the apartment and why I still don't have internet or tv. And other things have either stopped working or cannot be found. My back up hard drive is not working. The hoover gave up on Wednesday. The paper tray for my little canon picture printer has gone awol - I have no idea where it is and it probably got lost in the move - together, and rather strangely, with the laundry basket. 3 March 2010 Such an irritating visit from the Dubai Properties maintenance people today - do they have any idea how frustrated people are! |
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2 March 2010 Dubai recorded a total of 22.2mm of rain, while Abu Dhabi and Sharjah received 43.4mm and 35.6mm respectively leaving much of the UAE in the cold on Tuesday. Ridiculous - 2 centimetres of rain and the city comes to a grinding halt. The mud tracks around Business Bay are all flooded. This is when you really need a 4x4.
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*************************** As one poster reminded the airline - Emirates Airline's "arrogance, systemic dishonesty and total disregard for their employees, ranging from incompetence to casual neglect, to targeted abuse....is damaging the recruitment process." I dont in any way think that Emirates is unique in this regard. But what is different is that the airline is based in the UAE where there is no pilot representation and where labour rules can be changed irrespective of contractual commitments. The forum is useful for anyone coming to Dubai. It does show the difference between the sales pitch and the reality.
*************************** Witty, observant, wise; and despite dealing with potentially creepy Lolita like material - a very adult film. Carey Mulligan is very easy to watch - although I do think the 24 year old actress was maybe just a little too old and poised to play a 16 year old schoolgirl. The film tells the story of Jenny, a very smart, rather frustrated, 16-year-old London girl who is the target of a sophisticated seduction by a 35-year-old man. This happens in 1961, when 16-year-old girls were a great deal less knowing than they are now. Yet the movie isn't shabby or painful, but romantic and wonderfully entertaining.
As for David, the older man; he is truthful in part. He enormously enjoys
this smart, pretty girl. He loves walking along the Seine with her. He
knows things about the world that she eagerly welcomes. Education can be found in many forms. Yes, David does get to bed with our heroine; but when shes chooses and how she chooses. Afterwards, she remarks, with more curiosity than regret, "All that poetry, and all those songs, about something that lasts no time at all." 1 March 2010 2010 Winter Olympics lessons for London:
Do: Try to capture the spirit of Vancouver over the past 16
days. The streets were packed, the mood was festive, the venues were full
and the food was reasonably priced. Meanwhile - only in Aussie - Some 5,200 Australians posed naked in front of the Sydney Opera House on Monday for a photo shoot by New York-based artist Spencer Tunick for another signature installation of nudes against urban backdrops. That wont be happening in Dubai ! 28 February 2010 I met John the Bangkok taxi driver today; what a nice man. He drove us from Sukhumvit 22 to Chinatown. Longer would have been interesting. He is 63; he graduated from High School. He learned English from watching movies. His favourite - Mary Poppins - and anything with John Wayne in it. He is the first (and only) taxi driver I have ever met in BKK who can do a passable Cockney accent - copying Dick Van Dyke. He has views on Australian convicts. He thinks the rich have forgotten the taxi drivers. And that someone is pulling Abhisit's strings. Such a character. He also volunteered that I am 42 - so while his judgement may be good; his eyesight may be fading !
***************************** Tai has given up her April vacation - more work - and the optimistic hope that Emirates will make good her vacation in the second half of the year.
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***************************** He has been in hospital since mid-September.
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