MY FIVE RESOLUTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR
The beginning of a new year is the time which many take stock of their lives and endeavor to make a fresh start to improve themselves or their lifestyle. Most of these self-promises involve getting rid of bad habits such as smoking, drinking, overeating and replacing them with healthy diets, exercise and other good practices.
-by Alma Kadragic
Photos from Cobone.com
Local Website Cobone.com Brings Deals Home to You
Over the past few years, websites that offer services for a low price have become popular. The price depends on the website collecting a certain number of buyers.
The time is here again for the most popular holidays celebrated by many expatriots (or expatriates) living in Abu Dhabi. They are Christmas and New Year’s Eve….I could count Thanksgiving but that was last month and is rarely celebrated outside of North America. Funny enough, even the USA and Canada observe it on separate days!
The Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (ADACH) participated in the 46th Annual Congress of the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP), in Nairobi, Kenya.
I was talking to a British buddy of mine the other day and we were discussing how when we go back to our respective countries our friends and family are strangely uninterested about our lives abroad.
– by Alma Kadragic
Sim Whately and JC Butler came to Dubai in the summer of 2005 looking for jobs. They had met in Belgium earlier and became friends while doing sales training and selling media. Both 24-year old Americans had worked in Kuwait and Whately also in Jordan and had heard what people used to hear about Dubai, that the streets – if not paved with gold – were filled with opportunity.
– by Randy Parker
I had some time off so I decided to go to Thailand for two weeks. Why Thailand? It is relatively inexpensive, beautiful and the people are some of the nicest in the world. I stayed in Thailand all this time for what three days in Europe would have cost me.
– by Alma Kadragic
The Leaders of Tomorrow Conference is the only event that is aimed at the young who will be leading both countries in the future. The focus is on “the coming water challenge” because as Switzerland’s Ambassador to the UAE said, “it is the most important issue of the next generation” and “it starts already now.”
-by Alma Kadragic
Last year none of us could have known about a company called Lucky Nooni because it didn’t exist. Lucky Nooni is about fashion and has come up with a style that wasn’t available before.Sheikha Manar Mohammed Talib Al Hinai saw something missing in the market that she could provide.