Tempo receives about half a dozen or so resumes a day. We received an interesting one recently ‘in response to a vacancy’ by an ‘injection molding machine assistant technician`with five years’ regional experience. We can’t say for sure that Tempo doesn’t need one of those… but would decide only after we’ve figured out what that means.
- A news announcement stated that Dubai First will be “Breathing New Life Into Credit Cards” by launching its “Titanium Life”credit card to respond to evolving consumer demand. We hope that Dubai First next comes out with something that breathes new life into our capacity for borrowing.
- Concierge is elated about the news that Abu Dhabi has launched a programme to protect children from child abuse. Hooray for the rights of children. Our response on the Casey Anthony case in the USA: what exactly were those jurors thinking??????! Maybe ‘jurors of peers” should have been “professional jurors” with better knowledge of “circumstantial evidence” and the legal process.
- Hanna Makki, if you’re reading this: no, neutering your cat is not cat-abuse. Your eternally youthful eunuch-cat is probably grateful and sees this as the equivalent of a human botox fix.
- Dubai-based Neutral has announced that it will collect 20,000 ltrs of vegetable oil from McDonalds that it uses annually to fry french fries and will convert this into biodiesel to fuel the chain’s cars! Wish they would also consider collecting frying oil from homes, to power the taxis of the UAE. Thumbs up, Neutral!
- Concierge wants to thank the young Emirati who pulled up next to our car at the intersection of Al Khaleej Al Arabi and Delma, saw me using my cellphone, asked us to roll down our window, and told us politely not use a cellphone while driving. And done with a big smile. Thank you, for caring. Concierge is beginning to think anyone named “Rebecca/ Rebekah” is destined/doomed tol 5 minutes of fame in 2011, and wonders if the name may perhaps be associated with occasional lapses of good judgement.
- We bid goodbye to Harry Potter, News of the World, and the NASA shuttle programme. Which one is the hardestto take?
- Sharjah launching a music fountain. RAK has launched an ice fun park. Which one is harder to getto?
- Concierge received some complaints from residents living in a first floor apartment in Tourist Club. The message is to the neighbors on the second floor: “please don’t move furniture around at 9am on Friday while we’re all trying to sleep in.”
- Concierge received a message from a woman who lives in Deira addressed “to the community”: “people, please be considerate and refrain from spitting on the ground. Sometimes women wearing long dresses or abayas touch the ground with their garments…and nothing is more disgusting than washing off phlegm.”
- Concierge wants to remind all: do not put your mobile phone in your back pocket ifyou are planning to usethe toilet Believe it or not, this is a growing phenomenon.
- Dubai is investing US$7.8 billion to expand airport capacity at Dubai Airport over 10 years from the current 60 million passengers per year to 90 million. Brash and bold. Hopefully not just trickle-down, but trickle-across economics for the whole region.
And that, folks, is the bottom, bottom-line.
The Concierge at Tempo
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