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Your girlyfriend cannot come here on anything other than a visit visa if she does not a have a job here.

devilsdisciple is a Dieselhead.

Not FAQs but Facts Fact 3 - If you ask about something illegal, even if you know it's illegal, the standard reply wil be that it is illegal and you will get locked up, deported, decapitated or all three - not necessarily in that order. Deal with it. what would be the punishment of suicide bomber in...

^ian^ wrote:And when you wake up one morning to find the world has changed, you will be "this can't be so... I signed a petition!"

Petitions will stop Salik from happening....one day.

Francheska wrote:Ok., guys ....do as you please.
I already have signed and I am not a bloody coward to put my name for the right (in my opinion) cause.

Coward? It's more risky putting your name on a petition against UAE govenrment policies.

chubbyhubby wrote:...hope your friend is loving his job by the minute else the one year wait maybe ridiculous

Well. he too went back to his country as he waited. Now he works "government" hours. 8 to 2.

Thanks for the reply. Im not really happy with their service. Last time i sent my car to EMC for servicing they charged DHS1700 without even changing the cars eng oil. DHS120 to test drive my car after servicing, DHS90 for an eng compartment bay cleaning and other nonsense..cost me all that. Really...

Just kindly pointing out that there are tons of malls in Dubai just as fancy as the Mall of the Emirates. You might know of them, but your review inadvertently made it seem there's only that one.

as for the co-habbiting bit, not to sound like sage, but a good friend of mine did actually get caught, and did actually recieve 40 lashes for driving in the car with a girlfriend (in rak) ... believe me, i saw what his back looked like... not pretty ..... this happened about 4 years back, i'm sure...

What is it? An Infiniti G35? A Jeep Grand Cherokee 3.7? A Ford Mustang V6? A Nissan 350Z Convertible? 4x4 Motors and their ilk are pawning a lot of these vehicles from America. I know they are American is because some of these (except G35) were never made available here as Gulf-spec vehicles thru lo...

Apparently "animals cannot speak for themselves" so they get more attention.

The Indian embassy seems to do a lot in sending workers home. Maybe they need to be alerted?

I have yet to buy a tag. Not that I need it desperately.

Indian folks devalue themselves to the point of taking Dhs 2k for engineering jobs. I'm from the same part of the world. Raise your standards, people! Western and local folks get more because they ask for nothing less.

Just kidding never really into the man/man thing! :shock: Illegal too. Male/female illegal too. Female/female = undefined in the law books. Anyway, there is also this weird trend of filling up the office with people from the boss's/HR manager's nationality. And these compatriot workers still get pa...

joydude630 wrote:

gtmash wrote:I have yet to buy a tag. Not that I need it desperately.

Hey there....do you have any idea about the SMS regarding salik?

My father got the tag two weeks ago. He got the SMS two days ago.

I just went out for a quick jaunt from Karama to Ras Al Khor via the filter at Wafi City interchange. All hell broke loose over there, at 10 am when that place is supposed to be free-flowing. EVERYONE was trying to use the Wafi interchange and Zabeel road to get to Maktoum Bridge, and now this situa...

Apparently "animals cannot speak for themselves" so they get more attention. The Indian embassy seems to do a lot in sending workers home. Maybe they need to be alerted? And how did u conclude about Indian Embassy? It wasnt Indians whom I met.. FYI its not Indian embassy sending worker ho...

175bpm wrote:Drugs

Where do you live? On one of those Palm fronds isolated from the mainland?

Gtmash, it is not "apparently" I've never heard a dog speak! They speak Doganese. I saw some workers at Rashid Hospital when I non-medically interned there. They were well-cared for in the ICU at least. I don't know what happens to them after they are out, but some charity organization li...

bonk wrote:

mighty.one wrote:Who actually owns souq.com??

Maktoob I think.

Heh, Maktoob tried to buy our website 2 years ago. Met their top bosses and all. They were lowballing us for 6 months, and backed out at the end themselves.

Can be sure all school buses will use SZR coz they don't have to pay the toll anyway. What :shock: :shock: No toll :shock: I think they should charge them a toll per kid to keep them off the road. No, Salik rightly charges only those oh-my-kid-is-too-good-to-travel-in-the-bus parents who clog roads...

Dear forum members, I was wondering if it is legal to sports shoot in the UAE, are there any gun clubs? Is it possible for a foreign national, non GCC or UAE to obtain a sports shooting license? Thank you, Swe77 why do u not join Osma bin laden or Al-Qeda :lol: You only get to shoot guns during tra...

Hi there, I was wondering if anyone else out there has an XBox 360 and would like to play on XBox Live? At the moment, I only have a couple of other friends in Dubai with 360s and would be interested in adding more people who live here to the list. Just PM me and we sort out adding ourselves to eac...

Dr.D wrote:
Perhaps after the Hummer they can afford nothing else?

You'd be surprised at the number of "rich" people who buy big cars with bank loans and have absolutely no savings.

On another note, how do you refill the card? and how do you check balance by SMS?

pacific22 wrote:Is WCC open? I want to stop into a few shops and find the best one. Do you know of any other high profile auto shops? I don't mind spending the extra money for the best service/products and future service if I have problems.

Quartermile

Facebook is addictive for a week only.

Perhaps 5 reasons to start thinking about leaving Dubai; 1. Rent: Too High. 2. Traffic: Too Much. 3. Brits: Too Many. 4. Tolls: Too Stupid. 5. Terrorism: Too Close (Yemen Yesterday). Why not just stay and take it up the...? Some are happy to take it up the ... and keep telling everyone else to leave.

Try karama or meena bazar street shops.. :D U may find them there..but do..remember to check the spelling... or I could get the name printed , give 1/2 the price... anyway they arent any better than the normal tshirts..except for their exhorbitant price tags.. The spelling is always correct actuall...

xty wrote:Just to add on the retail shops part. I bet you didn't go to Al Dhiyafah road or Al Karama or Meena Bazaar area Lots lots of small (Indian) shops.

Karama is actually ruled by Iranians. Clothes shops that is. The Indians have the restaurants and groceries.

Your American DVD movies will not work in DVD players and drives here. Unless you get some bootleg brand one, which I think are probably hard to find nowadays. My PC asks me to select a DVD region and that becomes permanent after 5 changes.