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aruanFell off the one-a-day photo wagon because B. decided he's going to steer me right out of the endless to-do list-induced paralysis by opening the throttle on getting moving-related stuff done from the minute we get up until we collapse back into bed. But today was Guilt-Free Monday with khaleesian, and I traded picking up a prescription and buying shipping containers at Ikea for cupcakes and Supernatural. Also, she helped do my dishes, because she's the best kind of weird.
Speaking of weird, Groupon Middle East is truly strange. They offer the usual restaurant deals and discount vacation packages, but the other day I could buy an honorary doctorate degree ("in virtually any area of study or discipline"). Today, it's "glamorous bra straps" (strings of rhinestones, fake turquoise stones and other sharp objects obviously dreamt up by someone who's never needed any actual support from her lingerie). Yeah.
Day 5: My favorite building in the Emirates.
(I did not take this photo - it belongs to Adam2707 at skyscrapercity.com who likes to climb cranes, apparently.)
Welcome to the Pearl, headquarters of Abu Dhabi's biggest property developer, Aldar. Butkhaleesian mentioned today that her European friends almost universally recoil from it, saying it resembles a fly's eye and other unsightly (ha!) things. But I really like it. I mean, where else can you find a vertically circular building? This country has no shortage of impressive architecture, among them that really tall one that Tom Cruise climbed, a wavy one, a grand mosque only second in size to the actual Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia that no one shall dwarf, and a hotel shaped like a sail (you need a reservation just to be allowed onto the island, and more than $1,200 a night to stay in the seven-star property). But it's Aldar's HQ that won my heart. Even if an entire league of window washers could never keep it clean.
khaleesian, and I traded picking up a prescription and buying shipping containers at Ikea for cupcakes and Supernatural. Also, she helped do my dishes, because she's the best kind of weird.Speaking of weird, Groupon Middle East is truly strange. They offer the usual restaurant deals and discount vacation packages, but the other day I could buy an honorary doctorate degree ("in virtually any area of study or discipline"). Today, it's "glamorous bra straps" (strings of rhinestones, fake turquoise stones and other sharp objects obviously dreamt up by someone who's never needed any actual support from her lingerie). Yeah.
Day 5: My favorite building in the Emirates.
(I did not take this photo - it belongs to Adam2707 at skyscrapercity.com who likes to climb cranes, apparently.)
Welcome to the Pearl, headquarters of Abu Dhabi's biggest property developer, Aldar. But
khaleesian mentioned today that her European friends almost universally recoil from it, saying it resembles a fly's eye and other unsightly (ha!) things. But I really like it. I mean, where else can you find a vertically circular building? This country has no shortage of impressive architecture, among them that really tall one that Tom Cruise climbed, a wavy one, a grand mosque only second in size to the actual Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia that no one shall dwarf, and a hotel shaped like a sail (you need a reservation just to be allowed onto the island, and more than $1,200 a night to stay in the seven-star property). But it's Aldar's HQ that won my heart. Even if an entire league of window washers could never keep it clean.
