yes, yes, i said a continent per day... but alas, i got busy and there is only so much time and so many continents... (i am not *really* visiting all the continents, i'd just like to think so :)) i am currently writing this from qatar. i was in uae earlier (both in sharjah (al-shariqa) and dubai). sharjah reminds me of egypt a lot except for the number of desis and the traffic laws/driving patterns. dubai on the other hand could very well be a city in the us. the cost of living there seems to be very expensive - the price that you pay in the us is the price you pay in dubai, despite the fact that 1 dollar is ~3.6 dirhams. some places are even more expensive - a cup of coffee at starbucks, for example, was 12 dirhams, or roughly $3.33.
qatar is similar to dubai - there's a *lot* of building and construction happening there. the building architecture in both qatar and dubai is quite amazing actually. some amazing looking buildings! anyway, so yeah, qatar is pretty cool too... very much like dubai (like a city in the us as well). cost of living is roughly the same as that in dubai, as a matter of fact, most places take the dubai dirhams as well as the qatar riyals. the exchange rate is almost 1:1, maybe one being 0.98 or 0.99 to the other.
one last interesting fact - getting into dubai, with a us passport, cost me nothing. getting into qatar, on the other hand, cost me around $27 for the visa.
Ahmed!! I sms you many times in Egypt but I did not get a reply … I think you surely did not ignore that many sms, so I must have been not getting the phone number right. Anyway. Your blog reminds me of what one of the Malaysians in the tour group said (who works in the oil business, for Shell), he said at this time, young people should go to the middle east to work because 1 year of experience there is worth 5 years elsewhere. Anyway, I don’t know anything to agree or disagree with him.
Man, drinking water was so expensive in Egypt .. and many things to say about my trip but I won’t spill all now
hey! nope, i didn’t get anything - i hope you had a good and interesting trip though - upload the pictures!
hmm, really? i never heard of that… what i do know though is most of those companies require 5+ years of experience before they hire someone… so go figure. really not sure…
really? where’d you go to buy water? i was under the impression its cheaper than the us…
just drink pepsi