Issue 5

3 - 5 - 2011

Tuesday is my use day! Use the day to delight you dear reader with some ML dose for the week.

I have had a fantastic start of the week for I now possess (proudly as a gadget freak), a sexy black iphone 4. What a dish she is. Caress her with a soft touch and it opens doors to unimaginable excitement. She feels like soft silk and she makes you feel like the whole world is on your palm waiting to be clicked open.

In a foreign land, it is easy for some people to adapt with the local culture and for some it is like as if they have got into an old dress of theirs which had been hung unattended in the wardrobe. As for me, the past 3 months have been as though I were jetting in and out of Philippines and India, rather than the feeling of being in Dubai. As I have repeatedly mentioned in my previous issues of DMC, of the proportion of population between expats and locals in UAE; which is 20:80 Majority of expats are from the beautiful land of Philippines and my culture rich motherland India. Many a times, especially this past week I have encountered many a familiar face on my metro rides. When I say familiar, I am mean the faces of those who regularly are seen in the same train that hop into. So even in a new country, amidst total strangers, you still feel like you are among known people. I offered a seat to an Old gentleman on one of the days in the past week and he was more than happy to offer it to his aged wife accompanying him on their leisure trip to the dessert…eerrr…global city Dubai. When you do good, goodness follows. The very next stop I got a seat vacated by one guy who had reached his station. There was this lady who very often takes the same train as I and almost everytime she and I are seated on the same seats that we sit everyday on our rides to work. It is so that she and I can see eachother inspite of she seated in the ladies car and me in the general car of the train. So a couple of days ago when we both boarded our common train and parked ourselves on our seats, incidentally we both looked at eachother and gave a very… what I call ‘I don’t know how to describe’ kind of a smile. What an ML J Also, here I would like to mention another simple, small, but yet very touching incident. I was on my way walking to the bus stop in the morning today, while listening to my favourite tracks on my iphone. What I did not realize was that I was also singing the songs obnoxiously loud. There was this guy walking very swiftly ahead of me and he suddenly looked back with a BIG smile, came hurriedly towards me, held my palm, gave a jolting handshake with such joy in his face. He was sweating profusely, had a bottle of water in one hand and I assume he was in hurry to reach some place. While greeting me with his handshake, he said “Mashallah, what a beautiful tune. I don’t understand what you sing, but beautiful tune and mashallah lovely voice yours. The heat is little now for me! Allah sends joy through people from nowhere” Big smile. Without even knowing it, I just made a stranger so happy. I felt an indescribable joy after that short encounter with genuine human affection.

Peace!