In almost a months time i ll be leaving UAE, my home away from home for almost 13 yrs, and i cannot possibly explain all the mixed feelings that i have about this place.
I cant write down all the things but here are a few real good things which am so gonna miss :
-the heat! though its incredibly hot but the feeling u get when u come all baked in the sun into an air conditioned place, wah heaven!
-traffic! its habitual now to leave an hr n a half earlier to reach a destination which is just 15 mins drive away
-extreme euphoria when it rained! how happy i would be when it would rain after a very long time and go out with a huge umbrella even though it would just be drizzling
-the way to my school! it was amazing how every morning i would pass the same old, not so developed streets of the industrial areas(shortcut to school) watching men working in those dusty factories which was contrary to the modernised dubai
-my bus no 22! my mode of transport to school for many yrs, two long hrs spent every morning with all those fellow friends and kids, singing, playing ouch!,making enough noise so that no one sleeps, discussing all the hot topics about everyone's new crushes and of course making fun and not to forget that awesome man, my driver, who would be so interested in what we would be doing in future n would advice us to work hard n become doctors and engineers and who would be overjoyed when he would tell the chemical formula for water H20!
-my newspaper, Gulf news!, well yeah i can read it online but there's nothing like the 'real' newspaper and reading it would be the first thing i would do every morning and how i would be excited in reading all the gossip in tabloid and my fav horoscope
-talking in different accents! it would be hilarious how i would make my english sound cooler with all those different accents, sometimes arabic, sometimes indian(malu)(no offence), sometimes typical paki and sometimes everything mixed!
-all the swear words in different languages! i bet i dono anything about other languages but just ask me swear words and you ll be shocked
-my building! i spent almost 10 yrs in that same building with all those awesome neighbours who were just like our family and we always celebrated every event together and we even taught our palestinian and egyptian neighbours how to play cricket n now they love it even more than soccer or football!
-my school! TWS, dubai! This is something which m gonna miss the most, my school was my life, 7 awesome yrs, i can run out of words describing each n every moment, my friends, my teachers, my class, mufty days, bus areas, all those arabic style greetings every morning, gossip, rumours, excitement on the arrival of every circular screaming holidays! assemblies, back to school excitement, fashion lol,haha caesars food after every event, just every little thing :)
-my friends! i love them so very much, they made life all exciting and worth living, and my best friend, she's an angel, she's my biggest gift from God, and she's the most beautiful person i have ever come across and now she's gonna be so flattered when she reads this haha ;)
-the atmosphere! even though i was not in Pak, the people here never made me feel that,the smell of rain is the same as the smell back home, it was awesome how i could get shalwar kameez n bangles n dress up same for Eid as i would do in Lahore, the feeling of home , love and care
Dubai <3
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