Same Same Shit Different Day!

Today is Monday (again), after the UAE weekend shot past and Sunday went by in the blink of an eye, we are rapidly approaching the middle of the working week (Tuesday lunchtime), once that has passed we’ll be thankful for the start of another short weekend.

Time seems to go much quicker here in the Middle East something I have never managed to control since arriving from the UK in April 2006. I have developed a theory of why time seems faster for me, which put simply, is because Dubai is nearer to the equator than my home town in the UK. This means we actually travel further (around the earth’s rotational axis) in a 24 hour period in the UAE than we do in the UK....Agreed? So my theory is this, if we travel further in one day we actually have to travel faster, which means time goes quicker....sounds plausible right? Well it’s the only thing that keeps me sane at times....

On the subject of sanity it becomes more and more apparent every day I continue to exist in this sun blessed country that you have to be mad to live here, if for no other reason other than to avoid losing your rag. Jeez, if only people would listen and understand what is asked of them we would all be in a better place. I know I am asking too much and in danger of falling into the “same same” scenario but I try very hard to fight it every day. Vicki Pollard from “Little Britain” summed it up, “Yeah but no but yeah!” How he western expats living out here for 20 years or more have kept their sanity is beyond me some times, or maybe they just pretend!

Dubai has been good to me without doubt I have achieved some things which would not have been possible if I remained in the UK. Life here when it come to friends and socialising is not much different, from back home but I wonder what I am missing out on by not being at home with my old mates, but I realise that when I go home that things are not much different from when I left and while its great to see everybody, I find myself looking forward to getting back to the time warp of Dubai and the pending bullshit!