Marmotte's Blog

Beginning November (2 months late) finally the moment came and Dubai had yet another big shopping mall.

Is it worth visiting it?

Well the Aquarium and Exploring Center are really nice and I think I will also go ice skating there in the future. (it features an Olympic size ice rink!)

The mall itself is not (yet) worth a visit though, as it is still just a big construction area with a lot of shops, restaurants and entertainment facilities only planned to open in 2009. (no clue if it will be beginning or end of 2009)

For now I will still stick to the good old MOE, Festival Center and Mercato Mall.

A new Identity Card....one with multi purposes.

Apparently it has been planed since a long time and all Emiratis as well as professional Expats with university degree were supposed to apply for one until the end of 2008.

Unfortunately the communication about the card as well as the procedure how to get was really bad, and many people were ignoring the fact that they had to get one. Even with treats, that without the card bank account will be frozen and other services denied.

That's why Seb and some of his colleagues got up this morning at 4am to go to the ID center in Al Barsha to queue for the card.

You can't imagine how I was laughing, when I got the paper this morning with the following headline: "DEADLINE EXTENDED end of year deadline for expats to obtain their national ID cards is now put back until 2010.

hihihihihhihhiiiiii.........

I was always under the impression, that when you bought brand names, you actually didn't just pay more money for the name, but also get better quality and better customer service.

How wrong I was.....

A year ago, my hubby bought a Hugo Boss suit. It was one from their "Hugo Boss Selection" range, since apparently it was of much better quality, then the normal range. But also double the price. But hey, you're buying quality, right?!

Not even a year later, the first problem.... the stiches on the side of the pants were opening up and we brought them back to the Hugo Boss Store in the MOE, where he bought it. They fixed them and the pants were returned a few days later.

Not bad......you think....well wait!