All shopped out
Adieu to ShopFest 2006. The Dubai Shopping Festival has officially been cancelled until next year:
Dubai, Jan. 9th, 2006 (WAM)-- The current round of Dubai Shopping Festival has been deferred to the next round, in mourning of the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, organisers have announced.
Festival Coordinator Saeed Al Naboudah said all the activities had been deferred to the next round, scheduled for the 20th of December, 2006.
But the sales are still on, and presumably the Globule Village, just not the festivities and fireworks.
Dubai, Jan. 9th, 2006 (WAM)-- The current round of Dubai Shopping Festival has been deferred to the next round, in mourning of the late Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, organisers have announced.
Festival Coordinator Saeed Al Naboudah said all the activities had been deferred to the next round, scheduled for the 20th of December, 2006.
But the sales are still on, and presumably the Globule Village, just not the festivities and fireworks.
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That's ok then - I'd hate to think that Dubai was nothing more than a big bang and a flash!
Talking about sales, I can name only few shops that have REAL discounted prices. It’s a common practice by the shops to overprice the items then give like 20% off which is almost equal to the price before. One funny one I saw at City Centre(one of those forever 75% discount places!), was a jacket for 10,000 DHS(!!!) coming down to 2,500DHS with 75% discount(only!).
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Can you delete the above, I posted it in the wrong place.
however no relief for Dubai's vast army of improvished construction workers.
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On a different note, do like the new additions to the blog. I anticipate a stream of copycats to follow.
anonymous @ 15:04 that is going to get proxied oh so quickly.
I guess the DSF isn't gonna be missed by anyone except the organisers themselves...haven't we got tired by SALES offers eating away 40% of our newspapers everyday?
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Intersting...eh?
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Globule?
If i'm thankful for one thing it is that the traffic nightmare won't get any worse... oh yeah it's still bad even normally, but during this DSF time, it gets awful !
Quote from the mafiwasta site:
WASTA : Gulf Arabic. Noun. A man of power and influence.
MAFI : Gulf Arabic. Adjective. Quantifier 'zero' - to have nothing of something.
Correction:
Wasta: ArabicNoun (Gulf & Non-Gulf) - A connection. A 'go-to' man/woman. Access to a 'High-up' or an 'inside man' wo can lubriacte the wheels of bureaucracy (or economy) on one's behalf.
Mafi: Adj (AGAIN, not just Gulf Arabic) - literally, there isn't any, not 'to have zero of something', even though the meaning is similar.
BTW, it ain't just the labourers that are wasta-deprived, many UAE locals don't have, and can't get, a wasta of their very own.
Wasta is a Pan-Arab issue - great if you have one, sucks if you're waiting in line without one.
I thank you....wa 3eidkum mbarak
HI all,
Its sad
http://dubaishoppingfestival.com/news/dsf-called-off.htm
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