Problems and solutions
This is what I feel like posting about: rising costs. I still don't think it directly affects me, as I conclude after having numerous discussions with friends about the significance of inflation.
Some points: I went to my favourite supermarket, which is not a hypermarket, if I may add...I love this brand ,'Dewlands', for juice - and the cost has gone up. This is highly significant, I thought - comparatively speaking - in the light of my recent discussions (with friends on the topic of inflation), which were mainly centred on oil.
I bought another brand - only after thinking "is there a way of not being affected by inflation"?
Obviously I am affected by something - the reason for this post.
The real reason must be that I passed by a construction site and saw some labourers sitting on a pavement - I noticed two sitting together chatting. The other was alone, looking on the floor, sad. They were waiting for their transportation, and I realised this must be late often, which is the explanation for labourers standing by roads en masse - a regular sight in Dubai. Going back to the sad face: I know exactly why he is sad.
Inflation: these men are going to be in an even worse predicament. Is there a charity to contribute to these gentlemen in need?
37 comments:
Here's a link to a charity who does just that!....helps those poor men in need. http://www.helpinghandsuae.com/Index.htm
It's so sad that these men come here to work and support their families, and they end up being the one's who need the most help.
I love Dewland too....
*Elle
Thank you! Bless.
On the subj of Dewland - I read all the ingredients to make sure there's so 'sugar'. Dewland adds grape juice for most of its juices but this is an honest brand: it tells the truth, and is healthy!
One of the juices no grape juice is added is the apple juice! Yum!
elle - you run the website you pointed me to.
I will call at some point in the future, for anonymity's sake, & read your site in the meanwhile.
You have a very comprehensive website, I know. Nevertheless, please could you write a couple of lines - so that I could use them as an introduction to a new blog post?
Thank you, Elle.
*elle - my email address is on my blogger profile, for your information.
Try to someday visit the laboour camp areas in Dubai. A strong smell will greet you, a smell which we can't bear for few minutes & those people have to live there. Roads are unpaved, unlit. But despite all these things, these guys have hearts far bigger than us & I am telling this from personal experiences.
*dubai guy - I understand your comment in translation but this is not personal (how your comment reads in English).
check out elle's suggestion http://www.helpinghandsuae.com/Index.htm
samuraisam has personally visited a labour camp. www.onebigconstructionsite.blogspot.com
I hear inflation talk from friends only when it hits the heart - the shwarmahs :)
WOW, sounds quite a hard life at the camps? I have never been to a camp - in fact, I've only read about it in the papers and eve drops. A few friends tell me what the labour folks have to put up with. I do not think in the past anyone else has been thru such tough times in the UAE or GCC - nobody deserves this.
DG- you sure have a compassionate heart. i* - as much as I think a visit could be an added eye opener, it may not be safe for a lady and her blahniks.
I understand your comment in translation but this is not personal (how your comment reads in English)
You had to translate what I wrote? I am speechless.
*rosh
I have before witnessed terrible living conditions of other people in person.
elle has a website - amazing.
i*maginate:
What’s with this sudden change of heart & empathy towards those laborers? Besides, no matter what you affirm here, it won’t alleviate their predicament unless you’re really serious & sincere.
As for your having witnessed terrible living conditions of other people in person line, it amounts to jack unless you’ve endured an identical predicament, which I doubt!
Helping Hands has been circulating at the UAE Community Blog for quite some time.
So, if you really want to do some good, you can start by paying attention and not just post to generate traffic.
kyle - don't generate unwanted traffic on my blog, please.
You got a deal, just as long as it's a two-way, here or any where else.
kyle - don't generate unwanted traffic on my blog, please.
"So, if you really want to do some good, you can start by paying attention and not just post to generate traffic."
Kyle: respectfully, who are you to self righteously assume, people have helped or have not - and have a post for some lousy Internet traffic? Christ man, where is this coming from?
inflation is a given...once upon a the dirham alone was powerful...the number of things i could buy as a kid with a dirham...and getting 10dhs a month as pocket money was like a huuuuge amount...
rosh - you always demonstrate just qualities, and I do appreciate your support as a blogger I, and so many others respect.
On the one hand, people are free - on my blog - to judge if they want, but not without reason!
kyle, you've said things along the line about not wasting time 'reasoning' with dimwits (which is what your opinion of me was in a comment to keefieboy...)Kyle, you are welcome to argue with reason if you wish, but your comment was very offensive because there's no justification for the personal attack.
Say even if I wanted to 'generate traffic' perhaps the post would insprire someone else who is actually 'genuine'?
I am so happy elle provided a solution - I was really distressed thinking there is no official charity one could contribute to - wouldn't you be frustrated too if you wanted to help?
Anyway, good day with respect, kyle. Feel free to come back. I really don't want to stop anyone from voicing their opinion provided it's done with reason, or we have an existing understanding, in which case, humour would be acceptable!
Thank you.
Hey Mars: let's make a list of all the stuff we could buy for a Dirham back in the day :)
Two pofaki chips - 50 fils each :)
Hey i* - an interesting idea for UAECB - say wot?
i*maginate:
I went back and had another look at my comment.
Maybe I came down a bit strong.
I came across Helping Hands here
in Bobo of Arabia’s label comments at UAE Comm last August. So that paying attention bit was in reference to that label. I realize I could have put that in a reasonable manner.
No worries.
Look, there’s no point pursuing the past – you don’t want to let people know where you’re coming from, that’s cool!
Peace :)
Dear kyle - thank you so much for your comment. I tell you, it makes me happier ;-)
I don't refer to the 'label' thing on the UAE Comm blog. Don't even know how to work it! Will check it out.
This is not about where I might be coming from - and perhaps I should understand your point of view too, as a new reader. Just take my posts at face value. All of them are genuine with a lil sarcasm and humour if you can call it that ;-)
rosh dude I have no way of phrasing such a post for the UAECB lol!
Let's say the price of coke has not changed in about the 20 years it was introduced ...
A yummy croissant still Dhs. 1
Damn it I need more coins in my purse! (did I say purse?)
Alas, I don't buy such stuff anymore.
The best luxury I can afford coin wise is a 3.50 shawarma from Jumeira Road!
(and don't bring *another* topic up please on that subject looool)
Your decision to shift to another brand hides a more inherent meaning; one that will manifest itself across people and organizations: adjustment and adaptation.
People will have to adjst to inflation. There is nothing else they can do. Some will give up certain brands, habit or preferences. Others will have to give up more. Ultimately, something’s gotta give
Oh dear, i* I'm not the lady. I see where the confusion has come. If only I had half the gumption and compassion the real 'Elle' has.
Elle - you bring a smile to my face. I am just lucky to have received a direct 'solution' to the post, without having expected one - at least so soon.
This is remarkable. And hats off to those who run the website. I hope to contribute in some way or the other.
moryarti - I appreciate your knowledge and insight.
If that is your analysis of my actions from an economical perspective, I wholeheartedly agree. There is nothing false about your argument.
I guess the Dewlands example was very minor, and then crossed with the labour issue!
A yummy croissant still Dhs. 1
This'll be with a use-by date, probably recycled dough (no cheese) - LOL ;)
No, seriously?
I'm dying for a cruller now :(
kyle - food in the UAE is delicious. Obesity - a massive, growing problem!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity
(I don't know how to use the html brackets feature)
Personally, I just don't get the non-stop queues at drive-thru McD.
Going back to the cruller issue --- hehehe !!!
Now I recall that kind of doughnut ('do not' lool) at Dunkin Donuts!!
And in Deutschland it's a regular appearance in the local bakeries.
DM 1 after 6 pm. That was before the Euro was introduced.
*kyle, I mentioned Deutschland because it was in the wiki link you provided.
Btw I like getting 'Belgian' (chocolate-coated) waffles from abroad.
Better eaten straight from the pack!
i* - if you checkout http://abudhabihog.blogspot.com/2008/02/helping-hands.html you'll see what we did for Helping Hands . We (as in Harley Owners Group) did a charity run on Feb 8th, which was a huge success. The couple who run the charity are so devoted & have achieved so much. Read my post :-)
i*
you are more compassionate than I i*magined you to be.
And there was I, all this time, thinking that your only passion was in searching for your life partner.
If you go down to these labour camps and hand one labourer Dh.50 in tens, guess what he will do (besides nearly fall over)? He will turn around and share it out with his chums.
cg - lol I love the i* brand as I have been branded out to be!
It's easy to *not* read between the lines. I didn't like your blog personality for a while but I thought - no, you'd bettar think twice!
Thank you so much for saying that.
If anybody knew me, I am compassionate.
There are certain reasons I cannot visit a labour camp myself.
I have done stuff for people which I don't want to discuss right now.
hey all, check out sam's blog
He has been to; posted about, and photographed camps.
I will be checking out this website http://www.helpinghandsuae.com/Index.htm
I*maginate,
I understand you cannot visit a labourers'camp personally. It really is impossible to do in high heels.
I can also see how compassionately you can write about compassion.
But if you ever do feel like seeing for yourself rather than writing about things you haven't seen please let me know. I'll provide the boots and a fetching overall, and transport in a bus (with openable windows).
whoah - judgement day again!
Well, I* (so is it OK to call you I* now you're a brand?), your post (and elle's comment) had a result. The office has 300 t-shirts it doesn't need and now we know what to do with them!
judegement day again ? it happens to you often, doesn't it?
I wasn't judging you - I was poking fun at your statement that you couldn't go to a camp for 'certain reasons'? For example:?
it affects everyone, but those who are the poorest obviously get hit very hard... say your food is 75% of your income, and suddently the prices rise by 50%, or even double... youre totally screwed...
forget the labourers here (who do have it hard, really hard, but there is worse) and look at india and china. some families have had to resort to eating one meal a day... its sad, it really is... not much you can do about it though, this is a normal effect of the world economy we've created
If you want to visit the labour camps, all you need to do is to take a round trip in bus number 13 or 10 from the Gold souk bus station which will take you to the Al Quasis or Al Quoz labour camps respectively... though you won't be able to see the complete picture...
Inflation is here to stay.....the worst is still not here!!!!
Before a friend relocated to Dubai to work in real estate leaving his nice job in UK, we went to a fortune teller who told him that in four years the bubble was going to burst and he was making a terrible mistake. He did not listen to her, he even bought an small apartment, nice furniture that after getting the pink slip he could not sell. In Dubai not paying bills can send people to jail so he had no other option since hundreds were unemployed as well, many visas being cancelled each day, crowded airport with poor foreigners going home with very little money and a plane ticket.
No one was able to save money since cost of living was expensive!!
Two months ago, unable to find another job since realtors are having the worst time no one is buying properties but selling, he left his car at the airport, found more 3500 abandoned, and flew to London where he is living with his mother.
UK is in a recession, he can not find another job, as least his Mom has a pension...got the picture? Despite what they say the Dubai dream is gone. Forever.
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