The Boat Ride

Riding an Abra in Dubai Creek. This ride costs 1 Dhs (about 12 Php) from Deira side to the old souks of Bur-dubai. Filmed using N73. I'm really beginning to love this phone! Edits made using Windows Movie Maker.

Please pardon the amateurish videography.

Salaam! Masaganang Bagong Taon!

It’s the morning of New Year’s Eve. Its pretty cold for a Filipina who’s used to the tropical weather to write this early n the morning but I can’t sleep anymore. It’s my first New Year here in another country. It’s weird that you spend all your life in a country that you’re so familiar with, comfortable with. Then you are uprooted and planted in a foreign soil that is so different from where you come from. Until now my senses think they're still in the Philippines. My dreams are still always in the streets of Tondo where I grew up. It seems only my physical body went abroad. And the rest of the intangible me was left behind. Am I making sense? Its probably the cold... Brrr.

Anyway, I just want to wish everyone a happy new year. May the peace of God be with us this 2008! Salaam!