plastic yet fantastic dubai

in dubai celebrating the dawn of 2010 felt like the beginning of the year 2525.

it felt like being part of the filming of the jetsons or better yet touching base in mars for the first time. it is another planet, another life, another world.

a world where the majority are foreigners and the locals are alienated. it seemed to me like the times when america was discovered as a new world, a place for the world to find refuge, to build homes and to start new lives. In Dubai I could not find the signs of the real world, like old age, poverty, or sickness. In Cairo every day I am reminded of the ways of the world, the homeless beg and the street children never fail to make your heartache until you become numb.

In Dubai you find the Russians tall and beautiful, enjoying the shopping and making all the other girls feel like midgets. In Buddha Bar i found the likes of the girls of the play boy mansion girls with awfully white bleached hair that was meant to be blonde and legs that reached the sky. The rest of their bodies is really not different than the girls of the playboy mansion. they also happen to all wear the same tiny white shorts and a black tiny top, making it hard for the rest of the crowd not to stare. The asians have all retreated to Dubai too and many found work as for the girls they also lost most of their clothes in the process and some of them are for sale.

The lebanese are there too and I need not to explain about the way they party for they are just like the russians but with darker hair, deeper eyes and a bigger will to dance seductively on the tables.

In the party the women were hitting on the men, the men were hitting on the women, even the girls with dates, it seemed not to matter if you are taken, since still you will get an invitation to flirt.

Every body is anonymous so nobody cares about their reputation and most people are behaving like a relative of satan. the more you reveal and the bigger you got your assets to be the better it is. It is an insane competition and the girls seem to be on sale all the time and the men's eyes have become wide open and their tongues are almost hanging out.

I do not know if all these people in the club would look so fantastic yet plastic in day light however what i know for sure is that in the club and in the dark the monkey can look hot. it is just the whole atmosphere and the confidence everyone is oozing, it is really insane. i have seen lebanese girls with great amounts of cellulite and dresses that reveal the most personal part of a woman's leg. but the way they carry them selves and the darkness of the place hides all, it makes you doubt your standards and even reconsider the idea of cellulite.

Dubai reminded me of new york in its cosmopolitan nature, of las vegas in the way people are indulging in everything and a sin city feel is around it, of miami in how everyone is literally plastic, of hong kong in the way it has been turned into something that it was not.

Something that is really amazing about Dubai is the food, I have never tasted better food in my life time. From Zumma i have experienced the celebrations of good taste in my tongue and in napolitana i literally traveled to italy and came back.

thats just how it is there it is all about the tallest building, the most amazing mall, the tallest tree, the biggest i do not know what and of course the best food. it is a big competition there and those who live there visit the mall almost every day children that are growing up on the notions of to shop or not to shop. some people however chose not to shop from the world's worn fashion.

The Indians are still wearing their traditional clothes, the Pakistanis too refuse to blend in with the worlds' mouth watering designs. They are every where in Dubai they found a good home.

Even the weather seems unreal, in january where else will you not need a coat. But the the states were smart they gave immigrants rights, however in Dubai you will always have no roots there no matter how much you give to the country and even if your children were born and raised there.

The locals are losing their culture and they are hiding away from what seems to be an insane world to them. they stand in the background and witness their own land being turned into mars and a western dream for the whole region and even the west have come to dubai and found the toys of the world fun.

A four year old mall is now ancient in Dubai, and they just finished building the old town. It is great what they did but somewhere in between they have wasted so much of the world's wealth and nature in things that nobody needs. it is like an ego that will never be satisfied and an unlimited budget for everything and anything they plan to do.

with time the people living there can not help but become spoiled like babies who keep getting their way and the leaders keep building towers that do not belong on the desert land.

there is no doubt that Dubai is glittering and it is FANTASTIC like a theme park or a long ride in disney, yet it is terribly plastic.

the best thing about Dubai is that my sister and her family are there and they showed us the best time, it was as if we were guests of royalty and for that I am grateful for my stay in Dubai.

I had the best time watching my niece as she discovers life through disney and my nephew as he finds complete pleasure in holding on to his sister's slippers. God bless them, the little prince and princess will occupy my heart forever.