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Water contaminated

shabbirp — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:25:44 +0000

Beach alongside Dubai Offshore Sailing Club has been contaminated with sewage dumping into it.

Those going to swin in and around the place should take care of not going into water.

Dubai Taxi (II)

shabbirp — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:49:49 +0000

This is completely my personal experience.

I had earlier also made a note on Taxi’s in Dubai. Still my experience to board a taxi is to wait for an hour atleast.

Dubai Taxi has now announced making available taxi on an sms. I tried earlier many times calling the call centre to get a taxi, but out of about 3 times, only once did I get a reply, that too after one and half hour.

Lets hope that the Dubai Taxi gets better this time.

Is water safe to drink ?

shabbirp — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:05:29 +0000

Some days ago, I was roaming on the roads at around 10-11 pm (I dont remember the exact time). What I saw (repeatedly, on various nights) was that some men were looking with a long stick into the garbage bins kept on the roadside. Then they picked up some bottles of water in different sizes from that garbage bin and filled their polybags and just went away.

What I was thinking is, what do they do after picking these empty bottles?

One of the thought that came to my mind was: Is it, that they are taking the empty bottles, then selling it to someone and then these bottles get filled with water and again sold in the market? So, is it safe to throw empty bottles into the garbage bins?

Next time, I throw any bottle into garbage bin, I make myself sure that it is crushed, beyond re-use.

Lunar Eclipse on Aug 16, 2008

shabbirp — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:23:16 +0000

A partial lunar eclipse — the last eclipse of the year 2008 will occur on Aug 16, 2008.

http://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/OH/OHfigures/OH2008-Fig06.pdf

Local timings for various places are as follows.

UAE: Dubai timings (local timings)
22.25 to 3.55

Dubai Taxi

shabbirp — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:16:57 +0000

Just read on khaleejtimes.com that Cars Taxi has added 400 more taxis to their existing fleet of just 800 taxis.

My personal experiences with Taxis in Dubai at large is that you have to wait for something around minimum of an hour to get hold of a taxi. Either there is not taxi, or if there is a taxi, the driver does not stop to allow you to board it.

As the taxis move on, you have the other option of bus — the Dubai Bus. Now this also comes under RTA as the earlier one (the taxis). The buses are ON time — but not on all places. The site declared on all buses does not open at all !!! The RTA site has a link to dubai buses but the routes displayed there do not mention the stops at all.

The RTA needs a rewamp.