Sunday, September 13, 2009

Watery Cervical Mucus At 4 Weeks Pregnant

# 12 Dubai / state of shock

"You can say that a shipwreck is trapped between the most extreme, zermürbensten opposites." (Continued from page 363)


culture India: India is the largest democracy in the world and a country of contrasts and apparent contradictions: Permanent road noise impinges on inner peace through meditation and yoga. Modern complex international IT companies are located within sight of überbevöllkerten, pollute the slums. Sleeping people on the roadside under a blanket vs lousy. Parties in a chic loft, with modern art, white leather couches, a refrigerator that does not (culinary) desired diffusers t and two house servants, who eat even a clock at five am somewhat prepared. Head-shaking and "yes" mean. Pleasant helpful and annoying misinformation. The weather in Chennai is marked by muggy in the summer heat and spontaneous rain, do not bring the hoped-cooling. Even if the "average" Zinder "speaks less English than expected, we come in everyday and traveling along problem, because the Indians are helpful and curious towards Westerners. There are a host of mosquitoes, monsoon rains and too many speed Breaker (herunterzubremsen Hüppeler about cars. They are, however, positioned so high and bulky and surprisingly, they are more dangerous than useful.)

Culture Dubai: Dubai is like a metropolis in the computer game Sim City. We know the trailer of the game - various documentation on Pro Sieben, Sat.1 and Kabel 1 Modern glass and steel complexes in unusual shapes are constructed from round to round. From top to bottom you ht the six-lane highway with a perfect green on the side and small cars, as if drawn on a string pesen back and forth. Here and there something about being pleasing to the Emir and the people: a modern park, a horse racing track, one and still a Palm Island (to see who really like this - at least from the aircraft), a subway system that runs along on stilts next to the highway, an oversized shopping mall (Dubai Mall is the largest store in the world with the biggest glass of the world (the Aquarium) next to the largest building the world ...). With only 15% of the local culture is also strongly influenced by the foreigners. Western sports bars, exquisite restaurants, draft Strongbow, Australian rump steak as well as tourists who are desperate with her Canon Ixus the Burj Dubai - the 818 meters with the highest usable building in the world (opening in December). Hundreds of thousands from India, the Philippines, Pakistan, Yemen, Lebanon and other countries of the Near and Middle East were recruited to build more than 40 °, the skyscrapers of the future, to clean the homes or to drive taxis. Jumeirah meet me in front of three Porsche Cayenne in turn, set with a sheikh in the elegant white robes (kaftans), plain white hat (AGAL) and a black head Mature (Guthra). Here are a Bentley, a Jaguar, a Lamborghini and an almost poor acting S-Class. 4.6% of the population are millionaires, but it felt longer. Here are the swimming pools to be cooled on the roof, bus stop estellen to 18 ° temperature and sterilized the room by the cleaning staff every two days (can the say? You know what I mean. Compared to India, I move in a permanent quarantine zone. This is no garbage, no cigarette butts on the floor, everything shines like new because it is new, I do not see a beggar.)
If you are in the game "Sim City Dubai is located, popped loose much. A taxi here to take a taxi there, without thinking of ordering the purse from the card and painlessly pay by credit card. A taxi back, or even more. Bids you get for have the finest food, in beautiful places. Fortunately for me, I know that Jan, who had just practiced in Dubai for an internship. Lucky to be a roommate was not there and I had a room with private bath and shower (and robe) and a very luxurious bed in the 27th Floor of the hotel-apartment complex of "The Place". So I could enjoy the three days and Dubai had with Jan and his other roommate Seb two players that I could show you the best places in "Sim City Dubai: Three highlights from my perspective:
  1. water pipe with grape-mint flavor and with sweet Moroccan treats with fruit, nuts and yoghurt a soft bed on the Creek consume, and give the expansion a try.
  2. stumble morning at half past six in Sarah's party to the sea in order to enjoy the 35 ° warm, almost oily water the sunrise.
  3. a beer in "The Address". Opposite the Burj Dubai (800 meters) you will find this luxury hotel. On the top floor (63rd floor) is the hotel bar (a bit too much) equipped with modern art and bric a brac. The bar is really unimportant. But the outlook is ne force. After changing to "Sim City Dubai" in the bird perspective. The houses, fountains, pools and even the Dubai Mall will appear tiny. The skyline in sight, in light of the Persian Gulf, the sea. BUT! What kind of a spear that there is about 150 meters before you? This is the Burj. Damn that thing is huge. Yes, this is a thing. This is no ordinary building more. We are on the 63rd Stock and are on a third of the height of the Burj. We can not also see with our eyes the top and bottom of the Burj. Holy Moly Shit. This has "Big Mo" ventured to the edge of possibility. I vacillate constantly between fascination and rejection.
"Big Mo "? His name is actually Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum and is the emir of Dubai. Although he is only three years in power, but on the best way to do it like its predecessors: to build the city of the future. "You have to choose, either imitate you, or you can take the initiative. . We want to be pioneers "
If I, as a" see players in Sim City Dubai ", he is the umbrella body - the Master. He directs the development of the city like a puppeteer the threads. He sets the rules: He can determine the number of spontaneously leave and public holidays thinks himself new buildings and chimeras (it is ne indoor skiing in Dubai) and the hardness of the practice of Ramadan is determined by him and his police. You feel something not free, when you learn that eating, drinking and smoking during the day is prohibited in the public and for Westerners. On the other hand, it is considered very social and is popular with all walks of life and one can imagine with a view to dictators in neighboring countries, that the master of the level, "Sim City Dubai" also could be worse. To bring

the previous section to a formula:
(Culture India Culture Dubai) / (Marked in Germany) = (culture shock x 3) + Fascination + Enthusiasm + rejection

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Kates Playground Free Mov

# 11 Camping / Jaisalmer, Thar Desert

Not long, and well-being turned on. My mouth was again wet and soft. I could feel my neck any more. My skin is relaxed. My joints moving again with ease. My heart was in a happy rhythm, and the blood circulating in my veins like the cars of a wedding party, draw the honking of the city. The muscles felt again of strong and supple. The head was clearer. I was a dead man who awoke weider to life. It was a wunderba, wonderful feeling. Those who become intoxicated on alcohol should be ashamed, but the water intoxication is the most beautiful of all ecstasies. For several minutes sitting I just there and enjoyed this happiness.
I was a few days, which felt an eternity away camp in the Thar desert.

camping means "go out to eat and sleep." My last camping trip was with Ellen over Holland, and inside I took one or the other comparison.
  • time: camping in the desert. The Thar desert lies on the border between India and Pakistan, consisting essentially of stone, brushwood and scattered sand dunes.
  • locomotion smittel: camels in the step-trot and pace.
  • Travel Group: My camel Lalu me all the path taken. By my side and with a distance Kamelhalslaenge two Chinese (Jaoli and Mangjie) and Japanese (Ken), I, Jodhpur - got to know - one day before. The Chinese would be easily frightened and took me soooo brave (partly because I wanted to lead the camel, not by a guide). The Japanese Ken was very reserved and commented on many a monotone Hehehe-pool that I know of only Japanese. These include our two Indian Kamelfuehrer Thalib and Ali. They have been living since her birth 14 or 20 years in the desert.
  • food: saturated will always be at the camp of "a flame". In Holland you are cooking as a bicycle tourist with in 80 KM the legs on a Bunsen burner pasta with tomato sauce - with or without cheese. In India, known as Travelltourist after 3 hours of step camel in the butt chapati (wheat bread) and potato-onion masala of a flame of parched wood. A key difference: It will be cooked. Yes, that's true and my camping honor came shortly shaken. Finally, you go camping but to feel that they can survive outside. You want to feel the very own hunting and gathering instinct again. The draw on resources - such as supermarkets - you can let it go with a zugedrueckten eye. Basically: Outside it tastes best anyway.
  • drinks: about 38 degree warm water.
  • Miscellaneous: From time to smoke a beedi (with a little tobacco Stuffed Tendublatt). A beedi is actually a "poor man's cigarette". If I have smoked a beedi in a break with the playgrounds in the slums, so I smiled at the children and young people. Why? A Westerner, who is rich, smokes, smoking the herb, the poor and elderly and Rajastani musician. Here we can see that humor is nothing but the divergence of performance (rich Westerners) and reality (smoking leaves).
  • feature: In Holland heard a certain basic humidity of the clothes for camping. In the Thar desert, this is a minimum sand content in the chapattis.
  • flow: When camping you behave really useful free. You move in a delayed rate (a train or jeep would be much faster) from A to B in order to "survive" under eingeschreanktem comfort. Actually standards they set themselves obstacles. In between, you babbles about this and that, but most of it about the way that you just committed. "This time, said the modern G4 group (Indian, Chinese, Japanese, German) over desert, camels, food, and sky have my travel book expands I to a dictionary of world languages. Broken English, Hindi, Chinese, Japanese, and - well - ! German
  • nature and landscape: Slowly we come to what really constitutes the camp, the target. Unity with nature. Man adjusts his pace to the sun, moving through the countryside and live with nature. Mother Earth shows his gratitude for all the respect towards her and gives us a wonderful night sky in the middle of the desert. The moon watches over us imperiously. The body is first remain uncertain in the "new" environment. He while required to be city-man behavior to store. Therefore, initially one hears nothing when you're outside. No noise, no engines, no calling people. But then something happens and the "supposed silence" is a concert of noises that a previously hidden behind: The sand, which flows over the dunes, while the separately occurring Shrubs strokes. The creaking of an old tree at the bottom of the sand-dune. Somewhere far away a cowbell. And then your breath. For several minutes I just sat there and enjoyed this happiness.