Life in Dubai 2011-for my Dubai friends

Life in Dubai after 1 year..... once UAE ID card in place An Expat calling Pizza Hut in Dubai Operator: ' Thank you for calling Pizza Hut . May I have your...' Customer: 'Salam Ale koum, can I order..' Operator: 'Can I have your UAE identity card number please, Sir?' Customer: ' It's eh..., hold........ ..on..... .889861356102049 998-45-54610' Operator: 'OK... you're... Mr Waleed from Syria and you're calling from Flat #402, Al Maskaan Building, Bur Dubai. Your home number is 04-3661231 04-3661231, your office number is 04-8852302 04-8852302 & your mobile number is 050-2665667 050-2665667. Where has the delivery to take place Sir?' Customer: ' Home! How did you get all my phone numbers? Operator: ' We are connected to the system Sir' Customer: 'May I order your Seafood Pizza...' Operator : 'That's not a good idea Sir' Customer: 'How come?' Operator :'According to our medical records - you went for your check up last week to WelcareHospital & you have high blood pressure and even higher cholesterol level Sir' Customer:'What? ... What do you recommend then?' Operator :'Try our Low Fat Hokkien Mee Pizza. You'll like it' Customer:'How do you know for sure?' Operator :'You borrowed a book entitled 'Popular Hokkien Dishes' from the National Library in Deira, last week Sir' Customer:'OK I give up... Give me three family size ones then, how much will that cost?' Operator :'That should be enough for your family of 10, Sir. The total is Dirham 112.00' Customer: 'Can I pay by credit card?' Operator :'I'm afraid you have to pay us cash, Sir. Your First Gulf credit card is over the limit and you owe Citibank Credit card another Dirham 3,720.55 since October. That's not including the late payment charges on your housing loan to NBD, Sir.' Customer: 'I guess I have to run to the neighborhood ATM and withdraw some cash before your guy arrives' Operator :'You can't Sir. Based on the records, you've reached your daily limit on HSBC ATM withdrawal for today' Customer: 'Never mind just send the pizzas, I'll have the cash ready. How long is it gonna take anyway?' Operator : 'About 45 minutes Sir, but if you can't wait you can always come and collect it on your Honda Civic...' Customer: 'What!' Operator :'According to the details in system ,your Honda Civic's Registration ie Malkia is expiring in 23 days & your Gargash Insurance has already got expired last week..... Customer:'?? ??' Operator :'Is there anything else Sir?' Customer: 'Nothing... by the way... aren't you giving me those 3 free bottles of cola as advertised?' Operator : 'We normally would Sir, but based on your records you're also diabetic.... ... ' Customer:#$$ ^%&$@$% ^ tm kiere.....abe ytga...npiye! !!!!!!...... ....... . Operator :'Better watch your language Sir. Remember on 15th July 2008 on Dubai Hatta Road, when you wrongly overtook the BMW & you were convicted of using abusive language also on the policeman... ?' Customer (fainted) Operator: hello hello, are you still there....

Gold or Silver-You be the Judge

There once lived a great mathematician in a village outside Ujjain. He was
often called by the local king to advice on matters related to the economy.
His reputation had spread as far as Taxila in the North and Kanchi in the
South. So it hurt him very much when the village headman told him, "You may
be a great mathematician who advises the king on economic matters but your
son does not know the value of gold or silver."

The mathematician called his son and asked, "What is more valuable - gold or silver?" "Gold," said the son. "That is correct. Why is it then that the
village headman makes fun of you, claims you do not know the value of gold
or silver? He teases me every day. He mocks me before other village elders
as a father who neglects his son. This hurts me. I feel everyone in the
village is laughing behind my back because you do not know what is more
valuable, gold or silver. Explain this to me, son."

So the son of the mathematician told his father the reason why the village
headman carried this impression. "Every day on my way to school, the village headman calls me to his house. There, in front of all village elders, he holds out a silver coin in one hand and a gold coin in other. He asks me to pick up the more valuable coin. I pick the silver coin. He laughs, the elders jeer, everyone makes fun of me. And then I go to school. This happens every day. That is why they tell you I do not know the value of gold or silver."

The father was confused. His son knew the value of gold and silver, and yet
when asked to choose between a gold coin and silver coin always picked the
silver coin. "Why don't you pick up the gold coin?" he asked. In response,
the son took the father to his room and showed him a box. In the box were at least a hundred silver coins. Turning to his father, the mathematician's son said, "The day I pick up the gold coin the game will stop. They will stop having fun and I will stop making money."

Sometimes in life, we have to play the fool because our seniors and our
peers, and sometimes even our juniors like it. That does not mean we lose in the game of life. It just means allowing others to win in one arena of the game, while we win in the other arena of the game. We have to choose which arena matters to us and which arenas do not