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		<title>Planning for a romantic vacation?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you guys got a plan to have a romantic vacation this spring season but still uncertain where to spent you vacation? Well, if you guys are searching for a great hide out place better consider now the amazing place of Cancun Mexico. This place has everything to offer you! From amazing landmarks, fantastic views, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1363" title="romantic" src="http://bloghop.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/romantic.jpg" alt="romantic" width="300" height="202" />Have you guys got a plan to have a romantic vacation this spring season but still uncertain where to spent you vacation? Well, if you guys are searching for a great hide out place better consider now the amazing place of Cancun Mexico. This place has everything to offer you! From amazing landmarks, fantastic views, memorable adventure, excellent and equipped hotels as well as experience their excellent culture.</p>
<p>All you have to do if you want to visit this place is book your <a href="http://www.karismahotels.com/" target="_blank">romantic cancun vacation</a> online at Karisma Hotel or you can visit their site at karismahotels.com. You don&#8217;t have to worry if you will book your accommodation at them online simply because they are one of the leading provider for the said services and has been to this type of business for several years now and through that time they garnered the trust and loyalty of their clients and customers whoe keep coming back and referring them.</p>
<p>One good thing about them is they all have the facilities you need if you want to spent your romantic vacation at them. From excellent oriental and internation dishes, extraordinary bedrooms, sauna, club, and some other part of their hotel where you&#8217;ll definitely had a great and amazng stay. So, book at them now for a lovely memorable vacation!</p>
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		<title>The Show Must Go On!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s just ttwo months old and in the middle of a people free zone on the edge of Khalifa Par; the Park Rotana complex is still a bit of a ystery to everyone. At least there&#8217;s no mystery about the interior design for its fusion restaurant &#8216; Teatro &#8216;. Stunning hand-painted Venetian masks welcome you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1305" title="chinese-food" src="http://bloghop.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/chinese-food.jpg" alt="chinese-food" width="220" height="294" />It&#8217;s just ttwo months old and in the middle of a people free zone on the edge of Khalifa Par; the Park Rotana complex is still a bit of a ystery to everyone.</p>
<p>At least there&#8217;s no mystery about the interior design for its fusion restaurant &#8216; Teatro &#8216;. Stunning hand-painted Venetian masks welcome you at the entrance, deep red satin drapery and fat, milky white candles are scattered across the space,  and the tables have names like &#8216;Evita &#8216; and &#8216;Romeo&#8217; and &#8216;Juliet&#8217;.</p>
<p>Even more theatrical is the way that everything is on show- a large square bar at the entrance, live sushi station, vast glass-fronted kitche. The menu is exhaustively exotic (Thai, Japanese, Indian, Italian) so we took a chance and left the ordering up to the restaurant manager. For starters, we went with a selection of dim sum and some Peking duck spring rolls, in front of us the minute we closed our menus and very yummy too. Check their <a href="http://www.mypyramid.gov/" target="_blank">website</a> for more info!</p>
<p>Some of the mains on the menu were a bit pricey; but it was worth it. Tender and succulent can&#8217;t begin to describe the lamb rack (although it was a bit too rare towards the middle for our taste) or the miso soup soaked sea bass.</p>
<p>The panna cotta with peppermint pestro for dessert was a pleasant finale, though it&#8217;s definitely something you either love or hate. They&#8217;ve got some bright ideas on the menu that certainly make them stand out. If we had bigger stomachs, we would have liked to try the green papaya salad with chilli, shrimps, apple and peanuts, as well as a curious sweet miso soup dessert that somehow incorporates marshmallows.</p>
<p>So, a second trip might be in order. Generally, this is a place to visit on a special occassion specially if you celebrate the wellness of your family member who just got back and recover from a <a href="http://www.unityrehab.com/" target="_blank">drug rehab</a> or to try something you&#8217;ve never heard of before, provided you don&#8217;t mind the trek or the cheque. Service is excellent and the food gets near enough to hitting the spot  for us to leave smiling. And we&#8217;ll give the place extra points for all-round creativity.</p>
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		<title>Haircut Adventures in Sand Land</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:23:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any resident in a new country has challenges on discovering how simple day-to-day things are done. This includes locating appropriate grocery stores, dentist, doctors, nd personal grooming salons. The personal grooming, mainly haircuts (for us guys), is probably the most difficult. There are hundreds of &#8220;Mens&#8217; Salons&#8221; in the city but I live in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1284" title="haircut" src="http://bloghop.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/haircut-300x199.jpg" alt="haircut" width="300" height="199" />Any resident in a new country has challenges on discovering how simple day-to-day things are done. This includes locating appropriate grocery stores, dentist, doctors, nd personal grooming salons. The personal grooming, mainly haircuts (for us guys), is probably the most difficult. There are hundreds of &#8220;Mens&#8217; Salons&#8221; in the city but I live in the suburbs and the choices are slim.</p>
<p>I recently went to a local barber and was asked if I wanted a scalp massage in addition to a trim. As someone who will try anything once, I agreed and was treated to what I would call a handful of pink axle grease worked into my hair. At least it washed out! A few weeks ago, I decided to try a barber in a nearby five star hotel. The barber did a good job and was friendly! At the end of the haircut, he noted that I has some stray hair in my ears and suggested the &#8220;wax&#8221; them out. Again, being the adventurer that I am, Iconsented. He put some warm substance inside both my ears and after the heat subsided, I felt a sharp pain in my right ear followed by the same in my left as he ripped the wax out. The sting lasted for 20 minutes but was not all that unpleasant.</p>
<p>That was my recent adventure here in Abu Dhabi. Oh! Let me share you this too, <a href="http://www.homebudgetsoftware.net/" target="_blank">home budget software</a> I&#8217;ve found in one of the electronic establishments here in Abu Dhabi. It was great and amazing! Pretty affordable! Thanks peeps for a great adventure you did for me!</p>
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		<title>Ave. Household spends AED 135,000 per year</title>
		<link>http://bloghop.info/2009/06/28/ave-household-spends-aed-135000-per-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:49:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average Abu Dhabi household spends AED 135,300 a year on goods and services, with the expenditure for individuals amounting to around AED 24,700 per head. But there&#8217;s considerable variation within that overall figure. According to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey &#8211; conducted between 1st April 2007 and 31st March 2008 &#8211; there is [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1017" title="fruit_stand" src="http://bloghop.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/fruit_stand-300x225.jpg" alt="fruit_stand" width="300" height="225" />The average Abu Dhabi household spends AED 135,300 a year on goods and services, with the expenditure for individuals amounting to around AED 24,700 per head. But there&#8217;s considerable variation within that overall figure. According to the Household Income and Expenditure Survey &#8211; conducted between 1st April 2007 and 31st March 2008 &#8211; there is a huge difference between UAE nationals, expats, and individuals living in collective household&#8217; (defined as a dwelling with more than four accupants who have no blood relationship).</p>
<p>National household spend AED 305,500 a year, compared to 106,400 spent by non-national households and AED 47,500 by collective households. The report, which comes from Statistics Center-Abu Dhabi (SCAD), also includes analysis of where the money goes. The biggest single item, predictably enough, is food and some other relation things which also includes <a href="http://www.kettleworx.com/store" target="_blank">Kettlebells</a> for the body needs; for national households, 16.4 percent of their outgoings go on food. It&#8217;s slightly less for non-nationals at 15.2 percent, but significantly more for collective households &#8211; 24.7 percent.</p>
<p>other interesting figures include the distribution of possessions. I national households there are 26 private cars per 100 people, 20 per 100 in non-national households, and just three per 100 in collective households.</p>
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