Space wise....really small...but that was our love nest for about 7 months. I had it on my previous post to my other blogs about the Life in Dubai pertaining to the accomodations. Due to very high rates of rent, Filipino's learned to live in a way that you can't almost imagine.

Anyway, i'm thankful to all our flatmates that inspite of our living conditions in SS 311 it was a great time living with them.

Celebrated Christmas Day afternoon at a friend's manager's house in Al Barsha. It was Ate Norie who invited us to Ate Joy's friend's house to celebrate her bf's birthday and Christmas.

And while we were there i can't help myself not to admire the house especially the egyptian frames, african artifacts, the plants inside and japanesse inspired dining hall.

Wish my future house would have those kinds also.

JapaneseInspired Dining Hall

Mini Bar

Pool Side

View of the House

Christmas Eve photo before Noche Buena

It was pangit's first ever Christmas without his family so he felt sad especially when he called to his mom. But having all our flat mates and his cousins made him felt like he was home also.

We had an argument the day of 24th, infact i went to the Church alone. I thought we'll be celebrating Christmas with cold feelings to each others but when i go home after the mass everythings subside. When i came home as if nothing had happen between us in the morning and since it was Christmas Eve i want to forget unfinished arguments that we had.

When is it time to say, "My relationship is in trouble, and we need help?" How do you know when that time is?

1. Fighting has become the rule rather than the exception to the rule.

2. You find yourself looking outside the relationship for comfort, care, and understanding.

3. You can't remember what attracted you to your partner in the first place.

4. There is little or no intimacy in your relationship -- sleeping in different rooms or different beds, lack of interest, anger, and hostility so that intimacy is out of the question.

5. Spending very little time together, friends seem to be more important than your partner.

6. Reactions to situations are disproport
7. Feeling helpless and hopeless to change anything. Feeling done with the relationship, but unclear as to where to go and what to do. Feelings of anger, resentment, pain, and desperation are predominant.

If any or all of these describe you in your relationship, your relationship is in trouble and it won't be long before something more drastic happens, such as an affair, arguments get worse and inflate with intensity, increased jealousy, silence for longer periods of time, and sometimes even physical and/or verbal abuse.

Before your relationship reaches that critical crisis point, look at the warning signs and do something before it's too late:

Seek psychotherapy

Read books

Talk to a spiritual/religious advisor

Without help, the relationship will never get better with time; once a certain level of resentment, anger, and hostility hits, it will simply get worse and worse. Avoiding a total crisis and saving the relationship is done by knowing when you're in trouble and taking immediate action.

In celebration of Eid Al Adha and as declared by the government, Dec 7-9, 2008 are holidays for private sector.

So on the second day, we decided to have a picnic at Dubai Creek Park. The same group who went to Dreamland last time but not with Leslie. Well, it was a day of fun. The moment we entered Gate 4, we just look for a better place to put our things and foods then started to have our brunch since we didn't have much time to have our breakfast. After that we took a lot of photos then roamed around the creek till we reach the cable car ticketing office which is actually our purpose in coming there. We learned that it will be opened at around 6pm so we go back to our place and eat again.

Then, Clinton bought a ball and we grouped ourselves into two. At first we played volleyball but since the ball has a very light weight and it was easily carried by the wind so we changed the game. Still group into two, i don't know what's the name of the next game but it goes like these...the first group will stay at the middle and the other group will throw them the ball. The goal is that the ball should touch them all and they will be out. Then change position...............till we get tired. So far on this game everyone enjoyed and felt like we're a child again.

Since everyone was tired, we rest a little and had our food again. While we were eating we saw that the cable car was already operating. So we went to the ticketing office to buy for a ticket but on our dismay the queue was almost 100 meters. What to do? We don't have a choice but to fall in line and wait for about 2 1/2 hours.

Anyway, its worth the wait. The moment the cable car started to move and went up we were all happy to see the whole city of Dubai at night.

Here's our best photo for that day!

Yesterday was UAE's 37th National Day, so together with our flatmates we spent the holiday in Dreamland Aqua Water Park.

It was not really planned to have pink as the color of our clothes...just a coincidence coz he went to work (night shift) the other night with his pink t shirt which i've only known when he came in the morning... so when he was about to changes his shirts i told him NO coz i'm wearing the same color and it would be nice and lovely to see us with this color.

For the whole happenings and more photos, feel free to visit my multiply.