Pay me ten dirhams more next time

Went out to lunch at a very nice Japanese restaurant in the Crowne Plaza Hotel with a new friend. All is not lost. There are intelligent and fun women in Dubai.

Then got a very lovely bouquet of flowers (blue chrysanthemums, orange lilies, pink roses) from Holland Flowers in Karama for this damn boring Sindhi do tonight which I'm trying to get out of going because I don't want to be stuck with a bunch of stupid women harping on about their diamonds. Besides, they're not even nice people. I would much rather watch a pirated VCD and eat leftover pan-fried noodles. Something tells me that I'm going to be dragged out anyway. Bah.

Still, I've dem lovely flowers to look at until then.