Pano Dubai

Pano chatting it up with Sunday at the Dubai Fashion Week finale show.

At Ravi's, a delicious Pakistani/Indian joint, in Satwa with the EcoSecurities crew. Ina, Marc, Michelle, and Mark are working on the RAK Landfill project that is getting validated this week (fingers crossed).

With the bro at Ravi's...

The terrorist attack, umm, I mean the fireworks factory explosion, that shook us all awake this morning at 7:15... Freaky! The windows bubbled in a bit from the concussion and scared the bejesus out of us. Toni took off on his bike first thing and snapped a bunch of photos (hopefully you'll see them in Getty). The buildings are packed together in Al Quoz industrial area, and there are apparently already a total of 7 buildings up in flames as well. A testament to the frontier town that is Dubai: an embarassingly small amount of oversight and regulation on industry leads to shit things like this happening...

The rest of the photos:

Pano Dubai

Arabian Quest adventure race

http://www.xpress4me.com/sport/uae/extreme_sports/20006343.html

Stairway to Heaven

Headed out this past weekend with a few rugby mates, their family, and Dana and Roxy to climb the Stairway to Heaven trail just north of Ras al Khaimeh. We spent the night camping by the trailhead, a few beers and some bbq to pass the time, and headed out at first light Friday morning, right aroung 6:50. The climb was great: fresh, exposed, and loads of fun with the group. I'd recommend it to anyone. Looking forward to doing it again, hopefully with Pano when he swings out here in a few months.

The rest of 'em:

Stairway to Heaven

last one

link to Goa photos

Goa Christmas and New Year's 2007

And yeah, I know, I should probably drop in some text sometime, but I've been pretty lazy with this lately and I think the pics do a good job of explaining just how cool this region is. If you need more, then you should probably pick up the phone and just call me, or send me a bloody email.

ummm... more Goa?

Goa, continued... again

Goa, continued...

Goa, continued

Goa

7s, continued... Can you say CHAMPIONS?!?!

Yeah, we rocked it and came out CHAMPS of the Dubai International 7s Tournament!!! Knocked out the Dubai Exiles on their home pitch in the last game to be played at the Exiles ground forever. Damn, did it feel good (as did the beer afterwards!).

7s

Dubai Rugby 7s Tournament

http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/12/02/10171805.html

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2007/December/sports_December55.xml&section=sports&subsection=rugby

We played well this year at the Dubai Rugby 7s Tournament...

Photos will be uploaded shortly after I get back to Dubai (am in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the next two days...)