Joe Speak

So you have two days off every week and you are all alone in metropolitan city like Dubai. You have 48 hours to yourselves and you are free to do anything you pretty much like – well as far as the rules allow it. The night life in Dubai is amazing to the extent I have heard about it. I have not yet had the luxury to go out and live the life to the full at the amazing pubs or discotheques yet.  My activities are pretty much diurnal. The desert heat boarding fifty two degree Celsius does not give you the luxury to go out any time you like. Still I have had braced the searing heat and went out a couple of times – once the world famous Burj Khalifa and second time to the Dubai Marina. I have seen The Burj many times in the movies. It always was so intimidating and big to watch the Burj in all those movies. Millions and millions has been spent in building the world’s tallest tower and the first impression that I had was “My gosh! Why did they make it so ugly?” The towering...

There are times when life takes an unexpected turn – for the better of for the worse. Sometimes uncertainty looms like a huge expecting cloud, ominous and dark. You feel that you are all alone and are being dragged down into the whirlpool of desperation. People deride you for your lack of strength and meekness of character. You don’t have a place to call as your own; you suddenly miss the familiarity and keeps on thrashing blindly for a handhold. You feel that all your talents has been drowned down the drain in a single day, all that you thought and held were precious vanishes into thin air. Heavy and harsh words pierce you like arrows. It hurts more when this comes from the unexpected quarters. And you cannot express your feelings as easy as you used to do. You have to face being called a quitter, and are worried all along about being wilted down under the pressure. You are not yourselves any more. The controls are handled by someone somewhere; you have to walk through the line th...