by witsandnuts on November 22, 2009
(Tokwa’t squidballs. Better than tokwa’t baka.)
The first franchise of Goto King in Abu Dhabi opened in last quarter of this year. The menu is of course tailored to comply with UAE’s requirements. While pork is available in selected licensed stores (e.g. Spinneys), it is generally intended to be consumed at home only. Strictly, anything with pork is not allowed as part of the restaurant’s menu. Hence, it was no surprise that Goto King offers tokwa’t baka and tokwa’t squidballs as alternates.
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by witsandnuts on November 20, 2009
One of the not so ordinary stuff that you will find inside the Emirates Palace washroom. Taken in April 2009.
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by witsandnuts on November 18, 2009
(Dubai Dolphinarium, 6 November 2009)
First, thank you for sharing your guess about the previous post/photo showing different raw human reactions. That was taken in Hong Kong Ocean Park while watching the Dolphins and Sea Lions Show in December of last year.
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by witsandnuts on November 17, 2009
As previously mentioned in this post, I am currently taking an Arabic course and that I initially noticed (among other things) that they don’t have letters V and P in the Arabic alphabet. But they have “ba” and “fa”. Hence, instead of pronouncing Gavin as it is read, it becomes “Gafin”, while “pizza” becomes “bizza”, etc. Once you observed the pattern, you can easily adjust with the pronunciation part. But writing in Arabic is absolutely a different (and challenging) area.
Off the class, I had a not so ordinary yet funny conversation with some colleagues:
Canadian: Recently I was in Domino’s Pizza and I tried to practice my Arabic and I ordered, “One chicken b-izza, please!” Oh my, I’m good.
Me: Haha. I’ll try, too, next time.
Indian: I’ll try to speak in Arabic when I’m in the airplane (pronounced as “er-plane”) soon.
Canadian: You say, apple.
Indian: E-pol
Canadian: Hmmmm…
Me: Maybe, you don’t have A in your Urdu.
Canadian: Yeah
Indian: We have. It’s just that my English is British.
Canadian: Same here. But I can say “A”. Wits, what’s your English?
Me: I speak both American and British English. But most of the time, it’s American. Automatically becomes British when I watch Harry Potter (LOL).
Canadian: Yeah, I think.
Indian: (points to the Canadian) But you hardly know how to accent on aaa and ooo and iiii properly.
Canadian: Okay… (laughs)
Indian: (points to me) I think Filipino alphabet has no letter F. I met a Filipino and he kept on saying “Por you, Por you…”
Me: (Smiled) There is, of course. But P and F are interchanged by some “rarely”, same with V with B.
So on.
We were like kids that kept on discussing the lingual limitations of each nationality. We, therefore, concluded that there’s no such thing as incomplete alphabet, even for the Arabic. Needless to say, no tongue is too perfect. 
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by witsandnuts on November 16, 2009
Were they watching:
(a) the Pacquiao-Cotto fight on big screen?
(b) the Formula One Grand Prix?
(c) a football practice?
(d) the making of 2012?
(e) None of the above. To provide the answer/guess on the comment section
(f) Really clueless
Have a great week everyone!
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