I have missed the last two photo hunts (themes:sweet and vertical) because I forgot to set the posts to auto-publish before I went on a short vacation. I am photohunting again with the theme: covered. I took this photo in a theme park last year. These lovely women were covered by leaves as they were depicting the character of “the walking trees”. Yes, after this kiddo, I had my photo taken with them, too.
More photo hunters here.
I tend to associate some colloquial adjectives to a character. I normally say “Garfield eyes” when I am or someone else is sleepy, “Cinderella time” referring to midnight, and others. With the recent addition of fish-y look, not to mean smelly or malicious.
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The shiny and uniquely shaped building there is the main office of the leading real estate developer in Abu Dhabi. I wonder if they just wanted to be very different from the rest or it has something to do with the symbolism that the shape is representing. Although it has a lot of meanings, I opt to associate the spiral shape with continuity.
This is my entry for this week’s photo hunt (theme: spiral).
I think this camel stuffed toy is absolutely unique. Not your typical bear around the corner. I took photos before sending this to a blogger pal as a housewarming/birthday present, together with another UAE memorabilia.
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One of the stores in Dubai Mall that would probably catch one’s attention is Desigual (the multichannel concept came from Barcelona). It’s obviously unorthodox, just as you can see the hanging of clothes. Parang sinampay lang sa bakuran.
For a time, I am fond of statement (and non-traditional) tees. In the Philippines, the kookiest and most strange things are normal. But in UAE, you can get arrested for (unintentionally) wearing an unacceptable tee. Last year, a set of t-shirts displaying stick drawings of naked man and woman were removed from this Spanish shop. The same year, Harvey Nichols, a British department store in the Mall of the Emirates, was forced to close for a few hours to remove t-shirts considered obscene after a customer complained to a local radio station. The t-shirts had the image of a British bulldog standing on top of a UAE flag. The store quickly apologised. In another incident, an expatriate was jailed for a month before being deported after he was arrested for wearing a Marc Jacob t-shirt depicting a naked Victoria Beckham with the slogan “protect the skin you’re in” as part of a cancer-awareness campaign. The man was charged with offending public decency.
This serves as a gentle reminder when you’re traveling in this part of the globe, whether you’re a tourist or not.
Siguro naman hindi nila ako huhulihin, pag suot ko ang menu shirt ko.
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