Easter Weekend in Dubai

Its Easter and I live in a Muslim country....and yet, I have just had a 3 day weekend to celebrate! Winning.

All week long, I told myself that I was going to have a relaxing, long weekend and therefore return back to work on Monday (today) feeling totally refreshed. Wrong!

Its not my fault though.  I tried so hard to resist... but I was just led astray...

You see, Thursday night was a work event night... and so I had no choice but to go. My colleagues all love a good party and so even though I tried to refrain, (I even ordered soft drinks and bottles of water).... my colleagues quickly took my 'sensible' drink orders away and replaced them with glasses of wine... (See... NOT my fault!)

Friday saw me tanning myself at the gorgeous One&Only Beach Resort (Dubai).. and I even managed a quiet Friday night in.

However, by Saturday.... all my chilled weekend plans had gone straight out the window again...

The boyf has bagged us tickets to the IPL (Indian premier League) cricket (apparently this was meant to be a good experience to go and see) and so I went along with him and his friends... and their girlfriends (none of us girls had the slightest idea what to expect or even knew a thing about cricket! ). Anyway, we arrived in good spirits at around 1PM in preparation for the first match to start at 2.30PM. The boys got straight to drinking, but us girlies tried the sensible option of sticking to water for the simple reason that it was a sizzling 36 degrees C! However, after 3 hours into just ONE cricket match... us girlies felt that alcohol was now clearly needed (I don't think many could blame us for this). So by the time the second match ended another 3 hours later... (yes...we watched over 6 hours of cricket in one day) ....we were all rather tipsy. Not drunk, but definitely more then a little hazy!

 

...which is probably why we all then decided that we wanted to continue the drinking on elsewhere.... and so off we all went to Media One, Dek on 8 ! But with it being a Saturday night and with work being on Sunday for pretty much the rest of Dubai... the bar was quite literally dead. In fact, they even stopped serving drinks at 11PM (who Does that?!). In light of this, we all felt that we were left with no other option (in our minds) then to head to the famous Rocky B's.

Needless to say the night deteriorated from there (in an extremely drunken, hilariously, fun sort of way...a brilliant night was had) !! This also includes me lying on my boyfriends lounge mat and rolling myself up into a sausage roll.. resulting in me getting myself wrapped up so tight that I couldn't then move my arms and so I was left stuck... Yes I do this sort of thing when I am extremely drunk.... No I am never going to change.

I am sure you can imagine that come the following morning, which was in fact Easter Sunday and my extra day off for the Easter weekend, well... lets just say the day was a complete and utter write off. Basically it consisted of me moving from my boyfriends bed/ apartment back to my bed/apartment and then proceeding to fill my day with movies and endless amounts of the most fattiest and unhealthiest foods that I could get my hands on. Made me feel better though.

Today. I am full of regrets. I want the weekend all over again just so I can go back and make better decisions which involve not drinking and not eating all that I did. That way I wouldn't be sat at my desk now feeling extremely tired, and extremely hungry as I have only been able to allow myself to snack on carrot sticks all day in an attempt to make up for yesterdays binge. Ahh.. Why cant I be naturally skinny. And not have to work. Just be rich and rock up to work (a company that I would obviously own) whenever I felt like working. Other than that I wish to spend my days at the beach, shopping, seeing friends and getting my fix of exercise from a hot personal trainer. Why has this not happened to my life yet?

Anyway, I hope you all had as fun of an Easter as I did.. (and are not having to now make up for all the chocolate Easter eggs eaten, like I am currently having to do. Bollocks.)

x o x o

Letting go of sensible

What's been happening maaaaaate?! Mayhem. That's what...

January saw me sticking to my guns and maintaining a ''Dry January'' (well, pretty much.)

February... therefore was always going to be a month full of drunken catch ups and ultimately just madness. Which it was. That also goes for March, and so far.. for April too!

Thing is, after such an awful start to the year..with some personal things that I had going on, I entered into February basically adamant to put January behind me, and that to do this... all I needed now / wanted to do was to enjoy myself. I was in need of a temporary swap from my responsible, working life for some overdue carefree, random fun instead. So that is exactly what I did.

Don't get me wrong, I didn't just get up and quit everything to become a drinking, partying all hours, no care in the world hippy chick (although that does sound quite appealing to me currently). No, my day -to-day routine was still exactly the same with 11 hour work days (although, I will admit my job commitment was not quite so dedicated after too many nights out in a row but I maintained and struggled my way through, still ensuring that I completed whatever needed to be done). Its not like I completely went off the rails. Its not like that at all. I just let go off sensible for a bit, which I actually think is perfectly healthy to do every so often. And so it began..

A brunch here, a girls night out there... and before long... I had made new friends to go out and socialize with... and so the cycle continued... another brunch, another girls night... and again more friends were made and more parties were had with old and new friends alike. (Hence.. this saw my fun loving February extending into March and still now.. into April).   Ah... I love it though, this really is just another reason why I love this city! Dubai is such a social place...and the majority of us are all away from loved ones and life long friends, resulting in many of us similarly wanting to make new friends in a continual bid to feel settled in our new playing ground. This constant need to socialize mixed with numerous drinking deals and countless bars to choose from makes for a dangerous mix of extended Dubai drinking debauchery!

I really must start to reign my ''sensible'' back in..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

.. Just a few snaps there. Thankfully, I don't normally snap away too much on a night out, I have my moments... but usually I am far too busy sipping on wine or dancing on a bar somewhere..weyyyy

 

So. As you can clearly see,  I have defo turned my 2014 around.. when I think of this year, I will now recall just one big party of new friends, drinking, chatting and ridiculous fun. Amazing. Basically this is how I think my life should be right now at the grand age of 25 years old. An experience... (of course with the added odd responsibility of making my way up that career ladder).

 

Life is sweet.

 

x o x o

 

 



NYE 2013/2014

After a festive Christmas in the UK... I was back in Dubai to party it up in style... for New Years Eve!

A few of the girlies had booked us tickets at Oeno Bar, The Westin Hotel . The Westin, is situated near Dubai Marina and is right on the waters edge with views of Dubai marina, The Palm Jumeirah and The Atlantis ... (perfect for all the NYE fireworks!).

Our tickets promised cheese tasting, copious amounts of wine and school disco music... and that is exactly what we got (although I had no cheese... because my main priority was clearly the wine) Amazeballs.

So cheers to 2013... and Hello to 2014!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 x o x o

 

 

Christmas Catch up...

Ok ok... so I have been incredibly slack with my blog over the past few weeks. Reasons being a mix between taking time in designing my new blog look, being ridiculously busy at work, some rather unexpected personal issues on my mind and more recently... having far too much of a social life... ultimately leaving me with absolutely no time whatsoever to actually write or post to my blog.... However, the good news to this is that I now have rather a lot of posts in need of publishing !

So without any further a due.. let me start from where I left off.....

Flying home for Christmas....

Excited wasn't the word. For the first time in almost two years, I was flying home for a visit... and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect way to spend Christmas! Catching up with all my lovely family and friends in the UK... AND really experiencing Christmas how it should be.... wintery, festive and fun!

No other words are needed... a photo diary of my beautiful Christmas holidays is enough...

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As you can see... lots of festive fun was had.

 

There were plenty more drinkies and catch ups with friends had... including some rather drunken bar crawls on Christmas eve... which resulted in a slightly tipsy Jessie for Midnight mass with her family (definitely was in the Christmas spirit that evening... and hugging everyone in the church ... opps!)

 

As always when i visit home, I have such a bloody brilliant time that I spend my holiday wondering why I ever moved away.... I think this is fairly natural when being reunited with loved ones. However, as soon as I was back in Dubai... as much as I miss all my lovelies uber amounts... I am quickly reminded to why I just love living in Dubai.

 

Anyway... Cant wait until my next visit home for more catch ups and silly shennanigans

 

Miss you all

 

x o x o