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Latest post on 25 July 2012 - 10:21
How awful :-(. God bless the little one and hope she makes a speedy recovery
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Latest post on 25 July 2012 - 09:38
Given the lack of transparency here, the instability of the market, and the fact that the laws can change from day to day, this is not a place where I would want to invest my money in property. Your job and income could be here today, gone tomorrow and the laws are not strong enough (or enforced) to protect you. The risk far outweighs the reward. edited by Monkey Face on 25/07/2012 Good point. Several people I know who invested here are under huge pressure now to sell their houses as they recently lost their jobs. Their employers were nice enough to keep their visas open for 6 months but after that, they either have to find another job here ( near impossible) or leave. Most the the houses are being sold to cash buyers right now ( Syrians, Lebanese, Egyptions) They are fleeing conflict and need an exit. Just because propoerty is going up does not mean that the economy or job market is better. It isn't.
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Latest post on 16 July 2012 - 08:39
They call this justice? The animal deserved life in prison. I am shocked and outraged at the sentence.
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Latest post on 15 July 2012 - 14:14
Thank you!!!
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Latest post on 14 July 2012 - 16:05
I have no idea how we are going to resolve it. We have just sent an email to Emaar to find out how much the LL owes. On the name and shame board, it says 2010 and 2011 are outstanding. Our LL is quite nice so I am hoping he will pay for it and quickly. The neighbors are on vacation so we might have to start using their bins to ensure collection. It really stinks
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Latest post on 13 July 2012 - 17:33
Well we have just found out that our LL hasn't paid the charges either and the rubbish is piling up.... We pay enough rent as it is. I think it is disgraceful to implement this rule in the middle of summer. It has taken everyone unaware.
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Latest post on 12 July 2012 - 16:18
And you really, really trust him? LOL
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Latest post on 12 July 2012 - 15:24
You don't have a visa for the UK? So where are you from? Can't you take the kids back there? Sounds like your Husband is messing with you big time
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Latest post on 12 July 2012 - 15:20
I'm blonde but LMAO
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Latest post on 09 July 2012 - 15:14
DIA Raffles Gems World Academy American International School etc
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Latest post on 09 July 2012 - 14:59
Bump
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Latest post on 09 July 2012 - 14:58
She was supposed to be a big help, we are moving into a new house and I thought it would be a great asset to have her. I feel bad leaving her at home when we are heading off, so we always give her the choice, she can have the time off at home or join us and she always decides to come along. Well there is your answer! She thinks she is on holiday. I always made it quiet clear to my maids that when they travel with me, they are working. When they go back to the Philipines, they are on holiday. If you are paying her to work, regardless of where she is, she should work. Make it clear to her now before she ruins your whole holiday
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Latest post on 09 July 2012 - 10:54
Hi This is probably a long shot but would anyone on this board living in Meadows 9 with kids at DIA be interested in car pooling with me. I would be able to pick the kids up from school every morning and take them. In return, I would need mine brought home at 2.30pm 4 days per week. If this interests anybody, please let me know. TIA
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Latest post on 28 June 2012 - 14:23
How sad! A maid gets to go home once a year to see her family and saves up for it. imagine having to fork out money at the airport to travel... for jaywalking!!!! while there are so many other henious crimes being committed in Dubai and the perpetrators get off with a slap on the wrists.
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Latest post on 28 June 2012 - 12:56
All I am saying is that there is a vast choice of schools out there that are established, well managed, offer the same prorgamme as JBS and are half the price. If you live in Jumeirah, it's a great option but apart from location, I really can't see how they justify such prices.
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Latest post on 28 June 2012 - 11:09
I am sorry but I strongly disagree with that. Their French programme is not for native speakers and they only have 2 x 45 minute lessons per week. JPS is the natural progression for students leaving the Chidlren Garden and most of these students are already fluent in French or native speakers yet JPS doesn't offer them a proper prgramme. My son is in year 3 in a different school and they offer a French A ( native) & B lessons 2 times a week and we pay 42K per year for the IB programme!!! We just supplment the French by speaking at home. If you look at the top of this page, there is a banner for JPS adversting for all year groups. They are not an established school and they are over the top with their fees. edited by derien on 28/06/2012 Derien I am assuming you mean JBS as JPS is a completely different school altogether Yes thanks Wigywig. I meant JBS
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Latest post on 28 June 2012 - 10:54
I am sorry but I strongly disagree with that. Their French programme is not for native speakers and they only have 2 x 45 minute lessons per week. JPS is the natural progression for students leaving the Chidlren Garden and most of these students are already fluent in French or native speakers yet JPS doesn't offer them a proper prgramme. My son is in year 3 in a different school and they offer a French A ( native) & B lessons 2 times a week and we pay 42K per year for the IB programme!!! We just supplment the French by speaking at home. If you look at the top of this page, there is a banner for JPS adversting for all year groups. They are not an established school and they are over the top with their fees. <em>edited by derien on 28/06/2012</em>
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Latest post on 27 June 2012 - 09:04
Hi Irooni, Nope, kids in bed at all hours, napping in afternoons, hours upon hours in the kitchen, eating huge meals 3 times a day, trips here there and everywhere, ferrying the guests for shopping expeditions .... no routine at all when we have visitors. What about you??????? Alismum, I bet all I have this is when your Husband's family comes. It is all related to being "irooni" and the expectations are families, specially in laws have. This past month my MIL was with us (for a 2nd month in a 3 month span). My sister and her family are moving back home and didn't renew their flat, so she, her husband, and 2 children under 4, and my other sister, are all here with me. I don't have a maid. The meal preparations, cleaning, washing, entertaining, never ending trips to Deira, Satwa and malls....all of this and off course the children going to school, homework, activities, playdates and birthday parties, as usual. after all the service, my MIL has had the nerve to fault and criticise my child rearing practices, cooking and housekeeping skills, to my sisters. When it's just us as a family, the whole house is as quiet as a graveyard by 8pm. We are up and running by 6 again. I have been sooo exhausted physically and mentally and busy running around like a headless chicken, I havent been able to keep up with the children's bed and wake time, and they had breakfast on the go, and my sister has bathed them a couple of times with her children instead of me. So now I am the worst mother in the world. The ***** she has said behind my back, about how my children are not clean, and malnourished cause of bad breakfasts, and how my car is dirty and my drawers are unorganised....... I am so sick and tired of her. She doesnt think of how hard it is to keep up with your own routine when yu have 1000 other things to do for everyone else. This is what I get for 2 months of endless service, waiting on her hand and foot and funding all her shopping!!!! A mother in law will never ever be your own mother. Wish my mum was alive:((( edited by Irooni on 27/06/2012 Why do you let them stay with you then? Sounds like they are jealous because you have everything figured.
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Latest post on 27 June 2012 - 08:56
Can we know which Service Provider this is so that we can avoid in the future? That is very dangerous
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Latest post on 27 June 2012 - 08:24
For safety and security reasons. There have been alot of break-ins in Dubai
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Latest post on 27 June 2012 - 08:22
JBS took over the facilities and campus of the American School & just adopted their fee structure. The school has no track record, is WAY overpriced, and is struggling to enroll children. You only have to look at the amount of advertising they do. I can guarantee that if you called them 1 day before the first day of school, they could offer you a place in any year group..... that is not a good sign. If you want the IB program, there are lots of more established schools that offer this, including DIA etc. I would stay away until they lower the fees and build up some form of track record. <em>edited by derien on 27/06/2012</em>
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Latest post on 26 June 2012 - 15:32
Not worried at all LOL.
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Latest post on 26 June 2012 - 15:30
The question is - are you prepared to conform to stay? Nationals are a minority but if they start to stand up, if the UAE Dress Code, for their values, actually reminding ppl they are guests and the gment agrees with their stance and enforces rules such as a dress code, such as the one family one home, such as crack downs on dating - would you say 'and right they are, this is THEIR country, our long holiday', or would you start fighting saying how dare they try and enforce 'their values' on you? If you are happy to live in a different culture that will not change for you but still gives you outlets (clubs/bars) then I think you'll live here for as long as you wish n peace. Bu if you have no intention to do that and want to stand up for rights/freedoms you have in other countries (other countries you've chosen not to live in s they can't be that perfect) then you'll be getting your ticket ready fr te next stage in life.[/quote Of course, within reason. We all pretty much conform now. Other side of the question is can the UAE afford to rock the boat by enforcing stricter rules and values. 90% of the economy is....drum role Foreign Investments and sorry hate to say it Foreigners.
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 16:38
Dont bother. do a search and you will see that many people have had problems with them.
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:51
i went to this great pizzeria in this little hotel in deira about 5 years ago.... it was great.... Dont know what hotel or what it was called but it was fab :) That helps ;-) LOL
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:43
...and since DH reads my posts, here's another one for him :-P ptbhhhh LOL. Tell him you quit and that you want your final settlement
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:40
My goal over the next 6 months is to find a great pizza place where the pizzas don't taste like rubber and are reasonably priced.
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:38
LOL maybe iltaglio is opening a branch in Deira?
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:15
I can't stop laughing at these posts....
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:15
Yes. No sun at all and very cold in the winter
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:14
My friend told me about the shop and this expat woman.com... i am italian and i believe the food is amazing and it tastes just like the food back home Viva Italia!!! LOL. this is comical. Viva la verita!
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:12
You said your child is bilingual? That is a huge factor in explaining why she might not seem to know as much as the others. She is processing 2 languages so expression can be difficult in the early ages. Later ( around 7/8) she will be as good, if not better than the others and will also speak 2 languages. Read a little more about biligualism and you will see that there is always a delay in the beginning.
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Latest post on 24 June 2012 - 15:04
aeverything comes fresh from Italy even their water! that's a reason enough not to go......... so unnecessary LOL. Yeah right. Is that what the owner told you? Very funny
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 16:06
Thanks ladies for your replies. Sometimes you know what you have to do ... you just need someone to reconfirm it to you! Yes, the injuries are from falling. He can be really clumsy. First time he fell against the coffee table and yesterday he fell off the sofa. Thankfully I have a camera and have been able to check exactly what happened. I have converted a small room off the lounge in to a play area, yet she does not take him in there and instead plays around the sofa. I have stressed so many times on my way out to work to take him in there to play with his toys, read books etc. There is no shortage of things in there to keep him entertained. He does not sustain such injuries when my and DH are with him as we know to sit next to him if he is on the sofa or if he is running wild, to take him to his playroom, but she does not seem to understand this. I think her sister feels she can do nothing, but regardless, I would expect a better response that just 'release her madam'. She sounds stupid and careless. Get rid of her! Good luck
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 16:04
Wow. So many break-ins at the moment around Dubai. very, very scary.
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 15:46
A broken collar bone? Another injury two days later? Are you sure these injuries are from falling off the sofa? I would pack her up, send her home and BAN her!!! And the so called sister
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 12:59
Thanks!!!
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 12:50
My maid just adds to our weekly shopping list the items she requires. Usually some fish, rice, vegetables etc. The cost is probably 200 AEd per month extra. She also eats what we cook or cooks it for me. I also buy her toilletries and medication as well as 2 x 50 AED phone cards per month If you are going to set a budget, I would say 450 AED all-in for everything listed above.
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 12:26
thanks!!
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:55
IF you do go back to the UK, get *written permission* from your soon-to-be-ex husband that states he is OK with you and the kids leaving the country for an undefined period of time and get him to sign it. If he refuses, threaten to report his affair to the police. Be warned though that no matter how sweet revenge may sound right now, putting their father in jail in the UAE is probably not the greatest thing you could do for your kids. Excellent idea.
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:46
Do some of you not read the news out here....where it gets ugly here and fathers have taken the kids away from the mother....and the law has backed them up here. If she really wants a divorce she should go back to the uk. It's nearly summer and she may be going back there anyway. She can get help and be supported by her family. It's really not a good idea to start anything here in Dubai. Very very bad idea to start anything here!!!!
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:42
I never said that he was a bad Dad! He is a lousy husband and has lied, cheated and manipulated for over a year! And he is a Man in an extremely male oriented country. So good father, bad father, who cares? She likely doesn't have anyone else here to support her and she should tread very carefully from here on out. Better off in the UK until things are sorted out than here with the law on HIS side But, it is simply NOT fair to drag the children into something that possibly has nothing to do with them. If he is a good Dad, then how terrible to drag them away from him. You may say, "well, he should have thought about that before he had an affair", but at such a young age children cannot understand about affairs etc and nor should they. They just know that for some reason they can't see their Daddy anymore and they WILL blame themselves. If he is a bad Dad then maybe it would be different but Ranchesranger hasn't said anything about his ability as a parent. I also would not take the children away anyway (unless there was physical violoence involved, but again, no hint of that) as it will not help her case in anyway. And if she chooses to stay and divorce him ( which I think she is hinting at with regards to proceedings), how does she get a visa for herself and her kids? Does she have family? A job? Income?
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:33
I never said that he was a bad Dad! He is a lousy husband and has lied, cheated and manipulated for over a year! And he is a Man in an extremely male oriented country. So good father, bad father, who cares? She likely doesn't have anyone else here to support her and she should tread very carefully from here on out. Better off in the UK until things are sorted out than here with the law on HIS side
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:31
Is your son telling you everything? Sorry to ask but before you open police proceedings in a country like this, I would want to make 100% sure that all is as it seems.
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Latest post on 19 June 2012 - 11:15
Are you here or in the UK? Do you have the kids passports?. If I were you, I would get on the first plane with the kids and take them to your parents, family. Then start proceedings.
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Latest post on 18 June 2012 - 15:37
No. That is not normal. My children's schools do not have TV. Children watch enough TV at home
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Latest post on 14 June 2012 - 11:37
Hand ot into the Embassy or Consulate. they will be able to help
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Latest post on 14 June 2012 - 10:08
And if you do decide to get rid of her, please ban her! Don't send her onto some other family so that she can put their children in danger.
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Latest post on 14 June 2012 - 09:36
What would I do? I would have her on the first plane back to the Philippines. She lied to you, she took your baby to a stranger's house, she could have been in an accident while travelling there!!!!! She can't be trusted
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Latest post on 13 June 2012 - 15:22
Are you friendly with your brother's wife? Maybe she would be understanding of the situation and ajust for you?
 
 
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