well...well.....finally.it's a bittersweet heaven-hell feeling that i have. oh yeah, i am IN dubai....right here, right now. is it perfect? almost. my apartment's big, it's in a tower, 21st Century Tower, with a pool and a gym on the top floor (53rd storey which makes it,, by the way, one of the tallest residential buildings in the world). i'm on the 17th floor, fab view, Azim's apartment is just next door to mine....we're on Sheikh Zayed Road, which is like the District 10 in Singapore. my bedroom and bathroom's huge but my roommate (who is from Bombay) is a little weird. she keeps to herself, inside her room and hardly comes out for any other reason than for training. she even defrosted her chicken IN HER ROOM! hello? that spells me FREAKY in caps. but hey, since she loves her room so much, i will be taking the liberty to decorate the whole apartment coz it's MINE. *sigh* so i'm really not complaining. she's just a tiny glitch. anyway, i kinda understand her.....she used to fly for Saudi Arabian Airlines and she told me (during one of our rare meetings in the apartment) that she had no privacy there. their provided accomodation were two girls in one bedroom, so four girls in one apartment! so i can imagine.....she'd want to have maximum privacy with minimum contact with noisy ol' me. still, i'd like to have a roomate i can make noise with and talk the whole night thru.....so it helps heaps that my AZIM is just next door. it's going to change though when we start flying...different rosters and all that. So i've been bogged down by training.....really tough. even some people i got to know who used to fly for SIA, Qantas etc said their training was nothing compared to Emirates. But i'm enjoying it...it's a whole new world for me. but it's like lesson today, exam tomorrow.....EVERYDAY's Exam Day. And dun even get me started on the practicals. Been wanting to go use the internet for so long can i can't even get a couple of hours to myself to do that. and now, i only have a few minutes left before i gotta go back to class.But i wanna graduate fast...so i'm putting my heart and soul into this. so is my Azim. if everything is on track i will be graduating on the 11th February or sometime there. Dubai's a fantastic place....the people, the places, the CHEAP CARS....i mean, I can look to one day soon afford my Wrangler Jeep here! something i dun think i can do soon enough in Singapore. So no regrets being here......but I miss my mummy...my nenek....my sister....my family....my galpals.....yeah....that lump in my throat's still there. But it's sugar-coated with the future so I'll be okay...I gotta run now. gotta go back to class. will be back to wax....so stay tuned.