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Snap caption: Out with the old...

It wouldn't be Ramadan in July if...

... I didn't find myself at least once in a shopping mall bathroom stall scarfing down half of a protein bar and chugging water. 

Today in UAE radio ads based on conversations unlikely to happen in real life

Woman A: Guess what I heard today?
Woman B: Oh no, is it another one of your gossips?

Snap caption: Something about this place is special; what we are not sure

Overheard in the newsroom: Klout one-upping is a thing now edition

Okay, we'll have a little Klout-off.

Except he hasn't worn shoes in 20 years.

Is it today? What are you, like 21 or something?

Chiva Som: Ommmmmmmmm

The view from my balcony. By the way, when you live in Abu Dhabi,  weather is not an issue when you travel. Rain? Welcome.

I just returned from a glorious week at the health resort Chiva Som in Hua Hin, Thailand, and am about five times the woman I was when I left. I am still grappling with the fact that I even went to a spa in the first place; it's not the kind of travelling I usually like to do.