Burj Glorious Burj!

One day on we remember. Here are some photos I took last night. Yours truly, The Burj Dubai Khalifa! Hmm. I still prefer the name Burj Dubai, it's less dusty!

Dubai's tower of Babel finally unveiled!

Well the world's tallest building is finally having it's day down the world runway tomorrow, as a cascade of world media pool around the Burj for one grand opening to remember. 5pm will see the slicing and dicing of some major red ribbon for the official opening ceremony and the highly anticipated firework show nicknamed 'Big Bang 2', which will blitz the UAE skies for another squiggle for the record books. There have been rumors swirling in the blogosphere that they were going to actually have a Chinese factory make the world's largest bow to dress the Burj Dubai for opening day, but was canned after Emaar (construction company) realised it would interfere with the spot light designed to eternally illuminate the building. I also have some sneak peek photos of the new designer Burj Dubai souvenir store which is selling bespoken bottles of VOSS water studded with Swarovski crystals for about $100 a pop for the thirsty folk. Anyway, I shall post up photos and more info about the Burj Dubai live on location!

Hunted: Achtung! one can only sympathise!

Ladies and Gentlemen, boys and girls!

Welcome to Dubai where the local time is a joke and the outside temperature is ingenious.

Check out this video made with love by one of our unidentified comrades which is predicted to win the prestigious 2010 Skytrack award for originality! Now when you hear someone use the word esoteric, this video falls into that very category. All cabin crew will appreciate the very heart of this video. As Emirates is an arabic speaking airline, there is an operational requirement to have at least one arabic speaker onboard every flight. There is no doubt that they are doing us a huge service by making official arabic P.A announcements and translating for our largely arabic customer base. But as they are a rare breed of avatars they are in high demand and due to operational requirements their rosters and attempts to swap onto desired flights are like a death match of Solitaire. The irony rings too loud for comfort. We take off our hats to our arabic speaking cohorts! What would we do without you?

Thanks Airboy for the heads up about the vid and my first ripsnort laugh for the 2010!

p.s get your nappies out for a change after!