The Dubai Shopping Festival has started once again. I know there's all kinds of sales, etc. on at this time, but I find that people shop a lot throughout the year; it can't be that shopping increases that much more during the Shopping Festival? If so, it must hit epic proportions this next month!
So I went to my local pharmacy earlier today as I have a cold. All I wanted was cough syrup and drops, yet the new pharmacist there kept trying to paw off other medications on me. I asked if the syrup would help me sleep and he brought out sleeping pills and tried to convince me to buy them (cough syrup, cough drops and sleeping pills-- now THERE's a good combo!). Then he tried to have me buy antibiotics to help clear some supposed phlegm in my chest (this after I chose a cough syrup that would do the job). Finally he tried to have me buy multi-vitamins with calcium and when I told him I had multi-vitamins at home, he was convinced that they couldn't have Calcium in them and kept on with his sales pitch until I told him to STOP, I was not buying anything more. Had I bought what he suggested, I would have walked away with cough syrup, medicated drops, sleeping pills, antibiotics, and multi-vitamins with calcium. This on top of my asthma meds which I'd told him about. Talk about possible med OD... yikes, what was he thinking?? I was so annoyed with the 'hawking' of goods that I left as fast as I could and swore I'd never go back there again. Hopefully there's another pharmacy in my area that doesn't do that.
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
Dubai Outlet Mall
Yesterday I went out to the Dubai Outlet Mall for the first time. I took about 3.5 hrs to walk through the entire complex. There are lots of great stores there and great deals to be had. I was slightly disappointed because I had hoped there'd be a home furniture store there, but no such luck. The closest I got was a store that sold dishes, cooking pots, etc. I did take the time to check out the clothing store and was quite impressed overall. Next time I need clothes, I think I'll head to the outlet mall to check the deals out. Some of the stores include Mango, Monsoon, Nike, Puma, stores that sell Ralph Lauren, Tommy Hilfiger clothes, Massimo Ditto, etc. It's worth checking out!
Muse of the Day
So I'm driving on the highway and take an off-ramp on my way to a shopping area. Right at the junction of the two roads are two signs: The first one says "Shopping Area" with an arrow pointing me in the right direction. The second sign says "BinLadin onsite office" with an arrow. I had a good chuckle about that-- apparently he has his own office here! (Okay, so it's really a construction company, but I still found humour in the sign. It was almost as good as the company's "Sorry for the inconvenience- binLadin" under construction signs you occasionally see around).
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