If you live in the UAE or other Gulf countries, you will probably be excited about THE day! Thursdays have always been the most loved day for me! You get to enjoy a late evening even if you are not partying, you at least have the energy for watching a movie/dining out/meeting families, whatever that maybe!
When things were much sober in this country, I am talking during my early years in school, there were just 4 channels, yes just 4, that we could watch. They were Ch33 (called ONETV now), Sharjah TV, Ajman and Abu Dhabi channels.Sharjah and Abu Dhabi were the most boring since all the programs were in Arabic. We could watch about 2 hours of cartoon on Ch33 and Ajman.There was nothing in Hindi as such available then, except of course, the first thing on Thursday morning was to check on paper what movie was being shown that night! The days we used to miss the cartoons were Mondays and Wednesdays due to dance classes! And yes, dance classes were therefore a pain then! We used go cycling after watching cartoon, sis had a nice blue bike, I had a red one.Badminton was a normal time pass in the evenings with a bro n sis who lived right above our flat,the other days we used to play board games and such stuff. Now I hate to look outside my window cos all I see is buildings, too many cars, construction done at every inch of extra space. The place we used to play badminton slowly turned into a parking area and now it is a construction site, the areas we used to cycle have buildings with about 24 floors, sigh those were days!
Now, weekends can be fun and relaxing but somehow that earlier charm and innocence is lost. Weekends have to be days when you walk around a shopping mall mostly not shopping, walk down a street and think about how once they used to be almost empty, go to a restaurant and wait for almost an hour or longer for a table, traffic is always jammed whether it is 2000 hrs or 0100 hrs and worse if you are not losing yourself you are not having Fun! :-)
Hey, I love to have fun in the modern way, but I just somehow miss those golden days! I told you, am very old-fashioned!!!
When things were much sober in this country, I am talking during my early years in school, there were just 4 channels, yes just 4, that we could watch. They were Ch33 (called ONETV now), Sharjah TV, Ajman and Abu Dhabi channels.Sharjah and Abu Dhabi were the most boring since all the programs were in Arabic. We could watch about 2 hours of cartoon on Ch33 and Ajman.There was nothing in Hindi as such available then, except of course, the first thing on Thursday morning was to check on paper what movie was being shown that night! The days we used to miss the cartoons were Mondays and Wednesdays due to dance classes! And yes, dance classes were therefore a pain then! We used go cycling after watching cartoon, sis had a nice blue bike, I had a red one.Badminton was a normal time pass in the evenings with a bro n sis who lived right above our flat,the other days we used to play board games and such stuff. Now I hate to look outside my window cos all I see is buildings, too many cars, construction done at every inch of extra space. The place we used to play badminton slowly turned into a parking area and now it is a construction site, the areas we used to cycle have buildings with about 24 floors, sigh those were days!
Now, weekends can be fun and relaxing but somehow that earlier charm and innocence is lost. Weekends have to be days when you walk around a shopping mall mostly not shopping, walk down a street and think about how once they used to be almost empty, go to a restaurant and wait for almost an hour or longer for a table, traffic is always jammed whether it is 2000 hrs or 0100 hrs and worse if you are not losing yourself you are not having Fun! :-)
Hey, I love to have fun in the modern way, but I just somehow miss those golden days! I told you, am very old-fashioned!!!
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