Cheap Things To Do in Dubai #1 (Dubai Creek Park)

As many know Dubai is known for it's tourism industry. And with that comes also the knowledge that it is not a cheap city. And take it from me, it can get really expensive but I guarantee you, you will have a once in a lifetime experience when you come to visit the country I consider home for a couple of years now.

And as an expat in this beautiful country, I've come to know places that is very authentically Dubai but comes easy on the budget, and some of it is FREE!!

In this series, I wanna share with you things/activity you can do for free or just easy on the budget.

First in my list is the most famous park in Dubai, the Dubai Creek Park, located in Oud Metha.

How to get there?
Take the green line from Burjuman Metro Station or Union Metro Staion, drop down in Oud Metha Metro Station, go out to exit 1 then take the C7 bus going to the Creek Park. You can tell the bus driver to drop u in the park and they all know already where to drop you. Infairness to the bus drivers here in Dubai, most of them knew all their routes, I think it's kinda part of their requirement to passed as a driver here. Ride costs 3aed.

The park is so wide, you can enter thru in any of it's five gates. Yeah, it's that big it has five gates!!
In it there is a Dolphinarium, a bird show, a 3D chopper ride, childern playground, and it is beside a creek mine you, that's where the name came from I think. And there are also designated places for grilling. Perfect for family/friends get together. You can also pitch a tent there if you want to. It has free water too, cold water. And the entrance in the park is 5aed only.

So if your one of those people who loves to just sit and feel one with nature with the greenery of the area that you will not believe you are still in a desert country, Yallah, this one is for you.

P.S Please take care of your trash please, let us all help out in maintaining this beautiful park for the future.

Xoxo,
Cherrie

Thoughts On Year 2017

A few days after the new year, I have not even summarized what year 2017 had been. It had gone by so fast, I still felt like I just celebrated new year and now another year passed again in a blink of an eye. But nonetheless, it was a great year.Always thankful and grateful for all the opportunities and experiences I had, may it be bad or good, it still help me become who I am today and I am still a firm believer that everything happens for a reason and where we are right now is where we should be and is preparing us to where we are meant to be.

This post is meant to be a reminder to everyone of how blessed we are, and should be grateful in where we are at the moment. We might not have all the things that we hope we have by now but please bear in mind always that we have all the things we need. We might not see them as important as they ought to be but believe me they are. We may forget to be thankful for the little things in life since they are always there, and we always tend to take them for granted. On my part, I must admit, I had a lot of complains last year that made me see the good things less. When we complain we overlook other things coz we are so focused on the negative side of things and we are not seeing the bright side of it, our perspective changed to negative outlook all the way and that makes life more challenging and complicated. It makes life harder not just for ourselves but for the people around us.

What I learned from the past year is that you cant control anything. Controlling things just make life  harder. Yet, we can control on how to react to the things that are happening to us. That's the time we have control on things, and the time that we are the ones who are in charge of our lives.
As much as how we think we had planned our lives or thought that things should be that way or this way, it will never be that way. Life has its own unique way of teaching us the hows and whys of it.
It will hit us hard, knock us out by surprise but when we get the hang of it, learned to dance with it, its more easier for us to play and decide what we want in our lives. It may take some time for us to be at peace with where we are right now, but its just alright, no one gets this life figured out. We are all still writing the pages of our own story. Remember also that it will take hundreds of pages to make a good story, so just continue writing your story, maybe you are just in the beginning or midway, as long as you are still writing, you are doing fine. Continue writing beautiful, kind and heartwarming story that someday the world would like to read.

In the past year I also learned to not give a damn and just live my life as it is. People will always have something to say assumed things, even if they don't know the whole story and we cannot do anything about it.The way people treat you reflects who they are, the way you treat people reflects who you are. It is as simple as that. You cannot please anyone and it is alright, not all people likes you anyway, that's how life is. As long as you are not taking advantage or abusing someone, you are fine. Walk away from people that takes away your peace of mind. Be at peace with yourself and believe in the power that is bigger than you. Have faith in whatever that makes you believe in far greater than what you are seeing or experiencing. Believe in God. Believe in your God. Have faith. Faith in God. And lastly, PRAY.

In conclusion, 2017 was a year of growth, hope, faith, and love. Thank you for the year that it was, for all the smiles, laughter, trials, blessings, craziness, guts, leap of faith and for awesome people that made life more interesting this year.

SHUKRAAN 2017!

What is Thanksgiving..?

What is Thanksgiving?

According to Wikipedia, it is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States of America and in Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the proceeding year. Several other places in the world observe similar celebrations. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and of the second Monday of October in Canada. Thanksgiving has a historic roots in religious and cultural tradition, and has long been celebrated in secular manner as well. There are also countries who don't celebrate Thanksgiving like Philippines and all muslim countries like the UAE. Though we don't have a specific dates to celebrate Thanksgiving here in this side of the world,everyday should be Thanksgiving day. We should be thankful not just for the things that we asked and given to us but most especially for the little things that somethimes we all have taken for granted. Little things that without it life would be nothing, like just waking up each morning, we forget that is the most basic thing that we should be thankful for, for there are people who doesn't even wake up after they sleep. The air we breathe, the water that comes to us abundantly and many more.

Do you know how the official national Thanksgiving Day come about?
It's Sara J. Hale, the editior of the poplular women's magazine Godey's Lady's Book. She wrote a Thanksgiving Day editorial in the September 1863 issue of her magazine. Up until that time, there had been no official National Thanksgiving Day. Her thought on being thankful revolved around Nehemial 8:10 that says "Go and enjoy choice food and sweet drinks, and send some to those who have nothing prepared. This day is sacred to our Lord. Do not grieve, for the joy of the LOrd is your strength". When the issue came off the press, she sent a copy to President Lincoln. At that time President Lincoln had bigger worries than establishing a day on which to be thankful. The country was in the middle of a Civil War. The union armies had lose battles to the confederates on many fronts. Many of his generals were worried more about the cut of their uniforms than about the young men dying under their commands. Newspaper blasted the president, no matter what he did or didn't do. Some members of the cabinet made fun of him, called him names behind his back. The presidency of the United States of America seemed to be on the verge of crumbling. Along with the country itself-not exactly the time to give thanks! President Lincoln reads Mrs. Hale's editorial. And despite his political and personal troubles, on October 3, 1863, he declared the last Thursday of November to be a National Thanksgiving Day.

Saying Thank You is so easy. Those two words can make all the difference in another person's entire day. Maybe you remember saying thank you to your mom and dad for clean clothes, good food and just for being there when you needed them. Maybe you tell the pastor thank you for a sermon well done or to a total stranger whom have shown you a simple act of kindness, maybe to a man who have opened a door for you, to the guy who gave up his seat for you in the metro or to that lady who gave you direction when you didn't know where to go and the list could go on and on.. But there are people to whom you may not said thank you but whom you really appreciate for their good example, for their faithfullness, for the time and effort they give to make your life a little more comfortable-such as the bus drivers that take you to work everyday, to the girl who give you your coffee everyday, to the lady in the reception area that greats you every morning upon entering the building, to the delivery guy who delivers your food, to the security guard in your building, to the cashier, to the janitor who throws your thrash,to that person that always asked how are you and so on.., these are the people that make our life comfortable yet we always forget to appreciate, people who we feel can do nothing for us yet they are the people that is the most deserving to be appreciated and saying thank you to.

Saying thank you is important. Being thankful is a choice, not a chance. That means, no matter what else is happening in our lives, we can chose to be thankful and discover that we are THANKFUL, we are HAPPY.
Therefore, we can choose to be HAPPY just by being THANKFUL.
Make sense right..?

Just like what President Lincoln did,he didn't wait until the end of the war to be thankful. He declared his gratitute and praise at a time when it seemed he had the least for which to be thankful. The message in Nehemial 8:10 is just that-the joy of giving thanks to the Lord is your strenght.
It's easy to say thank you when everything is terrific, but when things go bad, the true joy of thankfulness gives strength.- "the joy of the Lord is our strength".

Being thankful is a good habit to develop. So, let us all be thankful to the Lord not only for the blessings but also for the trials and tribulations that come our way.

Let us say thank you to the people around us whom we know deserved our sinceremost THANK YOU.

Have a blessed THANKSGIVING people!!

By Taking Your Hand

By taking your hand,
I went to a whole new world.
A world I never thought would exist for me.
A world where fairytales seems so likely.
Dreams turned into reality.
And am feeling giggly.
You made butterflies fly.
Fireworks light up the sky.
You became my sole light.

But like anything that's new,
In a world that's all brand new,
I suddenly don't know what to do.
I doubted what YOU and I can do.
I lost sight of the bright side,
Focused on the downside.
Insecurities cut deep,
Deep enough to made it slip.
And just like that I lost you,
In a way that I never meant to.

You said,
Fly high and you'll reach the sky,
Spread your wings and you'll soar high.
But for me to learn to fly,
Like beautiful birds up in the sky.
You did what you have to do.
We flew high and then U let go...

Fall For Someone Who...

Fall for someone who you can call HOME.

Fall for someone who will text you Good Morning and Good Night. Someone who's day will not be complete without it.

Fall for someone who will make time for you, not someone who will just see you when they're free.

Fall for someone who will not say, I'm busy.

Fall for someone who sees your need even before you do.

Fall for someone who will tell you they are mad at you.

Fall for someone who sees you like you were magic.

Fall for someone who will not make you think that love is hard.

Fall for someone who you can laugh with all your grossness.

Fall for someone who loves your weirdness.

Fall for someone who tolerates your craziness yet scolds you when you've gone too far.

Fall for someone who encourages you to be a better version of who you are.

Fall for someone who not only wants you for sex.

Fall for someone who says SORRY.

Fall for someone who's not afraid to show you their feelings.

Fall for someone who's not afraid to cry in front of you.

Fall for someone who makes you say I LOVE YOU like it's a given.


But most importantly, fall for someone who LOVES YOU. Sometimes, having someone who LOVES YOU is more than just enough.

And when you've finally found that someone, please love him like he does and take good care of him.