Sunday, August 12, 2007

Noveau yeesh!

The pace at which Dubai and Abu Dhabi are evolving on the economic, grandeur and lifestyle-on-offer scale are by any consideration, meteoric. One can only gape as the UAE moves from being the modern centre of the Arab the world, to being the Arab centre of the modern world.
Frankly, the ostentatious-ness that gilds pretty much every structure, plan and project in and by the UAE, intimidates me. I’m uncomfortable in overtly opulent surroundings. To the manor born, I was not. My middle-class upbringing may have numbed my sophist senses, forever dooming me to the backbenches of noveau riche-ness.

No comments: