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To: abuelita who wrote (21719)	8/28/2007 2:06:09 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217847

Let pour a Cuba Libre and I return.

To: abuelita who wrote (21719)	8/28/2007 3:19:59 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217847

It is the human being. I look to it under this perspective wherever I go. If to Nigeria, Dubai, US... Display of money (or ostentation) has a strong effect on people. That's why the cathedrals where so imponent. to strike awe on the peasant. That's why the king's castle had to be ostentatious. One coming from outside will look to that and thinks the power and the riches that it is that 'thing' The peasant didn't know that it was his contribution in taxes that made the ostentation possible. (This Cuba Libre tastes delicious!) The amount of beautiful women in Dubai is an affront! They are all trim and fit and well dressed. I seat down with my Brazilian friend (he lives there) for coffee and I ask: "How comes this place concentrate so many pretty women?" (Coming from Iran it is striking!!) He said: Because the place has too much money! Blacks, Asians, Western Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Arabs... You name it! I lived there for three months early 2006. Most of the people that go live there are in the late 20's to early 40s. Asked someone and she said: Before, people would come here, worked and would save money. That was long time ago. For quite a while, people, come, work spend and go out wit no savings. (When I am having a drink, I am much better conversation with women than with men) Looks like they go there to have a go at a Florida kind of life style. I talked with the shop assistant. (Romanian) and she tell me: "I am bored stiff here. I can't take it no more. I came to stay two years, I am 8 months here. Will stay one year and go home." Talk with the Filipino waitress where I eat steak: She tells me: "I come to work. Go back to my dormitory. When I have my day off, I go to movies. See my friends. Next day, I am back working again. Every week is the same thing" I am more comfortable talking with women than with guys, I like to talk with the taxi drivers. I don't rent cars in Dubai. They tell me: The prices of housing are crazy. They use to come there and make remittance. Build nest egg. Go home. Not anymore. Most money earned, goes to pay rent. I ask who buys those buildings. They say: The rich Iranians buy, because if Iran burns, they'll move in here. And the rest? I ask. They say: the people living in those buildings are the people building the subway, the new airport, the Dubailand (a version of Disneyland), the car race track, and building the buildings that house this people... But I used to walk or drive around and look: The buildings were not lit at night. During the day -in the Springs where I lived-I could walk and see that the windows were card boarded to block the sun light. No one was living in those villas and there was a lot of them. But look to the economics: One can construct a building sell it at western prices with a cost of third world, since the manpower comes from neighboring Pakistan, Afghanistian... In the end -I reckon- is nothing more than different people looking at that construction (pun not intended) under different perspectives. But Dubai dispalys that 2% image and peoples imagination fills in the remaining 98%... I was in the bars -couple of times- and a young lady (about 29) is pressing a young man early 30's about a bad decision...) She says: "Why dont you do this" "Why did you accept that?" and so it goes...