October 2008 - Posts - Still single in the city

October 2008 - Posts

Misadventure in the Serviced Apartment

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I am up to my neck with serviced apartments. Almost every big building I see in Dubai (and you mostly see big buildings on the main roads) houses serviced apartments. The synonym is hotel apartments. It's a convivial marriage between two sectors: hospitality and housing. You're supposed to feel you are endowed with all the trappings that come...

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Always on a Sunday

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Pawandeep, this is the second post that has been triggered off by a comment made by you (remember your earlier one about how I've gotten serious post my Delhi departure?). Posting a blog every Sunday (or Saturday night) is a thought that I have been toying with for a while now. So, this evening, as I was (a tad) guiltily (since I have not posted...

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About Aruna: A True Story

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
I have many stories to tell from Dubai - including the one about my Misadventure in the Serviced Apartment, that almost saw me taking the first flight out of here and go back home to Delhi. But let me save that for another time. I must, first, tell you the story of Aruna, a colleague and a friend. Here, where one tends to spend almost 80 per cent of...

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Very, very short take

Posted by Sushmita Bose at 
Sorry guys, I've been very out of sorts, and have been missing in action for a while now. It's mostly because I don't have a place to stay, and I won't be able to get one till my permanent visa comes through. "It's on its way," promises the bespectacled HR chappie, who's from Bangalore, solemnly. "Tomorrow, before...

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