Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Brainstorms

Before you read this, please do this.

Think.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES.

What's the first thing that comes to your mind?

Please comment and say it.

We were in a meeting yesterday and to organize the brain storming session and because everyone was so dead and tired, I decided to just write everything that first pops in everyone's mind when I say a world.

I said: "UAE, what's the first that comes to your mind!'

First answer I got was "desert and a white land cruiser'

Few other students agreed that that is true, they think of similar things.

Here are some of the answers I got for different Emirates:

Abu Dhabi:
Etisalat tower
Streets and buildings
Some poetic things about how the people are nice, etc.

Dubai:
The name of a certain hot guy – I told the girl that that is not going to help in our project.
Burj alarab – I thoughts that is old!
Shopping and malls – duh!
Construction – Thank you, but we need positive!
Skiing
Hotels
Madinat Jumeirah – I need a holiday.

Notice that none of the girls there were from Dubai and so no one said Traffic, or maybe it's because I was screaming "POSITIVE"

Sharjah:
Museums
Cultural
Heritage
Bad traffic.

Ajman:
The winner answer was: Bad smell, very smelly indeed.
Beach. – Abu Dhabi beach, Ajman's branch

Ras Al-Khaimah:
Space station!

No one thought of mountains?

Fujairah:
Oldest Masjid in UAE.
They have a tunnel that goes in a mountain.

Umm al-Qaiwain:
They have a big roundabout where kids play football!

After few minutes, we stopped this because it was not helping much. The meeting was a success though because we got what we want.

14 comments:

Arabized said...

hahaha you forgot to mention how when you said 'dubai', people were like 'WHORES' 'dirty', LMAO. no offense to anyone from dubai, it was just a brainstorming meeting, and it was what popped into a few students head when the word dubai was mentioned.

i for one was dying from laughter. :) fun meeting, i wonder how next week will turn out ?

Sleepless In Muscat said...

i, for one, if someone asked me what goes through my head the minute someone asks me about the UAE i would say skyscrapers, powerful economy and very diversified, plus: great leadership

BuJ said...

first thing i can think of is "home".. then "school"... in that order.

Arabized said...

you forgot to mention, sharjah's grass!

BuJ said...

إبتسم آنت بالشارقة

MJ said...

yes. There grass is very green. :P

You always notice these simple things in Sharjah because of the traffic. I mean we get stuck in traffic and I just keep looking at the grass... very green.

Anonymous said...

Did anyone say 'double standards'?

Edward Ott said...

Money, is the first thing that comes to my mind, then buisness.

Salam

3li said...

3los take on the emirates

Dubai: Shrewd ,Emaar, Flirting

Abu Dhabi: Power, Ghantoot

RAK: Property, Sh7oo7

UAQ: vast emptiness, drag strip and racers, more emptiness

Ajman: Shk Rashid Bin 7meid,
Really really old people (I dont know why)

Fuijarah: The nice sheikhs, farms, many goats eating cardboard.

Sharjah: Best education, worst roads, a lot of palestinians.

Arabized said...

HAHAHAHAH
>>>>Ajman:Really really old people<<<

3lo got to hand it to you, pretty random.

Shaykhspeara Sha'ira said...

Well I thought about the UAE and first thing that comes to mind is Dubai... then again I am perhaps not the best person to answer such a question but ah well.

Anonymous said...

MJ
You forgot to say that AJMAN has the best Konafa in the UAE. konafat jo7a.

Rory said...

looooool,, that's really funny,,

and most of it is true,, lool

nice

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