Heh - seen today in Karstadt at Hermannstraße in Berlin!
Sums up Dubai nicely, don't you think?
BTW - the jeans were ugly and very unfashionable!
Seen today on the Kurfürstendamm which is one of the main shopping and entertainment streets in Berlin.
The message on the side of the car reads:
Here is your share of the car
and it's signed:
Your Ex
OUCH!!!!
Spotted around Berlin are billboards advertising a campaign to spread awareness for tolerance and understanding in communities made up of people coming from different ethnic, religious, political, whatever backgrounds.The project is called "die Gesellschafter" which means "the shareholder", and it's inviting people to think about what kind of world they want to live in and then work to make it a reality.The website, in German, says that for years, governments have been talking about creating future ideal societies, and that future never arrives. It goes on to say that the time for talking should end, the time for doing has arrived, and it's up to everyone to make it happen.This particular billboard says:Left Side: In everyone of us is a pacifistRight Side: I would like to live in a society where no man, be he Muslim or Christian, lives in fear.
There are other billboards with different target messages included in the campaign - some can be seen here on the website.Power to the People!
Before we again left Dubai for Germany, we were walking Umm Suqeim beach every morning at 7am, enjoying the exercise but not the ever-increasing pollution, and watching the offshore goings-on.A few weeks ago, a wall was erected along the beach and a company statement from Zabeel Investments announced a 4.5 million square foot project development - much to the collective horror of local and expat residents.
Thankfully, Sheikh Mohammed stepped in and stopped the work - according to sources at Gulf News.The wall came down, but the activity offshore has not ceased - neither have the onshore offices, (erected on the beach at the port end), been taken away.
In his blog, Life in Dubai, Seabee has been commenting on the whole affair, and recently mentioned the offshore activity still happening at Umm Suqeim Beach.
The tugs are still bringing in barge-loads of sand and muck, and dumping it about 200m off the beach.
They have been joined by 2 dredges - one close to the beach, and the other further out.
Shuttling back and forth under its own engine power, and probably taking core samples, is a little yellow drilling platform which we've seen close to the beach as well as further out in line with The World development.
The work is being carried out by Royal Boskalis Westminster Middle East according to the signage on the buildings. The equipment is probably either owned by them or leased from Gulf Cobla LLC.What they're doing out there is not known in any certainty, but a thread on Skyscraper.com mentions what we're all thinking - the Zabeel project is still on the go.
There are other billboards with different target messages included in the campaign - some can be seen here on the website.
Thankfully, Sheikh Mohammed stepped in and stopped the work - according to sources at Gulf News.
In his blog, Life in Dubai, Seabee has been commenting on the whole affair, and recently mentioned the offshore activity still happening at Umm Suqeim Beach.
The tugs are still bringing in barge-loads of sand and muck, and dumping it about 200m off the beach.
They have been joined by 2 dredges - one close to the beach, and the other further out.
Shuttling back and forth under its own engine power, and probably taking core samples, is a little yellow drilling platform which we've seen close to the beach as well as further out in line with The World development.
The work is being carried out by Royal Boskalis Westminster Middle East according to the signage on the buildings. The equipment is probably either owned by them or leased from Gulf Cobla LLC.