What is up with Britney???

January 6, 2008 at 7:41 am | Posted in Girltalk | Leave a comment
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Normally I would never post about Britney or any celebrity news for that matter but this Britney thing has gone too far. I’m not really a celebrity fanatic but there are some celebs that I love to keep up with such as Jennifer Aniston (because I find her amazing, stylish and strong) and Britney Spears (because I am so stunned about what has happened to her). Watching Britney is like watching a first hand account of a what it means to literally flip out. And this is very scary because so many girls look up to Britney. When they see the crazy acts she is doing or the open road she is travelling from drugs to pregnancy to many marriages, the younger girls who follow her every move will follow suite either because they believe in her, out of sympathy or because they think anything she does is cool.

It’s very sad what has happened and I don’t necessarily blame it all on the drugs. I have seen many people on drugs and this is just not normal. This girl needs a well deserved break in therapy before she breaks down to the point of no return. And where the hell are her parents. How can they sit by and watch this happen to their child while the rest of the world watches her for entertainment purposes. This girl is on the verge of suicide and noone seems to care. It’s so sad because she was such a beautiful, fresh and sweet girl and an amazing performer. Amazing enough to be considered as one of the best performers of all time. But I think it’s time for her to step down before it’s too late. Why is she still performing? For Who? She has enough money and enough albums to keep her good for a long time. She obviously isn’t focused enough to even do a proper stage performance as you can see during the VMA Awards.

Anyway, I’m just voicing off a concern. I really hope that Brit’s will be a happy ending rather than the tragic one that we watched last year with Anna Nicole Smith.

And Dubai is still going!

January 6, 2008 at 7:11 am | Posted in Eye on the Gulf, Newsflash, The Luxe Life | 1 Comment
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Just when you think that Dubai can’t get anymore creative or anymore diverse, out rolls another project that is sure to shock you such as Burj Dubai, The Palms, The World, The Ski Slopes to name a few not excluding the Burj al Arab which is the only 7 start hotel in the world. According to the below article by Arabian Business.com, Dubai is working hard to become the Paris of the Middle East or maybe even the only one stop tourist spot in the world where you can experience it all.

French city Lyon to be rebuilt in Dubai
Sunday, 06 January 2008

After Abu Dhabi’s deal for its own Louvre museum, Dubai is also going for the French touch with plans to build its version of Lyon, complete with cafés, cinemas and schools, according to Lyon officials. Due to be completed by 2012, the project is the brainchild of a Dubai entrepreneur who fell in love with Lyon, one of the France’s three biggest cities, after travelling there as part of plans for a French-language university in Dubai in partnership with Lyon-2 university. Buti Saeed Al Gandhi, who heads investment capital firm Emivest, is expected to sign a draft accord next week between the French city and Dubai.

He wants to extend the university project into a huge district named Lyon-Dubai City that will be graced with public squares, restaurants, outdoor cafés and museums, and play host to the same gastronomic, cultural, sporting and economic institutions found in the French urban hub.

“We’re not going to just copy the buildings and make a type of Lyon decor, but reinstitute the city’s atmosphere with boutiques and cultural places in the heart of the city, transport, a social mix, streets and lanes,” said urban specialist Jean-Paul Lebas, who is working on the project.

“The city will be organised on European lines so that in a bistrot there you will find the same atmosphere as in a bistrot in Lyon,” he added.

Thierry Valentin, deputy president of Lyon-2 University, said the new city, which will be about the size of the Latin Quarter in Paris, would be “a small city with the accent on the best of French culture, and particularly Lyon culture”.

Besides housing, offices and hotels, Lyon-Dubai City will house a hotel school run by famed chef Paul Bocuse’s institute, a French-language university offering masters in fashion, international law and economics, subsidiaries of Lyon’s main museums, a cinematheque and a football training centre run by the Olympique Lyonnais.The 300- to 400-hectare scheme, estimated at 500 million euros ($740 million), will be located either in an urban area near the Burj Dubai tower or in the desert near the emirate’s planned second international airport.

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