Dubai - some things don't change

I remember being appalled in 2007 by the conditions of the construction workers. Treated like cattle, and working in heat sometimes over 50C.  There's been a strike, which is illegal for foreign nationals in the UAE.

It's now 6 years later and things have not improved for the poor workers who slave in the sun and heat, and risk death and deportation. This is a form of slavery, except people sign up for it voluntarily thinking it can't be worse then at home!!!!

Happy New Year or is it?

I started the new year sick as a dog. I was bedridden from the 1st to the 5th, and then wasn't so hot until I had to go to work on the 7th. Gotta love how I often spend half of my Christmas vacations sick.

I really hope that having started 2013 sick isn't a sign of what's to come.  I've been pretty upset with the rape in India and the stupid comments to come out of it. The lawyer representing some of the 5 men who gang raped and killed a woman, says she was responsible for her rape.

It amazes me that in 2013, women are still considered like furniture with no rights. I mean it seems in India they treat cows better then they treat female humans. And what woman asks to be raped to the point where her intestines get ripped to shreds with a metal bar? I mean seriously? Rape her with a metal object and that's ok because she's sub human  It blows the mind!!!!  I'd like someone to shove a metal bar up the ass of all those men, and then ask them how it felt?