When Winter Comes

Summer months are almost over. The temperature is on the decline. People in Dubai, they hold a record for short distance sprint between car park & home, are venturing out for fresh air and some breeze in the evening. Nights are getting longer and night life is getting more extravagant. The trade which gets subdued in summer has started flourishing. More Russian & Eastern European girls in the street. The “Shawarma” cones are getting bigger & thicker in anticipation of higher sales. Restaurant/Pub owners are decorating the “open air” area.
Agencies have started promotion for the “Desert Safari” and “Creek Tours”. Within months the beautifully light boats will be sailing around the creek and competition for share will become fierce. More people will be found jogging/walking along the corniche. People will come out of hibernation and first thing they will realize is that their waist line has increased, so run, run, and run.
Hotels will start hiking up their rates, tourists will flock in hoards, and Dubai will be fairer than in summer. In the malls Asians will not get the same attention they get in summer, more waggle to attract foreign tourists with cash. Bag packers will never visit malls, will head towards Fujairah and soak in the sun in the serene beaches.
Life will change dramatically. People will go to office early so that they can leave early (where they have flexi time). People, usually lazy like a crocodile in summer, will suddenly be rejuvenated and tend to overdo in anything they would try to do. Traffic will increase, more time in car, more stress related heart attacks and more assurance from the traffic department, that solution is just round the corner. Where the street bends in a corner is very difficult to find out.
Parks will be flooded with people, from people having a good time to some enjoying barbeque.
Sell of Playstation or X-Box will relatively go down as kids will be more involved in becoming Sachin Tendulkar or Ian Botham. Electricity bills will go down due to sparse use of air conditioning and women will try to spend the savings in shopping.
More young guys will go to the beaches, not for bathing but bird watching. Bare white flesh in golden sand like button mushrooms growing in negligence in the wilderness, scattered and not cared about, only watched from time to time by ones who can only dream but for them reality bites.
Flamingoes will come in the lagoon. The pink shades will merge into the blue of the ocean to create an illusion of sunset.
Dubai, the city of Gold, the paradise on Desert will be more gorgeous.
And I will be busy packing my bag to leave.