Burj Dubai
Part 1
Sheikh Zayed Road
My eyes caught the golf-like ball on top of the building. I smiled and said, let us play up there. It is the Etisalat tower, the telecommunication company written on my mobile sim, located near the round about of the World Trade Center. The glitzy Sheikh Zayed Road took my attention after passing the WTC past 8:00 p.m. Spectacular! Stunning! Impressive skyscrapers stood tall. The high rise towers with its beaming lights reflected on its glass walls are perfectly in place. On the left, there’s the twin Emirates towers. This is the business hub I can be so proud of. The elite Sheikh Zayed Road left my mouth wide opened as I gazed outside. The familiar names Dusit and Shangri-la hotels are the same pride we have here in the Philippines stands grandiosely at the end of the first interchange. The fourth interchange ends at the awesome architecturally designed Mall of the Emirates.
The Old Town Burj Dubai
Located right after the first interchange, on the left, stands the iconic symbol of Arabian success—the Burj Dubai. It is now the world’s tallest building surpassing Toronto’s Tower and Taipei’s 101. It will rise at 818 meter high and is set to open by end of 2009 according to word of mouth stories shared by some of my friends.
My Burj Dubai Experience
I had a short stint of work right at Sheik Zayed Road near the first interchange. For months I observed Burj Dubai towering as they pile each tower one from the other. Isn’t it such amazing wonder up there where the gravity is pulling down? I remembered my Tamani hotel interview at the 44th floor. Certainly I was standing on pure solid ground. What about the world’s 8th wonder—the Palm Jumeriah, put together in the exotic gulf coast. How those boulders underneath came? Unimaginable as it may seem, yet very realistic! I saw the palm from afar.
I made several attempts to take good shots from my Motorola mobile. The summer scorching heat did not give me a perfect image of the picturesque structure. Seeing it, was the most vivid experience I could not trade off. What more when I got near it during a shortlist interview with the Oxford Business Group at the foreign-packed Manzil hotel. The Dubai Mall, the world’s biggest mall, is such a beautiful landscape below Burj Dubai. I could imagine how Business Bay will look like. Truly, it will be a host of the first of the firsts in the world.
Mall of the Emirates
My first hop was amazing with a sumptuous dinner at TGI Fridays and a short tour on posh shops and boutiques. MOE has a magnificent ceiling! It is very symbolic with kinds of museum touch. Superb!
