Chloe Phu

 
Kräftskiva with SWEA


 
Adde's Birthday party!


 
Irish Village!


Pink Walkathon!

 
T&me

    
A fraction of what we had at brunch after the walkathon!

 
Halloween party!


Dim sum!

 
Boat trip!!!

 
The idea was to go fishing!


 
And we did!


I got TWO!!!


YEAH!

 
This is what it became! Yummi yummi!

Hey Everyone.
As I've written before, I'm on leave of absence at my job back in Sweden. Yesterday, I called to the Swedish company I work for and talked to my boss. I can't describe what a great feeling it is to have such a safe backup plan. We knew all along that Dubai is just a temporary place for us, and we would eventually move back to Sweden or some where else. I've made up my mind and have giving myself a deadline. I'll keep applying for jobs until the end of november. After that we'll see what happends...

Wow, I've been really really bad in updateing this blog. I know, sorry about that. Just haven't had any inspiration to write anything at all. I've just been applying for jobs and went to another "friendly chat" (aka not an official interview). And I'm starting to get tired of applying, so I think that I'm just going to enjoy the rest of my time here in Dubai before I move back home to Sweden.

The great thing here is that I've started to get to know some people down here. I love meeting new people and Dubai has actully been a great place for that. Most of them here have just recentley moved here (just like me) and are very open minded and just great to be around. I'm very lucky to have get to know them, it makes the staying here alot more enjoyable.

So, what have happend these past couple of weeks? Me and T went to Beirut for a weekend. I've so many pictures I need to upload. We have also been playing alot of tennis and golf. I'll upload some pictures or videos from the ranch. It's pretty funny!

Let me know if you wonder of anything about here in Dubai. I'll be happy to answer any questions.

Take care,
Chloe

... a perfectly ripe mango! It almost tastes a little like a Durian =D

It's not hard to convince me to try a new product. My friend Kim said some good things about Skin Food, and it turned out they have three stores here in Dubai. So I went and checked it out! I still haven't tryed any of their product but I love the packageing. They have a retro romatic look and some of them are packaged in carboard material. CUTE!!!

Hello everyone!
This is a update for my friend Kim. Talked to her last night and want so show her some pictures of my make-up pressing.

As most of you probably already know, I'm pretty clumbsy! I love make-up but I rearly buy any high end products because of their price. But once in a while I do buy some expensive products. And the ONLY two expensive once I've bought are:
- Nars blush, Orgasm
- Smashbox bronzer, Fusion soft lights Dusk

And both of them are broken!!!

I was of course heart broken, but I never throw them away. I kept using it for two years, but it always turn out to a huge mess with power everywhere. I recently stumbled in to youtube where people have tutorials about how to press your own make up or fix your broken eye shadows. So I gave it a shot and it turned out to be awesome!!!

I'm going to share with you how you can press/fix your own make up!

This is what you need!



- Paper towels (keep it under everything to protect the table)
- 70% Alcohol (or desinfections liquid)
- A tea spoon and a bobby pin (some thing to blend with)
- Make up (the thing you want to press)
- Pan (something to put the make up in)
- A jar (something to mix in)
- Fabric (in my case; an old T-shirt)
- something to press with (in my case Oasis+, Dust it).


This is the make up I want to press.


I mix it with a little of 70% alcohol.


And put it in the pan. Now I have to wait for at least 1h before pressing it.
I cut out a little peace of an old T-shirt and put it on the make up and then used something round that fits the pan to press with (in my case Oasis+, Dust it)


This is the result!



My pressed Everyday mineral Eyeshadow, Nars & Smashbox!

Hey everyone!

Sorry for the lousy update. I've just been busy job hunting, but it's the weekend now so time for a little update!
As you all know, we went camping in Oman on the Eid holiday. This whole camping thing is kind of new to me. I've only camped three times before. All of them were in my teens and non them were any good experiences. But it was a long time ago, so I though that I'll give it another chance. 

We bought the guide book of Oman, a tent and a gas stove and a whole bunch of food (it could be hard to find food during ramadan, that's way we brought a whole bunch of food with us). Then we took off and drove to Oman!


Here're all our packing for the trip with our trusty Dex!


Arrived to Oman at afternoon and visited the Mosque.




And we took a little tour to Old Muscat to visit the Sultan of Oman's Palace.


At night, we found a wonderful little Omani restaurant for dinner. Yes, they eat on the floor and we were thinking, if we kept ordering new dishes, could we stay the whole night?! hahaha

Then we found a place to camp. We build up our little tent, lit up our little oil lamp and pumped up our air mattress. I didn't take any pictures cause the camera was now on battery. But everything was good except that it was so freaking HOT!!! We tried to go to sleep in almost 4 hours til we realized that it wasn't going to happen. When the time was round 3 a.m. in the morning we decided to sleep in the Dex instead. Yes, I know...it was bad, but at least we had air condition! We woke up early (6a.m.), had a little of breakfast and continued our trip!


Little did we know that we were going to find this little place name: Sinkhole Park! This is such a wonderful and beautiful place! The water was such a vibrant green and clear.  Apparently, the green and blue colors are a result of the saltly sea water meeting with fresh water.  This sinkhole is about 500 meters inland and is 40 meters wide and 20 meters deep.  The sinkhole is said to connect all the way to the ocean.


We had the whole place to ourself because it was so early that no tourist has arrived yet, yeah! And the water was so refreshing! Amazing!!!





Another little suprise was the small fishes that nibble our feet. Me and T suspected that it was these fishes that some spa used to treat dead skin cells, eczema and Psoriasis. Sure enough, when we came back home we found an article about it. We did let it nibble on our feet until it got too tickley.

We ended up driving through another town name Sur. It was lunch time and there where no restaurants around. So we discreatley took out our gas stove to set it up by the beach. It was still Ramandan and you're not allowed to eat in public, but honestly, we really needed to eat! We just made some instant nudles but it felt like commiting a crime.

Then we continued our road trip to see the Green Turtles in Ras al Jinz. In our guide book it says that camping was possible by the beach for a small fee. But when we arrived to Ras al Jinz, it wan't allowed anymore because of protection of the Green Turtles, so we ended up camping at Al Naseem Tourist Camp.


This picture was taked after our Green Turtle Tour. You can see two very happy participants that saw an incredible number of Green Turtles! OMG, the baby turtles are the cutest thing ever!!!


(picture borrowed from http://www.h2opictures.com/photos_creatures.htm)


(picture borrowed from http://www.georgettetan.com/) 

We were not allowed to take any pictures during the tour which is understandable, the flashes disorient hatchlings and disturb the nesting turtles. But sadly there were still many ignorant tourists that didn't respect this rule.

 
This the hut we stayed in!


This is how it looks like inside!


Ready to drive back home to Dubai.


Last picture was taken at the Ras al Haad beach. The holes you see on the beach are turtle hatching holes.

Hi everyone!
 
We're going to spend the Eid weekend in Oman camping and turtle watching. I'll post some pictures when we're back. Happy Eid everyone!

We were out with some new friends last night, it turned out it might be some job opportunities. Let's hope so. I really do!

Here is my new CV picture. Is it alright? Do I look representative?

Me and T are thinking to go to a salsa class to learn dancing and  to meet some new people! Let's face it, we won't meet new people by sitting at home having movie nights. But what we didn't know was that we already have a little social meeting point in our building? Today, when me and T played tennis. We met two other guys that thought they also booked the same time as us. It turned out that they were both Swedish and we're planing to go out together on friday! (yeah!!!)

It was such a pleasant surprise to find other young Swedish people living in the same building, both me and T were thrilled! But we were both thinking about wouldn't it be nice to find some Chinese people too? And guess what happend after our game? Four Chinese peolpe were walking toward the tennis court, the once that have booked the court after us. It turned out that they're from Hong Kong and speaks the same dialect as us (cantonese). And we are planing to hang out some time next week! 

Now if only there is anyone that wants to hire me soon, that would be PERFECT!!!

Wish me luck!

I got this recipe from T's sister, Emelie. So many thanks to her!

I'm writing this recipe for Kim! I know, I know... you've been waiting for a long time, but as we say it in swedish "better-late-than-never".

"Nah Mai Tzi"
Nah Mai fann is a gluten-free flower that we use in this recipe and I don't really know how to describe this "cake", but the best translation I can do is: Gluten-free-jelly-cakes. The cake needs to be steamed, so start with boiling some water and make sure you have a mixing bowl in glass or stainless steel that fits in the pan.

Ingredients:
1 package of Gluten free flower (400g)
4 dl milk
2 dl boiling water
1 dl sugar
2 tsp vanilla sugar

2 handfull unsalted peanuts
1 handfull "pearl sugar"

coconut flakes
cupcake forms

Start with boiling some water in a big pot.


All the ingredients.


Mix the glutenfree flower, milk, water, sugar and vanilla sugar together to a smooth batter.


Put the mixing bowl with the batter in the pot with water carefully. Steam for 30 minutes.


Prepare the filling by mixing the peanuts and pearlsugar togehter.
If you can't find any unsalted peanuts, just wash the regular salted peanuts and dry them with a paper towel.


The filling: Peanuts and pearlsugar mixed together.


Preparation: Cupcake forms, filling and coconut flakes.


Take the steamed batter out from the pot after 30 minutes. Let it cool for 5-10 min. Make sure you have a bowl of cold water near by because you need to wet your hands. The cool water makes the "dough" easier to work with and also help to cool it down incase it's too hot.


Take one table spoon of the "dough" and put it in your hand.


Flaten the dough.


Add some filling and fold the edges together. Shape the cake to a round jelly ball.


Place the ball in the coconut flakes.


Make sure that flakes cover the whole ball.


Put the Jelly ball on a cupcake form, and you're done!


That's it!


Enjoy!

As you all know by now, it is the month of Ramadan. It's the time to think about the ones that are not as fortune as you, so that's one of the reason why they're fasting. As a non-muslim here in Dubai, we don't really notice much difference except that working hours are shorter and that no restaurants serves food until sunset (around 7 p.m.).

There are some fast food chain that still serves take-away during the day, but it's forbidden to eat in public (except for children and pregnat women), so if you do buy take-away, you'll have to take it back home or eat in your car! (that's what we did).

But as you all can imagine, people are HUNGRY during the day. And it does shows in trafic that people are driving crazier than usual. The positive side of Ramadan is that all the major hotells are building upp huge tents to serve delicious buffé after sunset by the beach. So me and T went to Sheraton one evening and it was really festive!