Chris Saul's Blog

Saturday September 22, 2007

Fire fighting Corvette

Dubai has a new fire fighting vehicle -

Full article is here.

The same department already has Hummer 3s as well.

I am not an expert in fire fighting vehicles and was a bit surprised to read that this particular car is what's needed.

I would have thought that something like a Toyota Land Cruiser that has height to see across traffic, plenty of speed, the ability to drive over rough terrain and to hold a fair amount of equipment might have been more practical, but clearly something smaller and very, very fast is a better choice.

These guys are the experts, so I stand fully corrected.

Still battling

Still battling with our property company.

Apparently the price of our parking space (recently upped in price from 95,000 Dhs to 190,000 Dhs - see previous posts) cannot be reduced as doing so is 'against company policy' and because 'pricing can change from time to time'.

I've asked customer 'care' to explain what policy exactly they are referring to and when exactly the price of the plot more than doubled, as it appeared to happen overnight. I suspect the policy in question is the one that states 'stuff you, we can do what we want and you can't do anything about it, nur, nur, nur!'. I suspect too that that price doubled when someone thought they'd give it a try and see if anyone noticed.

In other news, customer 'care' are still looking into the case of our kitchen - the one designed by a blind midget with no previous kitchen design experience. If the customer 'care' deem it to have been built incorrectly, we may get it fixed. I'm not holding my breath. Quite how a company that has build 1,000s of kitchens over the last few years allowed 'consultants' to 'sign off' the design, I do not know.

We take possession in a week and a day - I am looking forward to seeing how well the snagging has been done. I suspect that the obvious scratches will have been fixed but that the bodged light switches and other lazily fitted items will still be there.