Oman
What a week!
On the first day of my new job, i found a Dubai-Muscat-Dubai plane ticket laying on my temporary desk. It turned out that the entire company staff was heading to a 3 days team building event in Oman. I also found out -when i got there- that I was flown one day before everyone else to help setting things up.
The event was great and we did all sort of things from team building activities, role playing and resolving challenging business scenarios, to going on a 2 hr dune bashing spree (40 land cruisers!) in the middle of the Omani desert where I discovered that I am not as bad as I thought I would be in off road driving.
We also went to a local school in a remote village and upgraded the school's computer room with brand new PCs, a network and Internet for the entire lab. We also repainted the entire school in less than 3 hours. We were about 6 teams of 10 to 15 person in each team.
We stayed in a really really really nice hotel. The worst thing about business traveling is that you always get to stay in great hotels, but never have the time to enjoy any of them.
Nevertheless, i took these photos for your viewing pleasure.
On the first day of my new job, i found a Dubai-Muscat-Dubai plane ticket laying on my temporary desk. It turned out that the entire company staff was heading to a 3 days team building event in Oman. I also found out -when i got there- that I was flown one day before everyone else to help setting things up.
The event was great and we did all sort of things from team building activities, role playing and resolving challenging business scenarios, to going on a 2 hr dune bashing spree (40 land cruisers!) in the middle of the Omani desert where I discovered that I am not as bad as I thought I would be in off road driving.
We also went to a local school in a remote village and upgraded the school's computer room with brand new PCs, a network and Internet for the entire lab. We also repainted the entire school in less than 3 hours. We were about 6 teams of 10 to 15 person in each team.
We stayed in a really really really nice hotel. The worst thing about business traveling is that you always get to stay in great hotels, but never have the time to enjoy any of them.
Nevertheless, i took these photos for your viewing pleasure.
posted by moryarti at
3/30/2006 07:12:00 PM
11 Comments:
Waw it looks amazing, I’m glad your settling fine with your new job, good luck
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AyyA, at March 30, 2006 at 11:58 PM
I am so jealous! How come I never get to go on any team building trips anywhere? :)
Glad you had a nice time. The hotel really does look amazing!
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Dubai Sunshine, at March 31, 2006 at 12:00 AM
got any job openings!??!?
looks nice! Great way to start a new job!
And Oman is the best place to do it!
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Q, at March 31, 2006 at 12:17 AM
Oh wow. My mind is blown over how gorgeous the interior design of the place is! I absolutely love it when hotels and stuff modernize our culture rather than adopt a Western one. Fantastic...
By
Roba, at March 31, 2006 at 3:18 AM
Amazing Mori...good to see you out and about!
By
marwan, at March 31, 2006 at 4:49 AM
Lovely pics moryarti and welcome home!
By
Shaykhspeara Sha'ira, at March 31, 2006 at 4:26 PM
nice one prof.
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CG, at March 31, 2006 at 10:00 PM
Ayya - thank you dear. Hope your trip to Dubai was a success - please do let me know if there is anything I can do from here.
Sunshine - gotta make that move to the client side soon ..
Q - are you willing to move from Kuwait? ;)
Roba - you are so correct and Omanis are pioneers in preserving their culture, heritage as well as their environment.
marwan, sha'ira, cg - thank you so much .. am glad you like the photos.
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moryarti, at March 31, 2006 at 11:35 PM
beee--aa-uuu--tt--iii--fuulllll
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Mother Courage, at April 1, 2006 at 4:20 PM
I love Oman. It's such a pretty, sleepy place... so at peace!
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Tainted Female, at April 1, 2006 at 4:39 PM
Dang - is that the new Shangri La out on the peninsula?
It looks awesome!
It wassn't open when we were in Muscat.
By
nzm, at April 7, 2006 at 1:34 PM
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