My Job today
Here's an idea of what I got up to:
Woke up at 7:02am. I never enter 7 exactly into my alarm - those 2 extra minutes somehow mean the world to me.
Without eating breakfast and driving away while leaving my unopened Red Bull can on the roof of our car, my Partner Bas (A Dutchmen)and I were due 1.5 hours west arriving into the Capitol of the UAE - Abu Dhabi. I will tell you one day the wierd things I see on the side of roads. I really have no energy to capture your imaginations right now with the incredibly bizarre.
We arrived at downtown around 9 am and reviewed our notes over some coffee. We had 2 big meetings today with some very interesting people.
Meeting #1 - Mr. Masood Al-Awar, Executive Director, Sales and Marketing of Sorouh
This company is 2 years old. Look at what they are building. They are worth over $6.5 billion. Holy Shit. Mr. Al-Awar will only sit facing South East. He is really into Feng Shui. We also found out that he was the Emerati Champion in Snooker. This guy now develops these iconic projects. How'd he do it? I'd ask him who he knows and look into his last name.
After our morning meeting discussing the Mega-Projects being built in Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai, we head for lunch at an outdoor Cafe downtown. On the streets in the sun it's hot, but in the shade it made us keep our suit jackets on.
Meeting #2 - Chairman of Pearl Dubai Mr. Abdul Majeed Al Fahim
This property development project is in a class all it's own. Among other things, we talked about the Haffa mountains in Oman and Niagara Falls. His Lebonese advisor had a love for Amsterdam and nicotine gum. Oh yeah - the Dubai Pearl - crazy project.
After this meeting, we made some more calls and drove our tired selves home, again watching and experiencing things that just make no apparent sense to the newly arrived Westerners.
Wander, another co-worker, and myself took a good jog around International Village where we live, while Kuljit, another partner cooked a spicy curry rice. It's my turn to cook tomorrow.
Off to bed. Another busy day tomorrow. I get my UAE Drivers Liscence, get to pick up my free passes to the PGA tournament here this weekend (Woo Hoo!) and another meeting with another ridiculous development project.
Lots of love
Switzer
Woke up at 7:02am. I never enter 7 exactly into my alarm - those 2 extra minutes somehow mean the world to me.
Without eating breakfast and driving away while leaving my unopened Red Bull can on the roof of our car, my Partner Bas (A Dutchmen)and I were due 1.5 hours west arriving into the Capitol of the UAE - Abu Dhabi. I will tell you one day the wierd things I see on the side of roads. I really have no energy to capture your imaginations right now with the incredibly bizarre.
We arrived at downtown around 9 am and reviewed our notes over some coffee. We had 2 big meetings today with some very interesting people.
Meeting #1 - Mr. Masood Al-Awar, Executive Director, Sales and Marketing of Sorouh
This company is 2 years old. Look at what they are building. They are worth over $6.5 billion. Holy Shit. Mr. Al-Awar will only sit facing South East. He is really into Feng Shui. We also found out that he was the Emerati Champion in Snooker. This guy now develops these iconic projects. How'd he do it? I'd ask him who he knows and look into his last name.
After our morning meeting discussing the Mega-Projects being built in Abu Dhabi vs. Dubai, we head for lunch at an outdoor Cafe downtown. On the streets in the sun it's hot, but in the shade it made us keep our suit jackets on.
Meeting #2 - Chairman of Pearl Dubai Mr. Abdul Majeed Al Fahim
This property development project is in a class all it's own. Among other things, we talked about the Haffa mountains in Oman and Niagara Falls. His Lebonese advisor had a love for Amsterdam and nicotine gum. Oh yeah - the Dubai Pearl - crazy project.
After this meeting, we made some more calls and drove our tired selves home, again watching and experiencing things that just make no apparent sense to the newly arrived Westerners.
Wander, another co-worker, and myself took a good jog around International Village where we live, while Kuljit, another partner cooked a spicy curry rice. It's my turn to cook tomorrow.
Off to bed. Another busy day tomorrow. I get my UAE Drivers Liscence, get to pick up my free passes to the PGA tournament here this weekend (Woo Hoo!) and another meeting with another ridiculous development project.
Lots of love
Switzer
posted by Matt Switzer at 10:44 AM
1 Comments:
Whaa - I just checked out these developments and they look ridiculous.
Is this Massod...?
http://wordpress.com/tag/masood-al-awar/
Your goal: arrange a deal in which you can have a penthouse leased for a year once they finish building.
Can't wait to hear more stories of your adventures around Dubai.
Loving the articles too - you're becoming a captivating little journalist.
See you on the flipside.
Da Riznok
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