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That's cool. Shall try to be there.

Fantastic news. I hope you get your money back in 72 hours as promised. Customer service linked to emails/blogs are super efficient in comparison to the old school way of telephone queries and walk-in complaints in Oman. I guess businesses are scared of getting their reputation tarnished in the online world.

Lets get back to roots for a while. Do you think Oman has the internet reach in terms of numbers to have an ambitious project like ePayment Gateway? There seems to be an overzealous ambition to enter mainstream without getting the basics right. TRA must do something soon to cut rates and allow internet growth in Oman. Rest will follow, taking the natural progression curve.

It's a norm here to have these kind of 'fillers' for functions here...and the tradition is carried forward. I bet the idea was mooted by event management companies.

What is Ministry of Culture doing? Working on measures to counter inflation?


I think Omani dishdashas are the best in GCC, so elegant. Why would anyone want to tamper with the design?

blue chi
This happens all the time in Oman, and since you had fewer items, it doesn't make sense to wait in the queue; you did the right thing. I have come across Omanis who just barge into the queue mid-way, without blinking an eyelid. And, there are a lot of decent types too. So it a mixed bag.



anonoman

At least in Bangalore, the IT city of India, white people don't preferential treatment. Almost 80% of whites have Indians as bosses in IT companies over there. “White fixation” is rampant in GCC.

Heard about it. I don’t have the patience to sit in a restaurant and paint for hours together. Surely not. BTW, ‘Blue’ painting is very cool.

There is so much of money floating around, I think this guy will make some quick bucks. For all their "404/page not found errors", ministries will be more than willing to have their WWW listed in the printed book. Imagine spelling erros creeping in URLs of the printed copies...I can't wait for that book :)

Thanks for the info on 'bit' and 'byte'. Looking at the ads in the morning, I was almost like 16Mbps, WOW! Oman badly needs another ISP to set things in order!

blue chi
I wish Omantel guys land up as panelists one day to be in the FIRING line. No discussion is complete without customary digs at Omantel, even from high-ranking officials. KOM people must give more time for Q&A; sessions, as that is the most important part of these discussions.



I liked the 3rd event of 2007 the best, and couldn't make it to the last event.



Cool idea, we should all meet up.

Cool, great effort. Even I would like to do it in future. One suggestion: instead of downloading the MP3, it would be ideal if you could embed MP3 file to a player.

I agree with Amjad. I have been using Statcounter for more than a year now, and pretty happy with its performance.

lol@ti3gib


I was game for Qurum, but Rusayl is too far for me, and added to that the mad traffic in the evening hour.



Best wishes to you.

LOL@Amjad


Cool, Blue-chi is all Green over Elissa :)



Last year, I remember glancing through an album wherein a senior minister was inaugurating a watch showroom in Muscat along with Elissa, and in most of the photos, the minister's eye was fixed on Elissa's 'you know where'.



:D

muscati


I don't understand why Indians choose Indian food when they go to restaurants.



Thank god, I don’t fall under that category. I like to try various cuisines, and I’ve been doing it from Bangalore, which offers almost all the world cuisines under its belt. The problem lies with the people from Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh who are quite choosy about the food they eat and are traditional too. Finally, they end up in Indian hotels, eating the same old fare. Most of them, being veggies, have very less option in Golden Oryxs or an Istanbulis, so are forced to settle in MM or Woodlands or Saravana Bhavans. Another major attraction for having Indian stuff is the chance to booze at nominal rates. Imagine ordering liquor at Hyatt or InterCon and getting ripped off!



blue chi

Woodlands has indeed opened a branch in Sohar. Try those delectable kebabs!

Woodlands dishes our better grub than Mumtaz Mahal. The pluses for MM are its location and ambience.

Very impressive!