Tuesday, November 21, 2006

Costa Coffee, Dell building, Internet City, Dubai


There is a tedious and almost hilarious process for getting Saudi Visa in place. There is also a very interesting Visa story for Schengen Visa. You get it incrementally first for one entry, then for multiple entry, then for longer period etc. But all your "miles" don't mean anything if you switch embassies. Our dear EU also has a lot of room for improvement.


Nicely decorated Hummer. Ad.


Nadim Nakkash is a very interesting, nice and fun guy. I've met him during IBM Sales School with bunch of his friends from Lebanon. He is 100% Lebanese, currently living and working in IBM Middle East office in Dubai. Selling IBM System X boxes. After graduation from American University of Beirut and completing his Army service, he joined IBM. He's just started his MBA at Warwick. He travels a lot on business and also private. When flying around Europe he is always "randomly" selected by Airport Security staff, for some additional treatment :) He has a bike: BMW F650 CS and he rides through Arab desert to Fujairah with friends. Once he will switch his mind off regular work for a long time, he will go traveling and meeting interesting people.


Though most of Dubai is artificially made, it still does look very nice. Including office buildings and surroundings.


Nadim works for IBM, but the best coffee is in Costa Coffee place in DELL building :) This is why we went there. Nadim claims that Costa is better than Starbucks. Who would argue.

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