Friday, June 27, 2008

Days @ DOHA

April 5th 2008, Its Saturday.. One of my most memorable days. The day with full of excitement...The day I've got into the flight(Qatar Airways) for the first time, The day I've landed on the foreign land...its none other than DOHA (Capital of Qatar Kingdom).
A brief description of Doha.. immediately when the flight landed on to the doha airport I have seen the awesome desert view through the windows of the plane full of sand and one thing caught my eyes after I came out of airport is every building I've gone through is of sand color which completely gives a desert feel.
1st day:
Durai, a very nice guy and became a good friend within short span, my room mate picked me up from the airport. He came with Anwar who commutes CVG team to office and home. Hez a nice person too drives nissan tiida. Met another roommate Ramakrishna at the room whom I knw already at hyd office. He has been the source of entertainment for one month. Apartment is not that impressive as I expected...but its ok..Slept in the room till afternoon. Had lunch at Akhila's place. Her mom is made delicious indian food..ate that and then came to know that we are goin out. Prem kumar (who has shown me 50% of Doha), friend of durai..latr friend of mine too...came to our rm to pick us up. got into Prem's Pajero(Mitsu). We are goin to Sealine beach. It was a long drive around 60km from Doha. But its very quick as the speed on the road is 120km. On the way we stopped at the petrol bunk and was amazed to see that pertrol price is just 70dhirhum(0.7 QAR ~= Rs.8). Journey continued. Went to sealine. A sea with no tides..A beach with not many people around. Spent some time..latr Prem took us over a sand dune and returned to my home.

2ndday at Doha 1st day to Office:

Qatar Telecom, one of the largest and richest telecom operator client of CVG. I came to work for it. Reached office. Its 27floor outstanding tower. Our office(IT operations) is at 14th floor. Got into cube. Amazing view of the sea and shereton hotel through the glass windows of office. Really impressed...not much work that day. Jst set uo my system ready and jst did some stuff.




Thanks to people who made this trip possible: My Parents, Bandi Rao(resource mgr), Asish(Qtel onsite pm)