The Adventures of Ibn Battuta

Ibn Battuta vs The Sultan of Delhi

Just some pictures of the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai… That’s what you do when you have a demanding Project (or boss) to serve. Ibn Battuta was a traveller in the 14th century, who is my type of fellow (he far out-travelled Marco Polo – wiki it).


Yours truly in the Egyptian Court


A big junk in the Chinese Court


The Tunisian Court


Gary & ex-Mumbai friends in the Persian Court (from left – Ching, Lim & Livia)

For Better or For Worse?

Things have changed slightly in our work life recently. My venerable old boss, ex Mizoram, and ex Bharatpur, has rejoined China State as Senior Project Manager of the new Project I’m in. He’s the one who actually introduced me to this Company in the first place, but he left before I joined. Now that he’s back, the working environment here has started to take on the feel of a real Project work environment, like starting work at bloody 6.30am in the morning (meaning I have to wake up at ungodly 4am to complete all my daily stuff, particularly the toilet thing), and finishing work at 6pm, 6 days a week. And that’s not including the half-day he requested all of us ‘leaders’ to put in on our only off-day of the week (Friday). …Somehow, I miss the days in the old Project when our work routine is strictly 8-6 Saturdays to Wednesdays, and 8-4 on Thursdays…