Year: 2012

A friend has recently shared a list of top airlines for 2012 and Emirates was ranked third after Singapore and New Zealand.  It is no surprise to see Emirates Airlines, which is only 27 years old, among the world’s best airlines, specially with its massive fleet that connects you to Continue Reading

Since I have returned from Korea, I went grocery shopping here in Dubai last week for the first time, something that I usually don’t do. Anyway, what has attracted my attention is the amount of shelves filled with stuff that is labeled organic. It seems that there is a big Continue Reading

More than a year has passed since I have decided to go for my MBA. While the idea of dropping out came to my mind more than once, I have eventually finished what I started, at least I can say I have achieved something. The MBA journey has been an Continue Reading

As the train door opens at the Yeouksum station and I exit slowly, I see a seventy something year old man rushing to get into the train with the help of his stick. This is just a small evidence of the fast paced life here in Seoul. Even at this Continue Reading

I drink a lot of tea and coffee and what I have learned that it is beyond the caffeine kick that we seek from time to time. A few weeks ago I attended a tea exhibition in Seoul. Yes there are events even for tea and they are big. In Continue Reading

  Not me, but in the Middle East.  This has been bothering me for a while. A lot of things when it comes to advertisements and PR in the Middle East do not make sense.  Our media outlets have outsourced their advertisement sales to incompetent ad agencies that have blown Continue Reading

The first question is how old you should be, to be dubbed as a grown up. Back in the days, by the age of 13 you were considered to be a grown up and should become a responsible person. These days, people in their 20’s 30’s 40’s even 50s act Continue Reading

I was watching CNN’s Christiane Amanpour interviewing General John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan as she was asking him about the situation in Afghanistan and about their strategies, troops withdrawal, strengths and weaknesses of their position and so forth. She then switched to President Gul of Turkey and Continue Reading