Shravan's Random Notes - Let go of your self and experience life http://shravanshetty.posterous.com Most recent posts at Shravan's Random Notes - Let go of your self and experience life posterous.com Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:24:00 -0700 Bangalore to Muscat http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/2009/06/bangalore-to-muscat.html http://shravanshetty.posterous.com/2009/06/bangalore-to-muscat.html My first international trip was sometime in April this year on Business
it was neither exciting nor a surprise .
It sort of came to be both a memorable personal and professional trip :)
It was definitely a awakening - a sign of what is to follow : more oppportunities , more hard work
more perseverance
It also made me realise that preparation is good , practise is good but than life can slot you like it did me
for a Business pitch to the vice Chairman of a Media powerhouse in muscat , the CEo , new ventures , the media sales head and his team in front of my Boss and the Tech head dressed in tie when everyone else was informal because i was doing the presentation in a chinese restaurant with a laptop---
Now which B School can prepare you for a venue such as this for presenting a Business idea ?
Only the real world of Business can and a CEO such as mine with a mentor like outlook : even though we had discussed the presentation , we ran it smoothly like a Jugalbandi with him chipping in a few key points brilliantly timed ensuring that the deal was closed with interest being evinced.
what folllowed was a sumptous meal and the Host , the Vice Chairman sharing with us gripping tales of the dune races and expedition of strange people he had taken through the dunes from a chinese women divorcing her husband post the race to a german collecting Camel shit thinking they were rocks in the desert to humoring a american who lost his key in the desert going back miles into the desert searching for it
We stayed at the Radisson met indians and other nationals , visited startbucks and costa coffee, ate at Indian restaurants such as saravana Bhavan , had laban at the shopping malls and....
More details a little later :0

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