Car Prices in Oman....

With the recent fallout in the world markets, the word recession is high in every ones mind and to a lot of them, it means prices of commodities would reduce drastically.

Yes, I agree the prices of commodities must reduce. But has anyone wondered what happens to their own job or business when the prices come crashing down?

I work for the automotive sector here in Muscat, Oman and it is not unusual for me to answer the same question " When will car prices fall" every ten minutes in a day!!! Never will a customer understand the strengthening of the Yen and the decline of US Dollars....that we have to pay more Rials to buy a Yen. Never will he understand that the stocks we have are bought  at a higher price!! And then there are people out there in GCC who have decided to boycott the purchase of cars!!!Hmmmm...

Recession is a malice that is most to do with the people mindset. Prices falling is not healthy. And let me come back to my earlier paragraph about its affect on job and business. When prices fall the fall is expected everywhere. Example- A dealership is expected to drop prices, fair they will do that, but when the dealership places an order for a service, they would ask the service provider for a drop in prices and then its a chain reaction. And it would lead to job reductions else salary cuts.

What I want to say is...Price drop will accelerate recession. Try spending more...buy at reasonable prices...don't quit buying. Buy and beat recession!!!!

Hello...or was it Hell o?? Anyways I feel that I keep coming "back" to my blog after months of Hibernation. Not that I am running short of time or of contents..but its just the sheer habit of been lazy!!! Everyday something or the other happens which is worth mentioning but well...neah..its better to be lazy than to type a few words...hummmm.....Family is FINALLLY back and my lil daughter ( 3 months and counting) is definitely entertaining. What a pleasure its to have her around and time just flies. Added to it good food is back on the table considering what a bad cook I am....

So now driving carefully is the in thing!!! Not until yesterday when a Nissan TIIDA was tail gating me. I hate Nissan vehicles and added to it...it was tail gating me....I was quiet upset on that driver, let him go and then was tail gating him back...Just to give him a taste of his own medicine. 2 mins into the stunt is when I remembered about my family and thats when I took my nose from the hopeless Tiida tail. God bless such drivers and I vowed never to Tail gate...

What a surprise I had today. As most of my friends are aware, I have a 14 page website with nothing much than a few articles and poems from me which are like more than 6 years old.

But I got this surprise when I found that one of my page links is printed in an American book meant for junior and high school students.

The book "Skills for Rhetoric, Student Edition" written by an author James P. Stobaugh had taken reference from my article on the Gettysburg address and the link from my website was mentioned in that page.

It cant get any better!!

1. An American author writing a book on


2. Nurturing effective writing and speaking skills in students


3. Mentions about the famous Gettysburg Address of Abraham Lincoln


4. Taking the reference from the website hosted by an Indian.

It was a pleasnat surprise indeed and this one bit of news has changed my whole day and my outlook on the strength of the Internet.

After 4 years or more of hibernation, I finally caught up with my Blog site. The user name was elusive but with much difficulties I am back on the Blog. From Oman with love..
The reason for this comeback is mainly to due to one Blogger who has instilled the blogging interest once again in me and that is Muscati. He is unknown to me very much the way I am to him. Thank you Muscati, if ever you happen to pass by this blog.

Otherwise, things are going fine with me. 5 years have passed by with me in Muscat.Got married. My car loan in getting over and my hairs have started to Grey. Not that the loan had anything to do with the greying, but I am sure it is a physical indication that I need to pause for sometime and re think about life and where I am heading too. By the way come November, my family would increase by one more member and I am eagerly looking forward for that day...

After quiet some days I checked my old college group mails and its then that I realised that the world has gone way ahead of me.I find lot many wedding invitations of those, who in my memory are still fresh as my classmates with whom we fought, loved and got loved!! But in those mails I found that many or rather all have matured and I must say 3 years have really bought a sea change in my friends! There were mails flowing from as far as Australia, Singapore etc. So I have decided to pen a few lines today to the group so that I get the satisfaction that we are still the same ol buddies. Relationships are essential and are the threads of life...

Today is the much awaited friday in Oman..friday or FRY day I dunno. Temperatures are goin up and at times I feel the climate now is a mixture of Fall and Summer :)
I had lost my Blog ID for sometime and Resmi retrived that for me! Great now Blogs and me have integrated again.
There is this free magazine in Muscat called Week and I am seriously into solving the Gaurdian Crossword. Cracked one last week but never got that 100$ prize.Found that Crosswords are easily answered if we can go online.Hehehe.. So lemme get crackin on it right now. Want to click on that 100 $ !!! Its nice to be bad at times ....

Today the clouds have returned back to Muscat skies. Any time we are expecting a shower. This makes me wonder as to how helpless we as humans are!!still we look out to skies for Rain. No matter how ever the technology progress, its upto the Mother Nature's will whether to excute the technological inputs.
The work schedule for the day is at a slow pace, mebbe because of the climate.All work as of now is complete and guess my work for the month is under control....