According to sources, a fighter jet action scene will be shot in Qantab valley and an exclusive 30-minute car chasing scene on the highway. The spokesman said the team was very impressed with the congestion and bumper-to-bumper traffic at peak hours, and had zeroed in on exact location for the car chase act. He went on to add they were impressed with the amazing driving skills of locals and assured the team wouldn’t require professional stunt drivers from abroad.
“We have witnessed action at peak hours. Their reckless maneuvering and zig-zag driving is tailor-made for our storyline. Local drivers certainly outdo professional stunt drivers by all standards. The chase scene requires a total disregard for traffic rules, and their attitude fits perfectly,” he quipped. The spokesperson also went on to add that Daniel Craig will be here soon with his chicas to shortlist locations for his trademark steamy scenes. Bored with bedrooms, Daniel has evinced interest to shoot the hot scenes in Salalah forests this time around, it is learnt.
PS: Today is April Fool’s Day!
My daughter won a bronze medal at her school’s annual sports day. My wife and me are very thrilled since this is her first medal, and more so because unlike many parents, we don’t pressurize our daughter to do well in studies, sports and other extra curricular activities. So the medal comes as a bonus for us. We encourage her, but don’t exert pressure at any point. Moreover she is in grade one. Other than her regular schooling, she attends one class per week which takes care of her favourite subjects — drawing and general knowledge.
Identity the chief guest and win a medal? Parents leave no stones unturned to take photos/videos of their wards during the awarding ceremony.
MUSCAT: If an e-mail from your beloved friend or relative whom you haven’t contacted for quite some time informs you that he is in a foreign land and his wallet was lost and makes a distress plea to send some money so that he can get out of the hotel where he was held for non-payment of the bill, and assures you that paying you back would be the first thing that he would do as soon as he reaches back, think twice before you panic. It must be a hacker’s call to victimise you by relieving you of your money and pride.
Before grabbing the car key to rush to the fastest sending money system in the locality with an earnest wish to help him out, call the person’s local contact numbers and make sure that you’re not falling to be the prey of an unscrupulous crook’s ploy. We received such an SOS from an assistant professor of a leading government college
in Oman, who is a reader and contributor to the Observer, wanting $1,800 to pay off the hotel bill in Perth, Australia, where she was holidaying for the past few days, after graciously excusing for not informing us before she left.Apprehensive at the mail at the outset, we contacted the educator’s local GSM number only to find that we were not the only one to call her and check the fidelity of the mail but almost all the contacts in her mail box had contacted her to inquire if she was in Oman and if she needed money. One of her cousins in Los Angeles was about to send the required money to Australia, but on an intuition, he made a call to her mother-in-law in Karnataka to confirm the incident thinking that there was no point in contacting the alleged victim in Oman.
According to the professor, it all happened so when she received a mail last week from ‘Windows.com’ informing her to send her all e-mail IDs and passwords as part of their clientele upgradation. Having accepted the need as true, she parted with all her mail IDs and passwords with the bonafide belief in the mail. Hackers played the wreck and now she is not even able to access her mail box apart from causing serious fraudulent misrepresentation online.
Tariq al Barwani, Chairman, Knowledgeoman.com and Online Manager of Nawras, advises people not to entertain any suspicious mails in your inbox and even if it seems to be from one of your contacts but subject line needs to be checked and if it is suspicious, to delete them immediately. “See, people are naive and they trust others which is good but it will be taken for granted and be extra careful while using Internet” Tariq, who won the ‘Most Valuable Professional’ by Microsoft for the third time consecutively and the only Omani to win this coveted title, emphasises on the constant upgradation of all your anti-virus, spy-ware and all Internet security tools on a regular basis.
“Besides, do never share your password with any one and your e-mail ID with strangers. A regularly used password can be known to others; so keep changing your password every week or so, after all it takes a few minutes, yeah?” Tariq said. Now, the victim of online hacking has created a new mail ID and is informing all her contacts gathered from the business cards and other back up data with her and is sending SMS en-masse to all known people not to deal with her previous e-mails anymore.
With nothing much happening this week in Oman, I didn’t have anything worthwhile to blog about, and my focus drifted to Twitter. I have been using Twitter for more than a year now, and it suits me perfectly – it short, cute and to the point. Now, many of my blogger friends from Oman are active in Twitter too, and this makes scene all the more merrier.
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A group of people took out a procession in support of Palestinians near Grand Mosque on Friday. A few of them carried “Boycott USA” posters which had names of American companies like McDonald’s, Starbucks, Coca Cola, KFC, etc. How many among the group would really boycott American products so as to show solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Gaza? Isn’t it all eyewash? Knowing very well that Starbucks is a Jewish company, how many of us (Gaza sympathisers) would give it a skip to teach Israel/US a lesson? In Oman, Starbucks has been expanding left, right and centre. So much so for boycotting US companies. Need more proof: just walk into one of these American outlets during peak hours and do the crowd profiling.
Last time, I remember, when the Danish newspaper was on the firing line for the cartoon fiasco, all Danish products vanished from local supermarkets, only for a few weeks, that too under pressure from certain quarters. Public memory is short, really short.
I guess, yesterday, after the procession, a few might have sneaked in to the nearest KFC outlet to have a zinger burger and a glass of coca cola to wash it down.
High time we learnt to walk the talk.
(Photo: SM)
Maserati, the Italian manufacturer of racing and sports cars, kick-started its unveiled new Quattroporte in Oman operations today.
Why do good-looking ladies stand alongside stunning cars during launches? Aren’t the cars supposed to sell by themselves? I don’t get it.
My blogging achievements in 2008:
1. 246 posts in 2008 (an average of 20.5 posts per month)
2. Blog traffic doubled from third quarter
3. Got my own domain name
4. Panelist for blogging seminar
5. Made new friends by way of blogging
…and finally
This blog is now a part of my life. I have managed to keep it going for almost 2.5 years now. Dear readers, thank you for your support. Special thanks to people who leave comments. Thank you, fellow bloggers, who have given me encouragement via your own blogs.
Wish you a very Happy New Year!
(Photo source: Internet)
According to orgainsers of the event:
The New Media Event is the first and ONLY event in the region dedicated to the growing power of new media and will identify the most important new media tools used by major corporations and organisations around the globe. We will discuss challenges, issues and trends and help you find the right new media tools for your organisation.
For the first time in the Middle East key new media minds and regional experts will get together in one place to discuss how new media can help you build your brands and increase brand awareness. More importantly, this event will be the hotspot for all PR and marketing professionals who want to identify what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to new media in the region.