Food
12 Taxi driver lessons
In a twist of events, my friend overslept and I had to catch a cab to get back home after dropping off my car at the auto shop. I was lucky to get one in less than 3 minutes. As I entered I realized that the driver was a bit older than the younger, less [...]
The pit stop coffee shop
A pit stop in a race is where cars get fueled, tires get changed in record time and the whole car is just reborn in a matter of seconds. A coffee shop is where humans get caffeinated, minds are set loose and the whole body is suddenly reenergized in a matter of minutes. A long [...]
McDonald’s makes better ice cream than Baskin Robbins
If the sales guy at the Baskin Robbins shop says the new soft ice cream on the cone is just like the ones at Micky D’s then you know who the big papa is on that frontier. I told the young salesman your not supposed to say that, especially your speciality is ice cream, and theirs [...]
Harnessing outrage
What do you when you face service and product inconveniences? like the stewardess on my flight today who did not have my newspaper, had only one choice of breakfast, non of the bread I like, insisted on giving me reasons that we can’t satisfy every passenger you know! management doesn’t listen, blah, blah, blah..I just [...]
The seeds of wisdom
I used to laugh at my dad when he was working, pointing out the fact that I would never end up a book worm like him, he simply laughed. He never forced, argued, stuffed into my mind the importance of reading, he had a plan. He noticed how fascinated I was with two things; airplanes [...]
Learning by walking around
I never knew that you can learn so much just by wondering around places, seeing and watching different faces and looking at past traces of lost civilizations. It is astonishing just another place to the naked eye, yet so full of wisdom to the person who really looks.You know the saying about living and learning, [...]
fish like us
In the corners of the red sea, a school of fish is swimming doing what they do best, swim around. They play and feed on the smaller fish and whatever seems to be available. Boys and girls in total harmony, they have had their formal education at community colleges and the lucky few at the [...]
Whistle blowing!
Back in the early days of my Banking career my Bank which was an affiliate of citibank introduced me to an amazing audit feature called whistle blowing. The main objective of this practice is to ensure everyone, including senior management hold a high level of ethics and morale towards work. By this I mean not [...]
Government Agencies Vs. Fast Food
ALBAIK is a fast food company that sells fried broasted chicken meals, it is the pinnacle of success in its industry and has given kentucky fried chicken or KFC a run for its money in Saudi Arabia. The Ministerial Agency of civil affairs is a government entity that handles the births, deaths and issuance of [...]
Then & Now
They used to gather every weekend, we used to accompany them by force, they used to have fun as sisters and brothers with their whole family, they were my aunts and uncles. We were young children then, only observers as they say, we only digested and filtered what we wanted to remember and threw the [...]