At fag end of day 4 am writing about Day 3. That unfair, but yeah been pretty tied uptoday. First real day with some action for which I had landed here. Anyways back to what am doing here...writing about day 3.
Well start for the day was same as end of last day, call from the same number as yesterday, right at 05:00 AM local time. This time refused to pick up the phone and that was the last of his calls. Any ways, that done, got up a bit early post that, and headed to the pool. Not Olympic size but decent and water appeared heated. Not sure if it was really heated or it was an impact of the fact that pool was indoor. Irrespective it was nice and warm and I enjoyed it.
From last posts you would have figured out that there was definitely no question of females anywhere in the fitness area, be it the Gym, Steam/Sauna, Jacuzzi or the pool. Anyways was alone in the pool and had a decent swim, before getting ready and heading for breakfast. Anyways all done, reached office. We share the floor (offcourse different sections) with 2 other Organizations, one of them is from the Big four and another an IT security firm. Now thats where I saw something which I never expected. The Big Four firm had a door which was labeled, females only entry. Segregation goes far, though had thought not to talk about this after yesterday's post this incident was worth mentioning.
Another factor that I observed was a supplement in today's paper in Filipino. Now was curious for the reason, it was later I figured out that apart form South Asian's Filipino's are huge in number. Did use to see a few folks from the region employed at food court etc, but never figured that they all were from same country.
During lunch, where had some Mexican Burritos (Mexican food in Riyadh that is) discussion was on availability customs and places where Alcohol is banned. We have some states in India which fall in that category and the (in)famous dry days. But what we also found was the immense crazy in men here to smoke. There is no public place restriction to smoke, except when you are in shops etc. Folks do smoke inside malls and food courts (though there is a smoking section in food courts). Smoking appears heavy here, guess people compensate with Tobacco for lack of alcohol. For me both are immaterial.
Well left office little late for dinner and by the time was back, just did some work and hit the slack. Hoping tomorrow will get some more action to do. Lets see what tomorrow brings.
Well start for the day was same as end of last day, call from the same number as yesterday, right at 05:00 AM local time. This time refused to pick up the phone and that was the last of his calls. Any ways, that done, got up a bit early post that, and headed to the pool. Not Olympic size but decent and water appeared heated. Not sure if it was really heated or it was an impact of the fact that pool was indoor. Irrespective it was nice and warm and I enjoyed it.
From last posts you would have figured out that there was definitely no question of females anywhere in the fitness area, be it the Gym, Steam/Sauna, Jacuzzi or the pool. Anyways was alone in the pool and had a decent swim, before getting ready and heading for breakfast. Anyways all done, reached office. We share the floor (offcourse different sections) with 2 other Organizations, one of them is from the Big four and another an IT security firm. Now thats where I saw something which I never expected. The Big Four firm had a door which was labeled, females only entry. Segregation goes far, though had thought not to talk about this after yesterday's post this incident was worth mentioning.
Another factor that I observed was a supplement in today's paper in Filipino. Now was curious for the reason, it was later I figured out that apart form South Asian's Filipino's are huge in number. Did use to see a few folks from the region employed at food court etc, but never figured that they all were from same country.
During lunch, where had some Mexican Burritos (Mexican food in Riyadh that is) discussion was on availability customs and places where Alcohol is banned. We have some states in India which fall in that category and the (in)famous dry days. But what we also found was the immense crazy in men here to smoke. There is no public place restriction to smoke, except when you are in shops etc. Folks do smoke inside malls and food courts (though there is a smoking section in food courts). Smoking appears heavy here, guess people compensate with Tobacco for lack of alcohol. For me both are immaterial.
Well left office little late for dinner and by the time was back, just did some work and hit the slack. Hoping tomorrow will get some more action to do. Lets see what tomorrow brings.
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