Real World , ready or not Here I come

The news has finally came in that I scored a job with the Emirates Group as an Industrial Engineer in Dubai. I'll be managing a group of other industrial engineers who will work under me for benchmarking processes and setting KPI with the accounting department and the list will go on.

Main point I will like to make this blog is to record part of my life which i regrettable never did when I was in Wichita and would like to document my experience working and living in the new land of Dubai. Hope some of you won't bore yourself out reading ye ol' Jason's life stories =).

Yup that is the palm island in the coast of Dubai being constructed and below is the world islands made famous by the shape it's laid out around to form the map of the world.


And finally, the only 7 star hotel in the world. The Burj Al-Arab.




Well so as of now , all I have to do is leave my life in Wichita , get a medical check up ( physical , blood test and all those crap to make sure you won't die anytime soon). Sounds pretty easy eh, but it's not that easy after all when my university and work place is giving me a hard time preventing me from breaking my GRA contract with them which will last until December 5th.

Up till now all I have in mind is getting prepared to head over to the Middle East, as I will have nobody to depend on and it will just be me and my new environment. Hence I start out shopping all the gadgets I need from USA and bring it over later on.

As of now , I've bought some new toys to pamper myself a wee bit . ( maybe a little too much)

(1.) Lenovo T61p laptop
(2.) Canon 400D dSLR with 18-55mm kit lens
(3.) Canon camcorder * cause i like night vision*
(4.) Some effin nice lenses ( Canon famous L lens , a portrait lens and a telephoto lens)
(5.) Ipod nano 8GB 3rd gen ( yes they finally convinced me to get one, so what the heck)
(6.) 2 new backpacks ( 1 for camera and 1 for both of my laptops)
(7.) PDA phone (1st ever and am trying to learn more about it)

Pictures and review( just what I think of them) will be up in 3 days time.

Well thats all for now , some of it is still in the boxes and some of it is out on my table but my room is too messy to allow any decent pictures.

I'll just post a picture of my friend Azim's living room ( he's a tech guy in our group as you can see) and also a walking encyclopedia. Just letting him tune up my Lenovo laptop for faster speed so i do not have to mess with it myself later.

That's Azim , Kevin , Jeremy and Eric.



More to come as I will document my relocation process from Wichita KS USA to Dubai UAE.