Oman! Oman! Oman!

Its almost 6 months already been here in Oman. I should say on my 1st time I arrived here is difficult. There are things you need to considered:

1. The place where you will live.
   Yes, first thing you will thing comes on your mind is where would be your accommodation? You cant sleep at the street of course. The company provided you a cash advance so you could look for  place to live in. Here in Oman mostly its not applicable to have a signage “HOUSE/ROOM FOR RENT”. If you know somebody to share much better, but, here we do have lots of Filipino community will help you to look for. Mostly of the Filipinos here were kind bcoz the pinoys here steel few you will see majority here were Indians and Pakistani. The range of the house here is 100-200 rials depending of there size, location and numbers of rooms.
2. Expenses you needed.
   Now after paying , giving advanced for the house/ room. Its now to buy things needed like food to eat, bed for you to sleep well, a aircon and etc. Were lucky here we have a store that we can buy things in deferred. Its located at the souk.  Souk means a market or palengke. The souk here is like Ongpin in the Philippines you will see varieties of stores like appliances, barbershops, fresh goods, live animals, jewels and etc. at very affordable price.
3. Change of weather .
   If you feel the Philippines were hot make it twice here in Oman. You cannot resist the hot weather here. For 6 months Ive stayed here Ive never experience a rain or a small drop of  rain. During  the time of 11am to 4pm the temperature is very hot. You will notice a few cars and people passing the road. Most of the establishment were also close and it will resume at 4pm t011pm.The first 3 months is quite critical once you surpass it .

Im sure everything become smooth and normal. Hope this help you guy.

Next week is the end of Ramadan!

Its time to celebrate. The celebration called “Eid”. Eid means start of eating, resting, visiting to relatives and friends. This apply to all muslim country specially here in the middle east region.

In our country this was compare the day of East Sunday were the people celebrate and prepared some celebration. Here in Oman, we have 1 week vacation because of Eid.

Eid Mubarak!

There are lots of food that we served to us, there are breads, fruits, juices and one that caught up my attention is the Denggoo / Denggu what ever the spelling!

Denggoo/ Denggu served on a big plate/ tray

• contain a big lumpia wraps around 5-8 layers of it
• sweet corn on the top over the lumpia wraps
• a sort of corn syrup that make the denggu more delicious

Using our bare hand to eat the denggu/ denggoo. It worth trying.

Yesterday, Its my first time to witness the funeral of our brother Muslim here in Oman. It quite different for us Catholic the way/ tradition of buried of there love ones.

Once the person died here in Oman they immediate buried the body of dead, the family will accept a visitors for them to give hand and share a sympathy to our fellow colleague. Once we enter  “Sabila” or funeral parlor on us to accomodate us we shake hands  all the family member and the earlier visitor whose in there then we have a sit.

The visitor were offered a coffee during regular time, since its Ramadan,all our fellow Muslim brothers are fasting.

Condolence to our good colleague Mr Mahmood.

What a busy day! Of course let us not forget about Oman. Here are some overview about Sultanate of Oman.

Oman(Arabic: عمان‎ ‘Umān), officially the Sultanate of Oman (Arabic: سلطنة عُمان‎ Salṭanat ‘Umān), is an Arab country in southwest Asia on the southeast coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It borders the United Arab Emirates on the northwest, Saudi Arabia on the west and Yemen on the southwest. The coast is formed by the Arabian Sea on the south and east and the Gulf of Oman on the northeast. The country also contains Madha, an exclave enclosed by the United Arab Emirates, and Musandam, an exclave also separated by Emirati territory.

source: Wikipedia

After a weeks of preparing things to be carried to Oman. Finally, I’m here. Thanks God for a very nice and safety trip. The things were not easy for me and also to my fellow 3 colleagues. Around 4pm in the Philippines were already on NAIA fora short briefing with our agency. I quite worried and nervous coz its my first time to ride an airplane . After the orientation and giving all our necessary documents like passport, plane ticket and etc. we go for check in of baggage and checking our documents.

We ride a Thai Airways, the plane and the service are really nice the steward crews are very accommodation and the foods are really good. The only problem we encountered is that are flight schedule of going to Oman is waiting time is too long. After 4 hours of trip going to Thailand, we need to wait  almost 1 day for the connecting flight going to Muscat, Oman.

As we wait for our connecting flight, us we rove around the whole airport of Thai Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok. I was pretty amaze of looks of that airport. Its very big, well facilitate and the wireless internet connections is so good.

2 thumbs up for Thailand!

After all week of preparations.  The moment has come!

After work in the office I go straight for the interview venue. Its still every to got there I just took my breakfast near the venue. After a minute of breakfast I pray before I went to the venue.

Despite of lack of sleep and heavy work load before my interview. The must go on!

The interview located at Imperial Hotel at Quezon City and the call time is 7:30 in the morning,  I came the venue room and as I observe there already some of the applicant were waiting for the interview. At first, I observe, look and listen. Most of the applicant were masteral and Phd. holder to cut the story short. The panel interviewer just in the other room and preparing for the interview. Most of us were nervous and I tell my self Ill gonna give my best shot ever for this interview.

After a long time of waiting for my turn I’m on the hot seat. The interviewer(most them are Arabs) seems nice and relax opposite of the stories of the previous applicants so I must self calm down and got relax too.

The 1st question is “tell me something about your self?” hehehhhehe! what a common question. The most of the question were generally about my family backgound, written on my resume and the hardest is the technical situational skills.

The interview took a long of 20 to 3o minutes. and guess what?! (drumrolls) I was qualified and chosen one. The company give me immediate the offersheet and I was surprise about it.

Thank you for all the prayers and my prayers granted.

Moral Lesson
Pray hard it works- Mayor Echeverri

Way back July this year. Sunday morning the Manila Bulletin Newspaper were delivered by a newspaper boy to me then il tell myself tp browse a job opportunity for abroad upon browsing. I make it a habit to apply on email instead of going totheir respective offices. I’ve notice on a upper part portion of classified ads a small box for the position of Instructor. At first I was hesitant because of high qualification (drumroll) but still I stood up to apply eventhough Im not masteral graduate(no guts. no glory) then I used to emailed it. Nothing to loose and theres no harm of trying.

After a month I was little bit surprise the company considered me as one of the applicant for the Instructor position and received a form form the company to filled it up and reply it back to them.

Wish me luck!

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