Yesterday one of our colleagues invited everybody for a dinner, somewhere in a desert place near Makkah, I just remember that it was outside the Haram limit of Makkah, not sure if it has a name. Meeting at 8pm, we went together to destination, the guide’s car first. The place was very nice, clean, prepared for such “jalsat”, only missing there a swimming pool and a gsm antenna. The problem in such places that the network is very low, mobily network doesn’t work at all, but there is a chance to get Jawal network at certain places only.
I took a picture of the “mobile place”, that’s where network is available. To make a call you have to turn on the speakers, and it works fine, the problem is when two are calling in the same time… 
Anyway the dinner was great, even that it was so dark and didn’t see anything, but kabsa should be always the same There was around 30 persons including kids, and 11 cars, our boss was there with his three kids so this morning it was tolerated to come working even at 10am 
some lucky ones are still sleeping until now zzzZZZ
Tags: colleagues, desert place, gsm antenna, jawal, kabsa, makkah, mobily, swimming pool
July 4th, 2007 at 1:30 am
Did you guys have AC? I remember once in Kuwait, a long time ago, going into a tent which looked like a house : kitchen, WC, and full running AC… I would not be surprised that your boss will have an antenna and a pool next time you visit