Largest Fire Alarm System in the Middle East

Electroman LLC has recently been awarded the contracts for Design Supply and Installation of the largest Fire Detection System in the Middle East and second largest in the whole world with 82 networked nodes and 2 graphic command centers in Salalah, Sultanate of Oman and the Contract for Design Supply and Installation of the largest IT Data Centre Protection in Oman at Knowledge Oasis Muscat.

Electroman LLC also has the largest Fire Alarm maintenance contracts in Oman with the leading Telecom service provider for their sites all over Oman, another large maintenance contract with PDO for the complete MAF Fire Alarm infrastructure; Electroman LLC has also recently signed the Fire Protection maintenance contract with SHELL Oman.

Leading International Solution Providers in Fire Protection like TYCO UK ,VESDA for Aspirating Smoke Detection, SCOTT for Gas Detection, KIDDE UK for Gaseous Suppression System, SILVANI Italy for water.


PS. This inf was sent to me via email from a member of the company.

Saud Bahwan Dies

Saud Bahwan, Chairman of Saud Bahwan Group which is the official dealer of Toyota; Ford; MAN; and much more in the gulf, has died today.

The cause of the death is yet to be revealed. All I know so far is that he went for treatment at Paris and died there. Since the news of his death is not yet published in the local newspapers, not much is known about it.
This news was obtained from a very reliable source and you can rest assure that it is true.

Here is a brief of Mr. Saud Bahwan's life taken from his official website. I will leave you to that.

Sheikh Saud Salim Bahwan, a unique personality, is the epitome of courage and determination. A self-made man who began his career at the age of nine, using a wooden Dhow to transport his trading goods to far-off places. Battling the oceans and surviving unimaginable hardships, he built up a reputation for himself as a man with an uncanny sense for trade.

He entered the Corporate world just over 30 years ago and it wasn't long before he dominated it with his dynamism and business acumen. His magic touch led to success stories over and over again in virtually every sphere of activity, making his group of companies one of the largest and the most successful in Oman.

Mr. Saud Bahwan as a young boy when
he had just begun his trading activities

With annual sales of over 3 Billion US Dollars and employing 9400 professionals, he has set new standards in Management excellence.

Behind this dynamic businessman is a philanthropist, who cares deeply for the less fortunate in society; and one who has made contributions to innumerable social causes and projects.

Nothing short of perfection will do for Sheikh Saud Salim Bahwan, who works 16 hours a day. He says, "Leadership can be attained only through a deep conviction and a passion for excellence."

He was a good man. May he rest in peace.

On This Blog & The Goverment Will Tell Us What To Wear

I know it has been a while since I last posted here. And that last post was about my new Blog - www.MuscatxDubai.com - and I also explained that I won't be posting much and that the type of posts will change.

Since I won't be in the country, I will have to rely on second hand news to write about the country. My source of news will vary, from other Omani Blogs to TV to news websites. I won't be covering events like I used to because it's physically impossible.
I will try to add more information about the country more often when I have time. That's something that I used to do when I first started this Blog but stopped. And that's pretty much it for now.

So, I will be putting all of this into practice right now and start with my first post since that announcement.

As I was surfing my list of Omani Blogs' RSS feeds, I came across a piece of news from Blue Chi's Blog that really seemed very ludicrous. Apparently, "The Ministry of Commerce and Industry has warned tailor shops not to tamper with specified design of the Omani traditional dishdasha" in Today's newspapers. No, I am not kidding. That's exactly what it says.
Ya, and "the ministry asked the tailor shops to abide by the specific designs of the Omani dishdasha, which is a part of the history and culture of the Sultanate.".

Just when you think that things can not get any worse and the government can not control the much more than they already do, something like this comes along.

Now, I don't understand this law exactly. Are they asking the tailor shops not advertise these "novel designed" dishdashas (not my words) or, are they asking them not to tailor to the costumers wishes? What if I have a design in mind and asked the tailor to create it for me, should s/he decline? Seriously?
And so the tailor breaks the law and, god forbids, creates this devilish dishdasha, what's going to happen? Can you imagine this poor Indian dude or whoever else who is trying so hard to make a living and even tries to be a little creative only to get fined my the authorities?

I don't care what the logic behind this law is. Whether it is to preserve "the history and culture of the Sultanate" like they say or whatever reasons they may think is for the interested of "Oman". They have no right telling us what to wear as long as we are not violating any public decency policies or whatever.

"Warning tailor shops not to tamper with specified design of the dishdahsa"... HA! What, you find someone wearing a dishdahsa that's a little different and ask them to get undressed or else they will be arrested? Please!

Attention!!

I have an important announcement to make. This announcement will affect the frequency of posts made on this Blog and maybe even the type of posts that will be posted from now onwards.

I am moving to the UAE very soon (if not already when you read this post) and since I won't be in Oman anymore, it doesn't exactly make sense to be posting on a Blog for Oman. And because of this, I have both great news and bad news.

Bad news is, I will not be able to post as much as I used to post on this Blog anymore. Since I am not in Oman, it would be difficult to make posts related to Oman. I might be posting on the Blog from time to time whenever I come over to Oman but it will be rare and maybe even different in style.

Great news, I've created a new Blog! The Blog is titled Muscat X Dubai which is read 'Muscat meets Dubai' or you may also call it MXD and you may visit it at www.muscatxdubai.com.
The idea for this Blog is to record my whole transition from Muscat to the big city - Dubai. I will be talking about the whole process of moving there and provide value to people who are thinking of moving there by providing facts from my own experience. Along with the record of the whole transition process, I will also Blog on general things about Dubai and I think I will be comparing many things in Dubai with what they are like in Muscat. I might even start talking about news related to Dubai or Muscat.

The beauty of this Blog is that it doesn't only focus on one country but two. Since I am an Omani, I will be talking about many Omani related things and since I am living in Dubai, I will also talk about Dubai a lot, obviously.

This is all great but it has a downside also. Since my new Blog allows me to talk about Oman, I won't need this Blog to talk about it anymore. I have a couple of ideas for this Blog by now but they will be shared later.
So don't forget, I am now at www.muscatxdubai.com. Visit the website and if you subscribed to this Blog's RSS feeds, make sure you subscribe to MXD's RSS feeds too in order to stay updated with what I am up to the big city.

See you there, people...

Bloggers' Meet

I remember the last time we had a Bloggers' meeting and we all announced it in our Blogs, set a date and everything. And two people from TheWeek came to cover the event only to find out that three Bloggers attended out of all who said that they will. It wasn't very good but we got a tiny piece in TheWeek and our names got mentioned, so that was good. But all in all, I had fun that day. Here is the article that I wrote about that event.

We are having another Bloggers' Meeting today but none of us have announced it on our Blogs until now. I don't know why nobody else did but I didn't because I didn't have the time to do so. Maybe we were subconsciously embarrassed to spread the word and have members of the press come only for the event to become a total bust when nobody attends. Another reason might be because we planned this a little late and it is only today that we have confirmed the time and location. Naaa, I like the first one better.

So far, Amjad, Blue Chi, Kishor Cariappa, a guest Qatari Blogger MMK080 and myself will be attending. That's 5 people in total. It should be very interesting meeting Oman's top Bloggers. This is going to be fun.