Month: December 2010
Best Wishes for 2011
Best Wishes for 2011
Dear Friends,
2010 almost over and we are now looking forward to another new year in our life. 2011. Over the past one year and before we achieved several things. Individually and collectively. Let us consider everything as a team effort. The momentum generated should be capitalised to make the commuty we live in as a dream community and wish our expectations and requirements not to remain as a dream.
Let everyone come forward in his/her own way, including women and children and not to remain indoor and online. Let everyone share in his/her own way equal responsibilities for the benefit of making our society a harmonious place to live.
Let peace, prosperity, security and friendship prevail.
Best wishes for a Happy New Year and ahead.
Ramesh Menon & family
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Clouds and changing weather – 2
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Clouds and changing weather – 2
Reason for my Safety initiatives – Mrs. Victoria D’Souza and family
Reason for my Safety initiatives – Mrs. Victoria D’Souza and family
I was not very much bothered about safety till a few years ago. It was in March 2007 that I started keeping a more serious look at road safety. On 26th March 2004, my mathematics teacher from school and her family members, six of them perished in a car accident here in Abu Dhabi. The new Corniche road, i.e. the Eastern Corniche road was being built and the road work was progressing swiftly during those days. Every day, the road directions and route changed, sometimes widening and some narrowing at various stretches. Mrs. D’Souza and family were on a visit to Abu Dhabi from Dubai and it was at one such stretch, a speeding driver drove past their vehicle hitting it. The vehicle was driven by her daughter in law. It was a brand new Land Rover car and they were all coming to Abu Dhabi to meet relatives after purchasing it. She lost control and hit the dividers on the side and the vehicle caught fire instantly. Incidentally, the tank was full and the doors got jammed and they were unable to come out or even rescued by those who approached after the collision.
It was a tragedy, which I can never forget. Mrs. Victoria D’souza was with us in Don Bosco High School and then she moved over here and was working as a Supervisor in one of the schools in Dubai. Her children were known to me from childhood and this was one incident very difficult to forget.
After this, I have always raised my concern over road safety and dangerous driving issues. It is a tribute to them. May their souls rest in peace.
Ramesh Menon
27.12.2010
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Christmas 2010
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Christmas 2010
Short Take – GULF TODAY – Dt. 25.12.2010 – Pleasant Journey
Short Take – GULF TODAY – Dt. 25.12.2010 – Pleasant Journey
Short Take: Pleasant journey
December 25, 2010
WE have reached almost the end of 2010. It was an eventful year considering the economic situation and progress made with limited resources. Those who held on to their hopes and dreams and progressed even an inch have to really congratulate themselves. It requires lot of determination and self-motivation. I salute all those who did it.
I was at a HSE campaign recently. We were segregating waste materials and each one had his own task to do. I was observing a little boy and his father. The boy was very particular in not mixing plastic with paper. He was saying, “Dad, if we mix it, it is not good for the environment. It has to be properly recycled. That’s what my teacher has told us in our class.” I was happy to hear him promoting HSE in his own small way.
Christmas and New Year have brought lot of visitors to the UAE this year. It is a promising sign to see the tourism industry and the business in this region flourishing. It brings hope to all that the economy will revive in 2011 and all those who suffered in some way or other due to the impact of recession will have reasons to smile in the new year and days ahead.
It has been an enjoyable journey for me with Short Take. Each week I had a set objective to look forward to, identify a small happening around and describe it in a friendly way for the benefit of those who love to read.
Ramesh Menon
To read it in original, please visit GULF TODAY online.
My Letters – GULF NEWS Dt. 24.12.2010 – Baggage allowance
My Letters – GULF NEWS Dt. 24.12.2010 – Baggage allowance
Baggage allowance
Congratulations to Etihad Airways for being named the world’s leading airline for the second consecutive year at a travel industry event.
Etihad Airways now flies to many destinations from Abu Dhabi. Several new destinations, including those in South India, are being added in the near future.
A unified and standard 40 kilogram baggage allowance to all Indian destinations is a common wish-list among the passengers from Abu Dhabi. To travel by [Etihad] will then be a privilege for all to fly from Abu Dhabi, by the capital’s own airlines, from its state-of-the-art airport facilities.
I request Etihad Airways to kindly consider more baggage options on their flights to all Indian destinations alike.
It will also be a good idea for the airlines to partner with major electronic companies and shopping malls and provide special baggage vouchers on transportation of electronic appliances such as television.
This scheme will give a much required boost to revive the consumer sector.
From Mr Ramesh Menon
Abu Dhabi
Mr Hareb Al Muhairi, VP Sales UAE, Etihad Airways, responds:
Many thanks for your congratulations on Etihad winning the “World’s Leading Airline” award for the second year in a row.
Etihad continually looks to add new and innovative features to enhance the travel experience for our customers.
These features currently include online check-in and self check-in at Abu Dhabi airport.
We also recently launched our “India Connect” scheme for members of our Etihad Guest programme travelling to and from India.
India Connect has a range of partners in India and around the world, who provide special offers for members of the scheme.
These partners include restaurants, hotels, retail chains, telecommunications services and financial service providers.
In terms of baggage allowances, this is a key commercial aspect of the airline industry and needs to be managed carefully. That said, the levels Etihad offers customers in all our cabins are among the highest in the industry.
Mr Menon responds:
I thank the management of Etihad for their response. I look forward to their extended effort to give more baggage allowance, than the existing 23 kilograms, to passengers [flying] to Indian destinations so that more families can opt for flying out from Abu Dhabi.
It is the major detrimental factor when travelling during holidays as a family or for that matter as a group with luggage for a long stay.
Gulf News’ intervention has highlighted this issue and I hope that the management of Etihad will consider this important factor in their scope for improvement for passenger comfort and convenience to attract more business to Etihad as well as Abu Dhabi airport.
To read it in original, please visit GULF NEWS online.
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Beautiful Weather and welcome clouds
Exploring Abu Dhabi through Clicks and Writes – Beautiful Weather and welcome clouds
It is an extremely enjoyable weather these days. Holidays and tourists around for Christmas and New Year, evenings are busy at shopping malls. They are trying to do the year-end sales with interesting bargains for shoppers. Morning and evening clouds are also stepping in with their support.
Abu Dhabi weather
Readers Picture of the Day – GULF NEWS – Dt. 22.12.2010 – Time to Work
Readers Picture of the Day – GULF NEWS – Dt. 22.12.2010 – Time to Work
This is a picture I took and submitted to Gulf News recently. It was taken when I was driving from Kerala to Bangalore via Mangalore. This coastal area, Murudeswar, is a beautiful place and were fisherman and at that time I saw the fisherman preparing to go to sea.
Photography gives me great relief to unwind, relax and then prepare myself for the routine/or unplanned task ahead in my daytoday life.
It is a way of looking things in the most beautiful way it can ever get projected.
ClicksandWrites 
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