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Day: February 14, 2010

Teaching with Promethean boards

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Jawwad

I have’nt done a narcisstic post on this blog for a while now. I think one post every few months is good for my circulation, ego, profile and image. So while the post is supposedly about my recent love affair with Promethean Boards, there is as much of moa in each of the pictures as…

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Broad walk Dubai – Lunch, view and seagulls

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Jawwad

So on the day in the middle while we were off from our training commitment in Abu Dhabi Nasr took us out for lunch to Broadwalk in Dubai. Three decks of pierside lunch and dinner tables on the creek with a panaromic view of Dubai, and a fusion menu shared with aggressive and territorial sea…

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Abu Dhabi and Dubai – a tale of two cities

Posted on February 14, 2010 by Jawwad

My first visit to Abu Dhabi occurred courtesy of Zayed University and Rashid Azeem Khan. Rashid was a witness to my teaching days at the new campus of FAST ICS in 1996 and somehow over the last 15 years we had managed to stay in touch. He coerced his then boss in passing out an…

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