This is a cracking story! Our Mechanical Dept in Qatar employ 99% of their workforce from the Phillipines. This video is the Phillipines version of Sky 1 news and last week the Mechanical Manager ( Gary ) & Percival ( AKA Percy ) flew from Qatar to The Phillipines to interview new recruits. They were plagued with requests from Television stations and radio stations who wanted to cover the story. Plot of the story….. Gary was over in The Phillipines a few years ago in a hotel carrying out interviews. Percy was serving him tea and kept looking at the documents Gary when Gary asked him if he had a problem. Percy replied I know how to do all of that and once Gary was happy Percy was not pulling his leg, offered him a job in Qatar. At that point Gary made Percy call over the manager and tell him he was quitting. 3 years on….. Percy (now 3rd in command of Mechanical Dept) accompanied Gary on a recruitment trip to The Phillipines and was staying in the Executive suite of the same hotel. The Filapino media went mad for the story…………
Pretty good considering he aint my cup o’ tea. The whole gig was actually on the beach which was pretty cool and there was a complete mix of nationalies which included some of the worlds finer examples of the female species. These ingredients alone were set to create an amazing atmosphere. There was something funny about this whole set up though… then it hit me.
I would say there was almost zero folk running around like space cadets- pilled out their tree- and the fact that a tubby can of Heineken was coming in at a very reasonable £8 a can, there was little drunkeness amongst my fellow revellers. Within about an hour and a half of Tiesto actually playing, the climax had hit and for the last hour, the crowd wound down until 65% of the crown were standing nodding their heads staring at Tiesto.
That was my experience of Tiesto in an almost dry state…
Tonight I have decided to attend the DJ Tiesto gig at the Intercontinental Hotel. Should bd interesting to see what kind of characters attend an event in a country where neds are not allowed through passport control. I am predicting it will be full of Ricky Martin types with the chip fat hair and spray on facial hair. I am intrigued to see what the ‘scene’ here is……. To date my musical experience has consisted of “Oscar” the Filapino driver and his Abba cassette that I am sure is the only tunage his car stereo was designed to play… Any questions or doubts on the lyrics of Abba you ever come across, entrust your doubt in me and I will kick you in the right direction. The other mentionable experience of the musical taste here goes to this ‘cool kid’ who drove me to The Sheraton a couple of weeks ago. When I mean cool, I mean back to front baseball cap and all that jazz….. when he picked me up, there was some ‘happy hardcore’ rubbish playing when then was obviously ready to mix into a new tune and it stopped dead. We then had some Rhianna then another hardcore tune and finally Take That then I got out as I could not take it anymore……… I will let you all know how I get on tonight.
My Bungee jump back in 1957 when the first high resolution Camcorder was released for R&D purposes. 17 June 1957, Emmerdale Extravaganza, Banchory, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Qatar:
“…He was also telling me about a time an artic crunched him on a roundabout and drove off and The Police fined him for not taking the lorries number plate…
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