Summary on Seminar

Just attended a seminar at the Atlantis, Conference Hall. For a change, the registration formaility was done away with. Since the attendance was by invitation only, cards for invitees were ready to be picked up from the alphabetical arrangement. The delegates had good time in searching their tags and absolutely thrilled when they traced their cards!

Although, the seminar started 10 minutes behind the schedule, like an aircraft, it picked up speed during the journey and finished in time!

The gathering was very impressive, so much so that if some one goes out to attend the call of nature,well, by that I mean attending a call on handset, somebody else would come and occupy his place! It happened to my guest who had to settle at the backside row when he came back after attending his call.

The seminar was on a topic called 'STRATA MANAGEMENT' which is about the recent introduction of Strata Law in UAE. Strata law is concerned with Realty sector and its purpose is to manage, regulate, control and govern various aspects of property related issues including transfer of property besides defining the rights and responsibilities of various stake holders.

The seminar was organised by Oman Insurance Company. Speakers were from companies that are into Strata management, valuation, Law firms specialising in Strata and, not but not the least, from the insurance industry. Of course, the aim was to finally drive the point to the audience about the importance of availing a special insurance cover developed for the Property Owners Association.

The seminar ended with a luncheon at the Ballroom. A scottish couple from Australia, who were part of the delegates, shared the same table with me. Ms M quipped, if the Strata law was clear to me after attending the seminar. I sort of mumbled to the effect that 'everything was absolutely clear'! The conversation continued by recollecting some valid questions raised by the audience during the Q & A session, and then moved on to recent cricket matches between India & Australia, in which, for a change, India white-washed Australia.

We exchanged contact details promising to be in touch. I told Mrs M about my weekly contribution to short take and urged her to read one, if she can and give her comments. This piece is dedicated to the serendipitious friendship of scottish couple.

The question Mrs M asked me is still bothering me into thinking if I have this problem of attention deficiency? I then comfort myself by reasoning out that mere attending seminars would never give detailed insight, but only kindle your inquisitive mind into making further probe on the subject.

Well, to summarise, seminars do desseminate information!