Thailand, Singapore and UAE next

Friends and ex-colleagues from John Brown are brewing-up a meet in Thailand, Singapore and UAE. Thailand meet is being initiated by VG Shanbhag, Singapore meet is being initiated by Rajesh Anand and the UAE meet by RN Sharma.

Good luck to you guys.

Kuala Lumpur meet

A group of us living and working in Kuala Lumpur gathered-up at a restaurant on Bukit Bintang. This meet in Kuala Lumpur came close on heels of the first ever official XJBEI meet that was held in Jakarta early this month.

Thanks to all the attendees for sparing some time and turning-up for this meet and making it a memorable event. Special thanks to Prithviraj Rajaji (from Pipelines) for organizing this meet.

(Image courtesy: P. Rajaji)

Plan for a Kuala Lumpur meet

Following the head-knock by our colleagues in Indonesia, long working hours or un-ending projects are no excuse for a meet-up every once a while.

Prithviraj Rajaji (Pipelines) has kick-started an initiative for a meet in Kuala Lumpur, tentatively on either 19th or 20th of May. (The venue is being discussed at the moment.) Request all of you living, working or even visiting during this time in Kuala Lumpur, please contact him, or me (or reply in the mailing list) if you’d like, to know more about and would like to join this get-together.

Let’s meet in KL.

Jakarta meet

Members living and working in Jakarta arranged a get-together on Friday April 28, 2006. As one of our senior members said:

It was really a great event and I thank one and all who participated in it. It reminded me of one of those rare events of JBEI get together we had in Bangalore during Loge’s and Richard Elliot’s tenure.

I think John Brown Bangalore has become a synonym with Oil and Gas Upstream Industry and the personnel coming out of it and working worldwide have not only enriched themselves, but also created a good niche for Indian engineers everywhere. It is a great contribution. Let us not forget all those who trained us to make this happen.

Special thanks to JK and CVS for taking initiative to hold this maiden event.

— G Ravikumar

Thanks to all the volunteers and attendees for making this happen.

Update: Thanks to JK for uploading pictures. They are now here.