Bank Muscat Client Invitation banquetReview: Rating (3/10)

For some reason, Bank Muscat decided that myself and the wife were worthy of their annual VIP client dinner party. So obviously the first thing that comes in mind wow, this must be something big, with a lot of activities, quality speeches, important people etc. I mean after all, it is considered one of the best Banks in Oman. And the fact in that they mentioned the draw of the 100,000 Rials will take place in this banquet made it even more interesting.

So my wife, took an entire afternoon off to the hair-dresser, expensive facial and make ups and I went for a RO 5 worth of hair-cut with a quick head massage. We put on our expensive garments and stat of the art perfume that we only use during EIDs off we went.

Let me put it this way, apart from the dinner which was superb and delicious by the way, the rest was plain normal and embarrassment. Why you ask?, well here we go:

1) 50% of the guest were non Arab speakers and yet, the speeches, the poems, the talks were all in Arabic. You could notice the guest with their wide jaw wide open trying to figure out what the hell is going on

2) Don’t get me wrong, I am for Poems, but what they presented in banquet was no poem, not to me anyway. What has a dude falling in love with a dudess has anything to with Banks and the financial industry!!

3) Okay, I love my culture, I am proud of my culture. But the idea of having group of dudes jumping around with drums and sticks and shouting god knows what language was corny and not my idea of a VIP banquet, actually not my idea of any banquet.

3) Let me see the invitation discuss something about RO 100,000 draw that will take place, and yet nothing of the sort happen. I mean God, this was the only thing that kept me staying in the so called party. Did they know their party would be so bad they had to trick people to come?

You know, I am being generous to rate the banquet a 3/10, maybe I am in a good mood, or maybe I am happy with bank Muscat as a client