1981- Started to prepare for a change in job as I wanted to do different things in life. Wanted to see the places. Sultanate of Oman was the neighbouring country which was interesting. On August 15th 1981, I landed Muscat Airport. The company was Zubair Automotive LLC. I started as the Coordination Supervisor -Branches under the Marketing Manager Part- Vish (Later known as Dr. Viswanath) He was the person who interviewed me from Dubai and offered me this job. Zubair Automotive was the sole distributor of Mitsubishi Vehicles in the Sultanate of Oman which had about seven branches and three dealers those days. Even today, it is one of the biggest organisations. Lots to write in here...will follow..

1982 July 30th: Got married. It was a large family gathering and feast. Honeymoon trip to Mysore, Bangalore, Ooty and Madras.

1983-Trips to Kerala as wife was studying further and it was natural to pay a visit to hometown on various occasions. After all a trip to India was just few hours away if one had the leave.

1983- Vilma joined me in Ruwi and we had a rented house in Al Gobra. Our house was of one of the landlords was staying near by. We had Mathew and Sisli a Keralite family as our neighbour.

1984- My daughter Shilpa was born on the 15th Dec.

1985- Azaiba Main warehouse had plans to transfer me to a new branch- Barka and I was the first to commence this operation.