So today became busy very fast!
We split up the group today, I went with Mr. Mridha of Mohona Properties to lunch at a restaurant called "Baton Rouge" at the top of a building in central Dhaka... gave me a great view of the ongoing construction in Bangladesh... You can definitely tell this is an up-and-coming economy!
Here are a few skyline pictures, but unfortunately you can't see the construction as well in the photos... just know that the majority of the big buildings are works in progress!
And this one you can actually see the pollution of this city, it is pretty much L.A. in terms of smog ;)
Then Mr. Mridha was kind enough to take me to his bank, The Dutch-Bangla Bank. I sat with the Import and Export group, and they gave me a really good viewpoint on the type of business not only that they are doing, but that Bangladesh does as a country. I knew that garments were a big part of their economy, but medicine and ship-building?? Who knew!
We had a good laugh about how banking is the same in every country with the amount of paperwork there is, but I had to keep my laughs to myself when I realized that being a manager in any group in banking is also the same, lots of interruptions and phone calls and people asking for you to sign off on things and dealing with the corporate bureaucracy... It was just like I never left the office! I should give him my manager's info, they can swap horror stories ;) Regardless, the manager was very kind to take time from his day to sit down with me and tell me so much about his group!
In approximately an hour (and approximate is the only way to tell time in Bangladesh-more on that later), we will be picked up from the hotel where they allowed us to take a bit of time to rest, and we will be doing our very first presentation for the Gulshan Lake City Rotary Club... here is hoping we do a good job!
SB
We split up the group today, I went with Mr. Mridha of Mohona Properties to lunch at a restaurant called "Baton Rouge" at the top of a building in central Dhaka... gave me a great view of the ongoing construction in Bangladesh... You can definitely tell this is an up-and-coming economy!
Here are a few skyline pictures, but unfortunately you can't see the construction as well in the photos... just know that the majority of the big buildings are works in progress!
We had a good laugh about how banking is the same in every country with the amount of paperwork there is, but I had to keep my laughs to myself when I realized that being a manager in any group in banking is also the same, lots of interruptions and phone calls and people asking for you to sign off on things and dealing with the corporate bureaucracy... It was just like I never left the office! I should give him my manager's info, they can swap horror stories ;) Regardless, the manager was very kind to take time from his day to sit down with me and tell me so much about his group!
In approximately an hour (and approximate is the only way to tell time in Bangladesh-more on that later), we will be picked up from the hotel where they allowed us to take a bit of time to rest, and we will be doing our very first presentation for the Gulshan Lake City Rotary Club... here is hoping we do a good job!
SB
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