James Leong | Web Developer

Today, we resolved to get started on the office administration.  We had power shortage…  both of us were feeling really lousy inside the hotel.  Wanted to go around to some nice cafe to get our office registration going…

First Ride of the Day

The really unfortunate thing is… the lonely planet guide (even though it was like the latest copy) was pretty outdated.  Most of the places were no longer in business.  If anybody is following our footsteps and want to come to Pakistan, please just go online and look through TravelPedia.  The online version of Wikipedia.  It is definitely more up-to-date then Lonely Planet.

Anyway, after going all around Lahore, we finally ended up at Lahore, Mac Donalds.

Calling through all the auditors at Lahore Mac Donalds

As you notice in the picture above, only 1 person is working.  Yes… we had a problem as we only had 1 mobile phone.  After 30 minutes of unfair work, we decided we needed a second line… so off we went to the good old Hafiz center to get another mobile line.

After getting the mobile line, we decided to hive off at a chic cafe called Cloud Nine at Pace Shopping center and then we got to work again.. this time, with 2 mobile phones.

Here, we got to meet 3 fellows.  2 Auditors and 1 Recruitment Company.  We kind of like 1 of the auditor and the other guy from the recruitment company. 

Shafiq Ahmad (Manzoor Hussain Mir & Co)
Auditor
+92-42-7323617
+92-42-7324839

Salnam the Recruitment Guy

After talking to Salnam, it seems that the most important thing about employees when they choose their employers are:

• Who they work for
• Where will they work
• What will they do to add value to themselves

Salman Munir (rHire)
salman@radicalhire.com
+92-333-4239200

I guess remuneration is also important.. but that is something which goes without saying.  So we decided to go for an office location first.  Salnam immediately pointed us to a real estate agent… and only then did we realise that the Property Market in Pakistan is booming at a faster rate than Singapore…

Denise Talking to a Freaking Rich Real Estate Agent

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7000 psf (3rd Floor)

6500 psf – Rent: 25000 PKR (4th Floor)

Al-Hafeez Shopping Mall

We looked at an office complex with a reasonably good location.  Below are some of the prices. 

Nameless Agent
0300-9421231
0322-8482861
0300-8004546

425 sq feet – 12000 Rupee (7th floor)
510 sq feet – 17850 Rupee (4th floor)
800 sq feet – 25000 Rupee (8th floor)
1150 sq feet – 45000 Rupee (4th floor)

Was looking through Zameen and found something interesting.

At about 4-5k Rupee psf it sounds like a good deal.

At night, we decided to go for a nice meal at

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