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Few notable memories and highlights

August 29, 2019

Presented the show What’s Cooking UAE airing on Star World and Fox Live

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Another huge #announcement 🥺 I’ve finally stepped into the world of TV presenting 📺 – in the show @whatscookinguae airing on #StarWorld & #FoxLive 🤗 this is an opportunity I unfortunately couldn’t take back in 2016 as I was shuffling between my masters in #engineering, my full-time day job, a new website, #campaigns, #tastings, and lol a personal life 🤕 I’m happy to finally grab this opportunity since other things have simmered down and start something new ☺️🧘🏻‍♀️ adding new things into my life is definitely a #challenge, high high high pressure, adapting to various levels of adrenaline, but even has so much #thrill 💫 PS: my first #shoot/show was at an Indo-Chinese restaurant, #TheChinaClub @radissonbludxb, thus the outfit 🤪 and excuse my tired eyes 👀 // #radissonblu #whatscookinguae

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Met Huda and Mona Kattan at the prestigious exclusive Huda Boss Season 2 Premier party

Met Heiz Beck – he launched his new menu at Social by Heinz Beck at Waldorf Astoria, in Palm

Ambassador of ClassPass

Met Matt Preston for the opening of MasterChef, The TV Experience

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So whoever doesn’t know yet, @MasterChefDXB is the first #MasterChef TV experience/restaurant in the world and it will showcase the talents and recipes of contestants and champions from various global series of MasterChef 🤩 The #exciting bit? The Mystery Box menu — Available to groups of guests numbering two or more, this option will allow adventurous diners to pick their choice of up to 5 ingredients from 10-plus proteins, vegetables and condiments. Reversing the #MysteryBox element of the hit TV series, the inhouse culinary team at ‘MasterChef, the #TV Experience’ will then be challenged to bring the selections to life within a strict 45-minute timespan // I was fortune to have a shot at experiencing this and being mentored by Matt Preston @mattscravat himself! I cooked with Casey @cfitzfitz from @lovindubai 🙌🏽🌎 it was us against @esquiremiddleeast& @shortlistdxb 🤓 such a #funday! // #masterchef #masterchefdxb #throwback

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Met Gordon Ramsay at his very own, Bread Street Kitchen

Met Javed Jaffery, Fawad Khan, Bharti Laughter Queen, Deepika Padukone, Karan Johar, Jackie Shroff and more at the Red Carpet during the Filmfare Middleeast Magazine launch

Met Manish Malhotra, Boman Irani, Celina Jaitley, Mawra Khan, Govinda, Arjun Rampal, Sri Devi and more at the Red Carpet during the Masala! Magazine Awards

Gurkan Sef cooked for us!

One of the few influencers chosen to test drive the Tesla x Liv Bank for an entire day

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The countdown is on! 😎 Only 4 WEEKS LEFT to collect Livions for a chance to enter our Tesla draw ⚡ #Repost #Liv4Tesla #LivBank #LifestyleBank #DigitalBank #EmiratesNBD #MyDubai #UAE #DXB ——————— YOU can #win the #TESLA with @LivBank!! Simply #download the digital bank #app and use code NAOMI and start collecting those Livions! ⚡You just need a smartphone, over 18+ and a valid Emirates ID. I was lucky enough to #testdrive the #TeslaModelS for a day!! ♥️ #ThankYou @LivBank @TeslaMotors – both such awesome #digital forward thinking brands 👩🏻‍💻 Guys, this car is the #best car I’ve ever driven.. never expected an #electriccar to feel so different! I want to win it with #LivBank! Even the hospitality at the showroom was simply #phenomenal and very different from what I've experienced in the past. Thank you Nitin and Khaleel from #Tesla!! 😊

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A visit to the Instagram and Facebook MiddleEast HQ

One of the few influencers chosen to represent the Standard Chartered marathon campaigns

Collaboration with Emaar Hospitality

Met Jacqueline Fernandes

Brand Ambassador for Fairmont the Palm

Traveling with Singapore Tourism Board x Emirates Airlines

Partied with Logan Paul

With Fat Joe and Rashed Belhasa at the Rashed Belhasa Influencer Nation Launch Event

Opportunity to “Meet & Greet” Will Smith

Exclusive Tasting Session with Asha Bhosle (4th best chef in the world) at his very own Asha Bhosle

Exclusive Tasting Session with Heinz Beck at his very own Social

Exclusive Tasting Session with Asha Bhosle at her very own Asha Bhosle

Exclusive Tasting Session with Vikas Khanna at his very own Vikas Khanna

Exclusive Tasting Session with Vineet Bhatia 

Exclusive Interview with Sanjeev Kapoor 

Privileged to be one of the first in the Middle East to try the ‘Patrón En Lalique Serie I’ Tequila (priced at $7,000)! There are ONLY 500 bottles available globally. Click here to read the blog post

Had a staycation/got invited to all The Luxury Collection Hotels in UAE (3 in UAE and only 114 in the world)

Got invited for a staycation at Jumeirah Group Hotels – Jumeirah Group Hotels

Launch of Chizza with KFC Arabia (1 of the first people in GCC to try/launch the Chizza)

Cook-off at Google HQ with @chef.b

One of the first people in the region to drive the all-new 2019 Bentley, ContinentalGT & BentaygaV8

CX Strategist at Du

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Majority of the times I can’t discuss what I do at @IBM as it’s #confidential client work, but I’m so glad I can officially discuss this ☺️ // I was part of the #UI/UX #Digital Transformation team at @du and was a #CX Strategist for a few months last year to recreate their apps and websites. As a CX #Strategist, my role was to study customer journeys, the platforms KPI’s, build #roadmaps and do #market research/#analyze over 20/30 other similar #platforms breaking down and comparing each of their features (to the very minute detail). #du was one of the #best projects I’ve worked for as part of #IBM ☺️ those #latenights, intense #research, #hardwork, etc paid off #worthit! 💙 After the launch of the new platforms, du had a 15% increase in #mobile usage, 10% #increase in return users & 14% increase in customer #interaction and time spent on site 🙏🏽👏🏽 visit this link for more: https://www-935.ibm.com/services/ibmix/case-studies/du.html

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Facetimed with Raghu Ram!

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