Selamat Jalan PM

PM here means Pakcik & Makcik!!!! Not what you think. Sorry to dissappoint you.

The time has finally come to bid farewell to Pakcik & Makcik. They are actually parents of Yeen.

Both have been in Doha for almost six months to provide support to the proud parents of the new born, Baby Myra. Since Baby Myra is their first baby, both of them need every possible support. For that, Yeen invited her parents to be with them during the last month of her pregnancy and confinement period.

Pakcik & Makcik had been part of our live in Doha. They followed every single activity we organised from Breakfast@Corniche to makan-makan session.

Last weekend was the last weekend we spent time with Pakcik & Makcik. For that, Aiyeen organised a BBQ followed by karaoke session. Pakcik also contributed few songs.. My comment-Should I know Pakcik sing so well, I would not touch the microphone that night...hahaha. I would not embarrass myself...

For those who did not want to menSUMBANGkan lagu that night, they decided to play table tennis instead...

Such much activities, so much food.. What a way to bid farewell to Pakcik & Makcik.. Harap-harap berjumpa lagi..

Wheels & Heels 2008

This is the 3rd consecutive year for such event to be held in Doha at The Corniche yesterday. We braved the temperature of 13 Celcius to attend the event.

The stunt by professional bikers attracted the most...

Thanks to our good friend working with Platinum Sponsor of the event for highlighting to us about the event. Else, our Friday would evolve around makan-makan
only..haha

It ain't over till it is over

The cold weather does not seem to go away for now. Winter is not over yet. When we think it is over, it is here again.

Yesterday was very cold. Temperature was around 13 Celcius only.

When I received the forecast for the weekend from a colleague on Thursday, I shrugged it off. How could it be when the whole week last week temperature was around 20 Celcius. True enough, at around 7.30pm on Thursday evening strong wind started to blow. And mercury dropped!!! Yesterday, the temperature was back to 13 Celcius for the whole day.

And today, it is bright sunny Saturday. Is it not fun to live in this country? It is a challenge itself to keep up with the weather...

Still fresh in my memory about a comment made by Margaret Thatcher, ex-Premier of UK on British weather. She once said that you could have 4 seasons in 1 day in UK.. hmm. I just hope we don't have to face it in Qatar..

Qatar Masters 2008 - The Result

Web posted at: 1/28/2008 2:51:50Source ::: The Peninsula

Doha • Australia’s Adam Scott captured his second Qatar Masters title, but did it in a most astonishing manner - breaking the clubhouse record with a blaze of birdies in the final round of the $2.5m title.

Playing impeccable golf, Scott yesterday carded 11 under par 61 for an overall score of 20 under par 268 to win his second title in Doha.

For his sublime efforts, the 2002 Qatar Masters champion went home richer $416,660.

The Australian bettered the efforts of nine under par 63 by Mark Pilkington and Robert Karlsson, both in 2001. It is the first time that Qatar Masters has been won by a player twice. Former Qatar Masters champion, Henrik Stenson of Sweden, finished in second spot, with a card of seven under par 65 and 17 under par 271 overall.

The third place was secured by Charl Schwartzel of South Africa. Schwartzel ended his Doha trip with a card of five under par 67 for an overall score of 15 under par 273.
“It was some day, yes. I came out of the gate firing and that got me going. I was able to keep pressure on the guys leading before play started today so that helped,” Scott said.

“Henrik did everything he could, shooting a card of 65, but I guess the guy who finishes the round first, and with a lot of birdies like I did, will always put pressure on the other players,” the Australian added.

Qatar Masters 2008

Got up early on Friday morning just to watch Qatar Masters 2008 with Ramzi. We have been in this country for almost 7 months. Sadly, we have not got the opportunity to play golf here. Time is not the reason. Qatar has only one golf course. It is called Doha Golf Club. For its exclusiveness, it comes with a great 'price'.

I could still remember getting up at 4.30am in the morning just to play golf in Vietnam. Tee off time could be as early at 5.45am especially during summer time. You can call me crazy. But that what golfers do. Getting up in the wee hours in the morning just to tire themselves at the golf course. Yet we call it sport..hehe.

Adam Scott reading the game on hole 18 yesterday...

The golf club was virtually empty at around 8.45am on the 2nd day of tournament day and on weekend! Amazing. I once watched a golf tournament in Malaysia years ago. I could still remember how pack the golf course was. Here in Doha, you could hardly see any human beings. The car park was also deserted. Oh my.. The only reason I could think of was lack of serious promotion by the daily newspapers. Or perhaps the locals are not into sports especially golf?

I also consider Qatar is the only place in the world where you can have the world's top golf players walking beside you!!! You can also take a good shot of them. Shall I again consider myself lucky being in Qatar?

It was only during uploading the photos from my camera to laptop I realised that the photos had a foggy marks at the top half of them..For that reason, all the photos were not as sharp. The photos looked like as if we were having a terrible winter day yesterday when in contrary it was bright and sunny day yesterday with temperature around 17 Celcius. Major disappointment to me. Else it would be perfect photos of the world's top golf players.. Is it a good reason to watch the tournament today?

Wanna have breakfast?

Breakfast!!! The was the first thing that came to my mind when I opened my eyes today.

The question is where you can find decent place for breakfast? We have tried everywhere. You just name them. We went to Johnny Rockets. We went to prata shops. We even went to Cafe Le Notre. McDonalds does not serve breakfast..sigh.. Recently we discover that The Opera at The Mall is also serving breakfast... hmm. We have yet to try it though.

Among the places we went, we gave Cafe Le Notre a thumb up. A bit on the pricy side but excellent environment. Meals were tastefully served.

Around Doha Today...

If you drive to the shopping malls today, you will notice that there are sales going on.

We went to The Landmark again today.. ( Mind you we were there last week also )

- Marks & Spencer is giving 50% discount
- BHS Reopening Sales comes with 25% discount
- For mother-to-be, Mothercare is slashing away the price up to 50%
- Evans also come up with buy one get one for free
- Sergent Major also joins the sales
- The best Osh Kosh can offer is only Best Buy

The list continues....

One word of advice-Please come with tonnes of cash or credit cards..