Wednesday, February 25, 2009

National Day

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Today is Kuwait's National Day, which happens to tie in well with tomorrow -- Kuwait's Liberation Day. The Liberation Day celebrate...
Saturday, February 21, 2009

Arabic

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I'm back taking Arabic lessons again, been about a year since I last took lessons. This will make the third time I have taken an Arabic...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Connections

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I had coffee with Karen C the other evening and it was nice to meet her and her daughter before she left to go back to Canada. Next time Ka...
Friday, February 13, 2009

Surgery

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This week I had a mole removed that was just above my left eyebrow. A few months ago it had grown and slightly changed colour, which is a w...
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Financial issues in Canada, Dubai and Qatar

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Well it would appear that the financial crisis has finally hit Canada. Reports are out that unemployment rose 129,000 in January. That is ...
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Friday, February 06, 2009

Books

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As part of my Christmas holidays I also picked up a lot of books, one of my favourite gifts. Because I'm mostly a non-fiction reader my...
Monday, February 02, 2009

Spring cleaning

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For Christmas I received a number of shirts, socks, underwear etc so I figured it was about time to do a spring cleaning of my closet and dr...
Saturday, January 31, 2009

Canada

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It was great to be in Canada again (or more specifically, Alberta) to visit the family, despite the economic gloom. Economically things see...

Christmas in January

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Looking back through my blog I realise that it just briefly touched on why I go to Canada in January (and that blog post was 2 years ago). ...
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London

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I always love visiting London but most times I am there in January so it is usually gray, miserable and cold. This time I was a bit better,...
Friday, January 30, 2009

The Return

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Okay, I'm back! Actually I got back a couple of days ago but it takes a while to recover from 25 hours of travel over 10 time zones. I...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

Vacation

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Vacation time again, this time for my annual trip back home to Canada. I fly to London where I am staying with my friend David and his fian...
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More tennis!

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Once again there is more a great tennis in Doha! The Qatar Open has as its big draws Federer, Nadal, Murray and Roddick, and I was fortunat...
Monday, January 05, 2009

Blog Spring Cleaning

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As part of the new year I have decided to do a bit of spring cleaning on the blog. I'm going to start going back through the old posti...
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Saturday, January 03, 2009

Books and History

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Happy New Year everyone! Well after telling people in Qatar I was going to have a mellow New Year's Eve I got an invitation that day fro...
Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Aoud

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I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas. I went to friend's place for a Christmas Eve dinner and then I had a late lunch/early dinner Chr...
Monday, December 22, 2008

Christmas

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Christmas in Qatar does not have quite the excitement that it would in most parts of the world, not least in part because Muslims do not cel...
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Friday, December 19, 2008

National Day

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I forgot to mention that December 18 was also Qatar's National Day so I got the day off work. Celebrating this day as the National Day ...
Thursday, December 18, 2008

Singapore eating

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Okay so how was Singapore? In a word -- delicious. Singapore is what you would call a 3-or-4-day city, not one of those places that could k...
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Monday, December 08, 2008

Eid

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So what has been up this week? Well for starters the Museum of Islamic Art finally opened its doors to the public, after about three years o...