Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 12, Miswak

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One of the questions I originally had about fasting and not being able to drink any liquids is, “is it okay to brush your teeth?” I asked...
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Sunday, July 29, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 10, Fasting and Exercise

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One of the issues I'm finding with fasting is that, ironically given it's the summer, I get cold much easier than before. I'm ...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

Ramadan 2012 - Day 9, Ghabga and the Olympic Opening Ceremony

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So that evening a bunch of us met up at a Qatari friend’s place for a ghabga (mid-evening Ramadan meal). We got there around 10pm and hung...
Friday, July 27, 2012

Ramadan 2012 - Day 8, FANAR Islamic Centre events

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Nothing exciting so far today. Slept in, went to work for a little while to pass the time, then went and picked up my cleaner to tidy up t...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 7, Artillery and a Car Show

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Last night I decided to see the artillery gun blast to announce the breaking of the fast. They do this every day during Ramadan. So I hea...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 6

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So what happened the Day 5? In truth it wasn't my intention to post something every day. There's some days that nothing exciting i...
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Monday, July 23, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 4

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So dohanews.co published my article about why I fast during Ramadan . They originally wanted about 250-300 words (that’s not much, it wasn...
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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 3

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Today was the first day of work during Ramadan. The biggest surprise was the traffic, it was way lighter than usual. My average commute ...
Saturday, July 21, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 2

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So maybe the fact that I got full sooner than expected at yesterday's Iftar is a common thing. One of the papers has reported a coupl...
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Friday, July 20, 2012

Ramadan 2012 – Day 1

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I woke up around 3:10am, had the food and drinks that I kept on my nightstand, then went back to sleep until around 8. In some ways weeke...
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Thursday, July 19, 2012

Ramadan 2012 Has Begun!

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Here I thought it would be called tomorrow night but as I was sitting with a friend at a café having mocktails (I'm off the caffeine, r...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Dates

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Need to stock up on some dates for Ramadan. Last year I bought a variety from the supermarket but there are other options: There's ...
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Thursday, July 12, 2012

Ramadan Approaches

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Ramadan is about a week away so it's time to start getting ready. Like previous years I too will be fasting (for previous years see th...
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Monday, July 09, 2012

City Center Mall has Reopened!

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As reported by both a coworker of mine who went over there, me seeing that the security stopping cars is now gone, and a report on dohanews...
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Sunday, July 08, 2012

Caps

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One of my favorite things to wear is baseball caps. Not sure why, maybe it's a Canadian thing, but I started wearing them as a teenage...

City Center Mall Update -- July 8

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I checked this afternoon (the office is near there). Still closed.
Friday, July 06, 2012

City Centre Update - July 6th

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It's 3:15pm on Friday, July 6th and City Centre is still closed. Security is still turning cars away.
Thursday, July 05, 2012

City Centre Mall update

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It's Thursday at 1:30pm and City Centre Mall is still closed. We might be looking at another weekend without City Centre. With the du...
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Monday, July 02, 2012

Air Ticket Prices

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The Gulf Times has an article about the sudden rise in airfare prices now that it is peak season. This is timely as I've just had a si...
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Saturday, June 30, 2012

Revenge of the Secret Ministry

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It looks like the Ministry is monitoring this blog, I tried to drive out this morning only to find construction had blocked all the roads...