Posts Tagged ‘City Center

Brrrr!

In: Personal

9 Jan 2008

It’s been a cold week in Qatar since there had been a sand storm last Monday.  This came as a surprise because the past weeks have been quite warm unlike last year’s.  We actually thought that it’s really starting to get warm and that the winter will be over soon.  People coming from their holiday [...]

Asian Games

In: Qatar|Sports

29 Nov 2006

It’s definitely just a day away. Qatar, Doha in particular has been preparing for the Doha Games. I know everybody here in Doha has got a taste of the inconvenience brought about by these numerous road constructions. Thank God it’s almost over soon although unfortunately, some of the main thoroughfares are still not complete. Two [...]

As I’ve said on my previous post, I’ve been doing Pilates. The only bad thing that has come out of doing Pilates is having dark spots on the knees because in Pilates you do some kneeling. My trousers aren’t long enough to cover my entire knees. Two weeks into Pilates, I noticed that I’m starting [...]

Here’s the update to our previous price list for groceries in Qatar. This time, we have a list of the prices of fruits and vegetables. If you go and download the Microsoft Excel file, you’ll notice that items have been given a category and their respective prices in Qatari Rial (QR), US dollar (US$) and [...]

Malls in Qatar

In: Qatar|Shopping

1 Aug 2006

We’ve been to the following Malls in Qatar: 1. City Center Doha (CCD) – This is said to be the biggest Mall in the Middle East for now (a bigger mall is being built in Dubai and to be completed next year). Having 4 floors, it has the Carrefour Supermarket, Home Center (furniture), Qtel office, [...]


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