Posts Tagged ‘city center doha

Mothers Day

In: Personal|Qatar

25 Mar 2008

Mors dag in Danish, Moederdag in Dutch, Muttertag in German, Matru divas in Hindu, Día de la Madre in Spanish; but whatever language it is, Mothers Day as we all know, is a special day when we honour our mothers.  Not that we only allot one day to honour our mothers, Mothers Day is the [...]



It was just a simple dinner spent at Beijing Chinese Restaurant.  The night before, Tian already asked me to decide where we’d go for our Valentine’s date.  I wanted something oriental, something Chinese for a change.  We’ve always had Mexican and Italian most of the time so I thought it would be nice to try something else.  I asked friends what is the best place to go to for Chinese food and it’s unanimous, they all said "Beijing Restaurant".  So after Tian’s work, we had to wait for 2 more hours since the restaurant won’t open until 5:30 pm.

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 [...]

I-Spy Bookshop

In: Qatar|Shopping

17 Feb 2007

Newly opened I-Spy Bookshop on the 3rd floor of City Center, Doha, Qatar I-Spy Bookshop is the latest bookstore in town, located at the 3rd floor of City Center. Although it has opened  for business less than two weeks with its grand opening still to come, I-Spy has already  generated a positive response from customers [...]

All Geared Up

In: Sports

17 Aug 2006

Last weekend we’ve decided that my friend and I are going to enroll ourselves into tennis lessons after some convincing from my friend’s friend and our husbands. The first scheduled meeting was Monday, although the formal lessons will only start this Thursday (August 17). So on Sunday, off we went to City Center to look [...]


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