zal dah lama berangan nak keliling dunia... kalau boleh nak lihat dan menjejak seantero pelusuk dunia... tapi duitnya tak pernah cukup. Ada jugak dia berjalan ke sana sini tapi hanya beberapa hari sahaja. Oleh itu bagi meneruskan cita-cita, zal mengambil keputusan untuk hidup mencari rezeki di negara orang. *Itu dulu... Sekrg zal dah keje kat Malaysia... dah kawin dan ada anak... jd travel dia dah lain... so check out his other blog... travellingbabies.blogspot.com
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Freezing doha...
memang sejuk melampau... malam2 blh cecah bawah 10, kata wife, dia tgk dlm internet, ada harapan cecah 4degree... tu beku tu... anyway, from the news paper said:
DOHA: Qatar experienced the lowest temperature of the season yesterday, as a cold wave from Siberia that hit the country over the week end has left the whole country shivering.
People pulled out their woollens and took shelter indoors to protect themselves from the frosty winds that caused a sharp dip in mercury last evening.
The temperature was expected to dip below nine degrees Celsius inside the city and as low as five degrees in the open areas outside in the wee hours.
“I have been in Qatar for many years and for the first time I am experiencing such a low temperature. We went out in the evening and could not stay even for 15 minutes. It was so cold and windy,” was how an Indian professional, Mohammed Naushad explained the rare experience.
Another Doha resident, S Ataullah who chose to go for a picnic to the Al Khor beach with his family yesterday morning had a real tough time.
“It was a planned trip and there were three families in the group including six children. I advised others to cancel the trip due to the bad weather but they thought it would be fine since it was a sunny day. We spent about three hours in the beach and all the time we were struggling to protect ourselves from the cold, dusty winds,” said Ataullah.
He said one of the children in the group had breathing difficulties during the trip.
“He was an asthma patient. Luckily we had kept an inhaler with us,” said Ataullah.
Thanuja Jansz, a Sri Lankan insurance executive and a mom of a kid said: “I have even fallen sick because of this cold weather. So we decided to stay indoors otherwise the children too might fall sick and miss school.”
Shops reported brisk sales for blankets and sweaters yesterday, with reports about the cold spell spread by word of mouth. Rumours were also circulating about the temperature dipping to zero degrees due to some unknown phenomenon in Iraq or Iran.
The Meteorology Department has attributed the sharp fall in temperature to a cold wave coming all the way from Siberia. The cold spell is expected to prevail over the country until the end of this week but the strong northwesterly winds could subside by Tuesday, say weathermen.
The minimum temperature expected today is eight degrees while the maximum temperature could settle at 17 degrees, according to a forecast issued by the department last evening.
korang jgn terkejut, bila interview newspaper ni semua nya org south asia je... mmg gitu lah. besar lagi news cover region south asia dr qatar sendiri :-)
Monday, January 09, 2012
Bina Badan

setelah 15 org ni beraksi dipentas. pengacara, yg agak kelakar mengacarakan event ni, i.e. mcm pertandingan pakaian beragam sekolah rendah je cara dia conduct, akan panggil 5 peserta based on favourite each juri. apparently masa ni aku dah rasa sazali samad tak menang, sbb dr 9 (kot) juri, hanya sorang je yg panggil dia beraksi semula (flexed their muscle depan2 juri). mind you, whole event conducted in arabic, cuma skit2 english. ada lah peserta tak paham arab ni yg terpinga2 n tak ke depan bila dipanggil, mana lah depa nak paham.


Thursday, January 05, 2012
HIQ : Qatar Open 2012

but as the weather is currently extremely good... 14 degree - 20 degree. sejuk with sunny sky. mmg best buat picnic... jalan2... lepak2 outdoor... mmg best. 2 minggu sudah aku dah g fuwairit mandi laut... minggu ni nak g mana ye??? let's see... enjoy your weekend!!!
Sunday, December 18, 2011
Al Youm Watani..
kalau rajin aku akan go around ambik gambar bandar sempena hari kebangsaan ni.. but for record, dah 5 tahun aku kat sini, masih lagi aku tak g perbarisan pepagi tu. tak pernah turun, tgk tv je. be fair la kot, 20++ tahun kat malaysia pun aku tak pernah pergi tgk perbarisan. dah la malaysia mcm lebih meriah...
anyway, tahniah!!!
Saturday, December 03, 2011
Police Report (3)
sesampai je kat balai polis, aku muncul je kat depan pak polisi yg deal kes aku ni terus dia angkat tangan mcm marah. masa tu dia tgh on the phone, so dia tak lah marah aku. letak je telefon... dia cakap
"hey rizal, kenapa lah ko tak bg lagi id kawan ko tu? aku dah bg tau kan no telepon aku? kenapa ko tak sms? kenapa tak call? nape tak dtg n bagi no id tu. tu je aku nak!!! sekarang kes ni dah nak masuk kes besar. dah nak kena tahan kereta ko tu! apasal ko tak bagi???" (semua in arabic campur2 english lah... ni aku translate based dgn apa aku paham lah...)
aku jawab.." er er... sorry"
dia cakap... dah... g bagi kat org sana... pastu dia jerit kat assistant dia, suruh isi report kes and ambik id nombor kawan aku tu. semua computerised. and sesudah je dia isi report tu. aku dpt sms "your car is no longer needed by the police"... pergh... tu je ke...
settled... dia cuma nak id kawan aku tu sbb dia nak isi form sapa pemandu kereta. tu je. n aku nampak dia tulis kat report bertulis, takde kes. so kes ditutup. alhamdulillah...
pengajaran... kalau ada calar2 bekas2 langgar dinding sbb parking or langgar tong sampah ke, baik lah repair cepat2. so aku pun buat lah report/minta kebenaran utk buat general repair kat semua calar2 satu kereta. dah dpt pun. n aku kena lah repair within 1 month. after that, tiida would be beautiful, mcm br beli...
Thursday, December 01, 2011
Babi di Doha...


tp yg menjadi kerisauan aku plak... adakah berpotensi babi2 ni digunakan utk restaurant2 kat doha ni. mungkin tak satu hari nanti babi ni akan terjual kat restauran2... so jadi mcm malaysia lah plak, nak kena be careful n tak leh je gi sewenang2 nya... especially pinoy restaurant, not that aku g pun kedai pinoy ni skarang, tp kena extra careful. kenkadang restaurant nama italian tp org keje nya pinoy... hmm... harap2 tak lah...

ada org kata jugak ni lah durjana nak dptkan wc 2022... makin byk negara ni kena open up utk jd lebih liberal. depa kata one day, liquor mesti blh dijual merata2... consumption of liquor blh kat public. hotel menu include babi. and ada restaurant yg tak halal. sama macam kat dubai, hotel2 depa, buffet spread semua ada babi... camne nak makan dah lepas ni... :-(

lepas abis kawan aku tunjuk gambar2 babi ni... dia naik plak status fb:
1) Access to QDC is still restricted to liquor permit holders
2) We need the liquor permit to create an invoice
3) No other permit is necessary
4) The value of babi purchases is NOT deducted from your permit value
5) There is no limit on how much you can purchas
6) The current range is restricted to frozen smoked & unsmoked back & streaky bacon and 3 types of sausage (plain, Lincolnshire & Cumberland)
7) All packs (400gms for babibacon & 454gms for babisausages) are QR28 per pack
8) Frozen items like chops, joints and belly babi will be here in about 1 month
9) A chilled Italian range of Salami, Parma Ham etc is coming by air freight and should be here within 7-10 days
10) We hope to get some chilled ham & gammon joints by air in time for Christmas, but we are still negotiating prices on this.
Please note that we sold 10% of the first container in 4 hours yesterday, but don’t worry the 2nd container is arriving in the port today. We will be selling freezer bags from today, but I recommend you bring a cold box with you when shopping for babi.As you will discover we do not really have space for this new venture, so please bear with us if the crowd in the cold room is too much and the queues too long. I recommend you avoid Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays if you want to avoid the queues. Please note we will be building an extension to house this new product range, but this will take at least 6-8 months to complete. We are also planning a separate shop on The Pearl (next to the new liquor shop) but again this is at least 8 months away. The new liquor shop on The Pearl should open by end of January 2012.

eh... tetiba aku rasa mcm blog aku ni jadi post mengiklan penjualan babi plak... hahaha... (harap2 search engine tak lah direct org ke blog aku utk cari babi kat doha ni)
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
police report (2)
tp disebabkan aku baik sgt, aku dilayan kejap2 bila takde org dia nak layan. tp sbb kes aku dia dah tau, dia cuma nak cek kereta sekali lagi. again bwk kat parking belakang pejabat polis. tp takde parking. kena halau oleh polis lain plak. bila dpt parking IO tadi takde plak. aku naik atas, dia tgh layan report lain. then tunggu sat, dia pun turun. sambil turun ada plak org tahan dia. and masa kat atas tu, bukan je dia layan org report, dia ada phone yg org call, handphone pun call. ada colleague kat sblh dia pun mcm tak berapa tahu buat keje, asyik tanya dia je... so dia mmg one man show, so aku tak salahkan dia kalau dia lembab (read: aku tak nak kena saman, ko buat lah apa pun, janji aku tak kena saman :-) )
then lepas dia tgk, dia kata takde apa2 lah kot. dia tanya lagi betul ke takde accident? sbb mmg ada kesan lama calar kat kereta tu sebelah depan bucu kanan, tp sbb langgar masa parking. and according to the IO, kereta yg buat report tu kata dia kena langgar sebelah kiri. aku cakap kat polis, panggil lah org tu, lets clear it all. dia plak kata apa aku nak buat ngan org tu. hmm... malas nak pertikaikan decision dia, aku pun ikut aje lah. tp dia minta ID number kawan aku, ahad nanti aku bg kat dia...
ntah lah bila settle. seronok tgk sistem depa, layan kan aje... aku dgr citer, if lets say aku tetap dgn kata aku, takde accident. aku cuma kena g court n bersumpah je... then case will be dismissed. tp tu lah... kena g court lah plak... panjang plak citer nanti... (to be continued...)
Wednesday, October 05, 2011
police report
Kebetulan minggu lepas aku mmg pinjamkan kereta aku kat member. Aku tanya dia kalau2 ada apa2 yg dia tahu, mcm langgar lampu merah ke, speeding ke, pakai telepon sambil drive ke... etc etc... tp katanya dia ada lah bg high beam kat kereta slow depan dia. then the driver tak puas hati, pastu masa sampai traffic light suruh buka tingkap, tp dia ignore je mamat tu. katanya kereta toyota buruk je org tu. tp mamat tu ada ambik gambar kereta lah.
aku cek ngan budak ofis, depa plak kata, sekarang ni ada kata yg mcm semua penduduk tempatan ni umpama polis x beruniform. sesapa je nampak benda menyalahi undang2 blh ambil gambar dan report. so aku cuak lah kalau2 dia nak report as road rage ke apa ke... so dgn berdebar2 aku ngan member aku g balai polis semlm. around pkl 5ptg. tunggu setengah jam, alih2 kata org kat kaunter kalau sms tu dpt pagi, dtg lah pagi... dtg petang mana dia tau.. so dtg lah esok pagi ye.
so pagi aku g lah balai polis. sistem kaunter dia bernombor, so senang lah. tp rupanya aku kena rujuk kat dept follow up cases yg tak bernombor. so sebagai org yg malas nak menyergah sana sini, aku pun dok berdiri senyap2 kat tepi sampai ada polis nak layan. aku tanya lah apa kes dgn tunjuk sms tu. tetiba polis tu mcm siap tahu nama aku... ish... mcm kes besar ni...
dia tanya, ada accident ke? aku cakap tak de... dia kata ada org report ada accident kereta tu. pkl 11pm kat toyota tower... hmm... aku cakap takde accident pun. n dia tanya samada aku sendiri pandu kereta. aku cakap tak, kawan aku yg bawak (apparently member aku tak dpt join pg tadi). dia kata.. hahaha... ko kena tipu lah dgn org tu nampak nya. pastu aku cakap lah, kawan aku confirm mmg takde accident... so polis tu nak tgk kereta.
so aku bawak lah kereta n dia nampak lah kesan2 calar sana sini... mmg ada lah calar sana sini kesan aku (or wife aku - dia kata aku tuduh dia, aku kata mungkin dia) terlanggar dinding sbb parking basement umah lama kecik skit. mmg ada lah bumper depan sebelah kanan aku jatuh sikit n ada kesan calar color hitam. mmg benda tu jadi blh 11 or 12 tahun lepas. dia kata mungkin tu jadi kesan bukti. tp dia jugak kata yg org tu claim yg langgar dia sebelah kiri.
then aku cakap, mmg takde kesan accident n aku tak nak lah mengaku. then dia cakap kena lah panggil org yg report tu, and aku cakap aku blh tunggu. dia call org report tu few times, n takde plak org tu angkat n dia suruh je aku balik n dia akan call bila ada org tu nak dtg...
so... kes tak selesai... aku nak jugak tahu mcm mana org tu nak cerita mcm mana accident tu. n apa kesan yg ada nanti blh lah match. tp kawan aku dah takde plak nanti, nak balik malaysia. harap2 tak lah jadi apa2. or tak lah kena saman melampau2... let the police man decide.
anyway... on this case... lesson learnt... sabar2 je lah driving... kalau betul2 kita betul br bertindak. tp aku agak kagum dgn sistem sms sini, kalau report, kita dipanggil utk report. n mmg match no tel ngan kereta. kat malaysia blh tak buat gitu? agak2 nya kalau ada kes langgar lari senang tak nak detect sapa langgar? sini blh je detect... terus sampai surat saman... tak leh keluar negara etc... tak kemana larinya org salah sini...
doa-doakan lah takde apa2 buruk akan berlaku... aku nak g jalan2 lagi bulan depan... malas nak bayar2 saman ni... dah lah rekod aku kat sini br kena saman laju sekali je (agak clean lah)...
Monday, January 03, 2011
HIQ : Qa+ar Exxonm0bil 0pen
You can see details of the tournament here... QTF website.
Both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal participate in this tournament... tp depa je lah yg top 10 pun (hehehe... kena bayar lebih ke depa ni?) 4th seeded for this tournament is 22nd seeded in the world ranking... yg lain2 tu lagi lah rendah... but still when it is international match it should be exciting to watch... (still depa ni lagi bagus dr pemain malaysia :-) ) here is the promo for the tournament... main atas air tahun ni... (nice doha skyline in this video)
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Sudah Berlesen...
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Darb al saii...
asalnya... since aku dah sibuk baca2 website national day ni, bersemangat lah nak g tgk national day parade and events... but ended up, malas bgn pagi, tido je... hehehe... tgk kat tv...
but pergi jugak lah ke satu tempat ni, named Darb Al Saii... mcm cultural village... apa yg menyebabkan aku nak sgt ke situ, sbb katanya ada race anjing... hmm... mcm tak jive anjing dan muslim (maybe sbb kita ni org melayu, agak sceptical pasal anjing ni and associated with islam). then aku tahu ada some hunting event (with falcon) and camel parade... so kitaorg pergilah...


Thursday, December 16, 2010
National day quiz..
MOI ni jemput 10 negara (india, pakistan, bangladesh, sri lanka, nepal, indonesia, malaysia, singapore, phillipines, nigeria) utk menghantar pasukan. each pasukan diwakili oleh 10 org. kenapa team2 tu yg terpilih, aku tak tahulah. although macam 'chokia' tp bear in mind, negara ni largely run by pakistanis and indians ni. and depa ni dah dok sini since born kot... well versed ngan selok belok sejarah negara ni.
so, sbb late notification, a day before the quiz (16 hb quiz day) br lah sebok2 aku nak membaca. we were told, yg perlu baca... website MOI, MOFA, National day dan Emiri Diwan. so aku concentrate kat website tu je lah.. in fact tak jugak. aku tak buka pun MOI and MOFA, hoping org lain baca. and for this year since national day ni depa nak angkat nama Jassim bin Mohammed al thani (following the path of the founder), sejarah org ni mmg kena lah tahu betul.... (but the funny thing was, the more you baca sejarah depa ni, the more u rasa mcm, hmmm... betul ke ni? mcm re-write je..., go read cerita mamat jassim ni, mcm hebat giler!!!)
as expected, mmg nampak sgt kuiz ni not really well planned. first, depa blh tak expect ada participant perempuan, malaysia hantar 4 drp 10 participant tu, perempuan... agak kacau jugak masa penyertaan.. tp tu settle... then come with the question and mcm mana nak jawab, kelam kabut and totally not prepared... tp takpe lah, relax je kan. since dah ramai org dr negara2 yg suka complain, we remained silent most of the time, wakil2 negara lain lg byk tak puas hati ngan cara quiz tu... so i let them complained :-) (btw, aku tetiba dilantik jadi team captain hehehe).
in short, quiz tu mcm ni. first sessi jawapan bertulis (24 soalan). soalan diajukan, kita kena tulis jawapan dan serah kat volunteer quiz. pastu bila keluar jawapan, n compare ngan jawapan kita. since geng2 organiser ni tak prepare, agak kelam kabut lah. pastu second round plak, verbal... style sama, tp specific soalan diberikan kat specific team. so nasib lah dpt soalan senang ke susah... kalau tak dpt jawab, soalan tu di pass kat specific team i.e. since it goes by alphabetical order, pass kat negara ikut abjad... agak tak adil, but ikut je lah...
antara soalan... the first five were about mamat jassim tu lah... pretty simple sbb semua org baca bab dia... then come to history section, arts, current affairs, MOI, general info, sports and etc... antara soalan killer yg takde org betul... apakah nama pearl paling luxurios and valuable... (jawapan al-jiwan... malaysia jwb hessa), apa nama dhow yg digunakan utk diving pearl (apa ntah jawapan nya), slogan hari lalulintas 2010 (ntah apa ntah jawapannya), bila first time national anthem qatar dinyanyikan (17th GCC summit, kita jawab GCC summit and tak tepat, dpt 0 markah)... and many more soalan...
then... came the results...
sebelum start 2nd round, diumumkan team Malaysia was leading by 5 points... (56points) India second 51 points, Indon 3rd 50 points.... then masuk second round... serious india mmg nampak berusaha gigih... kitaorg selamba je lah... jawab apa tahu... second round yg patut semua team dpt 4 soalan terpaksa diberhentikan awal, sampai 3 soalan each je... and both of us, india and our team manage to answer 2 out of the 3 questions given to us... which means.... we have won.. yup yeah... Malaysia menjuarai pertandingan Quiz Qatar National Day... :-) (lega... nasib baik tak kalah... seriously, agak pressure gak memikirkan kalau kalah ngan nepal or nigeria hehehe...) hadiah nya QR5000 not sorang QR5000, tp share 10 org.. jadilah... dpt gak 500.
oklah abt organisation ni mmg boleh diimprove... tp for sure, makanan dia bg masa break mmg superb hehehe... very nice roti n sandwich, mana depa dpt ni? kedai mana ntah... tp sedap and banyak!!!

hmm.. kena interview tadi ngan Qatar tribune, tak sabar nak tgk news masuk surat khabar... :-)
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Dinner with Agong... Sultan Mizan

it was a simple dinner... and kesempatan bersalaman tu gave a different experience. tak sangka plak kitaorg tetiba panic skit sebelum bersalam. ye lah, with the protocol merafak sembah, and salam n where to go after salam buat rasa takut2 masa beratur tu. tp since the Agong and wifey were pretty down to earth and relax, takde benda sangat lah... :-)

tp yg kesian nya, food was not up to the standard... the starter and soup and the dessert were ok and no complain sgt lah... but the main course was a bit tasteless and tak kena ngan selera... chicken breast with salty sauce... hmmm... kalau bg lauk kenduri pun ok je hehehe...


and lepas majlis, semua dpt hadiah dr istana. aku rasa aku lambat berebut, sampai hadiah utk lelaki habis. patut lelaki dpt cufflinks and tie pin yg cantik, tp end up kitaorg dpt 2 hadiah perempuan, handbag holder. so lepas ni, sesapa dtg umah aku for dinner, blh lah sangkut handbag kat tepi meja ye :-)

Daulat Tuanku... (hmm, kitaorg tak sempat nak posing sebelah menyebelah dgn tuanku, nanti kena tulah plak kalau posing sebelah2 hehehe)
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Cooler each day
so bersempena winter... dan 3 bulan post-marriage effect i.e. peningkatan berat badan secara mendadak (4kg in 3 months!!!) aku ngan wifey pun plan utk jogging starting this week :-) cool weather ni best, jog for 30 minutes a day for 2-3 times a week kat corniche...



tgk doha city center while jogging... above tu, doha still berkabus, ni jam 6.30 pg ni... (18 degree)
so this is one of many 2011 resolutions, to consistently exercise, bg mengelakkan pemboroian mendadak berlaku... dan mengekalkan stamina dan kesihatan jantung hehehe... plus, jogging n exercise ni, at least bg ruang utk aku makan n continue makan, terasa kurang bersalah skit :-p
Monday, December 06, 2010
Road party...



Thursday, December 02, 2010
The time is NOW!!!
congrats qatar for the chance to hold the world cup... aku tgk kat office je... memang aku sendiri rasa berdebar and berderap jantung bila pengumuman kata Qatar dapat WC2022... i dont know why but i'm as joyful as any qatari... wifey cakap, sebenci2 dia kat negara ni (so far...) dia pun naik excited bila dpt berita... siap tgk live kat tv tu (hmm.. surely tunggu muka anak emir :-p)
seriously big congrats to the country... u deserved it... you can do it... hopefully byk lah pemodenan and although takkan takde inflasi, but harap2 gaji naik lah when inflasi naik :-) and harap2 wifey dpt keje hehehe...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
Qatar big day...
anyway, hari ni Qatar buat final presentation... salute HH Sheikha Mozah for her speech... best... :-) (harap2 esok dpt lah kat Qatar) for those yg tak tgk lagi presentation... watch here: especially for those yg nak target anak emir tu.. :-p
tp kalau nak lompat terus ke speech sheikha mozah... watch this clip:
more presentation video:
p/s harap2 rental yg dijangka naik tu, tak lah terus mendadak naik...
p/s kalau dpt... adakah aku akan dok sini sampai 12 tahun lagi??? lama tu!!
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Nicol won again...




Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Abaya...

p/s - i dont mind u wearing abaya selalu pun :-)
Monday, November 01, 2010
DTFF - still kelam kabut

sesampai je kitaorg, sbb tmpt tu luas jugak, agak clueless where to go... so ikut2 org lah... and we ended up at the red carpet... felt the glimpse of jadi fan of celebrity sbb kebetulan salma hayek (i think the only real international celebrity malam tu) tgh lalu kat red carpet.. nampak lah dia dr jauh... wifey kata baju dia horrendously ugly... i said she was quite petite and pretty... hehehe... this is the best picture we got...



interesting enough... sblm movie start the organiser cakap the film maker akan tunggu sampai abis film utk Q&A session... the main actor was there jugak, tp tak leh nak jawab soalan sbb flight malam tu... tp kitaorg tak tunggu because that was on saturday midnight, ahad aku nak keje... better ciao right after the movie....
