i bet people reading my blog entries has been wondering why i am so into a lot of relaxation and stress-related techniques nowadays. Well, obviously, i am just relieving some of life’s harshness and upheaval. It has been a 2-week marathon of “thinking addiction” and self-punishment that I kept asking if I am still my [...]
Archive for the ‘basic services’ Category
yoga madness
Posted in basic services, tagged yoga in doha on October 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
health cards
Posted in basic services, tagged hamad health card on July 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wow, finally after almost a year, I got my Hamad Health Card! The story why I only got it now is as long as the time I have waited for this, so never mind.
Hamad Health Card is the generic health card issued to a person with residence permit.
Here’s how you can obtain a health [...]
foodstuff part 2
Posted in about doha, basic services, tagged pinoy souq, purefoods hotdogs on July 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Thursday, we went to Souq to check some jewelry, perfumes and filipino products at Kabayan and Pinoy Supermarkets. We were surprise to see hundreds of men (as in men talaga!) being ushered away from the area by policemen. I remembered the Gulf Times news a week ago about single men or bachelors being restricted [...]
foodstuff, etc
Posted in about doha, basic services, tagged food etc on July 6, 2008 | 6 Comments »
here are the list of restos, snackhouses and fastfoods i have tried in doha:
Fast Food: KFC, McDo, Hardees, Burger King, PizzaHut, Pizza Inn, Yellow Cab, Vanellis, Dairy Queen, Mary Brown, Sbarro, Baskin and Robbins, Dunkin Donuts, Krispy Kreme, Fuddrockers, Orient Express, Hagen Dazs, Subway, Opera,
Restos:Bennigans, Chillis, Applebees, Friday’s, Upstairs, Downstairs, Little Manila, Beijing Restaurant, [...]
the ever changing rules
Posted in about doha, basic services, tagged aldeera, business visa, tourist visa on July 5, 2008 | 2 Comments »
i was on a tourist visa when i came to doha last year. Since it was arranged by an agency, I paid a rather high amount for the package including the round trip tickets.
during that time, if you get your visas from a travel agency, tourist visa will cost you around 200 QR for 2 weeks + [...]
wellness and beauty
Posted in basic services, tagged bentosa, pinoy saloon in doha on July 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
i used to enjoy the little pleasures that the saloon offers back home… during weekends, when i’m on a trip and fieldwork or whenever i have time and money. I miss the saloon we used to go to visayas avenue in QC. I think it was bioessence before and they changed the name after the franchise expired. We always go together [...]
private lift
Posted in about doha, basic services, tagged private lifts, transport on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
one of the difficulties that i encountered here in doha was the means of transportation. Imagine yourself waiting for a cab (they call it karwa here) for 20 minutes under a hell-like place and when you finally get one, you’ll be greeted by the generic smell of either body odor, natural odor, acquired odor or all [...]
QTEL simcard
Posted in about doha, basic services, tagged qtel, qtel rates on July 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
mobile roaming makes it easier for one to communicate with anybody when going out of the country but i wonder why using Smart (one of mobile service providers in the Philippines) only provides sms and not voice calls when you use its roaming services. I am not quite sure if having a voice call can be arranged [...]
