Now Thats What I Call Qatar 2

Hey ya'll

Its day 3 in Qatar (if u include the evening that I arrived), and its been fairly action packed but less-so than it could have been!

Yesterday after i wrote the blog, i went out to lunch at the Marriot hotel which isnt that far from my office for lunch, fuckin living it up!!lol!

Im hanging out with the disciples, lol Michael, Peter, Chris, Paul and John.... these are my fellow bechtel employees who live in my building. There all really nice guys, all of em apart from Paul(my flatmate) are English, and the ones whom i went to the Marriot and today i went to Ritz Carlton with them, which is fucking opulent place but more on that later!

So yesterday i did pretty much fuck all, attended a few meetings, including a security meeting that stated that Bechtel is supposedly a target for some Jihadi organisations, so we got to be careful, oh well! Oh and the guy who did the security was this croatian guy and the HR women who gave my intial induction and i was thinking what the fuck is the chances that there would be 2 croatians on the project, and well it turns out pretty f'ing likely when they are married!

So after work I went back to my flat, and then went shopping to the main shopping centre, i been here before and it has changed in certain aspects, but largely the same but just on a grand scale, like the whole middle east, there is a massive construction boom, but unlike say Dubai, they are also building grand mosques everywhere, and aren't ashamed of being Islamic, if you go to Dubai, for a Muslim city, the Mosques are dreadful, the grand mosque in Dubai, is Jumeria Mosque which is like just a standard Mosque in Doha, and for that I respect Doha much more than Dubai.

However the majority of very rich gulf arabs are all the same, islamic by name and in public but non-islamic by nature in private, last night we went to Doha Club, which is a genetelemns sports club, which is also like a place where all arabs go and get drunk!! Then my buddy Peter dropped me home cuz i was tired whilst EVERY1 from bechtel went to a party at the Ridges, where it seemed everyone jus got pissed and then over the next few weeks it will be gossip galore!!

This morning I met the disciples at the Ritz Carlton, which when any of you guys visit we will have to go to for brunch, it was 40quid, but was WELL WORTH IT, if u compare it to England, because the brunch had everything, you name an item of food and it had it, it was jus wicked, and everyone there was either white or LOADED arabs, like their was ferraris outside the place, were going to Dinner on the top floor tonight as wel, which will be cool, as for once i can attend a pompous french restaurant and eat everything which will be allow me to truly to taste if french food is all that!

I hope you guys checked out the blog, www.clarencegategardens.co.uk , because its jus so funny, FM is Farouq Miah, an Investment Banker from Lehman Brothers, and each post another person will be unreviled, because this is what Dupree does!!!

Aneway best go take care

Asif