aloha doha!

im back from kuwait! so en route to kuwait, i have to transit at doha, qatar, and have to spend a good 3 hours waiting for my connecting flight.



yeaps, that's the sillyporean bird

from the pictos below, it's easy to assume that doha airport looks almost like a desert, with sand, sand and more sand. amazing how sg was in great need of sand - recall our little indo incident? well, welcome to middle east. the weather was great, with the temp at a cool 23 deg celsius, i thought im loving the place already, but desert being desert, i was told that it can hit near 50deg celsius in summertime.




doha international airport is one of the cleanest airport i've ever encountered! it's almost like changi, but downsize it further. it's amazing how middle easterns have a fetish over having cars as the prizes for their lucky draws, unlike those cheapskate sillyporean ones that give cheaper cars - think mitsubishi and all, they give nice convertibles with the likes of bmw and porsche.


what better way to kill time transiting other than eating? especially when you have horrible food at the flight. if you ever had to take a morning flight with qatar, my advice is take the noodles, and stay away from the omelette! but then again, it's a game of luck, apparently the standard of food varies - my friend's noodles from sg to doha was horrible but mine taken from doha to sg, was passable. so where's consistency? to digress, i think the best airline food comes from dragon air, after all it takes a lot for haagan dazs ice-cream to go wrong, ha! in doha international airport, they have a&w and this little ikea-styled food court. the service was great, and yes, don't throw your sillyporean notes away yet! you can use your sg notes there and the exchange rate was 1sgp to 2qatar dollars (okay, i have no idea what currency they use.)


just to let you have a rough idea of the cost of living, a large plate of fries and mineral bottle comes to S$10. pretty reasonable i'd say, when it comes to airports!



updates on kuwait soon! stay tuned!

-tfc-