Second Week In Qatar (Part 1)

On the second week, we met Rezza, my university's colleague and asked him to join us for 'Takbir Raya' at the Malaysia Embassy.

Pose after 'Takbir Raya' at the Malaysia Embassy.

At Doha Sport's Complex.

Driver of the month, hehe.

Window shopping at Villagio.

Listening to 'Khutbah Raya' after solat Aidiladha.

First Week in Doha, Qatar

11th December 2007, the day I started my journey to Doha, Qatar. My parents sent me to the Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 7.30 am and we arrived there at about 8.30 am. My flight was at 11 am. My mother and my sister will join me later on the December 16th. As usual, my dad will not join us since he rather to go for a vacation only for 4 of us. Two of my cousins, Alif and Afif joined me. They arrived at the airport with their parents.

We arrived in Bahrain at 3 pm, local time, after almost 9 hours of flight. We strolled around to wait our flight transit to Doha that was at 5 pm.

6 pm was the time we arrived in Doha international airport. To get Qatar’s visas, we have to get an E-Cash card from a bank before the immigration's counters that cost at QR (Qatari Riyal) 320. QR 100 per person and QR 20 for deposit. We met our uncle and aunty at the airport about 15 minutes later.

We stayed at our uncle’s house at Zaharatul Wadi, Al Duhail. There’s not much we did on the first week since we arrived here. Sometimes we went to Corniche in the evening and Souk Waqif in the late evening. Corniche is the nice place to jog and to have for an evening tea since it is located just beside the beaches. Souk Waqif is a place to smoke ‘Sisha’ and shopping. It is like a place to get socializes.

Other than that we went to City Centre Shopping Mall and Villagio for window shopping. Lol. I met my university’s colleague, Ammar and his family at his home in Al Mesilla. They all went for a winter vacation in Iran on that week. Fuel here is very cheap, that is QR 0.80 per litre. On that Friday, I had to send my aunty and uncle to the airport since they had to go to Mecca for Hajj. Then, the following weeks, I had to send my cousins, Damaq and Hanis to go to school. On Sunday, I had to go to the airport to fetch my mom and my sis.

That’s all for the first week. I’ll continue later in my next post.

Rempitism

I guest, you guys heard this word for the first time, right? This word only can be found in Malaysia. It refers to bikers who had really bad attitude on normal public roads, such as, speeding like hell, like to disturb other road users, doing illegal stunts and so on.

However, at one time, this thing becomes worse as it involves drugs, snatching handbags, gangsterism and even murders. Usually, these bikers ride on small capacity bike such as Honda Cubs and came in packs. Our police are trying their best to crack down these people for them to face justice.

A lot of roadblocks have been put to trace them down. Even the government has to involve in this situation to educate other bikers not to become rempits. Thank God that, their numbers are decreasing from time to time.

I really pity to other bikers, including me, since, because of them, we become the victims of this situation. Normal daily commuters who are using bikes have to be stopped and interrogated by the police at each roadblocks they faced everyday and these will effect their traveling time. Sadly, these normal commuters have been targeted by other motorists of becoming threats to them. I didn’t blame the police because of it, but I blamed these people because they make our life miserable.

I bet that, this thing also happen anywhere, right? How do you guys react to this kind of problem? What should we do to solve this problem since it involves our young generations?
picture take from Google Pictures

Nik Iskandar's wedding in Penang.

The wedding was held on 2nd of December 2007 at Penang Island. This is the first time I attended a friend's wedding in my life. lol. Since I just finished my final exam for this semester, I took this opportunity to attend his wedding.

Therefore, I decided to bring along my mom and my little sister. We took about 3 and a half hour to drive all the way from Kuala Lumpur to Penang.

We arrived Seberang Perai in the afternoon. The traffic was quite slow, since, it was Sunday. There were a lot of construction on the Penang's Bridge for maintenance perposes. My little sister like about it since she is taking civil engineering.



As we arrived on the Penang Island, we got lost. I blamed myself for not asking the people around us for direction. However, we managed to get back on the right track half an hour later. lol.

There were a lot of people in my friend's compound, since he is 'anak Dato'. Then, we took our lunch, and for your information, the foods were really good. Other than that, bikers from Utara Bikers Group attended the wedding.





Me and my sister managed to take several pictures. Then, at about 3 o'clock, after tiring eating and taking pictures, lol, I met my friend, congratulated him and then, we went home. He was really busy, entertaining other guests. Nevertheless, I was really happy because I managed to attend a friend's wedding, since I am really busy with my final year.

We took ferry to go home and guest what, the PLUS Highway's traffic was really slow. We reached home at 10pm. I would like to thank to my mom and my little sis to join me to the wedding and also thanks to Nik for his invitation. Overall, the journey took about merely 700km.

MotoGP Championship 2007: Final Results

I'm very sorry for not reviewing the last 4 races. I'm quite busy with my study and Final Year Project, since, this is my Final Year in UTP. Other than that, I've got some difficulties with my ex-girlfriend, which she made my life harder for the last 3 months, lol. Anyway, I'm glad she's already gone in my life, and therefore, my life will be back to be normal, again, lol.

I'll make a quick review about the last 4 races, since, all of you already know all of it. In Japan, the winner was Capirossi, then, in Australia and Malaysia, both won by Stoner and the last race in Valencia, the winner was Pedrosa.

This were the results. Championship classifications are arranged with the highest accumulation points at the top.

Yeah, good to be blogging again.

source from MotoGP.com

Did you realize what mistakes you've done today? (Part 4)

The first step to becoming a better rider is to recognise the mistakes. This is 15 of the most common ones and how you can avoid them.

MISTAKE: RIDING AS IF ALL ROAD SURFACES ARE THE SAME TWO things keep us on the road. One is our tyres, the other is the road surface. If we haven't got a good bond between them we're going to struggle to ride fast. Watch the road surface and learn how your bike feels when it's on different surfaces. We know what happens if we hit a drain cover or metal studs while cranked over, but some roads, where you see black lines in the bitumen where cars have started to wear out the road, can be just as slippery. Reading the surface can also give you advance warning of what is around the next bend. See horse manure and it ain't an all-girl marching band you can expect to find on the next straight. Lots of skidmarks from heavy braking could suggest the next corner is tighter than it initially looks. Remember the rubber part of the story, too. We all know someone who crashed on new tyres - cold tyres can be just a dangerous. Be patient, take the time to warm them, then enjoy.