Life on the Spot! Life and Leisure in Doha, Qatar

We had to send the car to the service center last Wednesday for a maintenance check.  Naturally, we had to rely on other people for transportation.  Thank God, a friend who does transport was able to squeeze me into her schedule in the morning.  She didn’t want to accept payment so I just treated her to brunch.  In the afternoon, we were lucky enough to get a transport.We wanted to rent a car but changed our mind since we thought the car would be ready yesterday.  But it turned out that it’s going to take a bit longer so we had to make a booking with Karwa.  I called at around 4pm, Wednesday.  I was hoping to get a 6:10 am booking, which gives us...

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Our car passed its yearly Car Test last March 18. I was really glad that I didn't have any problems at all. I went to the Testing center in Industrial Area after work and spent less than 20 minutes for the whole registration and test to finish. I was actually worried since the car has a scrape on the front bumper due to my laziness when parking in City Center months ago. Luckily, the guy who was doing the checking decided not to make a big deal of it. Great! Oh, registration for the test costs QR75.The next day, I got the insurance prepared by Doha Insurance in their office in C-Ring Road and paid the minimum charge of QR1250 for a comprehensive insurance. I...

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A friend of ours is leaving Doha for good. She is selling her less-than-a-year-old Toyota Innova. Details as follows:

2007 Toyota Innova (8  months old)
8000 km ONLY
Used for school run
Accident -free
Female-driven

 The car is selling for 65,000QR ONLY.

Call Chiklet at 5906905 if interested.
Please, don't email us.

 

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Whatever happened to “Hiroshan” or Hiro for short, our transport guy?  After a month of a fairly good service, with occasional tardiness and a driving skill that of Schumacher, he just suddenly didn’t show up this morning.  Xiane and I went down just as we always do at about 7am.  There we waited.  I was hoping that my phone would ring after 5 minutes because our driver always does this when he is about to arrive.  Ten more minutes later, no miss call, no gray Mitsubishi Gallant and no Hiroshan! And what’s worse, I had been calling him for the last 10 minutes by this time only to get a voice prompt that the person I am calling is “unavailable”.We had to go back to...

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Failure to display prominently the stickers indicating the expiry date of a vehicle’s registration will cost a motorist a fine of QR300 and one negative point, a list of violations and fines issued by the Traffic Department says.The list is part of a new traffic law that came into force in Qatar on October 2.A vehicle owner is liable to be fined QR500 if he fails to inform the authorities of the loss or damage of the vehicle’s registration card (Istemara) within 10 days. Not applying for a fresh permit within 10 days is also an offence punishable by the same fine.Non-intimation of loss or damage of driving licences and not returning one when found is an offence which can attract a fine of QR300.Motorists...

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