Thank you so much for your swift responses, it is comforting to know that there is life out there in cyber space and you can be heard and read all the way from (GMT +4) to (GMT -5) where I’m located in Canada.
Thank you also for your warm welcoming notes, particularly from Lady, Easy and Dweller.
Suit or no suit; well, I have been in London on several occasions and noticed that businessmen wear dark ( black! ) 3-piece suits even in the middle of July, when the outdoor temperature is 30+ C. Not only I think, that it is a very British thing, but also it is a known fact that, Nordic races do not suffer from the heat and perspire as much as Orientals. In my hey day, policemen and priests wore black in the winter and switched to white in the summer, except for the Pope of course, who always wears white. Here in Canada, “black� is appropriate for ballroom dancing… (slow-slow quick-quick) or for a Maître-D in a five-fork French restaurant (voulez-vous du poivre monsieur...): any luck in finding those in ad-Dawhah, Lady? :)
I knew some of my questions would be controversial, I still hope that I will get some Qatari view points also. I raised the traditional clothing issue because, 35 years ago, when I left the Middle East, this wouldn’t have been an issue and we all know that today, sensitivities have grown greatly in Middle Eastern countries. I agree that if you have blue eyes and blond hair, you will probably look like Lawrence of Arabia. But for a darky like me, with predominantly brown eye/hair features...?
Easy, I do indeed gracefully accept your help. You would probably like to know that 35 five years ago English was my fourth language and Arabic was my second language. Fortunately or unfortunately English has moved up to the second position and Arabic has moved down to the fourth, for obvious reasons. But within a period of six months of full immersion, I believe I would be able to recover fully my vocabulary in the written language (nahhawi), then work on the local dialect.
Thank you so much for your swift responses, it is comforting to know that there is life out there in cyber space and you can be heard and read all the way from (GMT +4) to (GMT -5) where I’m located in Canada.
Thank you also for your warm welcoming notes, particularly from Lady, Easy and Dweller.
Suit or no suit; well, I have been in London on several occasions and noticed that businessmen wear dark ( black! ) 3-piece suits even in the middle of July, when the outdoor temperature is 30+ C. Not only I think, that it is a very British thing, but also it is a known fact that, Nordic races do not suffer from the heat and perspire as much as Orientals. In my hey day, policemen and priests wore black in the winter and switched to white in the summer, except for the Pope of course, who always wears white. Here in Canada, “black� is appropriate for ballroom dancing… (slow-slow quick-quick) or for a Maître-D in a five-fork French restaurant (voulez-vous du poivre monsieur...): any luck in finding those in ad-Dawhah, Lady? :)
I knew some of my questions would be controversial, I still hope that I will get some Qatari view points also. I raised the traditional clothing issue because, 35 years ago, when I left the Middle East, this wouldn’t have been an issue and we all know that today, sensitivities have grown greatly in Middle Eastern countries. I agree that if you have blue eyes and blond hair, you will probably look like Lawrence of Arabia. But for a darky like me, with predominantly brown eye/hair features...?
Easy, I do indeed gracefully accept your help. You would probably like to know that 35 five years ago English was my fourth language and Arabic was my second language. Fortunately or unfortunately English has moved up to the second position and Arabic has moved down to the fourth, for obvious reasons. But within a period of six months of full immersion, I believe I would be able to recover fully my vocabulary in the written language (nahhawi), then work on the local dialect.