My patience is being tested

Qatar, slowly and gradually, is starting to put my extremely tiny level of patience to test. God help someone or the other!

Five minutes ago, I discovered that leave alone my girlfriend, not even my mother and my sister, who hope to visit me in October, more so because they want to see Qatar - my sister being a great disciple of Islam and the Arab world - are not allowed to stay with me in my apartment. It is considered "illegal" for an unmarried expat to stay with a woman who is not his wife!

Yes, mothers, sisters, only blood relations though, can visit. But they have to be put up in a hotel. When I have an apartment here, and I have to put my mum and sis in a hotel, I'd rather create a third testicle for myself.

Their explanation for this law is that a lot of people come here on visit visa, get a job for themselves and then become illegals. Hence, if they stay in a hotel, it will be easier for the authorities to track them down in case there is an issue.

So when my mom and sis come here in October for my birthday, I will have to put them up in a godforsaken hotel!

How sad is that!

Now about my girlfriend, who wanted to come in October to meet me. First of all, an unmarried woman below the age of 35 cannot enter Qatar, even as a tourist. That's apparently a rule.

It's obviously very conveniently applied at will since there are like a zillion chinese prostitutes here running their show.

How the fuck do they enter?????? Why the fuck are they allowed???

Anyway, my girl, the hotshot (a travel photographer) she is, got herself an assignment visa to Qatar.

But today, my landlord told me clearly that he would not permit an unmarried couple to stay together under any circumstances because if the authorities find out, it will be his neck on the line.

So we have fucking had to fucking cancel the mother fucking October plan, and postponed it to December, when I go back and get married to my girl, just for the sake of the certificate, so that she can visit and stay with me as and when she wants.

Not that I'm gonna be here for very long.

One year, my contract gets over, and I am off.

It's goodbye Qatar, after that.

A nice place, peaceful place, but for a 24-year-old it's good just for about a month or so. After that, all it becomes is just another small, hypocritic desert country trying to find itself on the world map.

Qatar, at times, you really suck.

Bigtime.