New Years Eve In Qatar

Well i wasn't expecting much for new years eve as it is a small town and no real bars but my hotel has a cocktail club and a sports bar and a sort of disco bar thing, but they said they were having a party in the disco bar thing and the price was 30 dollars, i had no choice to either stay in my room feeling like shooting myself or go to the disco new years eve party. the place was packed after i got in about 9pm after my shopping expedition. but packed with miserable Indian men all desperately looking for some company, they will be shit outta luck in this town. Also there place was full of young Qataris and very amusing it was too to see their attempts at dancing to western music, which was being played by two DJ's from London, pretty average they were two, and probably they made alot of money for it also. anyhow these young qataris who have tons of money were strutting their stuff on the dance floor and all looking like Borat, they had no timing no style and all had crazy arabian nights facial hair or variations of it. but at least these guys did have enough money to have a girlfriend, and i think there is going to be a lot of local girls who will be maiden aunts in Qatar as all these young qataris had Philipino girlfriends, all of the girls they were with were philipino or malaysian, hard to tell the difference. no one long black gown was seen all night. This is a major cultural change that the older generation had never seen coming, that their children may prefer a girl who they had seen before and had even spoken to before and even dated and liked, how they are going to come to terms with this I dont know. only the future will tell. anyhow the night progressed and beer was drunk and large groups of philipino guys and with their girlfriends danced, there was even a few gay philipino guys dancing together, nothing out of the ordinary for the middle east there, and it was a pleasant if not exciting night out, we brought in the new year, i danced a little bit and had a few beers, very expensive beers, and left at about 1am, as i had to get up for work in the morning and when i went to the rear entrance of the hotel it was locked, the front entrance was a 15 minute walk around the entire block, i was pissed off to say the least, what a finale for the year of 2006, i was in the club for 4 hours and didn't speak to anyone. this town isn't for lonely men, you will not meet friends out of work, this town is purely for work and taking your wife of girlfriend along. ah well i may only have 14 days more left to spend in this dusty windswept country and then i go back to Buddha's own back garden of Costa Rica to play with my Hummingbirds, the more i travel the more i realise that there are very few nice places in this planet, and i fortunately have been lucky enough to now live in one of them.