YOUR PAGE, YOUR STAGE! Community invites you to send your contributions with contact details and complete description of the images to [email protected]. Select images will appear in both the print edition as well as Community Instagram page @communitygt. — PHOTO ESSAY, Page 10 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 Rabia I 29, 1441 AH Doha today: 210 - 270 COVER STORY Indecision Do you take hours to make a simple decision? You may have Fobo. P4-5 POP SPOT SHOWBIZ I’m a human being, not Indian web shows get just a rapper, says Thug. set for the next level. Page 14 Page 15 2 GULF TIMES Tuesday, November 26, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.37am Shorooq (sunrise) 6am Zuhr (noon) 11.22am Asr (afternoon) 2.24pm Maghreb (sunset) 4.45pm Isha (night) 6.15pm USEFUL NUMBERS Bala SYNOPSIS: It tells the story of a man who is balding DIRECTION: Amar Kaushik prematurely and how he copes up with the situation. CAST: Ayushmann Khurrana, Bhumi Pednekar, Yami Gautam THEATRES: Royal Plaza, Landmark, The Mall Emergency 999 Worldwide Emergency Number 112 Kahramaa – Electricity and Water 991 Local Directory 180 International Calls Enquires 150 Hamad International Airport 40106666 Labor Department 44508111, 44406537 Mowasalat Taxi 44588888 Qatar Airways 44496000 Hamad Medical Corporation 44392222, 44393333 Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation 44845555, 44845464 Primary Health Care Corporation 44593333 44593363 Qatar Assistive Technology Centre 44594050 Qatar News Agency 44450205 44450333 Q-Post – General Postal Corporation 44464444 Humanitarian Services Offi ce (Single window facility for the repatriation of bodies) Ministry of Interior 40253371, 40253372, 40253369 Frozen 2 a strange sound from the north calling her. Together with Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 DIRECTION: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee her sister Anna, Kristoff , Olaf, and Sven, they embark on a Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 CAST: Kristen Bell, Jonathan Groff , Idina Menzel new journey beyond their homeland of Arendelle in order to Qatar Airways 40253374 SYNOPSIS: Anna, Elsa, Kristoff , Olaf and Sven leave discover the origin of Elsa’s magical powers and save their Arendelle to travel to an ancient, autumn-bound forest of kingdom. an enchanted land. They set out to fi nd the origin of Elsa’s powers in order to save their kingdom. Elsa starts to hear THEATRES: Landmark, Royal Plaza te Unqu uo ot Q “In order e to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.” — Dalai Lama Community Editor For movie timings and Kamran Rehmat further details please scan e-mail: [email protected] the QR code above with your Telephone: 44466405 mobile phone camera or visit qatarcinemas.com Fax: 44350474 Tuesday, November 26, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY TIME: 3pm – 10pm The exhibition will be showcasing a selection of premium regional and international perfumes and cosmetics. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier Hobby Classes WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Music and arts activities for students Centre taking place after they fi nish their day in WHEN: Saturday – Friday school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- Mamangam is an art and performance hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama centre started with a vision of spreading Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 our knowledge, interests and experience in years old after school hours. various disciplines in arts across diff erent Gems and Jewels Exhibition hierarchies and health systems of the local countries for children and adults. WHERE: Museum of Islamic Art Tanzanian communities. Artistic Gymnastic Classes Mamangam has become the favourite WHEN: Ongoing till January 18 A collection of photographs of the wildlife, WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb centre for learning. We off er regular classes TIME: 9am onwards landscapes and people of Tanzania taken by WHEN: Ongoing in the following disciplines like traditional The exhibition comes in celebration of WCM-Q professor Dr Dietrich Büsselberg TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm classical and folk dance forms, art and the 2019 Year of Culture Qatar-India and will be exhibited. The olympic sport using horizontal bar, craft, drawing and painting, personality presents a look at magnifi cent gems and rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the development and public speaking, Bollywood jewellery from India. Set in Stone: Gems and children from age 4 till 16. dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music Jewels from Royal Indian Courts showcases both vocals and instrumentals. To develop more than 100 pieces from across Qatar health consciousness, we train them karate, Museums’ (QM) collections, including many yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. masterpieces that have never been displayed Mamangam has also come up with chess and before. robotics in regular batches in an attempt to give a better learning experience, as they sharpen their minds and brains too. For those who wish to register for more details, visit www.mamangamqatar.in Ballet Lessons WHERE: Music and Arts Atelier WHEN: Ongoing TIME: 4pm – 8pm For more info e-mail at registration@ atelierqatar.com or call on 33003839. Career Guidance HEC SBUM Info Session Photo Exhibition: ‘Experience WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al WHERE: 14th fl oor, Tornado Tower, West Tanzania’ Sadd Bay WHERE: Multaqa (Student Center) Art WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN: Today Gallery at Education City TIME: 6pm – 8pm TIME: 5pm – 6:15pm WHEN: Ongoing until December 1 Career guidance for course, country, HEC Paris invites you to the next TIME: 4pm college and entrance for students of Grade Information Session for Specialised Master’s ‘Experience Tanzania’ is a yearly project IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments Degree in Strategic Business Unit Management supported by Student Aff airs Division of administered for stream preference, career (SBUM). This part-time degree programme is Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar that allows test, branch preference, personality, designed as a practical foundation for managing students and faculty to explore and immerse multiple intelligence and learning styles a business. It will give you the opportunity to themselves in Tanzanian urban and rural and productivity. For more information, learn international best practice from world- cultures. During their trip, WCM-Q’s 55448835. class faculty. Find out how it will help you aspiring physicians off er basic healthcare take your career forward! The programme services to the locals as a way of giving Perfumes and Cosmetics Exhibition off ers a choice of 3 specialist tracks in General back to the community and learn about WHERE: DECC Management, Entrepreneurship and Business the lifestyles, traditions, socioeconomic WHEN: Today Development and Marketing and Sales. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Tuesday, November 26, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY Fear of better options The fear of missing out has a more anxious sibling and could stop you going to social events. Coco Khan explains what is behind the fear of better options ndecision when the decision is simple, or the options all acceptable, is the defi ning characteristic of “fear of better These feelings are biologically options” — or Fobo — a social Iphenomenon coined by Patrick part of who we are. I call it the McGinnis, a US venture capitalist and the man known for coining the biology of wanting the best. Our term Fomo, or fear of missing out. ancestors a million years ago Fobo can occur everywhere from minor decisions — what to watch on were programmed to wait for TV, what to eat for dinner — to more signifi cant ones such as whether to the best because it meant they take a new job. Whatever the case, were more likely to succeed a Fobo-affl icted person may nd fi themselves overwhelmed by the possibilities of what might be (some call this “analysis paralysis”) even — Patrick McGinnis, when no outcome is guaranteed, and US venture capitalist when some of those options aren’t ‘ even on the table. ’ Tuesday, November 26, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY A common example may be overwhelming. I wanted to do McGinnis says it is a “fear of figuring out what to do on Friday everything — which is Fomo — letting go”. “In order to choose night. Sure, the invitation to but at the same time, I wasn’t something you must let go of hang out with work colleagues willing to say no to anything and another thing and it’s the fear of is convenient and guaranteed just choose one thing, which was having to mourn the road untaken. to be enjoyable, but there is Fobo. I would wait until the last So we would rather not decide at all another party across town where minute to see if a better option and keep all of our options open.” something even more fun might came along. And I realised that Maximisers set themselves high be happening. Then there’s was a pervasive behaviour at standards and are disappointed someone on Tinder who floated Harvard because of it being a when they fail to reach them Friday night as a possible date, choice-rich environment.” There is some psychological while your flatmates are heading This is the main diff erence foundation to this. Some to a restaurant opening. between Fomo and Fobo. Anyone psychologists have found that Someone with Fobo is likely with a smartphone looking when it comes to decision-making, to hold back on commitment, or over the often manipulated and people can be split into two groups: commit then cancel. unrealistic lives of others on social “maximisers” or “satisfi cers”. “I bail at the last minute, all the media might feel Fomo. But Fobo, Maximisers are people who make time” says Aoife O’Donaghue, according to McGinnis, is an issue a choice based on maximum 24, a recent graduate based in for the privileged.