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Page 11 Page 14 2 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY ROUND & ABOUT PRAYER TIME Fajr 4.06am Shorooq (sunrise) 5.25am Zuhr (noon) 11.25am Asr (afternoon) 2.50pm Maghreb (sunset) 5.24pm Isha (night) 6.54pm USEFUL NUMBERS Abominable SYNOPSIS: After discovering a Yeti on the roof of her DIRECTION: Jill Culton apartment building, teenage Yi and her two friends embark on CAST: Chloe Bennet, Tenzing Norgay Trainor, Eddie an epic quest to reunite the magical creature with his family. Izzard, Sarah Paulson. THEATRES: Landmark 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 Ministry of Health 40253370, 40253364 Hamad Medical Corporation 40253368, 40253365 Qatar Airways 40253374 Love Action Drama all kinds of action to impress the girl he likes with a hope to DIRECTION: Dhyan Sreenivasan marry her. He has too much money to throw around and too CAST: Nivin Pauly, Nayanthara, Aju Varghese little intellect. SYNOPSIS: The plot follows a man who goes through THEATRES: The Mall ote Unquo Qu te “Believe you can and you›re halfway there.” —Theodore Roosevelt Community Editor Kamran Rehmat e-mail: [email protected] Telephone: 44466405 Fax: 44350474 Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 3 ROUND & ABOUT COMMUNITY Artistic Gymnastic Classes craft, drawing and painting, personality WHERE: Qatar Academy Msheireb development and public speaking, Bollywood WHEN: Ongoing dance, contemporary, hip hop styles, music TIME: 3:15pm – 4:15pm both vocals and instrumentals. To develop The olympic sport using horizontal bar, health consciousness, we train them karate, rings and fl oor exercises on mats for the yoga with special sessions for kids and adults. children from age 4 till 16. Mamangam has also come up with chess and 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. EVENTS Ezdan Zoo at Ezdan Mall WHERE: Ezdan Mall Arabic Calligraphy Workshop WHEN: Ongoing till October 4 WHEN: Saturday – Wednesday TIME: 6pm — 9pm TIME: 6pm Let’s Get Wild! Hop on over to Ezdan Arabic Calligraphy workshop is back. Mall Little Animal Zoo and experience Come and learn the artistic practice of Arabic adventurous Safari tours. handwriting and calligraphy at Music and Arts Atelier. Science and Myth The lessons will take place every Saturday, WHERE: Qatar National Library Monday and Wednesday at 6pm. For WHEN: Tomorrow more information, contact registration@ TIME: 10:30am atelierqatar.com Evolutionary theory has been the subject of wide debates questioning the origin and evolution of several species, including humans. In this forum, we will shed light on the principles of evolution in nature and the foundations of the theory and the scientifi c questions it is trying to address. After School Activities WHERE: Atelier Yoga Class WHEN: Ongoing WHERE: Lululemon, Mall of Qatar Music and arts activities for students WHEN: Every Saturday taking place after they fi nish their day in TIME: 8:30am – 9:30am school includes Group Music lessons, Hip- Join the complimentary in-store yoga hop, Ballet, Drawing and Painting, Drama classes. No registration or mat is required. Theatre & Taekwondo. Ages between 5 and 10 The class runs on fi rst come fi rst served basis. years old after school hours. Career Guidance Hobby Classes WHERE: Right Track Consultants, Al WHERE: Mamangam Performing Art Sadd Centre WHEN: Sunday – Thursday WHEN:Saturday – Friday Dance and Instrument Classes TIME: 6pm – 8pm Mamangam is an art and performance WHERE: TCA Campus, Behind Gulf Times Career guidance for course, country, centre started with a vision of spreading Building college and entrance for students of Grade our knowledge, interests and experience in WHEN: Wednesday – Monday IX-XII, of all curriculum. Career assessments various disciplines in arts across diff erent Learn the movements of dance styles in administered for stream preference, career countries for children and adults. Bollywood, Hip Hop and also the musical test, branch preference, personality, Mamangam has become the favourite instruments such as Piano, Guitar, Keyboard multiple intelligence and learning styles centre for learning. We off er regular classes for adults as well kids and move in the world and productivity. For more information, in the following disciplines like traditional of music. For details, contact 66523871/ 55448835. classical and folk dance forms, art and 31326749. Compiled by Nausheen Shaikh. E-mail: [email protected], Events and timings subject to change 4 GULF TIMES Sunday, September 29, 2019 COMMUNITY COVER STORY “I never tell myself that I am perfect” — Nukhet Dora, Turkish cake specialist SUNDAY CONVERSATION I got so passionate about baking that people assumed there was always a cake at my home! ‘By Mudassir Raja akes are special. Every birthday, the celebration ends with something sweet — most likely, a cake — that people remember. Perhaps, it’s all about the memories. Cakes are baked and decorated fi rst to make Cmemories and then to make them memorable. It may not be hard to fi nd a good cake-baker but it is rather diffi cult to fi nd a baker who is very good at decorating cakes artistically at the same time. ’ Nukhet Dora, a Doha-based Turkish expatriate, loves baking and decorating cakes, cupcakes and cookies. She is actually a sculptor making sculptures out of cakes. For her, it all started as a hobby and has become a passion and a source of joy. Community recently sat with Nukhet, a civil engineer by qualifi cation and mother of two daughters, and discussed her passion for cake baking and decorating as a hobby. The expatriate has lived in other Gulf countries with her husband. “We moved to Doha in 2012. Earlier we lived in Dubai and Saudi Arabia where my husband worked. I also worked there as civil engineer. “After I had my fi rst daughter — who is 16 now — I made a web page updating my experiences of by a mother. It got very famous back in Turkey as number of mothers visited my page and took advantage from my experiences of motherhood. I continued working as a civil engineer till 2009.” Explaining how her love for cakes started, Nukhet said: “For my second daughter, who is now 13-year-old, I started writing blogs. It was the time and trend for blogs. Photos by Shemeer Rasheed I witnessed online that many people were busy in doing something diff erent and other than their routine work. Sunday, September 29, 2019 GULF TIMES 5 COVER STORY COMMUNITY TOOLS OF THE TRADE: Nukhet Dora’s little art factory. Photos supplied I, along with my sister, ran the blog “If you are making a birthday cake, sharing our cooking and baking experiences. they can ask you for a specific shape “Through this experience, I came across the cake baking and sugar or character. You have to make such paste decoration work. As the fi rst birthday of second daughter was cakes by hand, which needs some coming, I decided to bake my fi rst WORKS OF ART: A few pieces of art — cakes — made by Nukhet Dora. cake for the birthday in 2007.” sculpture-making talent. You also Nukhet taught herself everything children and for my customers myself to make cakes of diff erent about cake baking and decorating. need to be some sort of a sculptor” alike. styles.” Sharing her piece of advice “It is all self-teaching. I got help — Nukhet Dora “I do not plan to turn it into a full to others, she said: “First of all, they from books and Internet. Later on, time business in the near future as need to have an interest in baking. however, to learn decoration, I took I have a home to tend to. However, Then only, they can learn from some classes with Wilton cooking her work. “In the world, there divide the classes into three hours I will continue learning about the others. It all starts with little steps. centre. After I quit my job, I started are many talented cake bakers over two days. Even the days are not art as much as I can. I am pushing They can grow slowly but steadily.” taking orders to bake birthday cakes. I and decorators. There is so much consecutive (for convenience).” got really busy with the baking.” knowledge as well that I have to Nukhet believes not everyone can The Turkish expat got her name attain. I also try to follow some master cake decoration art. “The by beautifully decorating the cakes really successful decorators. I never skill needs some talent to master and giving them diff erent shapes.