Time in Syria

In something of a Syrian way, the apartment in Malki didn't happen, and I'm now in a different apartment about 500 metres from the last one. The landlord of the Malki apartment, a very prominent businessman here, suddenly wouldn't take calls, so just days before I was hoping to move we had to come up with Plan B, which is a place just behind the Canadian Embassy. It seems as if it will be very pleasant, but I can already hear the upstairs neighbours!