These 3 gentlemen are taxi drivers. While waiting the customers, they alwasy sit in this street chair near the road. Passerby, Tourists, Taxi Drivers alwasy sit here for a break and wacthing the busy road of Manama. One of them looked at me and said " Do you need a taxi?"
This is Gold City, one of the busiest shopping center in Bahrain where you could buy Gold Jewelry. That is how it gets its name. Beside gold, you could also find other precious stones and the famous Bahraini Pearl.
Coffee is one of the favorite drink in Middle East. That brings another cafe chain to Bahrain, The Costa Coffee! What most interesting fact about Costa coffee is that ... They have they own roastery (that is what I read from Wikipedia heheh I should ask next time if I go there :P wink)
If you ever ever visiting Bahrain and Dana Mall particularly, you should go to Haagen Dazs, Their famous ice cream is well known for their high quality and finest ingredients and they are here now in Bahrain! 
This is Rudolph J. Vivier aka Rudi, a colleaque chef who is trying to find a silver jewelry set for his mom. He is originally from South Africa. He is leaving tonight and we are doing last minute shopping with him. Goodbye my good friend! One day we might hang out again as you still owe me some Braai and Biltong. 
Today is my 100th posting and I find it rather difficult to choose the theme for today photo, It must be something special, something which will be remembered by readers or anyone about Bahrain. Then I remember about Durrat al Bahrain. It was just earlier this month the launching brand event was held at the resort where I am working. I have posted a photo of the event's flower decoration here. the picture above and the following below are the impression of Durrat al Bahrain by the artist. Durrat al Bahrain is an artificial island project in Bahrain in a shape of Pearl Necklace. It is the largest planned luxury mixed-use residential, commercial and resort development in the Gulf region. Here is another impression by an artist;
The new brand launching was held at Banyan Tree Desert Spa and Resort Al Areen here in 2nd December 2007 (early this month) and it was a spectacular event. For the news covers, please go here. 
This is me, smiling ear to ear with the event set up at the background
The Beautiful Bay
Do you need to see more, please go here!
This a shot of customers at Geant Mall, at one of the elevator going up to the second floor. It is the second day of Eid al Adha Holiday now in Bahrain which means that all Malls are fully packed and even traffic jam as more numbers of people are in Bahrain now due to the coming of visitors from the neigbourhood; Saudis, Kuwaitis, Qataris and Omanis. I will try to get a better picture asap as this one is abit blur and unfocused. LOL 
This 10 storey building which belongs to Civil Service Bureau has a huge poster of HM King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa on the celebration of the King's acession to the throne. I should take closer shot later on and I believe it is going to look a lot nicer.
Today, December 16th Bahrain celebrates its 36th National Day and Accesion to the throne. Since the beginning of the month, there are national flags everywhere and posters of the King (HM Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifah), the Crown Prince (HRH Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa) and the Prime Minister (Shaikh Khalifah ibn Sulman Al Khalifah) all around the city. Along the way to work, I saw that there are more posters and flags. I hope I could get the poster photo of the king riding an Arab horse. It is so grand and eye catching (hey I am doing a good homework for all the names, I hope they are all correct).
During the last trip in Manama, My friend and I had a quick stop at one of the street restaurant. I have no idea what it is called as it is located in one of the alley at Manama. It is exactly located in an empty space between two building. It is typically local in design as they have local settee arrangement and they serve various type fo dishes such as Indians, Iranian and Middle Eastern which I find them very strong and rich. Since it is located nearby the offices, many people are coming for lunch and vary in nationality (look there is one Sheikh is having a lunch right behind the two beautiful ladies). 
For a 500 fills till 1 dinar, you could have your shoes fix by this handyman. I used to watch a neighbour to fix my brother's shoes and It is an amazing task.
This is a shot of Bab Al Bahrain which means the Gate of Bahrain. It is located at Manama's central bussiness district (CBD). It was built by the Bristish in 1940's. Bab Al Bahrain once stood at the water's edge. Due to extensive land reclamation in the later years, nowadays it needs to walk more than 10 minutes to get to the sea. Further info about this building you can go here.
I have posted this building before and it looks completely different from this posting. I am wondering fi anyone could tell the different about this shot. The shot itself was taken at the near sunset and you could see the yellow spurt of the sun trying to peep in the frame. :P
I do not know what these 2 beautiful ladies were talking about as they were so engrossed in the conversation meanwhile the busy city life passing by around them. I am lucky to have this privilege to immortalize them in Sanabis DP. I wish I was standing a little further on the left side where I took this shot, so that I could see both ladies expressions. Well I will be posting more about people on my next postings. 
This shot was taken at down town at Manama on Friday. It is located near round-about Bab al Bahrain, exactly at on left side of it. On Friday there are always a lot of people in this area. Many of us do not know that in the Gulf areas and most Arab countries (please correct me if I am wrong) that the weekend is on Friday instead of Sunday (as in the western countries). This means that it is a day off for most foreign workers here in Bahrai. The offices, firms and banks are closed (unfortunately, hotel is always open all week. Poor me!). These full crowd consist of mostly foreign workers from India and its sub-continent; Pakistan, Bangladesh (my Nepalese friend, Naresh told me so LOL). They might be working in the offices, shops, constructions, restaurants, taylor etc. I guess I would do my further research later. the immigrant and foreign worker in Bahrain are big thing here.
Just another shot of sunrise at 6.19 AM at Sanabis. When I looked outside the window, I saw these constructions and realized at how rapid the development in my neighbourhood. Up todate there are 5 new apartments surrounding my building. Soon my beautiful view for both sunrise and sunset will be gone, blocked by the new building. Anyway, the future of living in Sanabis would be not really nice anymore but let's see as there is no certainty in everything. Hah!
It's still early in the morning, slightly feeling better and way too wide awake since my Fajr pray, I opened the window and looked out at the sunrise. It's still amazed me at how beautiful sunrise will be, no matter where you are watching it. I love watching the sunrise rising up as it always gives me a new energy to start the new day. This also brings me to start humming Cat Stevens's Morning Has Broken. LOL though I was not born yet when it became famous, but I find the song is very inspiring, I feel that I can relate to Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam) at how wonderful a morning and a sunrise is . 
fly.....fly Arthe!
Here comes the thropy for a grab!
The winning team and the fans!
(This is a shot of my friend, Dian Putri Kustanti aka Uthie. After along day at work, I caught her offguard with my camera in such a serene deep sleep at the sofa. Look at how her lips curl and the innocence expression in her face. She is going to kill me if she find out this posting but how I can not share this beautiful shot to the world, she'll understand)
Another shot for a Bahraini traditional Robe from a high rank woman. I am also clueless for detail name on each item. I need to ask Yaqoob for details, will update it ASAP.
The bee-through many a garden roves,
This is one nice shot depicting a traditional Bahraini's wedding. I do not really have any information now but I will do a further research with my Bahraini friends and update this page later on.
Here is a shot from my last trip to Bahrain National Museum. In this display, you could see the full set of a traditional Bahraini Dress for a man belong to a deceased man from a high rank 
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