Florist and Garden Nursery at Jidhaf

Earlier today, we were driving around Jidhaf area to find the seed feed for my hamsters and upon leaving the petshop, we eventually spotted a big florist shop and the garden nursery just a few shops away. Excitingly, we stopped by and wander around to look at the display and the nursery. Dian, the flower lover, insisted on checking on each display, new pots and even we went further to the end display leading to the nursery.

I could not get the name of the shop as I took the photos with my cellphone and since it was already dark, I did not make it to take the entrance shot nor the shop's name. Sigh!

Anyway, when we went inside we were quite awe by the collection they have there. Though I could not recall the names in English but they are quite big variety available. In the picture above, Dian and Adi were looking at the display fresh flower in pots. The bright yellow of the Chrysantemum is really a sight for the sore eyes. Please mind me, the weather is changing now in Bahrain and everything looks dusty due to the many sandstorm and we are so lucky to be able to look at these colourful flowers.

At the back part of the shop, there is a connecting door to the nursery. It is quite a big garden nursery and I notice that they have great varieties of tropical flowers which remind me a lot of home. they also display some bird baths for a graden lover view.

These green leaves of this pine tree (hmmm I do not what it is called :P) makes me feel I am in New Zealand forest now!

Nevertheless, though we were not buying anything but we enjoyed the trip to this nursery, We might want to visit it again and I should be able to take a decent shots then.

Have a nice Tuesday then everybody!

Mosque Series # 07 Masjid at Lulu Road, Jidhaf

My best friend Adi and Dian bought a second hand car a few days back and it seemed that it needed some services, cleaning up and even changing some accessories. So someone from the hotel gave him a recommendation for a car garage at Jidhaf area at Lulu road. We went there and waited for a couple of hours. I found that watching someone repairing a car not that interesting though I grew up with this similar view all my life back in Indonesia (My late father had a garage back home and eventually run a car garage at home). I got bored and I started venturing outside of the place. a couple of meters away, I saw a mosque and by seeing the architectural buildings and the posters sticking on the wall. I know that it belongs to the Shi'a community. I could not get the whole shot of the mosque as the road was quite narrow and in the end I could not get the top of the minaret. Down below another shot of the mosque with a clear shot of the street around it.

The Mosque Series # 06 Masjid Al Khamis, The Oldest Mosque in Bahrain

Today's photo is Masjid Al Khamis or Mosque Al Khamis located in Jidhaf. It was already late afternoon and I heard the adzan calling for Magrib pray. I rushly took the photo and went to the car to get to the nearest mosque to pray. I will update this post later further about Al Khamis Masjid.

Arabic Number in Colourful Badges

Today's photo is the series photos I shot at Car Garage at Jidhaf Street. These pretty badges ( I am not sure if these are badges or stickers but since I am lost in translation now, I prefer to call them call it "badges"). These pretty badges are found sticking on the office window of the car garage. The old Baba (arabic for father or old man) invited me to come inside his office and these badges are the first one attratcing my eyes.

You can see that they are in different colour and there is an arabic number in each of the sticker with a beautiful striking colour. They are not in the normal numerical order but I am going to explain a little bit about Arabic numerals.

As what I found on Wiki, Arabic numbers or numeral are the 10 digits (0.1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9) were originally defined by Indian mathematician in AD 500, later modified and transferred to North African mathematician and transmitted to Europe in the Middle Ages, whence they spread around the world through European colonialism.

The reason that (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9) are known as arabic numerals is that they are the characters used by western Arabs from Morocco to Libya, from where they were introduced to Europe in the tenth century. I will update this posting later on as I have found some interesting further web link about history of number and how great the influence and effort of Arab mathematician in defining our so called modern numbers.