TGIF Again!

Friday is always a relaxing day for me. Sleeping for a long time, exploring the city, Chatting to friends, Reading something, tiring something new and experiencing the local life are the parts of my Friday schedule. Unfortunately I could not attend to the AIESEC conference as I have to engage with some work this weekend.

I woke up around 11.45 a.m. as every Friday, after a very good sleep. We had lunch at home as Aunty offered us some nice Sri Lankan food made with Sri Lankan curry powder. After few hours spending online and for office work, Sachi, Akila, Jeewani and I got ready to go to City Centre. Harshani, who lives close by offered us a life to the place. It was around 5 p.m. when we left home.

The whole time was full of fun, laughing, playing games and shopping. The game zone at City centre was awesome. Well initially we were lost without knowing what to do, but then started having fun. Had KFC at the food court and then went shopping. It was raining outside when we started walking back home, but not for a long time. We walked back home while listening to Sachi’s horror stories and Jeewani’s ghost stories. Then again few hours at home having an awesome dinner secretly coz we did not want aunty and uncle to wake up in the midnight and scream for us getting late. Lol. Anyway the plan got caught as aunty woke up suddenly but after we finished having a superb dinner time. Anyway last night was full of fun with Sachi, Akila and Jeewani.

I bought a Sony Cyber-shot digi cam from City Centre. Always wanted to buy a small cam, as I need it badly. Well hope that this will be enough to take capture some nice moments, till I buy my professional camera soon. 

Exploring Bahrain!

My office is located at Adliya, one of the highest populated areas in Bahrain. Adliya is a main residencial area and loads of expatriates are living there. You can find a lot of Pilipino, Indians, Pakistanis, Bengali, Europeans and some Sri Lankans at Adliya. Due to the easy access to all the facilities and reasonable cost of accommodation, the area has become very popular.  

Another very popular area is Juffair, near the eastern costal side. What is interesting about Juffair is that it was built on sea. The sea was filled with sand and made the ground which is home to hundreds of huge buildings today. Now Juffair’s most expensive luxury apartments, happening night clubs and pubs, various restaurants and hotels are the most crowd pulling points during the weekend. American Naval Base is located in this area and Americans hanging around in the bars and roads is a common scene in the area. Naval Base is one of the main reasons for all the best brands in the kingdom to be in Juffair.

I happened to drop in to a few places in Juffair and Adliya last Week. Bennigans (A nice dining spot and a pub with Pilipino staff), Dublin (Awesome place with a Canadian band), Club at Hotel Riviera (With an unusual pool inside the club), Bed Rocks (The Jurassic Park) and The Buffalo (with very attractive wash rooms) at Hotel California, Club JJ - the Irish pub (Colonial type architecture with a super DJ) were some of them. Dublin and The Buffalo were full of Americans and Europeans and indeed the night was happening there. Club JJ was also interesting with good music.

I went there with Rob and bunch of his friends. Rob is a British, working and living in Bahrain with his family for last few years. We met at one of the exhibitions held at Gulf Hotel and he was demonstrating the awesome Xbox there.  Well, according to him, his job is not normally playing Xbox although he is good at it. lol. He is a member of a business group called “The Round Table” and invited me to join them too. It was awesome to hang around with Rob the super cool DJ Silent Bob (not his current profession), Stuart the super duper Chrysler chap and the crowd at that night. That is what you call absolute fun without absolute vodka but with few beers of course.  Thank you Rob!