I wanted to do this since a long time. Whenever I see something that appeals to me, I tend to click photos of it and think about it for a while, then forget it. Here, then, are some interesting images of things I have seen/done/noted over the previous one and a half years of my stay in the Kingdom:
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Can you guess the total number of wheels here? The trailer itself has 14 wheels and each deck of the trailers above have 24, so the grand total is 14 +24+24 = 62! |
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I saw this at the NCB bank, May 29, 2013, This is a pen holder that is fixed to the table top and such holders are provided outside each teller. This is pilfer free and so good! |
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In the manager's office in the NCB Bank. This is one version of the kahwa-glasses -dates that forms a ready to eat and drink item making a guest feel welcome. This was really great. |
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Whole lamb carcasses are hung at the entrance of this eatery (Kababjee) that is a fine food joint I visited with some new friends in Ta'if. |
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The huge ring that is suspended by a wire from the helicopter has cameras mounted on it. I saw this helicopter make repeated reconnaisance visits over Al Muwayh in April 2013. It was looking for road repairing sites. |
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The common area just outside the delivery room/and the main OR:The Filipino girls are really gifted when it comes to decorating the hospital. |
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These tiny flowers bloomed just outside my home about three weeks ago after a lot of episodes of rain in mid-April, 2013.\ |
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A nicely grown date palm near Riyadh |
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Well-manicured trees outside personal residences of teachers in Riyadh |
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Another example of beautiful implantatiom of trees outside homes. |
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The inside of the first lift that took me from the zero-th floor to the 77th floor at the Kingdom Tower in Riyadh |
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Beautiful gardens and fountain outside the KIng Faisal Speciality Eye Hospital, where I met a doctor acquaintance from India on 16th May 2013 (Riyadh) |
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Two burgers made by me for personal consumption, May 2013 |
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Barbecuing chicken in the Al Muwayh garden with Drs. from the ER (Drs. Measser and Sheshtawy) |
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