Archive for January, 2010

Outside our apartment

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

The stairs lead up to our apartment. The triangular bit jutting out on the right-hand-side is our front balcony.

My office desk

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

I love my articulated desk lamp. That is all.

The clock tower

Monday, January 25th, 2010

The KFUPM clock tower as seen from the top of the mathematics building. Each hour the clock tower rings its bells; I often have to remind myself that this sound, incongruous with its surroundings, is not being made by the bells of the local church.

Khobar and the ocean

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

The view of Khobar (and, in the distance, the ocean where one might see Bahrain on a clear day) from the KFUPM campus.

The KFUPM oasis.

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

The KFUPM “oasis” as seen from the top of the mathematics building.