Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
Wahooo! Water-park at Bahrain City Centre Mall has unveiled its latest crowd-puller - the Fishpipe Rotating Barrel Ride. The contraption allows you to slide further than the longest water-slide all within the safety of a plastic bubble. General manager Damien Latham was on hand to take GulfWeekly columnist Charlie Holding through his paces and let him know what it feels like to be a human hamster!
The clock ticks away audibly, with every second the tension grows. Every sound is amplified - pencils scribbling away, etching answers on to paper, meticulously filling in random answer bubbles, making a pattern of some sort. Every circle makes a difference that can change lives and futures.
This week one of the kingdom's most popular shopping destinations was transformed into a 'walkway' with enthusiastic residents getting in step with fitness experts to take part in Bahrain's first 'mall walking programme'.
VHS tapes and walkmans may have been firmly cast into oblivion but another 1980s invention, the Post-it Note, is marking its 30th anniversary this month as popular as ever.
