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ON|OFF Indonesia: Dinner with Indonesian Bloggers

December 3, 2011

After a full day’s journey, your’s truly finally arrived in Jakarta. After checking in to the Kartika Chandra, we proceeded to FX Mall to meet up with the Indonesian blogger community. Great meal, awesome company. Its been a long day and I’m beat. Night night.

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Bentornato Maurizio!

October 10, 2011

Hi folks! After a long absence, my buddy Mauri is back in the kitchens of Grazie Mauri to cook up a storm! He’s making up for lost time by inviting all Italian food lovers in Brunei to come on over to Grazie Mauri in Gadong to have a go at the variety of authentic Italian [...]

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UBD Student Community Outreach Promotes Recycling Culture

October 4, 2011

Two weekends ago, families in Kampung Bolkiah found out that they could actually exchange their “trash” for food. The Universiti Brunei Darussalam’s Student Community Outreach Team (SCOT) gave rice and noodles to low income families in the village in exchange for their collected recylables. The students’ group aims to eradicate poverty and to promote “green” [...]

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A Retro Legend in the Making – The Finepix X100

September 19, 2011

Loaded – 1st July 2011 “Considering upgrading your standard camera but crave looking like a cool, retro ’70s snapper rather than a creepy paparazzi? Step this way. With superb colour modes, stunning low-light performances and awesome depth-of-field, it’s the thinking man’s camera…” EISA – European Advanced Compact Camera 2011-2012 “The Fujifilm FinePix X100 advanced compact [...]

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Pusat Ehsan to host charity bazaar on Oct 2

September 13, 2011

PUSAT Ehsan Al-Ameerah Al-Hajjah Maryam will once again organise a fun-filled Sunday for members of the public at their 6th Charity Bazaar next month on October 2. The launching of the event will be officiated by Her Royal Highness Princess Fadzilah Lubabul Bulqiah at the grounds of Pusat Ehsan in Kg Bengkurong, where the Charity [...]

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Are you protected?

September 5, 2011

Over the last week or so, several stories appeared in the papers about houses being burnt down sadly leaving victims homeless over the festive season. On the second day of Raya, three houses were almost completely destroyed in a severe blaze in Kg Dato Gandhi, a small village along Jln Kota Batu. A total of [...]

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JOB VACANCY AD

June 14, 2011

Received this really good ad in an email from da sista. POSITION: Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include [...]

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The need to speak up…

May 14, 2011

{EAV_BLOG_VER:c5f9d9a1f1f79691} I received this as an email from a friend. The original message was entitled “A German’s View on Islam” purporting to be an account by an esteemed German psychiatrist Dr Emanuel Tanay. But after looking around, I discovered that this was actually an opinion piece that appeared on the web site of Paul Merek, [...]

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How to think like a Genius

May 14, 2011

1. Look at problems in many different ways, and find new perspectives that no one else has taken (or no one else has publicized!) Leonardo da Vinci believed that, to gain knowledge about the form of a problem, you begin by learning how to restructure it in many different ways. He felt that the first [...]

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Awesome video

January 5, 2011

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An afternoon at Butra HeidelbergCement

January 4, 2011

Have you ever wondered what a cement manufacturing plant looks like and how it works? Well, I did, and out of curiosity, a couple of weeks ago, I tagged along with Jan Shim and his crew who were doing a professional shoot at a cement plant in Serasa. Butra HeidelbergCement was established in November 1993 [...]

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Terima Kasih

December 31, 2010

I wanted to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me this year… Because of your kindness: I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it’s good for removing toilet stains. I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS. Forwarded [...]

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Ada tissue wang??

December 29, 2010

Some years back, there was this BSP offshore guy who ordered a Toyota Supra from NBT. At the time, the Supra was the japanese equivalent to KITT from Knight Rider and this guy special ordered it in midnight black etc to match KITT. Needless to say he was very excited when he was called one [...]

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Life is wonderful…

December 28, 2010

It takes a crane to build a crane It takes two floors to make a story It takes an egg to make a hen It takes a hen to make an egg There is no end to what I’m saying It takes a thought to make a word And it takes some words to make [...]

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So how do you use a roundabout?

December 8, 2010

A recent letter to BT: Dear editor, I am writing to you with concern on the growing misuse of the three-lane round-about in Kiulap. There has been many complaints over the years but the problem seems to be getting worse, especially during peak hours. I have seen a lot of drivers cut from the [...]

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Life on the Google Nexus One – Set 1

August 29, 2010

Dinner at Al-Mashriq with Damissus The cemetery I pass by everyday Showcase Cinema De Lux Lunch at KAYU

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Double Standards…

August 25, 2010

This came in my email inbox this morning and I thought it was a nice way of conveying a sensitive message. Thanks Habib for this

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The Right Age to Teach Kids About Money

August 6, 2010

By Elisabeth Donati Question: What is the right age to start teaching kids about money? Answer: If they are breathing, they should be learning about money! OK, that may seem a little over zealous, but here’s the thing… Just like our need for oxygen from the moment we pop out into the planet, most of [...]

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It’s better to actualize virtually than to incubate ultra-dynamically…

August 4, 2010

Have you ever been pressured to brand your feature set? With one click? Without innovative niches, you will lack convergence. Quick: do you have a front-end plan for coping with new all-hands meetings? Imagine a combination of Ruby on Rails and CSS. Think B2B2C. Think scalable. Think clicks-and-mortar. But don’t think all three at the [...]

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Save Sakineh!

July 8, 2010

Excerpt of a letter from the son of a woman who was stoned to death nearly 30 years ago: Have you ever held a bloody tool in your hands with which they have murdered your mother? Have you ever touched the bloody skin and hair of your mother who has just been killed in a [...]

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Dare To Be

June 13, 2010

When a new day begins, dare to smile gratefully. When there is darkness, dare to be the first to shine a light. When there is injustice, dare to be the first to condemn it. When something seems difficult, dare to do it anyway. When life seems to beat you down, dare to fight back. When [...]

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JOB VACANCY AD

June 9, 2010

Received this really good ad in an email from da sista. POSITION: Mom, Mommy, Mama, Ma Dad, Daddy, Dada, Pa, Pop JOB DESCRIPTION: Long term, team players needed, for challenging, permanent work in an often chaotic environment. Candidates must possess excellent communication and organizational skills and be willing to work variable hours, which will include [...]

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So, what are you studying Reedz?

April 12, 2010

This is perhaps the most asked question that I get next to “Where are you studying Reedz?” So I decided to answer the question with today’s post. I am also planning to post some of the more interesting stuff that I find in my readings for my dissertation. So for those of you who are [...]

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The Pre-Easter Break Makan

March 30, 2010

Happy 8th Birthday to Nina the Bartina! Hope you had an awesome day today! I Love You sweety! After spending the morning in Nottingham covering the BruNotts Easter Games, I made my way back to Leicester to join some friends for a good old makan-makan geder-geder heheh. Some lovely Bruneian food to help soothe away [...]

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Maul does Birmingham

March 25, 2010

Last weekend, on the way back to Leicester after the uber successful Bruneian Postgraduate Symposium in London, I stopped over at Birmingham at the invitation of fellow anak Brunei and martial arts guru, Maul, who was conducting one of his Silat Suffian Bela Diri seminars there. Among those present at the seminar were international martial [...]

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The Mellow Yellow

January 4, 2010

Damissus bought me exactly what I needed to bring back some of that photography mojo I seem to have lost… A Nikon D300S coupled with a Nikkor 35mm f1.8 AFS lens. Perfect street photography gear! This will be perfect for use in Leicester! Yayyy! Spent today getting the hang of the mellow yellow… a great [...]

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Hello 2010!

January 1, 2010

TGIF 2010! Happy New Year Everyone! May we all have an AWESOME year ahead! Keep those POSITIVE vibrations humming!! via Twitter

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Malaysia – Revisited

December 16, 2009

Just some random shots of the Megafam trip to Malaysia earlier this year

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Family and Teamwork

November 11, 2009

This is just a reminder to myself taken from here: Strong families make decisions, solve family problems, and do family work together. Everyone has a role to play and everyone participates. Parents are the leaders, but the children’s opinions and efforts are invited, encouraged, and appreciated. Making real decisions is good practice and can help [...]

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Blast from the past

October 29, 2009

Am not sure if you’re aware of this but there’s this site called The Wayback Machine which is part of the Internet Archive Project, an uber-ambitious project to archive all of human knowledge onto the web. Anyway, this is all part of my research into the whole Web 2.0 phenomenon and I was just wondering [...]

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In and around Leicester – Selingan

October 23, 2009

Not much happening apart from going hunting (for books!) everyday at the library and working on assignments and figuring how to tackle that big ass dissertation Remembrance Sunday is just around the corner, so lots of poppy plants are being planted especially around war memorial sites. This one taken at the memorial site near Universty. [...]

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The Switch

August 30, 2009

Beautiful Sunset taken from Tarindak d’Seni What would the world be like if the men were to stay at home with the kids and the women worked instead? A man was sick and tired of going to work every day while his wife stayed home. He wanted her to see what he went through so [...]

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Happy Sunday :)

August 23, 2009

Been quite lax in posting for the last couple of days (maklumlah, cutiii heheh!). Am posting from my hotel room at the Miri Marriott. Just some random pics from the HTC G1 which I’ve taken over the past couple of months. Have an awesome Sunday everyone and Selamat Berpuasa! The first pic taken with the [...]

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Memories of Berlin

August 17, 2009

Question of the day: ARE YOU INSURED? Check out kennysia’s piece about this perennial issue. I’ll bet you’ll wanna go and get at least some basic coverage after reading it…

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To Sell or Not to Sell…

July 28, 2009

Below is a conversation which took place in the Ruai Lounge recently. Feel free to join in the conversation by commenting on this post. My views on this issue later in the day. Zul: i was at coffeezone last saturday nite when a child of age 8 below came up to us offering some "kacang".. [...]

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The Big Shootout!

May 21, 2009

Have YOU applied? Click here to find out more! After starting off on the wrong footing by buying my camera bodies from parallel importers, I took the step of going “legit” with the local distributor for Canon, Interhouse, and bought an EOS40D from them two years ago. Since then, it has been Interhouse all the [...]

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Trust, Integrity, Loyalty

May 15, 2009

These are the principles upon which Lindsay Fox has lived all his life. A living example of the Great Aussie Dream, Lindsay founded Linfox, a company which started out in logistics and later expanded into airport management, real estate, and security. Not bad for a school dropout at 16 who faked his age to buy [...]

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Sushi’ing at Regent Square Kiulap

May 13, 2009

Lindsay Fox talk at Central Lecture Theatre, Room 1.17 4pm, Thursday, 14th May 2009. He is such a charismatic speaker with a great sense of humour. Now that’s a rarity coming from a billionaire. Highly recommended by RA. Excapade has just opened their 6th outlet at Regent Square this week. Fellow foodies Maurina, Liza, Marul, [...]

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