This Is What Happen...

I was driving along the highway along the airport (don't know what's the highway name) going to Menglait to send off an invoice to our client.

Driving along and then saw a long queue of traffic. Wonder what happen...but for sure the first thing that came to my mind is "NOT ANOTHER CAR ACCIDENT!" So while driving slowly at a turtle speed, i took some photos of my slow journey to Menglait...

The Queue!
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Yeah...a pic of the lamp post..hehe
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A red car infront of me..opss..forget to censor the no! Gosh the windscreen is so dirty!
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Look at that tyre rim! Nice colour..hehe
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Queue behind me!
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Look at the speed i'm driving!
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Finally..it's true..another accident! Popular place for things like this!!

Biarkan Tia Bah!

I have a joke to share with you. Received an email from a friend and I find it so funny and thought of sharing it with you. I have edited it to Brunei Malay to make it sound local....hehe...

Suatu hari, sebuah bas kilang yang memuatkan pekerja wanita sahaja sedang menuju ke kilang kayu yang terletak jauh dari kawasan kampung. Dalam perjalanan tu..mereka terpaksa melalui kebun buah yang sangat luas..

Nak di jadikan cerita..ada tia seorang lelaki disiring jalan menahan bas atu..kan tumpang lah tu....jadi bas atu pun beranti lah... Tiba tiba ada tia 6 orang perompak keluar nak merompak bas atu...

Perompak atu berkata..

" Keluarkan dan bagi semua amas-amasan yang kamu ada ah..!!LAJU..!!"

Pekerja kilang atu membalas..

" ..tapi..kami ani mana ada bawa amas-amasan kalau kan kerja..usin inda banyak..."

Perompak atu pun berfikir...

"Bah! Mun inda..camani tah..oleh sebab kamu ani nada amas-amasan & usin..kami rogol kamu SEMUA..hahahhaa.."

Pekerja kilang yang muda berkata..

" Paloi kali!!...inda kan makcik yang duduk di belakang atu kau kan rogol..inda kau kesian kah?!.."

Makcik atu pun berdiri..

" Eh Dang!..kau ani tah!..inda kau paham kah..kalau bisdia cakap SEMUA..biar tia SEMUA la..!!"

Confused Saturday Night

Last night we went to Berry Wan Hotpot and the place was fully packed. And lucky enough we have booked a table for 6 in advance. So we went in and asked for our seat. The waiter told us that our seat have been taken. I was so furious when I heard that! All my friends are from KB and it is quite frustrating for them! Later we were told by the owner that the seat was booked for us but there was one family that didn't bother to listen to the waiter and sat down. That even make me more angrier! Don't this family understand the word "reserved" or even "booked"? This are one of the most annoying people that we can find in Brunei!

We waited outside the restaurant and I just stared at that family who took our table and hoping it will make them uncomfortable eating....but Noooooo...they even enjoy it more! We waited for 30mins for another customer to leave the restaurant. The owner was apologetic but we never blame them.

Anyway, forget about the drama above..let's talk about the food. When I first look at the choice of the foods at the counter, I was amazed with it. We had chicken soup and tom yam soup for our hotpot :) We put as much as we can in the pot and the food taste so good :) I feel so blotted after we finish all the food in the pot otherwise we will get charged $5.00 for 100g of wastage food. hehe..

Now I know why this place is so popular and required to book a table before you go there. I would recommend you to have a try to this restaurant. Book early and be there early if possible before someone irresponsible take over your seat!

Rating : 7/10

Here is how you can contact them:

After dinner, we went to SQC to catch a movie. It's been awhile since I have been to the cinema and this is my first time to SQC. My friends from KB wanted to watch 10,000 BC. I have seen the movie trailer and look quite interesting. We watched the 22:30 movie.

I was quite confused with the movie. What is the motive of the movie? What does it have to do with the title of the movie? As far as I can understand is that a primitive man who keep his promise to the girl that she love since at young age. And when they grew up, they still love each other and one day the girl that he loved was kidnapped by their rival. So this man is trying to save his gf and walk from one end of the other end to find the gf. At the end of the story, he manage to save the gf but was killed later by the guy who kidnapped her and back to life again. hehehe...And at the end of the story the couple kiss so passionately....I wonder to myself, does people at that time kiss like that? hehe...

Idle...

Gosh...I have been so lazy for the past few days. It's not that I don't want to do anything, it's just that I have nothing to do! Bored to death. And also the weather is not promising either at night.

Let me see what were the productive things (beside my job..hehehe) that I have done for the past 4 days:

• Bought myself a PSP Slim on Monday

• Browsing through the internet for FREE PSP Games ... found it ..Wuuhuuuu

• Installing game to my PSP..Copy and erase games from my memory stick. I'm sure it won't last that long if I continue copy and erasing games from it..hehe

• Browsing the net for walkthrough and cheats for my Silent Hill and Tom Raider games..hehe

• Went for body massage at Pearl last night where I totally doze off and start snoring! How embarassing..hehe

Wow...after listing that, I feel like a computer geek!! Seriously I'm not! lol

So anyone who own a PSP, share share lah what game you have... ^_^

Can You Read This?

Try and read this using your mobile phone, especially those phone which come with the Barcode software. For those who own N95 8GB, you will be able to read this. Or you can go here to download the software. Have FUN.

Guess Who I Met?

I had lunch at d Other Office with a friend of mine. As always, I will ask my friend to miscall me when he arrived to the restaurant. Got there and my friend was asking me

"What's wrong with your phone kan?"

I was blur blur and answered

"OK jua bah"

Then he say..

"Balik balik ku call but can't get through!"

What's wrong with DST for this past few days? Is everything ok, DST? I was trying to surf the internet using my phone and have problem getting into it. While deciding what to order...a sms came in and it was from my friend who sends the sms like 10mins ago! hehe

Anyway, my friend told me that the two customers that were sitting next to the windows weren't happy and left the restaurant. Apparently, they have order their food like an hour ago and nothing arrived on their table. Hmmmm....not good eh....

Don't you feel that the weather is hot? For me it is, so I decide to get Ice Tea which comes with my Lontong Special. Really refreshing....


Then came a customer sitting on the same table of the frustrated customers who have just left. This person looks really familiar....hmmm.... and as he turn his back on me and saw his shirt, no doubt he is .......

Then later, came another guy into the restaurant and he is no other than ......

Let the blurry picture make you guess who they are ^_^

I was a bit disappointed with the food today. The Lontong Special that we ordered was not hot. It's warm and close to cold already. We were wondering if that's the food that the frustrated customers ordered and later serve it to us! hmmmm....but don't think they will do that...I hope

Men's Perspective

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. - David Bissonette -

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together. - Sacha Guitry -

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. - Socrates -

The great question... which I have not been able to answer... is, "What does a woman want? - Dumas -

I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. - Sigmund Freud -

"Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays." - Anonymous -

"There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage." - Sam Kinison -

"I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me, and the second one didn't." - James Holt McGavran -

Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1. Whenever you're wrong, admit it, 2. Whenever you're right, shut up. - Patrick Murray -

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... - Nash -

You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to. - Sonn -

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Henny Youngman -

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong. - Rodney Dangerfield -

A man inserted an 'ad' in the classifieds: "Wife wanted". Next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: "You can have mine." - Anonymous -

First Guy (proudly): "My wife's an angel!" Second Guy: "You're lucky, mine's still alive." - Anonymous -

Banana Fritters

Look yummy isn't it? I shouldn't have post this early in the morning! Making me hungry now :(

Anyway, the reason why I posted that picture is because of a forward email from a colleague of mine. This happen in few states in West Malaysia. I'm not sure how true it is, but you might think twice of buying banana fritters now...hehe...

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"This is a TRUE STORY ... and also Saw Loon told me it happened to her place at Kedah ..Tunjang..I think..

It happened in PERLIS ( Titi Chai Kangar, the pasar malam area where PISANG GORENG (Banana Fritters) are sold in the afternoon)

Mom said, my uncle saw the PISANG GORENG hawker added plastic straw ( drinking straw ) into hot oil and leave it to melt before he fried the banana, that is why PISANG GORENG, UBI, etc stay crispy for hours....

My uncle asked the hawker and he kept quite. When my uncle told my mom, they realized that this is how fried fritters stay crispy for a while. My mom said that in Thailand they do the same to keep the fried food crispy eg: ikan bilis, fried onions, etc which will stay crispy although it is left in the open air for hours.

Here's another one:

I was with my family in Cameron Highlands. It was 3 pm and we were hanging around a market area. We saw many hawker stalls, suddenly something attracted my attention at one of the stalls. There was a big wok of boiling oil with a half-5-litre empty oil bottle in it. The plastic bottle melted slowly in the hot oil.

At first I thought it was an unintentional act by a 7-yr-old girl but when I looked closely, I saw she was holding a pair of chopsticks and stir the bottle. It appears the act was intentional. Oh My God, these people are using melted plastic to fry food. so that the tit bits will not go soft when it cooled due to plastic.

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So what do you think? Do you believe it? If anyone of you willing to try it, please do let me know. If it really work, then we have to becareful of what we eat...SCARY!

Car Wash Anyone?

Yesterday, I was at my parents around 5pm and it started to drizzle and eventually raining cats and dogs. Waited till 6.30pm and the rain didn't stop. So decide to drive back home. On my way home, some part of the road at Jln Muara started to flood. Some silly motorist just didn't bother to slow down and splash the muddy water onto other cars including mine. And the sad bit was those who were walking along the road. They have no umbrella or rain coat!

Normally I will take Jln Beribi Lama to head home .. just to avoid the traffic. As I was driving along that road, I passes 3 area that's flooded and when I was about to get to the other end of the road, it was flooded and my car can't drive through! Look at the photos and you will know why! So I have to turn back and drove all the way and use the other road.

That poor indian shop was flooded!!...well at least that will chase the rats away! hehe

I Really Didn't Expect It......

I was at Hua Ho Manggis Mall yesterday accompanying my friend to buy some lucky draw gifts for their Company's Annual Dinner.

So we went through few electrical goods. Look at vacuum cleaner, DVD player, Air Cooler and also TV. I was quite surprise to see the price of the TV. It's reasonably cheap...great offer. My friend decide to get a Sony Bravia 20-Inch LCD TV for the Grand Lucky Draw prize. The TV only cost B$699 compare to one of the popular e-store which cost B$758.

I went through all the TV and one of the TV really caught my eyes. It's Sony Bravia 32-Inch LCD TV ( KLV-32V300A) which cost $1399. I really find it is really a good bargain. Knowing Hua Ho accept 0% Instalment with no processing charges, I finally decide to get the TV! Never cross my mind that I will buy a LCD TV so soon. I always wanted one but never thought it was yesterday. The store assistant asked me if I want the TV delivered to my place the next day and instantly I say NO! hehehe... I'm very impatient when it come to play with my new gadget!

Just after I bought the TV, a friend of mine invite me to play volleyball! My mind was thinking...should I go or should I not?! Strange enough I decide to play volleyball instead! When I got home, I push the TV to my room and my sister and bro-in law saw it and shouted " HE BOUGHT A NEW TV!!" They thought that I will put it in the living room...with my smiling face, i told them "YOU WISH!" ...

After the sport, I went back home and quickly take the TV out of the box and install it! Played with it till 1am! hehe....and that's why I look so tired and sleepy this morning. I just realise just now that my TV have Pic-Pic function! Can't wait to try that out..hehe... I need to get HDMI cable too for my Mini Mac which I will connect to my TV. Can't wait to try all this thing out.. and what makes me happy today is that the price at the e-store is B$1,985.00. It's few hundred difference from mine! So anyone who is interested in getting new TV, go to Hua Ho Manggis Mall before the offer ends.

Here is a look of the TV

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

Taking this opportunity to Happy 24th National Day to our beloved country, Brunei Darussalam. Didn't manage to watch the live telecast of the colourful event that was held at Taman Sir Omar Ali Saifuddin this morning. Was too tired and woke up at almost 12pm!

Went out though around 2pm to town. There are lots of people in town! Since it's a public holiday today, there are alot of foreign workers wander around the shopping malls. I went to Yayasan and there are lots of people doing their shopping and furthermore there is a motor exhibition. Didn't go and see it though.

Had my late lunch at Foodzone at Yayasan and later went to one of the corner and saw few artists as in drawing artists...they are really good!! Manage to snap one of the artists drawing..I was amazed with his drawing!

At Pizza Hut now and we can hear the staffs having fun karaoke-ing...hehehe...and I am one of them too..lol... They are having party here tonite! Good for them!

Happy Chap Goh Meh

In Hokkien dialect, it means the 15th night of Chinese New year. It is celebrated with prayers and offerings to mark the end of the Chinese New Year. Houses are again brightly decorated with lights for the last day of the celebration. Legend has seem young unmarried women throwing tangerines into the sea hoping to find a good husband. After this day, business as usual and everyone is looking forward for the next Chinese New Year.

Don't waste the skin...be creative...hehe

Back To Work - Tiring Weekend

Let me recap my trip to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from 14 February 2008 till 17 February 2008.

I went to KK flying via RBA with few friends. This is my first time flying to KK and was told that it only took 20mins to get there although the ticket say 40mins! Sat on the plane and surprisingly the flight is full with noisy passengers! Tourists from a noisy country..hehe...

I think it was only 10mins on the air when it was announced that we have to return to our seat and put on our seat belts. I was laughing when I heard that cos never in my traveling life that it took so fast to get to another country.

KKIA is under renovation and it looks like it's gonna be big and look as good as KLIA.

Night 1

Check in to the hotel and just dump or stuffs on the floor and went out for dinner. Lapar kali ah..No food served on the plane..

Didn't do much really. Just walk around the shops nearby and head back to the hotel. Early night

Day 2

Woke up around 7ish and getting ready for breakfast ^_^. We went down to the hotel restaurant and take our breakfast. The food was ok and the service was good. Very friendly staffs.

After breakfast, we went round KK City. Went to the their shopping mall like Warisan Square, Centrepoint and Parksons. Manage to get a pendant for myself. I have my name in Chinese and a picture of tiger craft on the pendant. Looks really nice and only cost me RM20. That's all i get that day! Nothing to buy in KK!

Went back to the hotel around 4pm and went to the gym and swimming pool. Spend a good 1 hour over there when it start to rain!

Weather wasn't promising that night so we went to the nearest restaurant for dinner...KFC! Since the weather wasn't that good, we went to a bar and hang out till late.

Day 3

Woke up and the cloud was so dark and the windows are covered with raindrops! Our plan for that day was to travel to KK National Park and Porring Hot Spring but that have to cancel due to the wet weather! Can't do much that day as it rain from morning till around 6 I guess. It was really a boring day for us! Then later we decide to go to Karaoke bar and waste our time. We really wasted our time until 2am! hehehe...

Day 4

Did a last minute shopping for my mom...buying dried prawn. Before I left for KL, mom advise me to get the dried prawn at the KK market and must get those which is not reddish in colour as they put dye on it. Get those with natural prawn colour and should not cost more than RM35 per kg. Found a stall that sell for RM35.50 and it doesn't take me alot of energy to bargain as she offer me RM20 per kg! Apa lagi, I buy lah! Murah kali ah! hehe

Then around 3pm we head off to airport.

Overall, I sort of enjoy my trip there...at least I can relax my mind.

I will upload some photo in here soon.

Rain Rain Go Away . . I'm On Holiday!

The weather in KK wasn't good at all today! It has been raining all day! We went to Parkson to do some shopping. The weather was already cloudy when we walk there and didnt even realise that it was raining so heavy when we were doing our shopping. Got stuck in the shopping mall!

Getting bored of stranded in the shopping mall, we decide to run to the nearest building and walk along it and finally reach the hotel! Crazy weather!

2nd Day In Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu Here I Go!!

Leaving for KK today. It's been awhile since I was there...probably about 4 years! I am looking forward to the seafood and bars! hehe..I try not to eat too much of seafood otherwise I will peel again!

Flying off to KK with few friends via RBA. Wanted to fly using AirAsia cos of better price but what's the point of me flying to KK alone and at a different time from RBA.. If you understand what I am trying to say then "MUN FAHAM, BISAI"

The other alternative way to get to KK is by driving...and still it's a No No!! Then again, it's best not to drive at this time of the year as it is really wet. It has been raining and before you can get to KK, you have to drive though Temburong! I'm sure some of you have heard that Temburong was flooded and lots of KK goers got stuck at Temburong border! I manage to get some photos from a friend whose friend's was driving back to Brunei from KK.

Temple @ Muara - 1st Day CNY

Here are some of the photos that I took at the temple in Muara. I went there with my family at around 12.30am on the 1st Day of CNY.

5th Day of Chinese New Year

Wow...it's already the fifth day of Chinese New Year! This Golden Rat run really fast eh... I have been really busy entertaining visitors from first to third day of Chinese New Year.

For the past over 20 years, we have been celebrating Chinese New Year in Seria and Lumut. This year we celebrate Chinese New Year in Muara as my parents moved to Muara recently. It is much easier for my relatives to visit us though since 99% of them live in Brunei Muara district.

On the first day of CNY, my parents invited my mom's side of the family for our open house. My mom have 5 siblings and each of her siblings have children that can form a football team..which mean that they are my cousins! Most of my cousins are married and have their own children. Good thing they know about "FAMILY PLANNING" .. hehe.. Imagine how crowded the house can be and with children running around and shouting! It is fun though to have all of them here to chit chat and gossips...hehe

Second day of CNY are for my father's side of the family. On my father's side, he have 9 siblings and thank god they were educated with family planning..hehe... My uncles and aunties have probably 3 or 4 children only in a family. This side of the family is the quiet type..unlike my mom's side of the family...u can hear them from a kilometer away! Oppsss...did i just say that...Jgn marah ah..hehe

Third day of CNY was for my sis and bro-in-law friends and colleagues. I decide not to do any open house for myself as not many turn up last year and wasted so much food!

Yesterday, came down to KB to attend my brother's open house! Looking at the catering's food make me feel sick! It's almost the same food for the past few days! Didn't eat much though.

Stayed over in Seria as I have to attend the ground breaking ceremony for the Methanol Plant which was held this morning.

Saw few accidents along the way and manage to snap a photo involving 3 cars! Can't really see the dent though....

DRIVE CAREFULLY PEOPLE! THE ROADS ARE SLIPPERY!!

KONG XI FA CHAI - GOLDEN RAT

Wishing All MY Chinese Friends, Relatives & Visitors

KONG XI FA CHAI

We Welcome The Golden Rat

&

Say Goodbye To The Year of Boar


Hoping That The Golden Rat Will Bring Us Lots of

Happiness

Prosperity

Good Fortune

Good Health

Hari Mesra Pelanggan at MOD

At MOD now waiting for customer to visit our booth. As you can see, it's "HARI MESRA PELANGGAN" or in English, "Customer Day". Basically all department from the government are here with their own booth welcoming customer with their queries.

It's a bit quiet at the moment and hope there will be people coming over so that I won't feel that bored! I'm manning the booth alone!

The exhibition will be open to public from 4 February 2008 until 13 February 2008. Please do visit the exhibition and hope your queries will be answered.

IM Charity Evening 2008 for SMARTER

Attended the SMARTER charity last nite at JP Amphitheatre. It was an amazing performance by the SMARTER boys and girls! The local artists were excellent too..especially Putri Norizah although I was expecting Maria to be there. hehehe

Took few photos of the event. Picture wasn't that good as I was sitting on the $15 seats and totally forgotten my camera stand! AH well...here are the photos and you can visit here for more pictures.