I Just Wonder

I was surfing on local blogs just now, it seems that their mum and dad are reading their blogs. I just wonder if my mum reads my blog, hehe.. I think that is not going to happen.

I have nothing to write here. I lost track of my blogging routine.

Selamat Hari Raya

I'm lazy to update this blog!!! Maybe if there're no more interesting things to do, and as a result of headache, I'll write something here.

Today is second raya here, no cuti here. Usually, first raya.. I went to relatives home. I'm going to school now.. its almost 10am. Bah.

Brunei's IRC Trivia Game

I'm not big fan of irc. Few weeks ago, I had nothing to do so I installed mirc. I entered to popular Brunei channels like #tutong, #brunei, #ubd. Not so interested chatting to anynomous.

E.yoshi (if u dunno who.. nvm) asked me to enter channel #dusun. At first I dunno what trivia game is!!! It's like Roda Impian.. but with no wheel. I don't have to describe this part!!! (experience it yourself).

The game test on your general knowledge about Brunei + World + little dusun language. Ok.. see you there.. my nick is secret.. :D.

Brunei in YouTube

YouTube, a website that allow us to upload our video and share them. I found out that many bloggers embedded video on their blogs.

I did my random search about Brunei in YouTube just now.. I found two funny local videos.

Naruto dubbing in Brunei language and Taekwondo kids. Have fun watching them!!!

Brunei Wiki

This is not about politic or whatsoever related to it. I'm one of wikipedia fans. There's language option on the right side of the website. That option allows reader to read wiki's contains in their own language (localization).

This is what I found long time ago. I wonder why "Bahasa Melayu" belongs/handles to/by Malaysian. What I mean is.. we here in Brunei use "Bahasa Melayu" too. There's only slight differences in both languages.. but we still use "Melayu" language.

It's better if they (anyone) put

Bahasa Malaysia - for Malaysia
Bahasa Brunei (Standard) - for Brunei
Bahasa Indonesia - for Indonesia

Bah.. Brunei Yakin.

Annual Orchard Road in Brunei (My Post with Pictures)

July 15, his majesty birthday. That day, I woke up early, wore smart and new dress. It's time to switch on the tv.. luckily the event had not started.

I went to gadong around 7pm, they provide a karaoke stage and anyone can sing "one song only".. $1 charge. Then I went to bandar, I caught myself in a traffic jam!! It took two and the half hour to get out of the car.


There's a lot of ppl.. walking here and there crossing the road.



Few roads had to be closed and mr policemen did their work greatly.. (sitting down?? no.. actually they're monitoring).



A lot of stall, they sell food, drinks, balloon, painting, dress, pirated vcds, and so on.





Down here was so called indon dangdut club.. they conquered the stage.



Finally.. went back home




I didn't manage to take few more photos. Actually there're group of teenagers showed their brake dance skill, and there're activity held on the field. I went to Tutong celebration on 17th too. I shake hand with his majesty in the morning and went to see the celebration at night.

Overall Winner of ALL night celebration - For ME,
Food & Drink (Gerai Level) -> Gadong
Enjoyment of Activity -> Bandar
Most Terrible Traffic Jam -> Bandar
Most Crowded -> Bandar!!!!
Nice Sound System (Karaoke) -> Gadong
Most Dark Environment -> Tutong
Most Available Toilet -> Tutong
Most Terrible Singer on Stage -> Tutong
Most Delicious Sutung Tutuk -> Tutong
Most Delicious Longan -> ALL

Brunei Darussalam - "A Kingdom of Unexpected Treasure" - (Proof?)

Live brunet webcam only can view selected places that brunet has set.

Google Earth (GE) allows us to view satellite image of all around the world. The latest version of GE has clearer view of Brunei.



About the picture above, I still wonder that shape somewhere at the sea. Maybe it's where Brunei Expected Treasure lies. You people can zoom it more if you already install the GE, it's free for sure.

Watching Brunei Live

I visited brunet a couple days ago. To my surprise, brunet website has improved and provide more services. Good job there.. (not like UBD web). Brunet also provides blog account for their subscribers, it's a nice start here in Brunei.

I have requested brunet blog account invitation through email. Unfortunately, they asked me to call 121 because they said "you need a brunet email/account" if you want to open brunet blog. I don't see the logic here because I sent my request through my brunet email. I'll call 121 sooner or later, maybe it's their procedure, that isn't hard anyway.

Ok, the most interesting thing from brunet website is the live webcam. Anyone out there, no matter where you are, you can watch Gadong, The Mall, Jln Sultan, TelBru headquarter, Beribi Roundabout, Kiarong Roundabout. You need to install Streaming Explorer to view them (Internet Explorer only).

UBD 3rd Science and Technology Week - OGDC Tech™ Challenge Competition 2006

This afternoon just now, there was tech challenge held in UBD chancellor hall. Eighteen groups consist of four members joined the competition (UBD and ITB students only). There were two challenge, I forgot the name but I know the first one something to do with aeroplane and the second one was about free fall of marble.

I just want to congrat a team from Computer Science, called themself zugzwang (a german word). The team members were me, green girl, has_ayono and alien-r. We won third place unofficially.. sort of. Actually, what happened just now was, during the prize presentation they announced the third place winner wrongly. Only few knew we won!!! We missed the hall of fame photos session, but that was not important.

I want to congrat to civil engineering students from ITB as well. They had tie-break match with our group to decide the third place winner. Luck was with us, great job by has_ayono.

Team work, general skills and good use of strategy were the keys to winning. It's not about whether your are pyhsics, maths, chemistry, engineering students or what so ever.

Drive Safely

It was a long time I don't update this blog. I just want to say about 'trust' here. When you follow a person car, if you trust the driver and your are sleepy, I'm sure you will sleep peacefully. If not, you will force yourself to stay awake, maybe afraid the driver will drive carelessly.. or maybe of something else.

Yesterday I went to ubd, I saw a car accident in ubd area. Maybe it was a car accident.. (I'm sure it wasn't a gimmick). I also surprised to see a person used mobile phone while driving (nothing to be surprised of) along tungku link road. Actually, a police car overtook the person. At first I thought the policmen will fine the person or what, but then they just overtook like that. Maybe their working time had ended.

Recently, almost everyday rains. Drive slowly!!!

I have created a new blog. This blog is still alive as it is. You can find my new blog address on the right. Feel free to read!!!

CS April's Fool

This post is exclusively written, the 12 hrs drama in CS programme. I observed/witnessed everything and now I want write it in a bit detail.

Time Line

5.40am - The time I woke up

6.00am - I read my sms. The sms was from Oxba's hp. The contain was (translated)

"I'm Oxba sis... my bro has passed away last night. I sms this to all his hp contact list"

At first, I felt shock by the sudden news. I checked the sms sent time/date. It's 1st-April, 3.38am. He must be joking. I replied back.. (translated)

Duolulu: "Today is April's fool.. "
Oxba: "Ok.. ok.. I want to fool other ppl. I'll come to ubd late"

Few minutes later,

Oxba: "Dr. M believed I'm dead. I said my corpse will be investigated first".
Duolulu: "Ok.. don't be too cruel.. stop ur drama before 8am"
Oxba: "...."

On my way driving to ubd, I received a lot of sms!!!

8.00am - I read their sms, those sms were coming from Dr. M, KLCC, Lunatic Girl and On7.

I told them that it's just a joke. They seemed unsatisfied with that kind of joke. The final sms I received was from On7.. (translated)

On7: "Did Oxba really died? Or he was joking.. tell me honestly"
Duoulu: "I'll come to his funeral ceremony and eat the food if I'm hungry later"

The drama should be ended at that time. I walked to ictc, on my way again... I received sms from green girl. She just told me to wait her in/outside library. I stood outside library, didn't see her around so I entered ictc instead.

Dr. M was there, he stared at me.. (ready to bom). With him, two other girls looked at me. They're e.yoshi and besi. Here was the conversation.. (translated)

Dr. M : "Is is true he really died? Or it's just a joke"
Duolulu: "Don't believe it..."
Dr. M : "Ru sure it's a joke? If it's a joke, April's fool is not our culture. That kind of joke isn't funny"
Besi : "Yes.. that isn't funny. It's like doa."
E.yoshi: "Yess.. I agree"

Oxba had spoilt ppl mood in the morning. They're not satisfied with it, I better get going before I get another bom!!! On my way to library, I encountered Nordin. He asked me.. (translated)

Nordin: "Do you receive the news that Oxba was died? Is it true or just April's fool?"
Duolulu: "Don't believe it... it's a lie"

Met green girl outside library. She seemed dunno what just happened, the news had not reached her yet. I kept my mouth shut. We waited for two other members for our Dr. Mahmud project; Dr. M, hasAyono, duolulu and green girl.

Dr. M, hasAyono, E.yoshi and Besi finally came. Dr. M still unsatisfied with the joke. He told the story to green girl. He said, that morning he informed the news to Annuar via hp, her mom overheard it. Because of that, his parents gave him money as derma to Oxba's death. The things became complicated and serious.

In the library, second floor, discussion room..

Dr. M: "Ru sure it's a joke??" - ( he needed prove)
Duolulu: "It's a joke.. I sms him this morning"
Dr. M + Besi: "U sms him after he said he's dead or before that?"
Duolulu: "After..."

Before 10am. I sms Oxba. I told him to bring Dr. Mahmud last year project sample. He replied and asked me to take it from bob spec. It's proven, Oxba was still breathing. Dr. M sms to Annuar to tell him the truth. Dr. M said Annuar was angry by that joke. Not only Annuar, the news spread sooo fast, many other friends were affected.

We planned to fool Oxba back. Everyone agreed. We planned it cleanly to make sure not a single flaw could be detected.

Here was the planned.

One of us (I think it was hasAyono) pretended to be HEP ppl. He sms Oxba.. (a message to his sis). The contain sound like this (translated)

"We received the news of the death of ur bro. We felt sympathy with it and will carry a derma kilat. For futher query, call Mr xxxx on this no. 2xxxxx..."

Oxba sms me "They still believe I'm dead?"

I didn't reply it. I think green girl did it for me. My hp was taken!!!

12pm - we had lunch at foodzone Gadong. With us were duolulu, bobspec, green girl, Dr. M, e.yoshi, besi, my secretary, kendalf and reikoax.

2pm - We parked our car near ETC and attended Sei Guan class. hasAyono told us he met Oxba in ICTC. He told Oxba that few girl classmates cried for him, and told green girl and friends was on their way to his home. (hasAyono can be a good actor!!). Everyone laughed.

I also heard from hasAyono that when Oxba knew green girl was on her way to his home. Oxba phoned his sis and told her to get ready.... told his sis to show the room where Oxba hang himself to dead!! (Actually green girl attended her class with us... - what hasAyono told him was just another lie)

After class, we once again went to library discussion room. Besi and e.yoshi went to vending machine for while. When they came back, they said they met Oxba.

Oxba said to them: "I'm his clone!!"

Some other classmates still unsatisfied to give lesson to Oxba.

I summarize what I heard from Dr. M and few other classmates.

They said Oxba went to Admin building.. the conversation was like this

Oxba: "Did anyone report a death case?"
UBD Admin: "The dead of?"
Oxba: "Me"

So funny actually. Reikoax told Dr. M that Oxba got scolded by admin ppl because of that statement.

Before he did that. He sms bob spec that he was in trouble, he said that Dr. M took the joke seriously (he did actually). Oxba sms me as well. Oxba sms to besi as well.. he thought besi cried for him... so he thought besi had feeling on him.. another lie. Oxba didn't know that about the HEP and Admin thingy were just a lie. Oxba was told that tahlil ceremony will be held in his home on Monday. Another lie. Everything was LIEs.

Before 6pm - Me, besi, bob spec and my secreatary were in CLT room. Dr. M came and told what just happened in Admin building. Dr. M said Oxba seek for apology from him and reikoax calm the situation.

A good lesson for everyone.

Rename My Nick

I'm here to rename myself.

Take "duolulu" as my new nick name.

I haven't updated this blog for such a long time. I have many ideas to write but I'm lazy to type them. The fact is I'm busy nowadays.

I wanna tell u about the logical behind a question. I was in Dr Brown's Human Computer Interaction class. He talked about a famous singer then told us that the singer likes to show the belly. He forgot the singer's name.. sooo

Then I asked him "Is it a male singer?"
He looked at me and then said "A male singer that shows his belly?"

Some friends said "ru *** ka?"

What? I just realised I asked a wrong question!! Yesterday, I went to his office, he was not in and the door wasn't locked. I see around inside his office and saw a pair of shoes nearby!! Where was him? He must be invisible!!!

Dr Brown is the neighbourhood of Dr Nwabueze.

Ok then, I leave u all a nice website
http://www.voynich.nu/

Happy New Year!!!

Happy new Year 2006!!!

That's all.

Is Laptop consider a Book?

I just thought it last night, when I was about to sleep. Most ppl say, we cannot step over books, bring books to toilet, cannot kick books, put your feet on books. I know some ppl do that but I don't. Now, most educational information are kept in electronic devices.

So my question is, can I step over my laptop?? (I guess no one wants to kick their laptop). Not only laptop... eg. cds, tape, usb drive, mobile phone, hdd.. too many. Make me aware of walking.

G-Language

I'm very lazy to update this blog. I have many things to say but they're not general knowledge. I remember when I was small, in primary school, there was a language called G-Language. It's not like C, C++ or Java or Jawa. Infact, this language is a modification of malay language or malay-like language. The letter G only affects the consonant but not the vowel. Let me put some examples. I'm sure most of you have used or heard this language before.

Malay --> Malay G-Language
"ayam" = "agayagam"
"ku" = "kugu"
"ada" = agadaga"
"di" = "digi"
"miri" = "migirigi"

Pattern Formula,

Let c be consonant
Let v be vowel
Let g be constant consonant

1. (cv) --> (cv+gv)
e.g hi --> higi

2. (cvv) --> (cv + gvv)
e.g hoi --> hogoi

3. (cvc) --> (cv+gvc)
e.g bom --> bogom

Looks like discrete maths.. :-D.

Equation Of Success

I found this equation pasted outside Dr. Nwabueze office. I waited for him for many hours but he was not available. While waiting I read what he had la.

Let A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
be 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 respectically.

Then,

K+N+O+W+L+E+D+G+E
=11+14+15+23+12+5+4+7+5=96%

H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K
=8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11= 98%

A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E
=1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5=100%

So it means that u can be successful if u have the right attitude!!

I derive another equation from that:-
M+A+S+T+E+R+M+I+N+D
=13+1+19+20+5+18+13+9+14+4=116%

Therefore, I'm the winner!! :-D

Only One Might Survive

Actually I want to write about 'miss call' but somebody I know has written about it. So I'm thinking to write about 'miss call' next time.

'brick' looked like hp was quite popular in early 90s. Those who own one, it means they're rich!! It is bulky and heavy but the owner would feel proud of it. Only businessman could afford to have it. The 'brick' hp line was provided by JTB and it didn't use SIM card. I'm not quite sure what generation was it, maybe 1G. But the hp line was easily got hacked!!

Let me summarize all,
1. JTB used 1G (no longer exist)
2. DST (the leech) uses 2.xG (GSM)
3. B-mobile uses 3G

Since b-mobile comes to Brunei market, now DST is in unsafe situation. More and more people are switching to b-mobile and left DST!! Btw, I'm still using DST line.. sooner, I'll left DST as well :-D. And who knows maybe DST will come to extinct like JTB hp line.

School Games

I want to list out school games that we used to play when teachers were not around.

Primary School
1. sekupung
2. lastik keratas
3. guli
4. gatah
5. cara kaki
6. tomiya
7. simban
8. gymnastik belakang sekulah
9. polis tangkap penyamun
10. kahwin (ada ka?)

Secondary School
1. bula tin
2. lastik pen
3. air-gun
4. gusti
5. tamaguchi

Form 6
1. lap lap too

UBD
1. N/A

Anything left out? I think the games list are decreasing as we grow up.

Hospital

"Ada" said Dr Nwabueze. Ok, Dr Nwabueze is a great lecturer.

Hospital is a place to cure illness (or gain illness). Food provided in hospital is a heathy diet (maybe). Take RIPAS hospital as an example. I walked to one of the ward. On my way, I saw teenagers were fashion their selves. Nothing wrong with that, a good starting of my journey, :-). I entered the elevator, the elevator knows how to speak.. great!! (sakai) I reached the ward, I saw each patient bed had many visitors. They brought fruits/food/ (no flowers like I saw in movie). The person who was sick couldn't eat. No 'selera'. It's a usual situation, only when you're sick people will care/concern. Before when the patient was healthy, "I want to eat durian", no one bother to buy. Hehe.. unlogical story.

Ok, the nurses like to give advices of healthy diet. I see many nurses are not suitable as our role model. I sat in RIPAS canteen. Most of them bought so called 'unhealthy' food. Food in RIPAS canteen is not nyaman.

We can enter the ward at 'any' time, not following to the hospital's regulation. It's good since it makes our visit time is longer. Only one thing I'm not satisfy with, why do we have to pay for the basement parking?

Ok, my conclusion is "hospital is a place to cure illness for patients but gain illness for visitors".

Dr. Nwabueze Trick

Dr. Nwabueze came early to his lecture class. Usually he came late which was unusual for that day. And usually he came with his escort, three bodyguard. His bodyguard sat at the back lecture hall. They wore smart dress and if it's not at night time, some of them use black glasses. But unfortunately, despite of being early to class, not much students attended his class on that day. He had to cancel his class since it's no use to teach few students. Before he left the class, he showed a maths trick. He called a student to come infront and let that student wrote some number on the white board.

That student which was a girl wrote 3-digits number.

That girl wrote 135

Then, Dr. Nwabueze wrote 2133 on the right side of the white board. He told that student to wrote 3-digit number below it again.

That girl wrote 135
That girl wrote 888

Dr. Nwabueze wrote his no. below it.. and so and so.

That girl wrote 135
That girl wrote 888
Dr. Nwabueze wrote 111
That girl wrote 780
Dr. Nwabueze wrote 219

They wrote that 5 numbers in a short time and Dr. Nwabueze asked his students to calculate the total. Surprisingly, the ans was 2133!! The same number he wrote on the right side of the white board.

Ok, let me unlock his trick. The process works like this. Dr. Nwabueze minus the last digit with 2 and then add 2 infront of the whole digits.

Eg. 46623 (5-digit), the last digit is 3. So deduct 2 from it. It becomes 46621. Then add 2 infront of the whole digits. It becomes 246621. This is the ans. So ask anyone to write 5-digit no. again.

Anyone 46623
Anyone 12738

It's your turn to write 5-digit number. Make sure the total is 9 for every digit. It goes like this.

Anyone 46623
Anyone 12738
You 87261
Anyone 55613
You 44386

Ask them to sum up. Is it 246621? Such a wonderful trick.

Anynomous Stall

Minasan, do u guys ever seen anynomous stall?? The stall that u dunno the seller and the seller dunno u. I mean that both the seller and the buyers don't see (not blind hoi!!) each other face. So when u want to buy something from the stall, u just take the required item which is mostly food/fruits (e.g. ikan masin, belacan, durian) and then put your money to the provided box (not a steel box!) . Actually, honesty from both side is needed here.

The sellers have to trust the buyers, e.g
1. Buyers will pay to what they take.
2. No one will not take the money from the box.

We have this business system in UBD Fos, at Maths department building, on the 1st floor. I bought a burger and I put $1 to the given container. I dunno who is the owner since he/she was not there. From what I understand, it's sensible to do like that since we're living in Brunei (Abode of Peace, kali la). [Jangan saja yang dijual atu amas, tantu lanyap]

Friendster

You know ( and you should know otherwise ure not internet user), internet users, especially bruneian, almost all have friendster account. The network is so huge and u can find unexpected person. I found out in UBD browser history list, almost every pc log into friendster website <= use of ictc is for friendster, pandai-pandai.

Giving ur friends testimonial is sound good and ur friends want u to praise them saja, :-D. Friendster idea is to meet new/old friends is good but people only add you if only (mostly) you have pretty/cute pics. So the concept is, "be my friend only if ure pretty!!". Unfair!! and person like me (or maybe u) is kesian, :-D.

Indian Vs Chinese

This is title really duol ulu.

I don't want to say much. I just wonder who will win if Chinese compete with Indian ppl in fighting. If u watch Chinese movie or drama, u can see they have qi gong, which enable them to fly or make their body lighter. They could catch bullet, and many super power la.. like the one in anime. Different like in Indian movie, they don't have super power, but their are so strong (kabal). It seems that they're immortal. They got shot by many bullets but still not dying. So the question is, who will win?

Save the best for last?

The statement "save the best for last".. is only works in certain situation. Usually for something related to entainment... i.e for fun la. For example, the popular singer will perform only when the show nearly come to the end. And the audience will wait with patient.. just because want to see their favourite performer. One more example is like during prize presentation. The first winner is the last person to be commence. Everything is planned and done purposely.

The statement becomes unuseful when comes to news. The important news will be shown first. Everything is up-to-date and I don't think there is such called "save the best news for last".

Bah. Sekian.

Kite Season?

I see many people are playing kite nowadays. I don't know whether now is a kite season or not. Few kites can be seen above Kampong Ayer. Mostly are ordinary type of kites. The shape is just like rhombus (delta).

Playing kite is not hard. First u need to have a kite. Then run the kite oppositely to the direction of the wind. How to explain it a bit nicer ah? The best solution is, observe it yourself. Making a kite is a bit hard, though actually not. I ever made one, taught by my friends.

Anyway, is there any kite festival here? I heard this is one... ok.

Fruits Season

"Lelong lelong, murah bah, beli satu.. satu saja dapat!!!"... now is fruit season. There are many types of fruit sold in market e.g. durian, kembayau, tarap, shukun... etc. Most of the fruits are imported from Sarawak and some from local. From what I know, those imported fruits are brought here through many stages.. I mean not directly distributed from the suppliers to the sellers. It involves some middle persons and each person gets profit.

E.g. fruits' tree owner --> person who climb the tree --> fruits' driver --> sellers --> to other sellers...

and the profit might look like this

E.g. one durian

0.50 cent --> $1.00 --> $1.50 --> $2.50 (in market)

If you go to your kampong (actually your home is in kampong also), you can climb the fruit tree by yourself. It's not hard since "monkey also can do it.. so why you can't??".

Anyway.. do eat too much fruits.. later you'll get stomach ache. Bah.

My Lady Is Stupid - Chapter One

Ok. I'm writing one fictional story here. The story came from a Chinese novel (not me reading it, I'm illiterate), a friend of mine Melissa, read it for me. Since she told me the story during chatting, so I have to edit and recompile everything in order for reader to understand the message. She hasn't finished telling me everything.. Btw, I forgot to ask the character name. Ok.

Start....

The story started from one school... a college. There was a guy studied at that school, he was very handsome and rich. The guy was a popular student but he kept himself low profile and quiet. Every girl saw him will surely fall in love.. but no one could win his heart.

One day, while the guy was wandering around his school, he smell something sweet. The smell was like coming from flowers. He got attracted to that sweet smell and followed where the source came from. Finally he reached to a school garden and saw a girl. The girl was just like other ordinary girl and at that time the girl had her lunch. He noticed that the smell came from that girl's biscuits. The guy was so well know of being quiet and hardly smile, but this time he asked for the biscuit. After finished eating, he said it was delicious and left that girl.

....
....... (Two years have past)
....

That girl opened a bakery shop (with her friend). A friend (girl) came to the bakery girl and she wanted the bakery girl go to her boss party. That friend couldn't come since she had other important work to do. The bakery girl was borrowed with a pass ID card as her pass to get into the party. Before coming to the party, the bakery girl make herself up and she looked pretty...

At the party, she had no friend to talk with and alone. So after taking foods from the table, she went to a corner. There was a guy at that corner as well, actually that guy was the one she met two years before. The guy looked at her and felt uncomfortable because he thought she wanted to get closer to him. That girl looked at him too but she had different reason, she wandered why the guy didn't wear the company pass ID card. Then, she didn't care why and ignored that guy. Actually, that guy was the owner of the company. He felt a bit weird since most girls he met will chase him but she didn't (hehe.. that guy is perasan). The guy started to come closer to the girl..

she wondered why and started to ask "have you eaten already? what do you want to eat..?"

Before the guy could answer anything, she left him and took foods for him.... and returned to that guy. The guy looked at her pass ID card instead of asking who her was. While eating a cake... she told the guy that the cake was not yummy. She looked more and more miserable... and the guy started to feel curious how the cake taste like. He tasted it and he got the same feeling. The bakery girl felt dissapointed and left the party.

On the next day, that guy called her to come to his office. Unfortunately, instead of the bakery girl came.. the real ID card owner came. He was shocked and felt curious why it was not her. That guy asked her few questions and wanted the exact explaination. The bakery girl's friend gave her apology told that guy to what had happened. Since that guy was interested to the bakery girl, he started to dig information, like her name, where she worked, everything.

After leaving the office, the girl that had been asked told the bakery girl what had happened......

To Be continueD

Chance ---> Nature <--- Fate

I just link few words as my title. Nothing special!!

When you meet someone in certain places (e.g person A meets person B in one shop while shopping), is it because of the chances of meeting is high? Chance is not intentionally done, unpredictable!! In my opinion, I assume that it happens because of the nature of two ppl. There is chemistry existed between two ppl, the pattern is there and the waves are in the same phase. Other factors are taking place too, like the country is small with little shops. Since they only have limited places to go, so the chances of two ppl going randomly at any palce and finally meet at certain places is high.

Then, what if the country is so big? Many ppl? Meet unexpectedly (like meet in jungle)? Eg. I don't know you (you don't know me) but you're reading my blog, two ppl return from the same party but they didn't see (not intentionally) each other. Aha!.. this is because of their fate. Can't run away, it is their destiny.

But the question is, which one is which, chance or fate?

Famous for A While

Nothing much to say actually. This country is so small and the population is little too. So anyone of you that are staying in Brunei must ever have your face (or your body) in the newspaper or on the local tv. Your might not realise it!! The chances of you in there are quite high. Unlike in other countries, being on the tv is almost impossible.

So if you think you never have face on the tv or in the newspaper before..maybe someday in the future e.g. during sportday, his royal highness birthday, national day, rtb singing show etc. Doing crimes can become famous too e.g. illegal immigrant. Bah..

Learn Our Language

As far as I can see, many foreigners that are working in Brunei able to learn Brunei language (malay) in one month time. The fastest learner are Indians, and some Bangladesh. This might because of their languages are more difficult from us. The slower learner are thai and philipino.

There are still some differences, like the way of speaking. Indian tongue is twisted a bit (berguluk lidah). Some foreign workers are not bother to learn our language e.g thai, philipino. Some already understand our language.. like the Indonesian and workers from Malaysia.

Any workers that want to work in this country must able to speak malay if they don't know english. Brunei malay and English are our language medium. Weird things do happen actually. I ever seen Indians spoke malay to other Indians. I think because of they came from different origin. Futhermore, some Indonesian know how to speak our native language.

The use of malay or english depends on where they are. In hospital, foreign doctor must be able to speak malay although local nurse can be the translator. Speaking directly without the need of middle person is more satisfying. Places like kedai makan, kedai runcit (u find the meaning urself if u don't understand this!!) where most of the customers are elderly ppl. They don't know english so malay language is essential here.

hantam saja tia. bah.

Duol ulu

Duol ulu!!! This blog has many grammatical errors. I have to do proofreading, even myself can't understand some parts of it.

Territory

Where are now? Are you inside your own territory? Territory I mean here is a place that has its own rules that you have to follow.

Starting from your bedroom, you set your own rules for ppl entering your room (you may not realise it). In your home, your parents are the ones that have the highest power to control your home territory. And in the village, the headman is the one that has the highest power. I'm sure you ever seen traffic policemen do their work. They just stand at the centre of the road and ppl will follow their hands' order. In school, students have to follow the school regulations and obey to their teachers.

This world has many places/dimensions that you never know the strength that it looks for. There might be a place where physical power or money is useless. Actually, this is not as easy as you think, what I mean is "extremely useless", eg only words that can kill a person. You might doing something forbidden by the territory your're in without realising it, eg. lost in jungle.

But have you ever think what would happen if you break the territory rules? It is like taboo, you better follow it otherwise you would be in trouble.

Ok. You better watch out for yourself in ppl territory.

Broadcasting

Brunei is different from 15 years ago. At that time there was only one channel for Brunei TV (RTB). People used to like RTB since the programme were nice... much better than today. At that time, malaysian tv channels (RTM) can be viewed..TV1 and TV2.. (though it was not so clear).

Early 1990, malaysian TV3 can be viewed here (broadcasted from miri). Need a powerful (booster) tv antenna or aerial in order to receive the signal. Then around 1995, paid tv station from outside were broadcasted freely here. Bruneian abled to watch mtv, hbo etc for free. After a year or more, decoder console was introduced. Only Brunei people who had the decoder console can view the paid tv station. After years, DST group handled the decoder console broadcasting, called Kristal TV (still exist now). Kristal TV card was introduced, and people have to pay monthly fee.

At the same time, TV3 broadcasting signal was built in Limbang. Bandar people could watch TV3 clearly.

After couple of years, Bruneian could not watch great show from TV anymore. No more free channels. Those who use parobola have to pay for broadcasting license. TV3 was blocked in 2002 because the authorities said TV3 used the UHF (Ultra High Frequency) signal. They said UHF signal was only for RTB, meaning that TV3 broadcasted the show illegally here (unlike TV1 and Tv2, they use the VHF signal). But I wonder why the illegal issue rose at that time, maybe the offices slept for many years then finally realised it. At that time, many complains were posted in Brunei forum and newspapers but their mind unchanged until now. Actually, TV3 broadcasting signal is still exist here but masked by RTB channel 11 (Brunei Satellite TV). So if anyone of you want to watch TV3, go and bomb Telisai satellite station.

Lately, Kristal Astro came to Brunei (though astro from Malaysia brought illegally here many years ago).

Now, we have 4 free channels on TV. They are RTB and RTB for satellite, RTM TV1 and TV2. And we have 3 legal tv receiver console, KristalTV, Kristal Astro and parabola.

Ok, next time I will talk about clone card. I will not describe it in a technical way though I have the complete guide (I'm not a clone card maker hah!!).

Bankruptcy

Do you people ever realise that the shops in Brunei are getting many. Many new buildings for renting are being built. Some are built in strategic place, some don't. I wonder what is their main target to build new shop buildings.

In Tutong, 15 years back, there were only two shop buildings we could see. Now, the number of shops is increasing drastically. I can see some units in the building are still empty eg.Halim Plaza, and some even empty for the whole building. No one wants to rent it. I'm not really sure why no one wants to rent it, but I can say it is all because of lack business planning.

Btw, I point out here the basic things we need to consider if we want to open a shop.
1.strategic place, 2.the unit size, and 3.able to figure out market demand

strategic place, as all people know, we will go to a shop that we can park our car easily. A place that most people passing by. That is why, you'll see not many people are going to the building of Tutong pizza hut. We need to consider people route, eg. home-to school-to work-to bandar-petrol station-traffic light- .... See at where most car passing by that area.

The unit size, a shop that require creative work usually small eg. photoshop, dressmaking. Car accesories need a small unit too but it needs a large open space. Putting it at the edge is better as long as people can see it.

Market demand, the most important thing, if no one likes it, better think twice.

A big hypermarket in nationwide also can get bankrupt. In 1999, the crictical economy year (July 1997 to be exact). The largest hypermarket in Brunei went bankrupt in that year, Yohan (Japan). Maybe many people forgot it. Now, we have "the mall" in Gadong. I ever emailed to them, the mall arcade cost around $500 per month.

Here was the mall email contain, 06/10/2004 06:10 PM

Thank you for your inquiry on the available shop space rental in The Mall. For your kind information, as todate the units available are:-

1. Unit no 1.28 at B$4.10 psf x 1,416 s.f (approximation)

2. Unit no 1.29 at B$4.10 psf x 1,500 s.f (approximation)

3. Unit no 1.42 at B$4.10 psf x 795 s.f

All of the above units are situated on 1st Floor. You are able to view the floor plans on our website, www.arhbrunei.com.

note: s.f is square feet

Ok. A good shop is the one that require less space, less workers, little modal, little expenditure, little physical energy, but has high profit, then the boss can enjoy himself travelling around the world (Las Vegas). Think trice if you people want to open a shop.

Toilet

Hello, have anyone of you realise that there are many types of toilet. Most old house in Brunei, the toilets are made of concrete called the "squant" toilet. Now, almost all houses use the "bidet" type toilet. As far as I know, both toilets are user-friendly. But I wonder the feeling of using advance toilet. The toilet that pump automatically for us, that can detect temperature and can recognize voice order.

Anyway, do anyone of you see the differences between male and female public toilet in Brunei. I ever entered female public toilet before (my mistake, though many times.. hehe), more cleaner than male one. Not much damage, female always try to preserve the mirror. Unlike male, they like to break it. The door of male public toilet is written with advertisement... phone no.... drawing... poem.. u know. And some doors have holes, holes of cigarette. But male toilet has utility that female toilet doesn't have. Use to.... while standing.

Ok. I'll try to update soon.

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