Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, Food, Health, Photography, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, entertainment, tagged food photography, seria, Kuala Belait, SUNDAY KB DRIVE-BY AND FRATINI DINE-IN, fratini, pizza hut, night lights, pizza, caesar salad, meat lovers on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On some Sundays when we (the parents) are lost for dinner ideas, we ask the kids and their answers are fairly predictable (when they happen to agree!). Predictable in the context of dining in Seria or Kuala Belait, that is, there’s only really Excapade Sushi, Fratini and Kaizen (on very rare occasions, we do Jollibee [...]
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, Food, Health, Photography, Shopping, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, education, entertainment, tagged belait district, Brunei Shell Petroleum, bsp, domestic tourism, Food, food photography, Kuala Belait, national safety, OGDC, oil and gas discovery centre, seria, Shopping, stock images, the in-laws came to town, the weekend before school reopens, traffic game contest on June 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Yesterday was a big National Road Safety Traffic Game Competition weekend at the Oil & Gas Discovery Centre (OGDC) where HRH Princess Hjh Masna and an entourage of ministerial representatives, palace protocols and media who came to the oil town for the prize presentation. HRH Princess Hjh Masna is also the patron of the Brunei Darussalam [...]
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Posted in Food, Health, Photography, education, tagged caffeine, coffee, cutting caffeine to control diabetes, readers digest asia june 2008, red wine health controversy, research confusion, RESEARCH CONTROVERSY. WHO CAN YOU TRUST?, THE CURSE OF CAFFEINE ON DIABETES, THE SPILL ON RED WINE, what the researchers aren't telling you, what they experts say about red wine on June 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You’ve heard how ”RED WINE IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH” and how “RED WINE PROTECTS THE HEART” but is it really? There’s simply no scientific evidence to support these claims and if there were any, they would probably be so cryptic that it’s meaningless to the average joe. We all know that anything taken in moderation [...]
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Health, Photography, tagged allegies, beclomethasone dipropionate, becotide, flexotide, inhaler, living with asthma and allergies, puffer, ventolin, volumatic spacer device on June 1, 2008 | 21 Comments »
As a child I had asthma but I grew out of it. Several months ago, I asked my mom if by some stroke of luck she had kept the inhaler device I depended on for a while. Too bad she had thrown it out or else I might have an opportunity to write about a medical device that [...]
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Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, Corporate, Health, Motoring, Photography, Sports, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, tagged 2006 Lexus Golf Classic, 2008 LEXUS GOLF CLASSICS, 23rd East Asian Insurance Congress, bunker shots, canon EOS 20D, canon EOS 5D, corporate events, EMPIRE hotel and country club, golf photography, lexus golf championship trophy, Lexus LS460, Nikon D3 corrupts images, The relentless pursuit of perfection, tiger woods club mitten on May 26, 2008 | 11 Comments »
When I first shot the Lexus Golf Classic tournament in 2006, it was at the Empire Hotel & Country Club. In 2007, the venue was at the Royal Brunei Golf & Country Club (RBGCC) in Jerudong. This year it’s back at the Empire, a venue that I’m much more familiar with having previously photographed HSBC’s golf [...]
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