There was a time I would frequent the Liang Lumut Recreation Club (LLRC) in the evenings with my partner for badminton. There was also a time when membership meant you could bring a partner to play at no charge. But membership rules have changed and so have the availability of my partner whose working hours [...]
Posts Tagged ‘belait district’
EVENINGS BY THE BEACH
Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, People, Photography, Tourism, Travel, beach, tagged beach, belait district, liang lumut recreation club on July 18, 2008 | No Comments »
UNIVERSITY FOR CHILDREN BRUNEI. GRADUATING CLASS OF 2008!
Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, Food, Photography, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, education, entertainment, tagged belait district, British High Commissioner, Brunei Garrison Officer's Mess, Chung Ching, graduation ceremony, Hornbill school, John Saville, seria, St John's, St Margaret's, UNIVERSITY FOR CHILDREN BRUNEI on July 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The University for Children, a community education initiative that aims to make learning exciting for young students, held its first graduation yesterday at the Brunei Garrison Officers’ Mess in Kuala Belait. Launched last year with an objective to promote and develop children’s awareness of other cultures and to give students an opportunity to explore their [...]
FRONT PAGE CROC. WHEN AN ESTUARINE CROCODILE VISITS.
Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Photography, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, education, tagged belait district, estuarine crocodile, ESTUARINE CROCODILE SIGHTING, front page croc, Nikon 400mm lens, Nikon D300, oil town, panaga natural history society, PNHS, seria, the brunei times, wildlife, wildlife photography, www.bt.com.bn on July 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
There is good news and there is bad news and news of a croc sighting is not what local residents would consider (ever) good news but which in my opinion falls squarely in-between. For nature and wildlife lovers the presence of a reptile is nothing out of the ordinary and is in fact good news especially [...]
THE IN-LAWS CAME TO TOWN
Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Canon, Celebrations, Food, Health, Photography, Shopping, Stock Photo, Tourism, Travel, education, entertainment, tagged food photography, seria, Kuala Belait, Food, Brunei Shell Petroleum, stock images, OGDC, belait district, oil and gas discovery centre, the weekend before school reopens, Shopping, domestic tourism, bsp, national safety, traffic game contest, the in-laws came to town 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 [...]
BOYS WILL BE BOYS
Posted in Brunei Darussalam, Celebrations, Food, Photography, tagged belait district, kids, milo, OGDC, oil gas discovery centre, school project, science centre singapore, seria town, snow city, spending a productive and interesting weekend, team work, uniquely singapore monopoly board game on April 14, 2008 | 7 Comments »
One storm and broadband service got disrupted for 4 days! Having spent a decade in IT with engineers deployed into data centres to fix problems like this, I’m sympathetic when problems like this occur. The outage did not infuriate me so much as the service provider’s failure to inform its subscribers that we could fall back on the trusty 56k [...]














