Bukit Saeh

Bukit Saeh (or Saeh Hill) is located somewhere in Mukim Lumapas. And its one of the tallest in Brunei. Its a good place for hiking and sightseeing. Once you've reached the peak, you can see Istana Nurul Iman, BSB, Kampong Bolkiah and even DST HQ building.

I went there on the 23rd of March in a group. I thought I couldn't make it to the peak but I did. The hardest part is to reach the peak and to go down from the peak. Well, it wasn't that hard unless you carry a lot of things.


Taking pic of a plant on the way to the peak


Left: Istana Nurul Iman, Right: Kampong Ayer and some parts of BSB

Maulidur Rasul

This was actually held on the 20th of march. A yearly event to celebrate Prophet Mohammad's birthday (12th day of Rabiulawal). Let's say the precession is just like a walkathon and this only happens in Brunei. Well, its because His Majesty is there with us leading the precession. I'm not sure about the distance. Could it be around 2 km??

An early morning scenery before going to Taman Sir Omar Ali Saifuddien

Left: A cat posing for the camera, Right: His Majesty


Left: Kids waiting for the precession, His Majesty leading the precession


Left: Still under renovation, Right: Water Taxis ready to pick up

Holiday in Thailand

A five-day holiday spent in Thailand was quite interesting. I've been there before. This time, we stayed at Baiyoke Boutique Hotel which is very near to Pratunam market. The first day was for shopping at Pratunam area.

We spent our second day in the morning at the Ocean World, in Siam Paragon. Then we moved to National Stadium area and MBK. We then went back to our hotel rooms and spent our nights at Pratunam market.

The third day was our "tour day" coz we had booked a private tour using a shuttle van for the whole day. First, we went to the Floating Market at Kanchanaburi province. And then went to the War Memorial Cemetery. There we met our tour guide named Jang. After that we moved to
see River Kwai, she explained to us about the history of War Memorial Cemetery and the bridge at River Kwai.

And then we went to see elephants at Elephant Camp. Riding an elephant costs 300 baht per person so we grabbed our chances to ride them. Finally we went to see tigers at Tiger Temple. At first, we saw boars, deers and some other animals moving around in that area. Then
everyone had their own chances to take photos with a tiger cub. Then we walked to the Tiger Canyon, where adult tigers can be touched by visitors for real. Some of us did and me too hehe.

Then we went back to Bangkok which took about three hours.

The fourth day was to shop at Central world and MBK, all day. And the last day was to buy some fruits at a fruit market (Ta Lad Khay Pol La Mai). Then we went back to our hotel and finally checked out.

Fly High

I took the above pic yesterday and the featured 'model' is none other than one of my colleagues. Since a few days ago I was into this 'flying' mood when it came to taking pix. It started with me asking them to jump. And yes! they followed what I told them to do (as long as they are vain) hehehe. Then it evolved into something what I should call 'running in the air'. It means you need to jump from, let's say, a chair and pretend like you are running so hard that eventually you will be able to fly.

Actually I took some pix and edited one of them and got the above result. The idea of writing the quote came into my mind shortly after I took some of the pix. One reason was because of a large empty space on the left side. Another reason was that I found it kind of inspiring if I put a quote because some posters put some words or quotes to motivate people who read them. And the quotes must also be 'synchronised' with the pix.

Anyway I will post some other pix soon. At the moment I need to rest a bit. Tomorrow I need to attend Maulir Rasul at Padang SOAS. And I might post some pix of that too.

Another Panorama

This time I used pix I took during MV Doulos visit to Brunei. That was last year.



As usual, I used Photoshop to stitch about 5 pix to obtain the above panoramic view of MV Doulos.

Panorama

I took this panoramic view of Padang SOAS during the 24th National Day. I took about 10 pix and then joined them together using Photoshop.

Actually when I took these photos, I realized there was a big lump of black spot on the pictures...that is after the second shot. It was so big that it ruined most of other pix. Yea that can be erased using Photoshop but still I didn't like it. I didn't even open or change the lens. After cleaning the sensor, I found it was a fragment of something made of plastic...sort of. It was about 1x3 mm in size. No wonder it appeared big in the photos. But in this panoramic photo, I erased the spots and here is the result:

Smile

I've finnalllly posted a new pic. This time I just wanna share a pic of my brother-in-law's nephew.

Cute!! Isn't he?