Tradisi

These are ankle bracelets usually worn during wedding ceremonies. Gold usually. Malay ceremonies usually involve gold. And design influences closely resembling indian wedding ceremonies.


Violet caught this during a niece's wedding some time back.

Sunyi

Hmmm... Violet's interpretation of "sunyi" or emptiness (?).



Pics were taken of the overhead bridge in Gadong. Lots of cars (and pedestrians) passing below but not a single soul using the bridge.

Our trees

Heh its been a long time. Both Violet and Me have been busy doing our own thing and going our own ways. Neglected this site. But now we're back and hopefully we can continue what we set out to do when we started this site...pics of our beautiful Brunei.


Our rainforest or in this case jungle-est. Beautiful from up a hill. All green (grey lah in this case) and the trees so proud. I can tell you that from where was, the air is oh so fresh.

SOAS with a 10mm

Another 10mm view of the SOAS mosque but from a different angle.


I like this shot better than the other earlier one. I like the distortions better.

Camping

V and i stumbled on to this camping group the other weekend. I think they were police cadets. Camping beachside. Which was pretty good. Bring a sense of adventure to some of these youngsters. Tho old folks need that spirit of adventure just as much tho. hahaha.




Singapore has national Service to get their young men all disciplined and ready for war. Malaysia has just started their training camps to get their youngsters toughened up. We have these camping trips???

"KULIT"

Taken by violet at the beach. Look closely...


Its just an empty shell. The insect-thingy has probably already moulted and grown into a bigger insect or maybe a baby Godzilla. Maybe. You never know.

overtime

This was taken yesterday. I thought its funny. I have never seen so many workers working on one wall before. The contractor must be late and the workers have to work overtime and double shift.


I notice that workers nowadays seem to take ages to finish a project. Could it be due to them being employed 'per project' instead of the usual per defined period.

Housing

View of Brunei's Government housing schemes. We're lucky to be getting these homes. Many take these for granted. They shouldnt. It affects others still waiting for theirs. Its still an effort to put these up. Its all money.


This was in Tungku/mata-mata (eye-eye) ? The two schemes were side by side. One is uniform in design and the other scheme, are chaotic...all colours and shapes. Still, nice neighbourhood to be in.

Fishing boat off Tungku

Taken off Tungku. They were just cruising along the beach, perhspa looking for a good spot to unload.

I was watching them cruise left and right, and left and right again between the rocks, until they disappeared.

while driving..

Lady in red

Love the idea of this lady in red wading all the way across that water to fish. Cool man.


This was in Serasa. Serasa is very good nowadays. Very nice crowd. Bloody good for cuci mata. many many people just hanging around there next to their cars just seeing and being seen. Nice.

the key ring

Hey V, i took this picture of your key ring. That woman-thing with the thick lips is weird babe. hahaha


Have a nice trip babe. Take lots of pics.

On the way to Miri

Regular travellers to Miri would recognise this tree. A tall bare tree next to the road. All by its lonesome. Violet and i rushed to take this pic. Couldnt believe we thought about it at the same time. She was driving, i was napping but when she stopped the car, i knew instinctively what she wanted to do. hahaha. Hey Violet, its been a month and u havent put your tree up yet, so....

The river

Another view by the Belait river.


I remember my geography lessons all those years ago. That all towns and cities grow by a river. Our ancestors commute by boats and thats why towns and communities all develop next to a waterway. Brunei is the same.

Belait River

We went along the Belait River while we were in KB. Not much to see there. The river is kinda dirty and brownish but it looks safe. No buaya in sight. Saw some men practicing their dragon boat routine..maybe practicing for the Hari Keputeraan boat race in July.


Saw these 2 ships moored there. Beautiful. Not sure i captured that beauty. Maybe Violets pics are better. I'll ask her to put it up here..