Business For a Day

Had the chance to visit the Business School @ Gadong today. It was my class field trip. The school is located at the back junction to enter Maktab Duli College and also opposite to University Islam Sultan Sharif Ali.


Business School is obviously a school where people study business. Today happened to be the day that the senior student have to do "Business For A Day" as part of their assignment and report. They were asked to make business for a day at school.

It is a business which all the students are allow to sell and promote almost anything. As long as it is within the law and also brings in PROFIT ! Yeah, who wants to rugi!


From selling computer's accessories......


To slippers...


To ladies' wears and accessories...


To jeweleries...


To bookmarks and key chains...


To playing video games...

So many things we can find here, it is like garage sales to me where we can find a lot of things in one place. Problem is all the businesses running good?


I'd met my friend there, Siti Khadijah. She said that it is earning, she had earned quite a lot by just selling D.I.Y bookmarks, photo-frames and key-chains. Not bad huhh for a student.


And also not to forget to mention about the FOODS! Foods & Beverages is the business that a lot of students chosed for their business for a day activity. The demands are high that everywhere we go, how could we be so mean to let our stomach goes empty. There would be competitive for the foods & beverages' business.


Having competitors in a business is not a bad thing at all. Let's think for the good sides. With competitors around, we always have to be the best around in the market in order not to be disqualify from the market. And for these, we keep to upgrade and improve in order to beat the others.


When everyone does these, more new & better services are provided to the consumers. These not only benefits to the market but also to us, the one who enjoying it. Others are selling cup-cakes, biscuits, spaghetti, home-cooked dishes, kuih melayu and etc. In order to be special, this booth in the picture above sells BBQ lamb with fried-fries. Not only they earn $$$, we also get to enjoy the foods.

Not only new services are provided while having competitors, but also products that keep introduced to the market to grab profit.


Introducing the new and another level higher than egg-tart's products, THE SALTY-EGG TARTS!!!
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Nehh, just kidding. It is egg-tarts with too much colorings added. The colors looks like the yolk of salty egg to me.

Having good services and products is not enough to earn money. Marketing also the tools for boosting the sales of products and services. Without marketing, how people going to know what we're doing and selling. We have to expose outside to let people know about us. If not, it'll be like selling cheap deal iPhone in the jungle. Who will know and go to buy? Orang-Hutan?


The students understand the power of marketing that they do their adverts and paste it on the notice board. We get to see these adverts right before we enter the school. Some also made BIG banners to attract the customers.


The Lucky 4 booth, wonder how is the business going for them? Is it a lucky day for them today? Let's hope they are doing alright because for us Chinese, 4 is not a good digit to choose. It means "DIE"!!!


Henna Paste, don't what kind of "paste" does Henna Paste referring to...


Touch Of Paradise, one good name! Only if it is a massage center.

While walking around, I also spotted these on the notice board of the school!!!


Woo, a new kind of marketing maybe!!! What a good friend she had there...

Pehin Lau's 60th Wedding Anniversary

Love is always sweet at first! The time that we get to know each other at first. We talk a lot in the phone to understand each other more, we go out frequently to see each other more, we do something to each other to show that we do really like each other, we message each other when we miss each other. Everyday seems to be lively being together and everyday is like valentine day.


But once we get to understand more about each other and found the weakness of each other, it was not like it used to be. We start to get to know their weakness more than their good points. We don't talk, don't see, don't message and etc frequently as it used to be. Slowly and slowly love starts to fade.


It is like choosing a stone, we always want to have a more shining stone that we seeks all the time. By the time we found it, we may not know it is the right stone or not. Instead of spending the whole time searching for a better one, why not spend the whole time rubbing the stone we have now and lastly it can be the most shining stone around. Let's work things out together and we'll find that knowing each other is one of the sweetest thing that ever happened! And everyday also a valentine day!


It's never too OLD to be romantic. Here's a entry about Pehin Lau's 60th wedding anniversary that I attended with my friends in a month ago.


It was one grand wedding celebration dinner that the ballroom is fully packed people, a lot had been invited to share these happiness together. While enjoying the dinner, the guests were given freebies as souvenir, enjoying Chinese orchestra music & dance performances, hearing the speech given by Pehin Lau and also enjoying a slide-show presentation about the memory lane of Pehin Lau.


Pehin Lau and his wife together with their sons, daughters, sons & daughters in law and grandsons giving a toast with the guests. That's a picture that everyone always dream of having in their life.

What does it takes to hold a marriage long like these? A simple action everyday towards each other, in the end we'll build one extraordinary marriage.


A simple phone call asking how each other doing, a sms telling each other I love you, a simple hug, a simple kiss, a simple meal prepared, a simple encouragement and support and etc. All these "simple" everyday and in the end it is one extraordinary "simple"!


Thanks to Soon Tiong and his siblings & relatives, we're invited to join this celebration and also had one grand dinner with great foods!!!


Deluxe Five Hot & Cold Dishes Combination Platter


Shark Fins Soup with Shredded Chicken & Mushrooms


Double Happiness Combine Chicken


Braised Abalone with Mushrooms & Broccoli


Braised Noodle with Assorted Seafoods


Fried Prawns with Ooloong Tea Leaves

It is one magnificent dinner that not only the foods tasted good but the drinks too. Like other function dinner, coca-cola, 7up, mirinda orange & chinese tea will be the choices of free flow drink served to the guests. During that night, instead of using Coca-Cola, 7up or Mirinda Orange.


They used PEEL FRESH ORANGE JUICE!!! I LIKE~ and everyone likes it! Slurrrppp....


Met and sat the same table with my Primary school Chinese & Moral teacher, Teacher Kuan! She still can recognized me after not seeing for 13years. Guess that I didn't change much at all. Still as BULAT as before!

Photo credited to Jestina Tan Food-Hungry.com, Joshua & ME, Happy-Stop.blogspot.com!!!

Do You Agree???

Officially Husband & Wife!!!

09/09/09 is one nice date you guys choose and I'm sure that it brings you both 长长久久!!!

Congratulations!!!!!

Communications & TeamBuilding - Day 2 & 3

A day after the long hours of training from morning till night time. What a long & rough day every one had! Can everyone make it on time for the 2nd day training?

Surprisingly no one was late for it! Instead of being late like the usual working days. These time, we arrived earlier than the trainer. Oh well, for the breakfast lahh! Hahaha.

Despite from the physical & mentally tiring, everyone showed up with great energy that is ready for all the challenges up ahead.

It's because everyone had lots and lots of FUN on the first day. No writing notes down, no reading lot of words, not many lectures from the trainer. All we did is just playing around!

We have peoples that concentrate more so that they can make a better jobs than what they did on the first day! [The determination to climb up higher and higher]

Then they are few that was charging the battery during the briefing. Hehehe! Hey "Dang", Gotcha!!! just kidding yeah. "Pukul 2 pagi" huhh.. hehehe! you know, I know! ssshhh~

Let's go out & play before everyone falls asleep. We had few activities play outside under the hot sun. Under a hot sun, people suffering thirst. Some people faints, some people complaints, some stays away from it. How much of us that willing to give out and do our part even under the hot sun?

As long as each of us is willing to give out & doing our part, even walking 8people tied up feet together under the hot sun wouldn't be a problem! The problem is that either we want or don't!

We have games of finding toothpicks on the ground with 8people tied up together.

Moving buckets & things with hands are easy, all we do just pick it up and move it.

When conditions don't allow us to use hand but only rope. We can't tie it, we can't go near it! All we can is just lift it from a distant area.

What can we do? And what does it takes?

It takes the whole team to carry one! :)

It's a game that involves patience and planning that we need to figure out how to carry those buckets from one area to one area without moving towards the bucket or carry it with hands. Points are not given based on the team that can carry the it all in the shortest time but also to the number of times we carry it up front and back in the time given.

[What can we work differently?] in order to make it better?

Bridge crossing was one of the game that we're given 6tyres, two planks of woods! Think of a way that 8people can cross it without the plank of woods touching the ground. The tyres must place more distant than the length of the woods.

With strong foundation built...

Nothing seems to come in the way to obstruct us! How big the wind is, we can't be blown away easily.

Teamwork is one of the key tools but without good communications, things can't be done smoothly too. Just like a car, those engine parts, body, tyres are assembled together as a car just like a team. But without the "car key", how can we open the locks or start the engines? :)

How can we lead a Blind peoples when we don't talk and show them the way?

Tins are scatters all around and half of the team are blindfolded...

How are we going to lead them to the tins and ask them arrange accordingly to its type/ colors if we don't have good communication...

How can we sms/ call when there is communication breakdown?

How can we travel/ move when there is communication breakdown?

How can we surf/ chat when there is no internet connection?

That's a lot to be miss and lost when there is communication, one of the important value we must not underestimate it. It can either bring "bitter" or "sweet" =D

So much for hard works at the time, as for the night time. It's entertainment night for every one! Each of the team have to think of one performance to deliver a message regarding the core value of the company.

[responsibility, teamwork, achievement & commitment] - The core values of Fabrica.

There are group that brought an imaginary van into the hall. Well, a Flintstones' van! haha

And curtains & carpets also used for the drama! Yeah, Fabrica... The mood of living inside the house. Carpets, Curtains, Wallpapers, Blinds, Paneling, Flooring, you name it and they have it.

The man of the night! He's the salesperson, the wife & the husband, the sewer, the fixers & the office's staff. The man that played 9roles at a time. The rest of the team just act with emotions & body languages and he's the one that does all the talking. And he can sing... Not English song, not Tagalog song but CHINESE song. [Penny戴佩妮-我要的爱] Salute to you, Marvin! :)

And for my team, we got no people that can plays 9roles at a time. Hahaha.

We got no one that can play a role of a fussy customer.

But we have SIZE!!! Size of BIG & small that we can build strong foundation. A strong foundation that ...

Able to hold people climbing on top it it! [Big people comes with Big power, Big power comes with Big responsibilities!] =.=!! Just kidding. Size is not the matter, the strong will is what that matters.

That's all for day 2 and everyone ended it with ...

SMILES & LAUGHTER!!!

Day3 has come & the training is nearly come to an end. Lots of games had played among everyone, we tied together to complete the tasks, we hold hands to support each other, we encourage everyone, trainers also do sharing among us. Let's see hows the progress and how far have we achieve...

Eiseh~ Not bad huhh!!! hahaha!

We only have 2activities played on day3.

First, we had game of testing how good our memory is.

Then we had the "EGG CATCHER" game. And the catcher has to be built from scratch. The materials given was nothing other than papers, tissues, paperclip, flyer, rubberband. Pointse given are based on the number of eggs that survive the drop & the less resources used to build the catcher.

Not much games played on day3 because we spent rest of the day busying ...

Taking group pictures! Hehehe.

Other than taking pictures, sharing also done on the last day which every team shares the feelings about the 3days training and what should we do to improve the productivity & efficiency while working and how we apply what had we learn into our working & personal life.

Then it's time to announce the winner of the whole training.

Team SuperPanda is the winner come along with Team Doraemon as the 1st runner up & Team TeddyBear is the 2nd runner up. As for the Team Belacan, we came last! ohh my~

We maybe last but we don't give up easily which suit the slogan of the team!

[Bau Tapi Nyaman Kali Ah] Hahahaha.

For myself, there aren't any win or lose for each team. There aren't anyone who is better or who is worse.

We're all the same & everyone is the winner. We came & train as a team for the course. We'd learnt & gained that can push us up into a higher level. While working, we also work together as colleague too. When one falls, we all hold among each other & pull them up!

Let's hope & wish that all these can remain when we walked out from the door of training hall. No "Hot-Hot Chicken Shit" which is "Hangat-Hangat Tahi Ayam" in malay language. Hehehe. :p

Fabrica!!! You can do it~ You show Brunei the art of interior.

And lastly, not to forget the trainers & people that worked things out together to make these training go smoothly.

Sir Kevin who is the NLP peak performances trainer.

Perry Khoo who is the TeamBuilding specialist.

And also to Siew Yun & Yvonne.

Thank you all!!!