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Wednesday, February 3, 2010

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.

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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!

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

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To slippers...

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To ladies' wears and accessories...

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To jeweleries...

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To bookmarks and key chains...

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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"!!!

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

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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!!!

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

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Pehin Lau's 60th Wedding Anniversary

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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"!

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

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Deluxe Five Hot & Cold Dishes Combination Platter

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Shark Fins Soup with Shredded Chicken & Mushrooms

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Double Happiness Combine Chicken

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Braised Abalone with Mushrooms & Broccoli

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Braised Noodle with Assorted Seafoods

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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.

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

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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!!!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

My Love Story with Diana Continues...

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It had been weeks that me and Diana spent our time together days and nights. Love is always sweet at first that the time spent with Diana is fun and enjoyable. Things started to go better as we go out more frequently that I'm still trying to understand her to make things work out better.

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She came from the family known as "LOMOGRAPHY". A family that is famous for its soft & dreamy images, super saturated colors, random contrast, unpredictable blurring and etc.

It was love at the first sight that I met her online through one of my friends. Diana is something new to me which I don't have any ideas about it at the first. I then googled it to know more about her. As I step more further in knowing about her, it just make me want to have her more but it is just a dream for me at first. That's because I'd never seen camera like this before in Brunei.

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[皇天不负苦心人] God bless people and fate brings us together.

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Diana had traveled all the way from China to Brunei. Aawww~

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It is available at Icklebooks Company at Kiarong Complex. It is the same block at CfBT - Education Trust. Click "here" for its websites.

We all know that Icklebooks is one famous bookshop that sell educational things for kids and adults too. They sells books, novels, story books, stationery, guidebooks and etc.

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And also toys for kids too! A lot of the toys they sell are good for babies & kids because it is a toy that also teach them while playing. Teaching them words, pictures, numbers, ABC and etc.

From selling stationery to books, toys and now camera. Not the camera where we can find just anywhere or everywhere in Brunei.

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It's the only LOMOGRAPHY camera we can get so far in Brunei.

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Variety choices of Diana we can get here!

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The Fisheye's lomograph

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The Lubitel 166+

What about the film? There still have a few photo-shop in Brunei selling the 35mm film that can be used in the camera and also can develop it. If only it is 35mm film. I had ask some photo-shop which some had sold out the film and doesn't import film like these again because a lot using digital now. It's like finding gold in the big pond now. No film how to shoot?

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No worries, Icklebooks does sell the film too. Instead of selling the film that we can find at the photo-shops, they sells the films that is specialized designed and manufactured by lomography for lomography. It is super kick ass film that can give unpredictable outcome and effects. Other than films, they do sell the accessories to upgrade the camera. From a handgun to a rocket launcher!

With Icklebooks, the dream is no more a dream anymore.

Since the post of my newly girlfriend, Diana F+ there are gossips about me having a new girlfriend whom is malay @ school! LMAO!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Saya Budak Cina Tahun 80an

Year 2000 is a start of a new millennium. Things had changed a lot no matter from what aspects. Things are getting more and improved. From an antenna mobile to touch-screen phone, from monochrome TV to LCD TV now and etc. All these had showed what a remarkable era we have now.

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This is what we all had back then in da 80's & 90's.

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And we find it entertaining and cool.

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That was years back, but in the 2000s people start to think iPhone is COOLER!

When all the things had changed and new things had introduced to us, we start to forget what we are and how things are in the past. Especially to the kids these day in the 2000, they missed out a lot of awesome things that had happened in our life back in the 80's & 90's.

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Every Sunday or any school holiday, they would want their parents bring them to Mc'D to have the "Happy Meal". Without knowing, they had missed something and somewhere that is nice to do & go on Sunday!

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Which is having DimSum @ Phong Mun Restaurant! It is located at Bandar Seri Begawan, above of DQ Ice Cream at Jln Sultan. Dining in at the restaurant can let us have the view of Kampong Ayer. It is one very well known place for its Sunday's morning DimSum feast and also wedding's celebration dinner. But nowadays, it is not lively as before due to the things changed around from the 90's to the new millennium.

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Someday in December 2009, I had the chance to visit Phong Mun Restaurant with my friends and tried the DimSum served.

It was nice, tasty and visiting back there sure does bringing back a lot of memories and feels. Let's see one of the best Chinese restaurants in Brunei serving one of the best DimSum! *Drum-rollingggg*

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Century egg porridge

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Lo Mai Kai

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Pai Kut Fan

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Lo Pak Gou "Fried Carrot Cake"

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Crispy Wantan

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Century Egg Siew Mai

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Siew Mai

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I-dunno-what-it-is-mai

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Zhu Jiao Jing

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Siew Chuk Kin

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Yee Mai

Want to try what we had missed out for a long time? The door of Phong Mun Restaurant is always open for us... It's up to you that decide to enter it or not! Thank you for being a part of me in my life...

Photo credited to Jestina Tan, food-hungry.com. Thank You