last day in brunei in summer break 09

I went to Li Gong and have the all you can eat. Ok only nia, but so expensive...

Sad man rimba ppl, 3 straight nights of blackouts. Apparently it's due to some flaw in the fuel system, which is still under more investigation.

'Our national reputation is at stake...' How true!! Blackout in bandar and so many parts of Brunei-Muara district and a few areas in tutong and belait districts.

A paradox as the civil service and BSP are coming to celebrate some anniversaries.

Restaurants and shops are forced to close; their food stocks and frozen products are in troubles; people trapped in the lifts bla3.

And... kalimantan, can yur people stop creating hotspots, even though I knw it's for yur food supply, but it's so hot and stuffy like 'omg, i cnt describe this feeling.' The sweat just couldn't evaporate at 38 degree celcius. Then u guys warn us countries not to present this matter in the UN general assembly.

blackouts

Yesterday, 28/9, my place aka Jangsak, beribi, gadong, kiulap, rimba and maybe other places have all suffered from a massive blackout that stretched from around 8pm to 2am. Effing bullshit. Jerudong and bunut didnt kena, which is just a few metres from my hse. So unlucky!!

The slight haze then shot up the uncomfy feeling that was brought by the already high temperature and humidity to a whole new level. I couldn't sleep. And there was an effing mosquito.

Then just nw, 29/9, another blackout occured, but in a weird way. Along the road, there were a few places with blackout but some not. From above, it might look like a checker board, alternate black and white. It affected rimba and some parts of gadong.

The man responsible will be in some deep shit troubles. I haven't read the papers abt the cause yet.

27/9

I've witnessed so many chinese traditions that I read in a book or watch in the TV regarding chinese weddings. Some woke up at 6am to 'jiap xim niu'/ 'welcome the bride'. I couldn't be bothered to 'jiap' so I just went to the broom's hse and waited for the new weds to arrive that was accompanied with the thunderous continuous chinese firecrackers exploding.

Bla3 need to 'pong teh'/ 'serve the tea (to someone)'. The new weds' uncles and aunts have to drink the tea served by the new weds. Then photo sessions with each family. So hot and sleepy and tired.

Then at the night, it's my birthday party, again. But hey, this is right on the day (n the chinese birthday man, it's incredibly rare mates!) Then we went back home to cook the mi sua and an egg that we have forgotten.

But I ate the egg late cz I didn't boil the first one hard enough. It has passed 11pm when I ate it, which by chinese culture, it's the next day.

Pretty happy, might be the happiest eventful birthday I have ever had.

visa

After all the troubles I've gone through and I mean hell lots of them, I could only make my visa in UK cz my almighty uni cant manage to get me a visa letter and post it to me in time. Heard the students from that other place just narrowly missed such a situation.

We've been emailing amongst each other and came up with a conclusion two days ago that I will do my visa in UK if I could travel with my old visa. And I found it out. The ans is yes.

And while I'm typing this, I received an email saying they have sent it using FedEx. omg someone~ pls tell me what's going on nw.

phone

KP500 of LG or T700 of Sony Ericsson?

Updates

It's raya. Have been visiting houses which was pretty good. I have missed hari raya in Brunei for three years I guess due to O Level and UK. I received only one green packet, we are all too old.

A few parts of my skin of my right hand have rotten, cracked in, like when u stepped on glasses, a mosaic pattern. And my mum said it's coz of the dish washing liquid. I'm nw typing with my left hand and my retarded baby fingernail. Seriously hope we can get an amah the next summer I come back.

Nearly get into a major accident if my leg didnt step on the brake at that very second due to a stupid car driver who made a wrong signal.

Have been searching for file converter that can convert all the files to avi in search engine. And I ended up getting one from apple software. What an idiot I'm?

Get to know my biochemist mates at Univ tru fb, and one of them remembers Aaron. What a memory!

Finish my anime Major S1, S2, S3 in 1 week or slightly more. Not that impressive compared to other anime fans, e.g. roland poh. And my Big Bang Theory and Little Britain are still buried there waiting for me for mths lol.

Finally, an indian added me as a friend in fb. I dunno him, we have no mutual friends, he was born in 1983, and he wrote me a message in a foreign language, in which the only word I could understand is Chiao. Presumably the indian language, what's it called again?

101st Week

After joining so many groups in fb abt freshers' week and reading the wall posts, I'm seriously thinking that freshers' week are not made for freshers but the others so they could enjoy and get the most out of it , like price, much more than us freshers.

So far I only knw two biochemists freshers in my college. One more left to know. Both are girls; the name of one of them sounds russian to me, another one might be british (i think).

Before I'm worried if biochem is a female course, I found out a senior male biochemist. lol, I added him instantly in fb.

More and more friends hve left. And I'll enjoy my remaining 1-2 weeks here.

100th post

Someone has left. The earliest one in my group. Two more weeks for me to go. I'm not excited nor sad over it. lol. No feelings lah.

I've been watching piano videos. You must check these out. They are effing awesome and talented. I'm just utterly stunned!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VU8cyDNVbQo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXfqcyIeV_Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jweDYU_QC_I&NR=1

They are all winners of the PTNA competition 2008 held in Japan in different categories.

my 19th advanced birthday

I think it's pretty good. lol, besides I came late and I didn't invite some people so I hope they won't get angry. Then hope none felt left out even if I didn't talk to them throughout the night.

But really thanks to u guys. And thx for the presents. Though the skinny jeans are meant more like a joke I think. And some pretty random presents. lol.

The pics can be found in FB. Though I'll like to get some pic from zimin.

p/s I saw a car with the license plate that begins with BAA.

wow

So I'll be having my two birthdays on the same day. The Gregorian and the chinese one fall on the same day exactly. The chinese one is 8th mth, 9th day, meaning 'rich forever.'

Majal talking abt my birthday lol.

Anyway, I'm really impressed by someone who I have just known. I was sent speechless by awe, and some feels of sadness for him. But no matter what, ur really cool n awesome! Your life is just like from some TV drama.

p/s maria sharapova as well as so many top seeds lost...