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The starting point for tomorrow’s run!!

Radisson is one of the partner’s of SCB Half Marathon Brunei 2013

A few exhibitors will be there tomorrow

Do check out the sign boards for directions

Now this is interesting.. A cheering squad and also a cheering competition 😀

This is where you store your bags if any. Ideal for those carrying bags or cameras

The information counter

The portable toilets work wonders especially for me

The huge event logo though covered by the tree

Suci water in stock for tomorrow’s event

The program for tomorrow. Click image to view.

See you at the finishing line

 

Zainol Amin Jaafar, Cards and Mobile Customers Management, E-Banking Channel of BIBD, Hj Minorhadi Hj Mirhassan, the Head of Institutional Banking of BIBD and Gyorgy Ladics, The Chief Operating Officer of BIBD at yesterday’s press conference for eTunai

17,000 downloads of the BIBD mobile apps and the numbers keep growing. Yesterday an announcement was made that eTunai is up and running where you are able to pay your goods and services through your smartphones with the BIBD mobile app under eTunai option. This announcement was made by Gyorgy Ladics, The Chief Operating Officer of BIBD. Also present were Hj Minorhadi Hj Mirhassan, the Head of Institutional Banking of BIBD, Zainol Amin Jaafar, Cards and Mobile Customers Management, E-Banking Channel of BIBD and Kamarul Ajamain, Multimedia Communications Officer of BIBD.

BIBD is the first to come up a mobile app that can do transactions and now they have gone a step further by making it possible to pay using your smartphone. Of course, you will need to download the BIBD app first and also to have a BIBD account.

So far there are a few participating merchants and I won’t be surprise to see an increasing number in weeks to come. The merchants so far is Excapade Gadong, Charcoal BBQ and Grill (Bandar), Cheezbox, Gripps Cafe, QQeStore and Ohso (the Mall). All these merchants are applicable under the eTunai.

Zainol Amin Jaafar conducted a demo on how to use eTunai and it was pretty straight forward. You just need to scan the QR Code of the transaction with your smartphone and the payment will be made, deducted from your BIBD account.

Gyorgy Ladics was delighted with eTunai and he hopes to see an increase of users up to 50,000 at least in the near future. BIBD customers don’t need to worry about the cost associated with the service as it’s free. He said that BIBD is committed to bring smart, convenient and innovative products to further improve the user end experience with BIBD.

The cool part with BIBD eTunai is that you can make use of your “Hadiah Points” for transactions. In a way, it’s like redeeming your points. Want to know more how “Hadiah Points” work? Just click here to find out more.

So what are you waiting for especially those with BIBD apps? Try it out and you’ll be impressed. This might just open up more opportunities for other banks to follow suit. BIBD are for sure the trendsetters when it comes to technology and social media.

Demo was done for the media on how it works

Kamarul Ajamain, Multimedia Communications Officer of BIBD using the tablet to show how the transaction is done. Every participating merchant will be provided a tablet for the eTunai transaction. Awesome!!

Just scan away using the QR Code to make your transaction. The process takes less than 15 seconds or even lesser.

I was trying to transfer some $$$$ to my BIBD account. Yeah right!! *lol*

At the press conference

 

Great dishes from the Amazing ASEAN Food Festival at the Airport Restaurant. However, the promotion is only on weekends (Friday to Sunday) and only available for dinner 6:30pm to 10pm until the 28th of April 2013.

Do try their popular dishes from 10 ASEAN countries – Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Mynamar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The menu will be cycled on different days of the weekend. There’s also the ambuyat stall which will be served throughout the whole weekend.

The price of the dinner buffet is BND 29.90 for adult and BND 15 for children. There will be a 10% discount if you use the RBC Privilege Card. For reservation, do call 233 1853 and yeah, you can also park at the new parking area of the Brunei International Airport. It’s humungous!!!

The two chefs behind the ASEAN dishes

The Vietnamese Lamb Stew

Laos Glass Noodle

Burmese Curry Chicken

Cambodian Amok Fish

Not sure what the label of the chicken is for this

You should try the chicken with the satay sauce

Ice kacang for dessert

You can request the chef to cook the veges to your liking

The noodle stall

 

Today’s the last day of collection for your Race Entry Pack which is at the Indoor Stadium. We just collected ours yesterday and I bumped into Lai Pei-Si, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank, and had a quick chat. She was quite excited about the event and tomorrow will see 6,000 participants running in SCB Half Marathon 2013 event.

The cut off time for Race Entry Pack collection is 5pm today. So make sure you bring yourself and the documents to collect your items.

For your info, there will be a few partial and full road closures from as early as 4.30am on the day until 8.30am. There will be 1,000 people consisting of volunteers, officials and uniform personnel tomorrow to assist the huge crowd. So it’s best that participants and volunteers arrive early tomorrow.

For more updates of the event, do visit scbruneihalfmarathon.com and good luck to all the participants 🙂

Pg Aki Ismasufian, Head Corporate Strategic Initiatives of SCB, Jennifer Kang, Head of Corporate Affairs and Marketing of SCB, Lai Pei-Si, CEO of Standard Chartered Bank and Danial Phua, one of the pacers for the 21km at the Indoor Stadium yesterday

The area to hand in your donation cards

This watch is pretty cool for runners

Today’s the final day of collection

Socks anyone?

The collection of the Race Entry Pack

Great Eastern is one of the sponsors of the event

My jogging partners for the past few months 😀

Are you ready? Cos I am

 

Geylang International FC coach Kanan Vedhamuthu admitted that his side were second best in their 4-2 loss to DPMM FC in the Singapore League (S-League) at the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium on Wednesday.

“They were the better team and we were visibly second best. The boys will just have to work harder now,” he said.

Portuguese striker Joao Vitor Rocha De Carvalho Moreira scored a brace for DPMM FC with Helmi Zambin and substitute Ak Fakharazzi Pg Hj Hassan scoring a goal each to help push Brunei’s only professional football club into fourth place in the 12-team table with 11 points.

“They are a good team and moreover they are more experienced and we just couldn’t match them,” he told The Brunei Times following their loss.

“The average age of their team is 32, whereas ours is about 25.

“We defended better in the first half and managed to prevent some goals, but I think the first and second goals came too quickly and we lost our shape,” continued Kanan whose team remained ninth in the table following the defeat.

The 34-year-old coach also admitted that his side had struggled to maintain possession in the game.

“We didn’t have anyone to hold the ball and play… We definitely missed Stefan (Stefan Milojevic) and Shah Hirul (Shah Hirul Md Yussof), and will be waiting for these two to come back so we can have someone who will hold the ball,” said the coach.

Their absence was definitely a factor in the game as Geylang were completely outplayed in the midfield area with DPMM FC’s Mohd Hendra Azam Mohd Idris and skipper Rosmin Hj Khamis shutting down the Eagle’s movement in the middle of the pitch.

DPMM FC, meanwhile have already turned their attention to their next game against Tanjong Pagar United who currently sit third in the table. The match will be played tomorrow at Hassanal National Stadium at 8:15pm

“They (DPMM FC player) are really tired, but we have four days before our next game, and it should be enough to prepare for the game. I am sure for the Tanjong Pagar game we will have double the fans after tonight’s result,” said DPMM FC coach Vjeran Simunic. Text by Ak Fauzi Pg Salleh and images by Ahmad Ajeeb.

DPMM FC vs Geylang last Wednesday

DPMM FC’s Joao scorer tripped during a challenge

DPMM FC substitute Ak Fakharazzi Pg Hj Hassan scored a goal too last Wednesday