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14
Dec

LEGOLAND

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 
 
LEGOLAND was awesome!!!

 


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It was another great outing with the family and after months and months of waiting, the wait is finally over. Supposed I was to suppose to head over there with CR but she beat me to it *lol* Legoland Malaysia has been the talk of the town in terms of places of interest especially during the holidays. Quite a lot of Bruneians have stepped foot on Legoland located at Johor.

For your info, LEGOLAND Malaysia is the sixth LEGOLAND built around the world and also being the first in Asia. If you happened to be in Singapore, then you can go across the border over to Johor Baru and pay a visit to LEGOLAND.

Mind you there are still other phases that are yet to be completed. There are tons of visit around LEGOLAND and I had a good time though the weather was challenging. My siblings didn’t have enough experience and wanting more. Well, there’s always a next time 😀

Just check out the pictures I posted.. Sorry for the lack of captions!!

 

 

13
Dec

131212

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

The story this week!!!


I caught up with Joanne who’s currently spending her December in Singapore. Yay, she’s gonna be my movie partner for The Hobbit later.


It seems the birthday celebrant Amalina had a good 12.12.12 yesterday on her birthday. Sorry I couldn’t be there to share the joy and the celebrations.. Catch you next week 😀


The ladies suited up for the Licence2Play event at Marina Bay Sands. I kinda like the event and reminds me of the BCG days. If you are looking for something similar, do visit Brunei’s TFF EACON this Saturday/Sunday at Kiulap Plaza Hotel. More pictures of Licence2Play soon.


Holy cow…. Keeran Janin has done it again!!! He’s not just an app developer but he’s also creative in the mind. He was the chosen winner of the 29th Brunei Darussalam National Day Logo Design competition. The theme for next year Brunei Darussalam’s National Day is “My Country Brunei Darussalam”. Click the image for more and the interview with The Brunei Times.


Congratulations to Herman and Liana on their solemnization yesterday on 12•12•12 and may Allah bless both of you on the new journey. Image courtesy of Jackie.


Our trip to Legoland (Malaysia) was slightly short lived due to the moderate showers. The kids loved it but wanted more. Perhaps round II is calling soon 😀 By the way, I love Legoland and this is very ideal for families though the prices of Lego are slightly more expensive.


The intake for the PKBN has increased to 200 participants. Yesterday was the oath ceremony for the launch of the third pilot project at the indoor stadium. Click image to read more. Image courtesy of Sabrina Mahmud.


Yay… I’m gonna catch the Hobbit in an hour’s time.. And it will be my first time in IMAX 3D.. This should be awesome…. though the movie scored in the 70% region in Rottentomatoes


Yes, it has been a rainy week in Singapore. So it’s advisable to bring an umbrella if you will spending most of the time walking outdoors.

 

12
Dec

TFF EACON this weekend

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

Seasons’ $10 breakie

 

Royal Brunei Catering (RBC) brings back the famous $10 buffet breakfast at Seasons Restaurant located on the second floor of Centrepoint Gadong. The buffet promotion started from December 1 and is ongoing until December 31, 2012. Breakfast starts from 6.30am until 10.30am daily.

The spread is a combination of Continental and Local breakfast such as Nasi Lemak and porridge for its local delicacies and vegetable pie and baked beans for its continental dishes.

A live stall or Egg Station will prepare eggs of your own liking such as Sunny Side-Up, Omelette, Scrambled Eggs and many more. Other individual stalls serve chicken noodle soup and Nasi Lemak with all its condiments.

Seasons Restaurant Breakfast Buffet serves about 10 main dishes such as Pineapple Fried Rice, Fried Mee Hoon, Pancakes and Spring Rolls.

For those who like to start their day with porridge, it will not be a disappointment as the porridge station comes with all the necessary condiments to make it their own.

Delectable fresh pastries such as Chocolate Filled Croissant, similar to the ones served on Royal Brunei Airlines (RB) flights, are ready to tantalize your morning taste buds complimented with hot coffee or tea. Also available to help quench your thirst is a free-flow of orange and apple juice.

The Breakfast Buffet is priced at $10 per adult and $6 for children aged six to 12 and children under six years old can join the buffet for free. For reservation and further inquiries, Seasons Restaurant can be contacted at 2422291 or 2422292. For more information about RBC visit their website at www.rbccatering.com or like them on Facebook/royalbruneicatering for the latest updates and promotions.

All the dishes served at Seasons Restaurant are free of MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) and are only cooked with natural products. Text by Ammirul Adnan of The Brunei Times.

 

Tff Eacon event this weekend

 

For the past few years, I have yet to attend one of their events because I’m always outstation and this year, I’m gonna miss it again *boohoo* This year’s TFF EACON 2012 looks impressive with many activities going to take place.

There will be a cosplay competition as usual and there will be a gaming competition organised by Counter Attack. The games competed are Super Street Fighter 4 Arcade Edition 2012, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, Persona 4 Arena and Mortal Kombat 9. Also part of the event is FIFA 13 and the slots are almost fully booked from the looks of it. Do check out their Facebook page for updates on the activities at TFF EACON.

There will be also a variety of anime figures on sale at TFF EACON by YESZONE too. So peeps, I think it’s better you visit their Facebook page event as all the details are there. Good luck to all the participants and the tickets are available. Not sure how much the tickets are though. Kudos to the organizers involved. Something to look forward to in December.

 

Water Park at Lumut

 

 

11
Dec

Enjoying my time out

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

The Wagyu Deal

 


Try out their wagyu platter at Deals

Sorry for the late post on this awesome platter from Deals. Hui Chiet and I went to Deals to try out the latest food promotion and this time, it’s the wagyu deal. The wagyu will be served on a platter where there will be six portions from the different parts of wagyu. You can see clearly from the image above on the parts that are being served.

I love the wagyu Cheek and Armidillo. The portion is just nice for one or you can have it as a share entree for two. Well, we had as our entree before our main course. By the way, Deals also have new menu for the lunch and you should try them out too. For reservations at Deals, you can call 2244272.


BBQ Wagyu Sirloin with Onion Marmalade


Shot of Vietnamese style wagyu beef soup with ginger flower


Pickled Wagyu Topside with sweet cabbage and mustard


Seared Wagyu beef shine with horseradish cream


Hui Chiet getting her ready for her lunch


Slow cooked wagyu cheek


Fried Wagyu Armidillo stuffed with swiss cheese


The wagyu platter


Wagyu beef burger


Grilled black cod with clam risotto

 

Recap: APICTA 2012

 


HRH Crown Prince with the committee members of APICTA 2012

It was a great week for the Brunei contingent as they received a winner award and four merits. One of the winners was Chung Hwa Middle School for the Secondary category which I’ve posted recently on their mobile app “Brunei Treasure”. It was an award dedicated to His Majesty the Sultan as it was his kind words and motivation that inspired the students to put more effort into their project and the efforts paid off.

Among the 59 merit winners, Brunei had four in the Asia Pacific ICT Alliance (APICTA) Awards 2012 and the all the merits and awards were presented by His Royal Highness Prince Hj Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office.

So who won the Merit Awards? The first was ZimacSilicon Technologies (ZST) for their Merit Award for “iCLID” in the e-Government category. Mas Idris of ZST was very proud of the achievement and he thanked this team (Tay and Khern) for investing a lot of effort for the APICTA presentation.

MediaHikmah which won the BICTA 2012 trophy also received the Merit Award for their “Let’s Pray” app in the e-learning category. Hadi of MediaHikmah said winning the Merit Award is bigger than this award at BICTA because this is an international event and this will motivate him further to shine.

Liam Janin of MeSixty also bagged the Merit Award for their product “Chatworthy” under the Tourism and Hospitality category. It was also his first time presenting to the APICTA judges while his brother, the founder of MeSixty was away. John Harith Technology also won the Merit AWard in e-Logistics and Supply Chain Management category for their EPCIS Halal Food Traceability system.

So well done to the Brunei participants and there were also other participants from Brunei and great job to them too.


Pei-pei was awesome!!!


The winners lining up to receive their awards


Liam Janin receiving the Merit Award for “Chatworthy”


The winner for the Tourism and Hospitality category


MediaHikmah receiving the Merit Award


ZST receiving their Merit Award


The winner of the e-Government category


John Harith Technology receiving the Merit Award


Some of the committee of APICTA 2012


Brunei represent yooo!!!

 

iPad Mini now available

 


Check it out at AV Electronics

 

Newly launch of Cityhair Studio

 


Love your hair, Love Cityhair. Located at Gadong Central.


The vouchers at Cityhair Studio


The lucky draw dip during the opening ceremony

 

10
Dec

GS moment kicks in

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

RVP, Messi grab headlines

 


RVP scored the winner though he had a quiet night against Manchester City. Now Manchester United have 6 points lead over Manchester City.


Messi beat Gerd Muller’s goal by scoring his 86th goal in a year calendar. The last record was back in 1972. He is definitely a phenomenal player and how I wish he plays for an English club before he retires.

 

ZO rocked the weekend!!

 

RA saysWhat a weekend!!! I managed to cover the Red Bull Rookies event last Saturday, caught a bit of Thirst at Sepang then flew back to Singapore in time for Zoukout event at Siloso beach and it was a spectacle. Now I’m having my sweet time and not worrying about coverage this week as I will be in Singapore till the weekend and taking time off. So if you want to reach me on my Brunei line, tough luck mates.. You can reach me via email if you want to get hold of me or those who have my contact, you can still whatsapp me.

Yesterday I covered a gaming event at Marina Bay Sands and it was similar to my version of Brunei Cyber Games but this one which was called Licence 2 Play was 10 times better than the one I normally organised. Judging from the props and set ups, they must have fork out a fortune and plus they have tons of sponsors to fund the event. I did have a good time and I got whipped in FIFA 13 by a Malay guy in a friendly game.

By evening, I was contemplating whether to catch Argo (the movie) or nap in time to catch the pulsating derby match between Manchester United and Manchester City. I opted for the latter and wow, someone realized that I had dark circles around my eyes. It must have been the lack of sleep for the past few days and even last night’s sleep wasn’t enough because my body clock normally is 7-8am.

I’m planning to catch Jersey Boys and maybe.. just maybe The Jackson’s Unity Tour this weekend. Oh yeah, I will be heading to Legoland with the family this week. So something to look forward to 😀 With a week left, I can still take my sweet time and just enjoy my time in Singapore. I have yet to catch anyone in Singapore though I bumped into some friends here and there at Zoukout. Last year, I failed to bumped into any familiar faces. However, it was a different case last weekend and the crowd was just massive (40,000 people at least) at Siloso Beach.

So do bear with me with my relatively moderate to slow updates on RA. Have an awesome Monday and of course, throughout the week!!!

Pictures from Siloso Beach

 


Security check at the entrance. I was pretty sneaky because I cut the queue which was at least 500 metres long.. Shhh…


The DJ lined up at ZO


I loved the lightings


Calvin Harris in the house. Definitely the highlightt of ZoukOut 2012


They have upgraded the lighting effects and it looks wicked


The crowd and the atmosphere were pretty crazy


Meet the drum guys!!


Glow sticks were selling like hot cakes. I didn’t get one for myself though.


Everyone going nuts when it was time for Calvin Harris


Loads of human lifting too


I bought some merchandise from ZO


High demands for recharging your smartphones. However, signal is very poor because of network congestions


I kinda like Nina Kraviz


The mini fireworks by 2am


ZoukOut 2012 was a blast indeed!!


I love DJ Porter Robinson


The scene at Siloso Beach


There were some games for the public to play


Such a bad idea to have this game, don’t you think?


A-Trak was not bad.. Apparently the Star Stage didn’t have as much of a crowd compared to the Moon Stage


The great thing about carrying an SLR, they keep asking me to take photos of them 😀


So did these ladies…


Brunei represent yo….


The ushers killing time as the queue died down.. Well, it was almost 4am that time


My final pitstop before heading back to the hotel. My cab charge was $50 then.. but I was just wanna get home without the waiting for so long

 

07
Dec

A stunt blogger?

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

Zira to burn the track today

 


Melissa Huang of Singapore and Zira (Siti Zirwatul) of Brunei will be representing the female Red Bull Rookies Racing team today in the Sepang 1,000 endurance race at the Sepang International Circuit

Last year was Ogy. The previous year were Liana and Mel. This year, Zira grabbed the headlines for representing Brunei for the Red Bull Rookies Racing Team. According to her friend, she came across the Red Bull Rookies application through my blog and now her dream came true in racing against the big guns and more importantly, representing a strong brand Red Bull.

Yesterday during the qualifying, Zira clocked 2 minutes 55 seconds which is her personal best and it was also an improvement of three seconds. However, the real deal will be on the race day which is happening as I’m typing this entry. At the moment, Melissa and Zira’s car is in 22nd place among 32 cars.

Perhaps the main aim is to finish the race and not to worry about finishing on the podium. However, there’s a new twist to this as Red Bull has created a new incentive for both male and female drivers of Red Bull Rookies. The winner between the two gender will win a grand prize of RM 10,000 so there’s a lot of stake here within the Red Bull rookies.

I’m quite happy to see Melissa Huang representing the female and she’s also the female anchor driver for the duo. Apparently two other drivers missed the cut due to unforeseen circumstances. Though it’s a numerical advantage for the guys (4 drivers), there is still some pros and cons with having more team members driving the car and mind you, it’s a 1,000km endurance race. So anything can happen.

For me, I just hope Melissa and Zira can finish the race and to win the battle of the sexes will be an added bonus. Good luck to two 😀


The female drivers with Malcolm Lim, Managing Director of Kingston Beverage & Creamery Sdn Bhd, the sole distributor of Red Bull in Brunei


Melissa Huang getting ready for her drive on the track


Don’t play-play ah.. Zira is also a traffic police officer


Cool sticker 🙂


Zira and other Red Bull crew monitoring Melissa’s progress on the track

 

 I’m back!!! in Singapore

 

RA says I’m back in Singapore after a 3 month absence and I’m here for a 10 day break to cap off a fulfilling year for me. And yes, I needed the break as well. I realized that I tend to be a workaholic back at home because I would feel restless if I don’t do anything at all. I would be at different places throughout the day, meeting clients or friends or covering events. I’ve been ignoring my books at home because by the time I have my free time (again my choice), it was time to snooze. So yea, it’s great to be away from Brunei and just take my sweet time and don’t focus too much on work.. And plus it’s December….

Good thing my family is here in Singapore as well so it gives a good chance to spend time with them especially my little siblings. I know they are already in their own world and maybe just think that I’m their elder brother but we hardly connect or carry a conversation. Maybe it’s me judging myself that I can’t be a good communicator as a bigger brother. Well, I’m getting there and I won’t force myself. My siblings really have grown up and I feel like I have to catch for loss time. Hence, being in Singapore will give me that opportunity once again to spend time with my family.

I’m currently at Terminal 1, Changi Airport waiting for my departure to KL for the coverage of the Sepang 1,000km endurance race. Why I’m there is because I will be doing a coverage on our Brunei racer Zira who will be racing under the flagship of Red Bull Rookies. She will be partnering with another racer from Singapore, Melissa. So yea, I’m pretty exhausted because of the early morning flight and I had to leave the hotel by 5am and I’m barely 24 hours in Singapore *lol*

Another thing that I have put myself into is accepting a 12 hour trip to KL before heading back to Singapore, just in time for my other coverage and the most anticipated event in Singapore’s calendar – Zoukout 2012. I was there last year and it was also my first time too. This would mean that I will be heading straight to Sentosa right after my arrival from KL later tonight. I shall be posting later.. Time to catch my flight and have a nice weekend peeps!!


My siblings trying out their new bed for their room last night at Park Mall
 

 

Announcement to BIBD customers

 

07
Dec

Time out

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

Sketch Club kicks off

 


The Sketch Club brought to you by Coldbrew Studios

The first session successfully kicked off last night at a studio at Jalan Telanai. It is a drawing workshop organised by Coldbrew Studios and those who have the passion on drawing or such, then this is a good avenue to learn especially those with the same interest.

The drawing sessions will be a weekly thing every Thursday from 7:30pm onwards. For adults, it will be $15 and for children, it will be $8. I was told that the next Thursday’s session will be a live model as the subject for drawing.

For more info, you can call 813-7474 or email sketchclub@coldbrewstudios.com


The participants last night at the Sketch Club


The participants last night at the Sketch Club


Now I know why the bear was rushed from Gadong last night *lol*

 
SEEDS’ The Wicked Witch

 

Almost a year ago, I caught the actual musical play of Wicked at Marina Bay Sands, Singapore and I was impressed. Last week, I saw a local drama production under SEEDS Brunei and boy, I really have to salute the whole team involved for putting up an awesome show. One of the characters that caught my eye was Elphaba, the Green witch, and the role was played by Dk Nurazyyati Pg Hj Mulek and she was amazing – the acting, the vocals, a good whole package I must say.

Another main character was Glinda, the Good Witch of the North played by Nuroul Naqibah Nooaradin and both the characters have a good chemistry presence on stage where the audience, I felt, was emotionally invested. Thumbs up to Syaf the director/producer of the show and the people involved are mostly students from the actors to the lightings to backstage and props. Their handwork and teamwork paid off and I see a lot of potential in our local youth. We have the talents and it was the perfect time to showcase it to the audience. You guys deserved a big pat on the shoulders.

The whole production was led by SEEDS students and SEEDS stands for School Extracurricular and Educational Drama Society. You can follow them on twitter @seedsbrunei and Facebook for updates. Keep up the good work, fellas!!


The Musicians for the play



Glinda and Elphaba












Syaf of SEEDS Brunei – the director/producer of The Wicked Witch

 

 

06
Dec

Well done, CHMS!!!

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

HM’s encouragement made a difference

 


His Royal Highness Prince Hj Al-Muhtadee Billah, the Crown Prince and Senior Minister at the Prime Minister’s Office, presented the APICTA award to Chung Hwa Middle School in the Secondary Category at last night’s APICTA 2012 Awards held at Indera Samudra Hall, The Empire Hotel & Country Club

 

I remember last June they won the BICTA awards and they showcased their product “Brunei Treasure” during the BICTA 2012 to HRH The Crown Prince. A few months later, the students presented their project to His Majesty the Sultan dan Yang Di-Pertuan at Chung Hwa’s 90th anniversary. From there, His Majesty gave his word of encouragement to the team to win the APICTA 2012 awards and surely this movitated the students to do so. Last night their project was awarded the best in the Secondary School Project category.

Angeline Cheng Lin of Chung Hwa said that they revamped their concept by introducing a mobile app for their Brunei Treasure. Previously it was a computer based software where they presented for BICTA 2012. Hence, they improved their prototype by creating a mobile app for Brunei Treasure. So far, it’s available in Android market and they will be hoping for an IOS version, pending approval.

Derby Teo Nyet Win is the newest member to the team and she couldn’t believe that they won the award. They were able to answer the judges’ comments during the presentation. They thanked their mentors, teachers and those involved in APICTA and BICTA for making their idea a success.

I’m very proud of their achievements and to win an award at APICTA is something huge because you are competing with 11 other countries for the trophy and you guys did Brunei very proud indeed. I hope your victory will inspire more younger generations to follow your footsteps that anything is possible if you believe in your ideas.

 

 


Angelien Cheng Lin, Wong Chun Lynn and Derby Teo Nyet Wen with the APICTA Awards last night


The winners with the teachers and mentors from CHMS

 

 

 


Angelien Cheng Lin and Wong Chun Lynn showcased Brunei Treasure to HRH the Crown Prince back in June 2012

 

  

 

Sketch Club tonight

 


  

 

Good luck Zira

 


Sending off Zira to KL for the 1,000km endurance race

 

Red Bull Rookies will see Siti Zirwatul Iradah Awg Adinin race in ‘The Battle of the Sexes’ 1,000km endurance race at the Sepang International Circuit She left for Kuala Lumpur yesterday.

During event set to take place from today till Saturday, a men’s team and a women’s team will be battling it out for the RM10,000 grand prize and also to determine which gender possesses the most skillful driving ability.

Zira, as she is affectionately known, is also the sole Brunei participant, chosen over a thousand candidates from Brunei, Malaysia, and Singapore to represent the Sultanate. She is also the third racer to ever represent Brunei since the search was inaugurated here in 2010.

This also marks the first time in six years that the Red Bull Rookies have fielded two teams who will compete against each other and solve the age-old question of which gender is the better racecar driver.

Present the Brunei International Airport yesterday to bid farewell and hand over the Red Bull race helmet to Zira was Malcolm Lim, Managing Director of Kingston Beverage & Creamery Sdn Bhd, the distributor of Red Bull drinks in Brunei. Images and text by Nazirul Hakeem.

 


Zira with Malcolm Lim, Managing Director of Kingston Beverage & Creamery Sdn Bhd, with Zira’s family at the airport yesterday

Let’s Extreme

 

04
Dec

Holiday soon :D

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

Promotion at Deals Restaurant
 


Icon Design Store

 

Click image to enter website

 

 

Re-opening Soon

 

 
Extra 5KG* on RB

 
A big hit upon launch

 


Anisah holding the hard cover of “Kampong Ayer: Living Memory”

After months of the announcement, “Kampong Ayer: Living Memory” book is finally here and it is produced by Dato Paduka Dr Hj Latif Hj Ibrahim. It is a 250 page book which has pictures dated to the 20th century. I would have to say the pictures are priceless and bring meaning to the Brunei heritage and culture.

The author gave one nice quote – “Kg Ayer is Brunei, Brunei is Kg. Ayer. Brunei would not come to be without the existence of Kg Ayer.”

The guest of honour was Datin Paduka Hjh Adina Othman, Deputy Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports. She highlighted that the ministry is working with the government and other agencies to “review the possibility of proposing Kg Ayer as being part of UNESCO’s World Heritage List”.

For your info, the book can be purchased at Au Lait Cafe at Seri Q-Lap Mall and it comes in hardcover and softcover. I’ve bought a copy and they come in either English or Malay version.


Datin Adina receiving a memento from the author


Dato Paduka Dr Hj Latif expressed his thanks to those involved


The invited guests


A few of them getting the book signed


Hj Rozan was one of the contributors to the book


Another contributor to the book

 

Recap: Larian Bandar 10km runners

 

 

Who’s gonna win APICTA Awards?

 

The moment of truth will be revealed tonight. Who will bagged the award for their respective categories? Last year, Brunei won the prestigious APICTA award at Pattaya, Thailand. Can they retain the title again this year?

We have a few local companies competing in different categories. One participant is MeSixty, a company that focuses on creating local mobile app content such as Chatworthy and they are competing inthe “Start up Company” category. PHMD Publishing Company is also another participant as they created an app, “Road safety interactive e-book & games”. Another potential winner is an app called “Mari Sembahyang” created by MediaHikmah Enterprise which recently won in the BICTA 2012 (a national level competition).

With 11 countries participating, the stakes are quite high and after last year’s great performance and Brunei being the host, let’s hope our local participants can make the Top 3 in their respective categories.

The presentations were held at North Lagoon, The Empire Hotel & Country Club. The rooms at North Lagoon were turned into a presentation rooms to accommodate the judges and presenters. The presentations went for two days with 42 judges involved from different countries.

Tonight will be the APICTA Gala Night where the winners will be awarded. More updates on that tomorrow.


The participants from Sri Lanka


The participants feeling relieved after their presentation


A finalist from Indonesia with his guitar


The judges took some photos before the presentation


Each presentation consists of 5 judges


Tay Eue Kam, General Manager of ZimacSilicon Technologies and Chee Nee Khern, Business Development Executive of ZimacSilicon Technologies were being interviewed after their presentation

It was good to see confidence in both Tay and Khern of ZimacSilicon Technologies (ZST) after they finished their presentation on their device – Intelligent Clearance Identification system (iCLID). According to Tay, the presentation was beefed up from their previous presentation for BICTA 2012 as they were aware of the international judges being involved.

They attended workshops to further enhance their presentation skills and it paid off. They have gone through some changes in their approach (presentation wise) though the content are still similar from previous. Tay revealed that the judges weren’t as tough but she felt that they were tougher on themselves as they felt scared prior to the presentation. She hopes their iCLID presentation will bring back an award for them tonight.

ZST won third place in the e-logistics category in BICTA 2012 and now they are in the e-logistics category in APICTA 2012. Good luck to both of you tonight.


The 11 economies stationed at North Lagoon


For your info, Hong Kong will be the host for next year’s APICTA 2012


The secretariat room


Students from KL before their presentation


Yeeeehhaaaa!!!


The committee helping throughout APICTA 2012

 

Battle Royale by GFCF

 


The winners of the Battle Royale

A total of 42 participants competed in this year’s edition of Battle Royale organised by GETFIT Crossfit at the DST Carnical 2012. The finale took place at the Jerudong Amphitheatre. The previous circuits took place at Tasek Lama and GFCF gym.

There were four categories in the Battle Royale challenge which were the Open category, Scaled Category (Men’s and Women’s) and Team category. Husni Damit of GETFIT CrossFit won the Open category while Mohd Faizal of Core Fitness Kota Kinabalu won the Men’s Scaled category. As for the Women’s Scaled category, it was won by Emily Mogard and the Team category was won by Ricky Ang, Terry Teo, Emma Agaki and Mandy Tay.

I’m proud to see my cousin Amalina and buddy Cheelin taking part in the Battle Royale. It was a great competition organised by GETFIT Crossfit and the best part of the challenge is that everyone was motivating the participants to finish the reps and giving them self-belief and the will power. Some of the images are courtesy of Mandy Tay (took off your instagram :p) and Amalina.


The ladies who took part in the Battle Royale


The winners with the judges and committee of Battle Royale


The winners of the Team category of Battle Royale

 

 

04
Dec

APICTA picking pace

Written by Rano Iskandar. Posted in RA News

 

Brunei welcomes APICTA 2012

 


Dato Paduka Hj Alaihuddin, Permanent Secretary of Ministry of Communications and Chairman of APICTA Brunei, delivering his welcoming remarks and he was delighted Brunei is hosting this year’s APICTA

The welcoming reception for APICTA 2012 participants took place at The Baze, The Empire Hotel and Country Club. For your info, APICTA stands for Asia Pacific Info-Communication Technology Alliance and the participants from different countries are in Brunei to present their ideas and prototypes to the judges and the winner will be declared in each of the categories.

The APICTA Awards is organised by the Ministry of Communications and supported by AITI and Infocom Brunei. The competition is held over the 3 days and tomorrow night will be the APICTA Gala Dinner where the winners will be awarded.

There are 11 countries competing for the awards and there are 42 judges from different countries who consists of CEOs, ICT professionals and consultants. The welcome reception was entertained by Dj Naz who was the emcee and the magician for the night accompanied by a jazz band from Virtuoso Studio.


Jazz band byThe Virtuoso Studio


Naz doing some tricks on Khern

 

Vacancy at Standard Chartered

 

 

AITI final draw at 4:30 pm

 

Authority for Info-communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam (AITI) has a pavilion at the TechXpo 2012 which is launched today. As Brunei’s leading telecommunication regulator and ICT industry promoter, the AITI pavilion aims to promote public awareness regarding its roles, programmes and initiatives.

So today is the final day for the AITI Guess competition and you can stand a chance to win fantastic prizes. All you have to do is visit AITI’s pavilion at TechXpo at ICC today before 4:30pm and the draw will be done by 5pm. The guess is pretty easy so you guys have nothing to lose, right? Who knows you might win an iPad mini. I remember last year I won a prize from the lucky draw. Let’s see if my luck is there again *lol*

Members of the public can look forward to a quiz cum lucky draw “AITI GUESS” and stand to win attractive prizes. The first prize will be iPad Mini, the second prize is a PS3 Slim 250GB and the third prize is a Samsung Galaxy Ace Duos.


AITI quiz competition with awesome prizes. Only at TechXpo 2012


Once you finished answering the questions, insert your paper in the box

 

Hula Hula at Tasek Brasserie

 


Call 224 4272 for reservations for Hula Hula night at Tasek Brasserie


Petals deco on the table for patrons


“Umu Chicken” from the Earth Oven


Pineapple Salsa for the calamari dish


Kokoda (Coconut Fish Salad)


Fried Chicken with Devils sauce


Pulled Buffalo with Pepper sauce


The different sauces at the station


At the grill area outside


There’s the lamb spit as well


Catch the Hula-Hula performance every night until 8th December brought to you by Qudoz. Devon (center) with the performers last night

 

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