Life in Brunei - Sunrise at Labi

Luagan Lalak Recreation Park

Lying about 25 km from Sungai Liang along the Labi Road, this park covers an area of roughly 270 hectares within the Labi Hills Forest Reserve.

A rare and interesting place, it features an alluvial freshwater swamp or empran. During rainy periods it fills up like a lake, and in drier spells the waters recede and the valley becomes covered with sedges - mainly of the species Lepironia.

There are shelters, footpaths and a 200 metre timber walkway which spans most of the lake.





Special thanks to Kok Hua, woke early 5am and drove to this beautiful place for sunrise...

Life in Brunei - His Majesty home Visit

HIS Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Brunei Darussalam visited the homes of the recipients of the keys to semi-detached and terrace houses under the Panaga National Housing Scheme on 30/July/2011.



While waiting for the arrival of His Majesty, crowds were gathered at the selected houses, waiting in line hoping to greet the monarch and to shake his hand. Among those waiting under the heat of the sun were the new homeowners who had just received the keys to their houses in a ceremony held earlier in the morning. Some were seen carrying their key plaques hoping to be autographed by the Sultan.

Life in Brunei - Beauty of Seria Beach

Two weeks stay in Brunei, you got to visit the Beach during sunset period, it is always amazing. Sharing some of the sunrise and sunset images taken at Seria Beach





The very 1st sunset shot in the 1st day of my arrival







something different....self portrait :D









Everyday is a new adventure, shooting at Seria Beach.

Thanks for viewing!

Life in Brunei - Friend + Golden sunset

On 26 May evening, my dad, Tom and myself went to a deserted area of Seria beach. I quickly setup my gear and started playing with light. It was fun and challenging as you can see from the photos, background light was changing from time to time. Lucky, I got myself a good model, Tom and excellent assistant, my dad; eventhough they were 1st timer... hahaha... most importantly, we all had fun.










'Ok, last shot for the day, lets pack up' '... waiiiit... '



Thats VAX-the-Man behind the camera... hahaha

Life in Brunei - Friend's gathering

Friendship

Make new friends

But keep the old

One is sliver and the other gold !

It has been a long time whent I last met this group of friends, though there were a lot more friends that I missed to meet up during this trip, as most of them have their own families and works to take care :)

We had a small gathering at SH coffee shop, chit chat-gossip-lot of things to catch up, hahahah. At around 6.15pm we set off to OGDC to see if we can catch sunset at the beach. Yeah, we got a beautiful sunset.





Kelly



Kok Lim



Zeenat

Friends with family...

I was so happy to hear that many of my old friends had formed a warm families of their own. It was great to meet up with some of them, we had so much to share and catch up.



A family portrait photos for Wei Onn & family






Ah Yang becoming father soon... ... congrat man!

Life in Brunei - Relax + some excitement

Brunei is a country located on the north coast of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. The total population of Brunei Darussalam is about 400,000 of which around 130,000(satistic taken from wikipedia) live in the capital Bandar Seri Begawan. Other major towns are the port town of Muara, the oil producing town of Seria and its neighboring town, Kuala Belait.

I was staying in Seria, during my 2 weeks stay. Seria is the heart of the oil industry in Brunei, and also the site of the first commercial onshore oilfield discovered in Brunei. The town sits atop the Seria Field, which was discovered in 1929. There are numerous 'nodding donkeys' in and around the town and this has become the unofficial symbol of the town.



Zheng, a friend came with me from Singapore for a 2 days stays. Taken on the day we arrived.



Sun rise @ Seria beach





My parent, with a sunset backdrop of seria beach.





On 14 May afternoon, we went for a walk at Sungai Liang Forest Reserve. Following easy nature trek in the forest reserve to see the various plants of the tropical rain forest. During the trek, we saw the sky was getting darker and we decided to end the forest adventure earlier as not to be caught in the rain.

On the way back to Seria, I suggested to visit Lumut Beach. What a Surprise!!! We saw 2 water tornado while we reached the beach. The 'tornado' only appeared for less than 10 minutes. I was able to grab a few shots of the rare scene...




2 'Water tornado' spoted from Lumut beach...