Perlu difahami mengapa pentingnya the idea mengenai landmark sesebuah negara ikut serta kerana ia bertujuan untuk melahirkan rasa kesedaran melalui ‘connection’ dengan landmark negara tersbut selaras dengan konsep Earth Hour yang ingin melahirkan kesedaran bahawa pentingnya mengurangkan penggunaan tenaga. Apa bila kita merasa ‘connected’ dengan landmark tersebut, kita akan secara tidak langsung mengikut dan mencontohi perilaku tersebut. Penjimatan itu bukan suatu konsep yang baru, bukan juga konsep barat (walaupun Earth Hour berpusat di negara barat) kerana berjimat-cermat merupakan salah satu nilai Islam yang MESTI diamalkan, jelas sekali apabila kita membazir kita adalah sahabat Syaitan.

Walau apa pun, its better than nothing, but still we could have done better with the selection of the landmark.

Untuk mereka yang kembali ke Rahmatullah pada umur 60 tahun, mereka secara purata tidur selama 19 tahun (kiraan kasar tidak termasuk mereka yang insomnia, dan jatuh koma), dan ini beerti mereka cuma berada dalam keadaan sedar selama 41 tahun. Tanpa kita sedari kita telah menjadi tua semasa 19 tahun kita terlelap. Tak disangka kan, hidup ne sekejap cume, kalau kita ditakdirkan hidup 5 tahun lagi, tidur kita dah memakan masa setahun lebih, maka sisa yang tinggal cuma 3 tahun lebih jam sedar untuk bertindak dan mencapai sesuatu yang diazamkan.

Beralih kepada topik mimpi, semalamkan saya bermimpi, sebuah mimpi yang eksotik, saya berjupa dengan Mr Miyagi (Karate Kid), Ryu (Street Fighter), Dorameon (Doraemon) dan Nameless kitten (tak de nama), anak kucing yang comel. Ok that was a joke (tho not funny), there were no Miyagi, Ryu and Dorameon in my dream, except for that kitten. Did I mention ‘cute’?

Anyway, saya cuba mentafsirkan mimpi itu dan saya menjumpai sebuah buku pdf dari halaman web Laman Web JPS Kedah melalui Google search. muat turunnya di sini.. Benar atau tidak tafsiran mimpi saya, saya tak pasti, tapi pastinya saya tak perlu membeli buku tafsir mimpi di Mubarak atau Bismi. Jika awdapo bermimpi semalam, awda mungkin boleh menggunakan buku ini untuk mendapatkan hint mengenai tafsir mimpi awda. Its free x ah..

Nota: Artikel berasaskan purata tidur sehari 8 jam dan hakcipta buku pdf atu nda tau siapa yang memelihara.

Tapi baru-baru ani Kak Hjh Nor seorang pembaca news di Brunei fm News menyatakan bahawa:

1. Sekarang Gunung Pagon dipanggil dengan nama Bukit Pagon
2. Ketinggiannya adalah dibawah ketinggian minimum sebuah gunung
3. Bukit Pagon tidak lagi terletak di Brunei sebaliknya di negara jiran
4. Bukit tertinggi di Brunei adalah Bukit Retak

Semua ini telah diajar di sekolah-sekolah pada masa ini. Banarkah nda ne? Akak keliru lah.. Retak menunggu Belah, tapi Belah tak datang-datang dik..

26 Belia Cinta Tanah Air mendaki Bukit Pagon - Brunei Times

Adik-adik belia ku, Cintailah Brunei.. Jangan sampai salah jatuh cinta dengan tanah air jiran muakekeke

Nota: Ouuuh rupanya Brunei ani nada gunung..

aku nak kawin.. kawin dengan siapa? Aku nak kawin dengan Putera, tak dapat kawin dengan Putera kerabat, Putera anak Raja, atau Putera anak lelaki kepada Raja pun ok leeee… Ok ape.. X X L… Yuhuuuuu

Nota: XXL Sorry ye Rinaz P2F akak curik adik punya line.. muakekeke

He told my friend how he had to fake his smile in front of DST Director, and he described Bruneian as hopeless because Bruneian know nothing. When I heard it, I was like.. what?…… Seriously… wlaupun kenal kenalan/chat chat an atu nda menjadi ‘kawan’ jangan lah sampai menghina kami ani.

Alkisah cerita partner ku ani, this guy chatter ani mengirim gambarnya 7 tahun sebelumnya, ekeke, tapi masih mampu mengaku diri 30 tahun walaupun sebenarnya ia sudah berumur 37 tahun. Lepas atu my partner cakap ‘No wonder you look old” (barang kali tesinggung cia c kawan atu, sal atu lah ia sampai ati ngucap-ngucap kan orang Brunei ani).

To my dearest Bruneian, buka mata tu, improve skills atu cana kan detect FAKE SMILE (at corporate level) ehehe. And the most important thing, its time to prove that we know something kali aaah.. bulehhhh?

Nota: Its time to be independent ya know,cakap pun nda guna, lets prove it instead

Great first impression for our future artists.

Menurut penulis ada seorang nini tua berumur hampir 90 tahun, menjaja sayur untuk menyara cucu nya. Bayangkan lah Awang-awang dan dayang-dayang dalam keadaan begitu terpaksa menyara cucu cucu biskita sebab anak-anak kurang bertanggungjawab.

Kalau biskita pembaca di Brunei yang masih muda dan sehat wal afiat mau dihargai sesudah tua kelak, ani tah masanya kitani mempastikan kesejahteraan Warga Emas masa ani terpelihara dan berterusan sampai ke zaman emas kitani, ja…. , karang mun kitani memperjuangkan nasib warga emas sudah kitani pun jadi warga emas bukankah macam penting kan diri tu usulnya.. kian.. Bisai tah kitani semua memberi saranan kepada pihak yang bertanggungjawab agar memelihara kesejahteraan Warga Emas yang telah banyak berjasa kepada negara.

Baca cerita dari Pg Hj Abdul Rahman yang di terbitkan di seksyen pendapat BB kelmarin

Free seniors from poverty and neglect
I was travelling in a car around Gadong area when I met an old lady walking on the roadside carrying a basket behind her back. I stopped my car and approached the old lady and we then had a brief conversation.

To cut the story short, she told me she was selling vegetables to support not only herself but also her grandchildren. She told me she is nearly 90 years old.

The other story is about an old lady who has made an application to the relevant authority for assistance to repair her house, which is already in a bad condition, but regrettably the authority due to the reason that she has well-off children to support her had rejected her application.

These two scenarios have got me thinking, what if we meet the same fate as those old ladies when we get old?

Not unless we have a lot of money and have responsible children, we would live a happy life at that age, otherwise I am sure we will be spending the remaining years of our lives in unhappiness and depression.

In Australia, the government is really taking care of their senior citizens.

The government provides free apartment plus free home service visits, weekly allowances, free transportation and all other benefits and welfare for the old people.

On a weekly basis there are excursions arranged to bring the senior citizens together to visit places, to relax their mind and at the same time doing some exercise to maintain good health. Over there, it’s the doctor or health worker who visit the senior citizens at their home, not the other way around as we normally practise here.

Senior citizens who can’t do any work are placed in a special home with 24/7 care. It’s a haven for the senior citizens.

We, on the other hand, always like to push the responsibility to the other party when it comes to the welfare of old folks. The children are pushing it to the relevant authority by asking for financial assistance for their aged parents whilst the authority refuses to assist because they believe the children are taking advantage, which I must admit in many cases are true.

Because of this, most senior citizens have to work and live without any support, apart from the “gaji tua” which is not even enough if they also have to pay for the house, electric and water bill while at the same time supporting others who live with them i.e. children or grandchildren.

For those who are being looked after by their children … might be left alone inside a four wall whilst the children go to work. “Warga Emas”, literally meaning “golden folk”, is a word we refer to aged people or senior citizens here because we do treat them like “gold”… or do we?

I just hope things like the welfare of senior citizens should be brought up during the next State Legislative Council Meeting, but unfortunately as reported in the Borneo Bulletin, various issues that they have already raised in the previous LegCo meetings have not yet been answered or implemented.

I wonder why even after a year they couldn’t even give any answers to the issues being raised.

My opinion is that in order to make the system more efficient, a KPI should be introduced after each State Legislative Council Meeting to monitor and evaluate the performance of the individuals who are supposed to be responsible for actions which have already been agreed. This KPI can also be used to see if we are putting the right people at the right place.

I would suggest the relevant authority to look into the issue of senior citizens seriously because I believe some senior citizens in Brunei are being neglected not only by their children but also by the relevant authority.

The task to identify senior citizens who are being neglected should be carried out by the Penghulu and Ketua Kampong but sadly … often it is the media who are doing these people’s jobs.

The policy adopted by the Australian government is the best policy when coming to taking care of “Warge Emas”.

- Pg Hj Abdul Rahman

Nota Brunei fm: Pisang Emas bawa belayar, Masak Sebijik di atas Peti, Kalau OverCook (OverMasak) jadilah ia Warga Emas…

Padahal menurut susunan program TV di Borneo Bulletin mengatakan jam 8 mlm ini sepatutnya menayangkan drama Korea, tapi apabila I switched on the TV, well its ‘Kereta Lumba’. When I checked RTB website for Full TV Programme listings, sudah seminngu no update on TV Programmes.

So the interesting question is, tiada siapa pun di Brunei ani yang tahu perubahan mengejut rancangan TV RTB2 (not on BB, not on RTB website), apa bila sepatutnya RTB2 menayangkan Drama Korea, sebaliknya mereka menayangkan ‘Kereta Lumba’, siapatah yang kan meliat tu sukan ‘Kereta Lumba’ atu? Padahal tiada siapa pun yang tahu perubahan ani melainkan staff RTB2.

Then kalau nada ramai yang menonton Live Kereta Lumba (sebab kurang promosi n the very lah last minute tayangnya) atu bukankah satu kerugian kepada perbelanjaan negara tu kan.. ja.. awu nda.. ehehe

Nota: Bukannya Aneka Varia tapi Aneka Tukar Hehehe

Apa apa pun I quote ini tuk tatapan bersama:

During the interview, Hj &^%$* told her that he was lonely and had no companion. He then stuck his tongue out in a sexually suggestive manner. When the woman reached out to salam him at the end of the interview, Hj Hj &^%$* grabbed her hand and licked it.

TST saja sapa urangnya, sini bukan ruangan mengumpat yeee

Nota: Inilah dunia, ada sesetangah orang tu, kalau nampak Gay atau Tomboy, bukan main respon jerit dan caci maki ‘Najis! Haram! #$%^&!’, tapi bila nampak gadis imut imut, keluar pulak si lidah ’slurp’ gitu

Brunei’s David Blaine once wowed Pasar

Majid Hj Ali, aka Majic, performs a trick for his audience. Picture: BT/Bahrum Ali

BAHRUM ALI
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
Sunday, March 14, 2010
MAJID Hj Ali was once a regular at Pasar Malam.

But unlike other Pasar regulars, he wasn’t there to buy roti johns and other tidbits on offer. He was there with other hawkers to sell a product. In his case, it was magic he hawked.

Meet Majic, Brunei’s very own David Blaine.

“I really love to do magic shows and always wanted to make it as my career,” he said.

Indeed, that’s exactly what Majic did. For years, he performed at places like Pasar Malam, expos, exhibitions, and hotels, among others.

He said that he just got back from Indonesia for an all-paid expense trip to attend a master competition.

“I also participated in Brunei’s ‘Who’s Got Talent’ recently although I did not make it to the finals,” he said, adding he planned on joining again next year.

Now, Majic is trying a different trick entrepreneurship.

He just opened a shop at Batu Bersurat called Team Explore Magic.

Majic told The Brunei Times he decided to open up a shop finally after saving enough to start the business.

“It has been my dream to set up a magic shop since I was in Pasar Malam. I slowly saved up for the budget and now I have achieved my dream,” he said.

Majic said a relative is helping him run the magic shop.

“I believe in business and I really want to explore it now based on my real talent,” he said.

He said it was this drive to have his own business that inspired him to save his earnings as a magician and the wages from his private sector job.

Majic said paying the shop rental and the wage for his worker are among his biggest concerns at present. But he is confident that the business will grow eventually.

“There are only three magic stores in the country now and I believe that every one of us is grabbing each piece of the pie with our own style,” he said.

He added that his shop is not solely dependent on walk-in customers, but also revenues from his tuition class for aspiring magicians in which he has 20 students. He said he charges students $100 a month.

Majic also performs on stage, birthday parties, weddings and other special occasions for extra income. He said a number of companies, like Brunei Shell Petroleum, The Empire Hotel & Country Club, Safari Bistro, Elken, among others, have invited him to do shows.

“I am serious and enjoy what I am doing now. I will work hard for it,” he said.

“It is now about improving the shop and letting the people know about our existence.”

The Brunei Times