Bruneians love their cars. They put extra care and attention towards them. They lavishly spend a lot of money on accessories to make them look sporty, or just to make them look a little different from every other car on the road. In addition, of course, it costs us a lot of money to service .
The occasional tantalising glimpses of rooftops peeping above the jungle canopy aroused my curiosity. So, one day I decided to take a closer look. The overgrown path through the forest was reasonably clear; it would have been a broad road had the project been completed. As I approached, the buildings seem to emerge from the .
There is no need to spend hours watching nature documentaries on TV if you live in Brunei. Rather than being hard to find nature is very much ‘in your face’ when you live here. The many jungle remnants that we have all around us provide a wealth of wildlife, some of it unwelcome, but all .
Visiting Kg Ayer to take photographs wasn’t always as easy as it is today. In the 1980′s I was always a bit apprehensive of the rather primitive arrangement for boarding water taxis. Not everyone was so nervous about it. Elderly ladies, with shopping bags in both hands, used to hop up and down these old .
The long-suffering investors of The Airport Mall may at last be seeing some light at the end of a very long, dark and difficult tunnel. But it comes at a huge cost to someone. The estimated cost of completing the original project, when it first started, was B$12,000,000. However, the development was stalled at birth. .
A great deal of money must have gone into the high quality paving in simpangs near the Jerudong Park. Much of these works has been undone by poor maintenance. In some places, the paving has disappeared under the growing grass making it invisible. And some places it has disappeared by collapsing into and blocking the .
Jerudong market is certainly well located. I have always thought that with a little development, the beach and the market could be a major attraction for locals and visitors. The little inlet, sheltered from the currents is an ideal place for the fishing boats to launch and dock. This they do almost every day, returning .
WHAT is the best investment? A house or a land? This is a question that people often asked. The long answer depends on what your investment objectives are. The short answer would be – a house is the best investment. The advantage of investing in a house is that you can rent it out and .
