Curious No More- Part 1

I'm finally no longer curious anymore of how Brunei looks like! 'coz we went on a road trip to Brunei last Thursday.. Sam, Navin, Kathleen and I.. The border of Brunei is actually just 10 mins away from where I am currently..=) But the drive to the Bandar of Brunei took 'bout 2 hours from the border.

Malaysian immigration at Sungai Tujuh, Miri.


Brunei's immigration.

The tol plaza after entering into Brunei.. Which is RM10 and 3 Brunei Dollar. A tip.. if you would be driving and passing this tol, remember to have loose Brunei dollar as according to my friend, they would not give change =/ wth!

After entering the borders, I was so so so excited as I've always really wondered how Brunei would look like 'coz you know we don't hear or see anything 'bout Brunei in the media right..

I was like wide awake although am really sleepy. Only had like 3 hours of sleep 'coz we went to the club the night before -__-".. But all I saw was just jungles beside me sweat-la.. went back to sleep..

Then after don't know how long, was woken up by the others, saying we're gonna stop for lunch.. And so we stopped by this stall that sells "Nasi Katok".

There is a story behind the name Nasi Katok. It was begun by a couple of teenagers who were feeling very hungry after a midnight practice. They went to a place where they normally bought their food. This place was actually a residential house, which offered Nasi bungkus (a pack of rice with chicken and egg) even in the middle of the night. At any time you could just Katok (knock) on their door, and the owner will come up with fresh hot Nasi Katok. And that's how it became Nasi Katok. (all taken from wikitravel =p)

The "Nasi Katok" which only cost 1 Brunei Dollar!

The local currency is the Brunei Dollar (B$) but many of the shopkeepers might use the term Ringit too.. but it does not refer to the Malaysian Ringgit though.. Our currency value is like lesser than half of the Brunei Dollar. I changed 60B$ that's equivalent to RM144! rate was at 2.4!

Oh and also. FYI, Singapore Dollar and Brunei Dollar can be used interchangeably so yeah, you can use Singapore$ in Brunei and vise versa..

Then as we reached into the Bandar, we were greeted with it's trafffic jam.. kinda enjoyed the moment.. made me think of the traffic back home.. lol..

Oh then as I was busy snapping away with my camera... the climax of the day reached.. I knew it would happenede but didn't knew it was so soon.. My camera batter died even before we could get down from the car! @#$%&*!

I was so so so freaking upset and was bitching all the way till my friends couldn't take it they went to the mall and everyone searched around for a camera shop that offer charging service or some kind but fail..=( Then we decide to just go to Coffee Bean or Starbucks to sit and charge.. 'coz smart me already predicted that this would happen and brought the charger along.. So off to Coffee Bean we went!

Coffee Bean.. Ok it's the same -La.. just took for fun..=)


Sam sleeping while waiting for my batt to charge for an hour or so..


while the rest of us camwhore..


Ok just me-La..


Oh, while we were at the mall looking for the camera shop, I stopped by a cosmetic shop and bought these masks, hair colors and mega-plump 'lips collagen' LOL! All for 1 Brunei$ each! That's like RM2.40..

While waiting, we went out to get a smoke and so I was sitting down outside Coffee Bean, about to light my ciggarette when we all noticed this..


WTH!!!


=______=" So could not believe it.. There was also this list of places where we couldn't smoke which includes practically everywhere and anywhere except for your own house.. sweat!

The government really really is trying to discourage smoking by taking such disastrous acts.. Think restricting public smoking is bad enough.. see this.. lagi wth! Would you still smoke when faced with such pictures every time you take a cigarette.. Well I think it would work on ladies.. giving psychological effect.. double sweat...

To give you all a picture of how Brunei looks like..

Similar to KL?


Haha! Ok continue in Part 2.. damn long dy-La this post..