Attended a friend's bedak mandi (pre-wedding ceremony which involves a blessing by close family elders and a cleansing body-scrub) ceremony this afternoon and it brought back memories of my own bedak mandi all those years ago. What fun, a free body scrub performed by several family members, watched by even more family members! More pics here . Short rant: During the Microsoft Vista launch , both of us went in "business attire" as stated in the invitation. While trying to photograph the guest of honour, I was approached by one of the more seasoned photographers who asked me where I was from. I said I was an invited guest who happened to bring my camera. This is what he said to me, "Mana baju kot mu? Kalau jemputan duduk saja. Kalau mau buleh pulang ku panggil AO ni untuk membawa kau keluar." Yes, very Bruneian indeed matey. You could have just told me that its a requirement for photographers to wear a suit in the presence of royalty. No need to bite my head of...
of course you don't know me, but I always visit your blog from time to time. Straight to the point, may I know which architec built the spiral stairs in the pic? I'm planning to build a house in near future and those stairs perfectly fit to what I had in mind. Owh btw I also had downloaded your earlier pic about the same subject, hope u don't mind.
ReplyDeleteThank you for visiting. The architect for both the stairways you saw is:
ReplyDeleteA G A - Abdul Ghani Arkitek
Chartered Architect (R.I.B.A)
Address: 7 & 8 4th Floor Badiah Complex
Bandar Seri Begawan
Tel: 2227029
Fax: 2227030
Email: aga121@hotmail.com
Tell them I sent you. I won't get any commission but I know I'll get a nice thank you from the principal architect heheh...
Good luck on your new home project and do drop by often. I have tons of architecture pics which I intend to post here :)
Thanks for the info bro..
ReplyDeleteI sure will mention about you to them as my referral..hoping to get some favourable price quotation of course hehe..actually my house plan has been approved by relevent authorities and I already have secured the gov't loan. For the time being, I'm looking for a suitable contractor and probabbly open up my tender once I come back to Brunei..
Thanks again bro..