My buddy James was asking me the other day to name 4-6 most influential people in Brunei Darussalam's IT development. It was food for thought and I thought long and hard about this over the last few days and James, if you're reading this, below are my nominees: HRH Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Bilah - Senior Minister, Prime Minister's Office HRH is very IT savvy and like all the younger generation, is very comfortable with ICT. I had the honour of presenting HRH with a PDA once and he took to it immediately, and I set up wireless internet both in his office at MFA and in his room at the palace so that he could access the internet from his PDA. This was some years ago when wireless was still a novelty. But from this interaction, I could already imagine HRH being the architect of a globalised Brunei (Cyber-Brunei?) where the knowledge economy would thrive. Pehin Dato Adnan - Minister of Home Affairs, former Director of Immigration & National Registration When he was Direct...
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..