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...
If we've proper regulation then it's OK. Until then there are tendencies of misuses. No disrespect to operators who I think have done a good job maintaining the safety standard. Maybe it's just a matter of legalisation.
ReplyDeleteGuess were back to throwing stones n sticks then?
ReplyDeletewah love the free paintball bits. it's time we get paintball on the road, I can't wait to play some day against malaysian teams or ASEAN teams in an international tournament
ReplyDeleteMaju Paintball SUkan untuk Brunei !!
Wow! Those words were powerful man...Free the Sport, Free the Spirit! Always remember those words from here.
ReplyDeleteI find it ridiculous how such a small thing like paintball can be so hard to be approved. For crying out loud its approved everywhere else.
Go Paintball Brunei!
However, as long as the spirit believes - we shall prevail!
yeah really powerful words, FREE PAINTBALL NOW !! maybe the police do not want us to play paintball so that we all do dumb things like do drugs, steal and have gangfights and keep them in a job ?!
ReplyDeletepaintball is happeming around the world and still in brunei.. no one can stop it..,,
FREE PAINTBALL !!
FREE THE SPIRIT, FREE THE SPORT???? I don think "many people" knows the meaning of that. Thats why so many youngster do drugs, stealing, lepak here and there. Paintball is about team building, safety, planning new strategy, communication and most of all, stress relieve. Then why is archery set up in Brunei??? Isnt that a weapon?
ReplyDeleteMan...I dun understand why they are trying to stop paintball. If they wanted they might as well stop us from watching paintball (platun) on Malaysia channel.
ReplyDeleteI go envious when other countries are ahead of us playing paintball. Hopefully, one day maybe i can join in and give it a try on Brunei soil
Agree with Moglie. Its not a registered sport yet. I think the charges more towards collecting money without permit or something like that and importing without permit. Nothing to do with paintball at all.
ReplyDeleteJaymz, just to clarify the warrent mentioned about the firearms and explosive act but no technical investigation was/will ever be conducted and not on municipal charges.
ReplyDeleteIt is not a registered association but the operators never ran it a association but ran it as a business in which they do have a company.