Temburong - Where Can I go?

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Music score by Lily Chiam of Expression Music from her new CD album 'Together'.

Wedding Video?

Ah.. been getting a few calls regarding filming weddings. Sorry ah.. I'm not currently doing those for the moment. Please contact/view the following pro wedding videographers for weddings:

eiwan69.multiply.com
jumatomar.com
rajuladli.smugmug.com

If I do shoot weddings in motion, it will be as a 2nd shooter or for leisure with my associates.

Winners and Losers?

Bloggers of Brunei's Unite.
Well.. the top five anyway :)
Its nice to see these guys having fun and not dissing each other for the competition. Now that is the true spirit of competition.
At the end of the day, there are no such thing as winners or losers, just birds of the same feathers (of varying sizes and shapes). Hehe.
Kudos to the famous five.

SYC-Unlucky13-Temburong-Saving the Camera

SYC-Temburong-Saving the Camera from David Cheok on Vimeo.

Ulu Resort

Temburong-Pristine natural rainforests

Ulu Ulu Resort from David Cheok on Vimeo.
An amazing place to visit with an equally amazing resort located in the heart of our tropical rainforest. No mosquitoes is the first thing I would assure potential visitors. Taking a breath of fresh air takes on a whole new meaning when you are doing so in the middle of an afternoon rain in the midsts of the vast green wilderness by a bubbling stream.

Rano's Vote for Charity

Click on image below to vote.

Hmm... ok.. its an orthodox way of campaigning for votes BUT... if it helps our charity... you've got mine! :)
Every little bit helps.


PS. Rano has an anti-hotlinking protection on. Just click on the Xs to see the pics or vote.

The Temple

The Temple from David Cheok on Vimeo.

The Art of War - Daniel Alexander

Saw this clip online..


The Art of War from Daniel Alexander on Vimeo.

Fenugreek

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenugreek

Fenugreek seed is widely used as a galactagogue (milk producing agent) by nursing mothers to increase inadequate breast milk supply. It can be found in capsule form in many health food stores.[3]

Note: Consult your doctor before using especially those with asma problems..

Just some information for the new mothers.. keep breastfeeding as long as you can.

Available at Nature Farm at the Mall.

Hiatus?

I've stopped accepting any more weddings. I've also increased my rates (of course with appropriate album upgrade) to curb demand for 2009. In 2009, bookings are case-by-case basis only. I may not accept any at all.

All other inquiries for 2008 will also be on a case-by-case basis as I have stopped accepting bookings for most of the year. I think Sept and Oct is the only month free with only two slots left for these two months. I will only accept a third wedding on any month on very special cases. Rates for 2008 if I do accept any will still be at $2800.

Why? Well, for one, I would like to spend a bit more time with my son before he starts going off to school and another is that I am moving full time into commercial filming. Both of these are expected to eat up a lot of my time. I've increased my rates to follow suit so that I can allocate more time to creating the images for the albums for any wedding I may accept in 2009. At the moment, my experience is that having these backlogs and a large number of albums to prepare and design with clients rushing me whilst their families and friends are pushing them only hinders my ability to give my best. I'd rather do one fantastic album than 10 mediocre ones. Hope you guys/gals understand. As many of you have pointed out in my facebook.. perfectionist >.< So.. let me do my best.

Commercial work will still continue as normal.

Another boring sunset

As usual.. :)

Well done, Brunei!

I'm proud to be Bruneian. This is indeed an achievement by SCB in its initiatives to foster corporate responsibility amongst our people.

DST v B-Mobile

Who will win? US!
Let's have a look.
B-Mobile recently launched their new 3.5G network.
DST will launch theirs in May.
DST seem to have lost the race to launch.. but will they lose the battle to win?

Let's have a look.

B-Mobile's offer:
3.5mbits (locally guaranteed speed as usual)
running on Telbru's backbone.
Comes with a USB modem AND a Dell laptop
$45 per month + $40 cap = $85 per month
Conditions:
Either pay cash upfront $2k plus or get yourself into more debt with their partner bank. (You gotta be kidding me!)

DST:
3.5mbit (as Bmobile) running on their own backbones to the US.
Other things?
Coming soon.

Let's analyse and speculate.

With 3.5g.. both will offer equal local connection i.e. transfers between the Brunei network should be relatively adequate. However, we dont quite have enough content hosted locally that is used by most to take advantage of that. Instead, we browse and download from overseas hence 3mbits dont mean squat to most of us. For most times, we've all at some point or another felt Telbru's somewhat problematic connections abroad. So.. when a whole bunch of users now start getting bigger download speeds on B-mobile.. eating up bandwidth.. what do the rest of us get? More traffic.. more delays.. which is probably the reason why we've been having 'technical' difficulties lately. Espeed used to take up an avg of 512kbits per subscriber (assuming most of us can only afford the $98 per month) and B-mobile with their 3G then took up another 384 kbits per subscriber. Almost a 1-1 match sharing the same pipeline. Now.. with 3.5mbits.. espeed subscribers are 1/6th of the bandwidth behind.. and with more bandwidth, Bmobilers will now start downloading more. Adding more traffic to the same pipeline AND making it even slower for the Espeed subscribers. Uh oh.. now that doesnt sound good. Yes, we pay less.. and will get even less.

Now DST.. hmm.. own line out to the US.. up to now.. using the old GPRS.. 64 to 256kbits at most.. now is giving us access to their OWN private pipeline. Wow.. now that sounds good.. why? Because we're no longer dependent on Eslow.. sorry.. eblow... oops.. espeed... think about it... a whole new path to the US.. uncongested with espeed traffic OR bmobile traffic. To me.. that is already a plus in my books. I dont know what else they will offer with this.. but at the moment, as a high volume internet user, I'd rather wait and see than jump on the Bmobile bandwagon.. SOLELY for this. Of course, I think the bmobile package FORCING ppl to get a DELL (which would be of no use to a Mac user) AND making us pay for it upfront via cash or bank for their subscriptions and a DELL which we dont need.. WTF? You want us to switch over and you dont want to take any risks? Instead you MAKE us take the risk and burden us with more debt? (4 YR CONTRACT!!!!) Sorry... that's just plain stupid marketing.

Yeah.. i know.. i'm too straightforward.. I've been told.. and sorry.. that's the way I am. Many ppl dislike me because of this. Tough. These are the facts.

Debating Brunei

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