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First Sunday of 2015: Hiking Bukit Shahbandar (Again)
If there is one thing more uncertain than predicting the weather before a hike, it is coming up with a blog title that differentiates one from the other. We hiked the 9 Pondok trail on the first day of...
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The Quickest Way to Upload Photos to Instagram from Windows PC
Friends who are fervent Instagram (“IG”) users have urged me countless times to share more photos on Instagram. I signed up an account sometimes in April 2012, shared my first photo I took at a...
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Hiking Bukit Shahbandar’s Extended Hills Before Attending a Wedding Reception
Normally, Saturday morning is one of the busiest days of the week when we juggle school runs, tamu (fresh market) shopping, breakfast, more shopping when the supermarket opens. But because it’s the...
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Hiking in Brunei Darussalam: Bukit Shahbandar Trail Map
In the year and a half that I’ve been hiking the hills, both solo and group, there were three separate occasions involving 6 visitors that had lost their way in the Shahbandar forest. Since then, there...
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Donated Proceed from Sale of Turtle Photo to Nepal Earthquake Relief
A visitor in the US came across my blog while browsing the web for a turtle photo she wanted for her bathroom wall. In her email, she saw this image and asked if I had others similar to that one she...
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What Nik Collection Support Taught Me About Photo Editing
I am a huge fan of Nik Collection professional photographic tools and have only Google to thank for making them really affordable when they bought over the company. It began with the Viveza plug-in...
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Rays of Light Pierce Food Court Windows
On a typical Friday morning, my wife and I would stop by the Seria open market for our weekly grocery shopping before she starts her day at the office. Breakfast usually follows at one of two of our...
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Royal Caribbean Mariner of the Sea’s Amazingly Grand Dining Hall
On 6th December 2013, two weeks before my first Mount Kinabalu climb, we took a family cruise vacation on board The Royal Caribbean’s Mariner of the Sea in Singapore. Pictured here is the Mariner’s...
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Thank You for Your Postcards
Since my Please Send Me A Postcard post from over 4 years ago, I have received box full of postcards from family and friends who traveled the world and took time out of their precious holiday itinerary...
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Hiking Shahbandar and Photographing Tapak Kuda Roll Had Me All Crabbed Out!
Last week, I had one incredibly productive day like I sometimes do when schedules go haywire! But this time it was planned that way — a bit ambitious maybe — it wasn’t impossible to pull off, it was...
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Escape Room Miri: The Real-Life Puzzle Game
Jan Shim:If you have recently visited or shopped at Permaisuri Imperial City Mall in Miri, you might have noticed that intriguing black and yellow building right across the road — the one that I that I...
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One Bukit Shahbandar Two Families
The night before yesterday morning’s Bukit Shahbandar, my family and I were having dinner at Nur Wanita when a former classmate who’s back from Taiwan to visit his family asked if I would be hiking...
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Fire and Rescue Estimates Over $7 Million Loss in Historic Seria Landmark Fire
For majority of residents in oil town Seria, Millimewah Department Store is their go-to place for everything — although mostly catering for the budget conscious, they’re the only complete department...
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Largest Japanese Restaurant Chain in Brunei Opens Outlet in Miri, Sarawak
Quoting my Facebook post: “After years of speculative yes, no, maybe, Brunei’s largest and most popular Japanese eatery Excapade Japanese Cuisine has officially opened in Miri, much to the delight of...
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Competing in the 3rd Canada Hill Trail Challenge 2015 (Dato Sebatian’s...
The first time I visited and hiked Canada Hill in Miri was 20th October 2013 when I was group training for my first Mount Kinabalu climb in December of the same year (our group successfully made it to...
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Morning Rays Through Seria Mee Stall Skylight Window
The Seria Mee Stall is a magnet for gorgeous light rays! I have captured moments like this on a number of occasions, on both sides of the premise including one particular hawker where an intense beam...
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Three Shades of Tan
Three shades of tan from three separate runs while training for The Most Beautiful Thing 50K Ultra Trail Marathon the darkest of which a result of 8 hours under open sky covering a 40K distance between...
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Standard Chartered KL Virtual Marathon 2017 Pre-Race Preparation #Brunei
“This virtual race is brought to you by the official SCKLM and 42Race. You can now run anytime, anywhere, with anyone on 21 May 2017 to earn the exclusive Standard Chartered KL Virtual Marathon medal....
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Completing Two Loops of Bukit Shahbandar 14 Hills with 1,041m in Elevation Gain
The idea of completing two loops of Bukit Shahbandar ’14 Hills’ had crossed my mind more than once previously but it was only recently I decided to actually do it — together with two other runners, one...
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Some Like It Hot: Training in Sub 40° Celsius Heat
Among runners in the local trail running community the term ‘heat training’ is often used and understood to be nothing other than heat acclimatization or quite simply, getting used to the heat. But...
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