Alhamdullilah...

22nd, October 2008,
Today is Muhammad 4 month old birthday. As a present, my brother, Muhammad's uncle, had bought him this baby walker. It seem that lately, Muhammad's leg are getting stronger and stronger. He loves to be held up and have his feet touch the ground as though he’s standing. He also love to kick and bounce his feet around when we put him up on our lap. Learning how to stand independently is a huge prerequisite to walking. So, all you’ll need now is to expose Muhammad to more unrestricted floor time and he’ll learn to stand sooner rather than later.

Happy Muhammad and his brand new baby walker...smile...!!!

"I guess you need to get used to this seat Muhammad"

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More open houses

Last Sunday, we were invited by Cikgu Hamidah to her open house in Tutong. So we went there along with Eden's family (Den & Kaneh). As for Muhammad, he just loved his "baby's day out" especially during this festive time. So our first stop, Eden's crib.

Eden's family(Den&Kaneh) at Cikgu Midah's house in Kampong Sengkarai.

My wife nanie alongside Muhammad and myself.

Cikgu Hamidah with Muhammad. Thanks for the lovely food Cikgu.

Next, we stopped at Noh's crib where again we were served with more food.

Muhammad with Noh's mother in law and son.

Noh's families entertain by Muhammad.

This was too much...the mee goreng was delicious and it comes with fried chicken...don't just look at me...no one could resist it too. Anyway, thanks for the food Noh.

Last but not least, and we all know that Muhammad going to love this, so we stopped at The Mall and bring him around before we head back home.

So which one its gonna be? Mmmm...?

During last Ramadhan, I had this oppurtunity to go to Mr.Gembo's house with my wife and Muhammad. Well actually, earlier that day, I asked him about several SLR camera that he could recommend for an absolute beginner like myself. So in the end, he invited us all to his house instead for a first hand experience to the world of SLR camera.
Long story short, Mr.Gembo introduced me to his Canon 450D and I was amazed with the result. Well you can see it for yourself. In my own words, the quality, detail, colour, and contrast, everything was just perfect. This was only some of the pics taken by him. The one that I have, not as good as his but I can assured you that the quality of the pics that I took from his Canon 450D are much better than my Sony Cybershots.
After making few research here and there, then asking to those who have the experience about SLR camera, in the end I was left with either to buy Canon 1000D or Canon 450D. So my questions are, When, Where and Which to buy? Any help guys? Hehehehe...

A friend of mine, Saifol, had recently bought this Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28 digital still camera with a price of around BND$8++. This SLR-like camera features a 27mm wide-angle Leica DC VARIO-ELMARIT lens with an 18x optical zoom.
The FZ28 also boasts with 10.1-megapixel resolution and adds a number of enhanced features that boost user fun and convenience, represented by an advanced iA (Intelligent Auto) mode.


In the other hand, Saifol also told me that Shamri owned the successor to the 300D, the new, smaller, 8 megapixel, EOS 350D (Digital Rebel XT). Not bad man ;)


For EOS 1000D depending from which angle you look at it, this model is either a stripped down 450D or a 'reheated' 400D. It have a 10 megapixel sensor, 2.5 in LCD monitor, 7-point AF system and no spot-metering (like the 400D) but gaining Live View with both phase- and contrast-detect AF, SD/SDHC for storage and a control and menu layout that is pretty much identical to the EOS 450D's. In fact, because it's based around the same Digic III processor, it shares an interface with almost every current Canon DSLR all the way up to the 1DsMkIII.


Last but not least, Canon EOS 450D, have 12 megapixel in a smaller body with a far wider range of functionality and features. Comes with a larger 3.0" LCD monitor, Live View with both passive and contrast detect AF, Spot metering, improved auto-focus, 3.5 fps continuous shooting a larger viewfinder and a switch SD/SDHC for storage (all previous cameras in this range were Compact Flash). Other features appear to be inherited from the EOS 40D; 14-bit image pipeline, Highlight Tone priority, optional High ISO noise reduction, 'My Menu' and display of the ISO sensitivity on the viewfinder status line. There's also the new stabilized kit lens.
I also just knew that here in Brunei, we refer to the EOS 450D by its European name; if you live in other parts of the world you'll know the camera by (in order of silliness) Rebel XSi or Kiss X2 Digital, but they're all the same actually.

Beware Melamine...!!! Warning to all...!!!

The Ministry of Health said the recalled White Rabbit candy from China, which is popular among children in Brunei, has a high level of melamine contamination. This has been proven based on the analysis carried out in Singapore and New Zealand.

The ministry has added another product named Ginbis to the tainted items list, in addition to milk products of YiLi brand, Vitamilk chocolate, peanut nougat, yoghurt chocolate, and candy nougat recalled previously.
The products should not to be sold in the country, the ministry has ordered.

Melamine is an industrial chemical used in the making of melamine resin for products like plastic, gum and paper.

The deadly chemical has been used in milk and dairy products to artificially raise the protein content. Exposure to melamine brings about kidney failure and poisoning of the urinary system.

Below are the latest list of product that have been affected by Melamine:

Dutch lady - Banana flavoured milk (250ml)

Dutch lady - Honeydew flavoured milk (250ml)

Dutch lady - Strawberry flavoured milk (1L)

Some of Yili Milk products

Misarang Custard is one of two snack foods imported from China
recently found to contain the toxic substance melamine.

For more information on other product tainted with melamine, just go to the website for Ministry of Health, Brunei Darussalam.

The 4th day of raya...Open house edition

Sorry for the delay. I've been buzy lately because this week its the start of our second half of the first semester at UBD. So many works need to be done, normal lectures need to be attended. Anyway, I just got the time to edit some of the pictures and put it in here to share with you all. It was last Sunday where families and friends came to our house for raya. It was another buzy day at raya alrite.

Milah's family from Kampung Mulaut

Hj. Osman's family from Lambak Kiri

My cuz, aunties...

Peace to you to...!!!
My uncle K.Ahmad just arrived for our open house

Food here, food there...food everywhere...
Satay, curry, rendang...

Shukri, Bidin, Ijah

Owww...Muhammad was busy too entertaining others who came on that day...

Even Mr.Said and his staff and friends from the tailoring shops are invited

Mr & Mrs Gembo and family...enjoying the foods.

Abg. Ayoi, Abg. Ajiz with wife Kaka Yati

Well actually there are many more of them that came on that day to our open house. The problem was, my camera ran out of battery because I forgot to charge it the day before. I better keep in mind about this problem next time and make sure it should not have happen.