Time: 11pm, 26th March, 2007. Monday (I think)
Feeling: in dire need of a holiday
Well, writing a self-assessment for my 4th appraisal in 2 years has forced some introspection. It's been a while, I have to say. Except now I'm too tired to write down my thoughts coherently. Too tired to even think, let alone coherently. I am just going to upload some photos and let that speak... Mind you I'm selecting only the most interesting ones - so don't let them fool you into thinking there is stuff to do around here! There is nothing, NOTHING, I tell you!!
And this is a village on water. Approx 30k people (out of total population of 350k in Brunei) live in these villages . I still don't get why. It's not like land is over-populated... I must be missing something here...
And a famous mosque... that the Sultan built....
Oh yeah - had a chaotic week last week when my laptop (posthumously named "Fluffy") died while I was in Brunei. Joy and happiness. Ended up getting a replacement from the IT guys in Sydney who couldn't fix my old one and have been hectically trying to clear the backlog of work since that time.
News bites:
Saw ballet Don Q with that guy from Centre Stage (Ethan Stiefels or something) - mmm. very nice. Beautiful production actually.
Was at home for one night - ONE night and one of the roommates (remaining nameless) barged into my room at 3 AM in the morning, waking me up. Says she didn't realise I'd be home. I said "imagine that, I only live here. In my room". Response was "but you're never here". Should I just give up and move back with my parents?
And lets not even go into why she was going into my room at 3 am in the morning.
And I had a flight to catch in the morning.
Whinge whinge.
Anyway, moving onto the pictures....
4 comments:
oooh!!! goss.....so who was it and why was she barging into your room?? HAHAHA...sorry...:(
the sultan of brunei is like unbelievably loaded isn't he???
and the people live on SHACKS with stilts on water?
god man..that pisses me off so much...i officially hate the sultan of brunei...
Poor Olya, my appraisal is on Thursday.... :/
And rest assured, from Sunday you will not have to worry about anyone barging into your room :)
Well, with respect to the water villages, I am genuinely puzzled as to why they do that. I'm almost thinking they like it. People here are NOT struggling. Education and the health system are free. People have had a lot handed to them on a silver platter. They are not used to working hard for anything. So I wouldn't be too concerned. That is why this village puzzles me. I bet you they have huge ass plasma screens inside.
And my appraisal is on soon as well - I just finished my self-assessment last night. Wooo. Appraisal #4.
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