Borneo here I come!

Travelling to Brunei with less than S$60 from Air Asia, the journey might have a little detour but all in all the money saved for this trip is “priceless”. I started off with exiting the woodlands custom, from bus 950 then continue my journey to the Kota Raya bus terminal, from there, the RM8 coach brings me directly to the Senai airport where I took the flight from Johore Baru to Miri, which is near to the border of Brunei.

A lot of people might not know that the East Malaysia is very close to Brunei, just like JB and Singapore. My friend Patrick and his younger brother, Gilbert then picks me up from Miri airport. Patrick is not a stranger, he has been to Singapore several times and I usually try to catch up with over dinner or coffee but Gilbert is growing bigger and slightly taller, when I was working in Brunei, he is always the most reserved brother among the Wong family. Inquisitive yet as all boys do, infatuated with computer games. We then immediately cross over the border from west Malaysia before it closes by 10pm on our way to Lumut, Brunei, Wong residence.

Everyone is at the residence when I arrive, warmth and lovely welcome, I met Stanley first, which used to be my roommate, colleague and lastly good friend, how time flies, it’s almost 6 years since we last saw each other, his figure is still “swell” and chubby. :) I then saw his mother, the kindness and generous woman whom cook for me when I was working in Brunei every weekend. Nostalgic surely, her husband, Uncle Wong, with Einstein hair-do woke up in the middle of his sleep just to welcome me. We chatted quite a bit mostly about Philip wedding. After discussing further, we then discovered there is a wedding notice that needs to be design and print on this Friday newspaper. Without further delay, I then volunteer and immediately work on the wedding notice. Gilbert helps to “Pin Yin” as we have to type out the Chinese text in the computer. Finally, all work is done and I went to bed soundly...