A teriffying moment

This photo is a courtesy of Abg Hasrin and it was taken during our ride to Pusat Ehsan Bazzar at Bengkurong. I dont mean to show off of having the nerve posing with snake.. not im not! but look properly to the picture, something will make me go nut if I knew it was actually there. Of course it was not the reptile, but a gigantic tarantula was crawling on the boy's hand behind me. If the boy comes nearer I swear to death the spider will be found 'crunchy' dead. I dont mean to degrade this creature, but m phobia to spider and I may act out of control by nature if this creature tries to get near!!!. This was my first experience standing about a meter to a giant tarantula, ironically I dont sense the presence at the first place (which I usually do!). I was busy taking pictures holding the adorable serpent!, till a friend mentioned "tarantula", with a glance I knew it was there, I ran in panic... goosebumps. Laugh as you wish, but that's my confession of being arachnophobia...

The arachnid owner finds it's funny knowing someone's frighten to spider. Well, lets me explain 'fright' and 'phobia' give two different kinds of reaction. Fright is usually due to uncertainty to subject's respond, and usually may able to overcome the feeling of fear after making sure everything is okey. While 'phobia' leads to panic and chaotic response by nature and eventually turn out to unpredictable reactions. Take for instance to hold the snake at the first place, was fear just in case it bites!!! but I was not since I know it wont's bite, so I can manage to control my fear... well, spider bite or not bite, trantuala or not, still the same ; an eight legged creature with fangs, many eyes, fat ass and moves ugly. I tried to overcome this fear before by observing their pictures, but not after looking a live ones as their legs move! Basically I fright to their legs the most hahaha and bottom line I cannot accept them mingling within my space. Bikers are not suppose to be frighten to spider.... godamnit who cares!. WARNING: don't ever try me with spider or you will regret!. But fortunately I have no problem with crabs...

into my consideration..

I was just arrived from Bandar accompanying one of our friend to get his mini laptop... a 10 inches with only a kilo weight?!. As they were busy looking and browsing for the brands, I was peeking to compare prices and specs. Today's market for laptops are vary in brands, competing each other thus made good offers in term of specs and prices. Numbers of good brands with affordable prices. Nowadays, I reckon every home can afford to have at least a laptop whilst in my time to have them was nearly impractical due to it's irrelevant prices. It makes me thinking how cheap it's cost for a lappy compare to the early days when I bought my first dell which costs me for nearly 4K. But m proud to have it, I guess it was one of the first laptop with buildin graphic card (a 64 nividia G-force) hahah!. Hermm.. i m thinking to have a mac book pro! People might ask why am I wasting money for apple? aren't the softwares pricey? Both mac and windows have their pros and cons but I m talking about graphic and quality that mac provided to their users, moreover when comes to editing video and sound I reckon mac is the best. I dont think it is because of the OS but probably the hardwares of the system. Just compare their iphones with other GUI phones, I have tried both anyway (iphone versus window mobile CE), and frankly speaking I prefer the first one... smoother, faster and reliable!!!

Haven't hang out for perayaan so far and i think i m not keen to look forward though. Probably I just drop by the perayaan to get some longans and sutong tutok haha... i dont noe!. Maybe Im too old for perayaan now or maybe it is just a matter of odd feeling since we usually celebrate July in conjunction of HM's birthday with stage performances back in the previous years, less 'happening' I might say, but what I heard the perayaan's stage thingy will be forwarded after the hari raya.. or maybe it was just a rumor. Peace and tranquility to everyone....

More then meets the eye

okey, what was happening during this holiday? I was not leaving Brunei since the outbreak of swine flu. Everyone is alerted ever since the holiday was just started. There were cases where people were quarantined as they arrived Brunei. Ignorance you say? cannot blame them, spending holiday outside Brunei is a norm for most Bruneians. Typically, everybody is leaving for vacation and never expecting to get worse. Pray to Allah SWT for protections and away from any harm. I was not dare to leave Brunei and I dont want to be isolated upon arriving just because spending my leisure time outside Brunei. Actually the plan was to ride to Sibu but it is better to extend the plan till everything back to normal.

So I just spent my time within, rode my bike and to watch movie at cinema. Transformers "the revenge of the fallen" was awesome.. it took more than 2 hours to sit with excitements.. and I felt never enough!. The second movie is more thrill and hilarious, the graphics are more sophisticated and superb!. It made me wonder if they can bring 'The M.A.S.K" ('85 cartoon) to movie just like transformers. I was a die hard fan of Matt Trakker, I was once collecting both MASK and VENOM toy's figures. I still remember waiting for the cartoon every friday afternoon. It was more to MASK craze than transformers. I grew up with these cartoons, til this current days I keep my finger cross if they can bring M.A.S.K to life... 80's cartoon rules!!!.

I also spent my holiday on wii games. Was playing "The Godfather II" but heck the game is not easy. There are lotsa buttons to handle, in fact I m not a game maniac as I used to be. I sometime felt stress to play the game, anyhow it was just right to kill boredom... shot as I wish hahah. Other then that, play golf, fishing, table tennis with wii.

Playing with my small nephew was one of my routine during holiday. He can now roll a ball and chase it, he is so talented. Jamming? nooooo... none, nada. Our drummer is still in Singapore, we have no substitute drummer. We can do nothing except to wait for his return. It seems my holiay was a bit dull and colourless. I m so addictive to 'jamming'. Hence most of the times I spent was riding my bike and hang out. Till next time... transform....!!!

Dehydration

Recently our country experiencing unpredictable temperature phenomenon, less rainfall but heat.. I mean striking heat,.. burning!!!, it’s maybe because our thin ozone, icebergs melted and gave out heavy rainfall last few months and now heat… what’s next? Nazubillah.. It makes unstable climate and condition and most activities are now limited. I have to confess that I became ‘putera lilin’ nowadays, cannot stand for too long under direct sunlight… Im melting.. really!!!. Aircool rooms are mandatory! I even turned my car’s aircond knob to the max everytime I went home from work. The heat are biting me!!!.

Today was a bit challenging as we are facing hot climate yet I dare to expose for hours under termandous sunlight, that’s because I was with my other 80++ fellow bikers rode our iron horses to the rural parts of our lovely district. It was actually an event held by "Pemoda" as one of our ‘focus of event’. ‘Jelajah Tutong’ is the name given for this event and obviously we were doing expedition around Tutong district and of course we were so bejamur mcm ikan masin. Started from town to the heritage park Merimbun as we were guest of honor for Dusun’s Adoh Gayoh celebration at Merimbun. The occasions were happening, good people, fun activities, fun riding except of the furious temperature or else it would be perfect. It has been years I haven’t visit to this place and there is no huge different from my last visit, the lake, the pulau except the bridge is now relocated. Praise should be given to orang-orang kampong for their efforts conserving our heritage park.

The journey continues by passing several rural kampongs in Tutong. I cant remember the kampongs, all I know our route eventually comes to an exit at kampong Tanjong Maya. I remember the heat that vibes termendously inside me along the journey, the smell of burning trees and grasses and the waving made by kids to us, probably excited by the numbers of vtwins engines roaring in their kampongs. But I guess they don’t know how we all felt, we were actually burning inside our rugged gears and armors haha.. tuhan saja tahu. As arrived in Kmpong Danau, I desperately seeking for “Airrrrr… airrrr”, dehydrated to the max and felt like all liquids in my body were evaporating out of my skin. We were served with kuihmuih and cold air bandung and air oren. I can't hardly listen to Danau's MPK presedent's speech, what I want was the sweaty bandung in the jugs. The air bandung tested like havens...

Our journey ended at Pantai Seri Kenangan.., a fatigue day… but I dont care ! really! at least it was fun and I have something to post and to share. To all brothers and sisters on bike, get your motor running and head out on the highway.. get some sunburn!. To all Dusuns people, happy Adoh Gayoh.

Selamat bro.. selamaaattt ! \m/

Today, a big day for one of my best buddy Nawir… happy marriage broh semoga berpanjangan hingga ke akhirnya. Im glad I can come to his special day today just to congratulate and greet him ‘selamat’ and furthermore it is a matter of respect to brothers. Brother of ‘metal kapak’ ahaha… I just remember to his trademark logo - a music note with crosses axes that represent his soul in music and to him it implies as hard and ol’skol metal tune and I so called it as “rock kapak”! hahah. Bah bro bila tah kao membagi logo mu atu? Kan ku lakat arah guitar brohh hahha..

D zaman bujangnya, he is one cool guy, calm to almost on everything and above all we share something in common, “metal music”!!!.. yeahh \m/… we both are “die hard” fans of metal music (extreme metals are excluded anyway!) and always be keen on fast and heavy riffing.. We used to play in a band once and still have. Miss the old days pal ahaha… lot of memories to recall, but the best part was “TANGKAPPP”.. Broo, if u r reading this, I bet you will burst with laughters hahaha.. ahahaha..

Okey bro, wish you all the best… semoga berkekalan dan berpanjangan dan sentiasa dalam perlindungan Allah SWT… amin. Heavy metal sampai ke anak cucu ! ahahah..

Grind sneakers...

Finally a pair of Harley Davidson grind sneakers arrived today after a month plus plus of waiting. I thought I was dealing with a scam irresponsible retailer since the shipment took more time than I expected. But thanks god.. finally, fuhh. I assume something wrong with the correspondence address or entah lah… yg penting sampai. I always keen to sneakers, especially chuck’s.. and it doubles my excitement as I knew there are harley’s sneakers. I made this as one of my favorite collection.. but of course pakai lah jua (okey hun!..) I m looking forward for the static low cut harley’s sneaker.

Appreciate..

Happy 25th Independence Day to all Bruneian, a silver jubilee everyone !… meaning we have been celebrating “Merdeka” for more then 2 decades now… alhamdullilah. We were having good time (and still have) to live as “Negara merdeka” in peaceful prosperous way leads by our loving monarch. We should be thankful to Allah SWT for the blessing and always be grateful for letting us to breath in such wealthy, peaceful kingdom.

Every year we celebrate “Merdeka” as to recall the memoir of the achievement of our independent. This year I joined “Merdeka ride” with my fellow bikers. Actually it is not pleasure of riding that I seek but the main purpose was to give support to the organizer as they were making merdeka ride as well doing fund rising for unfortunate Palestinians. I believe this is one of good way to appreciate our given wealth by not forgetting our brothers and sisters who are suffering and need hands. The ride began at 7 am with 100 bikes and more, every rider donated and rode to Seria and the capital for more fund rising. Alhamdullilah, most Bruneians are kind-hearted, I m proud for their concerns, god bless the donors. But somehow I was freaking shock, as there was a middle-age man was stating “ramai lagi org Brunei susah”… mannn,.. come on.. how “susah” is ours compare to Gaza ?. We live in a very peaceful country, less taxes, fine welfares and great hospitality etc... shuykur tah! Oh Yes, recently our country experienced "rain-flooding" phenomena, but obviously not as worse as Gaza’s fatal by war. This man should be ashamed to himself, he suppose to support the charity at least even he has nothing to donate. Pray to God for our peace and wealth, shyukur dengan apa yang telah dikurniakan.

The ride was very enjoying! all scooters and big bikes were unite and share something in common, to ride for a sake of love and care to others. I reckoned every participant was happy riding on that day, satisfaction clearly can be seen on every face even the heat was striking furiously but "support spirit" were flaming, this shows unity among all Bruneian riders. Kudos to the committee for the flawless function and thank a million to the donors.. God bless you all. Thanks to police traffics of Brunei for escorting us and taking care of our convoy.

Afterall, motorcycling is not all about wild and free but doing good deeds too. Happy merdeka to all... peace, love & respect and ride hard !!!