I took a massive 3 days off last week and went back to Miri for the Hari Raya holidays. I had the chance to visit Brunei to check out the sports rims there. Will be getting them at the end of this year.

While approaching the Brunei Sultan’s Palace, we spotted these crowds along the stretch of the palace roads. The palace is open for public visitation every year during the Hari Raya season. During the visit, you get to shake hands with the Sultan himself and grab a free goodie pack, along with some hot food served on the spot – if you’re willing to wait on the queue.

A little traffic jam here.

The palace entrance.

Visitation hour is over and the crowd comes out of the palace.

I wonder how he managed to get so many of those goodie packs. I thought there’s only 1 for each person? By the way, those goodie packs are actually filled with food.

And then, there’s more people with goodie packs.

Everyone has it, little ones, old ones.

Goodie packs for the whole family.

Those who didn’t get it were left dejected and sitting by the roadside.

The chick in pink got a goodie pack too!!!!

Alright, enough of those goodie packs, I’ll show you some nice rims in the next post.

Halfway down the country roads of the German-Luxembourg border, as we’re heading down to the Moselle valley in Trittenheim, Germany, we were a little low on fuel. Lucky that we found a mini gas station along the way.

What do you need? Super Diesel, Benzin, or Super unleaded?

It only costs Euro 1.179 per litre. How much is it in Malaysia? RM1.91?

We at the ED Fuel station would like to wish you guys a “Good Fart”! and please come back again.

WTF?

Try Google Translate and translate it from German to English.

“Selamat Datang ke London Heathrow Airport.” It’s 6 in the morning and totally jet-lagged!

Part of London Heathrow Airport
London Heathrow is one of the busiest airports in the world. From what I saw, there’s an average of 1 commercial aircraft landing per minute. That pretty much means back to back, non-stop flights coming in. If you’re good at maths and economics, you can calculate the number of tourists coming in and the amount of money they’re gonna spend here. Tourism is a huge business in this part of the world!

Madurodam is a park filled with miniature peoples and buildings.

If you’re lazy to travel around Holland, you could just come here and see all the famous buildings and places in this country. Cool eh?

Madurodam is situated in Den Haag (The Hague) city, Netherlands.

And they even feature Malaysia Airlines Boeing-747 in their mini Schipol International Airport!

If you wonder how does the park look like from the sky, here’s Google Sighseeing’s shot.

Windmills turn, tour boats move down canals, fire-fighters are extinguishing a fire in the harbour, modern trains traverse the city on the world’s largest miniature railway. The modernised shop has an extensive range of typical Dutch products and surprising souvenirs. A visit to nearby Scheveningen Beach, the various museums in the immediate vicinity, can be combined easily with a visit to Madurodam.

Holland.com

I was in Halo Cafe Miri when the nation countdown to its 50th birthday. The cafe had interesting programmes lined up for that special night – with lucky draws and gifts giveaway. Miri was chosen to host this year’s state-level Merdeka celebration and early in the morning there are colorful arrays of events staged at the Miri Stadium.

Back to the cafe, I’ve only come to know that the cafe is actually owned by one of my friends back in Melbourne – Mr. Kuek, and some other shareholders as well, namely the son of Honda Miri’s tauke (boss).

Following is a few shots I’ve taken inside Halo Cafe.

Wall decor in the cafe.

The performance stage, lights unlit.

Yes, they serve Tiger beers/alcohol in this cafe, too!

This is how the waiter dress.

Seatings inside the cafe.

Heavy rain outside Halo Cafe.

As soon as the fireworks goes off sharp at 12 midnight, the rain pours down and the fireworks lasts for about 10 minutes, or less? Must be very anti-climaxing for all the high-expecting guests and visitors, including me.

For all those who’re there at the City fan garden, it must be quite a scene to see them running for shades when the rain comes pouring down.

Well, some feedback for the cafe, I think it’s a lil bit too pricey for those someone like me. No doubt it’s a cool place to sit back with a cup of Jasmine tea and listen to live band performing. But not on a frequent basis. The audio system still has room to improve, I reckon the speakers are too focused and bass levels are too high they create distortion. Staging and tunings are expected to be better.

Take a chance to tease your taste buds as they serve a variety of delicious western/eastern fusion foods.

By the way, who wanna go and see Lim Yu Zhong’s mini concert at Imperial Mall Miri, I’ve got 2 tickets to give away courtesy of Miricommunity.net and Halo Cafe. Please SMS me. I’ve won it off Miricommunity but I couldn’t make it there. Someone please take my ticket

Take it today, cause the concert is on tomorrow 3rd of September, 2007. After that, it’s gone :/ So be quick.

Boost Juice Bars was founded by this lady called Janine Allis. She thought Australia lacked the opportunity of a quick and healthy food or drinks. Australians are a health conscious bunch of people, however, they are always on the rush and had little time for a real fresh, nutritional supplementary drink.

The Boost Juice Bars brand name. Healthy-looking colors.

This is a Boost Juice Bars at Bourke St., Melbourne.

This particular store is situation right next to McDonald’s, just to remind you to flush your intestines with healthy fruit juice after that high calory/cholesterol meal.

Regardless of the time or weather, there’s always a queue for the healthy juice.

Here’s why they’re queuing up for a Boost Juice.

So now you know, people all over the world are focusing on healthy food. This is a pretty good opportunity to bring in an uprising International brand to your respective country. For more information, please visit the Boost Juice website.

P/s: This is NOT a sponsored post. Thank you very much.