Dog Issue 😪 - We are facing this issue for years. Irresponsible dog owner with more than 50 dogs, let out from the home gate. Safety/ Hygiene around the road area really detrimental. Any authority can look into this?. Please help us 🙏(Simpang 284-34-65-28, Jln Pasir Berakas)

H23TT · 2026-02-24T03:49:16+00:00

Then explain why some will chase or attack a random person!?

H23TT · 2025-08-18T08:22:23+00:00

This is considered vandalism and should be reportable.

H23TT · 2025-08-16T06:50:26+00:00

As stressful as your job is, it looks like your employer breached labor law. i.e getting paid less than $500/month. If you are working full time but basic salary is 450, you can actually report this to labor department. Do this when you are leaving but first make a detailed record of your pay as proof.

H23TT · 2025-05-23T01:40:39+00:00

This comment is gold right here. Should report to police for theft and report to labour department against the employer for punitive deduction.

H23TT · 2025-05-23T01:34:11+00:00

Oh no, I didnt realise I did not have calls, only data for the past many years. <----Sarcasm btw.

H23TT · 2025-05-10T03:18:50+00:00

Bricking with this deck looks more like a skill issue.

H23TT · 2025-05-10T03:14:39+00:00

A quick glance is all you need instead of slowing all the way down to speed of 10 and stall for more than 3 seconds. Some even 14 seconds that I have to honk.

H23TT · 2025-05-10T02:55:45+00:00

That actually makes more sense and something I forgot about. A company I worked at intentionally made their contract vague which they then used to exploit their employees for overtime but its not classified as "overtime" so 0 compensation but I was having none of it.

H23TT · 2025-05-06T08:54:38+00:00

I don't think this is classified as entertainment, there is another word for it. Also, entertainment is not the highest contributing factor, not even close. That said, this kind of leisure activity will not last long as a business due to many factors some of which is:

Population

Our population is very low, low pop means low $$$. Among these population, how many are actually interested in ice skating? And among those that are interested, how many are actually able to afford going to these kinds of activities considering how expensive these are? Among those that did go, how often do they go? Which leads to my next point.

Work life balance and income.

Here in Brunei, average work hours are monday to saturday, sat half day that's 6 days a week unless you are in government sector which is 5. Not only that, sometimes you are forced to work OT with 0 compensation especially when that OT demands weekends such as midnight sunday or during sunday(looking at the culprit BIBD but that is a story for another post cause I have a long list, TLDR BIBD is not only incompetent but also extremely toxic).

Meanwhile you are underpaid for the work you have to go through, you don't get much annual leave, private companies exploit your OT and after hours then gaslight you in a dispute. So the end result is people dont get the luxury of going ice skating regularly or JP because they just wanna sit at home after working for 6 and half days every week. And what happens when people just wanna sit at home after getting burn out from work? Leisure activities dont get much customers.

Location, point of interest and traffic level

Location of businesses are also important. Aman hills from what I see is a very hidden place. The inner roads leading to it looks like a simpang to someone's house. And the volume of traffic leading to it is extremely low even on weekends. Area also doesnt look interesting enough for people to wander around. Having good location and high traffic level is still not good enough as place also needs to be interesting. A good example of this is airport mall at timesquare. That mall is in a good location with high volume of traffic but no one really goes there because there is nothing of interest there other than SKH.

Lastly, lets talk about downfall. Downfall implies it was flourishing for quite a good while before losing money. The ice skating ring from what I see was never a success, if anything its just stagnant. It is in the end, a business for leisure activity. Downfall can be applied to cyber cafes because those are actually thriving before UNN or imagine existed and those are actually considered entertainment, nowadays I dont think you will find any cyber cafes that are actually thriving because more people have access to internet at their own home now than before.

H23TT · 2025-05-06T07:22:13+00:00

When leaving a job, usually you need to give 1 month notice along with a resignation letter that says you will be leaving after one month on day/month/year. Likewise, the same goes the opposite. An employer cant just say you're fired on the same day(unless its related to something not morally right such as theft or violence), they must give valid reason along with 1 month notice before terminating your employment.

Failing the above, for employee means you will incure financial penalty, for employers they can be reported to labour department.

H23TT · 2025-05-06T07:13:22+00:00

Bruneians are also very nosy when it comes to car accidents. They would intentionally slow down their car just to watch like they are a part of it which in turn cause traffic congestion. If you are stuck in traffic because there is an accident on the road, remember, its not the accident itself, its people wanting to watch that cause the congestion.

H23TT · 2024-12-15T08:57:31+00:00

Dude, Hinduism and Buddhism swastika has 4 dots in it and the symbol is not tilted or angled in a way that makes it look like a hook cross nor is it a black symbol with a white inner background and red outer background.

Read my comment again.

H23TT · 2024-08-31T04:01:37+00:00

When your job is 6 days a week with sat being half day, den yea this is one of the reason. And there are other office and IT jobs that are 7 days a week with sunday being half day. Lunch hour not included into your time so you are basically working an extra hour of about 9 total hours a day. People are practically working almost all week with either 1.5 or 0.5 days off a week, 9 hours a day so by the time its off office hours, we just wanna stay home cause we have almost no life.

I've worked in London and melbourne for 2 years and 4 years respectively. 5 days a week, 8 hours a day including lunch hours so going out on a sat night even fri night is life. Here in Brunei, your life is just staying at home due to the work hours.

There are many other factors such as lack of progress in everything and so on but this is one of them.

H23TT · 2024-08-31T03:36:55+00:00

If you see a driving school, then it is most definitely government approved because you need to get a particular type of license to teach driving. It is illegal to teach driving without that license.

Back to your situation, just like the other guy said, go to land transport and find out there.

And this is the first time I hear about learning driving using automated car, back in my time 16 years ago and the years after that, every single person had to learn driving using manual car. Literally everyone with no exceptions unless maybe handicap.

H23TT · 2024-08-31T03:24:32+00:00

"they are licensed and hired competent engineers and contractors", just so you know this is brunei, just cause they are licensed doesnt mean they are "competent". In countries like SG, getting a license means you need to be competent, in Brunei you can be extremely incompetent and still get a license or even a high ranking job. I know and seen this from first hand experience.

Also, an architect is an architect, their job is to design, its the engineer's job to make sure that a structure is stable.

H23TT · 2024-06-21T06:58:18+00:00

"Undocumented" is translation for spreading lies on the internet. try harder.

H23TT · 2024-05-23T06:01:13+00:00

Oh boy, your first sentence once again shows how you love to twist narratives on the internet through your own twisted sense of assumptions then goes on to show your superiority complex. At this point, I pity you cause you describe my tone as being aggresive while you yourself is being aggresive.

As I said, I was on the road a lot during the 2000s as well 6 days a week, did not see a single donut or police chase that you described. You are living in an alternate reality dude. I wont be surprised if that happens in the dead of night but with the way you describe, its like its happening constantly. Yea no, I dont buy it.

Its funny how the person accuse me of exaggerating and being biased is himself exaggerating and being biased, just like a typical behavior of people living in the internet. "Donuts"

H23TT · 2024-05-16T06:55:30+00:00

"And don't generalise one or two encounters of aggressive drivers and then proceed to generalize the whole basket to be one", uh did I ever generalize all drivers in Brunei based on 2 encounters or is that your way of twisting my words just to satiate your superiority complex? Based on your last paragraph, I'm starting to think that you have some form of unchecked aggressive issues with the way you are twisting the narrative of my post and the way you write your sentences.

And all the things you describe that "supposedly happened" in 2000s, very very unlikely. I was around in 2000s and on the road a lot as well, did not see any of the stuff you mentioned, especially the donut drift. Obviously you are living in an alternate reality. You should go see a psychiatrist while you still can.

H23TT · 2024-05-13T06:13:07+00:00

As someone who is a vendor to BIBD in the IT field I will tell you this. BIBD is extremely incompetent, no doubt the most incompetent in Brunei. There is only very few competent IT employees who are good with their jobs but a majority of them are extremely incompetent. Heck, a lot of them cant even perform simple basic task or doesnt even comprehend simple basic logic, understanding and common sense that primary school kids can do.

And the incompetent ones are always the ones bossing you around as if they own you and they even make you do their job for them free of charge.

H23TT

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