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The not so attractive side of BSB.......

It has been quite a while since I last updated this blog. A lot had been happening family wise but not much to blog about.......

The water village where I was born and grew up in (and a lot of other areas in the water villages in BSB) had turned into something like a slump area lately with the arrival of "outsiders" into the villages, taking over houses from the original occupants who had mostly moved on to land. These pictures below were taken last Monday, 8th Dec, the morning of Eid ul-Adha. This was just less than 1 kilometer west side of the SOAS Mosque......... Not something that we would be proud of to show to arriving tourists........ I hope the Authority will do something about this situation.....

Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque

Had been rather busy in the last month that I could not do any update on this blog, and also a pity that I did not manage to take even a single photo of His Majesty's 62nd Birthday celebrations...........

Here are some photos I took recently of the magnificient Jame' Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque in Kampung Kiarong, a few kilometers from the capital.

The Mosque was built to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the accession to the throne of His Majesty Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah Mu'izzaddin Waddaulah, the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan of Negara Brunei Darussalam. The brainchild of His Majesty, it is considered as one of the grandest mosque in the region and was officially opened on the 14th of July 1994.

BSB Waterfront

Here are some of the pictures I took around the Bandar Seri Begawan waterfront along the Brunei River just before the heavy rain in the evening of 8th June. Met some people I know, and one of them was Hj Kool of PB who honked his BMW horn while I was crossing the bridge near the "Gerai".... I was hoping that nobody would recognise me.....but I forgot to take my cap along to disguise myself as a tourist....... It was a fruitful 1 hour photo session though, with 2 rainbows over the water village on the other side of the river, beautiful rain clouds above and water taxis plying the river.....

Photos of the Monument commemorating His Majesty's 60th Birthday..... the cloud got darker and a few minutes later the rain came. Had to run back to my car....

All in a day's work......

The images of the beautiful Masjid Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin (SOAS) are very dear to my heart as I grew up around the Mosque and this used to be the images that greeted us every day of my growing up life in Kampung Limbongan.......day and night.... We passed by the mosque everyday, played around the area and chased after loose kites, and also used to catch crabs using Bintur around the lagoon of the mosque...... I went to the area specifically to take these photos of the mosque one evening .... It really reminded me of the old memories and old friends.

The golden dome of the grand old SOAS Mosque currently undergoing a face lift.

Other images taken around the Mosque the same evening..............