I am Fat

Maurina's PostSecret

What's yours?

UPDATE: Naz had insisted that this is not a PostSecret. He's right. PostSecret is all about annonymity. Mine is obviously far away from being annonymous. Although in real life I am not as orange as I look in the picture, it is posted on my personal website, thus abolishing the concept of it being annonymous.

Words are Thoughts

"Men are haunted by the vastness of eternity. And so we ask ourselves, will our actions echo across centuries? Will strangers hear our name long after we're gone and wonder who we were? How bravely we fought? How fiercely we loved?"

- Benioff, D

The Art of Seduction

Date:	Oct 28, 2005 2:58 PM Flag spam/abuse. [ ? ]
Subject:	Hi
Body:	HI HOW ARE YOU DOING?HOPE YOU ARE DOING WELL AS I AM EXPECTING? WELL I AM ABDUL SAMAD AHMED FROM GHANA.I AM 22 YEARS OLD.I A TALL AND NICE GUY,FAITHFUL,SINCERE AND TRUETHFULL AND HAVE ALL THE QUALITIES THAT A LADY NEED FROM A MAN. SO IF YOU INTERESTED,PLEASE REPLY ME AND I WILL INTRODUCE MY SELF IN DATAILS FOR YOU. HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU SOON. GOODBYE ABDUL SAMAD.

Hmm, interesting. Another Ghanaian.
I wonder what they tell people in Ghana about Bruneian women.
This is getting suspicious.

Stroke that Ego with MySpace

Date:	Nov 12, 2005 6:04 AM Flag spam/abuse. [ ? ]
Subject:	hi
Body:	queen i will like to be your closes friend.am isaac modesto hoenyefia. am a ghanaian. am currently at the university.if i say your closes friend i know you will not understand me. but what i mean is i will like to be your partner in life. queen i know you will say write the first text am requiring for your luv. but i will not like us to be friend then later when i put it to you, you will think different thing all togethere. i really some one who i can share my life, joy, love etc with. babie i can find that in you. have a nice day. enjoy the rest of the year. this is my Email; *********@yahoo.co.uk

Sigh. Reading this is giving me the self esteem boost I need.
Never mind that it is not very coherent.
I'm Queen.

Brunei to Bristol: MEMIE's Birthday Today

I am utterly uninspired today. I so badly want to post something (the fact that I have a SPANKING NEW laptop is perhaps the likely cause of this).

Ugh. I've just deleted a whole paragraph in the reading level of pure faecal matter.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Mine.

Yes all MINE.

Of All Sites

Apparently, the Brunei's sole online newspaper was cracked into by "hackers" (how very undeserving of the title!). However, it is a great publicity move for them albeit juvenile.

Full story here: http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Nov05/161105/nite02.htm
Screenshot taken from http://ranoadidas.com/?p=221

Laundromat for Dummies

Location: Kampong Tanjong Nangka

Well, now I know how they cut quarters.

Here comes the summer sun

Yes, that is a fur coat.

I am now pleased to inform you that faux fur coats with a red satin linings are available for sale at Hua Ho Yayasan.

Yes, Brunei has an equatorial climate.

"Syukur Alhamdulillah"

I was reading some posts on the HYS and found this.

Rindukan Berunai
by Anak Berunai di rantauan

Bismillah

Brunei Darussalam

aku lebih suka memanggilnya berunai...
tempat ku dilahirkan..
aku cukup bersyukur jadi anak Berunai..
kerana sayangku, rinduku cuma di tempat lahirku..
banyak jawapan untuk semua atu..
satu ayat menerangkan segala..
Alhamdulillah saja

tapi

kadang aku rasa sedih
dari jauh aku masih jua mendangar
namanya acap kali disabitkan pasal "sebilangan"..hanya!
Syukur "sebilangan" saja
pasal aku yakin dari sebilangan yg istimewa atu..
banyak lagi yang rasanya sayang...
mungkin labih dari aku..Syukur....
inda ku memuji, inda jua ku melarang, hak masing-masing empunya..tapi ku tadah tanganku mohon mudahan satu hari terbuka hatinya untuk bersyukur jua..
renung apa yang diberi..renung apa yang dibuat...
ingatkan apa yang diberi..ingatkan apa yang dibuat...
lihat dengan lebih jauh..
renung apa yang mereka tiada, renung apa yang kita ada lebih dari mereka..
fikirkan apa yang kita tiada..dan fikirkan apa yang kita mesti ada..

"baik jua air di kolah, titisannya tidak deras..
dapatku tapis bila adanya hama..
biar jernih ke asalnya.."

Salam sayang dan rindu buat Bruneiku sayang..
Kalau ada tersilap terkasar bahasa, maaf dipinta
Moga dalam lindungan Illahi sentiasa..
Jauh dimata dekat dihati

Wassalam 11:37111105

I could make a stanza by stanza analysis or commentary on this piece but I won't because I am embarassed to. I will let it stay in its original language. So it can only be read by those who speaketh the language. Malu amba kan membaritau urang luar yang inda becakap Berunai atu yang urang kitani ani kuat pembaziran. Bisai jua sudah kitani ani kana lagau urang kaya minyak ganya luan kunu kan bisai bisai menyusun pembelanjaan inda tesabut Alhamduliilah.