Selamat Hari Raya- Istana Nurul Iman

This year, during the raya season.. i worked shift and unable to make visit to some of my friends house. After the raya, the first day place I visited is Palace of His Majesty of Brunei Darussalam. Every year, it had been tradition that every second to 4th day of raya, He invite, open and welcome anybody to His place. From the car park, we used the BUS that had been prepared to enter the Palaca area. Then, we need to register how many of us is going in a trip for their statistic purposes.  This is all the photos I got:

That is the outside of the Palace. Onside the food area...

 

After the food. we sat down for the long queue to go into the palace to see Her Majesty and all the VVIP and shaked hand with them. They divided the queue by Gender, male to see His Majesty and all the family meanwhile for female to see Her majesty and all the princess. Inside we are not allowed to take photos.. and Before going on i snapped few view around the Palace...

We went home by 3 30 pm. Feel very tired on that day.. but afterwhile, it doesn't matter .. once in a year...

Charity and Donation

Just few days before Raya, i joined the charity organised by both B Mobile Telecommunication Company and also the Association of Brunei Youth (previously known as Sound of HOPE)... to do some charity works. The planned is to visit 14 poor family around the Brunei Muara District. We arrived at the B Mobile company around 8 30 am and then I saw them carried all the donation things into the office cars. As planned, the houses we planned to visit is land and water village. I do not had the opportunity to visit the water village "kg Ayer" which I fond of going because they go there at 1 30 pm . The weather is really killing me in the late morning and also in the afternoon. Hot and Haze... this weather is not healthy as many will fall sick. My throat get irritated and I was weak for the whole afternoon. That make me cancel my afternoon visit...

I managed to snap few photos today.. Some photos are confidential because it related to other people dignity and also can't be published here due to CONSENT NOT YET OBTAINED.

only part of the things for donation

Things for donation and charity

 We went to several house, to my surprised, I just knew that Brunei can plan Grapes.. I never thought about it... I trying to look for the fruits but it is still very small and i took the photos... First Grape tree I ever seen in Brunei Darussalam.

Then, in the afternoon, I am not joining them to Kg Ayer because the weather is so hot and also haze... make me sick and quite weak...  Then I decided just to went home and rest......