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Do you believe in soul mate?? Do you believe in life after death? Do you believe that we'll meet each other again in other lives?? Do you believe in love?

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I am busy with my thesis writeup. I am going to finish my PhD this year!!! I have enough!!!! ah!!!! but yes i am happily busy :D

Wish me luck in my writeup..

What in the world is happening to Brunei??

Rain causes floods causes landslides causes death. Would you expect such sequence to happen in Brunei?? Definitely not before..

What is happening to Brunei?? We never had such bad cases of flooding and landslides before! What is happening here?? GLobal warming?? May be. WEll everyone loves to blame others for their misfortune anyway. So why not blame Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia for cutting down their forests and create this mess. Or hey better yet let's blame the whole world for ozone depletion and raising of the sea level.. more convenient to point fingers on others then yourself right??

Now any one with a clear mind will know our problems of flooding and landslides come from our own internal problems. Forests are being cut down recklessly, without any planning and left barren. What exactly do people think will happen when deforestation are happening in such fast pace with abandon??

We are one of the 3 countries involve in Heart of Borneo. Are we doing a good job in conserving our forests? Do people even care?? Do we have enough pristine forests to be conserve under Heart of Borneo?? Or would we end up conserving Acacia forests and turn our ecosystem into Australian Forest Ecosystem?????

What is our future going to be like??

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My 2008 Review

Here are the memorable things that has happened to me in 2008:



1. I was selected to attend the SCCS conference in Cambridge University.

2. I was being given an internship to study in Oxford University for a month.

3. I went to Japan with Haslina for a one week Science Programme

4. I am officially a jobless adult :D

5. I went for an expedition in Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary in Sarawak

6. A man proposed marriage to me continuously, good for my ego :D

7. I had my first sakura mochi

8. I stayed in a foregin country all by myself for one month, without my family or friends

9. I made many new friends

10. I went for the ornithology workshop

11. I bought my first sleeping bag

12. I moved out and now live by myself

13. I appreciate my parents more now than ever

14. I finished my car loan

15. My first scientific paper with Dr C was published

huh that's all i could think of right now..

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2009 are you ready?

Happy New Year! May 2009 be a meaningful and peaceful year.


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What have I been doing lately??

Hi Peeps

Sorry for no updates. I have a big news to share with you.. I've moved out of the family house and am now busy with the new place. It's a tiny place with a small place to cook and a bathroom.. but i am slowly falling in love with the place.. Nice to have a place where you can do whatever you want.. real satisfying..

So my dear modos, jodos, koms, dodos, and all other dos.. i need a house-warming present from you all.. a small photo frame or scented candle or a nice small decorative items would be highly appreciated..

A Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

The Displaced Family

Two weeks ago I took Profs Savi and Nimal and Dr C for lunch to express my appreciation for their friendship. As we were still early we decided to stop by one of the mangrove forests as Prof Savi is highly interested in the mangrove forests of Brunei. It was mid day and i was telling Profs that it would be quite impossible to see any proboscis monkeys now as the weather was pretty hot. Well i spoke too soon because when we turned, we saw a family of them near the forest fringe feeding. The feeling was a good one as I realise the monkeys could still survive in a small pocket of mangroves. Now that's not what i want to share with you today..

Yesterday I went back to the same place with Dr C. It was a dull day and the sky looked angry.. As we looked around the mangrove forests we didn't see any proboscis monkeys, so i walked to the end of the bridge hoping to take some shots of the Sonneratia fruits. Well i did but the greatest surprise was 50m from me at the most disturbed part of the mangrove was a lone female mangrove proboscis!! She was a old female, with shaggy fur. When i spotted her, she was sitting on dead logs putting a plastic bag into her mouth!!! She spit it out of course but the sight was a sad one.. Here's a monkey, being displaced from the harem, and because the mangrove was so small, she was being pushed out to the forest edge.. If only the mangrove had been a bigger one, she might not have to be a scavenger, hunting for food on the mud flats..

We met a kind-hearted man in the car park who told us to drive further and we would see more of the monkeys. True to his word. We did.. see the pictures below..



There was a harem of 6 sitting on the railing of the monsoon drain. They are evidently habituated as we were so closed to the male and he didn't even bother to move a finger. He was just looking at us and our big lenses and couldn't care a hood. I guess this is a good sight as it showed people staying in the area do not disturbed them much.. After about 20min, then the male slowly moved towards the family and they disappeared into the mangrove.

After lunch, Rosli joined us for a walk along the path where the proboscis were seen. I was very sad to see that there was a huge monsoon drain (where the monkeys were sitting) separating the mangroves, and as the forests were opened up, most of the areas were disturbed. I don't know what's the drain for. May be to control flooding?? But so many examples have shoown us that human, basically is a selfish race. We will do everything we can for our gain, but how about the poor wildlife?? Development is a must, but there are other ways engineers can think of, alternatives that would give the least impact to the environment.

Because at the end of the day, human is the one that suffers because of this indiscretion..

What am I going to do in December??

When i was a teacher,my happiest time of the year was december. I would have plans with friends as to where to go for a long needed vacation. Now that i am a student, there's no such luxury. And the funny thing is i don't feel that i need one. May be that's what happened when you are doing something you love. Ok let me list out my december itinerary.

1 to 11 December - Try to finish up Sungai Ingei Budget and Research Proposal; Finish up DNA extraction of Sundamys muelleri from Dist 4.

13 to 20 December - Ornithology Workshop in Tasek Merimbun

21 December - Sleep

22 - 24 December - hoping to go with friends to KK, but chances might be slim as work is pilling up..

25 - 31 December - Finish DNA extraction of Tupaia minor

All work and no play make BB a gila gal..

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Why?

I am sad,no i am actually depressed. Why can't we realise that regardless of religion, skin colour, language barrier, wealth, and all the superficial things, we are the same species??? Why must there be hate and despise among people, to such an extent that people are willing to kill their own kind?? Why??

I believe in reincarnation. I believe we are in this world for reasons, and one of them is to learn life lessons. If in this life time i hate a particular race of people, and I do my very best to harm and torture them, then i believe in my next lifetime, i will be a member of the 'despicable' race and i will have to suffer what i did to others before. I will only be able to progress from the torture once i know the fault of my way.

Why can't we all wake up from the fog that clouds our mind? why can't we see the beauty in others? why must we be only focusing on the negative aspect of a person? Who are we to judge? We are not God and everyone makes mistakes. But if we can forgive and forget, then the God inside each one of us is smiling through our eyes.

Funny. The more technologically advance we are, the more narrow minded we get. Funny huh??

Dear readers, please join me and pray for those who had sacrificed in this race against humanity..

Yes i am very depressed.

I forgot

yea i was reminded by Dr C to include stubbornness and scarcastic as part of my main characters.

I am stubborn, extremely. But i prefer to interpret being stubborn as being determined. Because i am determined, i am doing what i want to do now. If i am not determined, i won't be pursuing my PhD. If i am not determined, i would have succumbed to the surrounding environment and not be pursuing my dreams. So yes I am very stubborn but that is also why people always admire my determination.. see!!

Being sarcastic is so natural for me.. Can't help it la.. When there are so many irritating people and things around us, the only way to entertain ourselves and to stay sane is to be sarcastic towards others and most importantly towards oneself.

All for self preserverance..

To my friends who are supposed to be studying now but instead are reading this post: happy examination and good luck!!!

p/s: Hanie: this post is dedicated to you.. hugs