Archive for April, 2009
Increasing literacy rate
Apr 26th
Libraries crumped with exiciting extraordinary design and fascinating book contents will deifnitely put a cheerful smile on most students’ faces as they serve as the modern banks of well-polished general information, facts and figures as well as fiction stories.
Speaking to the Vance Tan Online Saturday was Mr. Alan Fletcher, an English educator at PJN Secondary School, researcher of the Centre For Brunei Teachers (CFBT). He told us that his effort done to attempt to improve the literacy rate amongst the inquisitive young minded students is by taking them frequently to the school’s library with a teacher guiding them most of the time especially during which the students have difficulties in their reading and pronunciation.
On top of that, Mr Fletcher also added that the library should be well-maintained and kept so that is remains to be a tidy, eye-pleasing floor for the students to mingle around with interesting reading materials such as newspapers, magazines and books. Confidently, he also strongly recommends students to read the Brunei Times as the range of vocabulary and punctuation range is wide and complex.
Latest happenings: Meragang Beach Cleaning Campaign is getting more and more exciting with 80 participants (as of 9.20 am) along the Meragang Beach, doing a quite massive cleaning job to save Brunei’s ecosystem. As of 9.52 am, they’ve collected about 50 bags of thrash. Thanks to Zayn Sabri of Pelangi FM for the updates. To listen to Pelangi FM live, visit their official website, www.pelangifm.com.
Congratulations to Nur Diana Suhaili who has walked away with a voucher for the brain teasers segment contributed by Rizqun Cofee House this morning during the Hello Brunei Darussalam show with Zayn Sabri. The voucher can be collected either on Tuesday or Wednesday during office hours at Radio Television Brunei reception.
Latest Promotion at Rizqun International Hotel *Click to enlarge*
Top Names in China:
Wei (?; Great)
Jianguo (??; Build the Country)
Dong (?; East)
Ming (?; Light)
Tao (?; Great Wave)
Zhuang (?; Robust)
Qing (Ching) (?; Sentiment)
Ying (?; Petal)
Ping (?; Duckweed)
Ting (?; Attractive)
Ling (?; Tinkling of jade)
Jing (?; Crystal)
Xue (?; Snow, symbolizing purity)
Yuan (?; Beauty)
Alternatives to sell your services for FREE
Apr 24th
Forget about online advertisement banners on well-read websites ro blogs. Get your FREE display of advertisement for your service through THREE alternative, free ways. The key answer is do it by free classified and keywords listings.
1. NOWshopz.com
The website serves as a classified advertisment portal which allows vendors to create accounts by three easy steps, publish their own advertisements and the advertisments may be in the form of a banner advertisement on the sidebar, a full-page dedicated advertisment, or even both.
2. Google.com/adwords
Many people always thinks that advertising on the Internet is always expensive and not worth trying. But guess what? With google adwords (www.google.com/adwords), they provide you with the best service which allows anyone to create advertisments by buying keywords relating to the vendor’s products and services. If you would like your listings to be totally free of charge, try Google URL lsiting, www.google.com search Google Listing.
3. Yahoo Yellow pages
Log on to yahoo.com and click the yellow pages on the left sidebar. Choose your advertisement category and you can place as many advertisments as you can but each listing always last for one month.
VanceTan.com file photo: Students at the eXplomath Carnival 2008
VanceTan.com file photo: Busy with the exhibits
VanceTan.com file photo: Students from SM Muda Hashim
VanceTan.com file photo: Students from SM Sayyidina Husain
This year’s National eXplomath as sponsored by Brunei Shell would be a different one as this year’s challenges focuses on the new 21st Century National Education (SPN 21). The hosting school, Sekolah Menengah Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar yesterday launched this year’s eXplomath session for the upcoming event due to happen in May 2009. More details will be up by next week (hopefully).
Edu@VT: How many of you realised that your feet has been with you for so long years without leaving you alone. When you’re in a football match, it is your feet which helps you to play. When you want to travel, your feet is there for you. When you are dancing, your feet supports you.
Imagine, if one day, you have lost your feet, what would happen? Imagine and visualise, who is the person in your house whom is similar to your feet. If one day, that person is not there for you, what wil happen?
When we care for our face, do we care for our feet? When we care about how good-looking we are, have we cared for how good-looking our feet are? Do we care how ugly or nice our feet are? Do we care how dirty or clean our feet are?
When we hurt our feet, it did not say anything but kept on supporting our body. Who is the person in your life who resembles this feet of yours, supporting you all the way without saying anything or complaining to you even if that person is in pain?
Think about it for a few minutes. There is a person beside you just like your feet. A person who supports you all the way, the person who gives you advice but never expects a compliment and the person who accepts pain that you gave.
Do appreciate that person just like you appreciate your face, your look and your facial expression because if that person is not around anymore, you may regret for not appreciating that person.
The Brunei Times, incorporated in Brunei Darussalam is holding their “Brunei Essay Writing Competition” which will due on 30 April 2009. This competition is open to all Bruneians and those residing in Brunei Darussalam. Additionally, the management and staff of Brunei Times Sdn. Bhd. and their immediate family members are not allowed to participate in this competition.
The Brunei Times Essay Competition is divided into 3 categories:
i. Primary School:
Topic: What I Like Most About My School and Country
Essay submitted should be no more than 200 words.
ii. Secondary School:
Topic: How I Like To See My Country In The Next 25 Years
Essay submitted should be no more than 400 words.
iii. Open:
Topic: How We Can Help Brunei Darussalam Realise Vision 2035
Essay submitted should be between 600-800 words.
The grand prize winner will walk away with a brand new laptop, sponsored by Netcom Computer House, Dining Vouchers for 4 at the Sheraton Utama Hotel, A one-year subscriptions to the Brunei Times as well as $3000 cash.
For more information and queries, email The Brunei Times essay competition department at the email essay@bruneitimes.com.bn.
100 World Famous People
Apr 23rd
100 World Famous and Beyond. The painting in this post publication shows more than 100 world famous people, well-known and has made tremendous changes to the world, be it benificial or destructive. There have been a lot of website talking about world famous people, giving facts and details about each celebrity such as the famouspeople.com which serves to be an online biographical reference that chronicles the lives of famous people throughout the world.
Liverpool Supporters Club (Brunei) has been greatly active in organising great, blasting activities for its members at any time of the month.
Next month, as long as you are a member of the LSCB, you are entitled to join them for the bowling activitiy at Utama Bowling, Mile 1 at only $25 per entry. The event will take place on the 17th May 2009, on Sunday 6 pm in the evening.
So, what are you waiting for? You can now be a member of Liverpool Supporters Club Brunei (LSCB) for only an annual LSCB membership fee of $60.00 for adults and $40.00 for under-18-year-olds. For more information, visit www.bruneireds.com.
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1st Healthy Breakfast Fiesta
Apr 21st
If you have been listening closely to the news lately, you might have heard the Breakfast Show conducted by one of the Kuala Belait schools, Sekolah Menengah Pengiran Jaya Negara Pengiran Haji Abu Bakar. Talking to the RTB Media was one of the school’s Senior Masters, Cikgu Saidin Hidayat bin Abdullah Lasit.
He said that the breakfast promotion was a part of the school action to prevent any more cases of students being ill and feeble at school due to not taking breakfast in the morning. He added that many cases of fainted students during assemblies were caused usually students who skipped breakfast every morning to rush for school while other woke up late. To support the students to take breakfast every morning, the school provides a huge amount of food of different varieties every morning from 6.30 to 6.50 for students to enjoy until the 1st of May 2009.
Female Power!
Apr 17th
It seems that a majority of the female out there are beginning to look forward for the next edition of Twilight: New Moon. Bloggers like Shely (sorry for the first attempt) and Sharon has blogged about the people added to Twilight: New Moon.
Anyway, check out their blog here and here.
Edu@VT: Some components of the body may not be as ueful as you thought, but for certain individuals, it plays an extremely great role. Read upon this reader’s contributed article:
The old man placed order for one hamburger, French fries and a drink.
He unwrapped the plain hamburger and carefully cut it in half, placing one half in front of his wife.
He then carefully counted out the French fries, dividing them into two piles and neatly placed one pile in front of his wife.
He took a sip of the drink, his wife took a sip and then set the cup down between them . As he began to eat his few bites of hamburger, the people around them were looking over and whispering.
Obviously they were thinking, ‘That poor old couple – all they can afford is one meal for the two of them.’
As the man began to eat his fries a young man came to the table and politely offered to buy another meal for the old couple. The old man said, they were just fine – they were used to sharing everything.
People closer to the table noticed the little old lady hadn’t eaten a bite. She sat there watching her husband eat and occasionally taking turns sipping the drink.
Again, the young man came over and begged them to let him buy another meal for them. This time the old woman said ‘No, thank you, we are used to sharing everything.’
Finally, as the old man finished and was wiping his face neatly with the napkin, the young man again came over to the little old lady who had yet to eat a single bite of food and asked ‘What is it you are waiting for?’
‘The Teeth’
>>>Continuation of Erwan’s talk pictures
