Sweet and Sour of My Brunei Trip 2: The Hardships

Good afternoon, my friends! Hidayuki here.


My second post about Brunei is about the hardships I faced while in Brunei. It's not that a serious one, I guess. One of the difficulties I faced is money... I didn't have any Brunei currency. (lol) (≧ ∇ ≦) And the other one is language. Bruneian speaks Malay language, just like Malaysians are. But the dialect is a bit different from Malaysians. Not to mention their informal way of talking (which I think combines a little with native Bruneian dialect) really took me seconds before I could understand what they were saying.  (​ ╹​^​╹​)


It's a good thing my grandmother was there. So we (my cousins and me) don't really need to talk much. And thanks to that, I have learned a few words that they used in everyday language! (●´∀`●)


1. sira` = salt (garam)
2. audeh (or aude - not sure) = you (anda)
3. damit = small (kecil)
4. ani = this (ini)


that's all that I can list down. . . there is one phrase that I know. My grandmother (from Brunei) mention this, "Kenapa lai?" which I think means "What's wrong?" or something like that. But I'm sorry, I'm not sure what does 'lai' means. (^_^")


Oh! One more... when we took the bus on our way back to Malaysia, I saw the destinations of Brunei - B.S.B. (ﾟ-ﾟ;) I was wondering, What does B.S.B. means? But later, I found out that B.S.B. stands for Bandar Seri Begawan. ( ^∇^ ) 




Well, I only managed to learn a little about Brunei language. Although it's so little, but it's better than not knowing anything ne? ヾ( ⌒ー⌒ )ノ 








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Sweet and Sour of My Brunei Trip 1

Hello everyone. This is Hidayuki.


So then, the first part of my trip to Brunei is... "The Unbelievably Long Journey!".
From Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu (KK), it took about 6 hours. Then from KK to Brunei... about 8 hours!


The route to Brunei is long when you take the land route. I don't know about the air route or the water route. I'm pretty sure it will be faster to reach Brunei by plane... but not sure about taking a ferry. The ferry would stop by in Labuan. So... I still don't know which one is faster or slower! (lol)


My journey was a very long one! 15 hours!!! (*o*)


1. From Sandakan to KK : We ride on our own car to KK. We set off at 5.00 am from Sandakan. Then at 6.00 am (or so), we stopped by at Telupid to... well... to do the thing. Hahah!! o(≧∀≦)o Then we continued to Ranau, where we stopped by to have breakfast at 8.30 am. After that, we carry on our journey to KK. We arrived there around 11.30 am.


We rested for 30 minutes, then went to Beaufort. We reached Beaufort around 3 pm. All I remembered, we finally stepped on the land of Brunei on nightfall. There were tons of immigration stations to go. We had to make sure we had all 8 stamps before we could land on Brunei.


The same goes to our way back home... I enjoyed the scenes on the land route to Brunei. But at the same time, I feel very tired!



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