Happy Birthday Babu

Sorry for the long wait but blogger has been a problem to log in lately. Maybe its just my server. Oh well... guess who's Bday is on the 8th of March?... Its Dk Noorsiah a.k.a Babu... She is one of hte most inportant person at IM...for you who do not know her...hehe
Bday cake that we bought for her...Yummy...

Surprise! Surprise!

Apparently...it is also Nik's (our lecturer) Bday on the
5th March...Hapi Bday Nik!

Purple...Purple Day!!!

Today most of the staff wear PURPLE! It is an official PURPLE day!

More pictures on the UBD Annual Dinner

Courtesy of Dr Nurol

UBD Local Academic Gathering - Photos

@ Airport Restaurant

VC giving his speech

Look at the delicious food

Look at the *pretty* people...***hehe...

Wow...lucky draw prizes! And not forgetting the official lucky draw lady...

ASEAN competitions - Pictures

Guess who made into the National News!!

Its no other than Jon! Jonathan Lim Kok Haw, 3rd year Medical Student from our very own Institute of Medicine, UBD. He has been working hard for the past week on the Asean Youth Extemporaneous Speaking Competition.
"It was a good experience...it was something out of my comfort zone and I am glad I was able to do it. Impromptu in front of the public and TV is a bit crazy - so relieved it is over now"Here are some photos of Jon with the ASEAN delegates.

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Brunei Times

Brunei snags top prize at Asean contest

The winner: Jonathan Lim Kok Haw from Brunei Darussalam waxes eloquent at the Asean youth Extemporaneous Speaking Competition held at the Dewan Raya RTB in Bandar Seri Begawan to claim the first prize. Picture: Syafie Nadi

by Finaz Daniel BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

Saturday, March 1, 2008

A UNIVERSITI Brunei Darussalam (UBD) student of Health Science emerged first at the Asean Youth Extemporaneous Speaking Competition held at Radio Television Brunei (RTB) yesterday.

The theme "Do Drugs Control Your Life? Your Life, Your Community — No Place for Drugs" is the official theme of the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking (IDADAIT) which was chosen to strengthen the shared responsibility in creating a drug-free community and environment.

Jonathan Lim Kok Haw, representing Brunei, spoke on: "If you knew a young person who felt lonely or bored, and this person was contemplating the use of illegal drugs, what would you say to him/her and why?"(click here for the full article)

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Asean youths' voice on prevention of drug abuse

Best speaker: Brunei's contestant, Jonathan Lim Kok Haw, beat nine other contenders at the Asean Youth Extemporaneous Speaking Competition, yesterday. Picture: Syafie Nadi

Finaz Daniel BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN

VOICES of the Asean youths were heard yesterday at the first Asean Youth Extemporaneous Speaking Competition at RTB where three youth leaders, each representing their Asean member country, came out as winners.

Ten youth leaders delivered their views, opinions and positions as they expounded on topics randomly chosen all pertaining to drug abuse prevention which focused on the youths and their relationship and responsibility with themselves, their families and their communities.

The champion, Jonathan Lim Kok Haw of Brunei who spoke on his topic: "If you knew a young person who felt lonely or bored, and this person was contemplating the use of illegal drugs, what would you say to him/her and why?" pointed out that youths turn to drugs "to escape reality" and that they should find out the root cause of their stress and problems in order to deal with the issue instead of turning to illegal drugs.

He stressed that youths today should be more involved with activities such as sports to rid their mind of contemplating the use of drugs.

"You can get high on other things," said Jonathan. "I get my high from playing tennis and I use it to channel the stress and problems I encounter."

In his third year at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD) taking up Bachelor of Health Science, Jonathan has also represented Brunei in the Sunburst Youth Camp in Singapore which was attended by participants from 13 countries.

"There should be more drug education in schools," he said, commenting on what should be done about the increasing drug abuse problem in the country.

"Youths should get together and discuss the drug problems as they listen to their peers."

Jonathan expressed his surprise at coming in first place. "It was unexpected," he said. "If I can influence the youths in Brunei, that makes all the difference in it for me."

(click here for the full article)

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Borneo Bulletin

extracted from Borneo Bulletin Online
for the complete story click here

CONGRATULATIONS Chief!!

-nad^~

UBD Annual Dinner 2008

Hello everyone,
Last night, UBD hold an annual dinner to appreciate all the staff members. One of the programme is to give an appreciation token to the staff who is leaving UBD. Our beloved Dr Hj Zulkarnain was called on stage last night and was given a present by the VC himself.


After that, we all have a lovely dinner and lucky draw sessions. Nik Tuah, Kenny, Aswir and Zeti are lucky indeed. Their names were announced and got great prizes! Share..share please...

Bowling Team

UBD is holding a bowling competition between staff of UBD. 8 IM staff accepted the challenge and will be competition the bowling competition this 15th March 2008. IM Subarashi consists of Aswir (team captain), Hanna, Zeti and Mariah while IM Sugoi consists of Nurol (Team captain),Tim , Nik and Haiza.

Last Wednesday, they were having a fun practice organised by their manager, Fiza at the empire hotel. Here are their pics.







Please support them and hope one of the team will bring home the prize!

Chinese New Year 2008

During the recent Chinese New Year, a lot of the students took the time to celebrate it by visiting each other's houses including Kenny's. It was a good opportunity for us to have some fun and get to know each other a little bit more better. The celebrations were just the thing to de-stress ourselves after the Charity Evening =p. Here are some of the pictures we took. Enjoy.

at Chia Wei's house

Happy New Year!!

The guys at Jon's house

The girls at Kenny's house

at Chun's place

National Medical Ethics Symposium 2008 at SSB Hospital KB

All entrance fees for medical students are free.