Masih segar dalam ingatan tarikh 29 May 2009. Hari Jumaat. Itu la hari pertama menjejakkan kaki ke negara Brunei Darussalam untuk memulakan tugas disini. Dulu tahun 2000 pernah datang ke Brunei berjalan-jalan.
Penerbangan dengan airasia, 5.55pm dari LCCT. Luckily, I have a very supportive family. Ramai yang nak hantar sampai ke Brunei. Jadi macam holiday trip when five of us met at LCCT that evening. Five of us were me, my elder brother, my younger brother, my youngest sister and my niece.
Kami mendarat di lapangan terbang antarabangsa Brunei lebih kurang 8.30pm. I have booked our accommodation for that night at Mohd Yusof Apartment at Jalan Tutong, Bandar Seri Begawan. It is an apartment with 2 bedrooms that cost us BND120. We took 2 cabs from the airport. Each cab cost BND25. Kalau convert to Malaysian Ringgit memang expensive la for 10 minutes cab ride from the airport to the apartment.
We reached the apartment around 9.15pm. We asked the guy at the reception where can we go nearby to have our dinner. Dia cakap semua kedai makan dekat-dekat situ dah tutup, but we can get something to eat from the supermarket below the apartment. He warned us to be hurry because the supermarket will close at 9.30pm. So me and my younger brother cepat-cepat turun bawah. We manage to get some maggi mee, fruits, bread and biscuits untuk alas perut.
Esok pagi kami bersantai-santai kat apartment, breakfast dengan makanan yang dibeli semalam. Around 10am I received a phone call from the office. Somebody will pick me up at the apartment. Come this young guy name Aziz drove me to the office. Di office, berkenalan dengan semua orang, which at that point memang I cannot remember their face or their names. I have the keys to my apartment rented by the company. Aziz brought me there to show around. Lepas tu dia hantar balik ke apartment Mohd Yusof and promised to pick me up at 2pm untuk angkut barang-barang. Aziz is a very kind person. He drove me to DST mobile to register my Brunei mobile number. He helped us punggah barang-barang. At last we settle down at my apartment.
