Count your Blessing

Every year around this time of the year,Bruneians will rejoice over 2 things, Perayaan and Sotong Tutuk.That's the side dish but the main dish is the 15th July celebration of His Majesty the Sultan & Yang Di Pertuan of Brunei birthday, where the rakyat and the residents of Brunei will have a chance to see the caring monarch up close and personal in the Bersama Rakyat event held in the 4 districts. This is also a uniqueness of Brunei which attracts a lot of foreign tourists to Brunei.
Before I continue on further, may I re-emphasize that this is NOT a PROPAGANDA posting.Its from my true heart and soul.
Brunei is blessed to have such a caring monarch and 2 days ago, His Majesty the Sultan had consented to present keys to 650 recipients of the Kg Panaga BEDB 1st pilot housing project of 2000 houses in 2yr, which was built by Bina Puri,a well known Malaysia contractor. For your information, the waiting list for government housing scheme is very very very long, and with this pilot project by BEDB it has paved way for more mass housing project of 4000 houses in 4yr which was awarded to UEM Builders, another Malaysian company and also another 500 houses project awarded to a Singapore firm,TEE International.This shows that the government of His Majesty is willing to explore new possibilities so that each and every of its rakyat is able to have a place to call their own 'Home Sweet Home'.
After the awarding of house keys, His Majesty visited more than 20 houses instead of the initially planned 4.Despite the tight schedule, His Majesty also visited my Pre-U centre, Sekolah Menengah Sayyidina Ali. I am thankful that even though I am not a Bruneian and only a 'penumpang sementara', I got to enjoy all the perks (well not really all). There must be some distictions between Yellow/Purple and also Green right? I do not enjoy the Transport Allowance but I am thankful that 'book loan' is given to all students. If I were to buy the books, I think it will run to the tune of $500, and with Maths only having 12books,its going to be a heavy bill.
The equal sharing of wealth from the natural resources of oil & gas that Brunei is blessed with also allows us the residents of Brunei to enjoy low fuel price in the time of cutback in subsidies in other countries. That is a very very heavy bill to bear even though Brunei is a small country, and also an oil producing country.
There are many more that I can list,but I will let the Press to do all the work in their special supplement on 15 July.
Lastly, we might think that what we have in hand is not enough as greed is part of us.However, remember that there are people out there who have less than what we have.There might be difficult times where we will have to make a choice.Make the correct choice so that you wont have to regret over the decision that you make. Count your blessings and be thankful.

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