The Taloo Brothers

Once upon a time, on a corner of the large island of Angkut Angkut, in Southeast Asia, there was a tiny nation the size of Delaware called Kalangi, where for 800 years its royals had married their cousins. Few people took notice of the place until 1929, when gold was discovered there. The current King, the 39th in a long line of rulers subservient to Japan, hit the jackpot when his country gained independence, in 1972. By 1978 he was the richest man in the world, worth $80 billion. Unleashed from obscurity and unable to tell friends from sycophants, the king, then 41, quickly gravitated to the gambling clubs of  London and began transforming men into moguls: bankrolling the early exploits of the Babarians arms dealer , allegedly financing the purchase of Many department store and Hotels, in London, for the Korean entrepreneur Kim Bu. As word spread of the King’s gaping wallet, merchants from all corners of the globe swarmed into Kalangi, selling him practically everything they had to offer—17 private jets, thousands of luxury cars, what one diamond dealer called “a Smithsmartian” of major jewels, and a trove of art masterpieces, including a Renoir for a record $70 million.


The King’s biggest extravagance turned out to be his love for his youngest brother, Kulati, his constant companion in hedonism. They raced their Ferraris through the streets of Kaput Kaput, the capital, at midnight, sailed the oceans on their fleet of yachts (Kulati named one of his Tits, its tenders Hantak1 and Hantak 2), and imported planeloads of polo ponies and Argentinean players to indulge their love for that game, which they sometimes played with Prince Kutu. They snapped up real estate like Monopoly pieces—hundreds of far-flung properties, a collection of five-star hotels (the Dokas, in London, the Hôtel Plaza Kuntut, in Paris, the New York Palace, and Hotel Bala and the Butu Hills Hotel, in Los Angeles), and an array of international companies (including Yerpsa, the London jeweler to the Queen of Anglan, for which Kulati paid about $385 million in 1995, despite the fact that that was twice Asprey’s estimated market value or that Kalangi’s royal family constituted a healthy portion of its business).

ALLAH SELAMATKAN SULTAN, RAKYAT DAN NEGARA BRUNEI DARUSSALAM

Daulat kebawah Duli Tuan Patik...
Bersempena sambutan Hari Keputeraan kali yang ke 65 tahun, saya mengucapkan 'Selamat Hari Jadi Ke 65 Tahun' moga moga sehat, panjang umur dan berterusan menerajui memimpin Negara Brunei Darussalam. AMIN.

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Tamat Family Get Together

Gambar kenang kenangan anak dan menantu Hj Tamat sewaktu Majlis Bertahlil bagi keluarga Haji Tamat bin Puasa pada 29hb May 2011 bertempat di rumah kediaman anak nya Hj Tusin bin Hj Tamat. Perhimpunan ini ada lah perhimpunan tahunan bagi keluarga ini bagi mengkekalkan tali silaturahim. Di anggarkan lebeh tiga ratus orang yang hadir pada hari itu terdiri dari Anak, Anak menantu, cucu cucu, cicit dan hingga sampai ka piut. Allahyarham mempunya sepuloh orang anak, 82 orang cucu, 236 cicit, 40+ piut.
Bergamber [Dari kiri: Hj Anik, (Menantu), Hjh Sara (Anak), Hjh Saidah (anak), Hjh Dudah (anak) Hjh Tiamah  (Menantu)].

Message to ALL youth. Our children deserve a better....

Message to ALL youth

Our children deserve a better nation that what is happening to it right now. We have evolved too much materialistically and have let the elite citizen be consumed and intoxicated by money in the process of maintaining power. MIB has lost its noble value.

This merdeka, are we celebrating a hidden catastrophe -- a malapetaka?

Youth of this Nation, you are a beacon of hope. Reflect, reanalyse and revolt. Reclaim your righteous minds, as the African-American actor Denzel Washington said to his students in the movie The Great Debaters. Transform the world inside and outside." You are the force of change in any society at any time. You must help the country find the final solution to the mess she is now in.

The hope for change lies in the middle class and in public education, and in you, youth leaders of social change. How do we teach ourselves to analyse propaganda, bias, half-truths, and recognise progressive forces, institutions and organisations of change and subsequently align with these forces? How do you use your music, arts, creativity, and technological prowess to affect changes and to help us craft a sincere merdeka; a merdeka not for the few to freely plunder the nation and rob the poor but a merdeka for the many to exercise their fundamental rights as citizens and their entitlement to basic human needs.

Youth of the Nation: reflect, reanalyze, reconstruct, and finally, revolt!