MKJB boys defend school's honour

THE boys of Jefri Bolkiah Engineering College (MKJB) saved the day for their school in its sports day by beating Sultan Bolkiah Vocational School (SVSB) and Nakhoda Ragam Vocational School (SVNR) in the male 4 X 100m invitational relay last Saturday at the RBLF 3rd Batallion Sports Complex in Lumut.

SVSB was looking to do the double over MKJB in the invitationals, with their girls' 4 X 100m relay team beating two MKJB teams earlier with a time of 1 min 7.8 sec to snatch gold from under their noses.

Both SVSB and SVNR relay teams were looking strong and fresh coming onto the tracks, compared to the two MKJB teams, who looked slightly drained after having to put in a full day's effort since 7.30 in the morning.

With the school's reputation at stake, the MKJB boys rose up to the challenge, under the support of the whole stadium to deny SVSB a clean sweep in the invitationals, which were considered by most as the highlight of the sports day.

The MKJB boys, from the Orange House, clocked 45.74 seconds to beat SVNR's 48.09s and SVSB's 48.22s. SVNR was later disqualified due to a fault during the baton passing process between the 3rd and 4th runner.

Key to MKJB winning the male student invitational relay was Muhd Haziq Hj Awang Harun, a national runner for the Sultanate, who together with his teammates, won the day for their school through a smooth baton passing race.

Muhd Haziq could also be credited for almost winning the 4 X 400 relay for the Orange house singlehandedly.

Having lost their best 400m runner in Redzali Nain through a hamstring strain in his men's 400m winning effort, it was up to Muhd Haziq to lead his team, and he lived up to the expectations.

Running the third leg, with his team trailing by almost 100m, the MKJB speed king amazingly sprint through his round, not only overtaking the leading Red House runner, en-route to giving his team a lead of almost 100m, going into the last leg.

The easy job was then left to his teammate to wrap up the relay title for the Orange House.

Redzali, despite his hamstring strain, decided to risk aggravating his injury to run in the invitational relay, sparking MKJB's win over the other schools in the event.

Results of yesterday's track events were added to the results of field events held earlier on Wednesday in the same sports complex to decide the overall winner.

At the end of the day, Red House was crowned the overall Champion after winning 14 gold, 10 silver and 11 bronze. Orange House came in second with 10 gold, 11 silver and 10 bronze. Black House and Blue House came in third and fourth respectively.

MKJB Launches `Let's Go Green' Programme

Kuala Belait - Jefri Bolkiah College of Engineering (MKJB) yesterday morning launched the 'Let's Go Green MKJB 2012' programme in a bid to create environmental awareness and promote green practices among the staff and students of MKJB.

Attending as guest of honour to officiate the event was the Acting Deputy Director of Technical Education, Cikgu Hjh Mariah binti Hj Abd Manaf.

The Acting Principal of MKJB, Awg Habib Mohamad bin Hj Wan Junaidi in his welcoming speech said the three-day project was initiated by the Learning Centre Department in its efforts towards creating awareness on earth-friendly issues as well as to support the initiatives of His Majesty's Government to increase environmental awareness among the public. He noted that MKJB acknowledges the significance of sustainable practices for the improvement, protection and care of our environment.

He added that various activities were lined up for the three day event. One of the activities is 'One Student, One Tree' Programme in which each student will plant a tree at the college premise and be responsible for his or her plants.

It does not only serve to increase the number of plants to preserve the green environment, but it also provides an opportunity for students to experience the benefit of landscaping and tree planting as an initial step towards being a responsible member of the community.

"By nurturing awareness through experiential learning activities, students will carry the information they acquired to their respective homes and will continue integrating the green mentality and culture into their everyday practices."

As part of MKJB Let's Go Green initiatives, there will be talks, exhibitions and information booths on health and environmental practices such as the three R's (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) concept.

He also added that MKJB will extend the project beyond the campus gates by engaging in a series of community service programmes such as beach cleaning at Pantai Jubilee, cleaning at Kg Pandan Mosque and the Islamic cemetery grounds, as well as volunteering to clean and renovate Pusat KACA Kuala Belait on the second day of the three-day event.

MKJB will also continue to actively engage in environmental care activities in the future such as cleaning the mosque on a weekly basis and setting up the MKJB Eco Club.

From an Islamic perspective, the colour green also symbolises nature and life as stated in Surah al-Insan verse 21 of the Quran, which stated that the inhabitants of paradise wear green garments of fine silk. The Acting Principal also highlighted that there are more than 700 verses in the al-Quran that exhort believers to reflect on nature.

He therefore stressed that "it is our civic duty to promote the green culture and trend for the future generation and also to educate the current generation on preserving the environment."

At the launching ceremony yesterday, guests viewed a video presentation and also witnessed the presentation of recycled bins by the Department of Environment, Parks and Recreation (JASTRe).

--Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

MKJB Students Final Presentation On Building Services Engineering

Bandar Seri Begawan - Twenty-four Final Year students of Jefri Bolkiah Engineering College (MJKB) recently conducted their final year project presentation in front of the representatives from the government and private sectors.

The presentation was made by students enrolled in the National Diploma in Building Services Engineering as part of their learning modules.

These consists of topics such as building materials & construction, building services design, electrical & electronic principles, plumbing, fire protection systems and air conditioning.

This year the student presentations included project titles such as Handicap Toilet, Personal Safe Room, Interrogation Room, Security Alarm System, Water Control Room and Modernised Hygienic Bathroom.

Their presentations were evaluated by external assessors comprising representatives from Jetwires Trading Company, Brunei Shell Petroleum Sdn Bhd, Public Works Department, Ministry of Development and also the Marine Department, Ministry of Communications.

This year the Project Coordinator for the students was Cikgu Hjh Sarimah Hj Taha.

BSP donates teaching equipment to MKJB

BRUNEI Shell Petroleum's (BSP) continuous efforts to support the government's initiative to enhance human resource development yesterday saw the company donating several units of teaching equipment to the Jefri Bolkiah Engineering School (MKJB) in Kuala Belait.

Present to receive the contribution on behalf of the school was the Director of Technical Education, Pg Suhaimi Pg Hj Bakar as well as senior officials from the Department of Technical Education, principals, teachers and representatives from BSP. Head Learning and Development (HLD) at BSP, Jim Carthy said that the company has worked closely with the government in its bid to support and strengthen local capability.

He said, "On one hand, HLD has supported the development of the local Bruneian community by way of advice, teaching staff familiarisation visits and donation of equipment that will enhance the learning process. On the other, MKJB has developed young Bruneian talent who are able to apply to BSP for key jobs that play a part in securing the future of Brunei's oil and gas industry."

The head of HLD handed the equipment to Cikgu Alias Hj Abu Bakar, acting principal of MKJB, which amounted to $150,000 worth of teaching equipment to the school, including a HP113 compact centrifugal pump test set, an engine test set bed and a multi-turbine test set for its plant engineering section.

Six students were also presented with certificates for their involvement in a Skills Development Programme together with two students who were awarded certificates for completing the CSWIP 3.0 Visual Welding Inspector Level 1 course.

The ceremony was followed by a tour of the plant engineering workshop where visitors saw firsthand the learning environment that prepares MKJB students for their future careers in the technical disciplines.

Cikgu Alias said that BSP and MKJB has a long-standing relationship where the college "trained most of Brunei Shell's employees through engineering courses".

He also said such courses had "certainly provided many benefits in producing more local workforce with skills, quality and dedication in supporting the nation's hopes and aspirations".

2011 School Re-Open, Pre National Diploma

Twitter

Twitter

Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets".

It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 millions users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search per day. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, with additional servers and offices in New York, and San Antonio.

2 important TWITTER criteria:

1.Photosharing and Class notices

-Photosharing is one of the way for people to share their photo of what they do in their daily life such as their hobby, thier interest and what happened at that time.

-Class notices is a way to communicate with a group such as class group or family group in a way to let them know about some important events and other occasion.

2.Why is it important?

-Photosharing : It is because without picture on twitter, it will be less fun since some people are tend to read less because nowadays people like more picture then description.Twitter also plans to provide photo galleries designed to gather and syndicate all photos that a user has uploaded on Twitter and third-party services such as TwitPic.

-Class notices : It is important because having a notice will make people remember about some important events or on going occasion.

3.Limitation and benefits.

For photo sharing, there is no limit but only for the word as it can only up to 140 words only and 3 MB.

For class notices, it can be short-formed as a simple notice just to let others know.

4.When do we use photo sharing and Class notices?

-We use both of this every time we have something important to tell others and share pictures in order to let them know about something.

5.When can we find more information about photo sharing and class notices?

- For more information about these two criteria, we can just simply search at Goggle.com and also from other sources such as books and friends.