Zaheer's life in Brunei

After going through my blog I realised I don't really post on what Zaheer does in his spare time here in Brunei. So this post is for him! There isn't that many pictures which may make it seem he does hardly anything (!!) but he does keep himself quite busy. He's very much into keeping fit and does football, badminton, swimming, tennis and cycling at least once a week.

On a recent bike ride with Jacky he came across this:

and in comparison to his finger (zaheer likes doing this- we have the exact same picture but with a newborn Yusuf in his basket and Z finger in his face)

That people is not a sleeping snake- it is a regurgitated snake!!! Here is how the story goes: Zaheer and co are riding along minding their own business when Z sees a long thick black thing lying in the middle of the path. He breaks quickly and goes near this long black thing which turns out to be a BLACK SPITTING COBRA!!! This cobra just happened to be slowly eating the snake in the above picture when Z got to it. As he fumbled getting his camera out, the cobra REGURGITATED the snake and slithered away as fast as it could. So Z was left with the above picture. He was very excited to be this close to a snake (albeit a dead one) and that's the end of that particular adventure. He has a lot of these. Or so he says.........

(The sssssssssssscene of the crime- yeah ssssssorry, couldn't be helped)

Apart from keeping fit Z loves and I mean LOVES the Chinese game Go. Now I've really tried to get into this but just cannot do it! So Zaheer created a Go society at his school JIS and now has people coming from all over Brunei (some who have played in International Tournaments) because the society gives them a chance to play Go in a nice classroom environment with other Go kids (normally they have to find a public space and the lack of these in Brunei means they usually end up in a cafe). Z is very proud of his Go club and so am I. He is very dedicated to it and the kids have a lot of respect for him because of it.

And lastly, as a Physics teacher, he found this RADIOACTIVE spider (Twilight!! only twihards will know what I'm talking about here) in his classroom! Well its not radioactive but its the next best thing- POISONOUS!! Yes my friends that is how a poisonous spider looks like. Its a good job they caught it!

And that is the end of Z social life here. Well its not all of it! Cus that would be quite sad but its some of the things he does here. I'm sure he'll appreciate the blog space I've given to him. xx