Hashtag Brunei everything
The frustration of Brunei, as I mentioned in my post about The Brunei Times shutdown, is that our archives, online and offline, are relatively so incomplete and difficult to access compared to other countries.
I guess that drives me in my attempts to contribute to help to archive those things that are important to me or are of interest to me, even little things. Brunei Internet culture is one of them; also Bruneian creations, Brunei perspectives, that are unusual or different from the norm.
There’ll always be loads of photos of the Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien mosque. If a famous foreign photographer posts such a photo, it gets reposted a hundred times on Tumblr and Pinterest by people who will never come to this country. I’m interested when someone takes a beautiful photo of a mosque in Kg Pandan and no one outside of Flickr sees it.
