Oil and Gas Discovery Center, Brunei

If you happened to drop by Belait district and passed by Seria town, there's a place that you should never skipped visiting...

Oil and Gas Discovery Centre (OGDC)

Yes, I was aware that I'd blogged about this earlier April but I assured you that this is going to be different.

What you had read are those cute little miniatures found at the park of OGDC that were built for the Road Safety Campaign, and in this entry..I'm going to show you what's "IN" the building.


Going in to the exhibition area, first of all you'll be greeted by the friendly staffs of OGDC at the ticketing counter. After paying the tickets, we're free to explore the place out ourselves.

(A huge thanks to Hanisah for "guest modelling" in this entry)

The friendly female staff asked if we would like to have some fun by picking a "candy" from the basket. We're just curious about the prize that they would be giving away if we answered all correctly.

Lucky it's MCQ

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Entering the exhibition area, we're first greeted by him.. or her... or it?


Oh well, since 'his name' is "MR. ROBO", it's clear that it's a "he" then.

What made us confused about the gender was because, there was a group of Indonesians visiting the place before us and were talking to Robo. A man asked,

Man: Kamu ni perempuan kah laki-laki?
(Are you male or female?)

Robo (in a manly voice) : Kadang-kadang ku lelaki.
(Sometimes I'm a male)

Robo (in a cute girly voice) : Tapi mahu jadi perempuan pun boleh~
(But I can be a female too~)

As you can see from the captions on the above photo, I called it "smart ass". Why? Because he's funny and good in talking back!

Example. When the Indonesians want to take picture with him, the camera man was shouting "1...2....". Just when he was about to say "3", Mr. Robo said,

"Aku punya mulut tidak dapat bergerak lah..."

Hhahahahahah!!! How true!

Just when the Indonesians left, it's our turn to 'tegur' him.

Mr. Robo said we could asked him any questions. But he wouldn't tell us the answers to our papers. Bad robot.

Of course, we're not that naive to believe that this robot has A.I. I was pretty sure that there's someone hiding somewhere while talking to us. Hah! Impostors!

I was a curious baby. I touched the robot here and there trying to find where the speaker, mic or pin-hole camera was hiding.

And just when I blocked his "eyes" to test if the cameras were hidden there, he said again...

"Miss.. can't you see that my 'eyes' are made of torch lights?"

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I felt like I was the biggest fool in the whole world for that 3 seconds.

And so I 'revenged' by making fun of him in the below photo. =p

Just kidding~

Hanisah and I left the robot without saying bye. Just when we took a few steps away from it, we heard him saying,

"Eh.. jalan sudah kan du rang tu?"
(Hey, have they left the place?)

Immediately I shouted back,

"So I know now! You can't see! HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAA!!!"

Stupid robot~ But we had a great time talking nonsense with him. Hehe.

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Next you're going to see lots and lots of pictures of the orientation area and also the interactive exhibits.

I'll leave the photos to do the talking.

Spelling mistake spotted

(We did talked to the staffs about it and hope that they'll amend it. )

There are so many brain teasing games there that you can spend minutes and hours to solve them.

Well, Hanisah did try one of them but failed. Never mind, we can go there again next time =)

We couldn't lift ourselves up because we're too heavy ='(

NOT! It's the pulley problem. We changed seat and we're able to pull ourselves up!

Having fun with the periscope

Mario woman at work

I took the volleyball away from the blower and posed with the strong air. Too bad, I'm not tall and thin enough to be a model. Moreover, I prefer being a teacher.

(Modeling will be my part-time hobby for my blog. *terkarang...*)

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Seria is the heart of the oil industry in Brunei, that's why you can see exhibits regarding it in OGDC. Some more OGDC is sponsored by both BSP (Brunei Shell Petroluem) and SIEP (Shell International Exploration and Production)




The stories about life on a rig are best told by friends who worked offshore~

They get to see dolphins all the time. *jealous*

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I love this wall! So bright and colourful

As a teacher, it felt really nice to see kids running around eager to try out and experienced themselves with those exhibits.

This is really cool!

Us having fun with the giant matchsticks!

For younger children

The Puppet House

The sweet corner for parents to read stories to their children and spend some quality time with them.

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They had closed down a small section for renovation purpose. Hope that they will surprise me again on my next trip. =)

There's a nail bed there. I hope I could show you a picture of me sleeping on it as if I'm Snow White waiting for my Prince.

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If you had been to OGDC, I'm pretty sure that you'll realized that there's still one thing there that I had not mentioned...

Correct, it's the..

Yes, I still felt nauseous looking back at this video..

The photo of me upside down

That man posing looked like a circus lion tamer and me, the lion of course..

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That's almost all about my trip in OGDC....

Wait wait wait.. Don't go yet, there's more!

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Remember the question papers? Yeah, without a problem we got all our answers correct

And our prizes?

One Shell Pencil

Oh well, maybe we had no luck in getting a bigger prize that day. Or...... all the mini balls in the box were all orange colours.

(Yeah, we're asked to shake the box till a mini ball came out and we got our prize based on the colour)

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After leaving the exhibition area, Hanisah and I went to the park to check out the miniature buildings again.

In case you're wondering, her dad works there.

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Apart from having a smart brain, keeping our body body is important too.

And so we can do a lot of exercises in OGDC too.

Jogging track

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Now let me sum up the reasons why you should not miss the chance of visiting OGDC,

1. It's FUN!
It's already my fifth time visiting there and I'm still not sicked of it!

2. It's a great place to learn! Learn more about our country, learn more about Science and so on.

3. And also exercise to keep your body healthy! (Just don't go Ideal eat like no tomorrow after you worked out...)

4. It has the one and only nice little theater showing the (maybe not so) latest movie in Belait district.

5. A great place to relax and spend quality time with your family.

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Additional information:

Fish food are sold at both ticketing counter of OGDC and also Ideal fast food restaurant for B$0.50 per packet.


I think it's pretty smart of them to do so. They charged people for feeding their Kois!

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To know more about OGDC, please visit their official site here and their visiting information here.

The location of OGDC

Lastly, I hope this entry will win me an Ipod Nano!

Thank you Simpur- DST, for giving bloggers a chance to earn them something from blogging.