There are swish Italian, Japanese and Sichuan restaurants alongside the usual McDonald's, Pizza Hut and Delifrance. Caffeine addicts can partake in 24-hour coffee shops. Bookstores sell foreign titles that get past the censors faster than in Malaysia or Indonesia. Capital Gold, with its outrageous, campy DJs, blares on car radios real-time direct from London. Thanks to unfettered satellite TV, there's lots of choice on the tube.
Video shops rent current movies.
Malaysian lawyer V.L. Kandan recently visited Brunei for the first time in 10 years. He was blown away. The change is fantastic. There are so many more things to see. Jerudong Park is wonderful, the best in Southeast Asia.