Save Sandakan from Musa Aman

For people interested in the latest goings on by SESB and its attempt to turn Sandakan from the Nature City into a smog heap - check out. http://www.savesandakan.com/

From the Save Sandakan site - it seems to be a forgone conclusion we will be getting the powers station. It appears that the contract to build it was signed in Feb 2008 - so probably means they are committed to a Coal-power plant. I wonder who is getting the kick-back from the China National Electric Equipment Corporation for this project. The only question was where it was going to be. From the looks of the photo's http://www.savesandakan.com/the-site-photos/ - it appears that Sandakan has next to no choice - they have already started the earth-works.

Approximate coordinate of this Sandakan Coal fired power plant site:
N 5* 48' 03”, E 118* 01' 00"

Coal will be imported from Indonesia - cost of scow + transport cost + storage cost = % of income for who?

When Indonesia doesn’t want to sell or increase the price -- what happen? Shut down the coal plant?

In Sabah at Maliau basin and danum valley has vast deposit of coal reserved but they can’t dig it now because they will be destroying those “special” environment in both the areas but once the coal plant its build they will start digging, as they can come up with excuses that Indonesia isn’t selling coal or etc.

Before they start digging, deforestation start, logging, transport and digging income for whom?

I read about the Musa Aman's comments also in the star news online portal posted today. It's just dumb how he's trying so hard to emphasize the need of having this bloody coal plant.

Hope the efforts by the savesdk committee will at the very least leave a scratch to his dumb brain (which I think must be infested with maggots, judging by his ignorance of the whole dam plant).

100 steps still under restoration

I havent got any exercise for the past 3weeks and my tummy is getting bigger each day. so yesterday evening, i went to jog at 100steps but find it still under restoration process. Not easy to repair something so old and rebuild it to its previous form.

Lights around the world

O00000000ps Sandakan Tak ade Letrik!

Banana

Federer, Nadal, Williams, Sharapova, Ivanovic and Hantuchova all love bananas because I see them eat a lot of banana on TV. I love banana too and I eat them everyday. Banana rich with nutrition and it’s cheap as well.

But banana are very expensive in western country including Australia, I went to Australia last year and found that Bananas were locked inside a supermarket cupboard for the fear of being stolen. Bananas in UK is expensive as well, I bought a banana for a pound sterling two years ago.

I love my Sandakan Banana.

It’s cheap

It’s organic

And its taste very good

100 Steps

Repair works has began for the Hundred Steps, a Sandakan Heritage site which is popular with joggers. Not sure how much the government is spending on this repair works, I hope it won’t be like the Agnes Keith’s House which a million Ringgit budget was allocated but I would have done it for 100k. I’m neither historian nor an antics specialist; maybe an old structure’s repair works cost ten times of a normal house. It is furnished with colonial styled furniture and antiques, maybe that’s the reason it cost a million for restoration cost.

I hope a New Malaysia happened today but I know it'll be hard, definately harder than climbing this 100steps!

Michael Chia

There are Ferraris and Lamborghinis in a small Township called Sandakan, their exact number I’m dunno le but I have seen the same one few times. I’m a car enthusiastic and sights like this don’t escape my view LOL!

There are about 2 Lamborghinis and 4 Ferraris in Sandakan. The owners include Datuk Andrew Lim, his brother Datuk Peter Lim and their business associate Michael Chia. Son of Datuk Pang of Sandakan also has one. Datuk Pang was the owner of Terus Hidup Plantation, a palm oil plantation in Kinabatangan. All are involve in the timber business and Datuk Andrew Lim owns a private jet le too.

They are the Kings of Sandakan…

Now Michael Chia is the most famous of them all because “Deep Throat” reported in “Malaysia Today” that Mike got arrested by Hong Kong authority over money laundering cases. Mike was arrested with 16 millions of Singapore Dollar and that’s RM 40 millions, the 40millions is suppose for Musa to show his appreciation to BN in Permatang Pauh.

Michael Chia live in Mile 5 Sandakan, you can regularly spot him driving his Lamborghini out of his house. In a time where most normal Sandakian can affort a meal, this fellow manage to drive his super car in Sandakan roads which has more pot holes than traffic lights.

Michael Chia is well known in Sandakan as one of the Top “mah chai” of Musa Aman. He, Musa Aman and all those Forestry personals has been systematically clearing out timber from Sandakan Jungle. They have no remorse raping Mother Nature and what’s most “dulan” is that this money never reaches the Rakyat.

Sandakanians earn much less than the national average, a salesgirl usually earn around RM150 to RM200 a month but to be a millionair in you just need the right connection.

Sabah Rhin0

It was an exciting weekend for me as I got a glimpse of the elusive Sumatran Rhino, the last time I see this species alive was 20years ago at Sepilok. The fact that there are only 30 of them left in the wild, spotting one is harder than winning a lottery.

I didn’t go into the jungle to have look but I was invited by The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD), who rescued a Sumatran Rhinoceros found wandering at an oil palm plantation in Sandakan.

It took them 2weeks to find and rescue that Rhino, we are talking about hundred thousand acres of oil palm plantation. I’m no rhino expert but the Rhino doesn’t look healthy to me, or maybe it’s not use to human present.

This is the first time I see government officers so dedicated in their works, I am proud of them. I think those who work as forest rangers really love Mother Nature because working in this hot and humid rain forest with uneven terrain is no easy job.

Well done my friends!

Th3 Sibeh Lansi Baharin bin Din

Those f8ck up Sabah Electirc Sdn Bhd (SESB) should just suck their own c0cks and let other do their stuff if they cant come up with a better plan that f8cking coal plant. I suggest a nuclear plant better and cleaner more so Msia can become nuclear power!

Sabah is a major natural gas producer with a reserve of close to 2 trillion cubic ft, why are we unable to enjoy the benefits of our own natural resources?

SESB Managing Director Baharin bin Din ruled gas out simply by saying Petronas is 'not willing' to supply gas. What really Diu about this Baharin guy is that he give warning to East Coast Sabahan that we might face total blackout!

Who the f8ck is he to give warning? He is just one stupid f8ckers who happen to work for SESB, SESB is suppose to serve us SABAHAN! This Baharin guy is damn lansi thinking that he owns some the pOWER!

This guy is blaming Pertonas like everyone else, I’m not sure about Petronas stand but cant we as a Sabahan negotiate with Petronas? Has this UMNO gomen grown so arrogant they forget we the people who gave them the power!

Petronas transfer gas to Bintulu which is 500km but cannot transfer gas to Sandakan which is only half the distance. Baharin thinks that Sandakian is stupid is it? If power can be transported almost a thousand kilometres from Sarawak's Bakun Dam to Johor and Kuala Lumpur, we cannot see the problem in transfering power from Kota Kinabalu to Sandakan.

For 30 years I stayed in Sandakan, I experience blackout once a week, more often than women menstrual. SESB had failed its duty in ensuring smooth electricity supply for decades, causing only "hardship, frustration and inconvenience" to the people of Sandakan.

If SESB had been responsible, they would have come up with solutions to settle power deficiency long ago and not force the people to accept a coal power plant as a purported method to improve supply.

SESB should improve its management and not threaten the people of Sandakan that coal is their only saviour.

During the election Sandakan are promised that when the West-East coast grid system is finished, we'll have good electric supply. Now they say the grid is not good enough and a coal-fired power plant is our only hope.

SESB should disclose the site for the proposed coal-fired plant.

What is the reason for such secrecy? They should be transparent. The Sandakan people have the right to know and be given the chance to challenge not only the project but also the site if it were found to be a highly environmentally sensitive area.

If Baharin and Musa Aman insist on building the Coal Plant, I purposed that they two should move their family home next to the plant!!!

Stupid a88holes! Dont threaten and Lansi with Sandakan people!

Syabu-Syabu Sandakan

During my teenage years, I never heard anyone got involve in drugs in Sandakan but recently two of my relatives got involved, a distance uncle and my cousin’s husband. Drugs are much more dangerous than gambling and alcohol; their addictions turn their home into havoc!

Is it the drug situation in Sandakan had reached a critical level, involving the local youths, students and civil servants? I heard that syabu are available everywhere, this largely thanks to those Aliens who *imported* them from their homeland.

In this respect, society at large must consider more proactive measures to eliminate the menace. The young, particularly youths, students and even women, are susceptible to negative influences related to the drugs scourge.

This should prompt the community, including educators and parents as well as politicians, to take a proactive approach to deviate the attention of the youths from drug indulgences.

There are no limits to what a drug addicts will do to get their next dose.

Sandakan Coal Plant Plan

I’m proud and honored to have a Chief Minister from Sandakan but I hope that he listens to what Sandakian’s need and not what he think best for Sandakian. The Chief Minister’s coal power plant project for Sandakan is simply unacceptable and not sure if He gave any thoughts towards it.

I’m extremely disappointed and saddened by Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman's intentions to site the coal-fired plant in Sandakan despite numerous and lengthy objections.

My objection is not against the development for the betterment of the people of Sandakan. There is little doubt that Sandakan people need improvement on power supply, since decades we have more blackouts then visits by any Ministers.

Electricity is definitely a major need, However, I object strongly to the use of coal as a process to generate this need because it threatens so many things dear to Sandakan folks.

I want my political leaders to give its people what is best for them not what is left over! The Cabinet rejected the plant to be built in Silam and therefore offer a leftover for Sandakan, that’s totally unacceptable!

EIA report conducted by SESB is totally unacceptable and making fool out of the public. Further, SESB who will get the most benefits if this plant is built! We Rakyat are getting smarted each day but our ministers still think us as the Dumb ass!

We Sabahan deserve much better than a coal plant! Musa's reference to China and Britain as an example or reason to accept a coal-fired power plant was totally idiotic because these two countries are shouting down their coal plant one by one.

These countries have taken various steps to reduce environmental hazards by reducing the use of coal power plant. In fact China shut down 58 pulverization technology-based coal-fired power plants or an equivalent of 14,020MW on July 6 to reduce pollution problems just before the Beijing Olympics.

It is an undeniable and undisputed fact that coal is the dirtiest, most carbon-intensive of all fossil fuels emitting the most toxic particles that will damage not only our environment but most importantly our human health in the long run.

Eco-driven tourism which is Sabah specialties earned Sabah close to RM5 billion with more than RM1 billion in tax money going to the Government and tourists gravitate to Sandakan because of its world famous wildlife attraction centred on the Orang-utan.

Sandakan is a very special destination, the people are very proud of this global reputation and we must do everything to preserve the nature city image for as long as we can and coal will prevent us achieving this.

Sabah is a producer of gas; we do not see why gas cannot be used as an alternative energy source. It is most unfair to the people of Sandakan to be forced to accept coal as the only power option despite of a healthier and cleaner choice.

Aliens stranded in Sandakan

The hard part is catching those Illegal Immigrants or Aliens and sending them back to Sulu where they belong suppose to be the easy part. But greed has no border as those who responsible to arrange sending those aliens back through ferry also want a share of the big cake!

Special Task Force had negotiated directly with the ferry agent and paid RM280 per head. However, the company now offered RM120 while the agent had requested for RM155. It was not known why or how the STF agreed to a huge amount previously when oil prices were also lower

A day more in Sandakan Temporary Detention Centre means those f8cking aliens are eating those extra expensive Nasi Lemak bought with our tax payer money.

money is the issue as the Government had allocated RM50mil for the statewide Ops Bersepadu crackdown against illegal immigrants. 486 illegals stranded over deportation fare… diu! Seems like everyone involve in Ops Bersepadu want a share of the big cake! Cant this f8ckers work properly just for one time to get ride of those leeches?

Those aliens really thinks that Sabah belong to Sulu, wtf! Sulu don’t exist anymore diu!!! Like it or not, Sultanate of Sulu has been white washed long-long time ago. Its like saying Red Indian owned the USA, Abrogines own Australia and etc…

Things don’t work that way stupid aliens… history shows that ONLY THE STRONG SURVIVE! And clearly Sultante of Sulu is a weaklings!

Get on with life and get out of SABAH!