King Tide at Btg Lupar River

King tide occurs several days each month and during the period, the river is usually filled up to the brink during tide. The tide occurs twice a day. During this period also, low lying areas usually experienced flooding. This year, the King Tide occurs during the Hari Raya Festival and most of the houses were inundated by water.

During high tide, tidal bore is usually can get very huge at the Btg Lupar river. The sight of the huge tidal bore at the Btg Lupar river were said to be very spectacular. Unluckily I cannot get the glimpse of the tidal bore during this period of time.


This Cargo vessel took the opportunity of the high tide to travel upstream to save fuel cost. The wharf is dwarfed by the size of the vessel due to the high tide.



It just need another day or two of continuous raining to make this house totally flooded by the high tide.

D.I.Y. Repairing Parquet Flooring

Having one of the parquet flooring missing is just making your life uneasy. Even if you decided to put the piece back in its original place will not help either because after some time that same piece of wood will dislodge again causing yet another an eyesore. I recommend you to use solid PVA glue to ensure the piece of wood will stay in its place for a long time. The cost of the 500 mL bottle solid PVA glue is only RM11.00 and it is available at the local hardware store.




A bottle of 500 mL Solid PVA Glue

For more information on repairing Parquet Flooring, visit HERE.

Bailey Bridge

Bailey bridge is a pre-fabricated truss bridge which requires no special tools or heavy equipment for construction. Picture above shows one of the Bailey bridge being used frequently for newly constructed road in rural areas. The bridge is used to cross mostly canals in order to enable vehicles to pass through.

This picture was taken on the Independent Day of Malaysia (Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!!!). To the rural folks, they are truly being liberated now because they already have a very good road network accessible to their locality which is beyond their dream several years ago. Before, the only mean of transport is by boat through its long and winding river system. Using the river, travelling usually takes several days which is now accessible only within several hours using the newly constructed road network.

Using the Bailey bridge, which is of course a temporary bridge, the available allocation given to the authority can be used to build more roads to connect more rural communities. I believe, with the increase in the number of traffic in several years to come there will be a need to upgrade the Bailey bridge into a more permanent bridge.

For the rural folks, in order to cross a much wider river, ferry is being used. The ferry is capable of carrying heavy vehicles and several cars at any one time. Read HERE for more experiences crossing the Sadong River.

A ferry is crossing the Sadong River.

For more information about Bailey bridge, read HERE.

Launching of the KLIA2 Terminal

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak launced the world's first mega terminal for low-cost carriers’s ground-breaking ceremony in Sepang yesterday. The new terminal will be known as KLIA2. The new low-cost terminal will meet the expected high growth rate of low-cost travel needs for the next 10 to 15 years. Currently, the low-cost carriers are using the Low-Cost Carrier Terminal (LCCT) also in Sepang. However, due to increase in demand, the LCCt terminal is getting more congested with passengers and also carriers. The new low-cost carrier terminal is expected to be able to handle 30 million passengers annually. The KLIA2 terminal is llocated only 2 km from the current Main Terminal building.

Both terminals, i.e. KLIA and KLIA2, will be interconnected to cater for easy inter-terminal transfer and better connectivity between the two. According to the news report, KLIA2 will have built-in walkways, bigger space per passenger and total separation between arrival and departing passengers for improved security. Express Rail Link (ERL) service is expected to be extended to the KLIA2 terminal. Read HERE for related story.

Are you Confused Yet?

Stop if you want to turn left or if you want to go through. Give way if you want to turn right. Or vice versa depending on how confuse you are on the road. Hope the consultant, the contractor and the respective agency will be more sensitive to the placement of the road signages so that majority of drivers who are already confused will not get more confused while on the road. The respective guideline regarding the placement of road signages is already in place in order to ensure the safe usage of the road by all type of road users. It is a matter of following and enforcing the use of the guideline.